the owner of the local stationary shop is a bit of a nerd #kphoto
two large shop windows filled with all kinds of pop culture figures, muppets, monchichis and anime figurines etc. the shop owner is in the window display redecorating
Star Trek The Animated series scene. It's a cartoon! Ok, so we're looking at a pond of water where half the screen is water and the other half is land/grass. We see feet and legs of the Most Holy Trinity; McCoy, Kirk, and Mr. Spock. Then, on the water we see their "upside down" (quotations foreshadowing a reason that will become clear with the caption!) version from the waste up in reflection. Kirk in gold, Spock and McCoy in blue. Closed caption reads, "I'VE SEEN STRANGER THINGS, MR SPOCK."
@nocontexttrek the first few seasons were okay, but they lost the plot completely when Eleven joined some innercity fashion punk gang. what was that all about?
Panel 1. The gothic sorceress, dressed in dark, flowing robes, stands in the middle of a desolated land. She gazes at the colorful mechanical parrot flying near her shoulder: the Avian Intelligent Parrot. The sorceress asks with a hint of curiosity.
> Gothic sorceress: "Hey, Avian Intelligence, what's the incantation for summoning a fireball?"
> AI Parrot: ":sparkle emoji: The correct incantation for a fireball is "IgnisMe"."
Panel 2. The gothic sorceress cracks a wicked smile, her eyes shining with anticipation as she raises her hands in front of her, fingers spread and ready to cast.
> Gothic sorceress: "Alright, let's give it a shot... IgnisMe!"
Panel 2(small insert in previous panel). Only the eyes of the gothic sorceress are visible in a large flame.
> Gothic sorceress: "?!!"
Panel 3. The gothic sorceress is burnt, her face contorted in a mix of shock, anger, and pain. Flames and smoke dance around her, her dark robes burnt and tattered, revealing exposed parts of her anatomy.
> Gothic sorceress: "You #*$%@& bird! You gave me a self-immolation spell instead of a fireball spell!"
Panel 4. As the sorceress facepalms, the Avian Intelligent parrot replies with stoicism.
> AI Parrot: ":sparkle emoji: You're absolutely right! The correct incantation for a fireball is "PyroBolus"."
Damn my bad luck! Wasn't paying attention and accidentally exposed myself to about 20 minutes of a shitty Christmas romcom on the TV...is there a decontamination protocol or am I dead meat?
What’s that thing called when you’ve been on the internet for so many decades and then come across a whole culture, almost a cult, that’s influenced the shape of todays internet and even irl political life, based on a throwaway shitpost you made in 1992 - and it’s not even the first time?
@Mjack how about: "he's been here so long it would be costlier firing him than just keeping him on and giving him some kind of pet project"? that I can do
My mum has two stories she tells about WWII (both relayed from other people as she was born in late 45). One, my stepdad in Arnhem surviving the bridge bombing. Second, from her GP in the ‘60s when she went for her pilot medical - he talked about being shot down over Germany while flying a Lancaster.
Just found googling, those events of her WWII stories from unrelated people happened within 2 hours of each other!
your content is tied to your instance, if you move you cannot take it with you, only leave a note where you can be found. you can take your follows and followers with you though
mastodon marks follows as "dormant" in your prefs if they haven't posted in merely a month, maybe don't give up on them yet
to get rid of an unwanted follower: block them for a minute, then remove the block, this is called a softblock and severs them following you
@Binder when you wake up in the morning and decide you want to be a fisherman or a farmer or a factory worker, but the fishnets are neglected, the farm grows stuff no one needs and the factory has shut down for the week because there's no fuel and no tools - that's amore!
@Binder ah, 2011 — a fine vintage. it almost feels like yesterday: Catherine Middleton married some middling nobleman, Twitch was launched to help out struggling porn actresses and millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced as the PlayStation Network outage hit. smacks lips Well, here's to the old times!
Copying an archive.is link of this OregonLive.com story because it probably deserves more attention and is behind a paywall:
"A former University of Oregon undergraduate who says he discovered a significant security flaw in the college’s computer network and twice reported it to university officials faced a disciplinary hearing as a result."
"Physics major Owen Mitchem said he was able to inadvertently access confidential information, including the Social Security numbers of more than 3,500 public university employees around the state, last fall, including of the university’s president and its football coach, the highest-paid public employee in the state. He says the breach should have been a wake-up call for the university to tighten its online security."
"But according to an email the university provided to The Oregonian/OregonLive in response to a public records request, the university’s associate dean of students, Dianne Tanjuaquio, concluded that Mitchem’s actions violated the school’s policies on “acceptable use of computing resources.” She required him to write a 750-word essay reflecting on the situation; if not completed, he could face a suspension of his student account, preventing him from registering for classes or changing his course schedule."
"Mitchem says he was just searching in Microsoft Teams for some budget figures for the physics club he ran when he stumbled across a spectrum of university financial documents, visible via files on SharePoint, a Microsoft tool that can be integrated with Teams. They seemed harmless at first glance, he told The Oregonian/OregonLive, but not something his student email permissions should have allowed him to view."
"Mitchem alerted a physics department grants technician and assumed the wide access would be quickly corrected. He later found out that the technician hadn’t alerted the university’s information department, meaning that unbeknownst to him, the IT department remained unaware of the security lapse, Mitchem said via email."
Star Trek The Animated Series scene. Uhura, in red uniform, sits at her communications station on the bridge, working the various bleep bloop bleeps. Closed caption reads "Spock: I AM INSIDE YOU."
Star Trek The Next Generation scene. We're in a SHUTTLECRAFT! Riker is sitting on the driver's side but the pic is close in. He's looking up kind of doing that thing you do when you're otherwise just hanging but someone says something that makes you do a record scratch. Closed caption reads, "Commander, tell me about your sexual organs."
Did you know we try to post an update on kofi every Friday? This week we wrote a few lines about link rot, and why we pay to host a website. Have a read here. 👇
@CarveHerName I mean, good on you for hosting your own website. But it's not likely that it will stay around for more than a few years. Even if your org does, your website is a Wordpress-blog which are difficult to maintain longterm and prone to security problems. If longterm availability really is a priority for you, I'd suggest handcoded plain HTML. I understand that it's always a compromise, but consider it.
Liebe Community, solche Kommentare lesen wir oft. Unsere Antwort: Auch der #Klimaschutz kommt nicht zu kurz. Beides ist wichtig.
Auf dem Bild ist ein Zitat in großer Schrift zu sehen: „Jetzt fließt doch alles nur noch ins Militär.“ Darunter in auffälligem Balken: „Das stimmt nicht!“
Im Text darunter: Ein Beispiel: Der Klima- und Transformationsfonds (KTF) wird mit zusätzlichen Mitteln aus dem Sondervermögen für Infrastruktur und Klimaneutralität ausgestattet.
Das bedeutet: 100 Milliarden Euro für Klimaschutz über 10 Jahre – also 10 Milliarden Euro jährlich.
Ziel: Klimaneutralität bis 2045.
Wenn man die ganzen aggressiven deutschen Querulanten im Fediverse auf einmal blocken will, geht echt nichts über die Kommentare unter einem Post der
@Bundesregierung :thumb:
"[...] #Altman uses a knife that’s showy but incohesive and wrong for the job; he wastes huge amounts of money on olive oil that he uses recklessly; and he has an automated coffee machine that claims to save labour while doing the exact opposite because it can’t be trusted. His kitchen is a catalogue of inefficiency, incomprehension, and waste. If that’s any indication of how he runs the company, insolvency cannot be considered too unrealistic a threat."
@mho all that indicates is that he's rich. obviously he doesn't care about wasting precious olive oil, does little cooking himself and usually gets his coffee handed by an assistant.
Bahnknoten zwischen Köln und Bonn für zwei Wochen gesperrt
Zwei Wochen lang ist der Bahnknoten zwischen Köln und Bonn voll gesperrt. In der Zeit sollen die Stellwerke modernisiert werden. Zahlreiche Regionalbahnen und Fernzüge fallen aus oder werden umgeleitet.
Three-panel meme of an older woman talking to a younger man at a kitchen table. In the first panel, she says, “JK Rowling is just Andrew Tate for women.” In the second, she sips from a teacup. In the third, she looks on calmly, suggesting a mic-drop moment.
I don't remember Andrew Tate bringing happiness to millions of children and adults through his books and teaching them to stand up for what they believe in. By the way the original version of this crappy meme has Taylor Swift in her place: https://www.reddit.com/r/memesopdidnotlike/comments/192ko4h/i_thought_it_was_funny/
That's the level of discourse you're on
@georgetakei. The line "Some idiot posted this on Facebook" still holds though.
@nixCraft a windows user doesn't download a "software package" because that is linux slang to begin with. on windows we download "apps" these days (previously applications or plainly programs).
Fines should be replaced with torture that doesn't do any long term physical damage.
Parking tickets hurt the poor much more than the rich. Waterboarding or electric shocks hurt everybody equally.
A young boy’s head looks possessed. His eyes are wide and he’s smiling. He seems very excited for multiple forks of vegetables. There’s corn, spinach, green beans and more.
40 days in the Japanese desert: the second Oni
Neue Seilbahn im Kölner ÖPNV? Denkfabrik und TH Köln stellen Modellprojekt für Seilbahn vor ( www1.wdr.de )
Bericht des Rechnungsprüfungsamtes belastet den OB-Kandidaten der CDU ( www.t-online.de )