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Me: Why they pointing a gun at him? They don’t need to point a gun at him! He’s in the bin!

@Sylvia Knight: It’s America!

Me: Good point. Pointing a gun at people is just how they say “hello” there.

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Burglar lands in bin in botched escape attempt

A robbery suspect in Ohio is arrested after falling from a bank's roof into a bin in front of police officers.
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@Sarah Brown @Sylvia Knight I assume most Americans aren’t terrified by this state of affairs and would think it’s us who are weird for not waving lethal weaponry about.
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@RocheLimit @Sylvia Knight @Viking Chieftain "I physically cannot."

"Stop resisting!" BANG BANG BANG

@Sylvia Knight @RocheLimit @Viking Chieftain

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Smirks in "smug climber/sailor"

My coiled cables uncoil straight, so there.


How to Coil a Cable

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I see your smirky sailor, and raise you a smirky stageworker / theater lighting tech.

It's definitely one of those skills when you see someone doing it wrong it's a hard fight not to fling yourself across the room and tackle them "NO NO NO NO NO! WRONG WRONG WRONG! GIMME THAT"

#adhd #detail #cable #cabling #nerdskills

#adhd #cable #detail #cabling #nerdskills

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I didn’t even have much beer but I feel less good for it. Bah.

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Thinking about heat pumps, since there's been waffle on the radio about them recently. My mental model of a heat pump is that you have unit(s) outside, and aircon unit(s) indoors which you can run either to cool or heat your preferred rooms.

However, what's being talked about on the radio seems to consist of hooking a heat pump up to replace your gas boiler and warm your radiators. Is this more effective or efficient? It seems to me that as the chances of hot weather increase you'll want to cool your house for some of the year, and this doesn't do that.

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Traditional model in this country has been to hook them up to low-temperature wet-underfloor systems. Recently they've started producing higher efficiency/temperature ones which can hook into an existing CHS, but you might need your radiators upsized.
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@Sion [main] I think @mobbsy has underfloor heating (wet, if I remember seeing the spaghetti of tubes rightly) and described it has having horrid latency so it takes forever to get to whatever temperature you wanted.
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indeed, not helped by the giant mass of poured concrete that the pipes are set into.

However, it's unobtrusive, no radiators on walls, warm floors are lovely in winter and the house stays pretty much constant temperature.

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daikin.be/content/internet/int… sort of thing

Daikin Altherma 3 M

Daikin Altherma 3 M is the Daikin’s first third generation monobloc, benefiting from a new design and using the R-32 refrigerant. Get in touch today.
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AIUI they're basically "drill hole through wall of the room to be heated; install unit A on the outside and unit B on the inside; supply with electricity. I think they'd be an adjunct to the existing gas CH rather than a replacement.
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@Adam Yes, I think that’s probably what I’d want for the downstairs living area.
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Do let me know if you find anything interesting in your research!
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@Peter Ellis If I were to do this I think I’d have ducts in the loft for the upstairs rooms. Maybe the two big downstairs rooms would be more of a challenge.

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Night time view from new flat in UK
A dramatic sky with dark lumpy clouds looms over a town. In the foreground, looking down, are 4 and 5 storey red brick modern apartment buildings, with a river running to the left. Rolling hills rise in the distance to a lit-up church spire in front of the last refracted light of the sun

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nice sky here too, although we're on holiday in Yns Mon / Caergybi

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From the trotinete (e-scooter) rental scheme I use in Faro. It may be passive aggressive, but it made me laugh.
iPhone notification saying: It's been 1 month since you last rode... do you have a side scooter emoji or something? Tap to start vour next ride!

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Netflix: 12 euros
Disney+: 9 euros
HBO Max: 7 euros
Sky Showtime: 7 euros

Not including Amazon or Apple because you get other stuff with that

Total = 35 euros per month.

NordVPN = 9 euros per month

Just saying.

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Why cat ears?
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Sion [main]
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On cats or on catgirls?
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@Sion [main] On catgirls specifically. I feel part of the trans experience has somehow passed me by
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Oh, yes, me too. In my case I put it down to not being sufficiently girl, not being sufficiently cute, or not being sufficiently young. See also thigh-highs, which I would definitely have done when younger if sufficiently cute (and if they had been as available as now).
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@Sion [main] I tried them in my early transition (also lockdown!) clotheshorse phase and thought I looked kind of cute in them. They never stayed put though.
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Maybe you just don't have the right shaped head? :blobcatSad: (Like the way I can never get behind-the-head straps to work properly, on anything from VR headsets to masks.)
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Oh right! Either early phases you've not got enough thigh, or nobody's telling you to use tape.

(I can imagine you in cat ears though. Looking somewhat bemused.)

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I do wish that on days like today that my Dupuytren’s Disease had read the medical textbooks that describe it as “painless”.

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railadvent.co.uk/2023/08/polic… This is rather amazing. As in the the 1963 robbery, they interfered with signals to get the train to stop. There was an excerpt from an incident log on the birdsite which I’ve shamelessly lifted here but I have no idea of its provenance. I’d be fascinated to read more.
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@geekylou :transgender_flag: Probably not quite that well informed? Most people kind of understand signals by analogy with traffic lights (though they probably don’t understand yellow) but are probably entirely unaware of track circuits.

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Experiment. What do you see if you’re reading this from Mastodon or one of its clones?
That was the title. This is the body text. Does this show too?
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Ian Molton
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So it was... Duh!
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re: Experiment. What do you see if you’re reading this from Mastodon or one of its clones?
from GoToSocial + pinafore
Post rendered more or less as it is on the original instance, but title has been blended with content warning.

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Brain has reached saturation point today. I am in my nest in bed. That is all.
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Oooh, if you’re fully saturated, does that mean we can add seed particles to initiate crystal precipitation?

Who doesn’t love some fresh brain crystals?

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Just reread Peter Hamilton’s Salvation Sequence. So good, and lots of fun to read the second time round. I really hope there’s a sequel in the works.

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Reddit can be a useful knowledge base, but there are certain subject areas where the consensus voice will confidently, clearly, emphatically state something that is simply wrong.

My current irritation is r/sailing, which has a large number of people who have clearly never sailed beyond the yacht club bar, or maybe a small lake, and have precisely zero clue about the interplay between wind and current (because they never experience the latter), spouting off bullshit with authority.

And there’s no point arguing with them, but my god, the extent to which they are smug about being wrong is irritating as fuck.

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@ajlanes @thelocalecho @zoe Crib Goch wasn't near-death either, but I still felt profoundly unwise wandering along a steep spine of wet, slick rock in dense fog over a 500m drop to either side.
@Alexandra Lanes @Sylvia Knight @Zoë O'Connell

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Marks and Spencer proving that gluten free sandwiches don’t need to be made of cardboard and despair. Others take note.
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@Kinetix @Sarah Brown @Andy H3 Despair sauce sold separately.
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@Andy H3 It's gluten free. It's absolutely not made from rye.
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Just looked at M&S Per Una for the first time in a decade and, OMG you guys, it’s got really really gay.

Utterly, profoundly, homosexual.

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@Baroque Mongoose definitely not non gendered. Very obviously female-coded, but … gay
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Been walking the banks of the Stort with a view to paddling on it. Conclusion: it’s an unfriendly weed-choked ditch.

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The barely concealed glee from climate doomers with their crescendo of “look at the graphs! We’re all going to die, and it was totally your fault for putting an aluminium bun case in the black bin that one time” is, I have to be honest, kinda getting me down.

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@Sarah Brown While I agree that it's the governments and industries that are the biggest polluters and have the most power to change things - if they want to. I still think that what many millions of people do or don't do also matters. If nothing else to keep hope up and despair down.
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@Maria Karlsen When I say none of it makes any difference, I'm specifically talking about the effect individual actions have on climate change. To a first approximation, this is zero, and has little scope for it to be any other number.

I agree that we can very definitely make a difference in how people feel, and this is the source of my complaint: the constant stream of "we are all going to die, because we are filthy eco-sinners" articles just make people feel like shit.

It's basically doom and gloom protestantism, but with the climate playing the role of their god.

@Shimriez

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Because there are images of child sexual abuse circulating on Twitter (or whatever it’s called) and Elon Musk has actively intervened to ensure the perpetrators retain their accounts, I judge it no longer psychologically or legally safe to remain on Twitter. I’ve deleted my account.

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I was going to stop using it once TweetDeck becomes unavailable next week anyway (if that's still happening), keeping account to prevent appropriation of id.

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fluffy pink vehicle

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What I’d ideally like, either in a client app or in Friendica, is the ability to filter outgoing posts to add content warnings (abstracts in friendica-speak) or possibly prompt to add one.
But maybe this is just laziness; remembering a set of things to CW is probably significantly easier than getting individuals’ pronouns right, which I regard as mandatory brain work.

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Ugh there’s someone smoking on the platform just outside this train.

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Thing
This should have a CW. But does it?
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Thing
Yes, apparently it does. Woohoo. (Checking that the CW feature in Mona actually works against a Friendica server)

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Thing
This should have a CW. But does it?

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Moving into new flat. Tried the hob today for the first time. Smoke started coming out from under it and I could smell burning insulation.

Discussions with the builder will be had tomorrow.

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Alexandra Lanes
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Are they actually going to replace it with another resistive hob or do you get to forestall that and get a proper one?

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Seeing a lot more graphs looking like this this year. aus.social/@timhollo/110773598…

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Looking forward to how insufferable the British will be after the gulf stream collapses, and we're having tropical summers and Arctic winters!

We're obsessed enough with the weather, already. 🙄

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So turns out Zuckerberg owns X as a trademark in so far as it relates to social media?

Dear god, if you put this in a novel, people would not believe it.

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To be honest it's such a simple marque it does not surprise me that it's already in use. I would have expected some social media business to have used it by now. Trying to find even complex names that are unique is very challenging.

It's almost like Twitter was actually a valuable brand . . .

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I have a theory that Musk is actually bipolar to some degree, at least prone to mania. He seems to go from simply being a jerk (not a bipolar or autistic trait, just who he is) but not crazy, to doing utterly bizarre things for a period of time, then calm down a bit. Certainly a fascination with a letter and tearing through a business over it without regard to the consequences seems like that. If so, presumably he only manages to do it without intervention because these aren't listed companies, since surely others would get wise to what was happening,

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Does the fediverse need a rebrand to 𝔽𝔼𝔻𝕀𝕍𝔼ℝ𝕊𝔼?

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Oh right! Musk is trying to show Thiel that he was right all along for a 20 year old grudge.

FFS. Billionaires grow the fuck up 2023

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@Viking Chieftain Thiel is competent evil. Musk is toddler evil.
@Viking Chieftain

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@Viking Chieftain Musk says a lot of stuff, but is basically a clown with a poor attention span.

Competent evil is much scarier.

@Viking Chieftain

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Tears in my eyes and having an asthma attack from the laughter. reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt…

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@Viking Chieftain it’s alright as long as your sink is next to the loo.
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So clean! So modern! So good at business!
A screenshot of an X11 desktop, circa 2001

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@gz Yeah. I’ve updated the alt text. I suspect that screenshot is actually within the last couple of years, but using an 80s window manager.
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Hi from bsky. You need an invitation to get here. The website link is published through telepathy. We have twelve active users and a nightly circular firing squad. You can’t link to posts anywhere, but you can verify yourself by visiting your favourite domain registrar with your compsci degree.

Today we will be talking about why fediverse is so hard to use and why it will never be popular with its fifteen million users.

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I had been wondering if I should bother trying it, perhaps not

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Bluesky is developing a very weird dynamic. In the day it fills up with shitposts and then I got to bed and wake up, and the bodies of the circular firing squad crew are all over the place. It’s like two entirely different social media sites and which you get depends on your time zone.

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OK, Tailscale is a bit impressive!

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Extreme right politicians: Immigrants are the reason for everything that’s wrong! Elect us!

European public: Makes sense. We will elect you.

Narrator: Immigrants were not, in fact, the reason.

Tune in for the next episode to see who the next scapegoats are going to be (the answer will shock you!)

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so-called left wing parties: we're uhhhh anti Brussels? we want affordability? hold corporations """accountable""" in some vague undefined way? anyway sorry can't talk about immigration, nationalisation or climate collapse because guess what, greedflation's happening so it's time for more austerity
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OMG allways those remakes of Europe in the 1930s. Everyone knows the (hi)story but repeats the shit anyway

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Stonewall was a riot where people on both sides lowered the temperature and had a respectful conversation.

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Typo of the day: diuretic debit.

Kind of appropriate I guess, since apparently donating to Stonewall was pissing money away.

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Well fuck them very much. cancels direct debit news.sky.com/story/lower-the-t…

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Looks like the work we did with Stonewall was a bust. Reporting here that they now think it’s ok to stop us using toilets.

What an utter travesty.

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'Lower the temperature': Stonewall chair calls for end to 'megaphone diplomacy' around trans rights debate

The LGBTQ+ charity also appears to have softened its stance on the issue of single-sex spaces, as Mr Anderson said he supports exemptions that can be used to exclude transgender people from women's prisons and toilets.
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@Pyroéaon 🏳️‍⚧️ @Essjay (she / her) 🏳️‍🌈 It was Ruth Hunt who made them openly advocate for trans people.

I think it took a very heavy toll on her. I have a great deal of respect for Ruth, and I think her force of will was maybe more important than any of us (her included) realised.

@Essjay (she / her) 🏳️‍🌈
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How is it that people like this look at how right wingers act and treat them and think they’re willing to be compassionate, empathetic or decent human beings? The right thinks queer people have no place in society. Nothing that you do is going to change that. This stance is suicidally stupid.
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