msdropbear42

@msdropbear42@libranet.de

👍: Classic Oz+Eng lit, sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, satire; Linux+FOSS; Kindness; Gaia.

👎: Cruelty; RWNJs; Anti-Gaia.

Stuff:

  • She/Her.
  • Straya born, Thailand reborn.
  • Linux+FOSS distracts my sadness.
  • Posts 🔥 @ 2mths.
  • For Follow-Requests, you MUST have Profile & Public posts, else ⛔​🚫​👎​.

10/11/22: My first Fediverse adventure [a Mastodon Instance].

23/1/24: Til further notice, venera.social is my daily default Fedi now [@msdropbear42].

7/5/24: Now back here in Friendica [libranet.de] for my daily fediversing.

22/5/24: Sad. The Server's had some major issue for >36 hrs now; my posts take forever to send, or don't at all, & now the "latest" fediverse posts in my Network timeline are from 20 hrs ago. From today, my NEW daily fedi is Friendica instance @msdropbear42. Sad.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

msdropbear42, to random

New Florida Law Requires All Women To Produce 3 Healthy White Sons By 22nd Birthday

TALLAHASSEE, FL—Touting the legislation as a common-sense victory for family values, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a new law Thursday requiring all Florida women to produce three healthy, white sons by the date of their 22nd birthday. “The production of white daughters will not be penalized, but they will be seized by the state for the production of white sons,” said DeSantis, who clarified that regardless of the race, ethnicity, or religious background of the mother, all sons would be required to be both white and raised in a Catholic household. “Three is the bare minimum. Despite what the virtue-signaling, left-wing fanatics are espousing on CNN, this requirement is actually quite fair and attainable. Whether Florida women and girls choose to get started at age 15 or 19, they will have plenty of time to comply.” At press time, DeSantis added that a miscarriage counted as negative one white sons.

theonion.com/republicans-expla…

msdropbear42, to auspol

Have a look at this preposterous dickweed harassing poor @cathywilcox (but it's happening on twatter, afaict). I admire her wit & forbearance so much! Onya Cathy!

It's hard to tell, actually, whether his nastiness is quite as large as his intellect is small; he entirely comes across IMO as being the classic thick as two short planks, ffs.

msdropbear42, to Germany

Truly horrible! Poor Germany 😲 😱😭

Four young Germans beat The Ecke, the SPD's top candidate in elections for the European Parliament in Saxony, so badly in Dresden on May 3, that he had to be treated in the hospital for a broken cheekbone and eye socket. He had been out posting campaign posters. The shockwaves are still being felt, even as far away as Berlin.In an unusual step, Faeser called for a special meeting of state interior ministers last Tuesday evening at 6 p.m., where they discussed improving security measures for politicians.

The interior ministers didn't even have the chance to log in to their video conference when, at around 4:15 p.m., a man hit Berlin Senator for Economic Affairs Franziska Giffey (SPD) over the head with a blunt object that had been wrapped in a bag. She had been visiting a public library in Berlin's Neukölln district.

At 6:50 p.m., the ministers still hadn't logged out of their conversation when the Green Party politician Yvonne Mosler got attacked and spat upon while putting up posters in Dresden.

Is there any way of stopping all this?

There have been numerous attacks on politicians and volunteer election workers in recent days. Even the running camera of a Deutsche Welle film team that accompanied Mosler failed to deter the perpetrators. Society, it appears, has reached a new level of brutalization. Berlin politician Giffey has called it a "fair-game culture."

These are acts that are usually only in the headlines or public consciousness for a short amount of time. Taken together, though, they act like a corrosive solution: Drop by drop, act by act, they erode democratic structures. Will they corrode to the point that they threaten to collapse?

spiegel.de/international/germa…

msdropbear42,

@petrescatraian I was genuinely shocked when i read that article; i had no idea that the "poison of hate" had spread so wide & deep. It's so desperately sad, isn't it? I never have & probably never will understand why some people decide to hate other people & treat them so badly. As for such atrocious violence; it just seems so completely animalistic & unevolved. It's inexplicable to me. 😢

msdropbear42, to climate

Awwwwwww... 💜

newatlas.com/urban-transport/p…

Pedal-electric Hopper may be the German "car" you didn't know you wanted.
.
The rider's pedaling power is augmented by a 250-watt rear hub motor, taking the Hopper up to a top speed of 25 km/h (16 mph). The motor is powered by a removable 30-Ah/48V/1,440-Wh lithium-iron-phosphate battery, which is claimed to be good for a range of approximately 65 km (40 miles) per charge. An optional rooftop solar panel should help boost that figure.
.
In order to minimise maintenance and mechanical complexity, the Hopper utilises an electronic pedal-by-wire system instead of a traditional chain-drive drivetrain.
.
Such systems work by having the rider spin up a generator as they pedal. Doing so converts their mechanical energy into electrical energy, which is fed into the motor. That motor converts the electrical energy back into mechanical energy, which is used to turn the wheel.

dgar, to random
@dgar@aus.social avatar

Submariners are under a lot of pressure.

msdropbear42,

@dgar That's one hull of an assertion to make.

msdropbear42, to random

Atm i'm in the process of researching, & deeply considering, a short-list of potential names i could live with, for my daughter's infants, my... grandkids... to call me when i enter their lives in ~month. 😱

This article is not relevant / helpful for my current issue, but came up as "by-catch" during my searches. It's a sweet read, & illustrates powerful love + empathy.

huffpost.com/entry/elliot-page…

😱

arstechnica, to random
@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

NC Senate passes bill to make it illegal to publicly mask for health reasons

Senators skeptical of legal trouble for harmless masking after moving to make it illegal.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/nc-senate-passes-bill-to-make-it-illegal-to-publicly-mask-for-health-reasons/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

msdropbear42,

@arstechnica Do Merkans have any idea at all how totally batshit crazy they look, to we on the rest of the rock? 🤣

luciedigitalni, to random
@luciedigitalni@aus.social avatar

Watching the new Gruen episode, waiting for the analysis of the comprehensive destruction of brand value by Qantas overseen by Board Member and alleged marketing guru Todd Sampson

msdropbear42,

@luciedigitalni 😲

Watching the new Gruen episode

Masochist! 😜

msdropbear42, to random

Oh that dirty icky perverted thing... if Steve Christou hears about this, there'll be hell to pay. Stop sexualising our oceans!


Starfish cousin caught in the act of cloning itself

msdropbear42,

@ajsadauskas @TinyBreak @Seagoon_ plus... it's meat 😱

😉

msdropbear42,

@ajsadauskas @TinyBreak @Seagoon_ You made me do this...

Albatross! Get it while it's hot. Albatross!

dgar, to random
@dgar@aus.social avatar

The Hunchback of Notre Dame?

Rings a bell...

msdropbear42,

@dgar Done it... 😜 😇

dgar, to random
@dgar@aus.social avatar

I can’t open my piano.

The keys are on the inside.

msdropbear42,

@dgar Your desperate plight strikes a chord with me. If you call the Help Line, i think Octavia can help you. Don't be tense with her though, remember to soft-pedel.

msdropbear42,

@Seagoon_ Gosh, you create them at midnight! That's temporally logical, but logistically challenging for you, i imagine.

alexw, to helpers German

Geblockt vs. ignoriert / User komplett blocken?

Guten Morgen zusammen.
Ganz platt und gleich durch die Tür: Was ist der Unterschied zwischen "blockieren" und "ignorieren" ?

Eine zusätzliche Frage: Gibt es die Möglichkeit einen Nutzer komplett auszusperren? Gemeint ist, dass ich weder von demjenigen Beiträge sehe, er aber auch meine Beiträge nicht mehr lesen kann.

msdropbear42,

@mina @ulfi @alexw Afaik, if someone knows or can discover the url of a specific public post, then they can simply read it in any browser, without being logged into any account & regardless of any user putatively having blocked them on their own fedi instance; such is the nature of the fediverse iirc.

msdropbear42, (edited )

@Seagoon_

For historical reasons unimportant here, i have a large number of cheap cotton face-washers in various colours. Prior to today, eight of these were sky-blue coloured. Today however, there's only five that i can find [of that colour]. I am getting so fed up with that blasted backyard coming in at night whilst i sleep & helping herself to my linen cupboard. She's only got one warning left now, after which i feed her to the . I might even give her a bit of light fanging myself on the way thru, just to be going on with. Honestly, tis just beyond the pale; you'd think we mythical creatures would stick together, ffs! What is she, channelling her inner or something? 🤷‍♀️

🤪

msdropbear42, (edited )

@Seagoon_

Woke at 05:57 & whacked on the clock-radio to catch the start of PK on RN. Then remembered it's Monday, so it'll be SS. But, say what, instead it's FK! Whoa. I am so pleased. I've been trying for years, & there's just been continuous failures, but finally i've succeeded. My Time-Machine works, yay! 🎉

🤪

msdropbear42,

@Taleya Thanks for your sage advice. Should it ever happen that one day i decide to create a Lemmy account & begin using it, i hope that i remember this tip.

In the meantime, from my & accounts, my OP & this reply now both coming from the former, @'s & #'s do work that way. The is far wider than only Lemmy.

msdropbear42,

@ajsadauskas @Seagoon_ Sally Sara.

Well done; some fine Babelfishing there!

msdropbear42,

@ajsadauskas @Thornburywitch @bacon 😆 🤣 😆 🤣

I was growing increasingly alarmed that THE two most important buzzwords might have been grievously omitted, but happily we got there near the end...

going forward

💯✅👍

msdropbear42, to linux

There's a really exciting project i like, & thought to follow here in the fediverse. I was going to add it, , getaurora.dev/, to my large list of but unfortunately atm my timing is a little poor. Bloody physics, astronomy, sun 😜

dgar, to random
@dgar@aus.social avatar

Stationary supplies turned up and they’ve given me cardboard instead of paper.

I’m writing them a stiff letter.

msdropbear42,

@ibk @dgar Ditto. I'm seized with utter indecisive paralysis on this. Is it a subtle part of the joke, or is it a heinous error by our irascible interlocutor, from which no reputational recovery is conceivable? 🤔🤷‍♀️

🤪

msdropbear42,

@dgar @ibk Is this a five minute troll, or the full half hour?

msdropbear42, to BBC

Just finished new Ep 1, , on . Oh dear. Twas less Timey Wimey, more samey samey. I was decidedly underwhelmed, sadly. Now, to do Ep2, or not? 🤔 🤷‍♀️

:tardis:​ 💜​

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • megavids
  • rosin
  • ngwrru68w68
  • osvaldo12
  • DreamBathrooms
  • mdbf
  • magazineikmin
  • thenastyranch
  • Youngstown
  • khanakhh
  • everett
  • slotface
  • tacticalgear
  • kavyap
  • JUstTest
  • cubers
  • normalnudes
  • modclub
  • ethstaker
  • InstantRegret
  • GTA5RPClips
  • cisconetworking
  • Durango
  • Leos
  • provamag3
  • tester
  • anitta
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •