Notices by Queer Like The Slur (coolandnormal@aus.social)

Any other time since the invention of cars:
- a car blew up in front of a prominent building
- wow, a car bomb!

2024:
- a cybertruck blew up in front of a trump building
- yeah, they do that

@alcinnz @steven same, but I was *wildly* privileged, I had an outdoor space, a dog and I could get some remote work. Good times.

@jwi @inthehands I reckon the usa would be more useful if those people were eligible to vote.

@evacide "my job is to teach people about consent. You see the difference between opt-in and opt-out consent is..." (no one ever listens this far)

Yesterday I heard the best, most concise round up of the climate situation:

"The weather will become more extreme until human greenhouse emissions drop to zero."

Straight facts.

The pot will continue to heat until there are no living frogs in the pot to continue stoking the fire.

Then, frog-genic forcings finally at zero, the pot will begin to cool, eventually reaching pre-frog levels and possibly even recovering to something comparable to a pre-frog ecosystem one day.

Extremely well addressed: conservatives are uncomfortable with gender transition because they're uncomfortable with gender.

Extremely under addressed: conservatives are uncomfortable with gender transition because they're uncomfortable with transition.

Question re #LibreOffice impress. This project is the first time I've used libreoffice, so potentially explain like I'm 5.

I'm trying to get it to reveal each element on a slide in series. The program seems to have capability to do this in the animation tab.
I set up an entrance on click or on delay for each element, then no matter how I configure it, the first element appears on its own, then all others appear at once together.

I cannot figure out a way to make the elements each appear on their own separate click.

Help please

Libreoffice graphics library 'people' includes 22 different pictures of office workers and 0 pictures of a person who could plausibly be standing in a field.

The closest person image to a farmer (the only one who looks like they could possibly be outdoors) is labelled 'tourist' and appears to be a white person on an international holiday.

Pretty sure I've said this before, but alt text is brilliant for crossing cultural divides and telling me WTF is going on in pictures from contexts I have never seen before.

I don't expect anyone to recognise what a forestry skidder is for, no one expects me to know what a Wendy's is for. I don't expect anyone else to recognise an autoclave, no one excepts me to recognise a doorbell cam.

Ideal. No notes.

One of my main uses for alt text is working out what the author thought was notable in a picture where everything is the same level of wild to me.

Eg. *pic of a chaotic city street scene, many people are doing many different things on the street*
caption: wow, this is so wild! I have never seen this before!
(alt text: scene of taxi rank in [place]. one of the taxi cabs is blue instead of yellow!)

Unless you happen to live in a Richard Hotspot*, you're vastly more likely to meet an intersex person than a person named Richard.

*kindest regards to the model aeroplane building community

My town is extremely small, it has:
- Zero traffic lights
- Zero restaurants
- No doctor, dentist, or vet
- Nowhere to buy prepared food, no food after 6pm
- No public transport
- Assuming normal population distribution, 20-30 intersex people

Because, you see, intersex people are rare. Only 1.7% of the population.

So if a group of people is very small, like my town, your family, your workplace, etc, it might only contain 10-50 intersex people.

You may only meet them a few times a day.

@tokyo_0 I don't have the evidence at hand but I believe paracetamol effectiveness is more individual than most substances. So some people report it working well, while for others it seems to have zero effect. Both people are right of course.

1. Carefully line your fruit box to ensure it is food safe
2. Turn away for one [1] moment

I love that everyone on this website said 'can we just not?' on April fools day, then we just didn't. No notes. Ideal social media experience.

Can anyone suggest a good programing glossary? Please?

I keep running across 'beginner' texts that read like "Obviously it's critical to glaze your squelch with at LEAST armadillo, if not brick before beginning. Then ensure you dunder ALL your NPCs, even if they have grey hats, (just Google how to do this) after which you can of course open EnergyClam and we can begin leaning the basics".

Neiche #music question:
What's your favourite pub song that's on a #PianoRoll ?

Edit: to clarify, this is 'pub songs' in the tradition of patrons singing repetitive, enthusiastic, often suggestive songs in groups in pubs.

I did some youtubing of my favourite 1890-1930 music hall drag king songs to assess singability for pubs.

Now YouTube is pushing me to go on a deep dive about nazi history and wants me to learn about certifying my pure celtic blood??

I'm sure there's one in which someone calls system admin so she puts on a fur suit like it's industrial PPE for dealing with computers and goes into the server room to whip the furries who make everything work.

I've been putting increasingly odd search terms into duck duck go without finding it.

My family: why do you know about how fursuits are sewn anyway?
Me: because I'm interested in infosec so I follow infosec experts on the Internet
My family: what?
Me: what?