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@spiders' contribution to the world this month was getting the Boops boops page locked for repeatedly changing the caption on an image from "A specimen in a bucket" to "Boops boops in a bucket"

there is a single wikipedia editor who has reverted the "Boops boops in a bucket" change repeatedly over the past year and a half, including a revert of an admin's edit, and who is the same one who requested the page locking, because apparently this one person can decide to put up a "no fun allowed" sign

if i had the energy i would continue poking the wasp's nest on a more formal dispute resolution page, because i really dislike these kinds of situations where a single wikipedian gets a little too involved in removing a fun cutesy thing, but i just cannot be assed to deal with wikipedian bureaucracy. so instead spiders is just going to get themself and probably most of comcast's seattle IP ranges banned for continuing to change the caption every few months when they remember to check it

why has nobody tagged this post with

this has officially become a Request for Comments in the wikipedia bureaucracy, which is really funny. especially because the killjoy in question has been very outvoted so far. more voices are always appreciated though :3

"OpenAI is on its third CEO in three days" that's good right. Normal companies do this when they're healthy and not distressed

ok so I've been kind of obsessed with video game secrets recently, and it's only gotten worse after finishing Void Stranger. So I've got a question for y'all ~

What do you think makes for a good secret?

A secret is basically anything involving hidden information. Things the game doesn't tell you, or only tells you partially, or only tells you in a roundabout way. Things that are fun to investigate, unravel, and discover!

• Binding of Isaac indicating where secret rooms are via certain map shape
• Tunic hiding shortcuts via camera angles
• Equipping extra pins in Hollow Knight by repeatedly forcing it into the slot
• Any sidescroller where you can go left at the start of a level to find a hidden item

I want to find new ways to hide secrets in my own games, so I'd love to hear what you think!
Are there methods of hiding & finding secrets you think are really interesting? Are there methods you find frustrating? What's the most unique hidden secret you've experienced?

Thank you so much for your time!!

He was a colonel who fought in the mexican revolution and he is considered the first transgender person in mexico to get his gender correctly recognized at an institutional level and he did it by sneaking in a "fake" birth certificate into the records. That's extremely cool imo.

He would also threaten to shoot anybody who misgendered him and that's one of the most badass things I've heard. It's such a shame that his history was lost and untold for decades and I can't wait for historians to dig deeper into his life.

Here's a good english language article about him.