Jaycie (Squid Mode) @jaycie@vulpine.club

Shakespeare naming a bunch of his comedies after common idioms ("All's Well That Ends Well", "As You Like It", "Much Ado About Nothing", "What You Will") is exactly the same as modern sitcoms using goofy naming conventions for their episodes

IM CRYING AT THIS WHOLESOME CARTOON FROM THE 50S

If any of you were furries in the 90s, it's worth noting that VCL is shutting down soon. Last chance to get anything you want to get before the lights go dark there, too.

In some good news that I feel extra-positive about, my Skillshare Premium class about Digital Product Design is live 👩🏾‍💻 https://skl.sh/2QZVFLE

If you wonder how digital designers work and are looking to get into #UX design, this is the class for you. It's my first-ever online class, so please support in any way you can! Even a retoot helps 😻

@hierarchon So, you know how people will simulate effects that were the results of limitations in the previous medium for the purposes of making an artistic statement? i.e. chiptune music in contemporary games

That but robotgirls recreating archaic glitches in an old-fashioned but now harmless fashion.

"Postcapitalism. A guide to our future"
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Paul Mason

non-programmers are an important part of open source projects. non-programmer contributions are valid and useful and not second tier or otherwise less valuable.

it's easy to say programmers are the only value-add when you're fortunate enough to have enough non-programmers that you can take them for granted.

if you take away the feature requests, translations, and general chatter - many OSS projects would have never been more than flawed, narrow use case tech demos.

This is for sure among most self-indulgent things I’ve ever commissioned but I can’t be apologetic about it (amazing art by @ikiruse@twitter.com!!)

Blackle Mori's Tips For Getting The Most Out Of The Fediverse:

-> Reply To Things. Talk About Things. Admit When You're Wrong. You Don't Have To Win
-> Follow Back When People Follow You. Mutuals Over Followers
-> Cultivate Your Own Space. You Are Allowed To Block And Mute.

"Ethical consumerism can save the wor-"

Fanatic thread on Twitter by @creatrixtiara about #KonMari, the current storm on birdsite, and xenophobia.

Definitely worth a read.

https://twitter.com/creatrixtiara/status/1084998725225766912

I was going to get involved in the discourse but instead I will share this from the Xenofeminism Manifesto.

"If 'cyberspace' once offered the promise of escaping the strictures of essentialist identity categories, the climate of contemporary social media has swung forcefully in the other direction, and has become a theatre where these prostrations to identity are performed. With these curatorial practices come puritanical rituals of moral maintenance, and these stages are too often overrun with the disavowed pleasures of accusation, shaming, and denunciation. Valuable platforms for connection, organization, and skill-sharing become clogged with obstacles to productive debate positioned as if they are debate. These puritanical politics of shame–which fetishize oppression as if it were a blessing, and cloud the waters in moralistic frenzies–leave us cold. We want neither clean hands nor beautiful souls, neither virtue nor terror. We want superior forms of corruption."