Amelia Meyer @agmlego@cybre.space

how's this look, folks?

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"You're back," exclaimed the leader and heist-planner, "How did you escape from the Vampire Countess's Keep?"

The team glanced at each other, shuffling their feet sheepishly, "She let us go."

"So you lead her right to our hideout?!"

"No, she... offered us all good jobs."
"Including you."
"It's stable work. Lots of benefits. Gave us all a week's pay in advance."

The leader was quiet a long time, before deciding, "I'll give it a chance."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #Fantasy

All the files in /etc/X11 are technically The X-Files.

“I am supposed to be finishing my assignment but instead i organised my bookshelf by colour because of my adhd and executive dysfunction”

sad, weasely excuses, makes you sound like you are sick

“i am posessed by a powerul creative force of nature, and all are powerless to shape its path: the best you may hope for is to get out of its way”

epic, ownership of actions, maybe you’re a vengeful deity?

the quickest way to challenge my belief in the complete and total abolition of the state is any proposal for the use of state power to make landlords unhappy

trying to follow this instruction:

talk about the things you love, even if you think nobody cares.

people won't ask for it at least at first, but some of them will care

and it's attractive to see someone talk about the things they love.

let go of the notion that it's worthless if you don't get a minimum number of listeners, reactions, replies.

practice caring publicly about the things you care about.

I think this is a good reminder for me. I never liked being shy anyway

huh ok, i'm a daemongirl now

The copyright on the original work is expired, so there's no law on Heaven or Earth that can keep you from writing a manga adaptation of The Metamorphosis by Kafka where Gregor Samsa turns into a cute trans bug girl & fights giant alien robots

> Spectral efficiency usually is expressed as “bits per second per hertz,” or bits/s/Hz.

cursed unit

starting a band called Linkedin Park to the annoyance of everyone, especially the legal departments of Microsoft and Warner Music,,

I should really get a commission or two of Petra working at the computer.

Archive.org captures in real-time new posts from self-hosted WordPress blogs, plus anything they link to, and does something similar for new citations on Wikipedia articles.

I wrote down how this works, and how it all ties together.
(The rabbit hole got me on this one, I'll say! 😅)

https://timotijhof.net/posts/2022/internet-archive-crawling/

#wordpress #SSE #XMPP #PHP #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #wikimedia

The core lesson, that we'd better start learning fast, is that no private corporation, no private collector, no private _anything_ is an effective long-term steward of culture, knowledge, the public trust or the public good, and the whole notion of "intellectual property" isn't just theft, it's also, eventually, arson.