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He. Got. The. Interview.ru/Tucker🐔
🦖🐦📢❄️Buttttttt..... How does this play out in 🎎⛩️🎌👺🇯🇵
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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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@joesabin He lived at least a year after transitioning (I think he was about 2 years old when he transitioned). He got killed by a mink ☹️
He had a great post-transition life before his untimely end, though! Coastal BC is a great place to be a duck.
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.
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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.
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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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The only thing he loved more than tech and teaching, was chain smoking & food. That ultimately was his downfall about 10-12 years after I last took his courses.
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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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...
jwz.org/b/ykMQ
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Российский космонавт установил рекорд по пребыванию в космосе
Олег Кононенко находится в околоземном пространстве более 878 днейRFE/RL (Радио Свобода)
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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
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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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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.
ounews.co/around-ou/ou-speaks-…
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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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.
@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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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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not your point, but the colour and lighting design of Rogue One was *perfect*
Starts dull blue gray, and lightens throughout and ends full saturated bright colour...
POGGs!
Peace Order and Good Governance? Or little plastic things you got in crisps in the 80s?
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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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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!
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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@LAGilman I'm interested to hear how such transparency would have worked in interaction with an autocratic state.
Oh, wait.
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end & accept = i like the new person more
decline = i like the current person more
hold & accept = there might be a chance of a threesome
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Decline is decline new incoming call. And accept & hold is accept the call but put the old call in hold of the so you can to talk with new person, but the previous person is now on hold.
It's not hard.
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