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Penguinflight

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Birds that don't fly. When anyone's looking...

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RickiTarr, to random
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The most ridiculous thing about cop procedural shows is when they ask where a person was, and what they were doing at a specific time the person always has perfect and immediate recall. I'd be desperately trying to remember what day of the week that was, and trying to open my phone calendar. If I was the cop, I'd immediately be suspicious of the person who remembered exactly where they were and what they were doing.

Penguinflight,
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@RickiTarr The most ridiculous thing about police procedural shows is the cops catch criminals, instead of work for them.

Penguinflight,
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@RickiTarr Indeed so, in that they're part of the pervasive myth that The Police are a force for Good and there for Our Benefit. All evidence to the contrary, since the first guard strapped on a breastplate.

They are cop propaganda, designed to perpetuate the shite we are inculcated with in school. Filled with sympathetic protagonists and unsympathetic antagonists who, more and more these days, are us.

Except for Columbo I'd have everyone of them erased.

Free_Press, to news
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How Far Would Trump Go To Destroy Our Democracy if Reelected

https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/

Penguinflight,
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@Free_Press I think the answer from anyone who has actually paid attention over the last fifteen years would answer "All the way."

MagentaRocks, to books
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There is a bot account!!!!

@bookstodon

https://botsin.space/@murderbotbot/112467101610829455

Penguinflight,
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@MagentaRocks @bookstodon I know, cool isn't it. I had to unfollow it because I haven't read/heard them all yet (spoilers).

ronanmcd, to random
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If humans are so smart, then why have we consistently throughout history put the worst people in positions of power? Why have we never learnt not to do that?

Penguinflight,
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@ronanmcd Ah. The illusion is that WE did that. Rather than they assumed power.

fkamiah17, to random
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@MadeyeTheCarnaptious
Something that might interest you

https://www.elmundo.es/cataluna/2024/05/14/66432e5621efa0a8338b45ae.html

Penguinflight,
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@fkamiah17 Do you know of an online translator that handles Catalan well? DeepL doesn't include it (or Galego) yet.

Krisss, to art Dutch
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Guardian of the Pink
By Mindy Sommers ©

Penguinflight,
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@Krisss Why proprietary watermarks suck.

Penguinflight, to Palestine
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What sickens me the most about SNP (Scottish Government) apologists is their posting/boosting of the atrocities in at the hands of Israel, whilst at the very same time saying there's nothing ScotGov can do and how they must do as Westminster tells them.

The level of cognitive dissonance to hold these two things in their hearts and minds at the same time must be eating them like cancer.

These people would sleep comfortably on beds of kids corpses if THE PARTY said so.

Penguinflight,
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@Wen That you see that as a bad thing says volumes.

simonvarwell, to random Esperanto
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Ode to a rucksack.

As part of a big clearout, I got rid of my trusty old rucksack. It’s battered, stained and has lost a few straps, so I don’t mourn its passing - but I do celebrate its life.

I can’t remember precisely how old it is but I recall taking it on a camp aged 15. Since then it’s been to uni with me, been on countless ferries and trains, crossed Europe to Kosovo and back in 1999, been my trusty steed on my big travels of 2001, and been there in the journeys of my first two books.

Penguinflight,
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@simonvarwell Can relate. just dumped my 'Carlton' black shoulder bag that I bought at a stall in Stafford market in 1986. It had been everywhere with me and carried everything. The last few years it was too tatty to be a bag for best but had instead proved a stalwart work bag for when I've been volunteering outside or doing bits for other people.

Sadly the plastic lining around the zips had finally disintegrated and it was about to go to the Big Bag Stall in the sky.

Penguinflight, to Palestine
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record on Israel is FUCKING TERRIBLE.

I keep seeing people saying how they're supportive of . The ONLY way I have SEEN them be "supportive" of Palestine is by saying "Israel, oh gosh, no, oh naughty, stop..." in a flat monotone. Whilst individually no doubt being on the phone to their brokers to shift all their money out of Raytheon and Elbit...

ScotGov has not expelled, nor openly divested from, any Israeli businesses, or businesses servicing Israel.

As to sport...

Penguinflight,
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@Wen HAH! I would have trusted you NOT to throw that fucking pathetic EXCUSE in my face. My mistake.

They have a lot of agency when it comes to interacting with said businesses.

Penguinflight,
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@Wen I know ALL about them thank you. You might wish to find out a little more about moral fibre.

BrianJopek, to random
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One of the funnier things I’ve seen today.

Penguinflight,
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@ntnsndr @BrianJopek The only tech I'm going to squee over is if someone develops a hand held, directable EMP.

RickiTarr, to random
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When you read Librarian Erotica and think it's real life:

Penguinflight,
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@RickiTarr This is NOT my experience of

Unfortunately...

eclectech, to random
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Have just been reminded that it's the anniversary of us losing Kurt Vonnegut.

I am a fan & in particular try to remember his advice to notice when things are good & to say "If this isn't nice, what is?"

I scribbled this on the day he died, & posted with the words "Kurt is up in heaven now" & was roundly attacked by someone for saying such a thing about a humanist, until I pointed them to the anecdote about how it was his favourite joke.

Anyway, read his books.

They're good.

Penguinflight,
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@eclectech I recognised the image as Vonnegut before reading the post so you did a good job 👍

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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Yarn-bombed bench adding some colour to Glasgow's Botanic Gardens.

#glasgow #glasgowbotanicgardens #yarnbombing #bench #knitting

Penguinflight,
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@thisismyglasgow 👍 🐧

soheb, to music
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Spotify officially demonetises all tracks with under 1,000 streams

This is just an insanely bone-headed move that is so pointless.

These artists don't even get paid that much money, and yet Spotify wants to cut off their revenue.

I'm done with Spotify. In fact, I think I'm flat-out done with music streaming services. All of them are exploitative. back to buying digital albums for me.

https://djmag.com/news/spotify-officially-demonetises-all-tracks-under-1000-streams

Penguinflight,
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@Wen @soheb "Steals."

kim_harding, to random
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Petition: Ban domestic flights on routes that can be travelled by train in under 4.5 hours
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/649992
Follow France’s lead and remove air routes where there is a direct rail link of 4.5 hours or less, to help rapidly bring emissions down in line with the UK’s legally-binding net zero targets.

Penguinflight,
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@kim_harding Agreed, but at the same time we need to renationalise the railways, Private railfares and shitty service are a plague on working and low-income people.

Cassandra, (edited ) to random
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If you had dirt on your hands, which sink would you use to wash them?

Penguinflight,
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@Cassandra The coat of the slow walker in front of me.

Penguinflight, to random
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“Fairy tales are more than true, not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.”

  • G.K. Chesterton
davidaugust, to random
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Penguinflight,
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@davidaugust The Thatcher/Reagan legacy.

Penguinflight,
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@kolya @davidaugust

Penguinflight, to test
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I have a friend in the south of England. He works for . He is sure he and a co-worker have (again..).

I texted: your work should have kits. You need to confirm.

He replied: Sainsburys don't want us testing. Regard Covid as the or heavy cold.

Corporate UK, promoting the denialist line and enforcing it on their staff, and (as such) customers.

kills.

carbontwelve, to random
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I’ve had this week off work and haven’t touched a computer at all until today when I booted up my pc to play some games.

Penguinflight,
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@Wen @carbontwelve Not the way I treat it... 😈

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