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Using an USB aquarium aerator pump, duct tape and some sodium hydroxide solution, I have reversed climate change in this jar to 1980 levels. Now I just need money to build one the size of Madagascar. Where the angel investors at?


Praia de Faro, iPhone 16 pro, pro raw, processed in Lightroom on phone.


Us: Ok, Labour, to stop Reform doing an AfD or a Marine La Pen, all you need to do is not be Tories. So what did you do?

Labour: <inaudible>

Us: What

Labour: Be Tories …

Fucksake

in reply to Sarah Brown

yes.. well

except that Reform / UKIP/ Brexit Party already did something much worse than the AfD.

They converted the Tories into Reform, and they had been in power for 14yrs, until recently.

So the UK challenge is really very different. Much more advanced on the shit arc.



UK Pol, transphobia, far right
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UK Pol, transphobia, far right

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UK Pol, transphobia, far right

@John_Loader That you haven’t noticed it doesn’t mean it isn’t there. It just means you haven’t noticed it.

But then it isn’t aimed at you, is it?



Long ago

Deep in a swamp far from Mexico

Lived an old psychopath, Dandolo!

Rich was he!

Stole from the Egyptian dynasty

Corpse of St Mark, Allegedly.

Ordered ships to be made

Diverted the fourth crusade, Dandolo!

Adding on to the total

Sacking Constantinople, Dandolo!

And when they ships got there

They’d come from St Mark’s Square

Byzantium beware!

You’re so fucked!

Long ago

Dealing the Romans a killer blow

Toppled the empire, did Dandolo!

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Hey guys, did you hear about that time J D Vance got stuck on an escalator for six hours when the power failed?

in reply to Sarah Brown

This is a triumph. I'm making a note here, huge success.


Latest spam email: Your next getaway, Milan!

I'm sorry, but I have recently been contemplating my sexiness quotient and I very much regret to inform you ...

in reply to Kathryn Karnage

@Kathryn Karnage The first one hurts. The second, well, poor pussy! Poor pussy cat!


Stansted is quiet. I guess everyone is done with their holibobs.


Oi, Bezos you absolute melon. It’s Thursday and I’m about to get on a plane. Where the fuck is Ep 7?
in reply to Sarah Brown

hee! Tomorrow I'll be TGVing to Marseille.

And if it's Ryanair, don't let the penny pinching buggers gouge you too much!

in reply to Sarah Brown

@ajlanes @Nikkileah I typically use Jet2 from Leeds. The last time I used Ryan Air it was horrible. I didn’t even fit between the seats. Its made for short arses. And I wouldn’t touch easyjet with a barge pole!
in reply to Sarah Brown

Right. It’s dropped and, miracles of miracles, the 5g is working inside Stansted.


Goddam waterpik just made my gums bleed. Apparently it’s for my own good, or summat.


Apropos of having just dealt with an irritating personal problem of the feminine nature, I find myself thinking back to the start of The Last Of Us.

Guys, did you even think to TRY Fluconazole?



As a child, I grew up speaking the East Midlands dialect of English.

But I was led to believe that were I to “get on in life”, I would need to speak Standard Southern British English.

As I believed this, I willingly embraced it and now I mostly do speak SSBE.

But I’m somewhat bitter about needing to, even if I did willingly embrace it at the time because, as I was taught, I thought my own dialect was “unsophisticated”.

It wasn’t; it was just different, but in the 70s and 80s even local celebrities who made it big on the national stage were encouraged to drift linguistically towards London, and if they didn’t, that acted as a barrier.

It’s less the case now, but with the benefit of hindsight I do feel a bit resentful about it.

As times have changed, and as I don’t feel that I have anything to prove, I increasingly find myself drifting back towards the way I used to speak as a child.

in reply to Sarah Brown

@Sarah Brown We can see that even in the other side of the world. Once upon a time we heard only SSBE on Radio New Zealand and I was taught it. Now we hear many variations of English pronunciation, including Asian variations and local variations—Māori and Pacific. Our English D-I-L is a case in point. Still has remnants of her childhood London accent—certainly not SSBE—and welcome presenting on RNZ. I love it. It represents our changing society.
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And the rest of us thinks that most English accents are cool. Funny world huh?

(Emphasis on most. There’s some bad ones out there.)



Just been for a flu vaccination. Pharmacist also did a general health check. Apparently I am too healthy for a 50 year old with a cheese based diet.


Sauron be like, "dumbass elves, Imma gaslight the fuck out of them, for the lulz".

in reply to Axel Foley

@Axel Foley I be blaming rampant privateerism. Do you be having your clubcard, arrrr?


It appears that there may be an issue with Google Chrome not starting for some users of Mac OS Sequoia.

I have found a workaround. In the Finder, open the Applications folder, locate Chrome, drag it to the bin, then empty the bin.

Fixed



Been trying to contact a shipwright, ANY shipwright, in France, to help with my annual boat maintenance and, is it a French thing that NOBODY EVER FUCKING ANSWERS THEIR FUCKING EMAIL?

Do not make me fucking phone you. I am neurodivergent and I don't speak French.

in reply to Sarah Brown

Update: Tried texting one.

Not only did he reply, he said I can speak English with him, AND THE TEXT BUBBLES ARE BLUE!

Thank god!

in reply to GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

@GreenSkyOverMe means they're both using the Messages app on an apple device (iphone, ipad, mac). secondarily, that they can confidently send other media eg: photos, videos to each other; it doesn't depend on phone networks to work (once each end knows the other is on iMessage, it just goes over internet) and is secure (end-to-end encrypted)


Just replaced my old Apple TV 4K with the newer model that is also a Thread border router. I now have two: the HomePod Mini (WiFi) and the Apple TV (Ethernet).

And OMG, Thread is so much faster & more reliable!

in reply to Sarah Brown

I'll probably skip it. I want to pass the 2K to my parents and get a 4K for myself, but I would need to swap the remotes otherwise my father is going to throw that thing out the window, and I don't blame him.


Upgraded to iOS 18?

Check the calendar month view our. Try pinch zooming. Thank me later.



Rings of Power: is it just me thinking that the last words Pharazon will ever hear are, “I am no man”?
in reply to Sarah Brown

I wondered that too, but apparently if they do that it'll be non-canonical
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Sarah Brown
@Ghost of Hope His nepo boy son is definitely one of them though.


!Friendica Developers

Any idea what we can do to mitigate remote contacts using animated GIFs for their avatars and causing zombie worker jobs because PHP can’t handle the format? It started as a small issue, but more and more people (especially on lemmy) seem to be using these avatars and it’s causing a significant administration headache where I have to find out which contact is responsible by manually searching the SQL database and then server blocking them.

If Update Contact failed gracefully it would be less of an issue, but it doesn’t. I’m sure I can’t be the only one seeing this?

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@Sarah Brown @Steffen K9 🐰 @Hypolite Petovan Maybe it is something Alpine Linux specific. I Am also using Alpine and I also had this error all the time. Either the one you posted (gd-webp cannot allocate..) or another one. Currently I only see this one, but very often :

Fatal Error (E_ERROR): Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 96485376 bytes)

I tried to allow more memory, up to 2048M.. it didn't help.. (now I am using 512M again) I don't know why this happens. But I understand it is not nice, having the admin log section full of it. 😕

What PHP version and memory_limit do you use? ( I use PHP 8.3.10 and 512M)

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@xy.. @Steffen K9 🐰 @Hypolite Petovan I’ve a bunch of those too. The Docker container for 2024.08 uses 8.1.29 and 512 megs.

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Been thinking about Sarah’s history of English royalty since William t he Conquerer. Let me know if I left anything important out:

Succession crisis -> civil war.

Civil war resolved, negotiated succession.

Descendant of negotiated successor pisses everyone off -> civil war.

Descendant forced to accept terms.

Stability for a bit while they’re busy fighting other people.

Succession crisis -> civil war.

Civil war resolved violently.

Succession crisis (religion). Civil war narrowly averted.

Dynasty goes extinct. Succession negotiated.

Descendant of negotiated successor pisses everyone off -> civil war.

Civil war resolved through decapitation.

Succession crisis. Civil war averted via negotiated succession.

Succession crisis -> civil war fizzles

Dynasty goes extinct (yes, Charlie, it did. Shut up)

Parliament is finally utterly fucking sick of this lot starting civil wars, installs German puppets. The end.

in reply to Sarah Brown

Until the last year or so, I had believed something more or less along the lines of "England has been uniquely stable over the past 1000 years. Other countries have had bloody revolutions (France, Russia) or pulled themselves together out of fragmented parts (Germany, Italy) but England has missed out on all that, the elites here have always known how and when to soften and to give up a little power in order to avoid those excesses".
in reply to Ben Curthoys

@goatsarah Listening through The Rest Is History podcast has disabused me of this idiotic idea. We've had just as many usurpers, revolutions and civil wars as anywhere else, it's just that the English have had better marketing.
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@bencurthoys @goatsarah Fair. I think most of that view derives from Britain being the odd one out while everyone else was doing 1848/midcentury civil wars. We wrote that up as ‘look how stable we are as we loot the rest of the world’ and it was never internally criticised.
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@Ben Curthoys lol, yeah. The Anarchy, 1st barons war, 2nd barons war, Wars of the Roses, Mary marches on London, 1st civil war, 2nd civil war, Restoration, Glorious Revolution, Jacobite Rising. Probably missed some.

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You’re scared we’re going to beat you at sports.

We’re scared you’re going to beat us to death.

We are not the same.



My watch just informed me that today is my personal record for single day calorie burn. I can believe it. I am having difficulty moving now. strava.app.link/ak7QiUQwTMb
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@Alexandra Lanes @gz You … you … shut up with your remarks about how I’m definitely not going to be trudging along Curbar edge in September 2025 wondering why the fuck I did this to myself.


BREAKING! In a move that the Liberal Democrat party hopes will finally deal with their transphobe problem, they have handed the Sudetenland to the transphobes.

In exchange, the transphobes pinky promised that they won’t demand any further concessions, “you know, for a bit anyway”.

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A transphobe spokesworm was later overheard muttering something about what a shame it would be if something happened to that nice Poland you’ve got there.


News coming in that a second debate invitation has hit Donald Trump.


Nothing quite illustrates the desperate need for proper civics education than a man with a policy platform of “stopping imaginary transgender immigrants eating your cats” being neck and neck to be US president.


NEW! Force femmed immigrants in YOUR neighbourhood eating YOUR cat!

Trump watches some very weird porn.

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in reply to Sarah Brown

I only saw bits of it on the news this morning and switched off immediately. I really feel sorry and scared for my US friends.


Apple: “And our new iPhone 16 has hardware ray tracing for unparalleled mobile gaming performance”

Mobile gaming:

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but also mobile gaming:
youtu.be/Rf5pB31k3dw?si=dRuPVG…
in reply to Alan Braggins

@Alan Braggins bet I know which ones get played and played and played.

Never seen anyone on a train or plane or bus playing a 3D FPS thing on their phone.

But word searches and distant descendentes of Tetris? All the time.



I’m assuming the answer is, “the power would go off”

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in reply to Sarah Brown

how many hours/days would you give your current location of living, until looting and riots would start, if the power was completely down?
in reply to mxk

@mxk I have experienced a 5 day power cut before. None of that happened. People pulled together.
@mxk


Now smartphones are mature products we’re into the annual “this is an incremental upgrade over last year. I’m so mad replacing my 2 thousand quid perfectly functional phone with one that’s almost the same for another 2 thousand quid” cycle.

My brother in Christ; have you considered just … not?

I’m upgrading this year. My phone is 3 years old and the camera stuff is worth it for me. My step daughter is getting my old one, which she is thrilled with.

in reply to Sarah Brown

yes, which I have done a few times, however, and this might be due to my obtaining cheap highstreet repairs, they never seemed to last long.


Yesterday I saw a discussion about whether you can smell in a dream.

As fate would have it, I had a lucid dream last night (I have a cold. That’s probably why), so I decided to test it.

Yes, you can smell in dreams.

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Spoilers for Netflix's Kaos
Loved Kaos, but it tickled me to realise that it is basically the same plot as Jupiter Ascending, only in this case Jupiter is the baddie.


It would be justifiable homicide to off the eejit who decided to put capacitive controls on hobs, right?
in reply to Sarah Brown

Yes. There is absolutely nothing wrong with rotary knobs and other physical controls.
in reply to Ozzy

@Ozzy Can even make them waterproof by using Hall effect sensors.
@Ozzy


Long form - ADHD and suchlike
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Long form - ADHD and suchlike

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Long form - ADHD and suchlike
@1ngi Feeling is mutual, my lovely x
@1ngi

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OK, more digging. It's failing in line 231 of /var/www/html/src/Object/Image.php.

Which is this:

} catch (\Throwable $error) {
			/** @see https://github.com/php/doc-en/commit/d09a881a8e9059d11e756ee59d75bf404d6941ed */
			if (strstr($error->getMessage(), "gd-webp cannot allocate temporary buffer")) {
				DI::logger()->notice('Image is probably animated and therefore unsupported', ['message' => $error->getMessage(), 'code' => $error->getCode(), 'trace' => $error->getTraceAsString(), 'file' => $this->filename]);
			} else {
				DI::logger()->warning('Unexpected throwable.', ['message' => $error->getMessage(), 'code' => $error->getCode(), 'trace' => $error->getTraceAsString(), 'file' => $this->filename]);
			}

So my suspicion was right: it's animated GIF avatars which are causing this. However, rather than fail gracefully, I'm left with a zombie worker job which seems to persist forever.

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I'm going to just leave this here for no particular reason. inhousepharmacy.vu/p-1120-prog…

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Have taken the plunge and changed the physical SIM on my iPhone 13
To an eSIM. I was previously dual SIMming with one physical and one eSIM, but now I’m dual eSIM and the SIM tray is empty.


Dear menopausal cis women:

The trans women in your life evangelising HRT are subject matter experts. They are on your side. They are trying to help you.

Stop fighting them, FFS.