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LillyPip

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Sci-fi & horror author, UXD, software dev, composer/engraver, gamer, seamstress/tailor, nerd, etc; she/her. Aroace.

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This makes me feel like I’m eating my own tongue. Glass is only slightly less bad.

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Have you ever dragged 100% wool yarn across your teeth?

This makes me feel that. Not sure why.

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Knitting.

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[Everybody disliked that]

Trump Has Already Spent $500 Million Deploying Troops to U.S. Cities ( theintercept.com )

President Donald Trump’s military occupations of American cities have already cost taxpayers half a billion dollars, according to a new report released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. This unprecedented militarization of America could cost more than $1 billion this year if current domestic deployments...

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Cool.

You could spend that same amount of money to prevent crime by making sure people are fed, have stable housing, and healthcare – you know, preventing the reasons for crime, but no. Instead, let’s spent 10x the amount terrorising people.

Fucking fascism.

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Bigfoot is a 70s hippie who wants you to smoke grass and love one another.

I’d vote for Bigfoot.

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But… document your code.

Hahahaha for who?!?

Uh… for future you!

Me to future me: lol no

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Literally 1984.

Funny that we have used that so much and watered it down, people can’t take it seriously now it’s actually true.

The government is intervening here. Whatever I guess.

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For hand sewing, pull your thread between your thumb and a block of bees’ wax a few times after threading it, and you won’t have to worry about knots nearly as much.

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When you stand still

That’s not really possible, though, right? It is at a macro level, but you’re never not moving in 3d space at small levels, right?

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Cheers! I’ve never needed to know this. It will probably become relevant in future, now. So cheers for this!

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Young children don’t warn you when they learn how to open locks. Sometimes you find out when they’re rifling through your stuff or well down the road.

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Hahaha idiot. What ‘freebies’ could hope to make up for maple syrup and poutine?

Just wait till they’re gone. You fools!

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Very true.

That’s nothing compared to the syrup, though.

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Won’t someone rid us of this turbulent priest?

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says ( apnews.com )

Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government...

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That was always a lie.

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So, what about Australia made all the birds sing?

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Capitalism is a threat to democracy.

But thanks for getting on nearly the same page, Oxfam.

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Sort of., but not really.

Capitalism was invented by feudalists after the French Revolution, when they saw their grip over the people slipping and their fortunes (and heads) were threatened, so they needed a way to carry their wealth and influence into the new era where people were becoming enlightened and wouldn’t accept divine rule anymore.

Most of the same moneyed families weathered that period by embracing capitalism. It’s the same system, but instead of divine right, they lie and say anyone can attain it, if you work hard enough. But nearly all of them inherited their wealth, same as always.

It’s literally the same system and the same people wearing a different mask.

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We knew this. This nonsense is what you get when you put batshit and brain-addled conspiracy theorists in charge of important positions. We have to waste money on studies that show that, yes in fact, the world is a fucking globe and water is in fact wet.

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People keep saying water isn’t wet, it just makes everything it touches wet.

But water touches other water more than anything else, so water must be wetter than anything else.

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Hey, that’s not fair to Ben Shapiro’s wife.

Literally any woman in the same room as Ben Shapiro would do.

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That undersells it so much that it’s beneath mention.

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That’s likely to happen. A lot of innocent people will die first, but that’s basically inevitable.

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Most fashion trends come back around every 20 years or so, but this one hasn’t for some reason:

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/bca19b13-b762-421c-a2a2-a44acd92e699.jpeg

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This has always bothered me. I’m a C cup, so most fashion is made for me to show cleavage.

But I’ve done some fashion design (mostly historical fashion), and I’ve seriously wondered why larger bust sizes have such outsized undergarments. Like more than seems necessary.

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I’d love to see this make an appearance in the Fallout LA series. It would be so appropriate in that time period, and especially so because of the nuclear metaphor. This really seems like something that would become popular in the Fallout universe.

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That brim shape is almost perfect …

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as well as practically.

X doubt.

This is worse than nothing, because (as a wheelchair user) there’s like 10 inches of clearance behind the chair (given wheel clearance). That back rail means you can’t back up to get yourself in line with your compatriots,so you’ll be in front of and misaligned with the people on either side, such that they’re literally talking behind your back.

If this design was in earnest, it’s godawful and just shows the designer had no idea what they were doing.

If it’s an art project, then I can appreciate it. If it was meant to be practical, it’s a major fail.

LillyPip , (edited )
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They couldn’t, though. Because of the space the back of the chair and the radius the wheels requires, the person in the chair would be sitting nearly a foot in front of anyone seated on the bench.

e: look at the amount of space with my custom high-end and narrow profile chair (it’s even more space with the standard-issue chair):

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/40c698b5-1b17-47c7-a9b2-95f22eba9f8a.jpeg.

Your head will be in line with the leftmost right dot if you’re relaxed. I backed my chair against a door, and that’s fuzz or something.

That back bar prevents you from sitting ‘with’ anyone.

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But what this art says to me, as a wheelchair user, is something completely different because this design is the opposite of inclusive. Is that what is meant?

This design says I should be excluded – taking it as art, this design communicates everyone having conversations and leaving me out, because that back bar will exclude me by design.

If I’m to socialise, I should be on one end or the other, but that middle part means I’ll be artificially excluded by the environment.

Is that what it’s meant to mean?

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I didn’t assume malice, but ignorance. And not malicious ignorance, either.

Given this is a public installation, though, I was giving my interpretation.

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I could see this meaning something more – and even something inclusive – if the environment is part of the design; for a moment I ignored the steep looking sand bank, but if that’s part of the art, that changes the meaning by a lot. That would make much more sense.

I’ve lived places where the landscape changes a lot throughout the year, though, so I sort of ignored the background and took the bench itself in isolation.

Maybe that’s where I fucked up.

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Counterpoint: it’s super manly to just own it and not worry about how you look. Whether you do tiny laps like a cat or big ol’ slurps like a dog, having the confidence to just hydrate yourself and not care who’s watching is kinda sexy, ngl

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Proper etiquette requires some degree of suction, which is also kinda sexy, ngl

LillyPip ,
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Why the fuck would I get out of the way? It’s 2026, after all. A trolley running me over would be the good outcome.

LillyPip , (edited )
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This is what it looks like when fascism is in the midst of overthrowing a country. And old-school democracy has very few defences against these tactics.

Passivism does allow for self defence and, in many cases, the defence of others.

They’re trying to provoke us out in the open. They’ve been trying to normalise violence against us (and have become alarmingly effective).

A few people have commented places where this has happened before; where government has been captured by the far right. Historians have identified key moments where a different action or approach had a high chance of changing the outcome. If we look at current events temporaly through the lens of those key moments, we can be far, far better informed.

I know some people have been doing that.

eta: We’re running Democracy2.0, and many more versions have been developed in the past 200 years. We’re driving a constitution designed to be transported by carriage. It’s incompatible with our recent technology.

LillyPip OP , (edited )
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Nice!

e to your edit: that sounds like a different thing, maybe?
Funds held by the state are typically turned over as fixed amounts, I thought.

Was that the amount your government said they were holding or what Google said they owed you? When these funds go to the government, I understood they were zeroed out at the company; that’s typically the point? Please someone correct me if I’m wrong – I don’t want to spread misinformation.

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Glad to help! I try to post this every year because it’s amazing how common this is, and it’s a pleasant boost after the holiday slump, whether it happens to you or you gave it to someone else. :)

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More potentially radioactive shrimp recalled in 17 states. ( www.usatoday.com )

The FDA initiated the first recall in an Aug. 19 notice, announcing certain raw frozen shrimp products processed by Indonesian company PT. Bahari Makmur Sejati (doing business as BMS Foods) had tested positive for Cesium-137, also known as Cs-137. A handful of manufacturers sold these products under different brand names to...

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Aw. Shrimp didn’t come with a bonus chance of superpowers back when I could afford them.

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I miss bag milk. :(

So jealous.

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Slava Ukraine.

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Are you okay now? I just reread your comment and am hoping things have worked out for you.

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Glad to hear it!