a somewhat drained ☁ of tamsyn @thamesynne@dragon.style
9 huddled souls in a borrowed body
they/their/_; ⚧s
“slowly they're swallowed by the water
and their breath ascending to the sky”
(and no, it hasn't escaped me that even knowing that != means "does not equal" is far from universal, but CWs are supposed to be short and i don't know the keycode for ≠
boosting != approval, unexamined privilege Show more
All it costs to fulfill the average person's needs for digital services is a $5 per month VPS instance. It's even cheaper if you buy a single board computer and host your services at home.
We've been letting companies steal our personal data and sell it to the highest bidder and destroying democracy in the process all to save what? A coffee a month?
This is one of the worst deals in history.
so i just pretty much *inhaled* http://www.radiosilencecomic.com/comic - and now i have one more wonderful weekly thing to make seven days feel like an *eternity*.
@Laurelai
It's good to have these reminders 'cause I stopped keeping track during Gay Sloth month.
As pride month winds to a close id like to remind everyone next month is Gay Wrath month and to prepare for the start of it now. Molotovs and bricks will be provided
FreedomPop UK, 2 days ago: We're discontinuing our free service in a month; if you don't cancel, we'll be taking £3.49 every month.
uk.freedompop.com, today: "Free is really Free, no gimmicks or games. FreedomPop believes mobile access is a right and not a privilege and is committed to offering basic levels of mobile service 100% truly free."
...mm hmm. bye, freedompop. *cancels two SIMs, throws them away*
Dysphoria Show more
if you're going to automatically redirect everyone to an https:// link for your site, you really do need to ensure that your certificates are correct, valid and up to date.
nigel farage, currency manipulation Show more
Thank fuck
it's one kind of disappointing to visit sites that render as nothing until i enable JS but it's another when what renders could have just as easily come down the pipe sans JS
The knights and ladies rode to hunt, their cats astride their gloved hands. They were released to pursue prey; some returned a mouse, others brought newt or frog, and some simply had a nap.
The noble whose cat seemed most content was declared the mistress or master of the hunt.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
"weird, my hoover smells like melting cheese"
*remembers recent parmesan blizzard incident*
"...oh."
(come to think of it, an alarmingly high number of times when i screw something up can probably be traced back to me being "clever" at some earlier point...)
(for clarification, raspbian doesn't mount /boot read-only by default. that was me being "clever". 🤦 )
Girls don't like boys, girls like cars and pockets big enough that they can comfortably fit a Kindle in there.
most of the day, during which i really wanted to stay awake: 💤
now, when it's essential i go to bed: ⏰ 💡 ! ! !
🙄
top tech tip: before you attempt to do a "sudo apt upgrade" on raspbian, make sure your /boot partition is not mounted read-only like it usually is in an attempt to minimise SD corruption risks. otherwise everything will fall over in a terrible heap...