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geonz

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I'm at Parkland College (for a few decades) helping folks navigate developmental courses/placements (but fighting the "hey, 5% of these folks could pass college so we should just get rid of developmental teaching" trends) dreaming of structured paths for building understanding and fluency instead of "I don't have time to teach you, here's a calculator."
See https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvTlNmNI7nC9xMrVp2cc3d5RjWnpho0exwA_t86eWbI/edit?usp=sharing

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bluemoon Yes. I can make a donation somewhere if I want to pay :P
We have no fare for our campus area and yes, boarding is just so much easier!

@lina@vt.social avatar lina , to random

I'm giving up on Google. None of the projects I've been working on (spout2pw, obs-pwvideo, libfunnel) are searchable, you get everything except for the actual project sites/repos. I put up a landing page and it briefly ranked and then disappeared.

DuckDuckGo has no issues. I'm switching.

How badly do you have to screw up search to not be able to search for an open source project and get, you know, the actual home page, repository, or documentation for that project at least somewhere in the first page of results? This is not hard...

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@lina Thanks for the nudge. Yesterday somebody mentione dTiptoe through the Tulips and Google did not yield anything except stuff about Tiny Tim ignoring me adding "nasturtiums" to the mix.
Duck Duck Go yielded instant results. https://youtu.be/GZ_wkH4AUeM?si=weewe0dx2YUgsvC5

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

Don't use the triple parenthesis when you're trying to point out something is shady homie - the nazis use that to mean "the Jews" online. We're not looking to meet those kinda new and "interesting" people, in my replies.

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@AnarchoNinaWrites * thank you for the reminder. I tend to punctuate in threes. *

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looks like yea, my bike meeting was the better choice :P

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    @JessTheUnstill I was reluctant to understand. She's going on a special prayer list.

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

    Do you want to follow a weather account for your town or city?

    There is a Fediverse weather service called FediMeteo which has weather accounts for thousands of locations around the world:

    ➡️ https://fedimeteo.com

    To follow a weather account:

    1. Go to https://fedimeteo.com
    2. Go to the page for the town/city you want
    3. Copy-paste the page's address into the search box in Mastodon etc
    4. Click "Follow"

    You can also follow updates about the FediMeteo project itself at @admin

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    @FediFollows @admin I'm the first follower for Champaign, Illinois!!!

    @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net avatar Vivaldi , to random

    RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/115049621717082376

    Looking to escape the whole AI browser trend? Switching is still surprisingly simple 🤷‍♀️

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    @Vivaldi pretty sure I'd need admin status at work.

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

    mom just gave me one of her dad's hockey jerseys from his senior team. 😂

    a closeup of a logo on an ice hockey jersey. bright yellow-orange jersey with black printing showing the team name, the Geri-Hattricks and a hockey stick held in a shiny set of dentures
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    @xantha I picked up my brother from the train and ... I think its hte seior rugby shirt: "HOSTILE SENILE FRAGILE." (Now, he's having to give up the rugby.)

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

    Not saying I'm king of the neurodivergents but after my run I made breakfast, tidied the kitchen, fixed a door, fixed a panel then resolved several domestic IT issues. I put the HD in the AD.

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    @TheBreadmonkey @TwoClownsEating okay I'm going to get up and start the laundry now and HOPE to get to focusland :)

    @Alice@beige.party avatar Alice , to random

    I'm rewatching Misfits and just hit my favorite quote!

    Photo of a television playing an episode of Misfits featuring the girl with the scraped back hair saying "wot the fock is bronch?"
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    @Alice At my college somebody had not heard of it, and thought it was what you did if you ate too soon after drinking too much (as in, puking). BRuuunnnch... made sense to me.

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

    Who will tell me I'm a handsome big strong clever boy now ChatGPT is down 😭

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    @TheBreadmonkey We all know you are and YOU DO TO :) :) Don't you have it on a sticky note on your monitor?

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    It’s healthcare week, folks! With infrastructure week still to come!

    A tweet from Ron Smith (@Ronxyz00) reads: “Johnson on healthcare: Republicans have been working on fixing healthcare. We have many ideas and proposals. Bream: When will we hear this? Johnson: Many of these you've heard before and we've done it..., We have more ideas. There's a lot of ideas and you'll be seeing that rolled out in the next couple of weeks. LOL 😂” Below is a screenshot from Fox News Sunday, showing Speaker Mike Johnson being interviewed, with the chyron: “SPEAKER JOHNSON ON EFFORTS TO EXTEND OBAMACARE SUBSIDIES.”
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    @georgetakei Yes!! TWO WEEKS!!!! No, they really mean it this time :P

    @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

    Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Based pin. That skull is a 100% accurate depiction of how I feel anytime younger generations invent a new word that I must either Google or accept that my vocabulary is slowly fading into obsolescence.
    https://collabs.shop/upgydk

    A round black pin of a skull that says "Based? Based on what?"
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    @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange avatar JessTheUnstill , to random

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    @JessTheUnstill I'm afraid lots of us are resigned to that.

    @benroyce@mastodon.social avatar benroyce , to random

    How does one quantify a declining country's level of rot?

    I don't know, but here's one datapoint:

    'She implied, in conversation with NewsNation host Batya Ungar-Sargon, that it wasn’t quite fair to call Jeffrey a pedophile because he was “into the barely legal type” of minors—which Kelly appallingly defines as “like, 15-year-olds”'

    I think in a healthy country this person would not able to command a widely available media channel

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/megyn-kelly-epstein-pedophilia-russell-brand/

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    @benroyce We are talking roman empire sewage here.

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    When the topic gets ruined by the worst 5% of its advocates.

    Veganism becomes "you're a murderer." Crypto becomes "have fun staying poor." Effective Altruism becomes "letting people die today is good actually." The reasonable majority gets drowned out by the loudest extremists and now nobody can have normal conversations about anything.

    The flanks capture the discourse.

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    @Daojoan Except sometimes it's a lot more than five percent.

    @randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , (edited ) to random

    This thread is worth reading if you are a Google docs user.

    Short version: When you export a document from Google Docs, Google replaces all your hyperlinks with links that allows Google to monitor the interactions of everyone you share your document with.

    This hidden link replacement can potentially be used to build a model of your professional relations, where people who interact more with your content are considered a stronger relation.

    Think about the implications.
    https://fosstodon.org/@Joe_0237/111145684757912952

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    @randahl Thank you. I've got one I share a lot about developmental math research. I was thinking today about how to stick that kind of thing on my website (sigh and how to keep my website since my friend who took over paying for it died.... I did manage to convince them tolet me give them the money...)

    @oldladyplays@wargamers.social avatar oldladyplays , to random

    At school* Friday morning, I was mildly disturbed to see one of the few masc-presenting people in the class arrive dressed as Harry Potter. Others were in various costumes. I waited through the guest speaker, then caught up with him at break.

    I said, "this is unofficial, k? I'm speaking here as a trans woman in your community, not a lab instructor. This will not affect my evaluation of your work.

    "But you do know that that gear is going to make for unhappy days for any trans or nonbinary person, and many other queer groups?"

    He says, "Oh, yeah, I know about Rowling being TERF and such, but i thought since I do know that, it would be ok."

    I looked at him dubiously. Social work student, mind.

    "For me? That doesn't really mitigate you helping to fund my loss of rights. So...why not subvert it instead? You wanna do HP, first, don't buy any more merch. Second, you don't do Potter.

    "You do Herman Grainger. A trans guy. Curly hair, haughty attitude, swot, top student vibe. Subvert it! Make it something JKR would hate. That's a powerful message of allyship, instead of building her anti-trans war chest."

    He liked the idea. And I think got the deeper lesson, about being in a social justice field, you need to think about these things. If you had a trans client who came in on Hallowe'en, how are they going to feel seeing you wear merch that enriches someone who wants them not to exist?

    Great teachable moment, and I think he got the idea. No further action needed, to me.

    • I'm working, as every autumn, at a local small college that has a Bachelor of Social Work program, as well as a summer intensive MSW program. I'm one of three long-time activists teaching community organising alongside a prof of social work. We 3 are the lab instructors. Class goal: plan and execute a social action. A rally, sit-in, whatever. Something disruptive. They get 10 weeks to plan what we each could do and have done in three days. It's a fun job. Radicalising young social workers. 💚
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    @JessTheUnstill @arx @oldladyplays Yup!!!
    I was reluctant to read it b/c if it was that popular I wasn't going to like it, except my librarian friend said "no, they're good stories!"
    And I LOVED people getting all excited about BOOKS!!!!
    But now, I'm not even going to type out their name.

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

    Your next move matters more than your last mistake ❤️

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    @TheBreadmonkey especially if your last mistake was a big one so you need to run fast!

    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

    There are a lot of things I hate about how doctors treat you but I think the one that makes me most mad is when doctor A refers you to doctor B, and you show up at doctor B, and they ask you about some result or other, and you say "doctor A has that" and they're like "we didn't get a copy"

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    @aeva @mcc as a healthy person, I concur.

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    @JessTheUnstill What ? For all my life those were the FUNNIEST BEST costumes. WHen Mark dressed as his twin sister....
    These folks .... don't want anybody checking their closets, I'll wager.

    @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social avatar NanoRaptor , to random

    Your occasional reminders:

    1. Do you have backups, do they work, have you tested them with a restore?

    2. Is your body being weird? chase that up if you haven't.

    3. Remove the batteries from your old stored devices. They all leak except the ones that don't and you won't know which until they do.

    4. Check your Quad-G5 liquid cooling systems in storage for leaks.

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    @NanoRaptor We should have a party where we do these things and report back :)

    @briankrebs@infosec.exchange avatar briankrebs , to random

    Being self-employed in the United States has its benefits, except maybe when it comes to getting healthcare coverage. For years, the only way we could find to get a halfway decent healthcare plan was to join WeWork of all places, just so we could qualify for their group coverage through TriNet. Then, after several years of paying >$32k a year (not counting huge deductibles) for us both to have insurance, we discovered we could qualify for much cheaper and just as good insurance by one of us taking a class once a year at a local university. Like 60 percent cheaper.

    So you can imagine my annoyance when the IRS rejected our tax filing this year because somebody somewhere had claimed Obamacare benefits in our name. Not sure if this straight up fraud related, or a case of healthcare.gov representatives enrolling people without consent. But a little searching online shows this is not an uncommon problem. How the fsck did we get here?

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    @briankrebs Privatizing so many things so cutting corners happens because profits are better, perhaps?

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

    When OpenAI started, they were going to destroy Google's search and Browser businesses. Now, they are just becoming like Google, with a new browser and to become a search engine. The next step will be Ads everywhere before the bubble burst 💥😂 I hate everything about this timeline. Zero innovation. No real life problems solved.

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    @nixCraft Bring Back Boolean !!!

    @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

    I mean it's a rigged game, that is designed to protect power and wealth. America isn't a democracy, and it never has been - it's an oligarchy, with a pull-string façade of guaranteed "rights" that are neither guaranteed nor inviolate.

    And it just feels like you incrementalists are always trying to tell me how if we do this one weird trick we can WIN the rigged game for a while.

    Who cares? Everything you win playing by slaver's rules can be taken from you. There's no undoing a revolution.

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    @AnarchoNinaWrites (which reminds me.... did they ever talk about what caused that munitions plant to be completely destroyed?)

    @w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

    The president, on his Truth Social account, posts an AI video portraying him as 'King Trump' piloting a fighter jet which drops shit on 'No Kings' demonstrators. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115398251623299921

    image/png

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    @w7voa I'm imagining the creator of that placating his ego with it, darnitall, especially if he's far enough into fantasy land to not be able to separate it from reality.

    @evacide@hachyderm.io avatar evacide , to random

    Whoever decided that the San Francisco No Kings protest should start at the same location as the bougie weekend farmers market is a political genius.

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    @evacide
    Our No Kings was a block or two away from the farmer's market where somebody had also arranged to have their "no wedding wedding" under a popup tent. YUP.

    @randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , (edited ) to random

    If you are in the US and have not yet found today’s “No Kings” rally near you, here is the site that shows them all.

    Please boost this so everyone can show up.

    https://www.nokings.org

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    @randahl I bet it doesn't even show them all :-) Somebody out there in the desert is makig a statement....

    @mttaggart@infosec.exchange avatar mttaggart , to random

    “The vision that we have is: let’s rewrite the entire operating system around AI, and build essentially what becomes truly the AI PC.”

    Get out of there. Get out now.

    RUN

    Basing a whole OS and strategy on this vaporware is a catastrophe in the making. Protect yourself.

    https://www.theverge.com/news/799768/microsoft-windows-ai-copilot-voice-vision-launch

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    @mttaggart @corbden @JessTheUnstill @vpz Survivalist thinking is often based on very old fiction.

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    @JessTheUnstill @mttaggart @corbden @vpz
    I cruise through our university campus and see places with such opportunity for establishing civilization...

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    And they were sent after the insurrection to investigate, not before it even happened. Sheesh.

    A tweet by Evan Kilgore says: “Can somebody please explain to me how ‘the Biden FBI’ placed 274 agents into the crowd on January 6th… when Donald Trump was President on January 6th? Joe Biden had no control over the FBI before January 20th. Does Trump think we’re stupid or am I missing something?” It quotes a tweet from Donald J. Trump reading, “THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6… What a SCAM – DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT.”
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    @georgetakei I would rather have explained why we're not using the 25th amendment on this obviously delusional man.

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    Do you see where this is headed?

    Tweet from Jordan Weissmann: “Asked for an example of a group that had funded a violent protest, Trump named ActBlue and Indivisible, which I think pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the goals here.” Below is a screenshot of an article excerpt detailing that neither George Soros nor Open Society Foundations fund protests, and noting that the White House named liberal groups like ActBlue and Indivisible in relation to violent incidents.
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    @georgetakei it's already there.

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

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    @Binder
    I prefer: Arright, the caffeine's working! Let's go!

    @randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

    I was wrong.

    A little earlier today I posted a video where Trump said Maria Corina Machado had called him and dedicated her Nobel Peace Prize to him.

    To me that sounded exactly like one of his many grandiose lies, which I also mentioned. But this one is most likely true, because Maria Corina has written a post confirming her dedication, although not the call itself.

    I cannot promise to be right every time, but I promise to inform you if I am wrong.

    Thank you to @svelmoe for making me aware.

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    @randahl @svelmoe
    I have a speculation ;;> the 'prize' was calculated to still appease orange dude.

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    @JessTheUnstill Braces ????
    I'm as Norwegian as anything else and NOPE. USE this!!!

    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , (edited ) to random

    Poll: If you were abruptly called on to operate a sailboat, do you believe you would be able to do it?

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    @mcc What do you even mean by "operate" ?

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    @mcc as someone with no upper body strength, I'd have to just be the captain and tell people what to do :P I couldn't do that either, but ....

    @Swede1952@universeodon.com avatar Swede1952 , to random

    Good morning. 🌕🌖🌚

    9 October 2025

    Snow Geese, and the Law of Kinship

    I'm writing this morning from an undisclosed location on the outskirts of Houston, Texas. A big house on a lake. We’re staying with some in-laws for a few days—well, they’re my in-laws, and a couple of them are my wife’s in-laws. That’s how it goes with in-laws, I suppose. I think it’s the law.

    Last night, a flock of snow geese descended just behind the house. I felt both thrilled and let down—thrilled by their arrival, let down by the darkness that kept my camera silent. They mingled quietly on the grass near the lake’s edge, like spectral guests at a moonlit gathering. Except for the honking. I don’t think ghosts honk. Do they?

    I tried to get a photo, but the light refused to cooperate. I considered stepping beyond the small wrought iron fence to get closer, but something told me that was a bad idea. Snow geese are sizable creatures, and they’ve been known to go on the offensive—me thinks. It’s one of those lessons I learned the smart way: through someone else’s misfortune.

    Yesterday morning, I dropped Charlie at the veterinarian’s office. It tugged at the heartstrings. He didn’t want to stay—propped himself up on my lap, tried to make a break for the door and the car. I’ll feel better when I pick him up in a few days.

    The house is beginning to stir. Footsteps, voices, the subtle shift in atmosphere that signals coffee and quiet time are drawing to a close.

    “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” — Michael J. Fox

    “How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? … There is a voice within, if only we would listen.” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

    “The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be.” — Konrad Lorenz

    "A luminous moon commands the frame, its surface etched with ancient memory. Captured on the evening of October 8, 2025, the photograph reveals the Moon in its Waning Gibbous phase, still nearly full, with 95% illumination casting a soft silver glow across the night. Craters ripple across the terrain like fossilized echoes, while dark maria stretch like ink stains on a parchment of stone. Bright rays fan outward from impact sites, resembling frozen bursts of light or the delicate veins of a pressed leaf. The Moon’s curvature is crisp, its texture almost tactile—like weathered marble burnished by time. This image doesn’t merely depict the Moon—it archives its mythic presence, as if the lunar surface were a sovereign scroll of celestial history. The photograph bears the subtle signature “© Swede’s Photographs” in the bottom right corner, a quiet nod to the witness behind the lens." - Microsoft Copilot
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    @Swede1952 I had to wikipedia Konrad Lorenz (dude, what did I have to know about that one for a test in college?.... OH< DUCKS AND IMPRINTING AND FOLLOWING HIM AROUDN!!!)

    @susankayequinn@wandering.shop avatar susankayequinn , to random

    This is a very good article about Miller attempting to get low-info America to co-sign his authoritarian power grabs (via doddering Trump before he expires).

    I wish I could say Americans wouldn't co-sign tyranny but we're already well down that path.
    1/n
    https://newrepublic.com/article/201453/inside-stephen-miller-secret-plan-normalize-trump-dictator-rule

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    @susankayequinn I was asking my self "how to fight, though?"
    And you answered: DO SOEMTHING VISIBLE.

    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

    blinks

    …

    blinks again

    Well, uh

    I appear to have just left behind my insulated bag with the Isabella's Donuts I bought on the way home, on the TTC

    So, uh

    If anyone in the next couple hours just happens to find an unattended black bag on the TTC subway

    Enjoy the donuts I suppose

    Can I have my bag back though

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    @mcc I've gotten stuff back that I left on our busses but we're kinda small. THere's a number to call and the driver will check.

    @Swede1952@universeodon.com avatar Swede1952 , to random

    Good morning. 🍊🍊🍊

    3 October 2025

    I had a plumber come in yesterday to unstop our kitchen sink. He was a nice enough young man and did a good job, but the cost to get him to snake out the drain gave me sticker shock. It was nearly twice what it was the last time I called them. I imagined being told in an Eastern European accent "the price is the price." The plumbing company is the one I normally call, but the next time I need the sink unplugged I might consider calling somebody else, or not I'll have to wait and see how I feel at the time.

    We're supposed to walk this morning but I'm again getting a late start. We may just do a few laps around the property today. One lap is roughly a quarter mile so I can get a little exercise in that way and Charlie stays off the leash when we stay here so he can run and jump or just get inquisitive about all of the surrounding scents. I'll need to dig out my waterproof hiking shoes; there is dew in the morning.

    After that, I may tend to the bird feeders, because they don't tend to themselves. I get to feeling a little bad when I look out and there are birds just hanging around empty feeders while staring at the backdoor. You'd think that I'm exaggerating, which I may be, but it sure seems like that's what they do.

    “The price is the price.” — Taken (film, 2008) — sovereign utterance from the Ministry of Unyielding Transactions

    “But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.” — E.B. White

    “Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.” — Henry David Thoreau

    "A cluster of mandarin oranges—Citrus reticulata—hangs gracefully from a slender tree branch, their round bodies nestled among glossy green leaves. The fruits are in various stages of ripening, forming a natural gradient from deep green to golden yellow to rich, sunlit orange. Their skin is smooth and slightly dimpled, catching the morning light like polished lanterns suspended in a leafy canopy. The sunlight filters through the foliage, casting soft shadows and illuminating the fruits with a warm, golden glow. Some oranges appear almost translucent at the edges, as if lit from within. The leaves curve protectively around the fruit, their veins visible and vibrant, adding texture to the scene. In the background, a blur of green suggests a lush orchard or garden, alive with quiet abundance. The image is signed “© Swede’s Photographs” in the bottom left corner, a gentle nod to the artist’s reverence for nature’s quiet spectacle. This is not just a botanical moment—it feels like a ceremonial offering, a dispatch from the Ministry of Ripening, where each fruit is a sovereign orb of sweetness, suspended in the ritual of becoming." - Microsoft Copilot
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    @Swede1952 Ouch!!!! May your drains flow freely for a long time!

    @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar gerrymcgovern , to random

    "Yet we keep marching… to no effect… because marching does nothing, doesn’t even annoy Big Oil all that much. You want to know what does? Staying home. Keeping your dollars in your wallet. Not participating in this market system. This how you put pressure on polluters. Curbing your spending, dropping out of the market to the extent that you are able, or at least setting aside one day when you do not spend anything at all."

    https://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv21n10page20.html

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    @gerrymcgovern Also, what should be more obvious:
    Use less fossil fuels.
    No, really.
    Cut back on the fossil fuels.

    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random
    • Have to go somewhere in Montreal
    • Oh look, a bike rental stand! Montreal has a bike rental system!
    • Oh look, it's Tangerine, the same system from Toronto I'm already used to!
    • Oh, the Montreal version doesn't use the same app.
    • Oh, the Montreal app doesn't use the same login/pass or payment information as the Toronto one, and it doesn't support Google Pay.
    • Oh… after entering my payment information it gives a non actionable error and refuses to let me make an account.
    • Guess I'm walking
    Signup failed — an error occurred while creating your account. Try again later.
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    @mcc (I gotta say here, the driver would prob'ly let you on, except you could also just put a dollar in the receptacle because they still accept that.)
    Groan!

    @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

    I mean normally I'm not one to put a lotta stock in hope, but also, there probably IS something to the lib narrative that Trump is increasingly flailing and cranking up the authoritarianism dial to 11 rapidly is not a sign of the regime's strength, but its weakness.

    My concern is you'll take that to mean "oh cool, we can stop caring/fighting" because uh, every fascist takeover/dictatorship has speed wobbles. Nothing says they WON'T survive them if you don't make them fall.

    geonz ,
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    @AnarchoNinaWrites Right. This might be an opportunity. It's not time to back off.

    @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

    Absolutely wild... USC has life; big balls decision going for the endzone on 4th and 8 there.

    geonz ,
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    @AnarchoNinaWrites The Illinois folks pulled it out!

    geonz ,
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    @AnarchoNinaWrites I could tell that just noticing possessions and, well, safeties and ....

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

    This account has a website full of tips and step-by-step guides about how to use Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse:

    ➡️ https://fedi.tips <-------- Click here to open the website

    The entire site is written in ordinary non-technical language, aimed at a general audience. There's a section at the top with quick links to the most essential stuff, and a complete list of guides below that.

    If you can't find the answers you want on the site, ask me and I'll try to help directly.

    geonz ,
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    @FediTips What's the best response to this piece of ugly -- asking me to be "join our partner program" and 'Verify your account" ?

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

    The cold gives me the appetite of a dozen horse-sized ducks. It's quite remarkable. Like a really terrible superpower. Just completed second lunch. Wouldn't it be great if, upon consuming a certain amount of food, I levelled up. Like got some kind of augment or special items. Or grew exponentially into a giant.

    geonz ,
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    @TheBreadmonkey If I do a long bike ride... I can't eat during the ride (I force myself to nourish so I can sustain and YES I sustain ridiculously well)...
    ... the next day I want to EAT EVERYTHING.
    I figured out that I should not.