Ziggy the Hamster ☎️ 4ZTH

Your friendly neighborhood #trans #enby #bi #furry #Rubyist. Citizen of the #ᏣᎳᎩ Nation in Richmond, Ohlone Territory, California. Views are my own and not my employer’s. You should form or join a union.

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Riker GooglingRikerGoogling@mas.to
2026-02-14

difference between big data and big lore

Ziggy the Hamster ☎️ 4ZTHZiggyTheHamster@ruby.social
2026-02-10
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2026-02-10

RE: ruby.social/@rubyconf/11604693

Time to check my poll……. 🙃

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James Cridlandjames@bne.social
2026-02-10

Good news - Australia has new broadcast radio rules, to govern AI voices, and also to take "special care" at times when kids should be in the car.

Bad news - the devil is in the detail, as ever.

That, and a picture of a cart, here: james.cridland.net/blog/2026/n

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2026-02-10

my homelab does not "load balance", it is not "highly available", it is not "containerized". my homelab runs software. and if i can't read the source code, i don't run it

Ziggy the Hamster ☎️ 4ZTHZiggyTheHamster@ruby.social
2026-02-09

@ariadne @soatok

Not surprised it’s still bad, but disappointed. Be careful or you’ll be labeled a Matrix detractor or something.

Ziggy the Hamster ☎️ 4ZTHZiggyTheHamster@ruby.social
2026-02-09

If you deadname someone on purpose in a conversation with a person who they were a guardian of, and then censor that deadname when sending a screenshot back to the person you deadnamed, you are not, nor do you likely have the capability of ever being, a good person.

Yes, this is a subtoot.

I’m fucking exhausted.

Ziggy the Hamster ☎️ 4ZTHZiggyTheHamster@ruby.social
2026-02-09

@ariadne if you care, @soatok has like a dozen more reasons it sucks

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2026-02-09
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Sam Chavez (she/they/he) 🌈🤠rootschange@federate.social
2026-02-09

RE: mastodon.social/@verge/1160410

Goodbye Discord communities. 😿

This is a direct assault on queer and marginalized communities from Big Tech and Western governments. This is surveillance and suppression I’m the guise of “security”

#RootedNews #BigTech #fascism

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2026-02-09

"You keep using that [idea]. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Unless that idea is your RubyConf 2026 talk 👀

Stay tuned—our CFP is almost here.

Ziggy the Hamster ☎️ 4ZTHZiggyTheHamster@ruby.social
2026-02-09

@rubyconf the text on rubyconf.org/about/ is RailsConf with a search-and-replace and isn't quite right

On a related note, save for reg, I'm now booked for #RubyConf2026 (via Anthrocon, hence my previous poll about whether I threaten to give a talk with my partial on)

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2026-02-09

Which do you prefer?

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2026-02-09
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2026-02-08

@ariadne imagine listening to kid rock in 2016 even

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2026-02-08

Pixar's new film Hoppers is pure furrry fandom pandering. And they aren't even denying it.

Ziggy the Hamster ☎️ 4ZTHZiggyTheHamster@ruby.social
2026-02-07

@NicelyManifest not sure yet but I’m prioritizing it being intellectually engaging over most things.

Ziggy the Hamster ☎️ 4ZTHZiggyTheHamster@ruby.social
2026-02-07

@NicelyManifest @hotdogsladies not to get doomer but I think it’s because they believed, and were right, that things would get better

As someone has said before in a meme, my generation saw a plane fly into a building live on TV when we were growing up and literally nothing ever got better

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Merlin Mannhotdogsladies
2026-02-07

Every day, somebody's born who's never seen The Flintstones.

gist.github.com/merlinmann/03c

# Every day, somebody's born who's never seen "The Flintstones."

Cincinnati's independent UHF channel 19 (WXIX, get it?) used to have a "1 O'Clock Movie" that ran for two hours every weekday afternoon. They were mostly old black and white films that, even with all the commercials, often ran shy of the 120-minute block allotted.

When they had to fill the extra time, they'd run a "Questions to the Station Manager" segment, where viewer letters were read and the manager responded on-air. Why'd you stop running Ultraman? (*Too violent*). Why'd you stop showing pro wrestling? (*Too violent*). How come you show so many commercials? (*Well. We're a business and stuff*).

Anyhow. One time a viewer expressed her frustration that WXIX was *still* showing reruns of _The Flintstones_, a dumb kid's cartoon that hadn't even been on the air in almost a decade ferchrissakes.

The manager calmly explained that, in addition to lots of kids enjoying the show, you have to keep in mind that, believe it or not, that show is still new to someone who's never seen it. *To someone who's not you*.

And, then, he said something I'll never forget:

> Every day, somebody's born who's never seen _The Flintstones_.

So, to this day, over forty years later, whenever someone complains that "everyone already knows this" or they whine about how "everyone has already seen this," I always think the same thing:


> **Every day, somebody's born who's never seen _The Flintstones_.**

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