Xeno Danger Evil @XenoDangerEvil@dpw.social

With great power comes a great electric bill.

for the love of the internet: DO NOT USE TINY URL OR LINK SHORTENERS UNLESS YOU OWN THE SERVERS AND PLAN TO KEEP THEM RUNNING BEYOND YOUR DEATH

the amount of dead links on my pre-2015 tweets it absolutely painful. there's no way to salvage any of it: Twitter won't include the actual URL in the data dump they give you.

i know people use them for metrics but for what you're paying them, get a blog with ActivityPub (ohai Wordpress) and push your toots from there. voilá! now you have metrics

Chess Grandmaster Anna Muzychuk refuses to play in Saudi Arabia and says: "In a few days, I will lose two world titles, back to back." Because I decided not to go to Saudi Arabia. I refuse to play by special rules, to wear abaya, to be accompanied by a man so I can leave the hotel, so I don't feel like a second class person.
#saudiarabia #equalrights

@StillIRise1963 it gets more radical the more I look at it

ETA: Stickers can be purchased here: https://movepurposefully.threadless.com/designs/move-purposefully/accessories/sticker/white?size=2-inch

After eight years and work by several scanners, every issue of the elite #cyberpunk #cyberculture magazine Mondo 2000 is now online freely on the Internet Archive! View a list of downloads here, https://anarchivism.org/w/Mondo_2000

Check out some cool articles from the '80s and '90s that shaped our cyber future! R.U. a cyberpunk?

"I'm suspicious of any plan to fix unfairness that starts wtih 'step one, dismantle the entire system and replace it with a better one,' especially if you can't do anything else until step one is done. Of all the ways that people kid themselves into doing nothing, that one is the most self-serving."
--Walkaway (by Cory Doctorow)

beware the bluebird!

#birds

Jon Shaw nailing the Butthole Surfers reissue. “Somehow, someway, Rembrandt Pussyhorse sounds like it could have come out yesterday on some currently über-hip, punk-adjacent underground label (say, Feel It Records from Cincinnati, or London’s La Vida Es un Mus).” https://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/744847642664828928/butthole-surfers-rembrandt-pussyhorse-matador #ButtholeSurfers #matador #punk #music

Today's pro-tip:

If you have to do a Google search, use “before:2023" at the beginning of your search string. You get a completely different (and IMO much more usable) set of results.

The web has died.

#Stract is a new, #opensource, #nonprofit #search engine. It has a lot of interesting functions. For example, users can exclude known copycat sites from search queries, focus on indie blogs, or do fediverse search only.

You can test Stract over here:
https://stract.com

And check out the repo on #GitHub:
https://github.com/StractOrg/stract

There's also an interesting article on Stract by @404mediaco:
https://www.404media.co/this-guy-is-building-an-open-source-search-engine-in-real-time

TIL the most successful pirate of all time was a Chinese woman. She became so powerful that she negotiated with the Chinese government to retire in exchange for not being prosecuted and was able to keep a fleet of ships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_Yi_Sao
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1bec1rn/til_the_most_successful_pirate_of_all_time_was_a/

Circus men.

Ignoring me when you see me out in public lets me know you really get me.

I will never not repost this

#MAGA

H/T Scissorhead D-Cap

https://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/03/06/great-memes-cont-6/

People can’t even grasp the concept of a billionaire. It just feels “rich” to them. But put it in terms of time:

1 million seconds is 12 days
1 billion seconds is 32 years

That’s what an obscene amount of money a billion dollars is.

#EatTheRich
#TaxTheRich