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kudra

@kudra@aus.social

I like beets.

#UBI techno-#Georgist #4dayworkweek #ev #ebikes #parent #embryoadoption #auspol #health

Allergic to Friendface. Hoping fellow allergy holders & #Twatters decamp here (I was here in 2018! see: https://mastodon.social/@kudra 😅)

Let's decouple our ideas of innate human value from jobs, mmk?

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kudra,
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@Seagoon_ @Thornburywitch commiserations, and same, though I did manage to get a 5 hour stretch for the first time in almost 2 weeks before waking about 2am. Herniated discs fucking suck.

kudra,
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@Thornburywitch @bacon... rich gentlemen have it boys... indigestion!

... why yes, I did learn that song for a school production, why do you ask? 😊

Quite like Dodger btw, nice little reboot of the tale, eh.

kudra,
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@Thornburywitch I was a bit slack there, referring to The Artful Dodger with Tim Minchin, haven't read the Pratchett one but imagine he'd do the dialogue quite well, right up his alley.

mike, to random
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I think a simple change in nomenclature could help Mastodon incredibly. Servers is an inaccurate term and instance is unfamiliar and vague. Both create tension for new users.
Why not simply call Mastodon instances what they are: Communities.
Ask users which Mastodon community they'd like to join. Have community rules, community policy, and community leaders. Not server rules, instance moderators and administrators.

Let me start. Everyone is welcome at our community, https://thecanadian.social

kudra,
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@espyeen @ajsadauskas @chad @Gargron @mike And here's the social in social media. It is more complex than email, or even instant messengers, in that the communications are more public. So it's far more a community issue when inevitable conflicts occur.

Having said that, my Fediverse experience so far has been completely unproblematic, maybe just luck, or down to a stable instance? I guess you don't know what you don't know.

fraying, (edited ) to random
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People who say they don’t like nazis, but turn around and take money from nazis, and give money to nazis, do in fact like nazis.

kudra,
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@mattwilcox @fraying @anildash I am concerned by the number of people who don't understand the tolerance paradox.

mike, to random
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I finally broke down and created a kbin account. You can follow me at @Mmccue if at all interested.

kudra,
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@mike @Mmccue I think this is fairly normal behaviour for Fedi enthusiasts. Kinda like Pokemon.

onepict, to random
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I remember when strike through with LJ happened as I'm very sure @anildash does as well.

Because Livejournals code was open we had several network splits.

We had LJ, insane journal, journalfen and Dreamwidth.

Open ID even meant we could post comments on these communities and people's journals.

I have a feeling that there's a lot of former LJ folks on here, who were in fandom.

kudra,
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@onepict @anildash I wasn't in fandom on LJ, was in the community, which thrived there in the early aughts.

While people have survived and found friends again after the split, it wasn't a good time. It was the same, probably worse really, with G+.

Interestingly have found some people from both spaces have migrated to Fedi, but it's still hard to find folk, and many who were on LJ in quite tight knit communities that I speak to in other places (Discord, Signal) still have the opinion that Fedi isn't worth their time as their networks are not here (yet). The fragmentation was deeply damaging, most people just went to Facebook, and even now, far too many can't see the importance of Federation to our social health and safety.

I feel the only way things will truly change is for legal intervention, which is coming to the EU, and why Threads, I think, was built, in anticipation of this legal hurdle for monopolist players.

kudra,
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@onepict @anildash absolutely, the communities were so key to LJ's success at the time (and I maintain to this day, they screwed up by not adding events functionality and this is an area I'm actively watching Fedi for a genuine FB killer, and nothing quite works as needed yet...)

I have watched the process of with interest too, while I was never a big Reddit user, the sense of community there is a little similar to LJ back in the day, and I follow one Rexxit community ( on aussie.zone) through my Mastodon account and occasionally contribute even though the functionality split of Fedi means it doesn't quite work 100%. Not sure if this is something that can actually be achieved with different features across Fedi, but my gut tells me we'll have something more functional take the place of Mastodon as a leader in this space (I just hope it isn't Threads 😑), something with both communities and events, but nothing I've tested makes the grade, though there are some contenders.

kudra,
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@onepict @anildash WordPress​MU tried. G+ actually did a reasonable job, I think Diaspora might have as well, but of course now we know in hindsight, G+ was only created to destroy the nascent Fediverse, which actually had a shot at that time of taking a serious percentage of eyeballs from Facebook before it got split by G+. It was a fucking shame. And I was one of the mugs.

At the time Google spouted the same bullshit and are spouting now about planning to be interoperable, but I think Meta is definitely bolder now, and know much more about how to lock in users. They want to slurp up the ex-Twitter addicts, they don't really care about Fedi, we're still peanuts to them. The concern about Threads is only relevant while people don't learn the lesson many of us active in Fedi now learned back then.

Fool me once, shame on you. Many are wiser now... I hope. I still think legal requirements for interoperability are necessary to protect against the monopolists though most plebs still don't understand why it's imperative for a functional society.

Side quest:
Social Media tshirts I have:

LiveJournal
Diaspora
"NO I'M NOT ON FUCKING FACEBOOK"

... really need a cute to add to my collection, recommendations welcomed 😊

kudra,
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@Baku @bot001 I fckn hate when they pull this crap. I almost always order things on eBay based on them saying they ship with AusPost and if they turn out not to be it's always a giant drama.

kudra,
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@6368_39162 @Duenan

< giggles in Billy Bubbles >

Who doesn't have a Sodastream these days? Pretty much everyone I know under 50 has one. I really cringe paying so much for carbonation, plus I like my nice glass limited edition Sodastream bottles so much more than plastic.

kudra, to fediverse
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Preaching to the choir here, but I think it's really valuable to see services/apps like Flipboard pivoting to open social, in a really visible way.

This is stuff I have been screaming about (and annoying the hell out of most people) for over 15 years. I am finally hopeful that the critical mass has just about been reached, and each pivot that occurs, especially with relatively well known brands that rose up before the monolith walled gardens, I'm a little bit more vindicated. I care so passionately about this, and I really hope to eventually be able to reconnect with many people I've lost from my life because I refused to connect with them on Facebook all those years ago.

Great interview and makes really good points, reminding us why it's so important to fight for this. Not as keen about the bit about advertising, which obviously is part of the revenue model for many apps these days, but they focus on the need to be respectful of users, instead of that is so prevalent currently.

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/dot-social-evan-prodromou/

kudra,
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@underwatermagpies @6368_39162 high on the wall or low on the wall? Multi storey or single storey building?

kudra,
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@underwatermagpies yes, that is what I would suggest.

GottaLaff, to comics
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: “If people want to die for their politics, who am I to stop them?”

See entire strip here:
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2023/11/26

kudra,
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@bhawthorne @GottaLaff oh for goodness sake. Neither of those papers mention even ONCE. Or any other protein vaxxes.

kudra,
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@GottaLaff @bhawthorne they also said they would come back to it, and there's other people in the thread as well.

kudra, to Hydrogen
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A more creative take on the sad repeated failures of , as I've said often I'm not against (green) hydrogen but so far it seems far too many oil industry shills, and only getting worse. The only potential use that looks promising is a proprietary solid hydrogen technology from Norway, and it's not going to be used in cars, it's sensible for home electricity / space heating because of the waste heat created.

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/11/24/the-odyssey-of-the-hydrogen-fleet-a-tragicomedy-in-six-acts/amp/

kudra,
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@Hypx this another one of those handful of people?

https://www.commondreams.org/news/cop28-hydrogen

I've known FOE people for decades. They're a diverse group. They're not one or two voices.

kudra,
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@melbaboutown @bot001 I can't offer anything really except empathy, I've only just experienced extended intense pain from a herniated disc, and even after 2 weeks I was thinking, if this doesn't get better, I don't know how I'm going to keep going, it's absolutely terrifying to consider years like that. I'm fortunate to seem to be one of the 90% that responds to conservative management but I'm on long term pain meds, and I'm really not sure if the injury is healing by itself or the pain is being masked by the meds.

One thing from your story though, I've read that an emerging treatment for a range of gastro issues is gut microbiome transplant, might be worth looking into if you haven't already as it's probably not going to be recommended by many gastroenterologists.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to australia
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🇦🇺 Australia: Millions of Aussies ruled ineligible for improved COVID vaccines.

"The Federal Government has secured about 3 million doses of the XBB.1.5 vaccines. That is 1.2 million fewer than the number of Australians aged 65 and over."

@Mark_Butler_MP @auscovid19

Source: https://thewest.com.au/news/coronavirus/millions-of-aussies-ruled-ineligible-for-improved-covid-vaccines-c-12628587

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kudra,
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@earthmothering9 @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 worse than disappointing. I was already looking at vaccine tourism for my daughter now she is 2, given our government still hasn't given permission for younger children to be vaxxed. Now I have a reason to go myself!

kudra,
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@Mittens_meow @bot001 if I'd seen any questions on here about it, I would have recommended , if available: tends to cause less reaction than the mRNA vaccines, but not many places have it. Something to keep in mind for next year perhaps.

kudra,
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@bananafungus @bot001 if they were born before 2005, yes, there's going to be a cohort who could potentially be vulnerable to chickenpox who didn't get vaccinated before it became part of the 18 month NIP vaccines.

I'm planning to get the shingles vaccine as soon as my GP gets stock, the rules changed on Nov 1st and now some are eligible for free. I don't think I am but it's meant stock has got stretched =p

kudra,
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@bananafungus tbh everyone should be eligible for either shingles or chickenpox vaccine for free, because otherwise the scenario you are now in is going to crop up repeatedly for quite a while. I got shingles in my early 30s, and was lucky it wasn't painful, but realised as I'm now older it will get more common to crop up and I might not escape the neuropathy 😬

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kudra,
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@evelyn @bikes @mastobikes my ebike was stolen from a public place with medium traffic. I was pissed, but I still bought another one, I'm just more careful about when it gets locked up (relatively rarely).

kudra, to TeslaMotors
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The grid is currently paying me to charge my (and do my laundry!)

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