Emergence #photography #photo #landscape #nature #trees #clouds #cloudscape #landscapephotography #angelesnationalforest #inversion #mastodon #serene
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“Emergence” A serene landscape of rolling hills partially shrouded in mist, with soft clouds covering much of the scene. The greenery of the hills is visible, contrasting against the light, foggy background.
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“Emergence” A dense layer of clouds envelops a small hilltop, revealing a cluster of trees emerging through the mist.
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@patrickgwalsh great shots! Also, loving how these two photo thumbnails combine perfectly in the Ivory iOS app 🤩 here’s a screenshot:
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@exkclamation Thanks for that.
If we've ever met in person and you've wondered "Gee, how did he get this way," I finally have a solid answer.
(source: https://www.tumblr.com/ejlandsman/135780556301/i-dont-feel-like-this-is-done-but-im-posting-it)
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pencil drawing of a twitchy-looking person in glasses, sipping coffee. Banner text says "THAT WHICH DOES NOT KILL ME ONLY MAKES ME WEIRDER AND HARDER TO RELATE TO."
vanta rainbow black please boost this post to help me find a job 
i'm looking for something remote or local to seattle in the realms of social media and/or video editing and/or writing and/or fashion design
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tysm 🖤
ME IN 1993: "In the future we're going to have flying cars and hologram movies!"
ME IN 2024: "I'm fishing through my garbage to see if that bag of carrots is the brand that has been recalled due to e. coli contamination."
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@AlSweigart this actually can be a bit futuristic - the other day, the computer in my pocket told me that the freezer waffles I bought months ago using the same computer were recalled and need to be thrown out.
TL;DR: NetChoice has filed another lawsuit against California’s new 'Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act,' arguing that the law imposes unconstitutional restrictions on minors' access to social media platforms. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/18/netchoice-sues-california-once-again-to-block-its-misguided-social-media-addiction-bill/ #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum
#recommendation If you are interested in the work of Forensic Architecture and their ongoing research on #gaza, here's the direct link to the project website "Cartography of Genocide"
#data #analysis #science #history
#warcrimes #investigation
🔖 https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/a-cartography-of-genocide
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@villebooks thank you for the link.
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@GRA3432 My pleasure 🙂 👍
PayPal? trust me it ain't no pal
Some Israelis will be protesting at the US embassy in Tel Aviv to call for an arms embargo against Israel, as a show of support for Bernie Sanders' bill to block some arms sales to Israel.
If Israelis can call for an arms embargo against Israel, we all can
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Flyer calling for an arms embargo with meeting time and date in Tel Aviv
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Update on the Israeli protest for an arms embargo against Israel:
A small crowd (as expected). They blocked the street in front of the US embassy in Tel Aviv for an hour. 1 protestor was arrested.
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Protesters sitting together with signs such as "Stop the genocide in Gaza" and "Arms embargo now"
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@raph bloom cohold 
#StreetArt
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A post, perhaps a light post, in downtown Vancouver. It is four sided and has various line art things on it. Among other things are the words "Comply at your own risk"
There is a car in the background and a person just finishing crossing the road in the crosswalk beyond this post.
#palestine
#ukpolitics #SpyPlanes
@palestine
"A Royal Air Force plane conducting surveillance of Palestine has been filmed taking off from its base on Cyprus for the first time"
"South Africa’s former foreign minister says British intelligence sharing flights with Israel constitute “collusion” in a “crime against humanity”"
"Throughout the last year, the Shadow fleet has been conducting almost daily surveillance over Gaza, 225 miles away"
https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-gaza-spy-plane-caught-on-camera/
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@NotImpressed It's not "Kier Starmer's Gaza spy plane", this has been happening for decades, primarily under TORIES.
I am orange
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@i0null The best part of this is it looks like they left that box empty specifically for the cat to use.
ivermectin being a treatment for rosacea will never not be funny as hell to me
listening to french electronic music to feel something this fine evening
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Screenshot of a news article from Ideal Home labeled, "Do you sleep with your bedroom door closed? According to experts, you really shouldn't."
Top photo from news article shows a bed an nightstand with a lamp and fancy flat bowl thingy.
Below the news article is a photo of a cat typing on a laptop.
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@catsalad
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@catsalad@infosec.exchange I keep it closed in winter. I am the type of person who loves open windows. But I don't want the whole flat cold.
@catsalad i wonder what kind of expert specializes in bedroom door states
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@catsalad well obviously you keep the bedroom door open, unless you want to keep the cat's feeding bowls and water and it's litter tray in your bedroom.
What you do do is close the lid of your laptop when you go to sleep.
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@catsalad Not just closed, locked.
@catsalad I have no door. Problem solved 🤓
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@hellomiakoda @catsalad @VVitchy We have these on a bunch of our doors for that very reason.
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@catsalad 😂 I wouldn't dream of it! ❤️ 🐾
🐢 Artist: #StreetartFrankey 🇳🇱 in City: #NewYork / #Manhattan #WallStreet / USA 🇺🇸 10/2024 - Title: "Raphael" - #Streetart #Art #Urbanart #Installation #TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles #GoodMorning
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Streetart. The artist has painted a mouth and stuck a figure with a face mask on a green round lamp on the subway in Wall Street. Two large eyes peer out of a red scarf at the top of the iron lamppost, with a smiling mouth underneath. Together with the green ball, the head of "Raphael", a life-size cartoon fighting turtle, is clearly visible. Very funny in this area between bankers and tourists. (In the background you can see another undecorated green lamp globe, advertising for a school and the fronts of houses).
Info: Frankey is Frank de Ruwe who
currently lives and works in Amsterdam. Where, if you look closely, you can discover his works in an unexpected places throughout the city. Frankey manages to give passers-by an instant smile from ear to ear time after time. "Pretty cool, right?", He says himself.
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@AmiW Moin Ami. ☕👋
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@Kuestentroete 🐢 💨💨Mooiiiiiiiin ☕🥐
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@AmiW Pups-Schildkröte? Da war doch mal was? 🤔
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@Kuestentroete ich gestehe... Ich hab noch nie diese Ninja Turtles geschaut. Aber ich kenn Raphael...warum auch immer 😄
@AmiW Guten Morgen Ami ☕🌹❤️
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@bberkholz 🌬️Mooiiiiiiiin ☕🥐💨💨
Moin Ami, einen guten Wochenstart wünsche ich Dir🤗
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@Rembrandt0514 🐢 Mooiiiiiiiin ☕🥐 hab einen schönen Montag 😘💕💕
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@hrefna @thisismissem
@jenniferplusplus @steve @jonny @benpate @ireneista
Gentle folks, you have expressed interest to explore various next-gen social web protocol aspects. And to possibly elaborate them in some project. Or even a collaborative working group that works to remove the barriers that hold back innovation.
@helge and I started a feedback gathering process. And we'd love your input.
Goal is to gauge interest, find alignment, present in a working group kick-off-or-not event.
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@hrefna @thisismissem @jenniferplusplus @steve @jonny @benpate @ireneista @helge
The location where this happens is at: https://discuss.coding.social/t/wiki-vision-for-a-fedi-specification/563
It may very well be that you don't like to participate, which is fine. Don't hesitate to share reason for your reluctance, so we may improve the process.
My own role is just as facilitator (besides giving some 1st input) for the Social coding movement.
Imo a success factor is having a small dedicated team working on specs + impl able to iterate fast.
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@smallcircles @hrefna @thisismissem @jenniferplusplus @steve @jonny @benpate @helge thanks! we went and replied on the thread; alas, not with any substance... getting into the habit of using a new venue is hard for us. we'll try.
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@ireneista @hrefna @thisismissem @jenniferplusplus @steve @jonny @benpate @helge
I don't think there's necessarily any hurry to this whole thing, but it is important to know if there's a *commitment* to participate in whatever small or large way. At least for a while. Just long enough to learn if there's any consensus on a particular direction and a good enough group to get started.
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@smallcircles @hrefna @thisismissem @jenniferplusplus @steve @jonny @benpate @helge that makes a ton of sense
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@ireneista @hrefna @thisismissem @jenniferplusplus @steve @jonny @benpate @helge
PS. I added a Commitment section to the wiki and added myself as first entry.
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@ireneista oh, I see that you posted on the forum. Thank you!
Welcome to the forum 🤗
I'll reply here so as not to make the thread unnecessary longer. Note that you can also just click the bell icon on the right of the topic thread to subscribe for notifications.
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@smallcircles thanks! we had joined it some time ago but not posted till now
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@smallcircles we figured introducing ourselves there served a social function beyond just the notifications. we admin several Discourse instances, we're familiar with the features
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@ireneista it did. Much appreciated.
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@ireneista say, maybe you could edit the post and add some links to some of these prior fedi discussions. That gives handholds and incentive for a follow-up by other folks.
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@smallcircles kinda doubt we can find anything worth pointing people to, it was probably on the old account and it wasn't a single long thing, it was hundreds of short things over a period of years.
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@smallcircles that was a deliberate choice, we didn't necessarily want those thoughts to be cleanly indexed and accessible to uninvolved audiences long after the fact. (we keep notes for ourselves, which are less time-bound, but they're not ready for publication.)
when we do stuff in the form of fedi conversation, that's because we're doing it for the benefit of people who have enough in common with us to be following along
@ireneista @hrefna @thisismissem @jenniferplusplus @steve @jonny @benpate @helge
I was just reading #MIMI architecture doc. This doc and related ones might be perfect inspiration for our elaboration, as well as aligning / adopting (chunks of) these specs, alongside with #MLS. It is a pity that they are modeling the standard for narrow IM domain instead of more universal messaging support. They are going with Room abstractions again, like Matrix.
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-mimi-arch-00.html
Chicago's Fox32 News has a report on the #PaneraBread incident where a woman viciously attacked a young couple over a pro-#Palestine sweatshirt.
The woman slapped Waseem Zahran and threw coffee on him and his pregnant wife.
Great to hear she has been identified and police are now involved. Really hope they charge her. https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/attack-palestine-sweatshirt-caught-camera-downers-grove-panera
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@catsalad ohmy… i’d like to hug all of them. Emergency hugs xD
I want emacs vs vim discourse instead of ap vs atproto
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@coralblight I unironically want to do this
"anyone can set up a fediverse server"
"an instance is just a confusing word that means a server"
"its called the fediverse. mastodon is an app you can put on your phone to connect to the fediverse. mastodon is also a completely different thing, a server that your app connects to to connect to the fediverse"
"The Fediverse is not looking for growth. It is offering a place for freedom. People joining the Fediverse are those looking for freedom. If people are not ready or are not looking for freedom, that’s fine. They have the right to stay on proprietary platforms... We should not try to include as many people as we can at all cost. We should be honest and ensure people join the Fediverse because they share some of the values behind it."
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
Make no mistake 😉
- #Russia invades #Ukraine, fires cruise missiles through #Romania and #Moldova airspace, brings thousands of #NorthKorea soldiers - no, this is not WW3
- US allows Ukraine to hit Russian airports from where the cruise missiles are fired - yes, this is WW3
There’s now literally a flood of the “WW3” bots on Twitter, this must have hurt Kremlin.
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>US allows Ukraine to hit Russian airports
The chief problem is that this isn't what's happening. What's happening is
>US allows US soldiers to obey Ukrainian orders to hit Russian airports
The weapon systems aren't fully under Ukrainian control, which a big part of why "US allows" is part of the discussion at all.
The picture simplifies too readily to "US attacks Russia", which is WW3.
Lesser problem:
>Russian invades Ukraine
this is one country attacking another country. The first word in 'WW3' is 'World'. The conflict so far has not extended much outside of Ukraine, despite Ukraine's occasional psychotic terror attack on Russian soil or even "Ukrainian soil" like Crimean beaches full of civilians.
This was already preceded by ten years of
>Ukraine attacks secessionist states in the Donbas
which also wasn't WW3, just like Israel attacking Gaza isn't (yet) WW3.
>brings thousands of North Korean soldiers
to rear parts of Kursk. So what? Western special forces have been 'volunteering' in Ukraine since the outset.
If you have a problem thnking of it in terms of WW3, just think of it in terms of "nuclear war with Russia". Right now, only Ukraine is at war with Russia. And despite the full support of NATO, Ukraine is losing very badly. NATO, having depletes its weapon systems and failed even to deter Yemen from blockading a sea route to Israel, and having helped to increase Russian veterancy and Russian familiarity with NATO weapon systems, is now not able to Russia in any capacity except with nukes.
Nukes are bad, OK? We also have different nukes: Russia has super-poisonous super-fallout world-ending nukes, and the US has clean backpack nukes for bunker-busting and disclaimable nuclear terrorism.
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Ukraine attacks secessionist states in the Donbas
Let’s just stop here because I actually was in Donbas when it unrolled in 2013 -and guess what, there was zero fighting, zero ban on Russian language and all the other bullshit that Russia invented 10 years later.
The fighting in Donbas started the day Russian soldiers, with their official patches cowardly removed, crossed from Russia into Ukraine and started capturing administration buildings and killing resisting officials.
You can save your “secessionist” bullshit for more gullible audience, one that also believes stories of “crucified boy of Slavyansk”.
By the way, I was staying there, in Slavyansk, on my last trip in September 2013. And guess what - I was talking Russian to everyone, and nobody had even slightest feeling that in only half year Russian soldiers will invade.
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>You can save your “secessionist” bullshit for more gullible audience,
I can't even imagine what the Minsk agreements look like through your propaganda filter. When Germany says, after the invasion, that there was ever any attempt to abide by them and it was just a ruse to give time for Ukraine to build up its forces, do you think that Russia let these "Russian forces" get bombed for no reason?
Why do you think that all that these non-secessionist stealth-Russian groups had "People's Republic of" names and communist iconography? To get better coverage from western media?
>I was there and didn't notice anything
I live in the US, and lived in a large blue city in 2020, and never saw a single BLM riot. Or anything about it at all beyond some graffiti. During the worst periods the parcels still came and everything operated smoothly. Actually living here, going outside, talking to people in person, you wouldn't think there were any political problems anywhere at all. Nor any notable crime outside of particularly bad places. School shootings? I haven't seen one, been near one, or know anyone who's been near one.
Your personal experience and the number of children that die to terrorist ordinance dropped in civilian centers, are actually very different things.
So yeah, I believe you. But I don't care. You being closer to Russia also just means that you'll reliably have a more irrational negative view of Russia. This is how all neighboring countries work the world over. You want to learn about something actually that Japan's done, you ask a Korean or a Chinese person.
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It's like none of these people listened to the Tucker Carlson interview.
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As you can see by this conversation, people need to not only learn that history didn't begin yesterday, but also learn that
2013 <-- things were fine here?
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022 <-- woah what's going on!?
is not two points on a timeline, but has a bunch of years between those points where additional stuff can have happened.
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Why even attack someone like that? It's embarrassing. If you whip someone who doesn't want to be whipped, it's violence that you might feel good about. If you're whipping a masochist, you're just joining in his perversion.
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already happened, man. It's the largest country in the world. You may as well fantasize about China invading Indochina to seize their human resources. China has that already.
If you want to anticipate funny things that can happen, Israel's reputation is approaching negative zero right now.
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The text says:
Florence “Flo” Harrelson
Death Announcement
GLENBURN - Florence “Flo” Harrelson, 65, formerly of Chelsea, died on Feb. 22, 2024, without family by her side due to burnt bridges and a wake of destruction left in her path.
Florence did not want an obituary or anyone including family to know she died. That's because even in death, she wanted those
she terrorized to still be living in fear looking over their shoulders. So, this isn't so much an obituary but more of a public service announcement.
elftummy
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Americans need more electric kettles, and a lot less plastic. Paper shopping bags, paper plates, paper cups, paper containers for food, paper everything. There are more trees than ever. Trees are actually not hard at all to farm in great numbers and turn into paper. Plastic should be extremely rare.
I think we as a species collectively lost our way when we decided that electronic devices should have a light that turns on when the device is turned off
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💪🏻 🚲 🤘🏻@mitchw How many are we supposed to eat, then?
@mitchw Well at least now I understand why they want people to have more babies!
@mitchw About time. Labels on baby food never specifically list babies in the ingredients. Maybe they're included in the "natural flavors"?
I know that's quite an oxymoron, but any recommendations for cheap and possibly stable VPSs? I'm thinking about moving away from contabo and am looking for a 4 shared vCPUs, 8GB RAM and at least 100GB disk space VPS. I only run #Debian ❤
Thanks, boosts appreciated.
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@roughnecks Never mind, I scrolled down and saw your price, and deleted my recommendation. You can get a Linode server for that price, but not with your specifications. My bad.
Alas, we're nearing the end of my big batch of dahlia photos! #bloomscrolling
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sometimes I want a filter that merely removes a topic from my home timeline and moves it into a timeline of its own that I can interact with at a different pace than my home timeline. a subject I want to contain and address after reflection, maybe, or when my blood pressure is low enough, or what have you. maybe I want to be able to make that topic only refresh in clients on request rather than by push.
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@jerry an owl that say hello
fedi is the best kind of social media there is because it's the only one where one can learn about their server admin's kinks and mental illnesses
subpixelator (seed: 2681938912) vs. maybe-invert (seed: 1792438005)
full quality:
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deploying docker-compose to production
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@yogthos With no helmet too. Brave or stupid?
@yogthos
I hate how correct this is 
@yogthos that looks like fun.
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@Shanmonster it really does, I'd totally try it :)
I am coming around to the idea that, long-term, the US becomes something more like the EU. shared defense and a few other things, but state identity becoming stronger over time as the federal mechanisms break down and national political coalitions like the Democrats decline to fix them.
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@peter I'm not sure I like where this leaves DC, but this is not the worst possible outcome
when we think about the US breaking apart, we always think about the Southern states leaving, but why not California? why not the wealthy northern and western states with productive urban centers that are getting a raw deal, yoked to struggling southern economies but given less and less representation in the federal political mechanisms?
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thanks to Republican sabotage and Democratic neglect, the federal government hasn’t been solving problems for years, and is now set to be more or less permanently crippled (we know from past experience that the Democrats never roll back the damage that Republicans do, they just act as caretakers of the mess until the GOP recovers and gets back to wrecking again). it would make sense if people increasingly looked to their states for solutions.
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I am not saying this is a good idea or that it would be neat and tidy. it’s a terrible option with dire unknown consequences that would be messy as hell. but given that the GOP appears set to succeed in its efforts to fundamentally dismantle the federal administrative state, it seems to me much more likely a possibility than the national Democrats miraculously sweeping back to power and equally miraculously finding a spine.
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@peter But it also seems less likely than republicans using the power of the federal government to coerce compliance from the states that don't agree with them
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@jenniferplusplus they will certainly try, but it will be hard to actually do enforcement when everything else they are doing is focused on cutting budget and staff. when California says “make me” and the best the federal gov can do is send two Federal Marshals with revolvers…..
even now, a ton of federal power exists because everyone agrees it exists, not because it’s a real physical thing.
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@peter They're not cutting budget or staff. They're moving budget from civil services into violence, and replacing replacing principled civil servants with loyalists.
I really hope you're right. I hope they're so incompetent that they can't actually consolidate any real power. I just don't think that's something we can count on.
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@jenniferplusplus yeah but properly doing state violence is 20% guys with guns and 80% logistics. they are gutting the logisitcs.
I’m not saying this is something anyone can “count on,” just that it’s a scenario that makes sense in my head for “where do things go from here??” and either way, the GOP-controlled states are in for a very bad time.
@peter I hate this outcome, agree it seems plausible, but would like the more or less functioning states to start acting as testing grounds to workshop out of the structural problems. Let’s try ranked choice voting, campaign finance reforms at the local level, fix gerrymandering (even in dem states), etc.
Some states have already been workshopping authoritarianism for a generation. Why not try the opposite where it may be possible, too?
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@belljeff yeah, and I can also imagine a **very** long-term scenario where the US has a soft break-up, but pulls back together once many of the states get their own houses in order.
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@peter there’s also the Civil War model where the nature of the awful crisis itself is exactly what expanded the powers and authorities of the federal government. It’s just that that time the good guys held the keys to the federal gov - maybe down the line they will too, or not.
Either way I think we have some crises in the pipeline - constitutional and otherwise - that will change our conception as a nation.
@belljeff @peter My pessimism about this stems from my lack of faith in the states. CA and NY Democratic Parties are basically just job clubs that see themselves as neo-liberal-but-cool-with-gays. I doubt we’ll see a ton of regulatory efforts or pushback there. There’s the potential for reform in places like Colorado or Illinois, where there’s at least some potential for responsiveness, but man it is bleak out there.
@peter
I don't understand why this can't happen. If MAGAts destroy the government like they planned with Project 20215, and the criminal "Supreme" Court is not disbanded, than anything goes IMO. The problem is, the billionaires are f*cking with Canada too!
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@lin11c the problem with this is 1) federal reserve and 2) the nukes. no one wants to leave the USD, and no one wants to give up their nukes.
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@peter
Perhaps then a coalition of Blue States that could trade independently with Canada and other countries, sort of like the Canadian provinces? We have to do something because these wild policy fluctuations every two years means that absolutely no progress is every made. Of course we may never have another election. At least not a free and fair one. This last one wasn't, that's for sure. Election deniers actually had positions of power! 🤬
@peter I don't think this is necessarily the case. It is if we fail to offer a better option. It's a reasonable default case. But in a moment of this much disruption, it's also possible to visualize a USA that actually lives up to its promises (one person one vote, equal opportunity, rule of law, etc etc). I think most people want that, and it's up to us as storytellers to help them imagine a way to use the Trumpian chaos to create a new better place.
@peter I think the way various states aligned to deal with Covid was a precursor to how we’ll be going forward.
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@brett fortunately the Fed is already a weird pseudo-private decentralized thing. and yeah, there would likely be a messy “shared defense” thing that includes sharing the nukes.
#SilentSunday #Hiking #GetOutside
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@GPJohnston Wow! Did you capture that? I mean aside from the wonder of nature to behold, what kind of camera were you using?
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@maddie_dee I did, it was a Canon Rebel, we backpacked through that canyon.
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@GPJohnston sounds amazing! Looks great too!
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@maddie_dee it was a crazy cool hike!
Imma rewrite the Moshidon features on top of upstream, as currently we have a lot of legacy code that is making me sad. I'm gonna start it all tomorrow, so hopefully we can take this next step as a way to correct the mistakes I made when managing a fork of a fork. This should also make maintaining the app a whole lot easier.
I will keep y'all posted to the situation 😁
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@moshidon Let it be!
@moshidon excellent! Thank you for your hard work! 🙏🙏🙏
@moshidon gracias, Lucas. Espero que todo vaya bien. 👍
@moshidon Please try not to merge what the official app has been doing in this couple of weeks. It's facing an annoying app crashing that they have not been able to fix them all.
@moshidon
Free Home warranty - New user only -
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@moshidon спасибо! Очень жду! Но помните, что во многом Ваш текущий клиент лучше нового официального Mastodonapp. На пример межстрочная ширина... подробнее недавно я делал toot об этом.
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Linking isn’t just about navigation; it’s about connection, community, and championing the values that keep the #openweb alive. So, before you engage in criticism or fall back on #dotcon habits, take a moment to consider the broader context. And then, share that non-mainstream link—it matters more than you think.
My eight year old computer just informed me that I've not updated Windows since 1970 🤔
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@KarenWyld sounds like a Unix epoch date
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@KarenWyld is that levelling up
Fallen City.
https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Fallen-City-556754413 #art #mastoart #fediart
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A city in ruins surrounded by trees. Mostly blue with some warmer light spots. In front stands a silhouette holding a flag. God-rays are emphasizing the center of attention.
As December approaches I feel the need to inform you that the Clause couple are siblings.
Bringing Toys & Joy to everyone around the world.
You also will be on the naughty list if you're consanguiphobic.
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@Li oh, yeah we did wonder!
Not quite the sunrise I was hoping for today but there is still beauty around us. Taken on Stonedown Lane, Glastonbury this morning.
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@Glastomichelle For what it's worth, I like some of these more subdued shots. variety being the spice of life etc.
@Glastomichelle so look forward to your post each day! What a beautiful land!
@Glastomichelle really dramatic light, though. Great shot
Rail can have a Year 2038 bug, as a treat
My "pure Debian" fediverse server now effortlessly upgraded by apt update && apt upgrade.
Thanks as usual to @jvalleroy@fosstodon.org and @sergiodj@snac.sergiodj.net for the Debian package and @grunfink@comam.es for continuing to develop and improve Snac2
Now that #freedombox has #Nextcloud and access to #snac2 in the repos, it makes that project look all the more enticing as a one stop self hosting solution.
Akkoma users can have a wink, as a treat
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SDマイサちゃん一年分！！！かわいいぞ！！！
am i asexual, low libido, or traumatized?tbh, does it really matter? youre not disenfranchising anyone by calling yourself ace.
a label isnt a box. you're not a piece of fruit that has to either be an apple, or an orange
a label is there to tell other people how to treat you, not to control how
you feel.one of the greatest reliefs to me was that i
can call myself ace. even if i get horny sometimes. even if i have a headmate who would absolutely fuck a dragon if she could. even if i enjoy posting nudes online. even if it really is just abysmally low libido from HRT, or trauma turning me off.i can use the label ace to describe how other people should treat me, and thats what matters.
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@ashten yuppp people get really weird about gatekeeping labels and i dont get it. i have an ace headmate, and my lewdness doesnt negate her label. i see labels' primary use as a way to find people with shared or at least somewhat similar experiences, to find community with, not prescriptive like people act like they are.
I've just joined Bluesky to explore how it works, since I've never tried it before. The first thing I noticed was a series of (serious) errors in the Italian translation. But this one really stood out:
- "cogli" might be technically acceptable, but it's archaic and confusing in modern usage.
- "Impara all'algoritmo" is a glaring error that teachers have been trying to correct for years. It’s like saying "learn to the algorithm" instead of "teach the algorithm."
So, my question is: was this translation done by poorly skilled Italians, or did they skip involving a native Italian speaker altogether?
#BlueSky #Bsky #Translation #Italian #SocialNetworks
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Screenshot of Bluesky onboarding checklist in Italian. It displays two tasks:
'Metti like a 10 post - Impara all'algoritmo cosa ti piace' with a partially filled progress circle.
'Segui 7 account - Bluesky è meglio cogli amici!' with an empty progress circle.
The text contains two notable language issues: 'Impara all'algoritmo' should be 'Insegna all'algoritmo,' and 'cogli amici' should be 'con gli amici.
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> So, my question is: was this translation done by poorly skilled Italians, or did they skip involving a native Italian speaker altogether?
I am afraid it is hard to say! 🫤
Bye!
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@stefano the risk is, in the months to come, to have Europeans and their languages positioned at the bottom of the priority lists. I fear that corporations will somehow be impacted by the politics. Open source software will have a key role to ensure everybody keeps access to software wherever on the globe (“he” will probably use export regulations to starve us even further), so there might be funny times on the IT/phone side. (Not sure we will even continue being able to use apple devices for instance or any us-based cloud. I was considering purchasing a new iphone, I’m stuck with anxious reflections).
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@EnigmaRotor This is one of the reasons why I got deeper with the Pixel and GrapheneOS. I've replaced almost all the services with self hosted ones (I haven't been using many proprietary solutions on my phones - photos are on Nextcloud, push notifications are routed via ntfy, etc.)
I think that Open Source will have a key role - more than ever - in our future.
We can't and shouldn't base our (digital) existence on the services provided by big tech companies.
Four of my favorite #MODIS images of Jan Mayen with a von Kármán vortex streets this year. This phenomenon forms when a steady flow of becomes separated by an obstacle (like a huge stratovolcano in the middle of the ocean) and sheds vortices. Named after the engineer and fluid dynamicist Theodore von Kármán.
#fluiddynamics #nasa #remotesensing
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Satellite image of Jan Mayen with clouds forming von Kármán vortex street.
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Satellite image of Jan Mayen with clouds forming von Kármán vortex street.
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Satellite image of Jan Mayen with clouds forming von Kármán vortex street.
It should matter that one of Bluesky's investors is Alumni Ventures, which also funded Outlogic (formerly known as X-Mode Social) - basically a data broker that collected and sold location data by tracking various mobile apps (including dating, music, weather, and Muslim prayer apps.)
Among other controversies, Outlogic/X‑Mode had supplied location data to U.S. military contractors:
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2022/01/27/gay-bi-dating-app-muslim-prayer-apps-sold-data-on-peoples-location-to-a-controversial-data-broker & https://www.cyberdaily.au/security/10093-nsa-called-out-for-purchasing-data-from-illegal-data-brokers
Without the highly for-profit nature of the industry or the politics of fossil fuels, exploration geophysics would otherwise be celebrated as the cutting edge of tech and engineering. Some of the most arcane and esoteric electrical measurements and signal processing techniques I've seen come from these miners and oil drillers.
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e.g. The only three practical applications of a gravity gradiometer are like: (1) Answer fundamental physics questions about the Earth and the universe. (2) Obtain navigational data for inertial guidance system to nuke someone else with nuclear ballistic missiles. (3) Find oil.
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@niconiconi yep, Gaussian processes/kriging were invented for finding oil and minerals, and that's 30(?) years ago
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@niplav@schelling.pt I remember reading an HP app note from the 1980s about RF circuit measurement using time-domain reflectrometry. The note said they found the main results were already derived years ago in geophysical journals for seismic analysis.
#DEFCON.social is a small instance so we don’t participate in the big migrations much, but we have seen monthly new accounts increase 10%, active users increase by 15% and overall activity by 30%. It’s not back to where we were when we launched two years ago but definitely a positive direction.
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Fast growth isn't always a good sign either. Equipped with positive points of view and strong motivation, all good things automatically come along and as far as I can see, the defcon.social team has a surplus of both.
@thedarktangent nothing wrong with small and vetted 🤣
@thedarktangent also thank you for me not needing ton run my own mastodon!
@thedarktangent we are and will always be a committed family. I remember when defcon.social came into existence and the new friendships have made the DEFCON experience even richer. I believe this platform will only continue to grow as we have so much to learn and share with one another.
A bit ago discord messed up their landing page so it pointed to some admin console login and now they've broken the app itself.. Are they OK did they silently lay off the furries on their IT team or something
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f(x,y) = ((((18 ^ y) + (x % 14)) * ((x / y) ^ (-y))) & ((-(~x)) / ((y & 16) % (x ^ 13)))) % 5
Extent: 256x256 (scaled x2)
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Discord is down or something. I basically only use it when I need to do I didn't even notice
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An ornate frame displays a humorous painting of four cats yawning or meowing. Below the artwork, there is a title "Cats Won’t Shut The Fuck Up" and a price range of $9,000 to $11,000.
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SpongeBob holds a decorative piece of paper that reads "The Fuck." In fancy cursive. The background includes a guitar.
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(A cat skeleton by an empty bowl) A picture of my cat after not eating for 30 minutes
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat anatomically correct ear bones 😜
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ALWAYS feed the kitties!
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More aspiring activitypub implementations. It’s nice to see, even as much as I criticize the protocol.
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Yikes! Other authors, be very careful and make sure you, or your agent, keeps an eye on contracts! Because mine is more experienced, he spotted the below right away, but keep an eye out for the below.
1. Do not give publishers permission to train their AI on your work, even internally. WTF? A publisher tried to sneak this in!
2. Despite what publishers tell you, demand your audiobook should be done by humans and your cover should be done by humans. Publishers love AI despite what they tell you!
3. Do not let publishers dictate giving you a lower advance *because* you don't have a platform. This is bullshit, especially since they have all the PR connections.
4. Do not let them say anything about how many hours you should spend promoting your book. Make this low as possible or even eliminate it altogether. They have all the PR connections. You don't. Make it their fault you don't make back their advance, not you, because they can decline to publish you in the future and you won't have numbers to prove they failed in PR.
5. Don't let publishers tell you virtual book tours don't generate returns on investment and isn't worth having their publicist do. No, fuck that shit! Because my agent is experienced, he said fuck that straight away! If you want your releases to be virtual, say so!
And finally,
6. Do not let them give you a low advance. A lower advance says they don't have to invest in you as much to get back that investment. They should do the bulk of the publishing work, not you, so always ask for higher advances, always! Even if you don't think you'll make back that advance. Go higher. This will force them to do something about their investment in you!
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This is all solid advice.
I self-published a book ages ago, and despite being objectively terrible as a writer it didn't do *that* badly. If you're going with a proper publisher and they're proposing to offload the marketing and whatnot onto you, you might as well just self-publish and do print-on-demand at that point because at least there won't be any surprises and it keeps your options open.
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@rastilin I think there is no such thing as proper publisher. There’s traditional. There’s small presses, and then there’s print on demand. For me, print on demand is never going to work because of the lack of advance, and, because I don’t have the money to Put into marketing and PR anyway. Besides, I already have an agent but I’m also a hybrid author. I do small presses / indie publishers. I’s almost the same thing as print on demand. No advance, but you don’t have to do everything yourself.
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@WeirdWriter @rastilin
I'm a self publisher for more than 20 years. I always do print on demand because my books are for a small target group and I never could sell an edition. I sell some 20 books per year of every volume when the lections start in spring and autumn (it's a lexicon).
On trying to maximise the advance: I attended a talk by a successful published author who advised asking for a lower advance to increase the chances of earning out. He said most books fail to earn out and if your first book fails, that can be an obstacle to getting the next one published.
I have no personal knowledge, just reporting what I heard.
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@whitmad Also publishers like to tell this to their authors to pay less. A guarantee sum in advance is your garantee to earn something at all.
If you get a next contract depends not on they way of being payed but on the number of copies sold and the potential of your planned books/personality.
Big publishers rarely buy one-offs, they also negotiate what you have planned for the future and how reliably you deliver.
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@WeirdWriter The best is to ask your agency. They know your market and how it works. @whitmad
@WeirdWriter Thank you for the important advice.
Actually, all this should be self-evident. Unfortunately, despite my agency, I've found that I got one contract with a large publisher also because I was very active on social media with a large following at the time. Colleagues who refused to use the big platforms were not offered a contract.
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@NatureMC Yep not shocking at all. They always try to capture your platform. Makes it much easier on them and they don’t have to do as much PR. Because I don’t have that kind of audience, have to go a different route
@WeirdWriter Speaking of AI and contracts, it’s now super easy to copy and paste a legal contract into chatGPT (or some other LLM) and ask it questions about the contract in layman’s terms. I found it useful. Better than wading through boilerplate legalese.
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@kingdomkrumb My agent is better.
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@WeirdWriter I'm sure. And I'm not advising people to rely solely on LLMs for legal advice. But many of us don't have agents or lawyers on hand.
▶️ A large number of #protesters took to the streets of #Kyoto #Japan, to show #solidarity with #Palestine, condemning #Israeli #genocide in #Gaza.
#AsianMastodon #JapanesePalestinianSolidarity
#FreePalestine
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#IsraelWarCrimes
#RacistIsrael
#IsraelRogueState
#ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael
#USAFundsGenocide
#BoycottIsrael
#BDSMovement
#BoycottIsraeliApartheid
#StopGenocide
#ApartheidIsrael
#SanctionIsrael
Rage Against the Surveillance State 🛒
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@catsalad way to stick it to the man!
@catsalad I swear that looks like the scene in back to the future when they hit 88 miles an hour and the flashes kick in. 👍
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@catsalad WTAF did I just watch?
@catsalad what red light camera they just edited the video making it bright
@catsalad You know. I never thought about that. Both doing it, and the legality of it (jaywalking?). I wonder how big a QR code would have to be printed to show up clearly in the photo.
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A jaywalking ticket would be totally worth it.
I wonder if this would actually work.
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@fogelnet @kurtseifried If I got a ticket for that, I would totally frame it on the wall. 😹
@catsalad I wonder how many photos a red light camera can take before it can't any longer? How many times would I need to push a trolley through an intersection to disable the camera?
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@bananamangodog TDoS (trolley denial of service)
@catsalad The best thing I’ve seen all day! 😂
@catsalad @briankrebs I hope they got his license plate
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@mwyman this was my thought too! It's likely fully automated, so if one added a fake number plate with a valid number, that person could possibly get a ticket in the mail with a picture of shopping-cart-guy as proof.
Would be fun to fight that in court: "Um this isn't me, and is not even a car?" @catsalad
@catsalad no lights here. I'll have to run closer to a speed camera.
@catsalad you love to see it.
@catsalad that looked like Chris Flemming
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Reminds me of this
@catsalad Flashes 😳
@catsalad I guess the trolley might be needed to trigger (radar or induction loop). Although some sites say vis light flashes are less common.
"Tesla's vehicles have the highest fatal accident rate among all car brands in America, according to a recent study that analyzed data from the U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System."
Tesla's fatality rate is double the national average. Driver behavior is a contributing factor to the high number of deaths (i.e. shitty-driving assholes are more likely to buy Teslas and die or kill someone else while driving them).
#Tesla #DeathTrap #cars #CarAndDriver
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Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Brands, Study Finds
Tesla vehicles suffer fatal accidents at a rate that's twice the industry average, according to a new report.
By Joe Kucinski
Published: Nov 15, 2024 11:11 AM EST
keep fedi hard to explain so my irls don’t find me shitposting about incest and 9/11
Went to do a search on https://duckduckgo.com and was hit with a CAPTCHA. That's a first. Closed tab and tried https://qwant.com instead.
#search #searchengine #duckduckgo #qwant
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I use DDG daily and I didn't even know they had a captcha system. 🤔
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@MK2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com Back when "venture" was literally venture
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@MK2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com lol who made this
The nature of the mastodon timeline is ephemeral. If a post goes unboosted within 30 seconds, it's lost to eternity. In other words, I believe Eugen has shadow banned me
