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a friend hates me (as a joke) because I said "I like touching computers" as a joke ugh, I wish people understood my fedi references

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[Harry Potter mention, the Malfoid trend that's apparently going around, homophobia] This is now a tangent. So anyways I saw some art of a yaoi ship getting this treatment and I was like, "Huh. Let's headcanon that the guy who wasn't femmed here was also a girl, but just with really short hair […]

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[homophobia] I really wonder how homophobic people would feel if they ended up in a homonormative and heterophobe-dominated society.

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[homophobia] Romantic love is a really widespread experience; it's just that people experience it in different ways. If only people would understand that just cause they don't get a certain type of love doesn't mean it's wrong. Like, c'mon, I really don't get it when my friends share their […]

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[Harry Potter mention, the Malfoid trend that's apparently going around] But then again, my personal experience is with het ships that I already enjoy as they are, but just enjoy un-straight-ening. People going, oh yeah now that it's het it's acceptable — then I suppose that _is_ homophobic.

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[Harry Potter mention, the Malfoid trend that's apparently going around] (that word is ew but that's a discussion for another time) Sooo apparently people are finding gay ships more palatable when someone makes them het? Perhaps this is the straights discovering how it feels when we […]

Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

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Vale Margaret Hamilton. She was a Software Engineer. She was the _first_ Software Engineer because she defined the term, Software Engineering: "When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a […] [Original post on aus.social]

A B&W photo of a person standing next to a stack of printed paper as high as the top of their head. This is Margaret Hamilton, at work as a Software Engineer and the leader of a team of extremely specialised programmers who worked for NASA. The photo was taken in 1969, and it shows a physical form if her work since she joined the Apollo project in 1965 (she joined at the age of 29 by my calculation). My interpretation of the expression on her face is a mix of pride and mild amusement. She has glasses, long, straight hair, and neat office attire. Margaret Hamilton has her hands placed gently on the stack of printouts to keep it all balanced upright. The pages appear to be arranged in bundles, ranging from 8-10 centimetres thick, to 20cm thick or more. The resulting stack of printouts is physically impressive for being an unusual feat, and it represents something even more impressive: it's the printed form of the source-code she and the team she led wrote for the NASA Apollo project. Their software ran on the Apollo Guidance Computer that was that on board each Apollo command module and Apollo Lunar Module. The Apollo Guidance Computer onboard the Eagle was an essential flight instrument for Neil Armstrong when he piloted the craft to land on the surface of the moon.

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Kıvılcım Afet θΔ @sparkles.ck.catwithaclari.net.ap.brid.gy · 21h

need lemmy server recommendations for a queer community

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When winter comes, I'm definitely getting myself lost in campus to try and find the best hangout spots and cafés.

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Depths of Wiktionary @depthsofwiktionary.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 17h

It's really fun to try to get used to a new place without asking for directions, and getting lost and exploring as required. In games, I enjoy _not_ using quick travel in large, continuous maps. It forces you to actually look around and orient yourself.

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Category:English SOPping wet entries

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Seriously though, you'd think building 20 was anywhere near building 17.

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I remember that one time I was asked, on my second day of uni, where a certain building was. I was walking around and decided to put my phone in my pocket and challenge myself to find my class a couple of buildings away without consulting the campus map. Did I look _that_ self-assured, like I […]

merkjuriel @mercurial.booping.synth.download · 22h

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@ekaisemo.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy :D yayyyyy

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merkjuriel @mercurial.booping.synth.download · 23h

Doing stuff in black and white is pretty fun, though. You don't have to bother with colours and how some colours with the same saturation and value feel "lighter" or "darker" than others (e.g. yellow vs blue). It's also amazing for practising light and value. You also need to figure out how to […]

merkjuriel @mercurial.booping.synth.download · 23h

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I should probably learn how to shade in colour without relying on blend modes, though. I tried to use the black and white layer to set the values for the colour layers, but then realised that I need colours to become more saturated as they get darker too. No easy way to make my black-and-white […]

merkjuriel @mercurial.booping.synth.download · 23h

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Slight adjustments. Why am I so obsessed with manga styles of shading, with lots of white put in shadowy areas to make lines more defined?

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merkjuriel @mercurial.booping.synth.download · 10/10/2026

it now looks better when compressed and made really small it looks bad on the original file when zoomed in (stuff that was previously thin and near-transparent became thick and obvious), but that's lost when compressed as a profile pic anyway

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merkjuriel @mercurial.booping.synth.download · 10/10/2026

Not me increasing line thickness on my pfp

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merkjuriel @mercurial.booping.synth.download · 10/10/2026

[vague] what was I on about yesterday it's _subtle_

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merkjuriel @mercurial.booping.synth.download · 10/10/2026

thinking of printing out some stickers... what should I print?

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merkjuriel @mercurial.booping.synth.download · 10/10/2026

ughhh Lake Verity and Mount Coronet like ughhh 😍😍😍 _chills_

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merkjuriel @mercurial.booping.synth.download · 09/10/2026

sometimes I think this is the reason why I can't lip-read, though I get distracted by the lip movement making its own sound (I can only ever get "a", "m", "w", "o", and "e") rather than what the person is actually trying to say. Add that to the fact that I never really pay attention to […]

merkjuriel @mercurial.booping.synth.download · 09/10/2026

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I love gifs I love how they sound stuff that actually make sounds aren't as interesting as stuff that don't have sound but somehow still have perceived sound

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merkjuriel @mercurial.booping.synth.download · 09/10/2026

[mh -] I think I know where my sadness has been stemming from for the past year or so.

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merkjuriel @mercurial.booping.synth.download · 09/10/2026

[vague, mh -] The black and white version feels slightly more polished and up to interpretation than the one with some colour. But I like the coloured one better. It has character. It pops out. Why am I being oddly poetic? I know the answer, but whatever.

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merkjuriel @mercurial.booping.synth.download · 09/10/2026

[vague] I made a black-and-white version, and imo it is a little less pretty and interesting. Which is an accurate depiction of how I feel about it.

A drawing of a girl with short, wavy hair and glasses doing a peace sign.

The entire drawing is in black and white, except for the darkest shading of the hair and nails, which uses a magenta-to-orange gradient.

The same drawing, but with saturation at 0 so it really is just black and white.

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merkjuriel @mercurial.booping.synth.download · 09/10/2026

hmm, flipping this to "watching people is fun" doesn't sound right

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merkjuriel @mercurial.booping.synth.download · 09/10/2026

Most of my IT computer experience (i.e. programs like Word and DAWs (not programming)) is literally "make an educated guess, push buttons and see what happens".

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merkjuriel @mercurial.booping.synth.download · 09/10/2026

I feel like if you try to put a programmer on a cockpit with 0 experience, they'll very efficiently make the plane crash because programmers are used to the FAFO technique of learning things

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Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Just got a mass email from our bank that essentially says, "If you give your username and password to an AI agent, you're on your own." You've. Been. Warned. 🤣

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anka @valkalyne.wetdry.world · 09/10/2026

chud tools OK?

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Mark H @neonbubble.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

TV quiz show question: "The word pneumatic means something is powered by what?" My wife and I at the same time: "Pneums." We've lived together for a long time.

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merkjuriel @mercurial.booping.synth.download · 08/10/2026

[mh --] I feel like a lot of my friends (new and old) find my dark mood very out of character for me, but unfortunately it's been a part of me for longer than I've ever considered anyone a close friend. What a depressing thought. To think my longest, most constant companion is a certain […]

merkjuriel @mercurial.booping.synth.download · 08/10/2026

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[mh -] I mean, even with my highschool friends I valued my alone time and study time and hobby time, but I genuinely feel a strange sense of dread knowing I'll have to act happy around my new friends when I'm feeling this strange discomfort.

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merkjuriel @mercurial.booping.synth.download · 08/10/2026

[mh -] I think I can handle the changes in uni regarding academics and workload and independence, but changes in social life have always been hard. I think my friend group's healthy, and nice, and really positive, but I can't help but just feel generally edgy around some people (not that […]

merkjuriel @mercurial.booping.synth.download · 08/10/2026

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[mh -] It seems like, during periods of my mental health being particularly bad, I start getting days of high energy and silliness and being hyper, and days of low energy and a generally melancholic vibe. It sucks, because I know that the silly days are just some sort of imbalance of whatever […]