toni♦️ @toni@cybre.space

So that whole Tux vs. Xenia debate over the Linux Mascot title got me thinking

I like Xenia as a character but she's not exactly mascot-y. Mascots should be distinct in silhouette and have a logo-able design.

So I decided to try making a Xenia logo! 3 different kinds, in fact!

Confirmed, the original Swedish is gayer. Also, now I know Finnish lesbians just called themselves ghosts.
https://www.moomin.com/en/blog/ive-fallen-madly-in-love-with-a-woman-queer-themes-in-tove-janssons-life-and-work-part-1/

Given that the English translation of the Moomin books even censored the word "dinosaur" in order to avoid offending Creationists, for my whole life I have always wondered how else the original Swedish differed. I wonder how much gayer it was, especially. Could any Swedish readers weigh in?

(Some people in Tech right now): No, but Microsoft has changed. It's really pro open source now. It's not the same company as before. People can change, you now.

(me): https://www.theverge.com/21310611/microsoft-edge-browser-forced-update-chromium-editorial

Some advanced PC Speaker music from Budokan: The Martial Spirit (1989) #DOSGaming
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i think the coolest part of image descriptions is providing a clear explanation of what you’re trying to communicate with your image.

Back on my bullshit again...

#glitchart #glitchbook #tarot

A branch of Hooters but it's actually an owl cafe.

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the botanical gardens are opening their glasshouses again. i say this as someone who is withering away for want of an enriching horticultural excursion: why would you voluntarily enter a building designed to contain an atmosphere full of moisture droplets, in a crowd of strangers, at this time

today I served a customer in our bakery who came in, saw our prominently placed "obligatory facemask" sign and ignored it.

then she had the cheek to ask me how we're doing in the pandemic. I said fine, if only customers would respect the mask wearing.

she said "oh, like me" and I said "yes". "you know, I don't believe in those masks". "you don't have to believe they protect you, they are meant to protect me. when you come here, you see only me. when I stand here, I see 100 people."

Ryu Hoshikawa (DynaBlack) faces a mimic monster who copies his appearance and a confused battle ensues.

The reason I love this scene is the editing: Filmed in 1983 it uses no CG or green screen, and the film cuts are rough and obvious - but the directing and acting really makes it work.

I wonder if it'd be possible to digitally adjust and hide the cuts using modern technology?

(#SuperSentai Dynaman ep.24)

I’m never not thinking about the AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean, which is a convenient proxy factory bean superclass for proxy factory beans that create only singletons https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/2.5.x/api/org/springframework/aop/framework/AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean.html

@Aleums My gender is a probability until someone takes a guess, at which point I assess the situation and my familiarity with them to determine if they are correct.

Wenn dein Ministerpräsident ankündigt, dass beim Umgang mit Tönnies von nun an nach "ordnungsbehördlichem Verhalten" entschieden wird, dann willste auch nicht wissen was für ein Klüngel da sonst so herrscht.
(Twitter link: https://twitter.com/phoenix_de/status/1277903237690077189)

FragDenStaat hat das Urteil im #NSU-Prozess veröffentlicht:
https://fragdenstaat.de/blog/2020/06/30/nsu-prozess-urteil-olg-muenchen/

omg Real Life comics (old foundational webcomic from back in the day) relaunching with a storyline/announcement that the main character/creator is a trans girl is the magic news i needed today ty

https://twitter.com/maegodhavemercy/status/1277497716440887297

I respect and appreciate "Let me talk your ear off about neopronouns" trans people even if I myself am a "Maybe I can learn a language without gendered pronouns and then spend the rest of my life pretending to not know english" trans person.

Art is very much a product of its society, and the material forces that govern it. Personally, I get a lot of political focus by thinking about the sort of art and artists we're aiming for.

My favorite conversation I ever had about politics was not about politics. It was a discussion of how, in a world post capitalism, where society has reorganized around more equitable lines, how film would work. Who would get to make movies? What sort of resources would they have? What kind of stories would they be interested in?

select your gender