Mantis Space Marine on Twitter @Archbeth@elekk.xyz

"The thing about being a kid in the American public school system is that every day at least five things are going to happen to you that, were you a grown adult, would result in criminal charges or at the very least a written warning from the human resources department, but as a kid you have to just sigh and go to algebra."

This is an extraordinary video, plotting life expectancy vs. income per country, with color-coding per continent/area. Hans Rosling - who died last year of pancreatic cancer, RIP - was an extraordinary statistician, and I beg you to take five minutes to watch his video and another five to see what we can do to bring the world toward convergence again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo

Here's my hot "Devil Went Down to Georgia" take:
I feel like agreeing to a contest with the devil, alone, is probably the trick. The second Johnny said yes his soul was hell-bound.

*smol yell*

MamaGoth is maybe a little confused about where to lay eggs... #chickens #chickensofmastodon #chickensoftwitter #chickensofinstagram

@dashie

AMAZON. Go to your room and think about what you've done.

heyyy! Short video of a chirping fennec!
https://nerdypsychologist.tumblr.com/post/175393469090/everythingfox-real-life-pokemon

My friends are getting married and they have the best gift registry ever

Aaand done :D #knitting #truecolors #rainbow

this smol cloud covered the sun as much as it could.

it's doing it's best!

(Walks over to the turtle aquariums: WEIRD CATS)

Well. I didn't contribute to #Junefae regularly, but I did sketc
#art #doodles #sketches #fairies

Does anyone have extra asthma inhalers they can spare? This is an ongoing crisis, and they've been lucky to get through it this far.

(Asking for a friend who gets dogpiled whenever they ask.)

Mixing boards looks super complicated when you first see them but they have a logic to them that doesn't take long to figure out. Chances are you can ignore 90% of the board, for a meeting you only care about input, panning, levels (volume) and output. I don't need to play with FX (although I suppose I could put a reverb on someone as a prank), rarely need to look at the EQ other than to be sure it wasn't accidentally touched, and we don't do a control room so no CR outs need be touched.

DHS article headline mirrors the white supremacist 14/88 slogan:

> We Must Secure The Border And Build The Wall To Make America Safe Again

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/02/15/we-must-secure-border-and-build-wall-make-america-safe-again

In some ways, it was honestly a lot like the current fediverse. In other ways, it was not at all like the current fediverse.

If you want to get a feel for what it was like, check this out: http://olduse.net/

It's an archive of Usenet, updating in real time, as if people were making these posts.

And that's *really* fucking cool.

i'm bad at self-description but here's a seasonal reminder that i need Help

http://liberapay.com/trwnh
http://paypal.me/trwnh
http://cash.me/$trwnh

literally anything helps, i've since gotten set up with a computer but would very much appreciate any aid given. i'd like to be able to contribute more to open-source projects and do more creative work again!

A #gamedev I know is asking for feedback on the combat system for their new game, which is a dungeon-crawling RPG inspired by Wizardry and Might and Magic. You can check out Rift Riders: Call of the Maelstrom here (Windows only, sadly): https://pixelcomrades.itch.io/rift-riders

19 ICE agents have recommended that the Department of Homeland Security shut ICE down. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/us/politics/ice-immigration-eliminate-agency.html

They're concerned that Trump's focus on illegal immigration is interfering with their work against /actual/ transnational criminal enterprises, and they want their positions reassigned to another department, where they can fight actual crimes instead of being told to detain three-year-olds.