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[tappyoca]

[responsibilitychan]

'i should start learning how 2 code' she says, 4 the millionth time in the past 5 yrs or so

[tekkerz99]

I could help give some pointers if you like. It's easier than you think

[babythestrawberriesshinebright]

[beemovieerotica]

the internet these days is insane because every 3-5 days you see an honest to god neuron-rewiring video produced by some rando with too much free time, and it's so fucking good that you know would have been its own entire meme for MONTHS in 2005. but we're so saturated with phds in breaking bad editing so you can't go into work like "hey did you see The Bear No Rush video game?" because nobody has any idea what you're talking about. back in my day we watched 1 blurry video of a guy doing the Numa Numa Dance and it sustained all of society for an entire year.

[morickyyy]

[chibanova]

To everyone considering paying 5 billion dollars per year to play gamecube games on switch

Take my hand. I can show you a better way

[girl4music]

Don’t you need a powerful pc to run an emulator like this? And the skills of a technician (I definitely don’t have) and those expensive ass gaming monitors?

At the end of the day you’re still paying a lot of money to play a GameCube game.

But here’s a thought. How about ON THE GAMECUBE.

I still have all my GameCube games. I can buy a second hand GameCube with all accessories that works perfectly fine for less than £10 here from CEX or Cash Generator. Never mind this emulator nonsense.

That’s still the best way to play a GameCube game.

[tekkerz99]

You don't need a powerful PC or gaming monitors. I can run dolphin on my phone. Or much technical knowhow. Tbh, if you have less technical knowledge than needed to get dolphin running, now would be a good time to learn.

I know it's possible to get a cheap second hand gamecube buts it a good idea to have a grasp on emulation in general so that the industry doesn't have a hold over you. Also the people that help make the emulators work deserve support

[girl4music]

How does it work over the phone though? I don’t get it.

[tekkerz99]

There is an app - Dolphin emulator. Or you use the software on a PC

[chibanova]

To everyone considering paying 5 billion dollars per year to play gamecube games on switch

Take my hand. I can show you a better way

[girl4music]

Don’t you need a powerful pc to run an emulator like this? And the skills of a technician (I definitely don’t have) and those expensive ass gaming monitors?

At the end of the day you’re still paying a lot of money to play a GameCube game.

But here’s a thought. How about ON THE GAMECUBE.

I still have all my GameCube games. I can buy a second hand GameCube with all accessories that works perfectly fine for less than £10 here from CEX or Cash Generator. Never mind this emulator nonsense.

That’s still the best way to play a GameCube game.

[tekkerz99]

You don't need a powerful PC or gaming monitors. I can run dolphin on my phone. Or much technical knowhow. Tbh, if you have less technical knowledge than needed to get dolphin running, now would be a good time to learn.

I know it's possible to get a cheap second hand gamecube buts it a good idea to have a grasp on emulation in general so that the industry doesn't have a hold over you. Also the people that help make the emulators work deserve support

[animentality]

[kiioki11]

💅🏽🎀

[gaza-giving-tree]

Imagine walking for miles beneath a merciless sun, each step a battle against exhaustion. The empty water containers in your hands feel heavier with every faltering step, but you press on through rubble-strewn streets, driven by the desperate need to find clean water for your family.

Your vision blurs, dark spots dancing at the edges, and your heart pounds with the effort to stay upright. The heat is suffocating, your limbs tremble with fatigue, but you force yourself forward, refusing to give in. Then, without warning, your strength gives out. Your legs buckle, and you collapse onto the burning earth, dust rising around you as darkness claims your senses.

Images: Ahmed Aldani, a chronically ill teenager from Gaza, is trying to raise money to evacuate and receive medical treatment abroad.

@ahmedaldanigg

Story written by @rumiandroses

For most in Gaza, each day is a battle for survival—but for fifteen year old Ahmed Aldani, who is chronically ill, the struggle is far more severe. His body is being pushed to its limits by the relentless strain of hunger, pain, and exhaustion. He needs urgent medical care and a chance to escape the nightmare that has become his everyday life.

Image: Ahmed recently reached out to us with an update on his condition.

Every task, no matter how small, has become a struggle for survival. Just a few weeks ago, Ahmed collapsed while walking 3 kilometers (almost 2 miles) to fill water—his body having difficulty sustaining the effort, in desperate need of medical care that, without financial help, is out of reach for Ahmed and his family.

Born amidst conflict, Ahmed has spent all fifteen years of his life enduring the effects of war. The development of his teeth and hair were negatively impacted by toxic gas his mother inhaled during a phosphorus attack while pregnant with him in 2008. The recommended treatment—dental implants—is far beyond his family’s means, with each tooth costing around $1,000. But without treatment, the pain and exhaustion will only worsen.

Images: The development of Ahmed's hair and teeth were impacted by white phosphorus that his mother accidentally inhaled after an occupation attack near the family home in 2008.

Ahmed’s family has been displaced more than seven times in the past ten months, their savings drained just to stay alive. They now live in the southern part of Gaza, jobless and with no access to proper medical care.

This GoFundMe is a lifeline, both for Ahmed’s survival and for his family’s chance to escape Gaza and access the medical treatment he so desperately needs. The goal is to raise $50,000 to cover travel expenses, medical care, and a chance for Ahmed to finally rest, heal, and grow up without pain overshadowing every moment.

Ahmed needs your help—now more than ever. Even the smallest donation can help bring him closer to the care he needs to reclaim his health and his future.

You can donate to Ahmed's GoFundMe campaign [HERE].

Ahmed's campaign has been vetted by @gazavetters, and is (#198) on their list of verified campaigns.

[cathkaesque]

When it comes to understanding migration, this needs to be taken into account: if you are in a rural area in the global south, like Honduras, you have basically no access to social services, medicine, and education. In fact, the funding for those services is actually being cut, as the social security funds have been looted by corrupt politicans appointed by a military coup. Then you have to factor in that you likely have no access to the land, and no access to credit to buy seeds, and have to sell yourself for basically pennies to an agroindustrial giant. The peasants feed the local people; the agroindustries feed the Americans. In Guatamala, there is a neo-corporate fuedalism where you are allowed a patch of land if you are willing to work, unpaid, for coffee plantations which sell their produce to the German company Ritz. If you attempt to settle unoccupied land, a local businessman will claim it is his without any proof, and the police will take his side because the Agrarian Reform Institute, which issues land titles, is controlled by coupists whose main concern is squeezing as much wealth out of the country as possible. Thugs will murder a man and his wife in broad daylight, and the judge will respond by evicting you and your family from the land.

There is nowhere else for you to go but Tegucigalpa, where you can work trying to wash car windows or selling snacks to passing cars for a handful of lempira a day. Or perhaps you could work for a few dollars a day in one of the maquila factories making textiles for the American and European market, which are set up in special economic zones called Charter Cities where the constitution and labour laws do not apply, which can close down and spirit away whenever they like to another country when they are more willing to sell their people for even less. And then you have to factor in the hurricanes that sweep through the country, destroying everything, that the rains no longer come when they used to but when they do they come in flooding torrents. Much of the north of Honduras is currently underwater; most of the banana and coffee plantations have been destroyed.

And then you factor in when you tried to change this via electing a better government in 2006, he was overthrown in 2009; when you tried to get organised and resist the coup, your friends, your loved ones, your trade union leaders and peasant resisters all turned up mysteriously dead while the military and police worked with drug gangs disguised as agribusiness like the Dinant coproration to burn down villages that opposed them. For trying to change things in the way that you were supposed to, through non violently protesting, organising, and voting for something better, you were subjected to a decade of counterrevolutionary terror and violence that the “international community” not only ignored but gave its active approval to. All of the factors listed above have not only been ongoing for the last 10 years, they’ve been intensified, hothoused by the global counterrevolutionary terror that was the response to the 2011 wave of post-financial crisis uprisings and revolutions and accelerating climate apocalypse.

And at the same time, all of this is being done so more of the country can be turned into a massive cash cow for the benefit of foreign corporations and domestic oligarchs. The wealth of your country is siphoned off and flows around the American and European financial system, benefiting them and building a consumer disneyland that looks like paradise compared to your situation. That could, even if you are worked for nothing, give you a few dollars to send home that could build your abuela in the countryside a nice home for her to live out her days. What other option is left for you and your family other than joining the exodus of people heading north, to the countries where the wealth and profits and rewards of your homeland’s suffering are being kept. And after you cross mountains and rivers which freeze you to death and sweep you away, you are faced with a massive border wall of ahte and soldiers on horses which hit you with sticks. You are faced with an immigration detention centre that will chain you to your bed while you give birth and separate you from your baby who will be given away for adoption to a white couple. When you make a charge against the border fence in Melilla, fed up with being kept in shacks with nothing while the Northerners debate what to do about the problem people their greed has forced to move, the Moroccan police will beat 35 of you to death.

And then when you get there to that golden paradise, you end up doing work not dissimilar to the work you were doing back home, working for pennies (though pennies that are valuable enough back home to buy the family that remain the tiniest slice of comfort) for an agroindustrial giant that supplies supermarkets with cheap produce picked by cheaper people. While you work in the fields, a crop duster plane will spray you with paraquat; when support organisations try to raise this with OSHA they will ask for the plane’s number, and when this can’t be provided they will say nothing can be done. In fact, inspectors are ordered to stay away from the plantations on the Texas border. A member of the Border Agricultural Workers Project says she hasn’t seen a normal child born on the border in 20 years, such is the effect of agrichemicals. If you fuck up in the slightest, have any interaction with the state, you will be deported and sent back to square one. There are a 14 million migrants in the US in the same precarious state, effectively without any way of enforcing their rights. My aunt is a Mexican migrant in California. Her son was deported because he got a speeding ticket. It was 15 years before she saw him again, other than through the bars of the border fence, when she finally got her green card.

The situation in Honduras can be repeated for almost any other country. Syria, Venezuela, Iraq, South Sudan, Libya, all the headline countries are countries that have been subjected to a severe counterrevolutionary terror. The processes of dispossession and destruction of peasant economies and communities (primitive accumulation to use the Marxist jargon) have been hothoused over the last decade by war and violence. I just wish that relatively comfortable people in the imperialist countries realised that the “migrant crisis” is the result of policies that their governments forced on others. Violence that their elites made their fortunes off. What a monstrous, barbarous way of life we have.

[spacedawgspace]

IT’LL BE A RACE TO DIE FOR.

[sizhens-deactivated20250415]

idk i dont mean this with as much derision as might bleed out but it is exceedingly clear that some of you were never considered retard-faggots as a child and therefore never subject to the subsequent torments Pure Children would subject Retard-Faggot Children to.

[* the use of these slurs is not reclamatory but is also not pejorative. the use of these slurs is academic, technical, and descriptive.]

[sizhens-deactivated20250415]

like i was a social outcast since the moment i could speak. like this was my entire life and it literally never changed. i continue to be a social outcast for the same exact reasons + several more (physically disabled now etc) and like. idk i feel like it is relevant and on some level, valuable, to my analysis that i understand this experience. like i used to be physically beaten by other children regularly for the crime of being Incorrectly Built. Transgressively Autistic and Fruity. like forreal actually Fruity in a way where people would call you slurs in elementary school. like no offense to people who experienced the profound violence of the deep closet but like. my closet wasn't even made of glass it was like I was pretending i was in the closet as a mime but every single person in the world could Smell the faggot coming off me a mile away and would very succinctly inform me of this through violence. and the physical violence wasn't even the worst part.

idk where im going with this. i guess it's just "I respect many of you but it is clear that you and i had very different experiences of Retard-Faggotry as a child." and further it is clear that this website continues to participate in veiled attempts at reenacting the childhood game of "smear the queer / retard"

[sizhens-deactivated20250415]

i say "this website" which is silly. of course it's not just "this website" it's like society writ large. i guess just as a product of my particular form of perpetual social-outcast-ness i continue to primarily interface with actual interactions with strangers through social media. since for the most part i am physically disabled and psychologically "fucked" enough that i spend most of my time indoors atp.

[sizhens-deactivated20250415]

also on that note like. i know that this is the Quirky Gay Website and so we understandably focus on stuff about being gay/trans/etc but like. i say this As a Gay Trans. i do not think people sufficiently understand or contend with the extent to which autistic people are constantly and consistently subject to immense violence both interpersonal and structural. like frankly I've experienced far more of both by merit of being autistic than for being a transgender woman or. even for being racialized. like i've nearly gotten fired from jobs for doing them autistically. if you apply for housing autistically you're likely to get rejected. if you do something autistically at the doctor's you're likely to get disregarded and infantilized and dismissed. and these are just like the somewhat trivial, normative, veiled ways autistic people Who Can Mostly "Pass" As Allistic are subject to violence.

obviously this is like a single possibly questionable source and on wikipedia of all places but just for a sense of rough scale i would like to offer this statistic.

Employment of autistic people - Wikipedia

that is not a coincidence and that is not because autistic people "Cannot Contribute To Society" or whatever. it is an expression of structural violence which exists in service of the biopolitical regime of imperial capital and specifically to the benefit of allistic people.

and i know we Talk about autism nowadays as this kind of quirky trait, and the implication is that this is a form of Difference that Society Has Come To Accept. but that's just not true. autistic people continue to be the subjects of immense violence. if anything, it's just that the violence has gotten subtler, more insidious, in how it identifies its victims. "the vibes were off." "idk she was just kind of odd." "she was really awkward and kind of uncomfy." "not very professional." "abrasive and grating." the knife has just found a better way of hiding under the folds of the robes.

autistic people continue to be some of the most vulnerable people in society but especially under the system of imperial capital, where human autonomy is directly linked to potential labor output under a very particular paradigm. and when combined with the fact that the average autistic person is undoubtedly profoundly traumatized by how they are treated for being autistic, this confers a significantly higher rate of "mental illness" among autistic people which further forces us onto the outskirts of society where we are more and more vulnerable to exploitation and violence.

and like, obviously this should not have to be true to justify the cessation of violence against autistic people. but we literally keep the world afloat. do you know how many industries would shut down immediately, just completely collapse, without the specific labor of the specific skillsets of autistic people? and in particular, how much physical infrastructure would simply cease functioning? every workplace that is held up by "strangely, mysteriously" and incredibly disciplined and rigorous documentation, every computer infrastructural project upheld by One Guy's lifelong commitment to doing this critical project completely thanklessly, every workplace which is carried by That One Woman who seems to understand how everything works even though nobody else does. How many of those people are simply autistic people who have to hide this fact because we are targeted for violence for being this way? And if those are the success stories, the ones who managed to slip under the radar because they weren't Visibly Autistic Enough to get caught, how many more of us could be rotting in living circumstances where we are essentially kept prisoner by "caretakers"?

[source]

idk. i care very deeply about this. and it bothers me how frequently it seems other people do not.

[sizhens-deactivated20250415]

im kind of expecting this post to not get a lot of traction and im trying to determine if that'll be primarily because allistic people will be made profoundly uncomfortable by it or because autistic people are going to be understandably afraid of sharing it. i don't mean this as like a reblog bait comment i just genuinely think that this is like a borderline mechanistic phenomenon atp.

[djglory]

[boostmobilemastershake]

tough fucking luck losing my cart and my pack of camels in the same 48 hour period i suspect that it may have been ghouls

[ja-khajay]

are you a medieval silk road merchant

[tekkerz99]

Etsy used to be a good way to find crochet patterns designed by crafters and artists and a (flawed) way to support these artists.

I used to be able to find great crochet patterns, I've bought patterns before to even use as parts in my own unique crochet projects.

AI generated crochet patterns are ruining this. Some sellers have around 500 sales, totally around £2000 worth of sales per account.

The reviews are bad but despite the photos being obviously AI, the reviewers don't seem to realise that the reason the patterns are faulty is because they're AI generated.

A grandma left a review for a Sonic amigurumi bundle saying she was planning to make all of them for her grandsons birthday, but the pattern is all wrong.

Crochet is such a great art form and this AI generated crap that was all over Pinterest is now all over Etsy. I have reported some of these sellers. I haven't censored the seller account names because shame on them. For ripping people off and taking money away from real crochet designers.

[mortalityplays]

perfume subculture is so funny. what do you mean there are beginner smells

[dickjarvisblogblog]