Adam Hawkes

@hawkesnest@jvm.social
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I'd like to take a moment to congratulate all Americans for now legally being defined as women.

According to Executive Order 14168 (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/30/2025-02090/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal), the "biological truth" of the genders has been legally defined:

(d) “Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.
(e) “Male” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.

Here's the problem, turns out that the universe isn't taking attendance at the time of conception and handing out little pink and blue genderino badges before your gonads even exist. At the moment of conception, EVERY embryo's default state is set to produce, eventually, the larger reproductive cell (the ova). It's not until 6-8 weeks AFTER conception that the Y chromosome, if present and activated, decides to show up to the party and begin the process of differentiation into a body that will, eventually, produce the smaller reproductive cell (the sperm).

So, once again, I'd like to congratulate literally everybody in America for, at this moment, being legally AFAB.

Back in '21, after we had the vaccine, there was a subreddit with a very simple premise: find social media posts of people who were anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-lockdown, then find the social media posts from when those exact same people caught COVID and died.

Even as they were dying, most of those people couldn't admit where they'd gone wrong. Even death wasn't enough to open their eyes.

In case you were wondering if we'll ever be able to reach some of the people who got us into this shit.

Zen quote of the day.
Consumer networking devices come in two varieties: Altar to a Dark God and Aromatherapy Machine.
The 3 kinds of queues are:
- FIFO
- LIFO
- FAFO
wow, no more anti-vax memes, there's already a perfect one

#Nintendo updated its account agreement policy to state that it can brick your device for unauthorized behavior

Fuck Nintendo

https://www.eurogamer.net/nintendo-reserves-the-right-to-brick-your-console-following-unauthorised-use-in-bid-to-prevent-piracy

Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy

Nintendo has updated its Nintendo Account Agreement with a severe warning against "unauthorised use", in a bid to prevent emulation and piracy.

Eurogamer.net
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GDPR goes brrrr

@sebsch @timjclevenger good websites don't need a cookie policy that requires you to consent your privacy away.
@timjclevenger accessibility isn't just for disabled people.
@timjclevenger the perfect article doesn't exi-...
@timjclevenger It's dangerous to hit people with that much irony, there should be a warning.
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Saw this, today, on my mobile.
@timjclevenger It's nice to finally have an article that cuts right to the point.
@timjclevenger I assume this is after dismissing the 'Subscribe to our newletter or you suck' popup with the one pixel square close button and the video screen will pop up once you dismiss 'About Cookies On This Site'
@timjclevenger about: config> javascript:enabled = False ✅
@Snake_B @timjclevenger not on android you dont. this is Mozilla’s treachery, how they borked the mobile browser to bring it more in line with Google’s true purpose with android: surveillance as operating system.
@timjclevenger Every once in a while I end up on the web for something quick on a system that doesn't yet have ad blockers. Every time, I am horrified it's worse than I remember from the previous time.
@timjclevenger It is scary now I run @librewolf that a lot of website's just social engineer you to give you this consent. It all could work very easy without cookies, but they just do it so you basically can choose to either be annoyed every-time you visit the website or you accept. Talking about websites as Aliexpress and Amazon, but I guess most big commercial websites are designed to force tracking cookies on you.

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They didn't even have to bother to write the article. Just the headline and let their own policies do the rest.

@timjclevenger So many peeps still using substack, which is inaccessible if you don't subscribe. I don't boost, or even favourite, anymore. You got cookies? I don't want cookies. Bye!
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