You might think working a phone repair kiosk is a waste of my skills. Yeah nah.
Today, this kid came in with an iPhone that was more than cracked, it was banana-fied.
“What happened?” I asked, turning the wreckage over in my hands. I don’t think there was a single salvageable part. “And have you considered just upgrading?”
“My novel’s on there”, the kid said, wringing his hands anxiously. “It got ran over by a hauler bot.”
“Got a backup?”. The tears in the kid’s eyes were all the answer he needed to give. “Okay, event rebasing is the only way to fix this”, I gestured at the price board, “can you afford that?”
He gulped. “Uh, just.”
“You sure?”
“Yes. Can you really fix it?”. Hope flickered in his eyes.
“Let’s see, no win no fee”.
I held the smashed and bent phone-ana in my hands and turned it over, feeling its shape in space and time. With my /other sight/ I saw its lifeline leading away from where the kid had been, a shimmering trail of history leading back in time. With the fingers of my mind, I felt back along the lifeline until i felt the bump, beyond which the device had been a flat rectangle. Exploring the shape of the damage event I twisted the lifeline into a loop. Now here’s the tricky bit; if you have the knack, and you dig your nails in /just so/ you can pinch out a moment in time and detach it. I rubbed the lifeline with my mental fingers, smoothing out the join where the excised moment had been.
Blinking back to the present, I powered on the phone and handed it back to its owner. “All good?”
The kid’s fingers flew over the screen as he checked on his preciousss, and breathed a huge sigh. “All good. That’s incredible, can you fix *anything* like that?”
“Almost. Like?”
He avoided my gaze, staring down at my hands on the counter with their iridescent nails, matching the highlight colours in my hair. He made eye contract briefly, wide eyes again a bit teary. “Even…..me?”
Oh, that. “Absolutely not. *wink* Such things are not done and definitely not by me. Clear?”
*nod*
“Okay, hold still.” It’s a different technique than rebasing, especially because i like to spread the change over a few years to conceal the edit.
“All done”.
“Oh wow”, she said, reaching up to feel her shoulder length mauve hair (clearly I’d nailed that detail), then taking a twirl. “How, how much do I owe you?”
“On the house and you weren’t here. “
The tears were back. “Thank you thank you, this is the best. “
“My pleasure, have a great life”
“Thanks, you too” she said. “Bye!”
“Wait! Don’t forget your phone!”
a fun thing to do when straight guys are being terrible about commenting on womens' looks is saying "maybe you're not into women"
finde es so krass, dass ich in allen deutschen nachrichtensendungen, die ich verfolge bisher nichts (!) über den informationellen kahlschlag zu queerness (insbesondere trans* und nonbinary identität), reproduktiver gesundheit und anderen wichtigen daten der gesundheitsbehörde #CDC gehört habe.
worüber dagegen ausführlich gesprochen wird: die strafzölle, weil wirtschaft über alles geht 🫠 #USPol
@politicalbeauty.bsky.social Das Versagen der Medien ist auf allen Ebenen zu beobachten und mit schuld an der möglichen Zersetzung der Demokratie.
"Was macht es mit eurem Gewissen, wenn wir mittags hier gemeinsam den Holocaust gedenken und abends die Partei, die Hitler zu einem Fliegenschiss in der deutschen Geschichte erklärt, frenetisch jubelt?
Was macht es mit eurem Gewissen, wenn ein KZ-Überlebender sein Bundesverdienstkreuz abgibt (...)."
@ricarda_lang fasst es perfekt zusammen !
Quelle https://x.com/djpr/status/1885023722584547584?t=0qgplKArJfMX7QoqqYNxsQ&s=19
Heute hat die Union mit den Stimmen der AfD einen Antrag durch den #Bundestag gebracht. Das ist ungeheuerlich und eine Zäsur für unser Land.
Für uns ist klar: Es darf keine Zusammenarbeit mit Rechtsextremen im Deutschen Bundestag geben.
Journalismus heißt sagen, was ist. Also:
Engagement gegen Diskriminierung statt "Wokeness".
Grundrechtswidrige Deportationen statt "Remigration".
Geschlechtergerechtigkeit statt "Genderwahn".
Geschlechtergerechte Sprache statt "Gendern".
Aufklärung und Meinungsfreiheit statt "LGBTI-Propaganda" oder "Transgender-Ideologie".
Dann kommen endlich Sätze heraus, die sagen, was wirklich passiert:
"X erklärt das Engagement gegen Ungerechtigkeit für gefährlicher als Terrorismus."
"Y sagt der vom Grundgesetz vorgeschriebenen Gleichbehandlung den Kampf an."
"Z schafft die Meinungsfreiheit für Minderheiten ab."
Rechte Kampfbegriffe lassen antidemokratische Haltungen gut klingen. Hört auf, sie nachzuplappern, außer um sie zu demaskieren. Sonst seid ihr nicht neutral, sondern ein aktiver Teil der rechtsextremen Diskursverschiebung, die gerade unsere Demokratie aushebelt.
PS: Nein, ein paar Anführungszeichen ersetzen nicht euren Job.
Spritely Goblins 0.15.0 is OUT! Goblins in the browser AT LAST! https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-goblins-v0-15-0-goblins-in-the-browser.html
You can even try a Goblins chat program talking over OCapN in the blogpost!
As long prophesied! Goblins on Hoot at last!
Schöne Übersicht der Süddeutschen, wer mit welcher Partei mehr oder weniger Geld vom Einkommen behielte.
Ganz links jeweils die mit dem wenigsten Geld, ganz rechts die Reichsten.
Die beiden Balken in der Mitte stellen die Brutto-Einkommen von 40-55.000 und 55-80.000 Euro dar.
Der Artikel dazu: "Was die Wahlversprechen der Parteien jedem Bürger finanziell bringen" https://archive.is/05Jzw
Sharing this cartoon by Maeril again, because we are living in a world where this kind of help and solidarity is very much needed.
The original cartoon is about hatred against muslim people, but the method can be easily adapted in any case of harassment in a similar situation, for instance racism, sexism, queermisia, ableism, bodyshaming ...
A longer text about it can be found here:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/someone-made-a-guide-for-what-to-do-when-you-see-islamophobi
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#Fediblock loops.video
their terms of service are clearly predatory and ridiculous.
if you value your privacy and data i would block them while you can.
dansup, get it together
more info: https://bajsicki.com/blog/loops-video-terms/
Mastodon is full of people who accidentally got in trouble at school. You asked too many questions. You challenged teachers authority on subjects if you didn't feel like they explained it well enough. You suggested a third option when there were only two presented. You didn't understand why you got in trouble, you were just trying to give everyone a fuller experience.
I'd say Friendica.
@tio and @trom have an instance over at https://social.trom.tf/
This is how you do justice to "both sides":
sensitive media
number 3 is a lie, since they used at least one organisation, the mass marketing company (which will be classified as a "data processor")
Additionally, the sections in this GDPR response correspond exactly to the subsections of article 15.1, with the exception of subsection (f) - "the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority"
Also also, maybe Github would be interested to know about the scraping of e-mail addresses from their system.
