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freequaybuoy

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Born scruffy. Codes for a living, lives to write. MA Creative Writing, Birkbeck. Published in: Mechanics' Institute Review, The Curlew, Cabinet of Heed, Fish Flash Fiction 2020, Exeter Short Story Prize 2020 Highly Commended. Remainer, Rejoiner, Anti-Fascist. #RejoinEU

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Garwboy, to random
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Horrible when those in charge make decisions that make your life much harder for purely selfish reasons without giving a crap about your situation, isn't it. Just awful.

freequaybuoy,
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@Garwboy Why don't they cancel Netflix, stop buying avocados and pull themselves up by their bootstraps?

jimmylittle, to random
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Every time I use Siri on my WATCH, which is often, it drives me insane that the Siri blob overlay does not center itself over the bottom center complication.

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freequaybuoy,
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@jimmylittle Thanks, I'll never not notice that now

ArtPhotosDesk, (edited ) to art
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Earlier today, King Charles III revealed his first official portrait since his coronation in May 2023.

https://flip.it/OtdatX (via TOWN & COUNTRY)

The painting, by artist Jonathan Yeo, was commissioned in 2020 when the King was still Prince of Wales.

Reactions ranged wildly.

What’s your take?

freequaybuoy,
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@ArtPhotosDesk Francis Bacon vibes

GryphonSK, to random
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freequaybuoy,
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@GryphonSK Doublethink

AuldFoggerty, to random
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England, where politics and commentary is completely normal:

Reform got exactly zero seats, and the pundits can't stop talking about them.

the Greens got 159 seats, and no-one from the Greens is interviewed, and no-one on tv is talking about them or to them.

freequaybuoy,
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@Lazarou @AuldFoggerty What, this?

Mrfunkedude, to random
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The "Three Body Problem" on Netflix on it's own is bad, but once you compare it to the book, it's much much worse.

The ONLY really good book to movie adaptation I have ever seen was "Silence of the lambs". It more or less just turned the book into a script. The most accurate adaptation I've seen to this day.

What's YOUR favorite book to movie adaptation? Tell us why!

freequaybuoy,
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@Mrfunkedude Nineteen Eighty Four (the John Hurt one). Never seen anything else that was so close to how I imagined the book.

BUT

What I really like now is when adaptations diverge, and why. Acknowledging the differences between forms - such as how the Wachowskis did Cloud Atlas - the book's very particular structure is fantastic, but their approach made much more sense for the screen.

JoshuaHolland, to random
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Despite the legacy media’s relentlessly hostile coverage, is absolutely walloping among people who get their news from real news outlets.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/poll-biden-trump-supporters-sharply-divided-media-consume-rcna149497

freequaybuoy,
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@JoshuaHolland It's the "don't follow political news" lot that worries me. People who think they're incredibly smart for being "neutral" but in reality are just following people who do follow political news, and aren't really aware just how influenced they are by memes, thumbnails, soundbites, headlines and jokes.

TheDinosaurDave, to random
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To any of the palaeontologists on here.
If humans disappeared, assuming no evidence of us is left, but all the animals in our zoos, reserves, and other places like that, get free and breed and diversify.
How do you think that palaeontologists 1m years from now would explain the extinction like event and nigh magical spread of animals all of the world. Like kangaroo fossils suddenly appearing in North America, etc.
How would you explain it? What kind of evidence would you look for?

freequaybuoy,
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@llewelly @TheDinosaurDave Would've thought it's in soil and ice cores - pollen counts and diversity etc.

freequaybuoy,
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@TheDinosaurDave @llewelly No I understood - you were very clear - I was just replying to the other question about deforestation. I didn't answer yours because I don't know. I did see a documentary that said, but can't remember how long exactly. I do know the Earth is completely resurfaced every 500 million years, which means there could've been an advanced civilisation like ours before that and we'd never know. A few times in fact. Also interesting for the Cambrian Explosion ~500 million y.a.

IndyRichard, to Scotland
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When Scotland is facing Tory or Labour Brexit and more austerity, it makes me want independence even more. I won't be distracted by what goes on with press salivating over ferries or about leading figures in the SNP.
I want an independent Scotland. That desire doesn't go away.

freequaybuoy,
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@yianiris @IndyRichard That's a false equivalence and a category mistake. EU membership is designed to prevent dictatorship and enshrine rights for all. Which is why the Tories wanted to leave so badly, and why they're able to lock up GPs for protesting now. Furthermore, Scotland voted in the clear majority to remain. It was far more conclusive than the overall vote to leave.

dgar, to music
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Great plan #Dgar. Release your new track on the same day that Taylor Swift drops her new album. Brilliant. Oh, and The Wiggles dropped an album too? Great. That’s just great.

https://songwhip.com/dgar/gettin-stoned

#DgarMusic #NewSong #Music #Indie #Rock #StonerRock #420day #Happy420day #MusiciansOfMastodon

freequaybuoy,
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@dgar It's Taylor Swift I feel sorry for.

pvonhellermannn, to random
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It seems, IS, utterly crazy, that amidst everything else the UK government is ruthlessly continuing its clampdown on climate protesters. But it is.

Excellent article by Natasha Walter here on how Dr Sarah Benn got 30 days in prison for holding up a placard saying “Stop New Oil” and overall recent developments:

“the direction of travel is fast and frightening and its repercussions are growing.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/13/climate-crisis-protest-activism-repression

freequaybuoy, (edited )
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@pvonhellermannn Yay! Freedom. Yay! Democracy. Well done Leave voters, you got the fascist state you always wanted. The freedom to be fascist - hurrah!

flargh, to random
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we have almost half a century of Star Trek, over 900 episodes across all series, more than a dozen movies, endless blogs and technical manuals and fiction of all sorts, and still no clear idea of how they use the toilet

freequaybuoy,
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@flargh Oh that's easy. They use the three seashells.

freequaybuoy,
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@johnefrancis @flargh Ah but you see, with the seashells, more is less.

machias, to random
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Wait, there are people actually scared of the eclipse like it’s some sort of abnormal event? I really struggle with the amount of stupid in this country.

freequaybuoy,
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@adhdeanasl @machias Did this same brother-in-law also say the Covid vaccine would turn her into a 5G hotspot?

foone, to random
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Honestly at this point I want the US to get universal healthcare even if it doesn't work, because at the very least it'll put Kaiser Permanente out of business.

freequaybuoy,
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@foone Brit here. It works great. Its only weakness is conservatives.

Mrfunkedude, to random
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Hey librarians!

I saw this question somewhere else, so I thought I’d ask it here.

If the you were trapped inside of your library in the dead of winter with no power or heat, which books would you burn first for warmth?

Please boost to get to more librarians!

freequaybuoy,
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@Mrfunkedude Yours.

The heat from that burn alone should sustain me for a few more weeks.

dgar, to random
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I’ve got a joke about time travel, but I’ve decided not to post it.

None of you liked it.

freequaybuoy,
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@dgar Don't need a time machine to know that mate 😝

dgar, (edited ) to random
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I’m still not sure if I’ll do an “album” because I have too much fun sharing songs as I finish them, as singles. All the same, if I do, I’ll need a good name for it. So, just for fun…

https://on.soundcloud.com/6kQvAVc5wjgCHy1R7

freequaybuoy,
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@amiserabilist @dgar Dgar Head?

Migueldeicaza, to random
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Programming languages are just syntactic sugar around hash tables.

freequaybuoy,
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@Migueldeicaza @mcc Perhaps the real value was the key we collected along the way?

sharan, (edited ) to random
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Well now.

freequaybuoy,
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@sharan I guess danger sex in Alabama just wasn't landing the same any more.

iBlame, to random
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Dear Excellent Fediversian Who Recommended Timer Pill Bottle Caps: a thousand times thank you! These things are genius. SO many times (just now, for example) the timers have saved my brain-fogged ass from double-dosing. All technology should be this useful.

freequaybuoy,
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@iBlame This is the answer!

johncarlosbaez, (edited ) to random
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What did Einstein do after discovering general relativity in 1915? Sit around and complain about the Lord playing dice with the universe? Not quite:

  1. In 1916 he showed his theory predicts gravitational waves, whose existence was first confirmed in 1974.

  2. In 1917 he introduced what we now call "dark energy", whose existence was first confirmed in 1998.

  3. In 1925 he wrote a key paper on what we now call "Bose-Einstein condensates", predicting that particles of integer spin form a new state of matter at low temperatures. This idea is important for understanding superconductors and even lasers - though photons, being massless, work differently.

  4. In 1935 he wrote about the "Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox", which laid the groundwork for understanding the true weirdness of the quantum world. Even though the paper was phrased as an argument against quantum mechanics, when Bell sharpened the argument it revealed features of quantum entanglement that are crucial to quantum information processing!

  5. Also in 1935 he coauthored the first paper on wormholes, showing that general relativity allows amazing solutions that connect distant regions of space. He wanted to use this to explain particles as wormhole ends: the paper was called "The particle problem in general relativity".

I think it's cool that items 3 and 4 served as the basis for current and future quantum technologies. He was always way ahead of his time.

And don't forget all his work on unified field theories! Though not successful, it was crucial in lifting the goals of theoretical physics to something very ambitious: unifying all the forces of nature! He spent most of his later years on this.

freequaybuoy,
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@spacemagick @johncarlosbaez Wait, what?

freequaybuoy, to random
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The thing that really really gets me (about the stupidity, not the imminent threat) of conspiracy theories is this - the general gist, at least in the nineties, was that a shadowy group were creating a fascist New World Order. Forwardwind to an actual fascist takeover and where are all the conspiracy theorists? On its side Cheering it on Fucking idiots.

freequaybuoy,
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@uastronomer Ha, yeah bang on. Except I think conspiracy theories are endlessly deferred. This is what distinguishes them from actual conspiracies - as soon as it and its conspirators are known it loses all appeal. So I would say it was when they saw the people claiming to rebel against the conspiracy looked and sounded just like them that they partied all night. Even though they are obviously the very thing they claim to be against. They think they're a rebellion, the little guy, the underdog.

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