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asbestos

@asbestos@toot.community

Art, Science, Politics, & 4th grade fart jokes.
I'm either the first person to figure out what's going on, or the last.

MFA-sculpture, BKA, EMT, OCD,
I was a fan of goats before goats were cool.
Pacific Northwest.
He/him/Hey, Asshole!

Profile picture is symbol of United Corvids
With their slogan "An injury to one is an injury to all"

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mrcompletely, to random
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They say it's important to live your dreams. So today I will race tirelessly and calmly through brightly lit municipal spaces with companions randomly selected from my acquaintances before climbing some stairs that turn into bleachers as a defensive height where we can protect what turns out to be a plastic jug of laundry detergent

asbestos,
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@mrcompletely
Long live the jug!

georgetakei, to random

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the number of pages in the indictment is…45.

asbestos,
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@georgetakei if that's on purpose that's a sick, epic burn. Like God level trolling. Surely one for the ages

Binder, to random
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It’s a violation of The Magician’s Oath to reveal the ingredients of Magic Shell dessert topping.

asbestos,
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@Binder



lauren, to random
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One of the creepier tech-related incidents I remember was many years ago when I wanted the Sam's Photofacts (a third-party creator of device specs and schematics, etc.) for a very old portable TV. Way out of date, but I was trying to help someone with it.

I mentioned to a friend that I was looking for old Photofacts, but I did not say anything about the TV. He scribbled an address on a scrap of paper, an address locally here in L.A. "Try him," he muttered.

I drive over. It's a small unmarked storefront. I go in, the bell on the door rings. Sitting inside, like the caterpillar in "Alice in Wonderland", is this little guy perched on a stool, with immense stacks of paper surrounding him everywhere. Total mayhem.

I walk up to him -- knowing that this was a waste of time and really wanting to get out of there -- and asked if he had the Sam's Photofacts for that specific very old TV model.

Without saying a word, he reached over to the pile of papers right next to him, took the TOP item off the pile, and silently handed it to me. It was the ancient one I needed. Stunned, I paid him the amount marked on the item, and left with it, not completely sure what had just happened.

When I drove by there a month later that storefront was something else entirely. He was gone.

asbestos,
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@lauren
What You Need https://g.co/kgs/92AtyJ

asbestos,
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@lauren @Peternimmo
He bugged your office?

taylorlorenz, to twitter
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Rebranded Twitter aka “X” has the new tagline:

“Blaze your glory!”

(Twitter’s previous tagline was “it’s what’s happening”) #twitter #elonmusk #twittermigration #tech #technology #x #musk #technews #news

Screenshot of App Store where tagline is updated

asbestos,
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@taylorlorenz
Blaze your own farts

UnicornRiot, to random
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Thanks so much to our supporters for donating over $9,000 to our $18,000 goal of our eight year fundraiser. If you appreciate our independent media and are financially privileged, consider becoming a recurring donor or donating one time. All donations are tax deductible.

https://unicornriot.ninja/eight-years-of-frontline-independent-media-unicorn-riot/

asbestos,
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@UnicornRiot
Happy to kick in a little

Deglassco, to history

Issued on July 26, 1948, Harry Truman’s Executive Order 9981 eradicated segregation in military. The response from the military units, however, ranged from muted to outright hostility. This was no surprise. Truman’s decision & the reactions to it symbolized Black Americans’ broad struggle for dignity, respect, opportunity, and freedom in the United States of America.

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@blackmastodon @BlackMastodon

asbestos,
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@Deglassco they did it because butthurt baby white guys weren't going to join a ____ unit

lowqualityfacts, to random
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I don't know which of my facts pushed them over the edge, but I sure hope it was this one.

Low Quality Fact: Not only does lasagna have a silent G, but the word also contains three invisible Fs.

asbestos,
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@lowqualityfacts

Anyone who posts an insult and announces a block deserves to have their name out in the open. Don't redact the douche.

emptywheel, to random
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Carlos De Oliveira Added a Lock to the Storage Facility Then (Claimed He) Gave Away the Key

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/07/29/carlos-de-oliveira-added-a-lock-to-the-storage-facility-then-claimed-he-gave-away-the-key/

asbestos,
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@emptywheel
"a bigger lock" yeah, sure virtually all locks can be picked by a skilled individual, most in less than a minute or two.

MissingThePt, to random
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Alt text for a picture should be a thousand words.

asbestos,
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@MissingThePt://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExMGJqaTB0aDQzMG80YTg0cWRua2oycXJkY3BibjE3Y25xNjRrMWpqeCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/9T3hk5HWKGdpK/giphy.gif

rodhilton, to random
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Whistleblowers really missed the window on telling the American public aliens exist and having them give a shit.

Tell 1993-us that aliens are real and we're all over it, guaranteed. Life-changing stuff.

But 2023-us? Frankly I just want to know if one of the aliens might consider running for president.

asbestos,
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@rodhilton if they are more advanced than we are they'll know enough to stay away. If they are not as advanced as us one can hope that they are far enough away to avoid contact with us until we have wiped ourselves out

futurebird, to random
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Over on tiktok user @nomadicpancakes has observed a group of that have learned to turn on the sensor on a water bottle filling station by walking over the target.

This is just the kind of thing bees are made to learn, they love targets and need to follow them when dealing with flowers all the time.

The interesting thing is that the bee who hits the target produces water for her sisters, herself less so. But these girls seem to have that worked out!

https://www.tiktok.com/@nomadicpancakes/video/7255331484444314926

A short video showing bees walking on the sensor of a water dispenser over and over and water coming out.

asbestos,
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@futurebird when we had bees we'd put out a bowl with some rocks and glass beads in it. The bees could land on them and drink without falling in, for the most part.

Free_Press, to news
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BREAKING NEWS!

The Justice Department is accusing former President Trump of attempting to delete surveillance footage at his Mar-a-Lago property in a new superseding indictment filed in the classified records case on Thursday.

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-charged-trying-delete-mar-223308851.html

asbestos,
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@Free_Press they call him Captain smokeafart.

lauren, to random
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DeSantis says he'd consider RFK, Jr. to head FDA or CDC. I wonder who DeSantis wants to head his Department of Slavery?

asbestos,
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@lauren
He intends to put Squeaky Frome in charge of HHS.

LindaCollins11, to random
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19 states are requesting women's medical records to see if they have traveled to get an abortion or for any contraception or gender surgical procedure. WTF? What happened to medical privacy? When it was for covid info, records were blocked, giving the unvaccinated permission to spread disease. But your most personal info is okay because you are a woman, so therefore, property of the state you live in?

asbestos,
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@cynblogger @LindaCollins11
The reason men aren't charged & no one is seeking to charge them for visiting a prostitute is because they are men. It's nuts if I go to Oklahoma and rob a store the DA in my home state doesn't go after me. The DA in Oklahoma does.

StillIRise1963, to random
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If you're a racist, you're a big dummy.

asbestos,
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@StillIRise1963
I think this part of it may have actually bothered my dad more than anything. The idea of being willfully ignorant. Of not looking at objective facts, of clinging to foolish old fashioned notions.
That's the funny thing to, if one group was overall 10, 15, or even 20% less intelligent than another it would really not be informative about the person in front of you.

taylorlorenz, to TeslaMotors
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Twitter will officially rebrand as X later today, Elon Musk confirms https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/23/23804629/twitters-rebrand-to-x-may-actually-be-happening-soon #x

Twitter logo

asbestos,
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@taylorlorenz
What a fucking tool

futurebird, to random
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  • Isopods have 7 pairs of legs all pretty much the same length.

  • 74** logic gates have ... 7 pairs of legs all the same length!

Coincidence? I think not!

Clearly, each isopod contains 4 logic gates. This Armadillidium vulgare has 4 AND gates. Don't forget to connect power & ground legs & use pull-down resistors on inputs.

(best practice is to simply ask the rollie to position itself in your circuit.)

Like most natural systems. they use micro-voltages, don't use standard 5V power sources.

asbestos,
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@futurebird
This is the kind of high order geekery I nerd more of.

realTuckFrumper, to random
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'Sounds like a porn website': Twitter users lampoon Elon Musk’s 'X' rebrand https://www.alternet.org/sounds-like-a-porn-website/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

asbestos,
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@realTuckFrumper
He is just such a huge fartsniffer.

Sheril, to science
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Isn’t it incredible to live on the same planet where this magnificent, ancient shark once grew up to 65 ft (20m)? 🦈

The massive megalodon swam Earth’s ocean for millions of years.

Funny how many folks mistakenly believe humans are some kind of pinnacle of #evolution. We literally just arrived a few hundred thousand years ago. #science #history

asbestos,
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@Sheril were no pinnacle. That's for sure. If we were I'd find who's in charge and I'd tell them what for.

breadandcircuses, (edited ) to environment

⬇️ This is a fact. ⬇️

It’s not a meme. It’s not an opinion. It’s a fact — a fact I wish everyone could accept, take to heart, and use to motivate action!!

asbestos,
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@breadandcircuses a long time ago after the Exxon Valdez spilled oil all over the place Greenpeace ran a ad that had a picture of the captain of the boat a d the headline "it was his driving that caused the Alaska oil spill, it was your's"
So I do think we also need to look at ourself. They would not be doing all this carbon if we were not giving them the money to do it.

HeavenlyPossum, to random

I don’t know how many times I have to say this but

“There are aspects of past societies that are better than modern society and we should be free to adopt them”

is not the same as

“The past was absolutely better than the present is and we should adopt past lifestyles wholesale.”

asbestos,
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@jake2 @HeavenlyPossum
It would need to be percapita to be meaningful.
Also pandemic disease is not often the major cause of death over time.
But if you look at global average life expectancy. It way up. Worldwide.

asbestos,
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@jake2 @HeavenlyPossum
Your point? Also how do you define bad?

asbestos,
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@jake2 @HeavenlyPossum well considering the difference in population yes it's reasonable to use per capita. Does reducing infant mortality not count somehow?
And please site the covid numbers source.

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