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Moving into new flat. Tried the hob today for the first time. Smoke started coming out from under it and I could smell burning insulation.
Discussions with the builder will be had tomorrow.
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Looking forward to how insufferable the British will be after the gulf stream collapses, and we're having tropical summers and Arctic winters!
We're obsessed enough with the weather, already. 🙄
So turns out Zuckerberg owns X as a trademark in so far as it relates to social media?
Dear god, if you put this in a novel, people would not believe it.
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To be honest it's such a simple marque it does not surprise me that it's already in use. I would have expected some social media business to have used it by now. Trying to find even complex names that are unique is very challenging.
It's almost like Twitter was actually a valuable brand . . .
Oh right! Musk is trying to show Thiel that he was right all along for a 20 year old grudge.
FFS. Billionaires grow the fuck up 2023
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@Viking Chieftain Musk says a lot of stuff, but is basically a clown with a poor attention span.
Competent evil is much scarier.
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Hi from bsky. You need an invitation to get here. The website link is published through telepathy. We have twelve active users and a nightly circular firing squad. You can’t link to posts anywhere, but you can verify yourself by visiting your favourite domain registrar with your compsci degree.
Today we will be talking about why fediverse is so hard to use and why it will never be popular with its fifteen million users.
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Extreme right politicians: Immigrants are the reason for everything that’s wrong! Elect us!
European public: Makes sense. We will elect you.
Narrator: Immigrants were not, in fact, the reason.
Tune in for the next episode to see who the next scapegoats are going to be (the answer will shock you!)
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Looks like the work we did with Stonewall was a bust. Reporting here that they now think it’s ok to stop us using toilets.
What an utter travesty.
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'Lower the temperature': Stonewall chair calls for end to 'megaphone diplomacy' around trans rights debate
The LGBTQ+ charity also appears to have softened its stance on the issue of single-sex spaces, as Mr Anderson said he supports exemptions that can be used to exclude transgender people from women's prisons and toilets.Sky News
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@Pyroéaon 🏳️⚧️ @Essjay (she / her) 🏳️🌈 It was Ruth Hunt who made them openly advocate for trans people.
I think it took a very heavy toll on her. I have a great deal of respect for Ruth, and I think her force of will was maybe more important than any of us (her included) realised.
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@Alexandra Lanes @Cassandra @Chris Emerson The suburbia around Phoenix is covered, and I mean covered, in golf courses.
How long has it been since the Colorado reached the sea?
Apparently there are ongoing repercussions from a comparison I made some time ago between TERFs and pubic lice.
My only regret is that TERFs’ metabolisms keep going if you drench them in dimethicone.
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So the background here is that I referred to TERFs as pests that are particularly recalcitrant, like pubic lice or bedbugs.
And various people liked the post, including some who are members or a UK political party.
And some pubic louse with nothing better to do is complaining about them because they liked my post.
And said pubic louse got told to go piss into the wind by the complaints process.
So instead of taking the hint that everyone hates them and all their bullshit works, they set out to prove me right by just being UTTERLY FUCKING UNABLE TO JUST PISS OFF AND LEAVE PEOPLE IN PEACE.
I’m sure the irony of this situation is lost on them. Silly fucker.
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She must really hate it that I resigned from said party and then emigrated to get away from the likes of her and their bullshit, and as a result there is nothing they can do to get at me other than bother my friends.
I mean, I am annoyed on behalf of my friends, but I also appear to have triple residency now: Portugal, the UK, and rent-free in their heads.
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Reddit: we are blocking third party apps
And pissing off our admins
And our content generators
And bombarding them with spam
And taking away the benefits of paid accounts
Has Reddit been taken over by Elon Musk on the quiet, or something?
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Yes Kettle Chips are vile.
I've given up on crisps generally.
I really like these as an alternative:
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Cofresh Jalapeno Potato Grills (80g) - Compare Prices & Where To Buy
Compare the Best Prices and Offers on Cofresh Jalapeno Potato Grills (80g) in Tesco, Asda, Morrisons. From £0.55 - £0.99. Prices updated daily.www.trolley.co.uk
Sarah Ditum and Louise Mensch turned up in Bluesky, made one introduction post each, and then there is just page after page after page, full of replies telling them to fuck off.
And it's utterly glorious to behold. Gives me a bit of hope for humanity.
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Oh, this is funky! Reading a book with the multi focal contact lenses in. If I close one eye, the page has blurred and sharp bits in a chessboard type pattern. If I open both, the whole thing is sharp.
Clever brain.
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@Rachel Lawson Yeah. It’s different to glasses where you can look around to change which bit you get. With contacts, they move with your eye, so, looking around makes no difference. You get distance vision in some bits and close vision in others. After a while, the brain sorts this out.
I’m still getting used to it.
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So randos can DM to abuse me, but to reply to a friend's message I have to pay.
I'm glad I'm done there. To Hell with Elon.
According to the optician earlier, I appear to have had a retinal haemorrhage within the last few weeks.
can't have been a bad one, otherwise I'd've noticed!
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Expect the orca people will be along to explain about how he was a billionaire and deserved it any moment now.
Seriously, I think the main thing determining whether dolphins (including orcas) attack humans is whether they think they can get away with it. Nasty little twats, they are.
asahi.com/ajw/articles/1495829…
Swimmer left with broken ribs after dolphin attack in Fukui | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
A swimmer in his 60s was left with broken ribs July 16 after a dolphin rammed him in shallow waters at a beach in Fukui Prefecture.The Asahi Shimbun
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After Backlash, Publisher to Retract Article That Surveyed Parents of Children With Gender Dysphoria, Says Co-Author
Soon after publication, the study was criticized that its method of enlisting study participants was biased.Ellie Kincaid (Medscape)
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Shoutout to places which have 1 “free from” sandwich in their entire range, and it’s lactose free vegan salad on gluten free bread because that ticks all the “food intolerance” boxes in one go.
And by “shoutout”, I mean “fuck you”.
You wonder why nobody is buying your dismal sadness cardboard. It’s because gluten intolerant people like chicken as well (for example)
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Looking like Bluesky is basically over. Jack Dorsey will not budge from the ideological position that content moderation is something that can be done as an afterthought with regexps.
It maybe worked well enough to keep the site viable as long as the number of bad actors was tiny. It clearly doesn’t work any more.
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“I tried the fediverse and didn’t follow anyone and it sucked, so I stopped and went back to Twitter again.”
These people would have hated Twitter circa 2008 when it had pretty much exactly the same issue.
But that’s the point of social media: to find likeminded people with common interests. Somewhere along the line that changed into social media being a thing that tells you what you think, and what you should be liking.
That’s easy, but it’s mental refined sugar. It’s just incredibly crap for you.
If you want interesting, fun and stimulating stuff, follow interesting, fun and stimulating people.
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Z, you've been rude to everyone in this entire thread. That is not welcome here, & on Twitter I would have blocked you in an instant. (And I will here, if you respond w rudeness to me.)
However, on the chance you are genuinely asking in good faith, the other way to find people is to put a hashtag in the search box - #Taiga, #Java, a favourite band, or whatever you are interested in. It will help you find people w common interests whom you may wish to follow.
Good luck.
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Dear Messers Bosch, Neff, and others.
You know that strip between the oven door and the oven itself, where detritus collects?
You know how you keep making it out of aluminium?
You know how caustic soda corrodes aluminium?
You know what oven cleaner is made of?
You stupid or something?
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Shimriez
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Sarah Brown
in reply to Shimriez • •@Maria Karlsen Lots of us do what we can do. The reality is though that none of it makes any difference. Our actions on an individual level are irrelevant. It would be like trying to build a 747 by individuals making paper aeroplanes.
The people who can fix this are governments and massive industries, and they don’t want to.
There is literally no point in the constant moralising and insinuation that we’re all fucked because we didn’t believe in fairies, er I mean recycling, hard enough.
It’s just terrifying people for the sake of terrifying people.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •@shimriez I used to feel the same way, and still largely do. The actions and choices of individuals can not meaningfully shift the impact on the climate. I also don't believe in any sort of shaming. It's just a terrible motivator. You don't want people to feel like "climate" is about finger wagging tree huggers who feel superior to you because they recycle.
But I also think that individual action matters, because in a more sustainable future our lives will look differently, we might as well get a head start. And it normalizes caring about these things, and helps to start conversations on the topic. I think it can help create broader public support for tough climate action, which will help politicians to take their responsibility.
So yeah I guess I largely agree, doomerism and shaming are counterproductive. That's not how you mobilize people.
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There is also the social value of the alternatives: biking or taking public transportation enables a different relationship to the world.
When I bike, I notice things that I don't see when I drive or take the bus, while taking transit allows me to be in a space with other people--it takes me out of my personal bubble and forces engagement with the world.
Personally, I feel that the shift to individual EVs misses on the opportunity to restructure our world.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Sarah Brown
in reply to Shimriez • •@Maria Karlsen When I say none of it makes any difference, I'm specifically talking about the effect individual actions have on climate change. To a first approximation, this is zero, and has little scope for it to be any other number.
I agree that we can very definitely make a difference in how people feel, and this is the source of my complaint: the constant stream of "we are all going to die, because we are filthy eco-sinners" articles just make people feel like shit.
It's basically doom and gloom protestantism, but with the climate playing the role of their god.