SoftwareTheron

@SoftwareTheron@mas.to

"Woke", IIUC. Brit. Born at 318ppm; now well into the Oops phase.
Aging gracelessly.

#WearAMask #birds #climate #bass
#TwitterMigrant

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RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

Y'all want to hear a fact that really changed the way I thought about homelessness?

Half of all homeless people were in the foster system at some point. Social Workers often call the foster system The Highway to Homelessness. If you ever had a point in your life where you had to live with friends or family to for a short time to get back on your feet, remember that is a privilege that not everyone had.

SoftwareTheron,

@RickiTarr
Just to make this a more practical argument, could you clarify which country this data is for, please?

SoftwareTheron,

@rrb @RickiTarr
Indeed I didn't, and I do not know what the answer is. I can -guess-, but that isn't always a help. I'll work it out.

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

It still tickles me that the TERFS and Transphobes tried to claim Terry Pratchett as their own, and everyone who actually knew him, including his daughter, and co-author Neil Gaiman, was like WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, you couldn't be further from the truth.

SoftwareTheron,

@RickiTarr
"Tickles" isn't the word I'd use. That much arrogance... "offends and frightens" covers it, I think.

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

If you could kick something out of your life today, what would it be?

SoftwareTheron,

@RickiTarr
climate deterioration

straphanger, to london
@straphanger@urbanists.social avatar

This is great fun!

I took a ride on the Mail Rail in #London. An alternative electric Underground that carried packages + letters through 9 miles of tunnels beneath the streets, from 1926 to 2003… 🧵

video/mp4

SoftwareTheron,

@straphanger
@cstross used this as a plot feature a few books back, IIRC.

futurebird, to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

OK this might be the right idea. You fill it with books, they don't get dusty... they go in the closet or deep in some storage nook.

Then in 15 years you can look at them and maybe part with a few... I can do this!

SoftwareTheron,

@futurebird
Excellent idea! From where, please?

glynmoody, to random
@glynmoody@mastodon.social avatar

: five babies in England die after diagnosis, say officials - https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/09/whooping-cough-five-babies-england-die I imagine these are likely to be as a result of nutters refusing to vaccinate their children...

SoftwareTheron,

@glynmoody
... or their contacts with other babies whose parents have assumed it's not needed or fallen through the cracks.

rysiek, to random
@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

"S" in "LLM" stands for "Secure"

SoftwareTheron,

@rysiek
And the "H" stands for "Accurate".

mxtthxw, to music
@mxtthxw@mxtthxw.art avatar

Even though this sounds ragedy as fuck, I'm happy how it's turned up, I don't really want to mess with it for risk of making it suck and miss the point completely. Too much delay, too much distortion. Cool.

I'd describe as dark, brooding, psychedelia melting down over militant drum machines. If that's your bag, feel free to load up.

https://video.mxtthxw.art/w/2yL3w37g2PDjxkQWK8WYAD

SoftwareTheron,

@mxtthxw

"An error occurred during a connection to video.mxtthxw.art. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

Error code: PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem."

?

SoftwareTheron, to random

I notice that YouTube is not currently working (as of this evening) for Firefox on Ubuntu.

SoftwareTheron, to random

@SurrealSeal @paulfoerster @evelynefoerster
When?

SoftwareTheron, to random

The Nine O'Clock Ews


futurebird, to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

Check out the uneven species distribution of the tiny but fascinating Proceratiinae subfamily of ants. These ants live in moist leaf litter and eat arthropod eggs, often spider eggs. They keep the eggs in their nest, cleaning, and turning them in the manner of their own eggs so they last longer. They may live in any region w/ moist leaf litter & rotting wood. There are likely many new species to discover!

(Probably more of a map of where myrmecologists who like Proceratiinae ants live.)

Typical Proceratiinae queen, wingless from a collection. A well lit photo showing their stubby rounded antennae and distinctive curled under gaster. Though these ants have a stinger they are too small to sting through human skin and do not use the sting for defense against larger animals. They may use it to help them eat the eggs they love to collect and keep in their nests. Photo by Kohichiro Yoshida from flikr https://www.flickr.com/photos/kohichiroh/8749631753/in/photostream/

SoftwareTheron,

@futurebird @llewelly
Guessing that (like a lot of the UK's "biodiversity") the combination of Ice Age and re-emerging "English" Channel is to blame. Stuff just didn't have time to spread back north before it became much more difficult.

The island of Ireland is even more depleted, sadly - famously there are no snakes.

SoftwareTheron, to random
eclectech, to movies
@eclectech@things.uk avatar

Wondering about how JAWS would have been presented, if it was a large knitted chicken instead of a deadly shark.

SoftwareTheron,

@eclectech
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BOK BOK BOK BOK BOK BOK BOK BOK
BOKBOKBOKBOKBOKBOKBOKBOK ...

SoftwareTheron, to random

Well now. I wonder who failed to advise Mr Sunak that the optics of abandoning European shores might be bad.

Could it possibly be the person who he got to stand in for him? With no priors on bad European decisions, obviously.
"Dave, hold the fort for me."
"Are you certain that's wise, Rishi?"

Either Cameron's making a leadership play, or he's learned absolutely nothing from the last eight years. (Which TBH would surprise nobody.)

SoftwareTheron, to random

Solar panels question:
How resilient are they in the face of a Carrington Event?

lilithsaintcrow, to random
@lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com avatar

Well, THE HIGHLANDS WAR has broken 100k words. Only 50-60k left to go.

various sobbing noises

SoftwareTheron,

@lilithsaintcrow
It's at least as scared of you as you are of it.

tokensane, to random
@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk avatar

Souls are indivisible, and only death separates soul from body, right?

So if an acquires a at the instant of conception, what about identical twins, formed when an embryo splits in two? Do they share a soul, or is one of them a soulless monster? OTOH, what about chimeras, formed when two embryos fuse, so that the resulting baby is a patchwork of cells from both? Two souls in one individual? Or what happens to the other soul?

And then there are siamese twins...

SoftwareTheron,

@tokensane
There is also the related question of sex and gender. Does a soul have a sex? Presumably not, since it's not part of the body.

GrittyLipids, to random
@GrittyLipids@c.im avatar

Off the top of my head I don’t remember how much the book of talks about the Harkonnen use of gladiatorial combat, but the movie draws a relatively subtle link between their idea of it and bullfighting - the guys in the wide black hats are like picadors, who stab the bull with lances to weaken it. I’ll avoid spoilers on a 60-year-old book or the new movie, but it’s a fun subtle thing.


-fi

SoftwareTheron,

@GrittyLipids
Ah OK, thank you. Pretty sure the bullfighting is offstage in the book, if it's there at all; maybe mentioned in passing. No idea about the films.

SoftwareTheron,

@GrittyLipids @bookstodon
I suppose there is a little nod at bullfighting in the way Herbert describes using hooks on a worm to force it to stay on the surface, as well. I'd missed that.

SoftwareTheron,

@GrittyLipids
The impression I have is that it's not just the Harkonnen; it appears to be normal in Imperial high society to challenge. Count Fenring is (tacitly) the emperor's champion and (an?) ambassador and has an appallingly lethal reputation; if he challenges you it's effectively an Imperial death sentence.

SoftwareTheron,

@GrittyLipids @bookstodon
Damn, I think that's right. The Shadout Mapes wants to clean the blood off the horns of the bull's head. I'd entirely forgotten. Cheers!
(FWIW, I re-read Children and Chapterhouse recently. Not worth while, IMO; very much less interesting than I remembered. No bullfighting in either.)

LeftistLawyer, to random

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    SoftwareTheron,

    @LeftistLawyer
    Nice (!) tipping point illustration - by the time anyone notices the obvious signs, the whole thing is doomed.

    SoftwareTheron,

    @jik @LeftistLawyer
    Ah, good call. Thanks.

    "none of those far-away problems are going to affect me..."

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