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melanie

@melanie@bv.umbrellix.org

fucking die!

english (or novosaxonian, if you might) without an england to go home to.

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astrid, to random
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i really like nix, i'm sad that it's exploding...

melanie,
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@astrid fork it

compost, to gardening
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Is there a exchange community or group on Mastodon?

I have some chives and green onions that are going to seeds and I will have more seeds than I need.

Of course, there is our local free seeds and plants library but I would prefer to use mastodon as my main seeds resource.

melanie,
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@Laplantgenetics @compost If they expire, then yes

ai6yr, (edited ) to random
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Ah, so far so good. Stihl FSA57 trimmer (battery powered) works very well.. VERY quiet. Cuts the mustard (which my corded trimmer does not). Extremely lightweight, compared to every gasoline one I've used before. It was a project to order it, though. I'll probably be ordering a second because a spare battery plus charger is almost the same cost, and that will include another head, too. 🤔

Did half of the weeds on my hillside to try it out, in almost no time. That usually is a long project for me due to hassling with line, power cord and/or gasoline. Really good build quality. This model is light duty/homeowner (but we are just using it for bee yard clearing).

melanie,
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@ai6yr @meganL IS THAT WHAT THAT PHRASE MEANS

ai6yr, to random
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Per scanner, they have told anyone not engage with fire to pull back to a safe distance away.

melanie,
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@StandUp2Fascism @ai6yr What the kentucky fried pigeon fuck

compost, to random
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I would like to address here how mulching lawnmowers are detrimental to your grass and your garden.

So many times have I heard people say, spraying the grass clippings is good for the soil.

If it was true we would have understood by now how much topsoil this method can make.

And the truth here is that it creates more troubles for your soil than it fixes problems.

Because grass clippings are full of nitrogen, when they decompose they turn into bacteria. And it is those bacteria that feed the weeds we have in our lawns.

I have seen a lot of our neighbors mow every Saturday in the same pattern and do nothing but compact the soil and give bacteria to their weeds.

Very few people collect their grass clippings to use as a proper material for a compost pile.

You can give nutrients back to your soil by creating a compost pile and spraying it on your soil. This will do a much better job than your lawnmower.

melanie,
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@compost so they should be bagged, and mixed evenly with chips?

anthropy, to random
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Being a weathered internet user is to see a rickroll, scroll through it to see if there was anything else hidden in there, and then going back to the start and singing along

melanie,
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@anthropy Being a weathered internet user is sequestering carbon dioxide into the sea

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, to random

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    melanie,
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    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs I hope to use onions as a peace offering.

    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.

    fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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    @ForfarFairLady @Roadwarrior29 @MadeyeTheCarnaptious @IndyRichard @RabBrucesSpider1 @patrickhadfield @ScepticalScot1
    You guys aren't going to like this.

    "From Skye to Stirling, Scotland’s distilleries are the beating heart of the world’s whisky industry.

    Labour will unlock the full potential of Scotland's economy and get Britain's future back."
    Keir Starmer, yesterday

    melanie,
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    @MadeyeTheCarnaptious @fkamiah17 @ForfarFairLady @Roadwarrior29 @IndyRichard @RabBrucesSpider1 @patrickhadfield @ScepticalScot1

    I view a second Highland Clearance in the future.

    melanie,
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    @fkamiah17 @ForfarFairLady @IndyRichard @MadeyeTheCarnaptious @RabBrucesSpider1 @Roadwarrior29 @ScepticalScot1 @patrickhadfield wait what?

    melanie,
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    @Roadwarrior29 @fkamiah17 @MadeyeTheCarnaptious @ForfarFairLady @IndyRichard @RabBrucesSpider1 @patrickhadfield @ScepticalScot1 Wales is already being mined for fresh water for England I have heard.

    Here's a crazy idea: rather than Scots and Welsh independence, England needs to be stripped of its seats at Westminster, and English should be subject to immigration controls to visit Wales, Scotland, and Ulster. Only Welsh, Scots and Ulsterites should have a say in anything.

    fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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    🤬🤬🤬
    Starmer's shitting himself.

    melanie,
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    @fkamiah17 Starmer is just starming

    simontatham, to random
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    I get a lot of 'routine' queries from companies who haven't noticed that I'm not a company myself with a large staff to answer them. But even with my extensive experience of the genre, this deserves some kind of award:

    'As part of an internal inquiry regarding the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) within [company], we need information on whether FOSS is present in the application "SimonTatham_PuTTY" that we have obtained from you.'

    Anyone else would worry about specks of non-FOSS!

    melanie,
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    @simontatham Corporate procedures were, in some cases, a mistake

    volpeon, to random

    Second view of my ref sheet brought up-to-date!

    RE: https://is-a.wyvern.rip/notes/9m1jp83jab4cfce0

    melanie,
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    @volpeon Nomf

    melanie,
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    @volpeon I want to give the vern hugs

    lain, to random
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    discord is deliberately crippling IRC by being better in every way

    melanie,
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    @lain @methyltheobromine misinfordation

    melanie,
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    @lain @methyltheobromine openssl s_client -connect invictus.wa.us.umbrellix.net:6697

    alexlac51, to random

    English Voters will have a real dilemma:

    Vote you will get ...

    Vote you will get ...

    ...🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    ...

    melanie,
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    @alexlac51 @violetmadder This is what it means to be ruled by the English. The good ones don't fight, and the fighting ones aren't good.

    melanie,
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    @alexlac51 @violetmadder Ain't that the truth...

    melanie,
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    @alexlac51 @violetmadder vive la révolution écossaise

    lain, to random
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    > WARNING: Speaker safety models have yet to be fully validated on all models. We are enabling audio only on models where we are confident things are ready and safe to use. If you use any undocumented overrides to force-enable speakers on any other machine models, you are entirely on your own and may very well blow up your speakers.

    Ah, fond memories of configuring sound and x11 in the early 2000s

    melanie,
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    @lain is this about the maboopintosh

    lain, to random
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    video/mp4

    melanie,
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    @kaia @lain you can literally just refuse to shake hands with blokes, you don't have to convert to a genocidal death cult like christianity or islam to do so.

    fun fact: christians of the time regarded islam as a heretical form of christianity

    anthropy, to random
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    Something that bothers me a lot is how basically every single bit of software that has been created in the last 10 years has major bugs.

    We used to care a lot more about bugs it feels like, if something had bugs that would crash stuff, you would just not release that version, you'd work on it until those bugs were fixed; you don't release new features without removing the bugs that it introduces

    These days everything is about features, because that's what sells, uptime isn't sexy anymore.

    melanie,
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    @anthropy I don’t appreciate the unsomber tone

    ramin_hal9001, to fediverse
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    EDIT 2023-11-13:

    I am soft-deleting this post because of recent controversy around the Nivenly project all detailed here: https://twokitties.neocities.org/

    (Original post)

    Keeping bad actors away from the is a problem that cannot be solved with alone. However technology is one tool we can use to reduce the negative impact of bad actors as a first line of defense.

    For anyone interested using technology for keeping bad actors off of and the fedeiverse to the greatest extent possible, check out (at)Are0h(at)ubiqueros.com website: https://thebad.space/about . It has an block-list API which in my opinion should be incorporated into the Mastodon reference implementation to make it easier for instance maintainers and system operators to share and coordinate efforts. Since (as far as I can see, at the time of this writing) these features are NOT built-in to the current Mastodon reference implementation, which shows an unfortunate lack of concern and understanding by the maintainers of mastodon.social, we have to resort to these round-about means to keep malicious users from attacking our communities.

    Also related is the work of @oliphant who has created a similar blocklist: https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/the-oliphant-social-blocklist

    melanie,
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    @ramin_hal9001 This aged like milk

    djm_black, to random
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    The UK has failed.

    Failed to reform itself.
    Failed to remain in the EU.
    Failed to retain its reputation.
    Failed to respect international law.
    Failed to regard the poor and vulnerable.

    melanie,
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    @MadeyeTheCarnaptious @HistoPol @djm_black I account for that with the empire, which the English imposed on both pre-partition India and on Scotland.

    Mind also that the national-level Prime Minister and wrecker-in-chief is also of British Indian Empire descent, although not Muslim (my understanding is that he is Hindu).

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