Dave W

They say unicorns bow to virgin maidens, but they don’t say what happens after they kneel. They don’t say what the horn is for. They say they are gentle, but only in the way a trap is gentle when it waits.

I am still haunted by this poem, "The Myth Was Never The Unicorn," written by one of the teens who participated in the creative writing program at the museum this summer. A reminder that girls are always aware.

Read the full piece and listen to the author recite it: journey75.org/2025/the-myt...

Techno - So I Herd U Liek Musics

The bangiest banger is 16 years old this day.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlKO...

Term I just came across and ADORE: "loving out loud"

"I hear that just for saying you're English, you'll get thrown in jail these days."

Every time I see some insufferable old fart post about how only Reform will save us from the Shania Law menace, I post this

I will never not love having my PRs merged.

Now you can install `trunk` as just `trunk` using `mise`!

base58 is superior in every way to base64 and I will fight you

(storage is cheap)

Admittedly this is of little value beyond pretty cool, but I'm now on IPFS!

key.ipfs.dave.io : my public key, also available by CID bafkreid3gd3gljpguwpnxwvjnsfy2e4j2ib53c5vahjmmtukplo4bg5x3m

cv.ipfs.dave.io : my CV, also available by CID bafybeihh45n5ypckbmsckofkuqbzebtvdm2tvcvomcr3tw6tprkdw6iv3q

Gamer types. Look. We welcome you as part of the fight against payment processors as the true arbiters of taste and censorship.

Just realise that you're walking into something that we have fought against in sex work for years. Maybe show a bit of appreciation for that. Just a thought.

Don't want action? Don't kill kids.

YouTube video by Borshetskiy BEST 1995 OST still sounds EPIC!

I have a curious. Listen to this. There's an error. If you get to 30s without spotting it, you've missed it.

I am curious. Did you hear it? More specifically, is it obvious or is this tism superpowers?

I'm sure you'll spot it if you listen hard. It's unmissable to me.

youtube.com/shorts/eUWIV...

Funny how the pro-life crew never come out arguing for mandatory organ donation, hey.

I mean, if it's about maintaining life at the expense of all else, including bodily autonomy, why not?

It's almost as if their arguments are intellectually bankrupt and they just want to tell women what to do.

DocuSign appears to have sent me a copy of a non-public document from a completely unrelated company's business

aaaaa so many pretty things in my feed

Whee! dcw.soy is up and running. dcw.soy/{SLUG} uses the dave.io redirects.

At the root of dcw.soy there is an extremely important tool. Click it to go to dave.io !

Also there's a duck at dcw.soy/duck.webp for my integration tests.

I only mention it because it's a pretty rad duck.

"Aw big feelings" did you mean: I have no desire to engage with the thing which is upsetting you

Pet hate: the term "big feelings", especially in terms of kids.

I'm quite willing to admit this might just be me, but I struggle to envision anything more condescending.

If this helps anyone, great. If you'd rather dunk on the thing which admittedly DESPERATELY needs dunking on, I'm not going to make any faces. It's just a strategy I've noticed.

🧵 4/4

If you don't call it shit, even better if you're willing to make concessions to their fee fees and say "just pirate it", they then have nothing else to focus on other than the harm it does us, and that's much harder to say no to.

🧵 3/4

It is shit. Of course it is. But when you criticise it as fiction people tend to take that as something they can focus on being upset about in order to justify not removing it from their life.

🧵 2/4

Take or leave this, but I've found it's much easier to get somewhere with getting people to disengage with Harry Potter when you don't bring up that it's shit.

🧵 1/4

The correct opinion about AI:

✅ Solving high-keyspace problems or problems with silly dimensionality
❌ Generating shitty "art"

I will not be taking questions.

The Online Safety Bill is such a disaster because anyone with vague technical chops refused to have anything to do with it.

So they took that as a sign that people without technical chops should write it instead, instead of rethinking the whole disastrous fucking thing.

Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @aGrayBee Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses." 3:48 PM, June 17, 2022

my perspective on the roy cooper prayer thing as an atheist who was raised atheist is that as a faith community (lmao) we have the exact same problem with adult converts as the catholics do

begging converts to irreligiosity to please be normal

NixOS is trans culture

#24
Comic Oh My Gag
Drawing:
@srasomeone.bsky.social
Script:
@rlinky.bsky.social
#latex #kinky #cute

Oh, cracking. New to me so might work for me. Thanks!

Has anyone written a book on getting started with nix yet because I really WANT to use it but find it a bit of a cliff

nix gf an meme based of gentoo gf (im sorry for the bad alt text)

can't believe i haven't posted this yet

Cot is my go-to "I need to make a really quick edit and I don't need any plugins" editor. Thanks so much for the theme!