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raphaelmorgan

@raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

Any neo-pronouns or he/him if you must.
Not new, I've just had bad luck with main instance picking.
Boosts are seldom a reflection of what I think of the person posting (because I don't check unless I see red flags), but usually a reflection of what I think of the post itself.
I block random people who tag me out of nowhere (but replies are usually fine).

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raphaelmorgan, to random
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We chose #MayTheFourth as Odo's birthday as a bit, but what a cute coincidence that his first falls on #caturday

wxcafe, to random
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people complaining that {academic papers, ttrpg rulebooks} are PDFs that you can't read comfortably on a phone are turning me into scorsese

raphaelmorgan,
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@wxcafe considering sometimes a phone is the only way people can look at digital text, maybe we should simply have multiple options (so you can keep your PDFs) instead of gatekeeping academic papers and TTRPGs for people who have computer access? Especially the former bc education is a powerful tool

davidho, to random
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I find it weird that newspapers characterize students as being “pro-Palestinian” as opposed to anti whatever you call this.

raphaelmorgan,
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@sickmatter wow u got me, the thing I said is true and that's a moral failing somehow

ChrisMayLA6, to ai
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Tom Gauld on the AI (investment) bubble

raphaelmorgan,
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@wrench @ChrisMayLA6 @NikTheDusky not AI. No money.

raphaelmorgan, to random
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I hate the term "hysterical pregnancy," not only because "hysterical" is usually used for misogyny and sanism, but also because etymologically it means something to do with the uterus and boy do I have news for you about normal pregnancies

raphaelmorgan, to random
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I always find it very funny when I see an ad that tries to invoke FOMO, basically saying if I want the thing I gotta buy it now, but doesn't actually tell me what the thing is or why I should want it. Cool, I guess I'll go without whatever the fuck you're talking about lmao

Andres4NY, to random
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For better or worse, the past weeks has mastodon becoming a proper source of breaking news for me. This happened for me w/ twitter during the boston marathon bombing. It's often not direct sources using mastodon, but people reposting direct sources (originally from twitter, or IG, or others).

So I'm glad that we have an open protocol that can bypass traditional news media to show what's actually happening in real time, but I'll also miss scrolling through mostly cats and moss instead of doom.

raphaelmorgan,
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@Andres4NY maybe we should all create separate timelines with a few hashtags like caturday/catsOfMastodon and whatever they call the mossposting one
Because I'm kinda in the same boat

raphaelmorgan, to random
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LB many parts of my body crack like a glow stick all the time but I don't actually glow unless u give me treats

raphaelmorgan, to random
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Stay safe out there, corporations straight up lie about protecting you from illness (or anything) https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/29/24144425/razer-zephyr-face-mask-covid-n95-ftc-settlement

AnarchistArt, to random
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raphaelmorgan,
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@AnarchistArt just so you know, the alt text misquotes him! In the alt it says "is political language..." Rather than "political language is..."

TheJen, to random
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So we have dumbfucks here today on the fedi claiming the holocaust wasn't that bad, actually. And why that fucking account hasn't been banned everywhere, I don't know. Everyone I know has blocked that trash, but yet he persists.

Almost as if mastodon.social is extremely poorly moderated. Gee.

raphaelmorgan,
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@voxofgod @TheJen according to most WASPs, it's not anti-Semitism unless it's humanizing brown people

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Columbia telling protestors that if they're students they have until 2pm to clear the encampment they've set up or face suspension.

So exercise of free speech and assembly rights going as well as can be expected in the face of corporate academia.

raphaelmorgan,
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@MylesRyden @Adam_Cadmon1 universities are made for the purpose of serving the billionaire class, sure. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be getting educated at them if we can while we work on dismantling those systems, because for every shitty admin (aka every admin) there's a professor who refuses to serve capitalists more than their students

raphaelmorgan, to random
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Happy #caturday , have an Odo
Photo credit @roari

mekkaokereke, to random
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Again for people (racists), complaining about falling birth rates:

The birth rate for women over 40 is not falling. The birth rate for women over 30 is not falling.

What's happening, is girls 15 to 17 are having fewer babies. Kids are having fewer kids.

Also, this is an interesting way of saying that "Teen pregnancy is down, due to sex education and contraception."

In 1991 25% of 15 year olds gave birth before they turned 21. That's bad. Now it's 6%. That's better.

https://npr.org/2023/01/08/1147737247/teen-pregnancy-rates-have-declined-significantly

raphaelmorgan,
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@mekkaokereke not a woman but as an adult who can give birth, I fucking would if I could afford to have kids right now. Because of capitalism, I probably can't for a long time and maybe not ever. But if I could just be a stay at home parent or afford kids while working part time, I would. I know plenty of people in this category, but it's really not about birth rates and entirely about control. Forcing adults to know nothing but work and forcing kids to have kids

raphaelmorgan, to random
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My nephew 🤝 my cat
Seeing each other's toys and going "for me?"

fraying, (edited ) to random
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I wonder if the tech solutioneers trying to create* a single fediverse identity ever talk to real people. In the real world, we maintain many identities, and they're separate on purpose. Sometimes our lives literally depend on it.

(Edited to change “force” to “create” because, no, no one is forcing anyone to do this. I meant “forcing into existence” but don’t wanna get off track about it.)

https://thenewstack.io/one-login-towards-a-single-fediverse-identity-on-activitypub/

raphaelmorgan,
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@fraying if I wanted a single fediverse identity I would simply have a single fediverse account...

StillIRise1963, to random
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I think we can now stop saying “google it” when looking for info. No one will find it there.

raphaelmorgan,
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@earthlingusa @StillIRise1963 my phone is set to automatically use DuckDuckGo. I rarely find the answers I seek there either. It's not just a Google problem (although tbc Google is the worst), the whole web has been blended into an SEO AI bot mush.

raphaelmorgan, to random
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Happy #caturday ! BIL got some great pictures of Odo yesterday. I think the last one truly captures his essence.

Same cat, same box, similar position but his mouth is now mostly closed and he's licking his nose.
Same cat now glaring at the camera. His head is pointed down, and his ears are pointed up and slightly to the side as if he's listening or a bit annoyed.

salad_bar_breath, to random
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Genuine Question: why are all programmers bad at it?

raphaelmorgan,
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@rick @salad_bar_breath this is it. I'm not even in the first two groups because I don't make money and I usually don't try to replicate existing products, but when I make any sort of tool it's almost always because I personally could benefit from it, and I don't pay that much attention to how other people feel about it past basic accessibility and "I should share this in case it's useful to other people too." But it sucks that FOSS is no exception either

raphaelmorgan, to random
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Tutorials that assume you don't know anything about the subject: cool, often helpful even
Tutorials that assume you don't know anything about anything and don't understand anything they've said so far: I will take your fucking kneecaps

raphaelmorgan,
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(I just watched a Godot shader tutorial that told me how to delete text in a text editor and I am not kidding)

raphaelmorgan, to random
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Are you tired of seeing ads that explicitly lie to you? Well this ad would never lie to you! And I know you have no reason to believe us so here's another paid actor you don't have any reason to trust to remind you that we're Trustworthy™️ and Honest©️

raphaelmorgan, to random
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Being trans and immunocompromised is so fun bc after years of HRT I finally got a masculine face but no one ever fucking sees it because no one else stays home when they're sick so I can't safely exist anywhere without a mask! Probably for the rest of my damn life, even if COVID stops existing tomorrow!

18+ kayleeserenada, to random

How do we care for the people we need to defend ourselves from?

raphaelmorgan,
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@amy @kayleeserenada especially if the majority of this interaction is with people who will be the least harmed by them. E.g. if someone is a huge misogynist, it should be cis (probably het) men to try to neutralize them before giving them access to a community as a whole. Abled allies can educate others on disability to help disabled ppl avoid the hassle. Allyship and solidarity is really important for stuff like this

raphaelmorgan, to random
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What's the cheapest long-term mass storage option for digital files on physical storage? Has to be able to connect to a computer somehow without necessarily being a part of it

raphaelmorgan,
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@vendetta good point. If I still can't figure out how to set up nextcloud on my third try, I'm sure a gitea server would work for my needs and I know I've gotten one of those running before /gen
Plus I don't have to port forward or anything because I won't use it outside of my house

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