I always use a simple diagonal gradient with the three colours of the bisexual flag. I am bisexual, but it’s mostly because I like the colours. Whenever I get a new device, I generate an appropriately-sized gradient for its screen using GIMP.

The one exception is the background of my Steam Deck in desktop mode, which is the following because I thought it was funny:

Most of the various guilds and unions in the entertainment industry have rules regarding proper crediting.

With a duplication glitch, wouldn’t both technically be the same chick?

IP over Avian Carriers, good ol’ RFC1149!

I’d bring the album 10,000 gecs by 100 gecs and show it to The Beatles. In 1965, they’d have been at peak boy-band coming hot of the release of Help! and just about to drop Rubber Soul and a few months away from dropping (IMO their greatest album) Revolver.

Imagine if instead of George Harrison getting really into Indian music, he discovered hyperpop. The Beatles are such an influencal band that it would have ripples throughout the music industry. Imagine what 100 gecs would be getting up to in an alternate universe where Revolution 9 might get replaced with something like One Million Dollars?

Get a distro running XFCE, slap the Chicago95 theme on it, and try to convince your friends that their computer updated to the latest version of Windows.

In what way it obvious? I’ve seen so many people make similar “jokes” just to spread their hateful rhetoric.

If you want to make a joke like this, you should really use a sarcasm tag or similar indicators that they’re not your truly-held beliefs. Unfortunately modern conservatives have kicked Poe’s Law into overdrive, and if one leaves a comment like this one wihout a clear indication of sarcasm, people really have no choice but to assume they’re a bigot.

Not condoning the death threats, but live-streaming the butt-fucking of his mom is a bit much.

“Trans kids should have to overcome a bunch of hurdles to access necessary treatment” doesn’t sound that supportive to me.

Calling the natural variety of combinations of gender and sex “a mental disorder” doesn’t strike me as particularly supportive either. Do you consider homosexuality to be a mental disorder?

As far as commonly consumed things go, I’d say coffee is pretty up there in terms of witchy-ness.

A plant only found in some regions of the world, from which we cultivate cherries to unleash the seed inside. This seed we then roast, grind up into a powder, and use a variety of techniques both ancient and modern to extract the essence of that powder to harness its caffeine properties. Whether I’m using a French press, a pour-over, or a fancy espresso machine, it always feels kind of like magic to me.

distinction between graduate school and undergraduate school

Yeah but you’re implying there’s a distinction between universities and post-grad, not undergrad and post-grad.

Are there any grad schools which aren’t associated with a college/university?

Look at this big shot who doesn’t need roommates to afford housing.

Woah, just reading iSerial Reader brought back a flood of Mac piracy memories from the depths of my brain.

I’m not saying fascists aren’t cruel, I’m saying they will be cruel regardless of any reactions from opponents. Will it maybe give them an excuse to accelerate their cruelness? Sure. But there’s no doubt that their reaction to Kirk’s murder will be to implement cruelty that they were already planning on implementing.

I’m not a fan of violence, but the right hasn’t given us a choice. It’s like if a woman got raped after slapping a guy harassing her in a bar. The rapist was gonna rape regardless, and the fascists are gonna be fascists regardless. It’s victim-blaming.

I definitely agree with everything you wrote in your second paragraph, it’s that first part I take issue with. The American fascist movement is going full steam ahead with their Nazi shit, and would do so regardless of Charlie Kirk getting murdered.

Will they try to make a martyr out of him? Of course they will.

I however disagree with the notion that Nazis wouldn’t be Nazis if opposition “took the high road” and debated the Nazis instead of responding to their violence in kind. The Nazis are gonna do Nazi shit regardless, and their justifications will always be bullshit.

Do you truly think the Nazis wouldn’t have imposed martial law if it weren’t for that assassination?

Wow if only the Czech resistance didn’t kill that dude, we could have avoided the Holocaust! The real fascists are the ones resisting fascism.

If you think bacon on ice cream is weird enough to cancel an order, I can only imagine you’ve never worked a customer service job.

Definitions of submission (source: Wiktionary)

1. A submission is something that you give to somebody to be checked or accepted.

2. Submission is the act of accepting that somebody has power over you

I wonder which submission these fascists plan to follow-up on…

I think they were saying the second “t” in appétit is silent (which it is), not the one in petite.