#Music #80sMusic #ZXSpectrum #Music

Bluesky suspended my account for “unusual activity,” suggesting it had been hacked. Waiting for next steps, which I hope will come before the election!

#Bluesky #USPol

I finally got a chance to watch #Murderbot, and I agree that it's probably the most #autistic show I've ever seen on TV. The story is so autistic that there's an episode titled "Eye Contact". And the humans that Murderbot has to deal with are super allistic and keep screwing things up because they are so focused on communicating feelings that they miss important facts and can't react to threats. They insist that Murderbot performing "allistic human" is more important than operating according to its nature, and that makes its job harder and everyone suffers for it.

There's a great bit where a human requires Murderbot to make eye contact during a conversation just to make himself feel like Murderbot is paying attention, which actually makes it harder for Murderbot to pay attention, and it's the most authentically autistic moment I've seen on TV. I kinda want to make all the parents and teachers and managers in the world watch it so they understand that "look at me when I'm talking to you" is not something they should ever say to us.
#ActuallyAutistic

Into my mid-50s without an STD or a child because I always wear a condom.

This is a post about rejecting AI.

IDEAS FOR WHAT TO DO BEYOND STREET PROTESTS

thread

#activism #action #links #freeebooks #freepdf #solidarity

working on a Pico8 version of my game coming to Steam Next Fest!
will feature purchasable power-ups / core mechanics that capture the full desktop experience but in a cuter, smaller package.
#pico8 #indiedev #indiegaming #pixelart
Wishlist on Steam! 🍙https://store.steampowered.com/app/5043370/Konbini_Shift/

According to independent journalist Jasper Nathaniel who was at the scene, the IDF provided cover for the “settlers” as they beat Palestinians and the WaPo journalist.

The IDF also reportedly shot one of the Palestinians.

Maybe a little tip for mods/admins who deal with the spam wave:

If hacked accounts appeal, first do a forced password reset before you allow the appeal

This is to make sure their passwords have been changed and their accounts won't be used in the attack again

So far all indicators point to stolen passwords and not tokens

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@jmaris/117461810385145539

He's so good at this. Please elect him, Michigan. #Politics #Democrats #Democracy #Senate #Michigan #AbdulElSayed #US #USpol

https://bsky.app/profile/criticalnexus.bsky.social/post/3my5r4abznk2p

The rule against “positive talk” about J.K. Rowling—including fanfiction—is internally consistent with Wafrn’s founding ethos, but its sweeping interpretation risks undermining the very kind of community Wafrn was built to be.

Wafrn’s original goals: a safer, Tumblr-shaped home

Wafrn did not set out to be a neutral or “anything goes” platform. Its founding identity is explicit and political:

• “No alt-right, no nazis, no terfs.” This is stated directly in the project’s own description.
• The developer’s own three rules are equally blunt: “1st no nazi shit 2nd no terf shit”.
• The name itself is a joke with a point. “Wafrn” stands for “We Allow Female Representing Nipples,” a direct reference to Tumblr’s 2018 porn ban.

So the goal was never to recreate Tumblr as it is, but to build a Tumblr-like space that is actively hostile to the ideologies that make Tumblr unsafe for trans people. The admin’s warning about JKR is not a sudden departure from that mission; it is a direct enforcement of the “no terf shit” principle. The admin even framed the ban in existential terms: “you are financially helping with the fucking trans genocide”.

Why build Wafrn when Tumblr exists?

The short answer: because Tumblr, from Wafrn’s perspective, is part of the problem.

• Tumblr is a corporation that banned adult content and, in Wafrn’s view, tolerates or platformed TERF ideology. Wafrn’s name is a protest against that moderation choice.
• Tumblr is not federated. Wafrn’s core technical selling point is that it connects natively to both the Fediverse (Mastodon, etc.) and Bluesky, letting users curate a cross-platform social graph without being trapped in one corporate silo.
• Wafrn promises a “caring and inviting place” with manual, volunteer moderation, not algorithmic or corporate enforcement.

The founding bet was that people who miss Tumblr’s energy also want a space where the baseline social contract is “trans people are not up for debate.” The JKR rule is the logical enforcement of that contract.

Does the action get them closer to the goal—or further away?

This is where it gets messy.

On one hand, it is aligned: If the stated goal is a space where TERF ideology and its most famous standard-bearer are not treated as normal or positive, then allowing enthusiastic posts about her work—even fanfiction—does send a mixed signal. The admin’s logic is that “positive light on her creations” is functionally positive light on her, and therefore violates the community’s foundational boundary.

On the other hand, the action risks betraying the goal in two ways:

1. It collapses “harm” into “association.” The rule does not target harassment of trans users or promotion of JKR’s politics; it targets enjoyment of a text. That is a much broader net than “no terf shit,” and it can feel like thought-policing rather than harm reduction. The admin’s own community has already been criticized as “an echo chamber” precisely because of this ban. An echo chamber is not a “caring and inviting place” for everyone; it is a place where the price of admission is agreeing with the moderation’s cultural tastes.

2. It contradicts the “chaotic Tumblr energy” pitch. Wafrn is marketed to people who miss Tumblr’s messy, self-curated, non-corporate weirdness. But the JKR rule replaces Tumblr’s corporate ban with a communal ban that is just as absolute, just as unwilling to discuss, and arguably more personal. The admin’s tone—“Go fuck yourselves” toward critics—is not the tone of a platform trying to build a big tent; it is the tone of a platform that has decided the tent is smaller and purer.

The verdict: The rule makes sense if you accept that Wafrn’s core product is not “Tumblr but federated” but “a federated space with a hard anti-TERF boundary.” Under that definition, the JKR ban is a consistent, if blunt, enforcement. But the way it is enforced—sweeping fanfiction into the ban and refusing discussion—moves Wafrn away from the “fun, chaotic, caring” community it advertises and toward a smaller, ideologically policed enclave. That may be what the admin wants. It is just not the same thing as the Tumblr-shaped haven the project’s own branding promises.

• “You’re financing a genocide” for liking fanfiction is moral inflation.
• The pile-on and “LLM-generated troll” reply make it worse.
• Treating JKR as a “cognitohazard” makes the forbidden content more salient, not less.
• The predictable result is spite-engagement elsewhere.

You’re unwittingly harming your own ideological movement more than that fanfic post ever did.

Canada’s Bill C-22 could force tech companies to build surveillance into their systems. That puts everyone’s privacy and security at risk. Canadians: Tell the Senate to stop it before becomes law.

https://action.openmedia.org/s/10016904/znS7mbZnv. (OpenMedia’s privacy policy applies to this petition.)

Yoinking this from elsewhere because it had no alt text.

Protesting is not a competition. Let people do it their own way and pace.

Also, every protest counts. A tiny boycott is better than nothing at all

"Just an error."

"Just an error," said the billionaire fascist who really liked Jeffrey Epstein and really wanted to stay in touch with him.

"Just an error," said the billionaire who said of his own Facebook users, "They 'trust' me. Stupid fucks."

If we survive this, Mark Zuckerberg needs to be put on trial for treason.

feeling like a loss-leader in a store with nothing worth buying

We love the *sensation* of being informed, don't we folks?

Two men at the Fashion Institute of Tech in NYC drugged a woman with fentanyl & raped her in a dorm room. She has died

Last week a man at U Chicago locked an inebriated woman inside a bathroom and raped her while a group of men cheered him on and blocked her friends from stopping the rape

This in the backdrop of the Cornell 7 and 7 hours of drugging and raping Jane Doe with 0 consequences

And this doesn't even include men committing family annihilations every 5 days

Stop saying not all men

In America, being a "Good Samaritan" means "being a good person with a gun who kills a bad person with a gun," and not "being a good person who helps those ignored by society."

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@ellyqw/117452356888106404

This image literally made me gag

but learning what's happening to the kernel made me gag more

and I am serious about this: if you want to predict what torvalds will say and do next, look at what AI boosters in power did months ago. he’s following the playbook to a T, and he’s digging up all the old justifications.

that makes it rather easy to shout back, of course, but torvalds isn’t (currently) afraid of that. he believes himself to be immune to shame.