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Been doing some more drawing practice in #Krita. Trying to get better at drawing the things that are in my head rather than just recreating things I can see. I've recently discovered the lquify tool. It's really nice for nudging my line work into the shape I actually wanted it, but it feels like a cheat.

Then again, if I limit myself to what I could have done with physical media, I suppose I should also forego layers and undo—which I'm absolutely not going to do. I guess there's nothing wrong with using the tools available to me. I just don't want it to become too much of a crutch.

#krita
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GenAI (good news if you hate them)

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People often ask me why I drink so much cola and eat so many chips.

I just want to explain it briefly: I suffer from a very rare condition.
My body cannot produce cola and chips on its own, so I have to manually add them to the system.

It’s not unhealthy. It’s maintenance.

#Cola #Chips #SnackScience #TotallyLegit #MaintenanceMode

#chips #cola #snackscience #totallylegit #maintenancemode

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I am having a painful day.

Would you kind folks, in the next 24 hours or so, tag me on a post you make about the last moment (or much longer?) you had or saw some #TransJoy ? Or #NBJoy ? Or #AgenderJoy ? Now you see why I'm asking? Too many possible sources. #BlackJoy or #DisabledJoy or #DeafJoy or so many others.

If you've a marginalised identity and found joy recently, tell me what it was. Don't be afraid to say it was about discomfiting your oppressor. Speak your joy. Doesn't matter if I share an identity with your oppressor, I don't do defensive. If I've done what you say, I'll apologise and/or accept responsibility for my failures and misdeeds and privilege. If I haven't, then I will share your victory joy, bc any oppressor is too many.

I just want to hear what's bringing you joy in an identity important to you?

Thread RULE: if it isn't about you, don't make it about you. You need to defend yourself for some reason? This is neither time nor place. Joy only. You wanna hurt someone? Not here. This is a braver space than that.

What's your joy, if you want to share?

#transjoy #blackjoy #nbjoy #agenderjoy #disabledjoy #deafjoy

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hospital/doctoring

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New week, new #MutualAidMonday! Go ahead! Share, reply, amplify a #MutualAidRequest for yourself or someone else! #MutualAid is how we save us.
#mutualaid #MutualAidRequest #mutualaidmonday

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Thank you

Sabi's mom has been in the hospital all week and their hotel isn't letting them stay there anymore, details here:
bsky.brid.gy/r/bsky.app/profil…

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Story of my life
#memes #programmerhumor
#memes #programmerhumor

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So, today Katy and I had to go to the jewlery store for her rings' semi-annual warranty inspection. They've changed to a new electronic system, and they needed me to show them an email that they had sent (which was somehow different from the email they'd sent to Katy). Problem is, I'd already archived it, so it wasn't on the mail server any more and I had to SSH into my machine at home to read it in gnus... in a terminal... on my phone... that's a tiny font so it can accommodate an 80 column display.

The lady at the counter, who'd understandably never encountered this setup before, proceeded to pinch to zoom, which did succeed in increasing the font size, but left the text she needed to read off the bottom of the screen. She then got very frustrated trying to scroll it... because terminals don't work like that.

Yes, my setup is janky and weird, but it works for me, okay?

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Maddie

This has been my experience with Northeastern University (Boston campus), and I never considered they could be throttling traffic, it always looked more like dropped packets, and so I assumed it was a problem with their Wi-Fi/lack in fiber, combined with how UDP is a bit more robust to dropped packets

I'll see if I still have some data on that after a nap

huntnewsnu.com/89834/editorial…

Op-ed: Northeastern’s wifi needs to be fixed

You have just gotten back to your dorm after three back-to-back classes, but your day is not over yet. You still have a bunch of work to get done, so you fire up your laptop and try to sign into Canvas. But something is wrong.
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How to get prescribed ADHD medication in the Netherlands, a guide based on real world success:

1) spend over a year repeatedly trying to tell the GP that it’s not going well and you need help. This will not cost you money, only your precious finite time on this earth. It helps if you have a husband to drag you to the doctor when you’re at your lowest and argue with them

2) finally get escalated to a psychologist who takes a few months to be sure there’s definitely something wrong. She will recommend the GP to prescribe ADHD medication

3) Your prescription mysteriously disappears into the system. After several attempts to follow up that take months, and several confused phone calls from your psychologist to the GP, it turns out the GP refuses to authorize it because *shrug* reasons. Maybe if a psychiatrist also signs off on it?

4) You attempt to get an appointment with a psychiatrist. Every psychiatrist in the Netherlands is booked until 2034.

5) Finally, after a dozen rounds of pleading and nagging, you get a mysterious phone call from an unknown number. They give you an address and tell you to be there at 7 in the evening.

6) You find yourself at the door of a historic art deco mansion in the most exclusive district of Amsterdam. There is absolutely no indication that this is a medical practice. You ring the doorbell. Nothing happens. You wait nervously, and try again.

7) The door creaks open. An elderly man wearing crocs stands before you. He silently bids you follow him up a winding staircase to a parlor filled with a thousand thick and aging books in every tongue of the earth and perhaps a few also of the angels. They concern prophecy, and music, and poetry, and the apocalypse.

8) In a thin whisper of a voice barely to be heard, he asks your name, and where you were born. He slowly, very slowly, so slowly that you think you have died and this is purgatory, types this into a computer. It is in his lap because his desk is covered with strange devices beyond identification.

9) He tells you the prescription will be ready for pickup tomorrow.

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DontSurveil.Me has put together a great explainer on Bill C-22.

Canadians need to pay attention.

Expanding surveillance powers, retaining metadata, and weakening encryption all threaten privacy, free expression, civil liberties, and digital rights.

If we care about privacy, digital rights, and a free society, now is the time to speak up, contact MPs, and push back before this becomes law.

Learn more: dontsurveil.me/c22.html

#CDNPoli #BillC22 #Privacy #DigitalRights

Canada is about to end private digital conversation — Bill C-22

Bill C-22 would force every messaging app in Canada to build a backdoor — and track all your activity for one year. Apple says no. Signal says they'll leave.
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#privacy #cdnpoli #digitalrights #billc22
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EDIT: I agree with the majority! I'll use this to attempt to convince the powers that be to improve the situation in some way, as best I can. Thanks folks!

Does autoplay of a muted video in the background of a website bother you? Like as a decorative/design element behind the content.

If yes, let me know the effect it has and how it makes you feel (in the moment, about the website, about the company, etc)

Answer honestly (idk why you wouldn't but I feel compelled to say that)

:boosts_appreciated: boost so I can get more data pls

  • Yes, autoplay bothers me in this case (95%, 553 votes)
  • No, I don't notice in this case (4%, 27 votes)
580 voters. Poll end: Friday, May 22, 2026, 8:21 PM

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Remember 100 years ago when radiation was new and exciting and poorly understood, and companies were putting radiation into everything?

Thankfully we learned our lesson and will never make that mistake again.

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Picture Bandit

that's what I thought as well... it glows it has to be powerfull. mastodon.social/@PictureBandit…

Picture Bandit (@PictureBandit@mastodon.social)

Yeah we are totally doing the equivalent of painting radium on to our teeth at the moment. Just digtially & globally. What could go wrong.
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I would like to have a new electric car but the whole data collection part is the main thing keeping me away from it.

So I liked this article quite a lot. Forgot where I found it, likely here somewhere on the fediverse...

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Removing the Modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid

Modern cars are computers on wheels that send home nonstop telemetry about you. In this post I remove my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid's modem and GPS to prevent that :)
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Also, I usually gets cars when they are at least 5 to 8 years old and take them to third party mechanics, so I don't have a warranty and I don't get software updates from the dealer and from a software point of view my car is basically unsupported at that point anyway. How much functionality are they going to change anyway? They probably aren't going to keep improving anything important over a decade, unless they can charge me for it like drift mode or something.
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My dad started quoting this and now I found the original

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I am Jack's Found 404

The new Behind the Bastards podcast on "AI" as an historical bastard is 👍👍👍

They mention that they go after art & writing because they're the 2 most common things people share on the internet, and thus the best for convincing regular people that it's "doing something"...

Very interesting analysis of the hype & marketing of shatbots [sic], worth the listen!

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I've been down a YouTube rabbit hole working on improving my art. I've always been somewhat decent at replicating something I can see, but when I have to draw something from my head, the poroprtions always looked kind of off.

I've watched a bunch of videos by a couple different artists, but I've found this one who has a whole channel teaching in a way that seems to work for me. My anatomy drawing (which has always been my Achilles' heel) has rather vastly improved in a remarkably short period of time, and I've been happy with the progress... at least until I compare them against the artist's examples. Hers are way better.

Then I have to remind myself: I've been at this a few days. Of course the professional artist is going to do a better job than me.

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🦆🦆 J Riley 🪿

Dead priest? you call a “fixer”

The Wolf: Jimmie, lead the way. Boys, get to work.
Vincent: A please would be nice.
The Wolf: Come again?
Vincent: I said a please would be nice.
The Wolf: Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick.
Jules: No, Mr. Wolf, it ain't like that, your help is definitely appreciated.

#monsterdon #silverbullet1985

#monsterdon #silverbullet1985
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Yes, like I said, in basic regular expressions those characters only have special meaning when escaped. In extended regular expressions, they have special meaning unless escaped.

Both types of regular expressions are well documented in the latest Single UNIX Specification from The Open Group. Older versions of SUS are available from Debian contrib (or non-free?).

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*long drag on cigarette* Kid, this is Mastodon. We're all the algorithm here. You. Me. Everybody. Now get out there and boost somebody's bullshit.
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This is your regular reminder that the large tech companies are pretty evil. Also anyone wearing those glasses needs to have a good think about their lives and what they are doing.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y7yv…

Dispute over fate of Kenyan workers who saw Meta AI glasses films

Meta and its subcontractor disagree over why over 1000 Kenya-based workers were made redundant.
Chris Vallance (BBC News)

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