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Transtronaut ,

Is this egg_irl?

Transtronaut ,

Trigger warning: explaining jokes in way too much detail.

The phrasing is a reference to the “Is this a pigeon?” meme (see: knowyourmeme.com/memes/is-this-a-pigeon ). This is meant to indicate that this is clearly not egg_irl, but the topic of the original post seemed like something repressed trans people can relate to in hindsight. It reminded me of a common pattern among eggs where there’s a vague but insistent internal voice (not literally a voice, more like an occasional impulse) telling you to do things that you associate with your actual gender, rather than your assigned gender, with varying effects depending on the person. For example, it generally made me feel uncomfortable without understanding why, leading me to assume I simply didn’t like those things, when in fact that was more or less the opposite of the truth.

Anyway, these sorts of things can make the idea of an unknown, voiceless, internal personality separate from your surface-level persona resonate with trans people. Add the fact that when you’re deeply involved in gender issues and transitioning, it’s so much on your mind that there’s a tendency to interpret everything as being somehow related to gender even when it isn’t, and it seemed like a good fit for the pigeon meme.

Transtronaut ,

It’s basically meat sauce between burger buns. I haven’t had one in ages, but they would make frequent appearances in grade school cafeterias and other events involving large amounts of children needing to be fed with low effort. I remember quite liking them; it’s basic, but great comfort food, and easy to eat.

Transtronaut ,

Facts. Force push belongs in Star Wars, and nowhere else.

Transtronaut ,

You can do all that without force push. Just make a new branch and do the cleanup before the first push there. Allowing force push just invites disaster from junior developers who don’t know what they’re doing. If you want to clean up after them, that’s your business, I guess.

Transtronaut ,

Agreed, it was pretty good until then. But the last paragraph is what made it a great take.

Transtronaut ,

It’s like poetry; it rhymes.

Transtronaut ,

Right, exactly what all store owners want. For potential customers to go somewhere else instead.

Transtronaut ,

If he’s young enough, he might be getting his safety net from parents or something. I could see this being viable part-time work for, e.g., college students.

Transtronaut ,

“mfw”: am I a joke to you?

Transtronaut ,

This is for the fediverse as a whole, not just Lemmy. If you click through, there’s a pie chart that shows the vast majority of users are on Mastodon. Lemmy only accounts for about 4% of these numbers.

Transtronaut ,

Clicking through to the additional statistics is really interesting. The equivalent graph for Monthly Active Users shows a big bump in June/July 2023. That lines up with the reddit event, iirc. If those causality assumptions are accurate, it’s neat how the numbers for total users is more affected by Twitter, but the numbers for active users is more affected by Reddit.

EDIT: nevermind, I didn’t realize the timelines were different. The big Twitter exodus isn’t actually in the second graph, so they can’t be compared. It probably had a bigger impact there as well.

Transtronaut ,

Looks like Pixelfed is about 2%. Try Mastodon, I guess - it’s listed as 72%.

EDIT: lol, I just did a quick search - apparently Instagram’s monthly active user count is over two Billion. With a ‘B’. Even with 10 million, it wouldn’t compare.

Transtronaut ,

New gender goals just dropped.

Transtronaut ,

Mostly the same for me. I’d still be open to it if it’s convenient, DRM-free, and easy to back up somewhere, but far less likely to put effort into finding out.

Transtronaut ,

I mostly just liked their sauce, but that’s not enough to justify funding hate. The oppression leaves a bitter aftertaste.

Transtronaut ,

I am intrigued. Do you happen to know a good one?

Transtronaut ,

Yeah, and I don’t remember Half-life being the game that introduced the world to horse armor.

Transtronaut ,

It’s definitely a one-piece swimsuit.

Transtronaut ,

Stirring definitely helps. The exact setting to use will vary depending on the microwave, what is being heated, and how much of it there is, but my usual go-to for a starting point on a full, regular-sized bowl or plate of food is: 3 minutes at 40%, remove and stir or flip as appropriate, then another 2-3 minutes at 30-40% depending on how hot it was. This approach will end up heating most things evenly without drying them out or burning anything.

Some things can be more sensitive, so if I’m ever unsure about what would be safe, I’ll start at 30% for 1 minute just to get a baseline for context. Below 30% is usually only useful for frozen things. Soups usually require several stirs - you don’t want to let it sit still for too long, or use too high a setting, or it can explode.

Masimatutu , to memes

Impossible

@memes
h/t to @StefanThinks

Transtronaut ,

Lol, I love that name for him. If I don’t forget all about it, I’m gonna start using that.

Transtronaut ,

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future (techcrunch.com)

The mission-driven tech company behind the Firefox browser, Pocket reader and other apps is now investing its energy into the so-called “fediverse” — a collection of decentralized social networking applications, like Mastodon, that communicate with one another over the ActivityPub protocol.

Transtronaut ,

Even if it is that low in relative terms, your point probably still stands.

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