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fucking die!

english without an england to go home to.

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RickiTarr, to random
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What is your dream road trip? Where would you start? Where would you end up? What stops would you make along the way? It can be short or long, whatever interests you!

melanie,
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@RickiTarr Really? The greater PNW is actually mostly a dour place. Even when it’s dry and cold, it’s somehow drab and dreary like England.

melanie,
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@RickiTarr Not really a dream road trip, but a template I think would be interesting: The patch of dust described thus: all of Cascadia all the way inland to the BC-Alberta border/Intermountain West, with the eastern extent being extended into the US using the mountain range that bounds BC to the East, from 54° 40min N to the southern extent of Oregon (line extended east as required). Within that, stopping at every settled place with a population over 100. Unless it’s over 5000, I won’t be stopping for any longer than to take a self-portrait, unless that’s where the campsite nearest the 5k town is.

Start point: I already live in the start point town, which is Prince George, BC, just under 54° North and 122° West.

rameshgupta, to random
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is too stupid to realize that NOT voting for is a vote FOR , and that her boycott of could be her last — She might not get another opportunity to vote EVER.

Via @SteveThompson

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/cardi-b-wont-vote-joe-biden-or-donald-trump_uk_66477644e4b0cba40889b45b?utm_source=press.coop

melanie,
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@SteveThompson @donray @rameshgupta @RunRichRun @GottaLaff @joeinwynnewood @Eetschrijver So, you support genocide.

cstross, to random
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UK government adviser on disruptive protest accused of conflict of interest:

John Woodcock, whose review proposes bans for protest groups, has lobbying links to firms in arms and fossil fuel sectors (and is recommending bans on protests against both those industries)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/government-adviser-on-disruptive-protest-accused-of-conflict-of-interest

melanie,
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@HighlandLawyer @simon_brooke @BashStKid @glitzersachen @cstross my understanding is the EU is slightly older, but even so, that’s one more than Simon demanded

I will say though that I think second chambers might be wasteful if they’re just as democratically elected as the first chamber

melanie,
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@glitzersachen @BashStKid @simon_brooke @HighlandLawyer @cstross The tangled mass of treaties making it up can be argued to be the constitution you seek.

melanie,
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@HighlandLawyer @glitzersachen @BashStKid @simon_brooke @cstross Yes, it’s just like whatever clogged mess is going on on the Thames.

That’s a silly place to put a parliament, as well, isn’t it? What if the river decides it isn’t very happy with that?

mcc, to random
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Thinking about how Mozilla is "pivoting to AI" but DeepSpeech, one of the very few "AI" products you could possibly find a positive use for (pure-local speech recognition), is not only a Mozilla product but so abandoned that you actually have to downgrade to Python 3.9 to run it

melanie,
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@dragonfrog @mcc A shovel is just a tool

ai6yr, to politics

AP: Biden administration releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from reserve in bid to lower prices https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-administration-releasing-1-million-barrels-of-gasoline-from-reserve-in-bid-to-lower-prices

melanie,
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@ai6yr you and I also both know that oil companies will use this to further cut pumping and raise prices

melanie,
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@ai6yr except that a chicken in every pot is more likely to be sustainable than cheap petrol

ai6yr, (edited ) to random

Boy, this auction liquidator said "screw it, no photos, no lots, we're just going to sell the whole damn thing" Anyone want a Red Lobster (INCLUDING EVERYTHING IN THE PREMISES)?

https://bid.restaurantequipment.bid/Public/Auction/AuctionItemDetail?AuctionId=%2fKoYA1j74%2fd45J4SRlQW0g%3d%3d&pageNumber=pf6Q%2bhJtdeleDd9FfYpy9w%3d%3d&pageSize=O5OaPaZE1XrTjGtTQItkaw%3d%3d&showFilter=iBcS%2b4ptjknZQtCojbueqQ%3d%3d&sortColumn=C9SY4KX74WJIILYqur0bmw%3d%3d&AuctionItemId=Z2zRQq1PXgF4PX0W5ApbJw%3d%3d

melanie,
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@ai6yr Image is just a screenshot.

volpeon, to random

Time to whip out the ol' reliable

RE: https://mk.absturztau.be/notes/9s1g1x6dkto901vc

melanie,
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@volpeon Steinbock-Krise again?

notsle, to random
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melanie,
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@notsle Sale and leasebacks should create a rebuttable presumption of unfair favouring of a creditor in bankruptcy court.

Christine_Broesenhuber, to gardening
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It's pouring down today. I hope the won't completely devour my plants. They're even eating my and 😠 🤮 + the are killing off my plants. Sometimes can be frustrating. Heute regnet es Bindfäden. Hoffe, die werden nicht alle meine Kürbispflanzen auffressen. Sie haben sich schon über + hergemacht. killen meine . Manchmal ist furstrierend.

melanie,
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@JimmyB @Christine_Broesenhuber @gardening Did you prune the roots as well? Very important for root bound plants

AnnaAnthro, to Toronto
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#Squirrels caused 80 power outages in #Toronto last year: hydro officials

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/squirrels-toronto-eighty-outages-1.7208716

melanie,
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@AnnaAnthro Beats me.

melanie,
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@AnnaAnthro boreal gigantism?

melanie,
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@AnnaAnthro Remind me again why power lines are not insulated?

melanie, to random
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@simon_brooke hey did you know that you write good and you have done for 11 years?

ai6yr, to climate

In the face of increasing climate impacts, Florida is picking "denial" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/climate/desantis-climate-change-florida.html?utm_source=press.coop

melanie,
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@ai6yr why blurring

lain, to random
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should he get a better desk?

melanie,
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@lain maybe it would’ve stopped him from becoming a killer

anniezaidi, to random
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"they curtly informed my sister and me that our names weren't on the voter list so we couldn't cast our votes.
We insisted this couldn't be right since we had double-checked the Election Commission of India (ECI) website... After adamantly demanding to see the voter lists ourselves, they begrudgingly showed us one, seemingly concealing the other... we didn't back down and persisted until they finally revealed the second list. Our names were right there"

https://article-14.com/post/a-muslim-voter-s-first-person-account-of-how-she-fought-to-cast-her-vote-in-the-2024-election-664abb5c73502?s=09

melanie,
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@crmsnbleyd @anniezaidi I weep for India.

tomkindlon, to mecfs
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New US preprint:
Oxidative Stress is a shared characteristic of ME/CFS and

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.04.592477v1

Authors include Ron Davis, Mark Davis & Hector Bonilla

@mecfs

melanie,
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@Tooden @tomkindlon @mecfs reactive oxygen species

lain, to random
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the feminine urge to have that smol bean energy

melanie,
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@lain are you a gril

melanie, to random
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To save the British economy, blow up the Union.

melanie, to gardening
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@gardening I wonder if there's a non-toxic preparation that inhibits Allium spp. from flowering without impacting their vigour in any other way.

melanie, to random
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An educated proletariat is a useful thing. It means that if all the leadership somehow gets snuffed, the society has backups.

When leadership hoards the means of leading, society doesn’t have backups.

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