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RickiTarr,
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Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:

https://youtu.be/KovrJ8HXI1Q?si=HOYIG7YMuAUTsJz6

neingeist,
@neingeist@mastodon.social avatar
YakyuNightOwl,
@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world avatar

@Barbramon1 @RickiTarr Spalding is a local treasure. This came to fruition and is right down the way from our house.

https://www.opb.org/article/2021/06/02/esperanza-spalding-wants-to-build-an-artists-sanctuary/

RickiTarr,
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

Where do you live and how do you feel about it?

Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.

I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.

Pros:

This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.

Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.

It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".

I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.

We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.

Cons:

Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.

While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.

We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.

tayfonay,
@tayfonay@beige.party avatar

@RickiTarr Chicago-ish. I've lived in both the suburbs and the city so I'm going to lump them together.

Pros:

Chicago is a beautiful city with anything you could probably think of available to do. Like it's too much to list but a few: world class restaurants to family run dives with equally delicious food, diverse AF, tons of history, tons of cultural things to do, etc.

Lake Michigan - big, calm (usually) and fresh water with golden sand beaches

Mostly progressive, though there are red pockets in the suburbs with your usual nonsense. But you don't see a lot of Trump regalia or flags flying, so there's that.

Cons:

The rest of the state of Illinois is mostly farms of corn and soy as far as you can see. So road trips from here require driving considerable distances to get anywhere interesting.

Winters can suck, but with climate change they're getting easier (yay?)

Fucking flat as a pancake. If we had some hills to hike, this place would be perfect.

Suburban sprawl.

The Bears.

tayfonay,
@tayfonay@beige.party avatar

@RickiTarr Notice I didn't say crime because that whole narrative is a load of conservative talking point bullshit. Yes, we have crime. Yes, it's bad. But we're not even in the top 25 per capita in the US.

scudery, (edited ) French
@scudery@piaille.fr avatar

Bon.
Pour mon piercing :

LivBu,
@LivBu@piaille.fr avatar

@scudery heing
G t pas o courant

milubo,
@milubo@mastodon.social avatar

@scudery @sknob

Le nombril des femmes de frigoristes.

Par la section cuivres de l' ecole
Georges Brass ENS

RickiTarr,
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

So, what's the thing, what's the big thing no one can help you with? How do you cope with it?

MaryAustinBooks,
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social avatar

@axeshun @RickiTarr
For me the one silver lining to the nightmare we are living in, is how right I realize I was my entire life. Every place, every relationship, from childhood to my thirties, all the people I could not fucking believe became Trumpers. All the "conventional wisdom" I could never wrap my head around has been revealed plainly as worthless rationalization of amoral behavior. All the anxiety and despair I felt was, tragically, completely warranted.

God does it suck to be right.

MikeImBack,
@MikeImBack@disabled.social avatar

@RickiTarr chronic pain. I spend a lot of time curled up trying not to scream until my throat is raw, and trying to find a way to explain to people that chronic means "chronic", not 'sometimes'

jon,
@jon@gruene.social avatar

Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day -02 26 May 2024 - Ravières - Montbard - Paris - Köln - Hamburg - Travemünde, onto night ferry Crossing these borders: Lille 🇫🇷 - Bruxelles 🇧🇪 HSL Aachen 🇩🇪 - Welkenraedt 🇧🇪 These borders on the borders map: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#8/50.766/4.263 Today's routes on the routes map: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#8/50.766/4.263

jon,
@jon@gruene.social avatar

And @eco_amandine asked for a pic of the Buffon statue in Montbard. Voila!

jon,
@jon@gruene.social avatar

This Eurostar PBKA train is full. The air conditioning is good enough to keep the temperature ok, but CO2 PPM is between 1000 and 1200. It’s circulating and cooling the same air. I can’t know if the air is adequately filtered, so the FFP2 mask is on tight.

Selfie of Jon wearing a 3M FFP2 mask. Bushes outside train window.

Mikie1600, French
@Mikie1600@piaille.fr avatar

Bon je ne suis pas trop sûre de réussir à formuler clairement et si ça intéresse grand monde, mais j'ai cette idée de sondage pokémon depuis très longtemps, c'est parti!

J'ai envie de comparer en popularité les pokémon "régionaux" opposés géographiquement dans Pokémon Go! ^^

...

(Dans Pokémon Go certaines espèces de pokémon ne sont présentes que dans certaines régions de la vraie vie. Par exemple "Kangourex" en Australie, car ça fait référence aux kangourous. Et il y a des pokémon dans un même thème qui sont dans des régions exactement opposées. Bref, vous allez voir. Les régions en question sont peu importantes... Ou alors je le révélerai à la fin! ^^)

shalien,
@shalien@projetretro.io avatar

@Mikie1600 Le sondage porterait sur le Pokémon régional le plus populaire ?

Mikie1600,
@Mikie1600@piaille.fr avatar

Muciole VS Lumivole

athenavocat, French
@athenavocat@oc.todon.fr avatar

J'ai vu @jaztrophysicist à Louvain.

athenavocat,
@athenavocat@oc.todon.fr avatar

On joue à un jeu : celui qui partage ce pouet se verra attribuer une statue*

(*Sous réserve des statues disponibles et que je vous connaisse un minimum et que je voie que vous avez repouété et que je dorme pas)

athenavocat,
@athenavocat@oc.todon.fr avatar

@Grumpfff qui se demande s'il est pas overdress pour le de ce soir. Alors que pas du tout. Au passage, il a aussi mis la photo sur Tinder pour voir si ça aiderait à pécho.

vantablack,
@vantablack@cyberpunk.lol avatar

what if i wrote a series of blog posts about my personal history with the fediverse and how it has changed my life for the better

vantablack,
@vantablack@cyberpunk.lol avatar

FEDIVERSE ADVENTURES: Reflections On My Growth Alongside The Social Web

vantablack,
@vantablack@cyberpunk.lol avatar

it'll be a riveting tale of all my daring exploits

from the earliest days all the way to vantascape, fedipact, and becoming an instance admin

uichelorraine, French
@uichelorraine@piaille.fr avatar

Depuis le temps que j'entends Foenkinos de partout, je me suis saisie de cette merde dans la bibliothèque.
Je pense qu'on va m'entendre hurler des insultes en araméen. 🥰❤❤❤

uichelorraine,
@uichelorraine@piaille.fr avatar

Donc voilà, j'en suis à "elle est triste et son patron essaye de la consoler" (LOL), j'ai lu 40 pages et après fallait que j'aille au kebab parce qu'il reste du beurre, du ketchup et des câpres dans le frigo et que ça fait pas un vrai repas.
Promis je vous raconterais la suite si je remets le nez là dedans.

vieveca,
@vieveca@toot.aquilenet.fr avatar

@VieilOgre @francescuG @MarSolRivas @uichelorraine @Looping
Ah c'est intéressant. Ptet que le secret c'est d'enlever la viande mais pas par conviction. Tu fais des trucs pour les pauvres où y'a pas de viande, c OK.
Tu fais des trucs sans viande pour les gens qui veulent pas de viande. Bim interdit.

Edent, (edited )
@Edent@mastodon.social avatar

You receive a call on your phone.
The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraud.

"Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right?

The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank."

Your phone buzzes. You tap the notification This is what you see.

Still think it is a scam?
1/3

Edent, (edited )
@Edent@mastodon.social avatar

The scammer is on the phone to you.
Their accomplice is on the phone to your bank, pretending to be you.
Your bank send you the notification.
You accept, and scammers proceed to drain your account.

Someone has just lost £18,000 because of this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonalFinance/comments/1cih3kd/been_scammed_over_18000_through_my_chase_account/

2/3

Edent,
@Edent@mastodon.social avatar

I've written up the above scam in more detail.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/bank-scammers-using-genuine-push-notifications-to-trick-their-victims/

Remember, no matter how clever and security-conscious you think you are, these criminals are highly sophisticated.

You have to be lucky every single time. They only have to be lucky once.

scudery, French
@scudery@piaille.fr avatar

Eeeeehhh bah.

Croyez-moi, si j'ai réussi à résister tout le semestre à cet étudiant de master absolument terrifiant de charme qui me faisait des yeux doux (intéressés hein, probablement, mais c'est pas grave ça), VOUS POUVEZ RÉUSSIR AUSSI ET ARRÊTER DE COUCHER AVEC VOS ÉTUDIANTES DANS L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUPÉRIEUR MERCI

(Ceci était un message du comité d'éthique du zizi sexuel de l'enseignement supérieur)

mag,
@mag@piaille.fr avatar

@APDMS @scudery Faut mesurer en partant du pli, ou c'est "paquet compris"? 🤣
" Est-ce que vous pourriez ... s'il-vous-plait... juste ... ten... enfin, voila, euh .... le bout du ruban? Merci!)

Camille_Poulsard,
@Camille_Poulsard@mamot.fr avatar

@Kahte @uichelorraine @scudery @iamuppsala

C'est marrant, mais je cherche un produit ou une routine. Comme j'ai de l'apnée du sommeil, j'ai un masque toute la nuit sur le pif et ça assèche/abime ma peau.

Si quelqu'un à des conseils, je suis preneur.

GossiTheDog,
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social avatar

For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

AthanSpod,
@AthanSpod@techhub.social avatar

@GossiTheDog Yup, I figured you knew this, just it bears stating for anyone else.

If people start thinking "oh, just nuke the screenshots folder manually" they might get a surprise when a bunch of data can still be pulled out of the SQLite database.

GossiTheDog,
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social avatar
AnthonyFStevens,
@AnthonyFStevens@mastodon.online avatar

Austerity, Brexit, Covid Lockdown Parties, PPE Scandal, Raw Sewage in UK Waterways & Coastal Areas, Economic Crash, Record Inflation, Record Interest Rates, Cost of Living Crisis, Pensions Decimated, Mortgage Rises, NHS in Crisis, Schools Crumbling, Housing Crisis...

This is the choice. It's really that simple.

4th July

Vote 🌹 ❎️ 🗳

CloudyMrs,
@CloudyMrs@mastodon.scot avatar

@AnthonyFStevens Except for viewers in Scotland.

Wen,
@Wen@mastodon.scot avatar

@AnthonyFStevens @soren @CloudyMrs this cartoon captures much of our attitude to Labour here. You would never get a hint of it from the BBC or other London media.

clive, (edited )
@clive@saturation.social avatar

People of Mastodon!

I'm researching the growth of ebikes ...

... in cities around the US

I've talked to many people who love them!

But also want to include the perspective of folks who have concerns ...

... i.e. about the speed and weight of ebikes in accidents with pedestrians or other cyclists, and the like

If anyone has thoughts they wanna share, ping me! I'm all ears: clive@clivethompson.net

Pass this along if you know anyone else with perspective they want to share

eldubuu,
@eldubuu@mastodon.social avatar

@clive

Give a human a machine, any machine, and we transform from annoying low-speed assholes into dangerous high-speed assholes.

There is no machine on earth that fixes the problem of humans destroying everything in our path in pursuit of greater self-esteem….

meganL,
@meganL@mas.to avatar

@clive I am very much pro-e-bike and use them myself (cycled "acoustically" for years before I got osteoarthritis in the knees).

My concern is that car-centrists have looked at California's e-bike definitions and created what is essentially an electric Vespa without the regulations & training a Vespa driver would be subject to.

This stokes ire against cyclists & increases crackdowns on all e-cycle riders instead of drivers.

https://mas.to/@meganL/112306655028645630

Mikie1600, French
@Mikie1600@piaille.fr avatar

Bonjour! ^^ (Ou Bonsoir.) J'ai à nouveau envie de faire un fil de sondages Pokémon!
Cette fois-ci j'aimerais comparer la popularité des formes régionales avec celle de leurs formes originales!

Ce sera un très TRÈS long fil (le plus grand que je ferai je pense), dans l'ordre du pokédex. Car je trouve cela plus fun de mélanger les régions incluant de nouvelles formes, surtout qu'un certain pokémon en possède deux dans des régions différentes.
Le défaut c'est que ça va faire BEAUCOUP de pokémon de la 1G d'affilé, mais de toute façon il faudra bien qu'ils apparaissent! ^^'

On commence donc avec Rattata VS Rattata d'Alola!
Quel sera le meilleur rat?🐀

Artwork de Rattata d'Alola

Mikie1600,
@Mikie1600@piaille.fr avatar

@NemoJmeno J'ai fait éclore mon dernier œuf obtenu lors du Circuit Sinnoh et j'ai eu un Pachirisu! ^^
Très contente de compléter mon pokédex avec des régionaux, qui plus est avec Pachirisu qui est vraiment adorable, et m'a bien marqué comme j'ai commencé par la 4G. X)

NemoJmeno,
@NemoJmeno@piaille.fr avatar

@Mikie1600 Oh bravo !
C'est vrai qu'il est trop mignon Pachirisu. Même si mon préféré dans les simili-pikachu c'est Dédenne, je pense que je mettrai Pachirisu en deuxième 😁
(Ouh ça serait à faire ça : un sondage de qui est le plus apprécié des simili-Pikachu ! Et ensuite tous ceux qui ont voté autre chose que Dédenne je les sermonne 😤)
Tu dirais que c'est ton préféré toi ? ^^ C'est qu'en plus il a même eu son heure de gloire en stratégie le petit Pachirisu !

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