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Sven Slootweg, low-spoons mode ("still kinky and horny anyway")14h ago

Something I wish more non-programmers knew is that the software development world is incredibly susceptible to scams and grifts, precisely because everybody thinks they're too smart to fall for it - and so "this smart programmer I know uses this thing" is absolutely not an indication that it's any good or even legitimate

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nerd teacher 🦇12h ago

Sorry, not a "company," except it acts like one despite its 501c3 designation (which doesn't really mean much in the grand scheme of things).

Anyway, the fact that the same organisation that got pulled up for creating pages for other nonprofits without permission thinks it can harass people for additional information (beyond information that already verifies everything that they do have)... is annoying.

Also, it's fun to sit here and try to figure out what the reasoning for this sudden need of additional verification is... when they won't tell you. Could be legitimate or it could be dodgy bigotry. Who can tell!

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nerd teacher 🦇21h ago

With every passing day, I hate GoFundMe more and more.

The company, not anyone using it. It's just such a garbage service.

nerd teacher 🦇19h ago

Love trying to lookup a desktop alternative to Thunderbird and being met with "you can replace it with [android client]."

Unless I'm planning to replace my PC with a mobile device or tablet, that... doesn't seem like a useful alternative when I'm specifically looking for desktop-based alternatives?

nerd teacher 🦇20h ago

I generally roll my eyes at most games-related journalism, but PMG is one of the better spaces. Discussing the boycott of XBox to support Palestine because of Microsoft's complicity in Israel's continued genocide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj10537yi4

The Xbox Boycott (Still) Matters

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nerd teacher 🦇21h ago

With every passing day, I hate GoFundMe more and more.

The company, not anyone using it. It's just such a garbage service.

nerd teacher 🦇1d ago

🍁❄️💔🏔️1d ago

And to be clear, "doing anti-capitalism" means, sometimes you are gonna put a lot of money and resources into a thing that is intended to benefit others without expecting that thing to make money or otherwise be any kind of material return on your investment. And if putting in that time & money would materially make it impossible for you to continue having food & shelter & resources, then it also involves finding ways to get that food & shelter & those resources without exchanging money – or things of "equal worth" – for it.

We have to start breaking down capitalism's logic of equivalencies (without just turning on reach other) or there is really no "anti-capitalism."

nerd teacher 🦇1d ago

Nora Reed

1d ago

republicans believe children should be forced to carry pregnancies to term and should be allowed to be pushed into coercive marriages by their parents because they see children as fundamentally sexually exploitable and i am tired of pretending their transphobia has some other angle

nerd teacher 🦇1d ago

AuriBlackCat Collective 1d ago

Burn the prisons, burn the schools, burn the universities, burn every workplace

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