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Neville Park
@Neville Park

gene wolfe in the streets, clive barker in the sheets

expect mundane life updates, science fiction, pet peeves, Monsterdon, Dracula Daily and other fannish stuff, occasional politics & protest liveposting.

Fedizen since 2016. Previously of m.s, social.coop, and bananachips.club; now trying out my own GtS instance.

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At this point so many fundamental software projects are allowing LLM commits that just using something else isn't practical or sometimes even possible, but I guess it can be mitigated by going with long-term support releases instead of bleeding-edge or even major updates

I guess we just accept that at some point down the road something extremely vital and important will break or get compromised and people will actually have to take a look at it and realize it's horrific spaghetti code and have to redo a lot of it. At least when it happens it will be kind of like us-east-1 going down in that everyone's equally fucked so no one's getting work done anyway.

It's like Y2K except people are deliberately coding it in. Wheee!

(See e. g. @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... for context)

#linux
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Oh, I forgot to post the custom ink colour I got at the Tono & Lims event!

The inspiration was "pigeon neck". It is a slightly greenish blue shading to purplish blue, and if you blot it lightly after a few moments it reveals a wonderful pink undertone. It is rather light in a fountain pen, I should prefer it with a more "wet" nib to show off the colours more.

I am a huge blurple fan, so this colour is satisfying on a profound level.

#FountainPens #calligraphy



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Geolocate This Viral Photo Challenge, part 2: anti-aliased sidewalk

First seen June 15, 2021 on /r/interestingasfuck, as far as TinEye knows. Stolen from someone who didn't add alt text.

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Hey all, @nprofile1q... has 4 paid fellowships for election coverage!

3 editorial, 1 photojournalist
looking for early-career journalists from underrepresented communities; 1 position designated for a Two-Spirit, trans, and non-binary (2STNB) reporter
Brampton, Mississauga, & Toronto municipal elections
13 weeks, August 4 - October 30, part-time
$8000

Details & application here: https://thelocal.to/local-fellowship-2026/

(if there's particular fedi media/journalism tags to add let me know)

#toronto #TOpoli #TOcouncil #GetFediHired
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i am once again asking if there is one (1) single solitary GUI static site generator aside from Publii

as in, you can install the program and end up with, like, a folder of static HTML, without ever having to type something into a terminal

(web-based is ok too)

#AskFedi #GUI #SSG
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Side note: given the news about upcoming extremely privacy-invading Discord changes, I am mildly curious about whether the "servers" I belong to will actually find alternatives or simply quietly go along with it.

I'm all in favour of going back to messageboards and IRC, but you know how I am.
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been thinking about girl socialization re: possibly being On the Spectrum™ and, they really just throw you in at the deep end don't they. like you are basically trained to be the smoother-over of di...
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It's not like these aren't good things to learn! They are really good to learn and everyone should know them. It's just that these things are really hammered into (people raised as) girls. People aren't generically "socialized", they are socialized into a system of gender, race, class, etc., and so if you're looking for people who do not take naturally to socializing, it will often not look the same across genders.

It's like, if you've worked a lot in fast food/food service/retail, it changes you, right? It makes you a different person than someone who's only ever worked in an office, or on a farm. it's kind of like that. i think.

(P. S. A really useful thing I learned from my years in Guiding (Girl Guides, etc.) was how to do an event, like a dinner. Like how to get a venue, advertise it, plan, buy and prepare food, serve people, decorate, clean up after, etc. It's not like a thing I would do for fun, but it's a good thing to have to do.)