Me, a confirmed carnivore and green veg hater, entering rehab after visiting France.
Why are they like that?
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@hpk @Techn1x @chris_e_simpson Same here. I assume that the deterrent function of re-notifying edits to boosters and likers works.
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@glc Abraham Wald. One of the early successes of operations research.Another success was the anti-aircraft guns on the Murmansk convoy ships: someone suggested to remove them as they hardly ever shot down a German plane. Research showed that that was not their function and that they were effective in protecting the ships.
@martinvermeer @hpk @chris_e_simpson yeah but the potential malicious threat is there if users outright disable the edit notifications _without_ an automatic disendorsement of the post (even if we haven't seen it)
I dislike receiving edit notifications, always tedious typos or links to soundclouds, but leave them enabled for that potential rare threat
France is a ridiculous country with a ridiculous time zone.
βIt is twenty past eightβ
No. It isnβt. And itβs still dark. Youβre only lying to yourselves.
Yesterday @ZoΓ« O'Connell was like, βletβs get wineβ
And knowing we were corkscrew challenged, I was like, βok, but it has to be screw topβ
And sheβs like, βyou sure they have that in France?β
And Iβm like, βof course they do! Itβs not Portugal!β
(Portugal is the largest cork producer in the world. Using screw top wine bottles is treason).
And sure enough, there it was. With a screw top.
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i've been teaching people DIY lately, it's me, the it/its biohacking robotgirl
if anyone wants to learn about DIY, feel free to dm me
Me: pass me one of those French ready meals
Zoe: do you want the veal bleugh or the beef bleugh with ground apples?
TikTok pushing 'dangerous' videos about depression to children
An investigation into online child safety reveals how TikTok repeatedly pushed videos fuelling feelings of depression and anger, including content inspired by Andrew Tate, unprompted to a 13-year-oldSanya Burgess (The i Paper)
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Ok, being deliberately vague here.
Congressman Donald!
Helen!
And β¦ the book never specified which silo she ended up in, but itβs obvious now from that little artefact reveal that itβs 18.
Simmsβ wife β¦ can stay in the vault. Sheβs β¦ oh shit!
Thatβs REALLY clever. I wonder if thatβs Howey kicking himself for not doing that in the first place?
So S3 is Shift, and I guess we donβt return to 18 until the start of S4, or once enough of Shift has happened to make it into dramatic irony (I.e. the audience knows the secret but the characters donβt).
I fricking LOVE them putting Helen in 18. Love it!
βThat thing ever light up red?β
Why did Bernard bother putting the suit on?
Smoking area in Lisbon airport is indoor and leaks.
4 ventolin so far. May need more. Starting to get the tremors. Bit dizzy from hypoxia.
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Bernard; βTechnically fifty oneβ
You are NOT supposed to know that. Theyβve changed something from the books (I mean theyβve changed quite a lot, but thatβs a biggie. 51 is on the need to know list, and the head of IT isnβt on it)
@Natasha Jay πͺπΊ @Katy Swain Shit, just had a thought.
Thurman is literally Leto II Atreides, isnβt he? Exact same shit.
Ok, so the tunnel isnβt in the books, but I can kinda guess where it goes.
The voice which spoke to Lukas though. I initially assumed itβs Donald, but maybe not. Maybe someone finding the tunnel is what makes them go and wake Thurman up?
Fast forward to the next election when Starmer is giving his farewell speech from No 10 and warning about the power of Oligarchs and the undue influence America has in our society and how we should have quit Brexit and got back with the EU.
Oh well..
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Me, to Reddit: You probably shouldnβt be using the same fork that you stabbed the raw chicken with to eat it when itβs cooked.
Reddit: 15 downvotes
Behold your electorate.
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Boil the fork with the chicken, I'd say.
Wait, why stabbing a raw chicken? As a vegetarian I'm rather puzzled.
The caffeine causes the ADHD to briefly subside.
Clutter appears everywhere.
Me: Shit! Where did that come from?!?!
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hey, we heard you liked ads, so here's an ad in your ad!
Me: you heard wrong.
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it has begun.
Future historians - if there are any - will refer to this as the start of the Ad Bot Wars.
We cannot imagine the weapons they will bring to bear on each other, as the stress of war in AdSpace forges the rise of Machine Intelligence
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Jack Smith should have moved quicker.
Maybe he couldn't, but I don't see why. He had the time constraints and the potential for what has in fact happened, to happen. And he knew those constraints in advance.
He should have concluded the investigation in time for it to get to trial and get the conviction and get Trump some fucking jail time.
"Oh no, you would have made him a martyr" I hear the cry. So what?
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Iβm guessing that was the voice of Donald that we just heard.
That doesnβt happen like that in the book.
Also, why does Bernard know about the 51st silo? Thatβs only supposed to be revealed at the end, when one of them goes to repopulate the earth.
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So anyone on Bsky canβt help but have noticed the whole sudden Sisters of Dorley thing.
Itβs just made me realise how much I profoundly miss the stuff we had around 2008 in London. That was such a time. If you were there, youβll know.
Dateline, elsenet
Egg: Hi. My egg is breaking. What should I do?
Me: My sympathies. Try oestrogen.
Line goes dead.
Possibly too old for this shit. Anyway, oestrogen π€·π»ββοΈ
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I am about as safe and secure as itβs possible for a trans woman who isnβt in deep stealth to be, and the news is fucking _terrifying_ me.
We have got to find a way to survive the coming years, emotionally as well as physically. We have to be there for each other, but also for OURSELVES.
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Voting intention: 8th Jan 2025
Our new Voting Intention tracker finds Labour narrowly in first place, leading Reform UK by a single respondent in our samplefindoutnow
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This is quite a funny story, and who would have thought that Newsweek quotes me on Trump?
newsweek.com/mercator-projectiβ¦
Does Donald Trump Think Greenland Is Much Bigger Than It Is?
The president-elect said he covets Greenland for its size. He could be misinterpreting it based on well-known mapping distortion.Katherine Fung (Newsweek)
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Noli mercatorem putare!
@MastodonEngineering Why can't I mark this post as written in #Latin langzage?
#Latein
We regret to announce that Milkshake Zuck β¦ mastodon.social/@eff/113794035β¦
Update: After this blog post was written, we learned Meta revised its public "Hateful Conduct" policy in ways EFF finds concerning. We are analyzing these changes, which this blog post does not address.
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Musk and Zuck: Engineering Free Speech
Under the guise of protecting free speech, an alarming alignment between government power and Big Techβs corporate power is unfolding.Open Rights Group
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Tesco increased profits last year by 15%. Sainsburyβs also increased profit, and they expect it to go up again this year. Yet theyβre claiming if they donβt pay less tax, they will be βforcedβ to raise prices.
theguardian.com/business/2025/β¦
Retailers warn of higher prices in 2025 and urge ministers to ease tax burden
Companies grappling with higher employment costs say price of food may rise by 4.2% in latter half of yearJoanna Partridge (The Guardian)
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I wish people would talk more about how programmers get, essentially, groomed into thinking we're special.
We get told we're geniuses, and high achievers, and compared to ninjas or rockstars or whatever. (That's their justification for asking you to sign away your right to overtime, and killing off any unionisation effort and any sort of solidarity with other workers.)
But we're not rockstars. We talk as though we were a profession, but we're not. We have no regulatory body. We have a representative body that most programmers have never heard of. If we're high flyers then so are the electricians and the plumbers, but you never hear about that.
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We are engineers, rather than scientists or professionals.
Actually, we should be professionals - there should be a professional body to oversee our work and our standards. But there isn't, so anyone can claim to be a coder.
That explains a lot of stuff.
It appears California is sending its prisoners in to fight the fires.
This is one of the good States, apparently.
Fucking hell, people have looked at me weird in the past when I've said I wouldn't even want to fly over the US, let alone visit it.
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It's still pretty bad. A small step away from Russian convicts being recruited into the cannon fodder divisions for the Ukraine war.
Point taken though, it's not actually at gunpoint, just highly coercive.
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Good on ya. I agree with you wholeheartedly. Zuch's new changes are totally deeply troubling.
I exclusively now only use Mastodon and Bluesky because of your sensible and progressive policies on hate speech
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