Woot, I have ordered the next two books in Timothy Zahn's The Icarus Saga series, the eighth Murderbot book, and Star Trek: Picard: Firewall.

Okay, let's go public. 😊

HowSketchy provides an overview of bands and artists, documenting problematic behavior as well as notable merits where supported by reliable sources~

It's not limited by genre or style.

So if you want to see which artists are safe or which ones to avoid, have a look:

https://howsketchy.org/

The database is still very small, but will hopefully grow quickly.

If you'd like to contribute making this platform better, you can become an editor:

https://howsketchy.org/become-an-editor/

Extremely strong :tgif: areas this evening, performance review season is done (at least for anyone who isn't a manager) and so it's been almost non-stop today. :ded:

I think I might have an adult beverage and read some more of the Deep Space Nine Technical Manual after dinner.

You know those songs that have a certain energy and beat that you just can't help but bang your head and tap your feet to? Primordial's To Hell or the Hangman is one of those, get in your earholes ASAP. 🤘🏻

This toot brought to you by, surprise, TypeScript again.

The yak-shaving will continue until morale improves.

Picard engineering tip: Even if computers can talk now, remember how deeply stupid they are.

Computers were good enough to do everything we need them to do ten years ago. Everything since then is bullshit.

If you can't do your job on a computer from 2016 you're just bad at your job. That's a fact, I don't make the rules.

There are enough computer games to play now too. Your life isn't long enough to play all the ones we have, it's time to stop making more. Just play them.

Stop making more computer. Immediately.

One thing no one ever talks about being an adult is how much time you debate yourself on keeping a cardboard box because it's, like, a really good box.

Woot! 🎉 Looking forward to watching all the extras and documentaries once we've finished the series.

(It has French on the front as well as English because it's a European import since I couldn't find it anywhere else. I also learnt as part of trying to find where to buy this that there are only three Blu-ray regions, and Australia and New Zealand are lumped into the EMEA region.)

"No, we cannot name our new extension Butlerian Jihad Badger, even if it would have extremely cute and popular merch."

Killjoys.

To put it simply, a board overseeing what's covered by Medicare in Australia is consulting the public on whether gender affirming surgeries should be covered.
You can view the application by the Society of Plastic Surgeons here: https://www.msac.gov.au/applications/1754

We have until October to submit our thoughts via this survey: https://ohta-consultations.health.gov.au/ohta/1754-resubmission/

When you have time, please fill out the survey in support of the application, especially if you are trans and have or want any procedures. Thanks!

#trans

If you like HyperCard, or are HyperCard-curious, I'd like to share an early build of my HyperCard player for modern macOS, "Stacks". It runs stacks natively: no emulator, sound (with MacinTalk speech synthesis!), period-accurate typography.

There's an in-app browser for the Internet Archive's HyperCard collection, so you can explore thousands of stacks and run them with one click.

Still early days with rough edges, but I'm having fun with it. Please report bugs!

https://morphing.cloud/hypercard

I respectfully submit to the Society a proposed new reference picture for the phrase "Puppy Dog Eyes". #DogsOfMastodon

#StarTrek

my name is Ozymandias. Subscribe to Kings or Kings+ to see my works. Use code DESPAIR for a 15% discount.

#StarTrek

Hi everyone!! <3

Over the last week your generous donations to #GoToSocial have brought our OpenCollective budget up from ~€450 per month to the current total estimate of €950 per month!! That's amazing, thank you so much to everyone who has donated, and boosted our fundraising posts (see thread above) :gtspat:

That means we're a lot closer to our initial goal of getting an estimated monthly budget of €2,500 so that Tobi (writing this post) and Kim can pay themselves a supplementary wage of €1,000 each every month.

Can you help us reach €2,500 a month, to make our work on GoToSocial less stressful and haphazard? We have yearly, monthly, and custom donations available:

https://opencollective.com/gotosocial#category-CONTRIBUTE

Thank you again for reading, boosting, and/or donating, everything helps <3

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116874821062112814

RSS is fantastic, especially when people allow their feeds to show full article content. Highly recommend Tapestry by @Iconfactory if you’ve got any devices that support it!

was chatting with someone and star trek came up, I mentioned I'm an adult convert and was watching every episode of every show. Their reaction was "you should be podcasting this! Make some money!"

just let people fucking enjoy things, not everything has to be performance and/or for profit. Fuck sake.