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I certainly notice whenever a business I'm visiting has a pride flag on display, or if I'm in a neighborhood where there are a lot of them. It doesn't mean the people there are going to do anything in particular for me, but it means it's pretty unlikely they're going to scream at or hurt me

I don't want to over-hype it, you should watch it with no expectations like I did. But... please move it to the top of your list right now

Call health insurance. 5 minutes of menus, the system hangs up on me. Call back, same result. Call back, it forwards me to the pharmacy (who can't fix my problem). Call back, wait through 10 minutes of silence, finally get a person: who tells me that my problem is just HOW IT WORKS and that's that

🥚🍳👻 boshi’s place is BACK in town with syzygy at GDC! 🥚🍳👻

We’re partnering with @syzygycoop SF on Friday, March 13th for a night of cursed free-range indie games from the east AND west coast.

Tickets info in reply!

Under the supervision of a doctor

I stabbed myself! 😊

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

moving files around, renaming files, making folders, putting folders inside of folders... all these things and more are permissible during Fun Computer

Oh no, you have to come to the SF show

Definitely questionable why an ID that has a picture of your face on it also needs a marker for Probable Underwear Contents.

happy 14th anniversary to all who observe

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

lyra.horse/x86css/

Rebecca Sugar's Lonely Magic Tour | MAGFest 2026 YouTube video by MAGFest

Rebecca Sugar and friends performance from MAGfest is finally on Youtube!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ri-...

Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks Maria Loconsole1*, Silvia Benavides-Varela2,3, Lucia Regolin1 Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of this association, and whether it is unique to humans, we tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby domestic chickens (Gallus gallus). as a precocial species, chicks can be tested shortly after hatching, allowing us to control their pretest experiences. Similar to humans, both 3-day-old [experiment 1 (exp. 1)] and 1-day-old (exp. 2) chicks spontaneously choose a spiky shape when hearing the “kiki” sound and a round shape when hearing the “bouba” sound. results from naïve young animals suggest a predisposed mechanism for matching the dimensions of shape and sound, which may be widespread across species.

main fig from the paper showing the association between bouba/round and kiki/spiky in newborn chicks

the new paper on bouba/kiki in chicks is utterly compelling

canonical, elegant method from comparative cogsci & its partner in developmental science, ultra-simple design, ultra-clear effects, no need for fancy analyses, machine learning, or AI

it appeared in an appropriately badass venue (Science)

"update my PIP? more like take another sip, haha, amirite?"

Due to popular demand, here is a demonstration video of how to make 3D printed PCBs using just vector drawing software, a 3D printed (PETG filament for mine) and self-adhesive copper tape. Any questions, let me know!

pls ad astra?? no per aspera!! only ad astra

You should absolutely take the time to click this link and watch the 19 minute video of the original talk. It was amazing to see live.

my third-floor-in-a-four-story-building apartment does not get rain sounds like this

Good rain sounds on the roof at work

I'm pretty good at operating tiny buttons in response to predetermined environmental stimuli, in case any scientists out there are looking to hand out small cheese rewards for that

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Trans Youth Suicides Skyrocketed In UK After Care Drawdown; Government Covers It Up A Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database reveals that 22 trans children under 18 died by suicide in England in 2021-22 alone.

In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions.

Then covered it up again when caught.

Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country.

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You can take your used coffee grounds and mix them with 1/2 cup of white vinegar, it’s cheap & easy and it creates a huge mess that smells terrible

A hummingbird on a branch with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background

Walked up a hill, took a picture

I don’t think I’d call this a box and whiskers plot. It’s a scatter plot with error bars. The vertical lines are either one standard deviation or a confidence interval or standard error, I’d have to check the paper to see what they say

I've been committing a lot of crimes. I assume you have too, @jessie.bsky.social

They should invent a type of staying up all night that doesn’t involve feeling like shit the next day

Nope, it’s a puzzle from a game called The Witness. Also, why comma?

graphic of a PCB layout with a grid of buttons and LEDs

I am making a thing, we'll find out in two weeks if I fucked it up