Jasmine Lea Scanlon @JasmineLeaScanlon@writing.exchange

wtf is up with this design pattern on web apps where there are huge text fields for username and password on the home page and so you type in your username and password only to realize that the button below it says "Create an account!" and then you have to hunt for the tiny "ˢⁱᵍⁿ ⁱⁿ" button in the upper right-hand corner in order to actually sign in to your existing account?

Here's a little #mathematics #puzzle I like:

A two-player game game with the following rules: the two players take turns picking numbers from the set {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}, without replacement (i.e. nobody can pick a number that's already been picked). First player to be able to add up to exactly 15 with exactly three of the numbers they picked wins.

The problem is, what is this game called?

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Two great things you can do to make the fediverse more diverse and interesting:

1) USE LOTS OF HASHTAGS. It's not spammy! It helps people find stuff they're interested in, since the search is intentionally limited to tags to prevent abuse.

2) BOOST THE GOOD STUFF. It gets it into new federated timelines, which is vital for smaller instances with fewer connections. It also helps with hashtag searches, since they only bring up toots known to your instance via follows and boosts.

#mastodon #meta

The April Showers F/F Book Fair gathers 15 speculative fiction books with a #LGBT protagonist: http://lcmawson.com/april-book-fair/

Well worth a glance if you want some tales about women overcoming #fantasy or #ScienceFiction plots while happening to not be straight.

#DiversityAVClub #diversity

@leafnoodle I feel like this sentence has some sort of poetic parallel with this other sentence: https://dragon.style/media/gJQfpsPBRGfv8tu8ssg

this sentence is a work of art.
https://awoo.space/media/xReZHgcwiuJOJaU3Z4w

"Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it is not satire, it is bullying." - Terry Pratchett

“A developed country is not when the poor have cars. It is when the rich use public transportation.” Gustavo Petro, socialist candidate for Colombian presidency

Pro tip for all NPCs: if you reply the same thing twice to a player, they will leave you alone.

yesterday in Münster, a guy drove into a crowd with his car and shot himself afterwards. (it was an older white german guy)

I find this using of cars super scary, because cars are not only very widespread, but the use of cars as a weapon (mainly for forcing people to give way, or to get off a car drivers' space) is so normalized in germany. I'm afraid more entitled white men will be "inspired" by recent attacks to use their cars as killing weapons.

“There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” — Somerset Maugham

The phrase "you can't rewrite history" is really charming because of course you can! People do it all the time.

In much the same way that a finger pointing at the moon is not the moon, the story of past events is not the past events themselves - and that's what history is: the story of past events.

Conceptually tangling the events with the storytelling about them is dangerous, because while the events are objective, the stories we tell about them are absolutely not.

An aerospace eng friend once said "stability and maneuverability are inversely corelated". I often think about that in life:

The faster you want things to change, the more uncertainty you'll need to accept.