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David Culley mastodon (AP)

The mayor of Japanese city Nagasaki excluded Israel from the annual peace memorial ceremony.

Israel, who is committing genocide and whose minister Amichai Elijahu demanded in November 2023 to drop an atomic bomb over Gaza.

Because of this exclusion, the USA, the UK, Germany, and other US allies boycotted the ceremony.

The USA who dropped the atomic bomb over Nagasaki boycotted the peace memorial ceremony. Because their friend Israel wasn’t invited. After wanting to use a nuclear bomb in Gaza.

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Mark Pesce mastodon (AP)

I must say I am utterly shocked _beyond words_ to learn this.

Just. Utterly. Shocked.

I will not be taking questions.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-rich-50-years-no-trickle-down/

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GayDeceiver mastodon (AP)

I am a grown man. A gay man old enough to have grandchildren. I have survived so many things.

And I derive an unusual amount of joy from watching episodes of Bluey.

I’ll even admit that there are some times when I find myself crying because of the messages from the show.

Anyone who says Bluey is just for little kids is missing out.

There are some deep lessons about being a good person embedded in that show.

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Raigho Husky mastodon (AP)
Yo it's dog
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Babana mastodon (AP)
headshot completed for Psydoktor of their character Meruki, made during artfight 2024
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The time has come!
My slots for 2025 are now open ❀

Click here for the form: https://chaoscatcreations.de/quote/

You can find more information and prices on my website.

I'm really excited about all the beautiful designs! x3

- Your Chaos Kitten

#fursuitmaker #suitmaker #opencommissions #fursuits #furry #furries

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Jae gotosocial (AP)
Want to be an artist? Congratulations, you already are!
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Nothing like a peaceful raining day! I imagine some cozy rainy afternoon music from Animal Crossing playing in the background while looking at this pic. Lovely art by palehorntea on FA.

#Furry #FurryArt

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GingerSnapped mastodon (AP)

https://www.sciencealert.com/alzheimers-may-not-actually-be-a-brain-disease-expert-reveals

#Science
#Immunology
#Alzheimers

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For never was a story of more woe than this:
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@hedders I dispute the assertion that they are alike in dignity. XD

New life hack:

When the dudes at the home improvement store insist on knowing what you're working on *before* helping you find things, just tell them you're working on an art project.

They'll stop telling you "how you should be doing it", and instead just help you find the thing you're looking for.

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Random Geek mastodon (AP)

Dangit, why'd I have to use such a good password for work.

Where is my phone.

2FA

something you can't remember

and something you can't find

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Furo mastodon (AP)
He's arachnophobic
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I realized that I’m a dinosaur (by u/psycholol2)
(AI Alt-Text)
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Jenderfluid mastodon (AP)
open source software devs need a union
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Juggling With Eggs mastodon (AP)

Just come across this rather brilliant version of the #London #Underground that takes into account geography!

Would it ever catch on? Or is the old iconic one too ingrained in our brains - even though it leads to us making some rather silly choices that you only realise once you know what the distances between stations are above ground?

http://www.tubemapcentral.com/webshop/webshopposters/london_circles_v2.jpg

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Tony Wells mastodon (AP)

I'm so used to the official design after a few years of using it daily in the 90's that I think a big change would be difficult for most regular users, who will know the misleading station distances and worse places to connect to other lines.
I think the circular one is no more accurate?, but just a different more rounded design.

TFL issued a geographic version a while back, very spaghetti. https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transparency/freedom-of-information/foi-request-detail?referenceId=FOI-0525-1920

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Korean Fury mastodon (AP)
Landlord and tenant are feudal/colonial terms because it's still the same system
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The research fairy mastodon (AP)

"Should we privatize this thing?"

And

"Should we give control over this thing to an unelected rich person who has no reason to act in the public good?"

Are exactly the same question

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Me: I just wish I was a better dad
Wife: you are a great dad
Me: then why do I sometimes get so angry at my daughter
Wife: I think you can be a great dad *and* sometimes get really angry
Me: Bandit doesn’t
Wife: Bandit is amazing
Me: I know
Wife: he’s a cartoon dog though
Me:
Wife: maybe don’t compare yourself to a cartoon dog
Me:
Wife: did you forget he was a cartoon dog?
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Jason Gorman mastodon (AP)

I sometimes see people complaining about how much code gets "thrown away", viewing it as waste.

I can't help thinking of movie directors. How much footage got thrown away by Stanley Kubrick, vs how much got thrown away by Ed Wood?

Kubrick famously did many takes, trying many different things. Wood, famously, gave the actors one take.

IME, teams who "throw away" a lot of code tend to deliver a far superior end product. I'm wary when most of the code that gets written makes it into production.

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Liv 🐝 mastodon (AP)

β€œI asked chatgpt, and if it can be believed then [potential answer to a question neither person knows the answer to]”

So you really just wasted a load of processing power to get a useless bunch of paragraphs that you even know you can’t trust?? :blobbee_scream_angry:

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Hex :therian: mastodon (AP)
Am I the only one who feels old when people call regular computer programs β€œappsβ€œ? I’m not even old, but it just feels wrong :gphn_flat_x_x:
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Avon DeRussate mastodon (AP)
Thank you! It drives me crazy! They are programs, or applications. Apps is a whiz kid term meaning a graphical wrapper for a website that makes navigation easier on a 2 inch phone screen.
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I feel like if Google was in charge of Bell Labs, they would have cancelled the transistor project because it wouldn’t make as much money in six months as punch card machines
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Cheetah Obscura mastodon (AP)

I do love goggles as an accessory! Let me see your 'sonas and characters that rock the goggles! ^^

First photo with Woger and taken by Roofur

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Hali mastodon (AP)
love these pics!

keirFox mastodon (AP)

Ground floor: perfumery.

Remix for all of us who grew up with late night PBS.

https://youtu.be/pinYgTWT6Ik?si=9fZYG5caZvqgXVJ8

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George Penney mastodon (AP)

I've just witnessed a completely civil and righteous rage against the machine by an elderly man (80s+) at supermarket self-service checkout here in small city Aotearoa #NewZealand and it was a little bit wonderful.

He'd just finished paying for his groceries when the machine started saying "Please take your items" every 15 seconds or so. At first he just says "I'll do it in my own time thank you," while bagging things up.

The machine keeps telling him to take his items. After around the 5th time, he starts really arguing back:
"I don't have to do what you tell me to do."
"I'll take as long as I need thank you."
"I'll thank you to stop harassing me."

On around the seventh or eighth request that he take his items, he stands back, crosses his arms and says loudly snaps, "No! Not until you be quiet!"

The machine keeps going. The man just stands there, crossed arms, chin stuck out. A standoff is on. Staff come over and ask if they can help and he tells them that if they switch the voice off, he will continue bagging his things and go. If they don't, he's retired and can wait all day.

Machine is turned off/down with sympathy from supermarket staff. Moments later the man leaves the supermarket with the air of someone who's just won a war, expression completely stoic.

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Mike Sheward mastodon (AP)

Hi. Person with 20 years experience in information security, IT and networking here.

Just wanted to let you know I just spent 3 minutes digging through the settings on my computer to figure out why my mouse was being weird.

I was holding it upside down.

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Finally the fullsuit photos of Tomkitty!! Again, welcome to the family πŸ’œ He will be on his way home soon for many adventures :D

(Please note, that I'm way too small and my hips way too thick for this fursuit, we made the best of it ;P)

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Total Trash Mammal mastodon (AP)

If I fits, I sits :3

#fursuit #fursuiteveryday

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sidereal mastodon (AP)
Just kidding... lest?
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Just to emphasise the magnitude of difference between #billion and #million :

A million seconds is 12 days.
A billion seconds is 31 years.

#apropos #notsureyouknew

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Yag Fox mastodon (AP)
Cosplay photographers, if the first 20 pictures of your event album are young white girls, I'm not reading further, or indeed ever looking at your work again. Inclusivity in cosplay isn't just a word. If you don't actually practice it, you should not be supported.
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Dairishgoat mastodon (AP)
Total mix in my Ponycon gallery ( once you get past the initial plushies ).
https://www.flickr.com/photos/finbarzapek/albums/72177720302822058/
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Ponydrone-24 mastodon (AP)
Let's have a picnic!
#latex #rubber #pony
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I was doing some reading about these power generating ocean buoys, and it's interesting to see all the complaints that pop up any time someone tries to make a new way to capture energy. Suddenly, people really care about the environmental impact of these methods, but never ever in comparison with coal and oil.
I still hear naysayers about solar panels, despite the fact that GPS and the International Space Station has used them for decades.
They really care about the migration patterns of Ducks when we start talking about wind power, but get an Oopsie about a massive oil spill.
Loss of life is very important for alternative methods, but no discussion about the impact when it comes to oil drilling and coal mining.
The fact of the matter is even setting aside the environmental impact, coal and oil are finite resources. Of course, we should care about the impact of how we produce energy, but we have to stop falling for false equivalency. Everything will have a downside, but we can address those issues and still move forward.
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That's the big point, oil and coal are finite. Like, hello, we will run out of them in some point, remember??? Even if people don't care about the environment, this is a simple sure fact. How are they even questioning the need for alternatives is beyond me.
Peter Drake mastodon (AP)

Population activists: We'll run out of food on <date>.

Scientists: Invent nitrogen fertilizer, pushing the problem into the future.

Capitalists: See, no problem! We can grow forever!

Peak oil activists: We'll run out of oil on <date>.

Scientists: Invent fracking, allowing extraction of previously unprofitable reserves, pushing the problem into the future.

Capitalists: See, no problem! We can use fossil fuels forever!

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SuperMoosie mastodon (AP)

@coffeepine
When people bring up wind turbines and bird deaths, I used to send them the below and something like

"Thank you for caring about the birds, join us in eliminating the biggest killers of birds"

They tend to shut up quickly.

@RickiTarr

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Pippin friendica

Content warning: CW: transphobic vandalism to a minecraft world

@nano
nano iceshrimp (AP)

Content warning: CW: transphobic vandalism to a minecraft world

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Pippin friendica

Content warning: CW: transphobic vandalism to a minecraft world

@nano
nano iceshrimp (AP)
i fixed the damage near spawn. was there anything else? if possible, log in and show me
Pippin friendica
@nano :neocat_floof: all I found was near spawn (no father away than my base and the huge circle in the sky) I only looked at a couple of things further away to the west and they looked okay. I did check the nether roof and the stuff at spawn and my gold farm (south east of spawn at the end of the ice road) were also damaged, so I don't know how much in the nether was affected. I've never been to the End so, don't know there. Sorry, can't log on at the moment.
@nano
nano iceshrimp (AP)
i got everything, except containers. for some reason coreprotect won't roll them back. i don't know how many were affected. the server is going back offline now. it will come back when i have more powerful hardware, then i can individually attend to missing items
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Pippin friendica
@nano :neocat_floof: Thank you 😊 πŸ€—
@nano
nano iceshrimp (AP)
please, next time, contact me directly immediately. there was no guarantee i would have seen this.
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Pippin friendica
@nano :neocat_floof: I kinda feel bad that the only times I contact you are to ask for problems to be fixed, but yes, will do.
@nano

Pippin friendica

Content warning: CW: mentions Nazis and deadnaming

TundraWolf mastodon (AP)

Content warning: CW: mentions Nazis and deadnaming.

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Ninji mastodon (AP)

You may not like it, but this is what peak posting performance looks like

πŸ“Έ @chadthegryph.bsky.social

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mcc mastodon (AP)

*Technically* you are allowed to run your own PDS (data server) on bluesky, but in addition to the site silently unexisting* your posts if you make any interesting code changes, when *bluesky* changes the PDS code on github they expect your server (which they expect to be running their exact docker scripts, which include an auto update feature) to pick up that change more or less immediately or the app and bsky.app website may stop working with cryptic errors

* Like a shadowban but more shadowy

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Ikani mastodon (AP)
Oh I was wondering how this was going to turn out! Thanks for sharing
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Pippin friendica
@Ikani @mcc So rather than owning your own part of the social network, instead you get to provide them with free outsourcing for storage while getting pretty much no say in running things? Here's my surprised face.
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