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Neurodivergent Manitoba Interlake settler (Zone 3, Treaty One). He/Him/Hobbit.
I do stuff and believe in sharing.
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Very tired of fascists and their endless bullshit.
#HistoryNeverEnded #BlackLivesMatter

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@Binder@petrous.vislae.town avatar Binder , to random

You won't catch me dying on any hill. I'm more the gutter dwelling type.

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@Binder As long as they find me hunched over some form of musical instrument, I'm good with it.

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It's like The Backrooms but it's endless 60s shower curtains

In Baltimore

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Ohhh look at that number font

Clearly the Daleks are East German Expressionists bent on revenge against the English

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Antodus is ready to die though

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A place
Where nobody dared to go
The Love that we came to know
They call it Skaro

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Was this the first time lava lamps ever?

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SOMEONE SET UP US THE BOMB

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It's like Kubrick, but produced in Baltimore

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Our welder Daleks are in a smashing shade of bleu metallique as they do their little turn on the cat walk

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It's your turn in the Dalek tonight, kid.

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Anakin Skywalker is in there, Grand Moff.

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Most Mod Daleks ever

@jpaskaruk@growers.social avatar jpaskaruk , to random

Ok so hey especially people from who spent time in Eaton Place downtown in the early 80s, because that is the specific instance of what I'm certain was in many government offices and such.

Ok. It is maybe 1980 I'm late single digits and I go downtown with my gramma a lot, and we spend a fair amount of time in Eaton Place, her doing whatever she did, and me doing a circuit of Petland, a record store on the second floor, the arcade, and near the North entrance of the South building, there was a government office of some kind.

In that government office, there was a computer. Not one that heads would recognize, it was large, did simple colour graphics, and had a weird nonstandard keyboard about the size of a gigantic TV remote, on a curly cable. Possibly some sort of Unix thing and I think it was networked, presumably on the Internet.

It mostly did very boring stuff and I was just a kid, I didn't care about whatever its main functions were, but I had learned that if I entered f518, there was a graphical mystery house game of some kind.

I remember that office had a fair amount of techy stuff, like, there was a kind of pushbutton video jukebox where you could watch various promotional videos, I remember one of the things it played was a Folklorama ad with the "la-lalala-la-lalalaaa" earworm, which my older California chick cousin and I laughed at one summer day that we were all downtown.

I would really love to find out what was the deal with that computer system, though.

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los0220 Just setup Navidrome on my home Debian server not too long ago, am quite happy with it so far.

I am not familiar with Subsonic, but they use implement its API much like all the other Fedi servers use the Mastodon API, and thusly there are tons of client apps available. I installed Castafiore on my fairly old android, and have not seen any reason to try anything else, so far.

Add in a free Tailscale account and you've got your tunes everywhere.

MIXEDUNIVERS

edit: didn't close my /del tag correctly. It will be interesting to see if this correction edit gets back to Lemmy.

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los0220 That's the bit that I don't understand yet about wireguard - you would need something with a static address or dyndns before you could implement it yourself, yes?

As it happens I just rented a linux server from ultra.cc and they have Wireguard as an installable thingy so I might have a go at that myself.

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los0220 I might have a go at that since I've got a public-facing cloud server already. I've opened ports on my home firewall once or twice, but decided I'd rather accept the devil's bargain of cloudflare than do that again.

Tailscale will probably stay in my mix, because if I ever try to loop a non-techie friend or relative into this, it will be a lot easier to explain "free service that make you connect" than "I'm gonna plug your PC into my janky hacksternet" :>

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@Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de avatar Natanox They are very much hoping that people will fail to understand the difference between a phone/tablet and a PC.

The difference is none, fundamentally, but phones are implemented to prevent you from installing anything they don't want you to install.

At the moment, it is only difficult to do so, rather than extremely straightforward and easy like on a PC. If people stop buying real PCs, eventually the phones will indeed become "beautifully" powerful, in the sense that they will be the chains we wear, the means of social control.

Do not be a fool.

Serinus

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@JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org avatar JensSpahnpasta @Routhinator@startrek.website avatar Routhinator I've been playing with just such a thing this morning - I just started the ~80hr initial (CPU) analysis of my flac collection. Once complete, it purports to be able to do quite a lot stuff that sounds both useful and credible, based on what I know of this technology.

Entirely local processing, no planetkiller concerns. It does have the option to use the nasties, and yes, tempting to pay a few bucks to some bondvillain and have it done in a few minutes, but I'm sticking with good ol' patience to get the job done on the same CPU I leave running 24/7 anyways.

(I might do some experimenting with Kubernetes later, cause my understanding is that I could make all our household machines into workers, and we have another couple in the house...)

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aquantumofdonuts I used Plex until Jellyfin reached Minimum Viable Product stage and never went back, and when I used it I did not pay, so I will never have any idea about that 😜

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@JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org avatar JensSpahnpasta Sorry meant to reply the other day - also, I'm kinda fascinated how well my Mastodon instance is communicating with this Lemmy thread.

I'm not the dev of AudiomuseAI, just an interested tire kicker.

But like I said, based on what I know about Machine Learning, this could potentially be better at this specific set of human problems (creating playlists, finding similar new artists to maintain the presence of novelty, etc) than trying to draw upon the crowdsourced metadata (meatdata?) of a species of incredibly opinionated apes.

Like for wo examples, we can only assume that the weights will not care about considerations like authenticity as defined by your typical music fan, nor how "commercial" the track is, which has more than once bit me in the ass.

Like for instance, a friend of mine a few years ago played me this record that was perfect mid-70s Heavy Rock of exactly the sort that I like. And another time I heard this other tune on the radio, similarly full of that 70s Overdrive that I love, and was all "holy shit who's that?"

The bands in question were The Osmonds (yes, those Osmonds) and Abba. I would never have looked in their back catalogues for good music that I missed. This thing will do that, in theory, as long as the weights get trained on a given track.

Still to be solved, seems to me, is a repository where people can share their trained weights for a given song; we could save a lot of time that way.

Currently 40% finished initial scanning after 48 hours, by the way. My collection is slightly bigger than 1tb of mostly Flac files.

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@irmadlad@lemmy.world avatar irmadlad I have a couple of sites going through Cloudflare Zero Trust, strictly done to get my head around Cloudflare, but at this point I'm kinda settling into just using Wireguard for everything personal, and I'm gonna push my Fedi servers through Cloudflare, because they are all public-facing information; if someone has a secret lost on the fedi, it's not because of Cloudflare, it's because they posted a secret on a 100% public network.

enchantedgoldapple

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@irmadlad@lemmy.world avatar irmadlad I don't run this instance, but I do generate so much of the traffic, I'm told, that I might as well 🤣

I already registered chezpants.ca nearly a year ago and I run my own servers, I've been stuck in decision paralysis about regular Mastodon vs GoToSocial. I think I've decided, just need a day to get it up and relearn CloudFlare...

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Foofighter ZFS is not as difficult as you might think. In fact, I found learning how to do ZFS easier than learning to deal with a hardware raid at my first sysadmin job.

It is also so damn good that you can do it on regular commodity hardware, like any mobo with six sata ports, and have no concerns.

Feel free to @ me if you decide to have a go at it on a Linux system. I guarantee you, we could get on a chat session, I'd guide you through the commands with links to the docs, and all of a sudden you'll be done and be like "that was it? It's running?"

Not that you won't have to get a few concepts packed in like datasets and snapshots, but those concepts enable you to have superpowers.

Superpowers.

lka1988

@blogdiva@mastodon.social avatar blogdiva , to random

and in weirdest MadLibs headline, the winner is…

❝ Quebec man sentenced to five years for trying to overthrow Haitian government

https://globalnews.ca/news/11460281/quebec-man-sentenced-overthrow-haitian-government/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@blogdiva yah sorry about Quebec we do our best but they are French.

@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar futurebird , to random

Jimmy Kimmel is taco bell mild sauce political commentary and jokes, I suppose he should head on down to Austin and demand the stage. he has earned it far more than many there who only had a mean essay written about them.

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@futurebird I've never liked him much based on nothing but vibes more or less, and while I do have a couple of other "vibe" reactions that turned out to be true, I also failed to vibe on some truly heinous individuals.

But most notably seeing a picture of Gary Glitter sometime in the early 80s and being physically repulsed to the point that I (potentially a victim at the time) would have fled if I'd seen him anywhere in the real world. I still hatewatch his old TOTP appearances. Don't be like me.

That's not Kimmel mind you, he just gives me "rat pack wannabe" type stuff which is probably not remotely at Gary Glitter level.

Anyways it's annoying that I more or less have to defend him if anyone brings him up this week...

@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar aral , to random

And then you stumble upon genocidal assholes like this.

Apparently mastodon.social will censor posts and accounts that oppose genocide but will allow incitement of violence against a peace activist delivering humanitarian aid to a starving people in the middle of a genocide (what’s a red cross on top of a person if not a call for their murder?)

Some Germans clearly haven’t quenched their thirst for genocide yet.

PS. Equating criticism of genocide with antisemitism is, itself, the greatest antisemitism as it is equivalent to stating that all Jews are pro genocide, which is, of course, false.

https://mastodon.social/@GoingNuts/114626518454764327

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@aral With the post down, and the rest of his content seemingly in German, not sure how useful this post in English is at this point.

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@aral This you?

@kimlockhartga@beige.party avatar kimlockhartga , to bookstodon group

Read any good fiction lately?

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@kimlockhartga I discovered him late as well, but about ten years before you. You'll love it.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar gerrymcgovern , to random

There's something rotten about techno "hope" and "optimism"

"Techno-optimism: “Technology may have created this mess, but new technology will surely save the planet and guarantee modern Western civilisation’s ability to thrive upon it.”

"Propagandised “hopium”: “Planetary health and human societies are in dire straits, but optimism and positivity must be maintained at all costs to maintain power structures and to centre and comfort white supremacy.”

https://medium.com/possible-futures/colonial-sustainability-tracing-the-sustainability-industrys-ecocidal-lineage-from-the-doctrine-e6a95b64cbda

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@gerrymcgovern It's because they all read a lot of SF, but did not understand what they were reading.

There is a frequent trope in SF, where the novel describes an allegorical version of a current social problem, and depicts the descent into madness and chaos... but then, either as a mid-plot device, or else in an epilogue, they will skip over years/decades/centuries/eons of said chaos, which surely were bloody and terrible, and arrive at the fictional future these numpties are talking about, where everything is "solved" and we can concentrate on "real" problems like colonizing Mars or asteroid mining.

The worst part is that reading SF, particularly the "golden age" SF of Heinlein et al (a good and dear friend of Hubbard), can modify the mind of the reader.

In some cases, it will imbue them with awe of the universe and curiosity about how scientists do things like achieve escape velocity.

In other cases, it will merely convince the reader that they are of a special breed of human, who thinks about things like The Universe and Laser Blasters and is therefore Extremely Smart and Almost Always Right About Everything and so forth.

Add billions of dollars to that, and you get Elon Musk, the Andreeeee thing, etc.

@fifischwarz@waag.social avatar fifischwarz , to bookstodon group Dutch

'We apologise for the inconvenience.'

20/52 ★★☆☆☆

I apologise for the low rating. As I am rereading THHGTTG trilogy, I am reminded of why this fourth volume of the trilogy did not stick with me. It contained too much uninteresting romance, and not enough Marvin.

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Bookcover Douglas Adams - So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish
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@fifischwarz Can relate. It has been a long, long time since I read the books, but, Marvin's encounter with a tank is the scene that will never leave my head.

I like Rickman, but his Marvin was not as good as the original BBC show. I do not remember if the same actor played him on the actual original radio play but afaic they nailed his portrayal on the BBC show.

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@homegrown@social.growyourown.services avatar homegrown , to random

If you're running a Fediverse server, you don't have to keep growing forever!

Some of the most thoughtfully-run and well-moderated servers on the Fediverse close themselves to new members when they reach a sustainable size.

The Fediverse is also much safer in the long run if its members are spread out on many servers.

The Fediverse isn't a startup and there are no investors to worry about. The aim isn't to cash out or gain clout, but to build something humane and sustainable.

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@homegrown During the first Twitter mob, I met a dude who had an instance with several thousand users, which he had "partners" who had "invested" in and apparently believed he would figure out a way to turn a profit on it.

I tried not to be mean, because I was a mere user addressing an admin, but I did explain that there is no profit model here. At best, he might get support for his server and bandwidth costs from users. He did not like that.

@kimlockhartga@beige.party avatar kimlockhartga , to bookstodon group

bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group I really liked the streaming series based on William Gibson's THE PERIPHERAL. So, I plan to read the book. I didn't realize it was a trilogy. Has anyone read the sequel: AGENCY, also known as Jackpot # 2? If so, does it hold up to the first part?

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@andreaslindholm@mastodon.nu avatar andreaslindholm , to bookstodon group Swedish

I have been reading ebooks for more than a decade now and really appreciate the format. I have also accumulated several readers: 2 Kindles, 1 Kobo and, most recently, 1 Onyx. The plan now is to become as independent as possible.

What reader(s) do you have?

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@andreaslindholm I just use my phone. My favorite reader ever was my Palm IIIxe.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar gerrymcgovern , to random

Work is the problem

Hard workers are destroying our environment

We celebrate the metrics of death.

GDP is a force of destruction.

One of the greatest forms of resistance is slowing down and slowing the system down.

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@gerrymcgovern If everyone else continues to devour, however, the end result is that the individual just starves while watching the destruction go on.

Collective organized action is what is required. Minor acts of sabotage won't stop this.

Playtime is over. Nothing about the solution is definable as a form of inaction, and there will be few opportunities to be clever.

Overwhelming action is what we Canadians need right now, from all Americans.

Overwhelming collective street actions. Some will die, but that was already known when they let this happen. If they don't, many of us will die, and that will be on their collective Fascist hands.

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The whole "Unbound Publishing goes into ad ministration--and the owners move on to a new publishing venture, which has also acquired some of the assets of the dying business" seems like a full-on scam to me.

Writers beware, I guess

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/unbound-goes-into-administration-as-archna-sharma-and-john-mitchinson-launch-new-publisher

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@herhandsmyhands It's acceptable to post the link I suppose, but you should verify first that one can read it without an account, which one cannot, so this becomes pointless, because asking people to create an account there is a bit much.

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@btaroli@federate.social avatar btaroli , to ActuallyAutistic group

🧵1/2 I attended a wonderful presentation by Temple Grandin this morning. Like in person. I’m still floating on air. It was moving. I’ve read her books and seen presentations online before. But getting the chance to see her in person and talk to her was amazeballs.

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Me with Temple. I was absolutely thrilled to actually get yo talk with her briefly, and reflect on what she’d shared this morning.
A Morning with Temple Grandin February 26, 2025

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    @gerrymcgovern This is a very old trick, I do believe. The longer this goes on, the more simple communities trying to simply defend themselves either choke out and wither away, or else turn into Ireland during The Troubles.

    Evil rarely wins because it has the most guns. It wins by being willing to do what we find so abhorrent that we forget it's technically an option, if you jettison any semblance of morals or ethics.

    @kimlockhartga@beige.party avatar kimlockhartga , to bookstodon group

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    Perhaps unadvisably, I'm following up a read of THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER with Poe's short story "The Masque of The Red Death," just to cover Climate Crisis, Dystopia, and Plague.

    What are the Dystopian, Post-apocalyptic, or Climate Fiction novels that have had the most impact on you?

    Here are my suggestions, and I'd love to hear yours:

    🔹️LARK ASCENDING, Silas House. Devastating emotional depth for this genre, and a painfully beautiful lesson: the love that breaks us is the same love that mends us.

    🔹️QUALITYLAND, Marc-Uwe Kling. Described as "darkly comic dystopian satire," this book is about the limits of rebranding, and the unforeseen consequences of data mining, propaganda, and our increasing dependence on technology.

    🔹️HUMMINGBIRD SALAMANDER, Jeff VanderMeer. What if the canary in the coal mine to warn us about the tipping point for climate change is something small, something we might overlook?

    🔹️ ZED, Joanna Kavenna. This is a wry satirical take on the very real dangers of giving corporations and the government way too much power, while the public ends up receiving less and less accountability. In this story, one must beware the algorithm.

    🔹️I KEEP MY EXOSKELETONS TO MYSELF, Marisa Crane. How about some whip-smart writing, a precocious truth-telling child, and Queer resistance to the Surveillance State that keeps defining them as "non-standard?" Seems timely.

    🔹️HARROW, Joy Williams. This author writes on another level, just a stunning, intelligent, and reflective dissection of the nature of humanity in the midst of environmental collapse.

    🔹️THE LIGHT PIRATE, Lily Brooks-Dunn. Pure Climate Fiction which explores not just the physical effects of catastrophe, but also the emotional chaos it creates.

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    @MarvinFreeman If one does read The Road, though, you should read the whole thing. It all leads up to something, and it's no cheap Shyamalam twist, in fact it's quite metaphorically dense. But yah, it's not a fun or a particularly optimism-inducing read, at all.

    Re @kimlockhartga 's original question, problematic authors, but Lucifer's Hammer by Niven/Pournelle is a top-notch depiction of a global catastrophe via comet.

    Assholes though, steal the book. Fuckin douchenozzles, both.

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    @MarvinFreeman @kimlockhartga bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group

    I have to confess that the English Student side of me was way too enthused about the whole "swim out to the boat" sequence to be bothered feeling bad. Wrote an essay about it on some web forum somewhere for the sheer pleasure of it.

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    @kimlockhartga bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group

    Oh hey also

    If you haven't seen it, the recent miniseries of The Fall Of The House Of Usher is delicious, just delicious. It's both a fantastic contemporary adaptation, and a subtle tribute to Poe.

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    @kimlockhartga bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group I also did not like that adaptation, but, I also don't tend to like Dick's writing that much either. Blade Runner has barely a thing to do with its inspiration.

    edit: not that I think he's bad

    Just not my c̶u̶p̶ o̶f̶ s̶c̶o̶t̶c̶h̶ tab of designer drugs.

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    @peachfront @kimlockhartga bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group

    I don't recall hating it, neither the tv show nor the source text, just... there's something that is tickled by Dick in the Dick fan, and I am just (haha) not a fan of that type of Dick, it fails to tingle my dingle.

    Any literary exploration of Fascism and its discontents is better written and published than censored and forgotten, in the final analysis.

    @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

    shrugs

    I'm just gonna be honest with you; if you picked this moment, when we're on the verge of an organized fascist mass deportation regime (with widespread BIPARTISAN support) to JOIN UP WITH THE NAZIS in getting BIG mad about the optics of some celebrity crying on Instagram while decrying said deportation regime, your priorities are extremely fucked up and you need to reevaluate.

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    @AnarchoNinaWrites Which celebrity?

    @ClintonAnderson@universeodon.com avatar ClintonAnderson , to random

    Less obtrusive notifications?

    Yes please!

    Put tech on my face, in my eyes!

    https://youtu.be/dvfpNeSJGMA?si=JYUAthgxXBakN2B2

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    @wild1145

    It works for me here - @bryson , did you have to do anything special about Youtube previews?

    (I have noticed that sometimes I get a weird "failed" embed on other people's youtube posts on our server, that just has some German and goes to nowhere if clicked, I assume that's a language thing that comes from being on a EU-based server, I'm Canadian)

    @ClintonAnderson @FediTips

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    @wild1145

    Oh but one other thing to note - when I post a YT link, it doesn't actually create the thumbnail right away - the server takes about 30-60 seconds to create it and update the toot. Have you gone back and checked your previous toots at all?

    @ClintonAnderson @FediTips

    @DejahEntendu@dice.camp avatar DejahEntendu , to bookstodon group

    The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

    another book with religious themes. Why do I do this to myself? Well, this one was for a book club.

    What did we have here? A young woman, living a life of neglect, trauma, drudgery, and fear. And we're supposed to wonder why She craved more, as her aunt wondered? The book was well enough done, with an interesting story line.

    1/

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    @DejahEntendu

    I agree that he should do that, but I nonetheless advise a quick block and zero engagement when you encounter this sort.

    Their entire purpose is to waste your time, exhaust you, and leave you angry and therefore less effective.

    I sometimes give a quick scan of their timeline and see if there's any sort of actionable -ism to report, but they go in to work in the morning and every time their notification lights up with a reply, they win. Don't reward them.

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    @jpaskaruk@growers.social avatar jpaskaruk , to random

    I have four egg whites left over from the Hollandaise yesterday. What do you do with four egg whites?

    Meringues I guess? Italian nougat?

    If you say omelet you're blocked and cursed.