Notes | Brutkey

Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

As a reminder, a LOT of the internet animosity against furries is just thinly veiled bigotry against queer people they find unacceptable

Again, linking to Soatok

https://soatok.medium.com/if-you-hate-furries-youre-anti-lgbt-cce35a948a57

So much of it was trying to crush and humiliate people who dared to be openly weird and enthusiastic.
Cannot be allowed.

Screenshot from a somethingawful article reading "A huge, huge motivation for early furry hate was homophobia. That remained the one axis on which we (non-furry dweebs) could punch down, no matter the stated justification. Furries helped mainstream majority-queer spaces. That made them easy to mock, because they were unashamed enough to be public with their weird art and their dragon wings and their rejection of all the suffocating norms that still make mainstream geek culture an unrelenting hell.

That invited scorn. It hurt to see others free from the shames that wracked us so. Disgust was the immediate response, a kind of unbodying rejeciton which would seek to purge any otherness from ourselves. Some of us knew it to be queerphobia, and I'm sure that was the motivation for a lot of the early trolling.
Others just wanted to be part of the in-group, and there was no easier way to do that than take a swing at a designated punching bag "

Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

anubiarts
@anubiarts@waf.moe

oldie but goldie: AAAAA-
#PixelArt #Art #Redraw #Animals #Cats #Meme #AnubiArts

A Pixel Art Redraw of a cat screaming out of the top of their lungs as loudly as they can, while wearing a cowboy hat behind some mountains that are far smaller in comparison to them.

Real life counterpart of last image's redraw

Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

Doctor Who Minus Context
@nocontextwho@mastodon.social

#doctorwho

David Tennant episode. (Aren’t they all?) The Doctor, Christine, and a few other people are walking off a red double decker bus. Just in case you forgot this show is British. It’s a bit knackered, beat up, windows blown out, dented all around, smoking. Also, it’s in the middle of a desert. Wheels embedded in the sand. Caption reads, “Call it a hunch, but I think we’ve gone a little bit further than Brixton.” Hull, maybe?

Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

Firefox for Web Developers
@firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social

Firefox uses on-device downloaded-on-demand ML models for privacy-preserving translation.

They're not LLMs. They're trained on open data.

Should translation be disabled if the AI 'kill switch' is active?

Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

Tuta
@Tutanota@mastodon.social

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/115847232165161059

Update: Office has not been renamed to, "Microsoft 365 Copilot App"

Like everyone else on the internet Microsoft also has us confused.

Thanks to @tomwarren@mastodon.world we now understand what's changing.

You can find out here: https://www.theverge.com/tech/856149/microsoft-365-office-rebrand-copilot

Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

rail 🦊

(sysadmin puppy)
@rail@social.flufftech.net

Rubber tires metro: oh trust me it's better and more reliable in harsh conditions because rubber tires have better grip than steel wheels on rails!

Rubber tires metro when snow: En raison des conditions météorologiques, le réseau est perturbé 😭

Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

Fesshole 🧻

@fesshole@mastodon.social

My local foxhunt think I'm a huge supporter. Truth is I've been using the info to secretly sab them for years. I've passed on proof about illegal hunting that has had two people arrested & definitely helped get trail hunting banned. Regret nothing.

Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

Victoria Maderna
@vmaderna@mastodon.art

Made a little dude.

Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

Bjorn Idle
@BjornIdle@mastodonapp.uk

I haven't posted any lichen in a while, so here are some nice blobs on a stony surface for a sunny morning to help break the drought...

#LichenSubscribe #NaturePhotography #Lichen #Nature #Photography

A closeup view of a flat stone surface covered in blobs of different shapes and colours of lichen. There's a large bright-orange blob on the left with paler inner, and two smaller interconnecting blobs of the same lichen on the right. Scattered in between and around are other lichen species in shades of brown, white, cream and grey

Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

Cassandra is only carbon now
@xgranade@wandering.shop

Three propositions that I offer for your consideration, hoping that the juxtaposition will make my point for me:

• I am immune to propaganda
• I never fall for phishing scams
• I can always tell it's AI