Mayana @Mayana@dragonscave.space

"Excuse me," said the knight, "but may I borrow that... er... implement?"
"My hoe?" the farmer said. "What for, milord?"
"For yonder dragon."
"The one bellowing in the hills? But you have a lance and a sword!"
"Why should I fight it? The dragon only asks for scritches."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Sorry to employed people but I won’t be taking part in Buy Nothing Day because discount days are the only way I’ll be able to afford yuletide presents for people this year. Perhaps instead of passively trying to fight capitalism by not buying things and hoarding your money you could actively help people by donating it

In Code 7you play as a hacker trying to save humanity from complete annihilation. Gather information, hack things, guide your partners through dangerous situations and earn their trust. Beware the AI that REDACTED
It is a #TextAdventure, but with voice-acted dialog and pretty good music. It has autocomplete, subtitles and a mode for blind players.
If you like story-driven games with plenty of twists, this might be for you. Episode 0 is free, so how about you find out? :)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/650570/Code_7_A_StoryDriven_Hacking_Adventure

I would like to take a moment to promote Trunk 🐘

They are like FediFollows but much older, bigger and better 👍

They have a huge opt-in list of people on the Fediverse that you can follow arranged into lots of categories:

https://communitywiki.org/trunk

The list has been a bit out of date recently, but they now have a new admin who is cleaning things up.

If you have any questions or want to join the list, you can contact the new admin at @Mayana

#Fediverse #Trunk #Mastodon

Hey friends, if you happen need binders, gc2b is having a sale

"Offer details: Take 15% off 1-2 items or 20% off 3 or more items! For orders over $99, we will be emailing a $5 discount code to be applied to future orders as well!

Sale discounts apply automatically at checkout, no code is required!

Offer valid on gc2b.co & gc2b.io. Sale begins at 8 PM on 11/25 (EST) and ends on 12/2 at 11:59 PM (EST)."

#trans #transClothing #binders

On a more serious note, based on a conversation on an Internet forum (and addressed mostly at people from the USA):

Most of y'all are probably aware of that, but there's no such thing as speaking "without an accent". If you're not broadcasting words directly into someone's brain via telepathy, you have an accent.

It matters because it's not just incorrect, it's also an example of centering one type of language (yours) as invisible and therefore default.

*Everyone* has an accent.

Hi all! We would like to hire one part time DevOps on Mastodon service maintain and helping us trying/integrating experimental features. We can accept remote work and welcome to apply. Please send us your Resume (or LinkedIn link) to Suji.Yan AT sujitech.com ;) Many thanks.

I wonder if anybody out there has an open position they need to fill?

I have 10+ years of experience developing software in C#/.NET and Node/JS/TS/React, but at this point I'm willing to consider basically anything software engineering-related as long as the people are nice.

Especially if it's in Berlin and especially if it involves Rust or Elixir, but anything else would be great too!

There were no medals after the battle, no songs of glory written. It had not won a war, nor changed the fate of nations.
But the soldier knew it as a battle, knew it had been won. Other battles would come, but having won one, he knew he could win again.
He called it "Inbox Zero".
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

"COVID-19 se je, tako kot drugi novi patogeni, za katere ljudje nismo imeli imunosti, pojavil pri divjih živalih v oddaljenih delih sveta, kjer se je prenašal med industrijsko gojenimi živalmi in na živilskih trgih, ki jih uporabljajo ljudje. Čaka nas več pandemij, ker je tam zunaj več patogenov in nič ne delamo za to, da bi omejili ali ustavili iskanje fosilnih goriv, sečnjo in krčenje gozdov za nasade in živino; vse v prizadevanju za večji dobiček za agro in energetsko industrijo."

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"Če in ko bo ta pandemija izginila, se ne bi smeli več vrniti k »običajnemu poslovanju«. Nujno moramo zgraditi »socialno ekonomijo«, kjer demokratično načrtovanje nadomešča kapitalistični sektor ter usmerja in nadzira nacionalne in globalne vire za dobrobit ljudi, ne za profit."

Michael Roberts

http://delavske-studije.si/sl/events/biopolitika/michael-roberts-the-political-economy-of-the-pandemic

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If you're styling a website, don't forget to check if you have accessible degrees of contrast in your color palette. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines provides good definitions to follow, and there are lots of handy tools that calculate rates of contrast and if they're sufficient. Here's one of them: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

friday next week (december 4) is the final bandcamp friday of the year (and maybe ever?)

in case you've missed it, bandcamp have been waiving their revenue share on the first friday of each month since March so that 100% of the money spent goes to the artist/label

december 4 also happens to be my birthday, so if you wanna do something nice please support my friend Sara by purchasing her single Grace Jones (there's also a remix available too)

https://saaramusic.bandcamp.com/

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“For subjects of white privilege, discomfort can... cause a moment of hesitation and potentially, of questioning and critique. Subjects of privilege are not used to hesitating – they are used to being at ease in the world – and so they can react to hesitation in ways that close it down. This means that hesitation is a necessary, not a sufficient condition to change perception. There needs to be a willingness to dwell in situations of discomfort and not immediately try to get out of them.”

youtube removing community captions is so fucked up honestly. it's a massive fuck you to those with hearing issue, language processioning issues like some can have with autism, pretty much all non english speakers or those in the process of learning which media immersion is an amazing way to learn I may add. and there's literally no reason to do it than google doing what they always do, killing off services and features because fuck you