Concept: The Thing, but the thing is actually really chill.

This transport freighter discovered that one of their crewmembers had been duplicated while cutting through an asteroid belt to save time on an important job. There was a bunch of paranoia for a bit, but then it turned out that an actually-dangerous alien had latched onto the ship, and right when it tried to attack the crew, the thing went all tooth tornado on it and then curled up like a chitinous kitten and went to sleep, so now it's just the crew pet.

Now, months later, everyone on the crew has got it down to a science telling if one of their friends is actually Mimi being a silly creature, and can suss out within two sentences of conversation if a person is real. The sole exception would be the crew stoner, who is always saying such wacky stuff it's impossible to tell whether or not they're real or not. Until a rat skitters by and they suddenly turn into a blob of teeth and go in for a snack. The crew regularly buys cases of synthmeat pet treats to keep Mimi fed and happy when the ship is at a deficit of rats and similar vermin.

After multiple Fediverse successes, I have put together an article that not only tells you that "git exclude" exists, but also how and when to use it.

Enjoy it now on my blog!

https://marijkeluttekes.dev/blog/articles/2025/09/03/git-exclude-a-handy-feature-you-might-not-know-about/

#git #webDev #programming

@faithisleaping
Whenever someone starts down this pathway, I am compelled to interrupt and reframe it properly.

For transfem friends it's like no, she didn't have the experience of a boy going through whatever is being called "socialized as a boy" nowadays. She had the experience of a girl being forced into whatever "socialized as a boy" thing is being mentioned. Vastly different experiences.

And for the transmasc friends it's the inverse. He had the experience of a boy being forced through "girl socialization" and not a girl going through "girl socialization"

I've had various people have a sort of "Oh" realization about how it's problematic and have had positive results in the long run.

❌ Writing a promo post

✅ Just dropping the link to my mega sale: https://itch.io/s/158296/40-pixel-fonts-for-40-dollars-thats-it-thats-the-sale

@pharmafemboy Ti calculators are so expensive because they have to import them from the 1980’s with a time machine, because nobody in the present can figure out how to make hardware that shitty anymore

when dwarf fortress had money for a very brief period (this was before I started playing it and back when you couldn't dig down at all), players ran into a problem: a functioning society does not require 100% of its members to be productive.

so you would end up with dwarves for whom there was no work available, but because there was no work available, they could not afford any of the abundant high quality food and clothing and other goods.

and from this starting scenario and essentially physics-mandated capitalism comes a logical solution found by players.

if dwarves must complete jobs in order to earn money that they can use to purchase comfort, but comfort is extremely abundant, the solution is to create jobs that don't produce anything

and because of how Dwarf Fortress works, "pull the lever" is a job.

so players found they could build a room full of levers, not attached to anything, and assign the task of pulling each lever on repeat to whoever was available.

dwarves who could not find work otherwise would walk into the room and flip their lever from side to side, accomplishing literally nothing, until they got bored or hungry or tired and left to use the money they had "earned" to rectify that.

Tarn Adams found it was a better solution to simply delete capitalism.

and that's the story of why Dwarf Fortress no longer has an economy.

To be an elf is to find your distances of time. To be an elf is to live several shorter life spans. I have learned this to be true, but there is something more. To be an elf is to be alive, to experience the joy of the moment within the context of long-term desires. There must be more than distant hopes to sustain the joy of life.

Seize the moment and seize the day.
Revel in the joy and fight all the harder against despair.

— Drizzt Do'Urden

(from "The Two Swords" by R. A. Salvatore)

@midtsveen oohh - thank you so much!

@midtsveen this is fascinating – I never really considered how anarcho-syndicalists would organize or decide what to do in a non-hierarchical way. do you have a link that explains the concepts of federated assemblies, binding mandates, recallable delegates, etc.? those are pretty unfamiliar terms to me

Okay, new rule: Every non-person fedizen must add in their bio/pronouns if they accept being referred to using you or not.

#nonPerson #therian #beepboop

PHP

(I don’t actually care about Pepsi’s logo but I’m referencing this PDF which may be a hoax and also this Lemon Demon song which is based on the PDF)

did… Pepsi change their logo back to the old one? but… what about the golden ratio?? the Parthenon?? the Earth’s magnetic fields?? Lemon Demon worked so hard on that logo!

@ellie I 100% agree and it’s so validating to hear someone other than me say this. I feel this way about camping too. like I think I can understand hiking but camping is like staying at the Worst Hotel Imaginable

im gonna b real i Never understood the beach hype . How the fuck does anyone have fun on the beach . Its uncomfortably hot . you have to be almost naked around a bunch of randomsm . theres fucking SAND EVERYWHERE . THE WATER IS SHITTY AND SALTY AND GROSS . THERES NOTHING TO DO . IT SUCKS