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Even Elon Musk is laughing at this shit. At home, Russian propaganda can spin anything into a win for Putin, but it seems any hopes the Kremlin might have had of influencing American perceptions with the Carlson interview were misplaced.

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@infosec_jcp 🐈🃏 done differently

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Holy 💩🐔🤭

He. Got. The. Interview.ru/Tucker🐔

🦖🐦📢❄️Buttttttt..... How does this play out in 🎎⛩️🎌👺🇯🇵

😽😏

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:goose_honk_trans: HONK (respectfully)

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Waterfowl are totally queer-friendly!

I had a transgender duck years ago. Our male duck died, and over the course of the next few weeks, one of the afab* ducks molted, grew male feathers, and started quacking like a male duck. The other ducks totally accepted that he was a male duck as he transitioned. It was very cool to watch.

*(I'm not sure if this is the right term to use for something that hatches... but it was absolutely a gender transition so I'll use that language!)

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Whaaa... ?Gobsmacked, followed by a few minutes thought and search. Ah.
(NB: Sometimes when faced with abbreviations and #TLAs which clearly don't mean What I Think They Mean, I can't be bothered.)

Imagination on overdrive for a few moments there, though. Bombs may have been involved.

#ThinkAndSearch

#tlas #thinkandsearch
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Permit me to suggest the claim on Wikipedia that His Majesty's Airship Number One "provided valuable technical experience for British airship designers" is an overly sunny assessment of the featured predicament.

#FailureFriday

#failurefriday

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@anne_twain No, it didn't. Initially it was three tons overweight, so a programme of removing essential bits and pieces started. One piece lost was the keel, which almost certainly contributed to the airship essentially snapping in half when caught by a crosswind as they took it out of the shed.
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@sesquipedality My optician mentioned the existence of trifocals, apparently used by electricians, plumbers, etc, which become "close work" again at the top.

When I was working at Royal Mail I put my (reading) glasses on a string, but they got very bashed when I was wheeling trolleys round, etc, rather than reading addresses. In the end I left them on for walking short distances, but that wasn't good for my sense of balance. Luckily the glasses survived being bashed quite well.

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@sesquipedality @chiffchaff A few years ago my optician (who kept telling me that my monitor should be placed low so that I had to look down at it) persuaded me to try varifocals. After a couple of weeks I took them back as I didn't get on with them at all, and had them replaced with monofocals. And I ignored his dreadful 'advice' about monitor placement.
@Sesquipedality @kæt
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Harassing botnets with zipbombs.

The idea is this: instead of just blocking IP addresses that hit honeypot URLs, feed them a compressed document that massively expands on their end, making them run out of memory and crash.

This is extremely...
jwz.org/b/ykMS

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UK media: wow, British politicians have got really transphobic!

Me: Sure have, UK media. Who do you think they learned it from?

UK media: we will never know

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Are you rewatching #Babylon5 or watching it for the first time? Feel free to use my episode bingo sheet. I created it with my friends while we were watching B5 for the first time. Most of the squares should be self-explanatory.
#babylon5

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Today in Assassination Coordinates:

You should follow @TaylorSwiftsJets as Taylor Swift goes Full Musk:

Taylor Swift's attorneys have threatened legal action against a Florida college student who runs social media accounts tracking the flights of her...
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@Taylor Swift's Jets

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Hm... why can't Sweeny just report the flights' lengths? I mean without locations... Or maybe categorized into 'above 500km', '400-500km', '300-400km' and so on. Swift's amount of flying is critical, but I doubt the necessity of the geolocations. Those are - as mentioned by @ComradeGibbon - only helpful for incels, stalkers, haters, groupies and so on.
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The real fantasy element of Dungeons & Dragons is pretending that you have a group of friends who all get along with each other and can manage to meet regularly for four hours at a time.

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I hate that TERFs have taken phrases like, "women and girls", "suffrage", and "equity" and made them into the feminist equivalent of countries with "democratic republic" in their names.
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I’m just a girl
Wearing a #VisionPro
Wishing I could still drink coffee
#visionpro

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Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko is the new record-holder for the human with the most time in space. He passed colleague Gennady Padalka who had the previous record of 878 days. Kononenko is expected to crack 1,000 during his current ISS mission. svoboda.org/a/rossiyskiy-kosmo…

Российский космонавт установил рекорд по пребыванию в космосе

Олег Кононенко находится в околоземном пространстве более 878 дней
RFE/RL (Радио Свобода)
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I believe no greater truth has ever been told.

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Here's a fifth painting of @major_clanger 's cat Taura, focusing on dark and light.

Taura looks as elegant as ever 😆

N.B. You can find my prior paintings here: hgpenningtonart.com

hgpennington art

hgpennington art
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In my hands is my first iPod. Steve Jobs is smiling at me. Everybody at the Apple Store is smiling.

I take off my Apple Vision. I am back in the retirement home. Nobody has visited me for 12 years. I put it back on.

I hold my iPod. Everybody in the Apple Store is smiling.

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Fuck yeah clearance to prototype one of my more hilarious hacks also it is *astonishing* what you can do with the SSH agent protocol

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At this point, the British court system is actively transphobic, acting as the judicial arm of a state that seeks to eradicate trans people, especially women.

When the law is unjust, it must be ignored. Resist transphobia.

It is disappointing to see the Open University back down in the face of obvious justice denied.

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A statement from Professor Tim Blackman, Vice-Chancellor of The Open University regarding the recent employment tribunal judgment

The judgment made for difficult reading for all of us. We apologise unreservedly to Professor Phoenix for the hurt and distress this has caused.
The Open University (OU News)

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Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫

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Well yeah it was obviously exactly that. What research was expected to come out of it?

Intellectual enquiry can be into new understandings of things, or the psychology of why people hold to their views, but it can't simply seek to re-affirm a mainstream view. That's not research in any meaningful sense.

Only imagine my surprise that someone who doesn't understand that turned out not to handle robust criticism well and became unpopular with her colleagues.

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@petealexharris @ajlanes Phoenix is whining that in criminology there's ~300 academics in the field (seems an under count) and she's been ostracised by them.

That's cos most criminologists follow the Actual Evidence not some "I get to wave my trauma to be a bigot" like Phoenix did. Also there are already prison policies (not always followed) which Phoenix-and-friends (there's a disturbing children's TV prog title) never talk about either.

Shouting about being cancelled=attention.

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My Fediverse app of choice, @Mona app is gradually decaying so it copes less and less well with Friendica. I’ve coped with it being unable to parse notifications on my phone for a while but it’s stopped being able to do it on the desktop either. I asked them about this problem a while back and they said it was Friendica emitting notifications in the wrong form. I lack the cutlery to investigate further so… anyone suggest a good Fediverse client for iOS and MacOS that works nicely with Friendica?
@Mona app

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I've recently been doing some cognitive behavioural therapy care of the NHS, with a particular emphasis on activation (getting up and doing things) and self esteem. The last session is this coming Thursday. I think it's been net beneficial, in the sense that it's given me space to talk about things and think about things, and acquire a few more tools to manage my mind.

And the past week or so working for Hughes Hall to understand their Linux and database systems has been a big boost; it's clear that I'm actually pretty damn good at doing this kind of stuff and people seem impressed as if I'm working some kind of deep magic.
And yet somehow when I'm sitting here alone it all feels like some kind of illusion in the face of that sense of stuckness and uselessness and yearning. Which I know is lies. I can effect change, I am capaable, I am cared about.

Could all be hormones. My tits are aching with another growth spurt.

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The trailer for the new Avatar: The Last Airbender show looks decent, but even if the show turns out to be a faithful recreation of the original I'm not sure what for? The original is already perfect. It's still there. Why does it have to be recreated again?

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Daan

as many have already said, it’s a great way to bring the material to a new audience.

I also think people put the original show too much on a pedestal. The show being animated is not the only reason people might not be watching the original. Compared to “adult” animated shows like Arcane and Castlevania, Avatar is quite cartoonish.
I’ve recently finished season 2 which I really loved, but season 1 could’ve done without much of the slapstick humor aimed at kids IMHO

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Only smaller babies can be delivered by a stork.

The big ones require a crane.

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#PunDayBwee #Silly #Cute #Funny #Jokes #Puns #DadJokes #MomJokes #Humor

#funny #humor #dadjokes #cute #silly #jokes #puns #momjokes #pundaybwee
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Re: Stork/Crane pun

Can we just all sit back and appreciate just how good this joke is? It plays on folklore that many English-speakers know about, it references two similar wading birds, and there's a double-entendre about cranes (one being a bird and the other being machinery). This may be my favorite yet!

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Outrage Season

We have finally got the nomination statistics for the 2023 Hugos, and understandably there is a great deal of concern being express. Some very strange things have gone on. Believe me, I'm not happy either. Fairly inevitably there are plenty of people who know little about how WSFS works who assume that there must be some overriding authority who could, and should, have prevented Chengdu from doing what they have done.

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Outrage Season | Cheryl's Mewsings

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Can anyone who knows about the Hugo Awards/WSFS Constitution explain under which section of the latter R F Kuang’s Babel was deemed ineligible as a Best Novel nominee? (thehugoawards.org/wp-content/u… , p 20)

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