Nice to read a little book review / journal entry I wrote a year ago and it holds up. :)
"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" by Kurt Vonnegut
http://jays.net/mr_rosewater.txt
[hearing light shuffling noise through the wall]
god, i hope that's a squirrel in the crawlspace and not someone moving in to the apartment next to me.
[hearing the sound of a power drill through the wall]
god, i hope the bed frame that squirrel is assembling is quiet and i don't have to constantly hear them fucking.
While Ed Mastery basically silenced the MRAs who complained about feminine pronouns in my tech books, I had previously made this table to answer them.
(By "silenced," I mean "they stopped complaining to me about it." The MRAs are still yammering away in their Man Pits.)
A powerful, enlightening look at modern and historical public education in NYC https://pca.st/podcast/b03f5270-aeed-0138-e6b1-0acc26574db2
Code for America is looking for volunteers to help educate people about the Earned Income Tax Credit. Apparently the EITC is one of the most progressive tax laws on the books, yet millions of eligible Americans don't know about it, so don't take it. https://bit.ly/3igZX0m
2020
lol OK, this is awesome https://2020game.io/
#owncast just released its 0.0.5 update! It now recognizes Keyoxide as a social handle 🎉
To celebrate, #keyoxide 2.4.1 can now verify your ownership of an Owncast instance 😎
Example (@yarmo): https://keyoxide.org/9f0048ac0b23301e1f77e994909f6bd6f80f485d
Here's the guide https://keyoxide.org/guides/owncast to add this to your own profile!
Let's get streaming while supporting decentralized networks!
uspol
Feeling down? TONS of good news here: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/12/us/elle-reeve-charlottesville-white-supremacy-capitol-qanon/index.html
I've never been so happy to hear "nobody uses Bitcoin" :D
Finally sat down to listen to the Black Autonomy podcast. It's great, and for a first episode it's amazingly well produced.
"hmmmmmmmm
can ents eat cheese?
We're giant strong trees, we can do whatever we want
Like petting bears
Yepp :) depending on the forest. We don't have bears in Norway but I'm sure Ents can teleport to whatever forest they want
we can go to teh polar bears
OMG YES I DO"
In case you need to rotate something *really* slowly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwXK4e4uqXY
New #prohibitionorcs tale is out, and here's the links to a whole bunch of stores!
"Witness November" -- Orcish religious war, against a human missionary? No matter who wins, orcs will lose.
Oh, introduction?
The Basics:
Well then, I'm O. Freelance fantasy/scifi artist, teacher, Twitch streamer and bald, sexy biker.
I work live on Twitch every weekend, and think it's exciting to find a new social media platform that seems to have a true focus on artists and art.
Something about me:
I can't burp, swim or take a good photo.
Where to find me:
Just search "oabnormal"! I'll be there. https://mastodon.art/media/ginjp-wLt3CwVyYtpj4
New to Mastodon, check out my open-source project! Open source offline neural machine translation in Python: https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate
There's a new easy trick for feeling SUPER old :) https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJ7G68dV/
Omaha, NE USA + RV. Often programming #perl.