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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 5h

If you want your transness to be weird and outrageous and fucking fascinating, please go ahead! I just want my own to be boring and quiet and good with a sip or two of coffee.

Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 5h

All I want* is for being trans to be boring AF. Like, a bit of weird trivia about me, or the sort of thing you drop in two-truths-and-a-lie. The sort of thing everyone politely pretends to find interesting but really could care less about.

(*This is a lie. I want a fair few other things, too.)

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 8h

@glyph Cosigned! Some([]) and None are distinct for a reason!

Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 9h

All by way of saying, I don't even need to *explicitly* boycott Framework at this point. It's just not even worth it now. That's not to say I disagree with boycotting, rather it's noting that doing so is redundant in my case.

I can't imagine I'm the only one in that spot, either.

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 10h

@bob I'm good at the moment, was looking up for the hypothetical about competitive advantage.

But yeah, there's some good options out there. I've just been happy with the XPS for long enough I'll be pretty sad when it eventually dies.

Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 10h

I don't remember how much I paid for my XPS 13, and the only current models seem to be ARM-based (wild), but a roughly comparable Framework 13 goes for $1580. I would be very surprised if I couldn't get better specs from a competitor for less money.

Framework, presumably, doesn't want to get […]

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 10h

Another way to think of the Framework fiasco, perhaps:

I'm not naive. I don't think that when, say, I bought my XPS 13, Dell didn't send some percentage of that to the Koch brothers or whatever fascist du jour. But I live in a society, and I needed a laptop.

Framework's whole *thing*, their […]

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 16h

Current mood:

"Dead eat. Do not dove."

Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 20h

Silence is a strong political statement. Maybe not the one you want to make right about now, though.

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 20h

This is about Framework.

This is not about Framework, but every other OSS project that sees the current shape of the ongoing polycrisis and says "yeah, the fascists have a point, actually."

This is not about OSS, but about tech in general being a part of how fascism works in 2025, from DRM to […]

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 21h

In turn:

• Tech is political, what the fuck are you talking about "apolitical," you ignorant dick?
• DHH et al being fascist is pretty well established at this point. You don't need everyone in every thread to relitigate that.
• Sure, yeah, keep telling yourself that. This one is just pure […]

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 21h

I am deeply saddened that in a thread on Framework's community forum about their recent funding of fashtech, most of the comments are the same mix of "no politics," "where's your evidence," and "that's just your opinion, man" that you see being deployed to DoS any kind of conversation about how […]

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Glyph @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

If you have seen folks talking about "Omarchy" or maybe seen a screenshot that looked neat, please be aware that it is an operating system for nazis, by nazis. DHH made a linux distribution with Hyprland, which is a tiling Wayland compositor for bigots, by bigots.

I am sorry if you'd seen some […]

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 1d

Serious question, but how bad is the arduino takeover for platformio and things in that ecosystem (e.g. esphome and senseesp)?

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

Useless

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 1d

@Andres4NY Fair, and that's definitely something that relates quite heavily to software freedoms, but I think the latter tends to involve issues that don't quite as neatly fall under consumer protection. That is, consumer protection still envisions the user as a consumer rather than an agent in […]

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 1d

I'm not even talking open source. I get it, folks think that's nerd shit and glaze over. I'm talking "can you run software in devices you own, even when the manufacturer of said device doesn't want you to?"

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 1d

We really, really need basic software freedoms, and we need them yesterday.

https://mastodon.social/@dtgeek/115340206186034640

Anthony Dean (@[email protected])

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses https://www.404media.co/apple-banned-an-app-that-simply-archived-videos-of-ice-abuses/

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 1d

I will say that I do make *very* good use of the Hugo House discount at Third Place Books and Elliot Bay Books. It's a good discount at some very good businesses. Even aside from that, the Hugo House discount on their own classes more than makes up the cost of membership.

Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 1d

Damn, I have really not been taking enough advantage of reciprocal member benefits for the various nonprofit arts charities in Seattle. E.g.: if you're a SIFF member, you get a discount on Northwest Film Forum memberships and vice versa, and both give you benefits towards museum memberships that […]

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 1d

Opened an MtG jumpstart booster the other day, and all of the cards were really badly miscut, including a defective [[Dark Confidant]]. I'm guessing they're worthless in a monetary sense, but I will absolutely be using the broken Swamp cards as basic lands in decks to the extent that such is legal.

Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 1d

Anyway, as usual, drawing a bright fucking line around fascist shit and making sure that it is not welcome in our communities is a good fucking idea. Fashtech is no exception.

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 1d

Fashtech is a useful neologism, and I both value it for that, and also hate the circumstances that lead to it being useful.

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 1d

@bob Specifically in response to Paxton's latest, and how he phrased what Texas cops are doing.

Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 1d

LB: I know it's deadly serious, but also the idea of cops going undercover as trans is.... kind of wild.

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