Experiment. What do you see if you’re reading this from Mastodon or one of its clones?
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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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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.
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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@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.
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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.
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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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. 🙄
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 . . .
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 Musk says a lot of stuff, but is basically a clown with a poor attention span.
Competent evil is much scarier.
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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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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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Typo of the day: diuretic debit.
Kind of appropriate I guess, since apparently donating to Stonewall was pissing money away.
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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.Sky News
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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.
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@Alexandra Lanes @Cassandra @Chris Emerson The suburbia around Phoenix is covered, and I mean covered, in golf courses.
How long has it been since the Colorado reached the sea?
Apparently there are ongoing repercussions from a comparison I made some time ago between TERFs and pubic lice.
My only regret is that TERFs’ metabolisms keep going if you drench them in dimethicone.
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So the background here is that I referred to TERFs as pests that are particularly recalcitrant, like pubic lice or bedbugs.
And various people liked the post, including some who are members or a UK political party.
And some pubic louse with nothing better to do is complaining about them because they liked my post.
And said pubic louse got told to go piss into the wind by the complaints process.
So instead of taking the hint that everyone hates them and all their bullshit works, they set out to prove me right by just being UTTERLY FUCKING UNABLE TO JUST PISS OFF AND LEAVE PEOPLE IN PEACE.
I’m sure the irony of this situation is lost on them. Silly fucker.
She must really hate it that I resigned from said party and then emigrated to get away from the likes of her and their bullshit, and as a result there is nothing they can do to get at me other than bother my friends.
I mean, I am annoyed on behalf of my friends, but I also appear to have triple residency now: Portugal, the UK, and rent-free in their heads.
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Reddit: we are blocking third party apps
And pissing off our admins
And our content generators
And bombarding them with spam
And taking away the benefits of paid accounts
Has Reddit been taken over by Elon Musk on the quiet, or something?
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Today’s new word: wankflange.
Definition: Richard Foord MP (Lib Dem), who thinks there is intolerance on both sides of the issue of trans rights, and thinks that parents should know if kids change pronouns at school.
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Unknown parent • •Ozzy
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •When I click the link, I get "this site can't be reached".
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Unknown parent • • •The title "What do you see if you’re reading this from Mastodon or one of its clones?" acts as a link, to the post it's in.
I suspect I'm not used to seeing posts with titles. Is that expected behaviour for them? If it is, I apologise for wasting your time.
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in reply to DeterioratedStucco • •@SftwareTheron I wouldn’t have asked what people saw if I thought them telling me would be wasting my time!
This does present a handy way for long form blog posts that preserve formatting though, essentially forcing a click through for software that doesn’t support rich content.
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