Posts by grayface_ghost@tech.lgbt
(DIR) Post #AT7BMbGjwNA65Pv3cO by grayface_ghost@tech.lgbt
2023-02-27T19:30:08Z
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Some Tory volunteer just posted a leaflet through my door and I went out trying to catch them to ask them why they want to kill trans kids.Didn't find them, sneaky bastards.
(DIR) Post #AT7BMdTZjccKvnwKu0 by grayface_ghost@tech.lgbt
2023-02-27T19:32:09Z
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@MJQWrites And they can keep fucking off until they reach a fence and a sign that says "You may fuck off no further" and then they can climb the fence and fuck off into the fucked-off sunset
(DIR) Post #ATBGFeFpieq7imq69Q by grayface_ghost@tech.lgbt
2023-03-01T09:16:30Z
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@MollyNYC @Rasp @struki @GenderGP This toot is transphobic, as is your previous one. I'm reporting.Why are you so invested in the idea that transitioned trans people will "grow out of it?"
(DIR) Post #AUNZcuDYHnggz8hcI4 by grayface_ghost@tech.lgbt
2023-04-06T15:22:47Z
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@EU_Commission Meanwhile Britian will doubtless be buying clothes made by enslaved toddlers before 2025
(DIR) Post #AUPeAFuu2TpfOL8CGW by grayface_ghost@tech.lgbt
2023-04-07T15:23:34Z
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@Tilopa So what you're basically saying then is, you're a transphobe?
(DIR) Post #AUcas3vGLcvbB17rnM by grayface_ghost@tech.lgbt
2023-04-13T13:15:15Z
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I miss the golden age of home computing. That was a couple of years in the early 80s for you young'uns when stuff became affordable and everybody and their dog had a games machine and more crucially, tried to code on it.Writing games in BASIC and assembler to get printed in national magazines for twenty five quid a throw and having your geeky mates at school go WTF when they read the programmer's name. Reaching Elite on the tape version and then losing the badge at school (sob). The joy of acquiring a 5.25" floppy drive, and never having to wind back a tape that decided to unspool itself in the player again.Now home computing means incessant bullshit arguments with fascists, and coding means yawny stuff to pay the bills, and games are made by vast capitalist empires.Pass me a can of Jolt cola, I wanna go back to making levels games that run in 3K RAM and hand-assembling 6502 into DATA statements.* SLAP * sorry, I'm back to normal now.
(DIR) Post #AVNehPIliE8ia98HnE by grayface_ghost@tech.lgbt
2023-05-06T13:57:10Z
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@AlwaysAutumn I can't, my gym's shut because you can't have hat ceremonies and exercise at the same time or something
(DIR) Post #AVsbe1x89Twm9KCZZw by grayface_ghost@tech.lgbt
2023-05-20T16:12:39Z
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@yassie_j @luna tl;dr journos try transphobia in the fedi and get binned - normal folk rejoice
(DIR) Post #AWW1VslC9Cl0BOk7Vo by grayface_ghost@tech.lgbt
2023-06-09T12:57:13Z
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@EU_Commission Great could you restore EU citizenship to Brits who fought to keep it, against the stupid racists in our country? That would help our mental health a fair bit to be honest.
(DIR) Post #AWXrwhUrWR63qLAl4C by grayface_ghost@tech.lgbt
2023-06-10T09:11:05Z
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I'm about to change my mobile number because it's being spoofed. I've now got to go through my logins and try to find all the sites using 2FA by text. Always hated the idea.Anybody got suggestions for forcing them to use something better?
(DIR) Post #AWmKzZvuslU70IzYtk by grayface_ghost@tech.lgbt
2023-06-17T09:41:08Z
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I think we should take a moment to remember that Sunak lived next door to all these parties and was fined by the cops for being present at some of them.I mean I'm all for sticking the political boot into Boris so hard he never comes near Westminster again but we do have an ongoing slide into fascism and its current leader seems to be coming out of this looking squeaky-clean.
(DIR) Post #AWn5oaMNePBWzJd8T2 by grayface_ghost@tech.lgbt
2023-06-17T13:19:10Z
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I'm old enough to remember when a Google search would find what you wanted.That's not facetious, it's been a few years since I could reliably find what I was looking for on the big G without getting to page 20 or 30. The latest "AI" shenanigans are really the final nail in the coffin, not the start of the problem.We're basically already back to Web 1.0 where you need to know which sites to look at for decent answers. YouTube videos are better for tech answers than Google for example and that says it all."Don't be evil" - mate, you basically killed search, perhaps the single most powerful feature that appeared on the Web forever.I'm actually old enough to remember when effective searching for technical answers was manually looking through a list of newsgroups for the right one in which to ask the question. If you got really lucky it was moderated and if the cybergods were with you the answer was in the FAQ and you didn't have to get flamed for asking
(DIR) Post #AWpdYu1OZEme5jQaP2 by grayface_ghost@tech.lgbt
2023-06-17T16:47:34Z
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Look, I'm a physicist by training, a programmer by trade, and an esoteric priest in my spare time.I'm not an economist.As far as I can tell though, our economic system is based on the belief that money is a finite resource.The value of money though is confidence. It has no physical existence, it's a virtual or magickal substance that's only peripherally related to human well-being (which should be the only measure of wealth although I'll accept forms of wider universal well-being) and even less related to economic activity. Economic collapses don't occur because countries run out of money! They occur because the rich lose confidence that the money they have is real, and that makes the money worth less or even worthless. The lack of confidence blocks the working of the magick.If more people understood this, there'd be less resistance to the idea of governments creating money in order to fund infrastructure projects.
(DIR) Post #AWpdYv6kWof1ScwNO4 by grayface_ghost@tech.lgbt
2023-06-17T16:53:30Z
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Infrastructure projects provide jobs and income for the workers (well-being growth). They enable economic activity providing jobs and income more widely (well-being growth). The cost of creating the money to pay for it is... nothing.Nothing, as long as people understand that nobody lost out. People will talk about inflation and devaluation at this point, but this happens because confidence is lost. And that's all.I've yet to find someone who can explain to me why this isn't so. The devaluation thing only happens because those who hoard wealth in a particular currency fear that they'll not be able to exchange it as beneficially in another currency.But there should be no need to. If money was understood.
(DIR) Post #AX1Kbl0yw5aQZnLczQ by grayface_ghost@tech.lgbt
2023-06-24T15:23:12Z
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I know I shouldn't but I can't help laughing when I see "Breaking News: X" and I saw X reported about eight hours ago on social media.It's been that way for a decade or more but I still marvel at it. Obviously it's happening now in a different quarter of cyberspace than it was originally...Then, quite often, the Breaking News turns out to be based on the exact report I saw eight hours previously but it's been garbled or modified by conservative journos, and weeks later you find out that the original report was accurate.Not saying believe everything you read but rather the opposite. First-hand reports are no less reliable than fourteenth-hand reports from Honest Rupert's Media Empire Inc so if you want to know what's happening, see reports as data with varying weights according to source reliability and not gospel truth.Slight tangent: I just saw a mainstream outlet report that Wagner are trying to take Rostov-on-Don. Sigh.
(DIR) Post #AX5lEocdJkiuYgl3Kq by grayface_ghost@tech.lgbt
2023-06-26T17:51:17Z
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On the Facebook thing...They're not trying to join the Fedi. They're trying to bring us into the FB/Insta sphere. You can argue that because it's AP-based that's not the case but I think you'd be wrong. The power imbalance is at least three orders of magnitude.I'm in the Fediverse because I need social media and community that's essentially free from fascists and their pals, and from corporate manipulation of algorithms to shove them onto my feed whether I want them there or not. Ideally I want this freedom at the wider network level which I effectively have now because of great instances like this that have robust de-fed policies.If I want to be on Facebook I'll reactivate my sleeping account. If I want to be on Instagram I'll use the account I probably have there but haven't used since the 14th century.Frankly I think anyone who thinks they're acting in good faith is so gullible they should check their own shoelaces right now because I promise I just tied them together