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lol god DAMN this is the entirety of the White House statement on the death of #henrykissinger.

This is about as close as I think you could get to Biden publicly saying "fuck that guy I'm glad he's dead."

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Seems like a real stretch to read so much into this statement, but confirmation bias is tough to shake.
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@liquor_american @Belafon @escarpment yeah, not a single nice thing said about the man in the entire thing and people in my replies are acting like it's fawning praise.

I have to assume the folks telling me I lack a proper grasp of English have responded to every backhanded compliment they ever recieved with a cheerful and oblivious thank you.

This is some barely-disguised diplomatic shit right here, people got too used to Trump calling people losers directly I guess.


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Reminder that it’s okay to be trans and allosexual. You’re allowed to want to feel attractive, have success in dating, and indulge in your sexuality just like cis people are! Wanting a satisfying sex life doesn’t mean you are invalid or fetishizing. AGP is fake. You’re allowed happiness

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If Telcos Ran Restaurants

Waiter: "Ah, welcome to the restaurant, Sir!"

Customer: "Thanks! May I take a look at the menu?"

W: "Certainly, that'll be £125"

C: "I have to pay to see the menu?!"

W: "They do cost us a lot to produce, so we have to charge for them."

C: "But you sell food. I can't buy food unless I can see what I'm buying."

W: "But we do have to charge to see the menu."

C: "I'll go to another restaurant."

W: "Ok you can see the menu for free. Just this once! Since it's you!"

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I miss the days of the official BT price list, on paper, with updates delivered by courier a few times a month, all for free to any customer that knew to ask, and it covered every service and every price and they were the same for everyone.
in reply to Ben Clifford

the BT price list, or me 😀

[Sadly I forget the name of one of the legends of uk.telecom that I recall died some time ago]

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oddly, this also applies to a certain major house builder in the UK.

Me: This house looks interesting. We have financing in place. Conveyancer ready to go.

Them: Great! £1000 deposit please.

Me: what about the contract terms? Can I at least see those before I pay a deposit?

Them: No.

Me: OK. If I pay a deposit but then find the terms unacceptable, can I get a refund?

Them: …

Me: ?

Them: Maybe.

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Dysphoria
I've come to realise that the only reason I ever believed that I "don't have dysphoria" or have "minimal dysphoria" is because my dysphoria is always there, like a sort of background radiation. Therefore I only feel it's absence, not it's presence.

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I finally got around to learning the actual figures on the Fukushima wastewater release and honestly: my tap water is allowed to be nearly five times more radioactive than their output water is. It's a massive nothingburger; the bigger risk was honestly holding on to all the waste water for the last 10 years.

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@kravietz @benjohn @gsuberland You may be startled to know that I've been aware of this shit for more than forty years. It's not news.

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I follow a lot of trans and non-binary people, but most of you are young and I am older... Where are all the older (40+) people who are trans and non-binary?

Boost for reach and say hi if this is you when this reaches you 👋

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dee, love and enby
@elsilnora I have young cats, I know tiredness ☺️

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in reply to Sarah Brown

Most of these "debates" by cis people are completely useless, at best, so I don't participate in them. I think my role, as a cis man, is to accept people as they are with no need for discussion - it's not hard. I care that people can be who they really are without fear or prejudice, no matter what "other" they might represent.
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Israel’s communications minister Shlomo Karhi has accused Israeli newspaper Haaretz of - “subverting Israel in wartime, undermining the spirit of Israeli soldiers and residents and serving as a mouthpiece for incitement of Israel's enemies. Propaganda in the service of the enemy and presenting the narrative of our enemies, while presenting lies, using anti-Zionist and anti-Israeli terminology and justifying the enemy.”

So, you know, in case you were wondering which Israeli newspaper to read...

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@Lazarou
At the minute, as far as I can tell, the move is limited to cancelling all government worker's subscriptions and stopping all government advertising in Haaretz. This could easily escalate, but I don't think the government are going to come out of this well.
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Fair play to Haaretz, they aren't going to let being threatened by the Israeli government go to waste. You can't buy advertising like this.

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It's taken 6 months, but my latest labour of love is finally complete! You can now explore fully documented and annotated source code for Elite on the #NES, reconstructed by hand from a disassembly of the original ROM. Please enjoy!

#retrocomputing #8bit

github.com/markmoxon/nes-elite…

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@C8H10N4O2 Nice video - much easier than me trying to do the C64 mission myself! Thanks.

Looks like the C64 Trumbles don’t make a sound when they perish, so that’s a unique NES feature. The NES also makes a noise when they multiply, so that’s the same. Interestingly, they aren’t called Trumbles in the NES - they’re Squeakys, according to the Inventory. 🤔

And they don’t eat narcotics, either, as the NES version renames narcotics to rare species. They still eat food, though…

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Mark Moxon
@C8H10N4O2 Ha! Yeah, they sure know how to party. Food, drugs and procreation, that’s the Trumble way! 🤣

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I made a video on the popcorn button controversy
youtu.be/Limpr1L8Pss

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@lime @robotistry I work for an Asian tech company’s US office and they have 2 700W micros. That keeps the power draw below 1500W when two people are heating up their lunches!
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my microwave has a popcorn button with three presets but also has a sensor.

Once you select a preset, the sensor takes over.


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Went for a walk after dinner to say hello to the Atlantic.

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Was it long ago ? Did you made friends easily in there ?

Feel free to ask whatever question you like about me 😋



Been watching The Lazarus Project on Sky. It turns out their HQ is the TUC. Hands up anyone who knew the trades unions were a front for a top secret organisation dedicated to turning back the clock. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congre…

in reply to tiddy roosevelt

what happened to keyboards that i need to buy a new one every two years

granted, yes, i at least smashed one, but still


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girl, are you recursive? bc girl, are you recursive? bc girl, a
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In English as used everywhere except the United States, an ouster is someone who ousts someone. It is not a synonym for dismissal, resignation, firing, removal, sacking, ejection, or termination.

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Don't play Mogwai while the World Service is feeding programmes to Radio 4?

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“A group of academics has apologised after their submission to an [Australian senate] inquiry contained false allegations of serious wrongdoing, which were collated by an AI tool [Google Bard] and not factchecked.”

[via “Download This Show”]

theguardian.com/business/2023/…

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If you are a mathematician and you are reading this (and you're interested in responding), can you tell me a little bit about the maths you do, in a way that a ten year old could understand? If not, what age/level of mathematical understanding do you think someone would need in order to get a sense of what you do?

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I'm more of a CS dilletante. Much of what I do with math is combinatorics - I would say that it relates to how you can count or divide a chocolate bar. Imagine that you have many chocolate bars - it quickly gets complicated. 😅
in reply to Alison Kiddle

I'm not a mathematician, but an engineer. So I do lots of applied mathematics. To those workers that are not mathematically trained, the results are like magic.

For example my seminar paper was on echo compensation for hands-free devices in 1992, a technology that was new development back then and mew routinely built in cars.

Today we develop machines with electronic compensation of unavoidable mechanic tolerances based on stochastic mathematical models.


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Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row

> For nearly a week, the country of 10 million met customer needs with wind, hydro and solar — a test run for operating the grid without fossil fuels.

canarymedia.com/articles/clean…

#Environment #Renewables #Wind #Solar #Hydro #Portugal



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any possibility that knowing this was coming was a factor in why Cruella was trying so hard to get sacked last weekend

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There will come a time when the Raspberry Pi Foundation does not require a super secret mythical combination of USB C power supply and cable that is only dubiously complainant and can only be obtained on the third Thursday of the months with no R in them.

That time is not now.

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I am once again begging them to stop thinking they know better than the whole world when it comes to USB C power delivery. If Fred in his Wuhan shed can make shit that powers up without you feeling like you’re playing a game of fucking Myst, RPi with their impressive collection of computer science degrees and personal computer heritage should be able to.
in reply to Sarah Brown

Given how they were told of by the AUTHOR of the power delivery portion of the spec because of what they did to the 4, you'd think they'd have made *some* effort on the 5.

But hey, this version has AI in it, so yay?

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Meanwhile, my 2 and 3A trundle happily along with whatever random chargers for no-longer-supported phones were kicking around. Where did they go wrong?
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@sparrowsion interesting, as my 4 has a random PSU and is totes fine, but the 3A with a pi specced PSU undervolts All. The. Time...
in reply to Kincaid

@Kincaid @Sion [main] The 4 cares about the cable more than it cares about the PSU. They also fixed it for later versions of the 4.

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Modern political semantics:

Tory/GOP politicians: We oppose, um, Flerb!

Tory/GOP voters: What's Flerb?

Politicians: It's anything you hate.

Voters: Like what?

Politicians: Your choice, whatever. Now, see my opponent? They personify Flerbism.

Voters: Oh no! We must stop Flerbery ruining our country!

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Today’s lesson. Most of the time when you ask “how do I do this?” and get the answer “don’t do this, do that” you’re talking to an irritating fuckwit. The lesson is that this is not all of the time.

The practical application of this was learning that digit is a very cool tool for editing Debian packages.

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Phrases that don’t mean what I thought they meant, part 33. The Global South.

Australia is in the Global North.


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SIMON CASE: David.
SUNAK: It shows we're serious people.
CASE: David. Cameron.
SUNAK: We'll give him a Barony
CASE: Of where? Ham?
SUNAK: Well it's done now so-
ED MILIBAND <interrupts>: CHAOS MOTHERFUCKERS!
SUNAK: Damnit! Who keeps letting him in?!
CASE: I think it's the cleaners
in reply to John Bull

Grief, I had to read this twice to get the "Of where?" part, and I even bought The Brexit Tapes! 😂


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Ally of Lord Frost yesterday: "Rishi, the time has come to appoint David as foreign secretary, from the Lords, to finish what he started started on Brexit."

Sunak: Good idea, I will do that tomorrow."

[Lord Frost sits by the telephone this morning.]

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Cameron only started Brexit in the sense that he created the mechanism the vandals used to destroy... He was the Chief Remainer, after all.
in reply to d a t green

Perfect post, simultaneously killing off the pretensions of Sunak, Cameron and Frost. And the image of David Frost sitting by the phone lingers! Post of the week.

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Getting sacked from your Home Sec job is a lifestyle choice.

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Autistic masking behaviors vary from person to person. What are some of your masking characteristics?

image: @littlepuddins.ie

#AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic

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I’ve noticed on social media, I’ll comment and post my own content less, and like/repost others’ content more. I’m basically using other people’s seemingly more “acceptable” voices to communicate.
in reply to Autism 101

Appearing to know what's happening, what people have just said, what a phrase or concept means, but I'm actually completely lost. I bluff well. Chameleon behavior.

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Incels be like: Cattle have all the power. They have a monopoly on beef and milk.

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Playing with the new telescope and trying to get focus and tracking working better. Not huge success, but this is at least pretty.

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Working aloft this weekend

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What is it about despicable people and obnoxious comparisons? TERFs love their “at least the Taliban know what a woman is” and now Douglas Murray is writing in the Jewish Chronicle that “at least the Nazis felt bad about killing people”...

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I had to do this when I worked at Google.
They were like "we own everything you make unless you get an exception"
So I went "I make stuff using tons of copyrighted material, and I only get away with it because no one would bother suing some weirdo with no money. You really want to own that?"

They gave me an exception

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Simpler: refuse to work for any company that is going to confiscate your own efforts because they can afford more lawyers. It’s basically slavery.

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Four #prominent #Arab #Israeli #leaders were #detained in #Nazareth Thursday over planning a #protest that #police alleged could incite violence and threaten public order.

#Balad chair Sami Abou Shahadeh, former #Hadash MK Mohammad Barakeh, former Balad MK Hanin Zoabi, and former Balad chair Mtanes Shihadeh were #arrested on their way to what Arab media called “an invitation-only #vigil

timesofisrael.com/4-former-ara…

#geopolitics #MiddleEast

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One Way Out (Andor, Season 1, episode 10) was released one year ago today.

One of the great episodes, with two amazing monologues.

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