Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

When the #Jira ticket says "as a user, I want a cheeseburger" and the devs don't bother actually reading the #UserResearch docs before executing

Physical copies of the book have arrived, and it's officially out in a month (https://nyupress.org/9781479818310/the-two-revolutions/)!

Just in case, here's a non-exhaustive list of things in it you may enjoy if you are Extremely Online (in no particular order):

- Ancient Internet drama
- Crossdressing Star Trek fanfic
- Clipart
- Glamour Shots
- Classic Usenet flamewars
- Epic flounces
- Overuse of the word "cyber"
- Tortoiseshell cats

#trans

that's me in the corner
that's me in the ice box
choosing plum nutrition

Reboot Space 1999

2099 is still a ways off

whenever my boss says "think of the big picture, elle" I'm immediately an astronaut floating silently in space tethered to my ship looking down on earth, and nothing he wants seems important or even relevant so this tactic has really backfired on him more than once is what I'm saying

Thanks to efforts by volunteers Nosamu and bai0, the Internet Archive's flash emulation just jumped generations ahead.

Mute/Unmute works. The screen resizes based on the actual animation's information. And for a certain group who will flip their lid:

We can do multi-swf flash now!

A pile of previously "broken" flashes will join the collection this week.

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash

It’s amazing to think how much digitization has made it less likely content will last beyond a generation. Writing on stone tablets last hundreds to thousands of years. An Atari cartridge or Betamax tape is almost impossible to consume today if you aren’t a collector of classic electronics.

I used to think my kids and grandkids would read my blog posts and tweets. Now I doubt Medium or Twitter will still be around in ten years.

https://gamehistory.org/87percent/

I am so far out of spoons I think I might also be out of knives.

One of these days I'll put up a post on @Maholmire saying I need three million USD to build a state-of-the-arc space shuttle with ion propulsion so that we can colonize Mars with transsexual lesbian anarchists before the Americans do.

Is that something you might be interested in @eris and @Mondobizarrro?

I’m so fucking angry. So angry.

Can we stop fucking up as a species, please?

Can we stop hating on minorities and using religion as a reason for hate?

Can we stop polluting?

Can we just fucking not?

Apparenty, David Tennant wore an enby pin and a t-shirt reading "leave trans kids alone you absolute freaks" for the official Good Omens 2 press photos.

@Calixthe@bostonsocial.online The objective of the US health insurance system is not to provide healthcare. It is to avoid paying out money.