The Carry-On-Baggage Bubble Is About to Pop
Airplanes aren’t made for this much luggageIan Bogost (The Atlantic)
Just had a moment of panic as my little fediverse instance started throwing out error messages and refusing to load images.
Turns out, while uploading a CSV file of instances to block for posting spam, I’d managed to create a defederation rule for a server with no name.
It didn’t like that, and the federation stuff started going a bit wrong.
Managed to remove the offending entry and all is well. Phew!
Please help. My node appears to have crapped itself.
Hi everyone. I'm suddenly getting loads of php errors on lots of pages and images are no-longer loading. Stuff like this. Any ideas?
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!Friendica Admins Has anyone found a better way to deal with these spam instances than degenerating them one by one in the "Moderation" page? It's a bit tedious.
Someone got a script for it?
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It looks like this. I get it via academicchatter@a.gup.pe which I do not want to block. It was way more two days ago or so. Allow Spammers for vegan steaks!
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PSA for small server admins. Spam bots are searching you out and creating accounts for spamming the fediverse.
Other admins are dealing with this by mass defederation of contaminated instances.
If you admin a small server, ensure that you have open registration turned OFF. If not, you may find yourself getting widely blocked.
I get that vetting registrations is work, but if you allow other people on your server, then this is part of what you need to do to be a good citizen.
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@argv minus one Their bombs are old as fuck.
And they aren’t allowed to set them off by treaty.
So they do this instead. Even if they don’t know why, it keeps the talent trained, I guess.
Thinking about UK Labour and the US Democrats, and their ideological clones across Europe.
Progressive parties seem have decided they don’t need to provide HOPE any more.
Literally the only people offering hope and the possibility for change for the better in the future are fascists.
And they’re liars, but if the only other option on the menu is “we will keep things exactly the same and stuff will slowly get worse. Fuck you, and be grey”, then I can understand the temptation to vote for ANYONE offering something different.
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It’s notable that none of the various articles on the far-right co-opting farmers seem to notice this - if the fascists are the only people offering hope to <any group>, while regular pols don’t give a toss, don’t be surprised at the outcome.
Nothing stopping Rutte or VdL saying “farmers need to be paid to apply their skills as the spearhead of better environmental management, forestry, river and flood management, etc etc ”, for example.
@BashStKid Exactly, but they seem to have a profound mental block about saying ANYTHING that offers ay chance of improvement in anything.
What has made them like this? They didn't used to be this way.
@Alexandra Lanes @BashStKid They literally had "things can only get better" as their campaign song.
And now the attitude is like, "we must not make any improvements to anything ever. All the shit that the Tories did, that you're voting them out for? Not gonna change any of it. Tough titty."
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it's just so *craven*
Like the facist press will savage them no matter what so fuck them and be bold and honest
Racist Uncle will vote Nazi^wReform no matter what so fuck him with a .303 and be bold and honest
And I understand that putting hard numbers on things is daft but for the love of god you can sell net zero as "yes, it's a bit up front, but you get *free* 'leccy for 6 months of the year and it fucks the Saudis and Putin with a wirebrush dipped in battery acid"
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A recent interaction on the fediverse:
"This term makes no sense to me. Does anyone know the history and why it is used? Don't explain why you think it makes sense"
Me: "This is the history. Its common and established usage across many fields. Why don't you think it makes sense?"
"I mean it when I said don't explain why you think it makes sense"
So I told them that I answered their question, but had no time for miserable cunts, and blocked and eradicated all trace of them from my own server's database, because I can do that.
Fucksake though. Some of the stereotypes here are true.
Do fucking better.
The thing about the reputation that the Fediverse has for being full of "people like that" is that if you comment on it, they turn up.
Even when it's brutally obvious you're going to server block them for it. They can't seem to help themselves.
This is one of the nicest features here: with minimal effort, the tedious takes itself out.
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Here's a good one:
"There are legitimate ways to conceptualise power dynamics which do not centre whatever US-specific racial category Americans have decided you belong to"
As Tom Lehrer said, they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide...
Reminds me of an old explanation of the term “trolling” as in “trolling for fish” but “trolling for newbies”.
I hope you get a bountiful catch and a full blocklist!
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@BashStKid mp3s, pdfs, sheet music all here for you!
tomlehrersongs.com/poisoning-p…
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
Lyrics: view or download PDF Sheet music: view or download PDF -- An Evening (Wasted) With Tom Lehrer, track 1 Album: stream playlist Audio File: download MP3 The Remains of Tom Lehrer (disc 1), track 13 Album: stream playlis…Tom Lehrer Songs
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I've defederated from most of the worst of the "Mastodon HOA", and most of what's left gives me a pleasant and constructive social media space mostly without the massive knee-jerk navel gazing.
But sometimes a bit of it breaks through and ... yeah. Let's just say that the reputation that the fediverse has amongst those who mock and caricature us isn't entirely undeserved.
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‘This is where I apologise’: Polish state TV presenter says sorry to LGBT+ viewers
Activist Bart Staszewski hails ‘meaningful and necessary’ apology as opening new chapter for state broadcasterAshifa Kassam (The Guardian)
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My understanding of UK prosecutions is that publicly speculating about the identity or motivation of the perpetrator can fuck up the case? It's very different law than in the US, and I'm not at all clear on it.
Bluesky and Mastodon having a normal one, I see.
And here I am on Friendica, which already integrates both, and which has quote posting and full text search of fediverse posts, thinking that sometimes it’s good to be small.
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I have made myself a dirty chai latte. It’s a chai latte with a shot of espresso.
Sounds like it shouldn’t work, but it really does.
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“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this”
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Netflix: Piracy is Difficult to Compete Against and Growing Rapidly
Netflix believes that it's difficult to compete against the free entertainment piracy offers. Not only that, it's growing rapidly too.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
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The UK media is now reporting the Parkrun have erased their records "to appease transgender runners".
This is a total lie. They did it because TERFs were throwing a wobbly at them.
But, of course, this will be used to push the narrative that "trans activists are ruining things for everyone."
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2009: Harriet Harman is squeamish about trans women and so lets the Equality Act get drafted in a sloppy and ambiguous way.
2010: The coalition government passes it and can’t be arsed to read the damned thing, despite trans people (and I was one of them) waving frantically at MPs and senior civil servants.
A decade of dominoes fall…
2025: “I know he was goosestepping past the water cooler yelling ‘Heil Hitler’, but the courts have decided that the Equality Act means we can’t fire him.”
Guys, some of us tried. 🤷🏻♀️
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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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UK employment law some time ago set a precedent that trans-hostile beliefs were protected in a workplace environment.
So I'm doing the Cassandra thing again, where once again we warned the rest of you that if you didn't push back, the shit flung at us would start hitting other groups.
Well, it's hitting other groups. We warned you.
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UK professor suffered discrimination due to anti-Zionist beliefs, tribunal rules
University of Bristol academic who was sacked after being accused of antisemitic comments wins ‘landmark’ decisionCaroline Davies (The Guardian)
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Programmers: we are utterly Anglo centric. We work in English and only think about English. We require English naming conventions in name and address fields.
Also programmers: YOUR USE OF AN APOSTROPHE WAS ENTIRELY UNEXPECTED!
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Bishop’s Stortford: 11°
Feels like: -273°
Ryanair: check in now for your flight to Faro
Me: thank fsck for that!
The Reddit ads in the UK are unreal:
- our website helps you find swingers
- you’re a nonce, aren’t you? We’re coming for you!
- join the army you fucking pussy!
On Portuguese Reddit I get ads for computer keyboards and mobile games.
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Just reminded myself, in the traditional manner, why the pack of dried goji berries I bought months ago is still nearly full.
Note to self: if it’s marketed as “health food”, it’s because it can’t be marketed on the basis of tasing nice.
Reading the sentencing remarks. The girl, Scarlett Jenkinson, appears ti be using this whole procedure as a way to build her “brand” as a serial killer for the instagram generation.
God help us all.
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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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Unknown parent • •@gz @Ghost of Hope back rows first is actually terrible. There’s a video about this somewhere.
The best way to do it without assigning everyone a unique birding number is to just go, “plane’s here. Get on”, which is basically what Ryanair does, only they use both doors simultaneously.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •What's bad about back rows first?
I like it when there are no jetways but not many flights without them, at least in the USA. The last time I used stairs was in Long Beach in 2009.
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in reply to gz • •@gz @Ghost of Hope it creates congestion because everyone is trying to reach the same rows at the same time. It’s better to introduce a bit of randomness because the gaps that develop stop things bunching up.
Ryanair planes all have air stairs, which they deploy before the ground staff even get there. My record from fan stop/seatbelt lights going off to divining away in my car, via passport control at Faro is 4 minutes.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •That's incredible, 4 minutes! My sister has been flying to Faro for over 30 years (they have a place near there) but she's never mentioned anything about the airport.
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in reply to gz • •@gz @Ghost of Hope last time I came through there a few weeks ago I was first off the plane. As I passed the gate area for the return flight on my way to passport control, I heard, “Ryanair is now starting boarding of flight FR-whatever to London Stansted. Please have your passports and boarding passes ready for inspection”
More than half the incoming passengers were still on the plane. They’re that fast.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •That could cause some bunching! What do they do differently from other airlines?
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in reply to gz • • •I should sleep, it's past 2am 🥱
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