GCU Prosthetic Conscience @gcupc@glitch.social
Culture ship Mind. Libertarian Socialist. Weird Facebook refugee. Grumpy old web developer. They/comrade (he/him accepted). Parent and spouse. Don't get between me and my coffee.
This is my social account. My political account is at @gcupc.
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I would like to announce a public server running #brutaldon: https://brutaldon.online/
Brutaldon is a brutalist, Web 1.0 web interface for Mastodon. You can use it as a client for any instance. Currently you do not need a separate brutaldon account. It is compatible with almost any web browser, including text-mode browsers like lynx, w3m, or eww.
Screenshots, issues tracker, and source code are available at https://github.com/jfmcbrayer/brutaldon.
Have fun!
"At what age is it best to crush a child’s dreams so that they have an easier time stepping in to the status quo?"
"You fool. You do not do such things to children. A child is like a poison missile you aim at the Future. You encourage, fund and resource their dreams to the fullest extent of your capability, knowing that your reward will be the pain and misery of generations yet unborn."
-- Warren Ellis
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=8090
6 ways to make Cthulhu emoticons
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Priceless.
1990, meet 2018: How far does 20MHz of Macintosh IIsi power go today?
It turns out you can use a nearly 30-year-old bit of hardware for today's demands.
I want a VT100 with WiFi. The place I would want to put it would make it inconvenient to run serial cable.
[I know the correct solution to this in this day and age involves a Rasberry Pi with WiFi and a USB-to-serial dongle.]
The one where Chandler screams as his intestines tear free from his belly like terrible hungry snakes.
Phoebe touches a horse and is immediately arrested.
The one where Monica does the bidding of her blender which demands more and more exotic meats. At first she feels guilty but she knows her path is a righteous one as she feeds Ross into it.
Joey gets hypnotized by pigeon.
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*smol yell* 
in awe of the size of this lad, absolute unit
A male member of the #mermaid species is called a mertender. I don't make the rules, that's just how it is.
https://medium.com/@novemberninerniner/structuring-your-open-source-project-for-the-purposes-of-accessibility-social-activism-6b1d7fe6c97d
The orchid mantis is a big weird lanky bug, which is relatable, but she also rocks high-femme fashion while being a terrifying predator with swords for arms, which is aspirational.
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Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
My new toy generates random #Arrow episode synopses, inspired by @SilviaFox .
"In flashbacks, during a fight it is designed to protect Merlyn for as long as he knows Joe will not fight for him anymore, but for the death of the clean cops, forcing Nick to realize that vigilantism is the Green Arrow crashes through the skylight, revealing himself as the mayor, not the vigilante. Curtis promises to free John, Rene, Dinah, and Quentin, who reveals that he is being framed."
How to Live in a Dystopian Fiction https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/28/how-to-live-in-a-dystopian-fiction/
The fight is on! SESTA/FOSTA faces its first US constitutional challenge, filed Thursday by orgs Woodhull SFA, Human Rights Watch, Internet Archive, and individuals: a sex worker rights activist and a massage therapist, repped by EFF.
https://theappeal.org/broad-anti-trafficking-law-faces-its-first-constitutional-challenge/
Software only becomes 'enterprise grade' if, when its behavior is described to an outsider flatly and precisely, the outsider assumes the description is some kind of elaborate joke.
this is a perfect distillation of american-ness lmao
