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andrew, to random
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The best part about the London mayoral election? That the massively racist party (Britain First) are so unpopular that they were beaten by a man with a bin on his head (Count Binface).

pstewart,
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@offby1 @andrew Lord Buckethead was seized in a copyright dispute if I remember correctly.

Dani, to random
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Who has two thumbs and no cartilage in her hips? This bitch!

Ow. Crap.

Docs want an MRI to be specific... may be resolvable for a while with a shot, may be replacement surgery. Whee.

pstewart,
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@Dani That's sub-optimal! Ow.

That said, if it comes to that it's completely stunning how straightforward the procedure is these days, like "walk out of the hospital that day" level stuff. Huzzah for Science(tm), at least?

dragfyre, to random
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Site: Come use our website to do this thing that you can already do manually

Me: Meh

Site: It's shiny and marginally easier than what you were doing before, plus some people you know are using it

Me: Eh, I guess I could give it a try

Site: Please disable your adblocker before continuing

Me:

pstewart,
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@dragfyre But we and our 17,928 partners value your privacy!

TheSpaceshipper, to random
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Star Fox was released 31 years ago today on Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

Having just left the NES, it was a real slap in the face. 👌

pstewart,
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@TheSpaceshipper Hopping from an NES to that as one of the first SNES experiences, that one felt like complete witchcraft at times, it was great.

Also still regularly get the music stuck in my head...

kitoconnell, to TaylorSwift
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Just because the right-wing are anti-Taylor doesn't mean everyone on the left needs to start stanning a billionaire.

There are no good billionaires. If she was a good person, she wouldn't be one either. It's fine to enjoy her music but she's as harmful as every other billionaire for simply existing.

Do I think some billionaires are more actively harmful than others? Sure. But none of them should be billionaires. There are no good ones.

pstewart,
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@peterbutler @AlexanderKingsbury @kitoconnell Isn't he just?

Dedicated sealion accounts are weird.

TheSpaceshipper, to random
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David Lynch's Dune (1984): Emperor's Flagship

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pstewart,
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@TheSpaceshipper I know studio miniatures were usually built to the standard of "looks fine on screen" but it's striking how rough the edges are on that. (Unless that's just wear on a 40-year-old model...)

thetyee, to mastodon
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Post Canada's and Meta's ban on Canadian news content, sharing journalism on social media has been tough to say the least.

And yet The Tyee has seen much growth here on .

We want to see how far we can go. If you enjoy coming across Tyee stories on your Mastodon feeds, share our profile with your friends, or repost this toot, to help us get to 6,000 followers. 🐘🌟🗞

A pair of hands from the bottom right corner of the frame throws a folded newspaper — which reads "THE TYEE. News. Culture. Solutions. We put readers first!" — onto a beige surface. Another hand in the form of a thumbs-up appears enthusiastically from the left side of the frame.

pstewart,
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@Mary625 @thetyee It's actually broader than that. Meta prohibits Canadian users from posting anything they consider news content (and they define that really broadly), or even viewing posts or comments that look like news content. We just get a "this isn't available in Canada" message replacing the posts in question.

It went to ridiculous places pretty quickly - for instance, Canadian FB group moderators explicitly aren't allowed to moderate posts/comments that look like they contain news.

pstewart,
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@Mary625 @thetyee Any news, or anything that looks sort of like news. (They initially nailed a pile of satire/parody sites, for instance.)

Meta made some weird (and false) claim that they weren't allowed to negotiate with Ottawa and just went straight to the content blocking. Google was starting to block Canadians from seeing news content but actually talked to the government and they hammered something out.

aris_tgd, to random

OH MY FUCKING GOD SO MANY USEFUL KEYBOARD ACRONYMS ARE BEING LOST TO FUCKING AUTOCORRECT

THIS IS THE MOST GEN X I HAVE EVER FELT AND I JUST TURNED 40

pstewart,
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@aris_tgd Autocorrect is a plague on my attempt to communicate in me-ese through any medium that imposes it

jda, to android

Reading books with ReadEra. It really is a great reader app - free and no ads. Easy to add books to it. Highly recommended.

https://readera.org

@bookstodon

pstewart,
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@jda @bookstodon I like that one too. I appreciate how much it just stays out of your way, which feels like an increasing rarity for apps these days.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I had no fucking idea my new glasses would cost so much. They clearly don't want people to see around here.🙄

pstewart,
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@StillIRise1963 @sidereal @dan613 @CStamp @courtcan Bear in mind Zenni's the cheapest option, but it's definitely not the only option. There's a few vendors in between Zenni's corner-cutting and Luxottica's planet-mortgaging costs.

I was poking at some in-between options when I got my new pair for the same reason; I'd prefer they last, too. (That and I had an edge-case prescription that Zenni couldn't make.)

Either way, saving $1K on the next pair definitely makes it worth hunting around!

NinjaDebugger, to random
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It seems like my masto server has preemptively defederated threads, and this is why @jrenken is one of my favorite people.

pstewart,
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@jrenken @NinjaDebugger I was always less concerned about the scraping and more concerned about Meta being - by any standard held by any quarter-way reasonable instance admin - somewhere between "completely unmoderated" and "actively supportive of harmful behaviour." Yay for preemptive defederation on those grounds alone!

pstewart, to random
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Every now and then those "please ignore our various pleading dark patterns to accept this plate of tracking cookies" popups manage to surprise me a bit.

"We Care About Your Privacy" indeed. Come on, guys.

aris_tgd, to random

Someone should develop a script that context-sensitively replaces AI with "LLM" or "machine learning" or "stable diffusion" in popsci articles

I'm getting sick of reading about real advances in science using one of those things getting obscured by "The researchers used AI to do a thing!" breathlessness.

pstewart,
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@aris_tgd To say nothing of that kind of coverage's more inane relative, where journalists like using "AI" to mean "anything somehow involving computers that I'm not immediately familiar with."

"These people used AI to-" "No, that's a bubble sort."

Rasta, to NovaScotia
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If I hadn't already, I'd cancel my subscription over this. If you are in NS or PEI, consider cancelling. And file complaints, this borders on fraud. I'll explain.

After hearing concerns from an “alarming” number of residents, P.E.I. Premier Dennis King says he would consider sponsoring a regional media company’s obituaries page to ensure its death notices are not behind a paywall.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10108876/saltwire-pei-obituaries-paywall/
#SaltwireNetwork #Obituaries #LovedOnes #PaidServices #Paywall #PEI #NovaScotia #Thread

pstewart,
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@Rasta I axed them back when they got caught running fake news stories to stir up anti-refugee hysteria, but this would be as good a reason as any as well.

pstewart, to blender
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The joys of wanting to install and try out the new version of in an attempt to get my head back into creative mode again, only to be reminded that some asshat's been DDOSing the main site into smithereens for five days now for whatever reason.

catbailey, to random
pstewart,
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@CrypticMirror @DontMindMe @catbailey Seriously, yeah. There's plenty of obnoxious "must protect the status quo" historians (or "historians") upset at every new perspective that comes up and demanding things be taught exactly as they were taught in elementary school, but they're vastly outnumbered by the "oh my God check out this big dollop of previously-undocumented madness I found in the archives!" crowd.

Most of the ones I know live for those "wait WHAT" moments while researching.

jeffjarvis, to random
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POLLS ARE BULLSHIT. Pollsters are bullshitters. Reporters who report polls report bullshit. The only polls that matter are the ones that come on election day. Anything else preempts democracy.

pstewart,
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@billyjoebowers @jeffjarvis It doesn't really need a lot of shenanigans to explain, really. Most political polls are cold-call phone polls; younger (defined broadly!) voters generally ignore or reject calls from strange numbers on the usually-correct assumption that they're scams. Older voters with landlines are much more likely to answer, and have been increasingly overrepresented in polls for years as a result.

(Now, pollsters just rolling with the bad data anyway, on the other hand...)

aris_tgd, to random

It is hilarious to me that the right-wing racist part of the Western world is increasingly anti-vaccine. Vaccines are the best thing white people have done for humanity. Don't you want to own our W?

pstewart,
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@aris_tgd Cleek's Law remains a hell of a drug.

pstewart, to StarTrek
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insert squee-flailing reaction to [ season finale here]

[insert considerable amount of grumbling at the wait for Season 5 here]

TheSpaceshipper, to random
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Wing Commander: Armada was released 29 years ago.

pstewart,
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@TheSpaceshipper Definitely some contrasts in that one. Loved the Actual 3Dness(tm) of the ships and the whole campaign idea, but I've never seen a space sim with worse dogfighting AI..

mattkenworthy, to Astro
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Currently at the "What horrible typo is there in the proposal I am leading that I will see about 10 seconds after hitting the submit button" part of the day.

pstewart,
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@mattkenworthy Didn't you know? Hitting the submit button generates the horrible typo.

pstewart, to random
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That strikes me as a sufficient, perhaps even somewhat excessive, number of weather alerts.

pstewart,
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@dragfyre The messiest of it seems to have passed without any damage to my immediate neck of the woods, best as I can tell.

ifixcoinops, to random
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Jesus H Christ, I'm only just now hearing about the Derna flooding.

Eleven thousand people killed, and my radio's just been banging on about trump and biden as usual. Hell all I've seen on fedi was one post comparing it to 9/11.

I need to go back to listening to better news sources.

pstewart,
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@ifixcoinops @seachanger If you're trying to limit it to radio news have you played around with radio.garden? Might take a some looking to find a station that isn't just music (or ESL, obviously), but there'll be some anglophone stations somewhere that have news that isn't just the network-TV or iHeart news cycles.

If you want BBC radio in particular it has BBC World Service as one of the gazillion stations in London.

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