Why #Ao3 was down yesterday:

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(by AO3 user scratch is the best): For the curious, the reason this happened is because someone placed the two billionth, one hundred and forty-seven millionth, four hundred and eighty-three thousandth, six hundred and forty-seventh bookmark on the site. That's the largest ID that can be stored in a tyoical database column. To fix it they have to migrate the entire database to use a different type for bookmark IDs. Except, of course, this will take a while, because there are two billion of them, lol. Good job, guys. You used all the bookmarks. There are no bookmarks left.

I mentioned that my watch's battery ran out to someone, and their first reaction was "so you're going to buy a new one?".

Is consumerism that deep into people's brains? ​​

I generally find that folks in leftist spaces are reluctant at best to engage in any sort of substantive discussions about patriarchy/male supremacy.

even passing mentions tend to initiate a prompt and vicious immune system of reactions, all of which boil down to some variant of, "not all men" and/or "men are victimized by patriarchy too."

all of which, of course, misses the point. male supremacy is institutional. a man can't simply declare himself to be free of it. all men are passive participants in male supremacy unless they actively do the work to not be - and the work is perpetual, ongoing.

in truth, this phenomenon speaks to how, even in radical spaces, men's rights activists have a stranglehold over the conversation, while feminists are continually sidelined as advocating for a second-tier identity issue.

Using ReactAngularSvelteVueNodeScriptJS to make a website that looks like it was made in the 90s and loads like it's still the 90s to achieve maximum historical accuracy

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind.
-- Peter Kropotkin

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Some little girl in the boarding line has a stuffed dog

Random lady in front of her: What's its name?
Girl: *something*
Lady: That wasn't it's given name, it's given name was Rover.

Oh fuck off lady

@maddy@is.redhairpale.skin i would say same, but literally my housemate just triggered our breaker by plugging in a second kettle, which caused my server and our whole network to fail ​​

So true...

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A humorous image shows a gender selection form with options for male, female, and "prefer not to say." A selected fourth option reads, "Actually I'd love to say my gender, but you didn't give me any nonbinary options, so I guess I'll just click 'prefer not to say' and pretend that's representation instead of erasure."

Rush

Pink Floyd

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