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There’s a new alternative to Twitter that I’ve developed and am accepting signups. The best bit is that you can run your own instance on a laptop, or even your phone! And it’s free!

Here’s how it works: open your notes application. Write out up to 280 characters. Repeat using new notes if you want a “thread”.

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.

You’re welcome.

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@Friendica Support A problem I’m 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? I’ve got stuff that’s days old sitting in there that is probably never going to get actioned because the servers have just gone away.

@Friendica Support

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I woke up and @Zoë O'Connell told me she wanted to stab me and wouldn’t go away until I let her.

And she says she wants to stab me again when I’m tired and hungry.

Should probably have left her where I found her (outside Cambridge police station, hitting her car with a hammer, in 2005).

@Zoë O'Connell

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Apparently weird incel types think oestrogen is responsible for women’s 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 we’re a different species or something. We all have the same set of receptors, more or less, guys. That’s why medical transition is even possible.

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transphobic violence

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 “journalists” sticking your culture war bullshit; you did this.

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Sarah Brown

@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.

@Alexandra Lanes @tricia
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Sarah Brown

@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.

@Alexandra Lanes @tricia

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Dear Twitter people. Lots of us were once Twitter people too. This place will not spoon-feed you. Passive participation doesn’t 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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Likely Jan Lukas

*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. 😂

#dupuytrens

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Naomi

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The other obvious flaw, besides being made of a material that is notable for being strong in tension, not compression, is the use of a cylinder for a vessel that is going to experience pressure from the outside, not the inside.

Just suck the air out of an empty lemonade bottle, and you'll see how little of a pressure differential is needed for the cylindrical center section to squash flat, while the spherical ends keep their shape. Thicker walls are only going to do so much to prevent that.

That's why cylindrical submarines used down to hundreds of feet have bulkheads at intervals along their length to support the cylinder from the inside.

And submarines that are used at thousands of feet of depth are made up of spherical pressure vessels, because additional bulkheads and thicker walls cease to reinforce cylinders sufficiently at depths where the slightest imperfection can result in deformation, that /will/ progress further under those forces. Even submarines that look cylindrical from the outside, like the DSRV:

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Silo S1 spoilers

@Ozzy It was the first half of “Wool”.

How they choose to do season 3 is going to be interesting. The second book, “Shift”, takes place partially in flashback to our near future, and partly contemporaneously with the events of Wool.

The books are Wool, Shift, and Dust. Dust unites the storylines of Wool and Shift and continues immediately afterwards.

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Silo S1 spoilers

@Ozzy I think what happens at the end of Wool works better with Simms’ motivation. The way he does it with Lucas in the book is a bit 2 dimensional.

The question I’m wondering now is if S2 will end at the end of Wool, or about a chapter from the end. That would give them a nice cliffhanger, but if S3 is the first half of Shift, then none of it involves the characters we know (a lot of it happens pre-silo and we find out why they were built, who built them, and what it is that kills them when they go outside).

@Ozzy
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Sarah Brown

@Zoë O'Connell Yachting: unclogging a rank toilet while drinking tea that tastes of bleach.

Tomorrow we need to clean the accumulated verdigris off the deck with the jet wash. That bit at least is enjoyable.

The engine is running on diesel that's, on average, over a year old. It's not running very well on it. Need to sort that out too.

@Zoë O'Connell

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This is very good. huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tra…

He’s The Trans Son Of An Anti-Trans Influencer. It’s His Turn To Speak.

Renton Sinclair’s mother is a former Miss Illinois who wants to force trans people out of public life. That’s exactly what makes her a rising star in MAGA World.
Christopher Mathias (HuffPost UK)

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Farage, karma
A shit tonne of British people living in the EU have had their UK bank accounts closed because of you, so consider it karma, you nasty piece of shit. independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli…

Farage claims his bank accounts were shut down in revenge for Brexit

‘They know, if I hadn’t done what I did... there never would have been a referendum,’ Mr Farage said
Archie Mitchell (The Independent)

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Should you see one of those “schoolchild identifies as cat” stories, note that at least one UK journalist has been spotted on social media offering money for stories from parents whose children “identify as cats”.

Which is, of course, going to result in totally accurate stories.

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The best bit about having your own fediverse server is the ability to go full Malcolm Tucker on reply guys and nobody can ban you for it.

Sure, server admins can defederate, but they probably aren't going to just because you told someone who has a desperate need to fuck off to fuck off.

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Watching a pair of flies go round and round aimlessly in my bedroom. They are clearly lost.

Humans are better than flies because shortly after developing flight, we developed air traffic control to avoid this problem.

Flies have been at this for a gazillion years and they don’t have ILS or navigation beacons or anything.

Bit shit of them really. Flies, do better!

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