∞ 🏳️⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided]
AuDHD cat. Warning: Do not feed pronouns, no matter how much it asks.
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∞ 🏳️⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided]@hexbear.netto guns@hexbear.net•Danish Brøndby gas-operated submachine gun prototypeEnglish2·3 days agoForgotten Weapons says that “Brøndby was a Norwegian arms designer”. So is this from Denmark or Norway?
∞ 🏳️⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided]@hexbear.netto news@hexbear.net•Celebrating the defeat of the Nazis badEnglish1·6 days agoAt the same time, the war is oh so bad, the civilian death toll! the destruction! etc. But also, Putin hasn’t been ruthless enough, 3 years and he hasn’t captured Paris.
∞ 🏳️⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided]@hexbear.netto badposting@hexbear.net•ATTENTION: c/badposting is hereby declaring war on c/fakenewsEnglish5·7 days agoWhy can’t you block it? Is it because the block button is gone? If so, does the block options in settings work?
∞ 🏳️⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided]@hexbear.netto effort@hexbear.net•Briefly explaining why the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and the Soviet invasion of Poland were necessary: owning-the-libs editionEnglish11·10 days agoI really wished that libs would read. While this is great, having been working on a book (The Cold War & Its Origins) that starts from 1917 and been going more or less chronologically through time, really understanding the French but especially British fucking shit up, primes you to also understand MR in context. It’s just something that deboooonking like this doesn’t do.
∞ 🏳️⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided]@hexbear.netto technology@hexbear.net•Need help, pip install doesn't workEnglish3·15 days agoIt gives you three options, are none of them acceptable?
∞ 🏳️⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided]@hexbear.netto chat@hexbear.net•Best eBook editions of A People's History and Inventing Reality?English7·19 days agoIf you give me some time and help I can make one.
∞ 🏳️⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided]@hexbear.netto chat@hexbear.net•"There is no propaganda in our perfect western democracy!" Meanwhile every action movie be like:English10·19 days agoAnd the propaganda works. People think d-day won ww2.
∞ 🏳️⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided]@hexbear.nettohexbear@hexbear.net•Defederation from feddit.uk - info enclosed and feedback requestedEnglish0·19 days agoWe will ask them to purge feddit.uk. No half measures.
∞ 🏳️⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided]@hexbear.netto chat@hexbear.net•— is easy to type and it's unfortunate that it is considered an indicator of AI generationEnglish1·20 days agojust being generally chaotic in writing
ADHD thoughts within thoughts. Instead of using two layers of parentheses, substituting one for dashes.
∞ 🏳️⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided]@hexbear.netto chat@hexbear.net•— is easy to type and it's unfortunate that it is considered an indicator of AI generationEnglish1·19 days agoThere exists multiple ways of inserting unicode chars:
- Visual selectors, like the character map in Windows, or gucharmap (gnome) or kcharselect (kde), and probably more
- Decimal input
- On Windows if you have a numeric keypad, you can hold down the
Alt
key and type in the unicode code point expressed in decimal… with some caveats, the decimal for em-dash should be 8212 (see the next line), but in windows alt codes it is 0151 - In html—and therefore potentially in markdown—it is possible to use
&
to input it, like this:&
, which gives you the —
- On Windows if you have a numeric keypad, you can hold down the
- Hexadecimal input
- can be enabled in windows and macos, see the wikipedia link for more info
- ctrl+shift+u works… in some places
- With an IME such as ibus or fcitx5 installed on linux, it should work through the system
- For me, it works (without an ime installed) in Firefox
- Wikipedia says it may work in other X11 applications
- Clicking the Compose key (Linux. May need to be enabled), and writing — will get you an em-dash
∞ 🏳️⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided]@hexbear.netto Comics@hexbear.net•The mustache zoom is comedyEnglish12·26 days agoSo just silicon valley techbros?
∞ 🏳️⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided]@hexbear.netto Comradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•My New Year's Resolution for 2025 is to read more theory, thoughts on my reading list?English2·4 months agoA third book on DiaMat, so not sure how helpful it is, would be Georges Politzer Elementary Principles of Philosophy.
For some easier reads, I like This Soviet World and Soviet Democracy, though they are not theory.
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