Derwin McGeary ✅ @derwinmcgeary@octodon.social
Lad o' pairts. Big Data geek/consultant. Free Software literally lets me make a living, so obviously a fan. #mefite
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
The general consensus seems to be:
1) 20th Century Fox owns the "Alien" franchise.
2) "Alien" xenomorphs are born from a Queen.
3) Disney is buying 20th Century Fox.
Therefore
4) Xenomorphs are Disney princesses.
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im tired of black friday being an orgy of spending and commercialism in the name of "deals"
so here's my black friday deal: if you're struggling financially or are having trouble making ends meet, i'll pitch in a bit to help you out: just reply to this post with a link to somewhere i can donate. i can't spare much but i'll do the best i can.
if you're someone privileged like me, consider doing one of these as well with the tag #givebackfriday or donating to links in the replies.
Today's #MeFi: Anthony Oliveira (birdsite's @meakoopa) tells the biblical story of David and Jonathan through a queer lens https://www.metafilter.com/170744/the-queer-bible
Reminder: Depression is something that can be treated. It won't make the world less of a terrible place, but it will build up your ability to cope with it, and your appreciation of the many awesome bits the world has as well.
Hands off people's devices! Here are some principles to keep in mind if you're asked for configuration help on some… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/933759805466038272 source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/933759805466038272
In the annals of "how real people use systems":
I offer to get my spouse set up with LastPass, so she can use unique passwords and not the same one everywhere. I warn her that there is a leap of faith where you trust the program to remember it for you, and that it's OK.
"But how will my mum use [social networks]?"
"It's fine, this will only affect your account, not people who interact with you"
"But she just logs in with my username and password to see photos"
"..."
A #semihaiku consists of 8.5 syllables divided into three lines of 2½, 3⅓, and 2½ syllables respectively:
What the h—
Get away fr—
HELP! SOMEB—
This has been a weird day.
I just completed the Private Eye crossword! New PB.
Now to read it and find out how idiots with money are ruining our society.🙃
After death, an angel gave her a paper.
"Write your sins."
She wrote small, and filled it.
The angel held a book. "We wrote your kindness."
#MicroFiction
Just found out @MicroSFF is on Mastodon. Recommended.
New Firefox seems pretty good so far, although the square tabs are kind of ugly
Woot, I have now made a working CloudFormation template to spin up an EC2 instance with a custom subdomain on my main domain name with PHP and NGinX installed and running. All I need now is auto-TLS configuration.
Yes, this is a Soviet board game called ”Cooperative”. When you buy all the three businesses of a given field, like recycling or repair of electronics, you can invest in production lines to profit more. The board includes a rock recycling business. 🤔There is no prison, just a square named ”holiday”. This sounds a bit suspicious, since one of the lucky chance cards is a ”get out of holiday” card. 😳
#boardgames #monopoly #soviet
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Quote from this week's Economist: "The population of America farts 3m times a minute. It likes things on Facebook about 4m times a minute."
FACEBOOK: BIGGER THAN FARTS
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