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Things are:

  • White or "political"
  • Straight or "political"
  • Male or "political"
  • Cis or "political"
  • Able-bodied or "political"
  • Christian or "political"
  • Capitalist or "political"

etc, etc

"I don't like to talk about politics" means "I voted Tory and I don't like to be made to feel uncomfortable"

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In our revolution are many ways to resist.

Sometimes you run, sometimes you cling. Sometimes you have a spiny form that makes going after you a big mistake.

Today? I am creeping, as always.

Fig. 1. Some features of terrestrial isopod morphology. Six line drawings of isopods with bold labels giving them types: Runner (Philoscia, an ordinary potato shaped terrestrial isopod) Clinger (Oniscus a more round one) Roller (Synarmadillo pill shaped) Spiny Form (Panningillo, it has spines) Creeper (Haplophthalmus it's narrow and slender) Non-Conformist (Schobela round with short antennae) Ecomorphological categories are modified from Schmalfuss (1984). Most of the specimens collected by pitfall traps belong to the runner, clinger and roller categories.
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Any book can make you cry if thrown correctly

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

The word webinar makes me violently angry

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@TheBreadmonkey wait until you hear about "Explanimations"

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Soyweiser BlueMonday1984 tag yourself I'm emailing HTML

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having so much fun with this vibe coding what used to take me two or three hours can now be done in a single day

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@gotofritz @wakame @futurebird yes, after AI dies. What of it?

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , (edited ) to random

I've got the biggest avocados you've ever seen. They are preposterous.

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@jwz@mastodon.social avatar jwz , to random

"Door ajar" versus $100 billion valuation.

Today I learned that you can DoS a Waymo by opening its door.

"The More You Know..."

Waymo, Google's autonomous vehicle company, and DoorDash, the delivery and gig work platform, have launched a pilot program that pays Dashers, at least in one case, around $10 to travel to a parked Waymo and close its door that the previous passenger left open.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3Z

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@hareldan @CKL @jwz @pluralistic or, and hear me out here, put the snakes into the Waymos

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@TheBreadmonkey should've injected the acid into the old chap

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It’s a lot of pressure being a Gaelic football player from Newry, because you don’t want to let your County Down.

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@ebu@awful.systems avatar ebu TranscendentalEmpire The multi-billion-dollar exploding-rocket company can''t be expected to keep track of every piece of trash that falls off of their dogshit spacecraft

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The rise of the MBA and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

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"The problem with LLMs is that you eventually run out of other people's work to steal"

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@gerikson@awful.systems avatar gerikson lagrangeinterpolator

> but it does feel real good when your ideas feel as solid as math

Misread this as "meth", perfect, no further questions

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@blakestacey@awful.systems avatar blakestacey jaschop fartificial intelligence was right there

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"Luddite" wielded as an insult is such a shibboleth now

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Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though
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Wait this thing comes from Kevin Roose?

https://defector.com/toward-a-theory-of-kevin-roose

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Hearing some gossip, apparently the (very unpleasant) partner of a former friend was "very unsure about me" because I had painted fingernails. So, pro-tip: painted fingernails are a very good filter for c*nts

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Been to my mum's and seen all that lot. We are now home and I've been dispatched to find "the fancy glasses"

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Listening to Vince Guaraldi playing O Tannenbaum and belting out The Red Flag

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Baby Cheeses, so tender and mild

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@dgerard@awful.systems avatar dgerard Soyweiser the Randy Newman record?

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@o7___o7@awful.systems avatar o7___o7 BlueMonday1984

> What guardrails work that don’t depend on constant manual billing checks?

Have you considered not blindly trusting the god damn confabulation machine?

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@o7___o7@awful.systems avatar o7___o7 BlueMonday1984

> AI is going to democratize the way people don't know what they're doing

Ok, sometimes you do got to hand it to them

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Imagine what we could do if we didn't have to keep making sure the Money is happy

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

Very surprised to find the music video for Kernkraft 400s Zombie Nation is a couple of girls in bikinis microwaving some beans

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@TheBreadmonkey ok but why is Jamiroquai there?

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@TheBreadmonkey

Jane's Addiction also. Bean Caught Stealing.

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@TheBreadmonkey

Lemonheads, Bean Around

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Static site folks: what's your favorite way to put comments on a static site?

I want to host on object storage in order to cut down costs, but I want some form of blog comments over there.

I'm familiar with Disqus and Hyvor, but interested in exploring other options as well.

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@vkc I built a thing for Astro to use a Mastodon thread as comments https://sam.pikesley.org/blog/2023/03/06/mastodon-powered-comments-in-astro/

It kind of works

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burble @dgerard@awful.systems avatar dgerard this is where Vibe Physics gets you

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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

My BiL lives in Japan and likes to send through pics of the English branded clothes, which although admittedly funny, is also sort of adorable. And at this stage I am 100% sure they're in on the joke.

Grey baseball cap, reads GLARING ABOUT SOMETHING OF JUSTICE
Blue baseball cap, reads FRESHLY YEARN NOTABLE
Grey jumper, reads pleasurable lucky me delighted

Grey jumper, reads pleasurable lucky me delighted
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@TheBreadmonkey tag yourself I'm GLARING ABOUT SOMETHING OF JUSTICE

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Time for bed

Brain: names that fit into the Glastonbury Jeremy Corbyn chant

Whoooah, Erica Gordon
Whoooah, Phillipa Jordan
Whoooah, Anthony Bourdain
Whoooah, Therapy Warden

Please, release me

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@TheBreadmonkey

Ooh, Ravi Bopara (I have actually chanted this one at the Oval)

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Sometimes I just get an idea and it won't go away

The end scene from Planet Of The Apes, on the beach, but the Statue Of Liberty is now the XKCD All Modern Digital Infrastructure thing
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How things are going in the UK 👍

Plastic surgeon says 'coke nose' is on the rise and shares problems from 'whistling' to 'one big nostril'
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@drgroftehauge @Tattooed_Mummy @TheBreadmonkey

Nitrous Wheelchair are playing at the Dublin Castle in Camden this Thursday, £6 advance, £8 on the door

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@alicemcalicepants @drgroftehauge @Tattooed_Mummy @TheBreadmonkey where they'll be closing their set with their biggest hit, "Whistling"

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I basically tick all of the boxes here!

Aristocrat, 79, offers $65,000 for wife who can manage two castles, can handle a shotgun and is a 'good breeder'

https://www.themirror.com/news/weird-news/aristocrat-searching-wife-good-breeder-1525428

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@TheBreadmonkey "Slade has a daughter, Violet, with Sahara Sunday Spain" no way that's a real person

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I have the week off. I will be Making Stuff

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