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cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Aug-2026 01:18:49 JST 
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The sheer amount of revulsion I felt for the pathetic wretch who "couldn't" delete the image they scanned of my ID card for all eternity, but agreed there was no one on Earth who was going to try and impersonate me in order to take my medical procedures for me. A completely useless record, utterly damning in the hands of someone seeking to purge the weak, and they'll dutifully preserve it for all of time, and turn you away from desperately important medicine if you refuse.
Like, low level employees have some leverage against their boss since they deal with them on a regular basis. But customers got nothing.
The secretary even complained about the records they kept of her without permission, when she changed hospitals! How did it come to this... -
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cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Sunday, 02-Aug-2026 23:35:31 JST
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Exactly! It's entirely intent based, so nothing we say is necessarily a lie. All that matters is the internal reasoning in our own heads of why we're saying it. I could tell you the honest truth, and if I knew you wouldn't believe me, and would assume I was lying, then I'd be lying!
So unless you're a mind reader, it's hard to determine what is or is not a lie. -
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cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jul-2026 16:04:53 JST
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I made chocolate pudding once. It wasn't too hard, and turned out okay. Not a huge pudding fan, but homemade definitely let me skimp on sugar and not chocolate.
The hard part is probably adding the milk. Needs to be hot to combine smoothly with the corn starch, but not too hot or the milk will burn. Also can only add a little bit of milk at a time, to stop the corn starch from clumping. So boiling (but not burning) a little bit of milk? Just keep your nose and ears peeled.
One trick I've heard is to heat the milk first, and mix bits of it into the corn starch, cocoa, vanilla and stuff, until it's liquid enough to quickly dissolve in the milk. Still tricky, but starting with hot milk won't cool down the pudding while you add it. -
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cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jun-2026 00:28:43 JST
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So as usual, the underlying problem is hierarchy... long as you have someone in charge, you will be slave to tech. -
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cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jun-2026 00:28:43 JST
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Maybe you never question the real urgent need for tech. I won't shut up about it! I bring it up every time! Completely ruthless!
I just want to know how to be actually effective in reducing tech. Even people who agree with me are like "Welp" (shrugs helplessly) (kicks you out of your appointment if you won't take the iPad) -
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cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jun-2026 11:48:01 JST
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Are you going to push other people around, and force them at gunpoint not to do a capitalism, in your glorious anarchy? There can be no pure anarchy, because that's not what we want. We want people to be awful and capitalist, and fascist, and bullying, and abusing, murdering, robbing, and completely powerless, because somehow there would be mechanisms in place to keep them from taking power or fooling everyone else.
What those mechanisms are I don't know, but I know any solution is going to have to be ugly and haphazard and unpredictable, or the tyrants will stomp it out. The revolution will not be televised.
I certainly agree that if those mechanisms only work in one state and not all of them, then the tyrants will cower within their tyrannies, tirelessly warring against everyone trying to do an anarchy. -
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cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jun-2026 10:16:01 JST
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My only question is how to keep the other states from coming in and saving you from lawlessness with brutal military interventions? It's entirely true that without a state, interpersonal harms could be greatly reduced. But the one function a state does serve is keeping away other states. Which defeats the purpose, since as peasants will observe it doesn't matter who's the king. But is there a way to keep away other states, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater? -
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cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jun-2026 07:42:08 JST
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I'll have to go report myself!
Tumblr used to allow boobs, though. -
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cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jun-2026 07:38:28 JST
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Tumblr definitely likes to market itself as a hugbox.
You'll get in big trouble if you post this image though: -
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cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jun-2026 08:06:12 JST
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You can be a perfectly decent person and still process the punchcards that help the trains take your victims to the camps. "The deepstate" is a bad thing because it's not publically accountable, and the complexity allows for atrocities to be covered up, and prevents people from stopping them. Even if everyone in it is a saint with no desire to murder or enslave anyone, the only justifiable action they can take is dismantling it, and going home to their family and friends. -
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cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jun-2026 19:53:19 JST
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Overly descriptive alt-text is very helpful to AI harvesting and image analysis, but not so much to blind people. Which alt-text comes closer to conveying to blind people, what sighted people get out of this picture?
1. A floating golden ring in the air with a second white ring below it, orthogonal to the first. There several faces on the second ring, all with green eyes and an occasional bit of hair divided into two curly locks: pink and lavender. One of the faces is stating "Be not afraid!" Beneath the second ring, a small orange pony with one small wing, purple eyes and reddish purple hair is standing on a green landscape with two small hills. The pony is sweating nervously, wearing white socks, and a white harness on her body which holds a third ring above her head. The letters "@HeshieokF" are inscribed in the lower right.
2. Scootaloo has much to worry about Biblically Accurate Sweetie Belle besides that her costume is better, by HeshiokF on Twitter
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cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jun-2026 19:53:15 JST
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Well I like 2. If a blind person isn't familiar with the characters, or the Biblically Accurate meme, they will get exactly the same out of this picture as a sighted person in the same situation. The vast majority of individuals, sighted or blind, can correctly roll their eyes and move on from my obvious nonsense. Describing it more to someone who doesn't get the joke is a waste of their time. -
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cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Apr-2026 09:39:37 JST
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You're entirely right ya rat bastard
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cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Apr-2026 05:46:44 JST
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Just want to point out the Nazi Bar allegory is bunk. Fascists operate by courting wealth, then buying the bar and turning it into a Nazi bar; they are the bartender, and they fool you into thinking they're just "tolerating" the Nazis who come in and bully people out.
Invaders don't arrive as a guest. They come in force. Hostile takeovers of communities by refugees fleeing disaster has n e v e r happened. If there's no army, there's no invasion. Invasion won't work without some military operations.
So yeah you can get kicked out of a pub for being disruptive. If your community's so weak it can't welcome outsiders though, that's not a problem with the outsiders.
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cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Saturday, 04-Apr-2026 15:22:05 JST
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Why would you need patience,? Do you sit there watching your dryer while it runs?
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cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 23:23:37 JST
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Hey now, you're not thinking only about innocent young girls and 40 year old men! Clearly you didn't pay attention because your critical thinking faculties haven't been replaced by useful rage and fear. How about instead of listening to reason, you think more about the evil image of gross old (old people are gross(we should exterminate theM)) 40 year old men and dear sweet little girls quaking in fear at the evil hulking oldmonsters? Are you angry yet? Did we mention 40 year old men? -
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cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 04:35:49 JST
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Cauliflower is alright. I like it steamed with a bit of carroway. Broccoli is absolutely amazing though. -
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cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Saturday, 14-Mar-2026 13:44:54 JST
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Well they are magically saner and less evil, provided you don't allow philanthropists to withhold donations from nonprofits who don't fit in with their agenda. 😞 -
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cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Mar-2026 14:16:32 JST
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They're like... lego... bricks, see?
But no the only definition I've heard for "block" is an unstructured sequence of data, generally of a fixed maximum size. It's a metaphor for how you divide a city up into blocks, so to deal with big data, you divide that up into blocks too.
I suppose Minecraft might define a block as an actual virtual cube voxel. Minetest calls them nodes, though.
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cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Mar-2026 13:16:36 JST
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Technically linked lists can be between different data structures, other than "blocks." Blockchains are chains of blocks, not chains of skiplists or whatever you're doing with linked lists. And I'm not basing it off of anything. Regardless of what you think is proper for calling something a blockchain, and whether I should be allowed to refer to non-consensussy blockchains as blockchains, there are intractable problems with blockchains as I define them, even if they lack that Byzantine consensus nonsense.
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