✨Morel✨
@morel-k.bsky.social
Morel | They/It | 24 | Recent grad in CS and Stats | Rhythm games, analog media, and all things indie!
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New for 1993 - the Apple Macintosh Colour Classic.
The final model of the compact Macs introduced almost a decade earlier, the Colour Classic is quite a swish little system, sporting a 10" Sony Trinitron display and either a 16mhz or 33mhz 030 processor.
The final model of the compact Macs introduced almost a decade earlier, the Colour Classic is quite a swish little system, sporting a 10" Sony Trinitron display and either a 16mhz or 33mhz 030 processor.
March 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
New for 1993 - the Apple Macintosh Colour Classic.
The final model of the compact Macs introduced almost a decade earlier, the Colour Classic is quite a swish little system, sporting a 10" Sony Trinitron display and either a 16mhz or 33mhz 030 processor.
The final model of the compact Macs introduced almost a decade earlier, the Colour Classic is quite a swish little system, sporting a 10" Sony Trinitron display and either a 16mhz or 33mhz 030 processor.
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Remember: To PLAY is human.
To REWIND
is divine!
To REWIND
is divine!
November 8, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Remember: To PLAY is human.
To REWIND
is divine!
To REWIND
is divine!
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There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.
June 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.
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CLARIFICATION :
The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.
They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY
So spread this around
They can be texted. They can be called.
The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.
They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY
So spread this around
They can be texted. They can be called.
June 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
CLARIFICATION :
The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.
They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY
So spread this around
They can be texted. They can be called.
The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.
They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY
So spread this around
They can be texted. They can be called.
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Again, the only reason the left was saying "Bush was worse" was because liberals kept insisting that Trump was a weird one-off aberration from the "normal" Republican party. The POINT was that he was no such thing, that this has been Republicans' goal since Reagan, Trump is part of a clear continuum
10 minutes after my post directed at him. well i tried. it seems liberals aren’t able to be introspective. it was the left that warned since 2015 that we’d be where we are now if the party embraced a figure like biden
February 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Again, the only reason the left was saying "Bush was worse" was because liberals kept insisting that Trump was a weird one-off aberration from the "normal" Republican party. The POINT was that he was no such thing, that this has been Republicans' goal since Reagan, Trump is part of a clear continuum
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![Painless Parker (born Edgar R.R. Parker;[1][2] 22 March 1872 – 8 November 1952) was a Canadian-born street dentist[1] described as "a menace to the dignity of the profession" by the American Dental Association](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreifdyo2de4qmlrivppopbexbgp2dxr5jzn66bycctcogt7iwntj4em@jpeg)
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does anyone want to come over and hang out in the gumby darkness and starvation hell room
February 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
does anyone want to come over and hang out in the gumby darkness and starvation hell room
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I need to go get some intense red paint..
February 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I need to go get some intense red paint..
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i hope it’s clear that big tech is not an ally. it only was as much as it was profitable. textboon rainbow capitalism, and now when they saw the writing on the wall, they flopped back into fascisms arms
Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including:
• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month
• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month
February 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
i hope it’s clear that big tech is not an ally. it only was as much as it was profitable. textboon rainbow capitalism, and now when they saw the writing on the wall, they flopped back into fascisms arms
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kowtowing fucks
Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including:
• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month
• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month
February 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
kowtowing fucks
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If an Israeli - or British or American etc - woman who was eight months pregnant was shot dead by any other military, the whole world would know her name. Her name was Sondos Jamal Muhammad Shalabi. She was 23.
The Israeli military has expanded its assaults in the occupied West Bank, killing an eight-month-pregnant Palestinian woman during an armed raid in the Nur Shams refugee camp.
Israel kills eight-month-pregnant woman in occupied West Bank raid
Israeli forces open fire on a family at Nur Shams camp, killing a Palestinian woman and critically injuring her husband.
aje.io
February 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
If an Israeli - or British or American etc - woman who was eight months pregnant was shot dead by any other military, the whole world would know her name. Her name was Sondos Jamal Muhammad Shalabi. She was 23.
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February 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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I'm grateful for Ed's ongoing dissection of modern tech, because it makes me feel like less of an elderly crank when I complain about the sheer misery of modern software, which enables us to perform tasks that would have been beyond imagination 25 years ago but punishes us for daring to do so
Tech has stopped being about helping YOU do things - it's now a means for management consultants to use software to penetrate/monetize every aspect of our lives, all while expressing growth to the markets. This is the growth-at-all-costs Rot Economy.
www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/
www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/
![Technology has, in many ways, stopped being about "using technology to help people do things," or at the very least "help the user do something that they want to do." Software has, as Marc Andreessen said it would in 2011, eaten the world, and has done so in the nakedly-cynical and usurious way that he wanted it to, prioritizing the invasion of our lives through prioritizing growth - and the collection of as much data as possible on the user — over any particular utility or purpose. Andreessen and his ilk saw (and see) software not as a thing that provides value, but as a means for the tech industry to penetrate and "disrupt" as many industries as possible, pushing legacy providers to "transform themselves into software companies" rather than using software to make their products better, describing Pixar — the studio that made movies like Toy Story and Inside Out that was acquired by Disney in 2006 — as a software company rather than a company that makes something using software.
I realize this sounds like semantics, but let me put it another way: software has, for the tech industry, become far more about extracting economic value than it has in providing it. When the tech industry becomes focused on penetrating markets (to quote Andreessen, "software companies....[taking] over large swathes of the economy") there's little consideration of whether said software is prioritizing the solution to a problem.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreibl6gxgkyia3qs3bowropqrlhy2wgtd3edgxcves7mwns47ngprvq@jpeg)
February 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I'm grateful for Ed's ongoing dissection of modern tech, because it makes me feel like less of an elderly crank when I complain about the sheer misery of modern software, which enables us to perform tasks that would have been beyond imagination 25 years ago but punishes us for daring to do so
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Bandcamp lets us keep 85% of revenue. That is the best rate of anybody out there. Over a period of about 15 years, I have taken home ~$3000. Every album is "pay what you want", so you all rock.
If you bought an album for $5 then you gave me more than streaming the whole album ~300 times.
If you bought an album for $5 then you gave me more than streaming the whole album ~300 times.
February 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Bandcamp lets us keep 85% of revenue. That is the best rate of anybody out there. Over a period of about 15 years, I have taken home ~$3000. Every album is "pay what you want", so you all rock.
If you bought an album for $5 then you gave me more than streaming the whole album ~300 times.
If you bought an album for $5 then you gave me more than streaming the whole album ~300 times.
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There is a lot of talk about the Trump administration's new 15% cap for indirect costs on NIH grants, which is important, but it's all academic at this point since THERE IS NO MONEY BEING GRANTED AT ALL by the NIH right now, in defiance of two court orders
Trump maintains funding freeze at NIH, defying court order
The Trump administration is still prohibiting National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff from issuing virtually all grant funding, an NIH official tells Popular Information.
popular.info
February 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
There is a lot of talk about the Trump administration's new 15% cap for indirect costs on NIH grants, which is important, but it's all academic at this point since THERE IS NO MONEY BEING GRANTED AT ALL by the NIH right now, in defiance of two court orders
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Not even the best satire writer in the world could have come up with “Red, White, and Blueland”
February 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Not even the best satire writer in the world could have come up with “Red, White, and Blueland”
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This is an important point I think. Opposition to Musk isn't based on philosophical or political views. It's between people who know when they're being conned and people who don't. Whether we still have a functioning country after this depends on how many of us fall for the wallet inspector gag
Yeah yeah he’s cringe but can you imagine being dumb enough to fall for this shit? Like oh sure the worlds richest man with billions in government contracts is saying that disability payments are the real scam, he seems legit lol
The man currently destroying the U.S. government has changed his name on Twitter to Harry Bolz
February 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This is an important point I think. Opposition to Musk isn't based on philosophical or political views. It's between people who know when they're being conned and people who don't. Whether we still have a functioning country after this depends on how many of us fall for the wallet inspector gag
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MAJOR EFFICIENCY WIN: the CFPB that’s returned over $21,000,000,000.00 to scammed americans now being dissolved to save every american $2.00 annually
February 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
MAJOR EFFICIENCY WIN: the CFPB that’s returned over $21,000,000,000.00 to scammed americans now being dissolved to save every american $2.00 annually
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have developed a nasal COVID-19 vaccine that BLOCKS transmission of the virus. This suggests vaccines delivered directly to the nose or mouth could play a CRITICAL role in containing the spread of respiratory infections. Phase I clinical trials HAVE BEEN APPROVED! 🧪🧵⬇️
February 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have developed a nasal COVID-19 vaccine that BLOCKS transmission of the virus. This suggests vaccines delivered directly to the nose or mouth could play a CRITICAL role in containing the spread of respiratory infections. Phase I clinical trials HAVE BEEN APPROVED! 🧪🧵⬇️
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![According to Oxford University Press, the first recorded use of the term traces back to the 1854 book Walden by Henry David Thoreau.[8][9] Thoreau was criticizing what he saw as a decline in intellectual standards, with complex ideas being less highly regarded, and compared this to the 1840s "potato rot" in Europe.[7]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreibgbl4ayy3xh54zn34s2enpp465lqurby75ucnvfncg6ahxxvlfxe@jpeg)
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i know his santana collection goes crazy
elmo's dad has a soul patch for absolutely no reason
February 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
i know his santana collection goes crazy
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Lots of people replying to this with "cool but the fascists don't care"
Yes but a lot of center left people have just blindly accepted the anti-science bs of the far right and they need to be shown that it's rubbish so they don't just sit there comfortably smiling when they see it
Yes but a lot of center left people have just blindly accepted the anti-science bs of the far right and they need to be shown that it's rubbish so they don't just sit there comfortably smiling when they see it
3500 scientists, biologists and experts in human sexual development write to the US government saying that sex isn't binary
www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...
www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...
Letter to the US President and Congress on the Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender
President Donald J Trump Washington, DC Members of the US Congress Washington, DC February 5, 2025 RE: Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender Dear President Trump and Members of the US Congr...
www.evolutionsociety.org
February 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Lots of people replying to this with "cool but the fascists don't care"
Yes but a lot of center left people have just blindly accepted the anti-science bs of the far right and they need to be shown that it's rubbish so they don't just sit there comfortably smiling when they see it
Yes but a lot of center left people have just blindly accepted the anti-science bs of the far right and they need to be shown that it's rubbish so they don't just sit there comfortably smiling when they see it
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Sam McLean, The Tower of Babel, for Heavy Metal, 1980
February 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Sam McLean, The Tower of Babel, for Heavy Metal, 1980