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The robot picked through the boxes of old cables and converters at the market stall.
"Looking for anything in particular?"
"A... special charger adapter."
A bag from under the counter. The robot looked inside. Kettle lead to robot charge port. Untracked charging.
"A gift. Enjoy your freedom."
@crazyeddie you know what the craziest part is: this is already happening right now.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-right-to-repair
When IEEE Spectrum published an article in February about blind people whose bionic vision systems had become obsolete and unsupported, it generated both attention and outrage.Eliza Strickland (IEEE Spectrum)
Regular reminder that:
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Go to https://buyraycon.com/rowanj for 20% off your first pair of earbuds.A breakdown of William Shatner's excellent performance as Captain James T Kirk from...YouTube
British judges have been incredibly harsh against climate and anti-genocide protestors…to the extent that the UN have questioned the sentencing.
But who has enabled them?
Successive #Tory and #Labour governments.
Did #Banksy plan some ‘redecoration’ for the Home Office, but then Yvette Cooper changed jobs last week? Was this their Plan B?
Artist’s latest work at Royal Courts of Justice in London is thought to refer to pro-Palestine demonstrationsKaamil Ahmed (The Guardian)
Hello, yes. Thanks for dropping by. Please sit down. Do you want a coffee? Tea. OK, no, no I agree, let's get straight to it.
The thing is that you have been here for a long time, about four million years according to our records, and you have achieved some great things in that time. There are one or two slip ups, a couple of ... well it says world wars here, but I don't think that they covered the entire planet. But that's the thing, you had learnt from those two blips, or so it seems, so we're concerned that it looks like another one could bubble up.
The situation on the planet? Yes that's our concern too and we appreciate that it is quite pressured here, and there are lots of reasons to feel uncertain about life right now, but turning on those around you is not the right answer, so we want to work through with you some options and see where we can help. We don't want to lose you but, if this behaviour isn't checked, you are likely to be asked to find another solar system, and we don't want that. Nobody does.
Well, what we would like to do is help you with weekly mentoring, and a review at the end of each week to see how you have got on. This can still be rescued and easily we think, but we need to be sure. The mentoring is there to give you someone you can discuss things with, frankly and honestly because that's what it is going to take. And if we can do something to help, the mentor is there to make sure that you get it.
Well, here's the action plan we'd like to discuss and it does include a temporary, I want to stress that, temporary reduction in the load on you. We're going to do things like transfer responsibility for nuclear armaments to a group with less on its plate right now. We're also going to get you some help with redistribution of wealth and tackling poverty, which seems to be particularly difficult for you right now. That will help you concentrate on you and getting better, which has to be your priority right now.
I'm sorry, I know this is painful and probably came as a shock. We're doing this for your benefit, ultimately. It's clear something is not right for you now humanity and, going forward, we can't live with that.
You can stay here as long as you need or leave, you can take the rest of the day if you need it, I've cleared that already. Is there anyone you'd like me to call for you right now?
Don't worry, we can get through this. We're all here for you.
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Home safe from a short but epic Furvana weekend. Got in a few rounds of suiting, a few rounds of DJing, and one round dodging lightening 🌩️🌩️🌩️!
Time for laundry, repack and back on the road to BFC next!
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“When we are told that living standards are up because the averages look rosy, we should remember what Danny Dorling pointed out: an average can hide a multitude of sins.
If Jeff Bezos walked into a Norwich pub, the average wealth in the room would shoot through the roof, but not a single person’s pint would get cheaper – and I doubt he would get to the bar ahead of anyone else, either.”
Clive Lewis
We're here to bring the party. And the colour!
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🌍 Yorkshire Furs Summer Party 2025
⌚ #FursuitFriday
Furpile from @Treycat 's 2005 birthday. He's in there somewhere, and I'll leave identifying everybody to y'all.
It’s cuppycat.bsky.social n I from #Megaplex2025 with another #FursuitFriday
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#fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #mascot #furry #furries #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #foxfursuit #costume #cosplay
Went to megaplex last weekend and bumped into reverbthehusky while suiting!
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#fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #mascot #furry #furries #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #foxfursuit #costume #cosplay #fursuitfriday
Utterly wild to think that Mid Gen-X to Mid Millennial is probably the peak of genuine tech literacy of the masses of the human race.
Boomers were born too early to easily learn.
Z were born too late to have a need to.
Now the mothership is in control. You will do as you are told.
@colinstu Exactly. I don’t understand the details about FAT32, NTFS, etc, but I understand the basics about drives, partitioning, folder structures, etc.
In particularly dislike Microsoft’s “We handle all of this for you/put it all on the cloud” crap. It dumbs down the system way too much.
" Exactly. I don’t understand the details about FAT32, NTFS, etc, but I understand the basics about drives, partitioning, folder structures, etc."
Nor do you...or should you need to. There is such a thing as a middle-ground here.
Understanding how a computer works down to the bit level is not empowering. But understanding how to file away files and categorise folders DOES. It is this empowerment that big tech wants to take away through gradual dumbing down. And it has worked. You can always count on human laziness.
"Holy mother of..." The astronaut stared out the viewport. "Hey! Come and look at this!"
"What's up?" The space station commander drifted over. "Oh. Yeah. Keep quiet about this."
"Really?"
"It's not harming anyone."
In the Pacific Ocean down below, the Kaiju's mating dance sank below the waves.
I'm just here thinkin' 'bout paws... How 'bout you? 🐾💜 #Pawgust #Paws
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Hey, folks! 🦁🐯🐱🐶🐺🐻🐼🐗+
I haven't been very active here lately, but my convention season finally starts next week! Please get excited with me and check out my boyo's lovely new video here:
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Hey guys,the time has finally come! After a long wait, we have finally finished the video for the last Eurofurence. I would like to thank all the furries who...YouTube
if anyone needs an american centric counter to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps":
you can't refill your tank, if you don't already have enough gas to get to the next station
Ocicat and Ysengrin, back in 2002 ... Oci doesn't seem to be active here in the Fediverse.
You never know how #FursuitFriday is going to hit. This week it's making a fluffy superhero three point landing into your timeline!
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A wild Nall appears. 💚
https://www.furtrack.com/p/244738
#fursuitfriday
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if you need a campaign slogan:
what if your oven only allowed you to cook foods that its makers approved of
what if your car only allowed you to drive on roads its makers approved of
what if your scissors only allowed you to cut paper in shapes its maker approved of
why when it comes to electronic devices then suddenly it's completely fine for the maker to have a say on what you're allowed and not allowed to do with your own device you have possession of
I just ran into a very very silly accessibility problem with Tumblr's alt-text UI:
it puts the "delete this image" button in the top right of the image, and the "add alt text" button in the bottom right.
So if your image is only 50 pixels or so high, you cannot add all text because the button to do it is UNDER the button to delete the image!
yeah this 👆🏾
The official Mastodon app lets you tap the picte and ALMOST shows the while image. Argh
Often I find myself using the app swipe button which shows the image in another app slightly better
I've learned to open the image somewhere else if i need to reference it (sometimes i do just completely forget what it was regardless)
But yeah, definitely suboptimal to cover the image being described with the field used to describe it
alt text is "AI" ingestion heaven.
When every image is fully described by a human in embedded text, and the mood behind the disability activists pushing the initiative turns from "can you please use alt text for vision impaired? Thanks!" To "you are an ableist if you don't alt text everything, we plan to defederate instances with too little alt text, and we sell courses on how to write alt text", you know its possible something else is afoot.
for MONTHS I kept accidentally plugging my mouse into the fan when I tried to set up my desk