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Finished my rewatch of Little Witch Academia. If you haven't seen it, it might just be exactly what you need atop today's backdrop of [gestures broadly]. It may not have concrete ideas for how we can build a better world, but damned if it doesn't believe it's possible. 10/10.

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Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO 1d ago

I guess my takes here come down to:
1. of all the age verification/declaration kerfuffles going on lately, this one is the least-invasive small potatoes imaginable
2. not sure why this has to be said, but you have absolutely no right whatsoever to demand that other people die on the hill of your choice
3. given that some people are going to reasonably choose not to die on this particular hill, it's entirely reasonable for upstream infrastructure maintainers to provide a trivial API surface that downstream consumers can choose to expose or not

Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO 1d ago

I see so many people making a huge deal out of linux stuff adding support for the california age thing, and I'm like. you know basically every online service has been required to ask for your age since 1998? this is literally just "at account creation, the device owner can set an age field. to whatever they want. and then apps can query that instead of asking themselves."
you can set it to the unix epoch if you want

Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO 5d ago

It's election day in Illinois! I'm a former suburban Cook County election judge (note, this just means staff member at a polling place); AMA.

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gloriouscow Mar 13

I think i may need a break from mastodon.

it is not an exaggeration to say that the majority of my feed is now just various anti-AI posts.

the people pushing AI aren't here. they are not on your Mastodon instance. When you post about how terrible and ignorant and stupid they are they do not see it, and it's not like that sort of thing persuades anyone even if they did.

I want to keep up with the cool stuff you are all making and doing. But I realize I am not entitled to just pick and choose from the things you find important enough to share, so I am not sure what else to do when I find that reading my feed no longer improves my mental health.

Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO Mar 12

3girls size_comparison

Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO Mar 11

Me preaching: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me practicing: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO Mar 11

according to all known FAA regulations, there is no way a bee should be allowed to fly

Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO Mar 9

finally… macbook amateur

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