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KarsicKarl

@KarsicKarl@kbin.social

Former Forensic Scientist with the Home Office.
Former active researcher in biosciences.
Former forum moderator on a high profile casual sex site (they no longer have a forum - was it something I did?)
Fundraising manager for a small-medium size charity.
Write articles for the Daily Twerk

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This was a mistake in the bill which he retracted, amended and resubmitted.

The first cousins are safe, legally anyway.

What I don't get is I assume they had a law so why was this needed?

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The myth goes deeper.
The story of Lisa Holst originating this myth as a spoof fact is also a myth.

Neither the supposed journalists, Lisa Holst, nor the magazine, PC Professional, exist.

The hunt is on for the earliest reference. Probably on a newsnet group.

https://www.snopes.com/lisa-birgit-holst/

KarsicKarl, to UnreliableNews
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Paula Vennells: didn’t realise she was evil until the ITV drama

Paula Vennells has announced that she will return her CBE after finally realising she is evil. Surprisingly she had not comprehended the carnage her actions had wrought on hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters until ITV made a drama about it. The court cases were just not as convincing.

https://daily-twerk.com/general/paula-vennells-didnt-realise-she-was-evil-until-the-itv-drama/

KarsicKarl, to UnreliableNews
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Margot Robbie working on her next career

The celebrated actor announced that she was taking a break from acting for a while. What she did not announce to the media was that she was taking time out to work on another career unrelated to films and acting. It is certainly a surprise move.

https://daily-twerk.com/entertainment/margot-robbie-working-on-her-next-career/

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I thought everything revolved around Mastodon.

Waiting for the day when YouTube annoy lots of users and the same discussion happens about Peertube.

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Absolutely agree.

No-one ever took the lettuce's feelings into consideration.

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Will be interesting.
More likely to be noticed by calckey,misskey/friendica users who are on platforms.more similar to Facebook. Probably noticed by Mastodon users.

Not sure if kbin/Lemmy users will notice. This is based on me not noticing posts from these servers on Mastodon, calckey etc

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Exactly. Absolutely anyone can set up an instance.

Want your own Instagram type system? Roll out a Pixelfed server. Want your own Lemmy.

The is big. Very big. Probably up into tens of thousands of servers. No company could take it over, which is by design.

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Trolls will come up with a dumb take on anything.
Block em and.move on.

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Wherever you are, , , , , , , , , (and many more), you are all citizens of the .

Some use the word

Not sure if it'll catch on.

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My initial response was a recollection of the plot of The Kingsman.

Sticking implants in brains for fun is stupidity on a stick.

Implants are already used to control some forms of epilepsy, however these are on the vagus nerve and not in the brain. This sort of application makes sense.

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Most of Europe including anyone in UK under 60, Asia, Japan, China, Australia. People in engineering and science.

Not many use Fahrenheit.

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Each instance admin decides which servers to block for themselves. If you visit the info pages of some systems they will list blocked systems, and there are a lot of them.

There are some very unsavoury communities out there. Blocking usually revolves around how effective moderation is.

As an example you can see a list of servers blocked by mastodonapp.uk on the About page.

https://mastodonapp.uk/about

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I'm guessing you haven't been on the very long so not picked up on the ethos of most of the folk who run the various instances.
Most are very protective of what they have created as a community and are definitely not in it for the money. Some are vehemently anti-capitalist.

There are many ways to get rich. Running an instance is not one of them.

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Oliphant maintains a minimum block list that most systems take as a starter list.

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Penis shortages.

In Medieval times penis shortages were dealt with by harvesting them from penis trees.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/004dd206997e3cd8f7c62565e0daf308/tumblr_nc1pechypi1t05ay2o1_400.jpg

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Of course downvotes can be ironic such as the one I've just added....

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Why bother?

Ignore them and post away in the knowledge that noone is monetising your content.

Why do instances not run ads?

It probably goes against the philosophy or whatever of FOSS or Lemmy itself, but why not be a little evil so that you can actually sustain yourself? Donations can bring us far, but small non-intrusive ads can be a bliss in the skies for the people actually hosting the instance. Especially if there are millions of users uploading...

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Most Mastodon, Friendica, Calckey instances accept donations.

It is likely that kbin/Lemmy instances will likely follow the same model.

Advertising would not work on the Fediverse as the adverts would be blocked by other instances so the spread would be very limited so not attractive commercially.

That is one of the beauties of the federated model.
Also, as there is no algorithm or data about user interests there's no scope for advert targeting which advertisers would want.

The whole ethos of the is anti commercial.

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I followed three witch hunts this week, all were successful, but despite that Rob Titchener is (like the other two witches, Boris and Trump), unlikely to go away.

Congratulations Rob, this Worst Character Of the Week award has been a long time coming. We wish you a slow, prolonged and painful recovery, preferably in North Dakota. @thearchers

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@ner

@thearchers @wcow @Malwen

If he ends up getting a charge it.might affect his martial arts license.

Rob probably knows this and will use it as leverage.

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bad science

In 1912 Henry Herber Goddard published a book called "The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness".

This purported to demonstrate that 'feeble mindedness' was hereditary. It was very popular at the time and played to the growing pseudo-science of

It was also featured in Nazi propaganda.

Unfortunately the lineage of the Kallikak family that led to the 'feeble minded' girl who supposedly started the investigation was a fabrication. Goddard had invented a liaison with a feedle minded barmaid as the source of the 'feeble minded' gene.

https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/6220

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001g927?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

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Canada accused of mask conspiracy

With the smoke from the Canadian wild fires drifting south into the US, citizens of New York and other cities and states are being advised to wear masks outside. Some people are not happy and can see the conspiracy.

https://daily-twerk.com/general/canada-accused-of-mask-conspiracy/

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