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Though I agree that WTTJ isn't their best song, it probably is the best opening track to an album ever written, which understandably confuses people.
But the song from them that goes round my head the most is Dust and Bones.
The "payment reference field" for my Portuguese bank does not allow accented characters.
Oh ... kay
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I was is an Expat in Setรบbal in the early 80s. At the time you could only take about $100 out of the country.
I took a suitcase full of 1,000 Escudos bills to Heathrow for exchange to dollars on the trip back to America for Christmas vacation in 81.
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The world is going to burn from climate change while Nazis run amok trashing what's left of our dying civilisation not because there's nothing we can do to stop it, but because the people who are in a position to be able to stop either are all too fucking thick to do so.
I need a fucking drink.
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Sorry, that's just the flavor of all the posts I'm seeing. They feel less like "see what information those poor Meta users are giving up" and more like "look what Meta will take from you if we allow federation".
That's probably just projection on my part.
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mastodon.moule.world/@MOULE/11โฆ
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I think I understand his advertising strategy. Create a site full of techno libertarian fanboys who are not anywhere near as clever as they think they are, but who are demonstrably willing to throw money at any old crap if they think Ayn Rand would have approved, and then present it to unscrupulous con artists, wanting to sell scams like NFTs or bitcoin or whatever, as a captive audience of gullible losers who will buy any old crap as long as it โowns the libsโ.
He may not be doing this on purpose, but scammers will absolutely see the value in an audience of a few million gullible right wing arseholes who wonโt complain about terrible service and who have money to burn.
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@Sebastian :verified: Heโs very good at business! He must be worth backing to the hilt!
Iโm sure weโve seen this before somewhere, but I canโt quite place it โฆ
Is he tho....?! Or did he make enough money with selling PayPal to employ people who are good at business related things? I don't really know the answer to that, but his Tesla track record, especially with "Full-Self-Driving" isn't really that of a savvy business man.
Or maybe I'd just like to think he's a babbling potato, because I really don't like him... ๐คทโโ๏ธ
@Sebastian :verified: No, he's not, and neither was the other one.
He got lucky with SpaceX and hired the right people.
Apparently the โbasic biologyโ nut jobs on Twitter, when theyโre able to post, are going on about how itโs biologically impossible for trans women to lactate.
Meanwhile, Iโve literally had tea made with my own milk.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKAROS
Thereโs a new alternative to Twitter that Iโve developed and am accepting signups. The best bit is that you can run your own instance on a laptop, or even your phone! And itโs free!
Hereโs how it works: open your notes application. Write out up to 280 characters. Repeat using new notes if you want a โthreadโ.
Then delete the whole lot.
Given nobody can actually read anything you post on Twitter, this is functionally equivalent to actually tweeting, except with far more uptime and no Nazis yelling at you to buy bitcoin for your grandma.
Youโre welcome.
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@Sarah Brown you had me in the 1st half, not gonna lie.
I'll start a new business then: 100$ and I'll yell at you to buy bitcoins
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@Friendica Support A problem Iโm noticing with my instance is, especially with the Twitter migration picking up, the deferred queue is just growing and growing as people experiment then abandon accounts or even entire servers.
I assume it will sort itself out eventually, but is there any way to reduce the timeout? Iโve got stuff thatโs days old sitting in there that is probably never going to get actioned because the servers have just gone away.
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Amazon: Hi Sarah! Ever wondered if your โฆ
Me: No *swipes left in iOS mail with extreme prejudice*
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I woke up and @Zoรซ O'Connell told me she wanted to stab me and wouldnโt go away until I let her.
And she says she wants to stab me again when Iโm tired and hungry.
Should probably have left her where I found her (outside Cambridge police station, hitting her car with a hammer, in 2005).
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Apparently weird incel types think oestrogen is responsible for womenโs sex drive.
I suspect it would blow their minds if they ever found out that the hormone most involved in making women horny is actually testosterone.
They act like weโre a different species or something. We all have the same set of receptors, more or less, guys. Thatโs why medical transition is even possible.
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Hormones act thru "hormones receptors" which are proteins - coded in our genes as all proteins.
The testosterone receptor is actually coded on the X chromosome ( check at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgenโฆ ) - the female chromosome - which means that women have 2 copies of it while men only one !
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Doesn't it usually blow South? My guess is they'll irradiate Crimea, the Black Sea, everything down to Sochi. Erdogan should be up in Putin's grille.
Hearing that a couple of people opened fire on participants at Bristol Trans Pride with BB guns today. Thankfully nobody seriously hurt.
Those MPs (mostly, but not exclusively Tory) and โjournalistsโ sticking your culture war bullshit; you did this.
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Earlier today. I utterly loathe the M25 (technically A282, but same difference)
This ainโt no upwardly mobile freeway. Oh no, this is the road to hell.
(Turns out that hell is actually in Thurrock. Who knew?)
Happiness, or possibly smugness, is an empty worker queue.
Although hitting โsubmitโ will instantly shove a few hundred entries on it.
Just rubbernecked at r/Twitter. There are still a whole bunch of people frantically sat there hitting โreloadโ.
At what point does it start being Stockholm Syndrome?
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Just spotted my Friendica database was corrupt. 5 minutes downtime and I fixed it.
Methinks that's one-nil to me, Elon.
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github.com/dcramer/mangodb
GitHub - dcramer/mangodb: A database that operates at CLOUD SCALE
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@tricia @Alexandra Lanes The bit I hate most is how you get cramp in your arms from trying to undo a rusted bolt above your head while your legs go numb from sitting in the harness.
I am not scared of heights (used to be, cured myself), and my mast climbing technique is solid, but I just find working up there unpleasant and uncomfortable.
@tricia @Alexandra Lanes I'm a climber too, although I can't do it much any more because I have Dupuytrens.
Climbing the mast is easy. Friction knot with a mooring line round the mast, make a foot loop, main halyard tied to belay loop, have someone on the winch. You lift yourself up, they take in the slack. Repeat.
The issue is that you're not standing on anything, so even in the comfiest of harnesses, I find my legs go unpleasantly numb quite quickly. If you were hanging on a rock face, unless it was severely overhanging, you can usually take SOME weight on your legs, but try with the mast and you'll just pirouette around it.
The swaying you get used to. Worst bit is when some prick in a gas guzzler does a close pass and kicks up a load of wake. Then it gets interesting.
Just kidding. I so agree to what you said about the average yacht owner the other day. And which these complacent idiots being happy about orcas attacking sailing yaczts just don't want to see.
Keep it up!
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And the message queue is empty! Check out that little Mac Mini there, taking friendica-cron in its stride!
(Ok, I have the contact directory discovery thingie turned off because that is a destroyer of worlds, and disk space, and doesnโt actually seem all that useful for a small instance, but still)
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Dear Twitter people. Lots of us were once Twitter people too. This place will not spoon-feed you. Passive participation doesnโt work here. This is a very active and buzzing place, but unless you FOLLOW people and INTERACT, it will pass you by.
Follow people. Lots of them. You can always remove them later. But really, follow early, follow often.
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*waves hello*
I've just discovered I have #Dupuytrens (the latest in a long line of conditions I've had to manage)
Reaching out to say hello and perhaps chat about things you've learned? (At your discretion -- no pressure!)
I've been learning what I can but do not yet know the larger contours of the condition nor what sort of outright quackery I need to avoid. ๐
"Spoilt, Rich baby" seems more appropriate
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