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samhainnight

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Ya know, Peggy from Twitter. Artist, writer, musician, was in an anthology on the NYT Bestseller list. Should really find the time to get back to making my comic at some point….

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majorlinux, to windows
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Well, that's a step in the right direction!

Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt in

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/7/24173499/microsoft-windows-recall-response-security-concerns

#Windows #Recall #OptIn #AI #Tech #Microsoft

samhainnight,
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It’s a start, but it does nothing to protect victims of domestic violence or people who’ve opted out but whose information is on the computers of people who’ve opted in.

MS Recall begs the question, “Who does this serve?”

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/7/24173499/microsoft-windows-recall-response-security-concerns

#Recall #Safety

samhainnight,
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@nus Indeed. But it also serves corrupt governments around the world.

msquebanh, to random
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My snacks today are all fresh from our gardens.

samhainnight,
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@msquebanh Nice! So far, the most I’ve harvested from my little garden is 6.

samhainnight, (edited ) to random
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Finished reading the first Elfquest book and was feeling inspired by Wendy’s art. So here’s a sketch I’m working on, inspired by her beautiful images.

#Art

samhainnight, to random
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First real hot day of the summer, here. I’ve been trying out the portable AC unit we got when we bought the house. (It’s a DeLonghi Pinguino) it cools about 700 sq ft. So far it’s kept the living room cool and the kitchen and bedrooms reasonably pleasant, though I’ve closed off the den. Right now, it’s something like 90 outside, and about 74 in the living room. I could get it cool by closing off the bedrooms, but then they’d be hot. Overall, for an affordable, portable unit, it works well.

ai6yr, (edited ) to cycling
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Checked off "bought cheapest beer possible before 130pm and bicycled it home" on the bike tooter achivement list. #BikeTooter (Edit: just for clarity, these are for my slugs, I do have a driver's license and no DUI arrest, I do own a car, and I don't drink beer.)

samhainnight,
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@Neblib @ai6yr For getting drunk and drowning in. In my experience though, putting out beer to keep slugs out of my garden only brought more slugs. I found Sluggo kept them away better. Gonna have to fine a shop around here that carries it now that I’ve moved.

ElleGray, to random
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I'll never apologize for calling the letter z "zed." zee is a joke. no dignity there. it's the sound a hipster bee would make if he was stoned and trying to be cool

samhainnight,
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@ElleGray
Aed
Bed
Ced
Ded
Eed
Fed
Ged
Hed
Ied
Jed
Ked
Led
Med
Ned
Oed
Ped
Qed
Red
Sed
Ted
Ued
Ved
Wed
Xed
Yed
Zed
Hmmm… seems a little long to me…

samhainnight, to random
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Had to take the day off to go to an appointment. Wasn’t sure how long it would take so I took the whole day off.

…the appointment ended up taking a half an hour.

Still, it took almost an hour to get to the place so 🤷🏻‍♀️

samhainnight,
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While I was out, I grabbed a few things from the store & swung by the Goodwill. I’ve been checking out second hand stores for a couple of weeks, trying to find a little lamp for the coffee table by my chair. It’s a really dark spot. But none of the little table lights I’ve found have had lamp shades! Today, however, the Goodwill had a small desk lam! The kind with a bendy neck and it’s just perfect & it was only $3!

I also found lace curtains for the bedroom & a mini bunt muffin tin!

RickiTarr, to random
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I love when the world tells older women they are becoming irrelevant and invisible, and they're just like, Good, now I can do what I want, and no one will bother me.

samhainnight,
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@RickiTarr It’s me, but in the first job, I went to something better paying & the second one laid me off at the start of Covid after I spent 2 years organizing their shit show.
The first job went under less than 6 months after I left. I often wonder how the second one is doing. Limping along, I suppose, though they do have the color coded letter templates I left behind.

ElleGray, to random
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Personally I think we should go back to making beautiful hair accessories that have little swords hidden in them. I could have used this twice yesterday

(Designer Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) Paris)

samhainnight,
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@ElleGray Back in the Victorian era, women would use hat pins to defend themselves. I think I read somewhere that they were outlawed because of it.

Nonilex, to Law
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Justice Samuel A. Jr. has offered multiple accounts of how politically charged flags [ flags] came to fly outside his homes in VA & NJ — the type of display that is generally off-limits for judges, who must remain & avoid even the appearance of as they handle cases.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/05/justice-alito-flags-unanswered-questions/

samhainnight,
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@Nonilex I think I like their neighbor!

drahardja, to random
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It’s weird, but sometimes I watch a movie halfway and have to stop because I don’t have the emotional/empathy bandwidth to follow the story.

samhainnight,
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@drahardja Been there. Most recently it was Throne of Blood, the Japanese version of Mac Beth

kellylepo, to Astronomy
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Remember Zoozve? The quasi-moon of Venus featured on Radiolab that was named after a typo on a map of the Solar System?

Now is your chance to name one of Earth’s quasi-moons. The IAU and Radiolab are holding a contest — they will pick the top 10 names, which then go to a popular vote.

More info: https://www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau2406/

#astronomy #space

samhainnight,
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@kellylepo Ypu know it's going to be Moony McMoonface.

msquebanh, to random
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3 of my beloved family members died during uprisings. We will NEVER FORGET.

https://youtu.be/VbKroPF3W5Q?si=2tZZzZ1tYW4BIBoE

samhainnight,
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@msquebanh Blocked the troll in your thread. The nerve of saying no one died!

samhainnight,
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@msquebanh Understandably.

samhainnight,
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@msquebanh They sounded like a government backed troll from China to me. They sure said a lot of lies that made the government sound good.

samhainnight,
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@msquebanh Me either.

samhainnight,
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@msquebanh When my brother was teaching ESL to international college students, he'd assign them an essay on Tiananmen Square. Most of the Chinese students had never heard of it and would call home to ask their folks if it happened, who of course said yes. When asked why they never talked about it, they were all scared.

samhainnight,
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@msquebanh He also tried to undo the obedience to authority that so many had fulfilled into them, again through writing assignments. Fighting the good fight.

skinnylatte, to random
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Annoyed that all the Indian and Malaysian and Thai and Singaporean and Indonesian aunties in my life who refused to give exact measurements and times and said ‘it’s done when it’s done’ actually had the best cooking advice

samhainnight,
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@skinnylatte I don’t really measure much when I cook, I just go by what seems right, especially when I make soup. Baking, I measure the dry ingredients more or less, but if vanilla is involved, I add it the way Julia Childs would add sherry!

samhainnight, to random
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This!

TonyStark, to random
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Libertarian bullshit dressed up as some sort of progressivism (it’s not) is still libertarian bullshit.

Anyone saying the best form of government is none is not to be taken seriously. At all.

samhainnight,
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@TonyStark Libertarians should be laughed out of every circle.

RickiTarr, to random
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99.9% of jobs do not require urgency of any kind, really they don't. We've all had a boss who acts like someone will die if we don't hit some made up deadline by people who don't even do the job. No one needs their meal 1 minute faster or the paperwork before tomorrow morning. Your time off actually doesn't need to wait. Sometimes I think about how legitimately bad most businesses are at time management and hiring, and I wonder how they manage to exist at all.

samhainnight,
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@RickiTarr @chadlundgren THIS! I love everything about my housekeeping job except the unrealistic deadlines! Laundry takes as long as it takes, you can’t speed it up. And while beds take 15 minutes each, and bathrooms 20-25 minutes, the floor size makes a BIG difference in the clean time, not to mention the condition the guests leave the house in. But sure, tell me to go faster. That’ll make the towels dry faster for sure.

samhainnight,
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@RickiTarr Did you ever see the episode of Lower Decks where they all have to do their jobs according to time estimates on an app? I relate to that episode so much.

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