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Kenney 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Choo-choo! 🚂 The Train Kit is now available, almost 50 models of various types. Also includes track for use with splines!

These models are free to use, in any project, by anyone ✨ https://kenney.nl/assets/train-kit

#gameassets #lowpoly #gamedev

Train Kit · Kenney

Download this package (45 assets) for free, CC0 licensed!

^kenney.nl

#gamedev #lowpoly #gameassets

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Pippin 9 months ago friendica

Happy National Spider-Man Day to all who observe.

I'm not sure which nation it's "national" to. Probably the USA — most things that are national to an unspecified nation turn out to be American things, because most others tend to specify.

Dairishgoat 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

It’s #GriffonAppreciationDay, so here’s an old collage from a few years back.

A collage composed of 16 rectangular sections, each featuring a half portrait of a griffon fursuiter.

#griffonappreciationday

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CheRosach 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Another lie promulgated by fossil fuel interests is called out

Chart showing that wind turbines are not the biggest cause of bird deaths - cats, windows, cars, poison and electric wires and electrocution are by far the biggest causes of bird death

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StarkRG 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

My favourite is the notion that wind turbines are ugly. Even if they don't think they're at least mildly majestic like I do, they're completely ignoring that the alternative is some form of fossil fuel plant, fed by fossil fuel mines/derricks and possibly processed in refineries.

An open pit coal mine extending off into the distance. Just a disgusting, dusty, black and grey pit.

A coal power plant with several tall smoke stacks belching white smoke into the air as well as several cooling towers belching white steam into the air. Ugly, utilitarian industrial buildings extending off into the fog.

An oil refinery with dirty, fractionation towers and other unpleasant infrastructure. Two of three or four visible relief towers are on fire, with black smoke blowing away in the breeze.

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Breathe 8 months ago • mastodon (AP)

can birds get windmill cancer?😂

Luna Dragofelis ΘΔ 🏳️‍⚧️ 9 months ago • akkoma (AP)

Options when it's too cold:
- Put on jacket
- Cuddle under blanket
- Turn on heating

Options when it's too hot:
- suffer

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Ret 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

and yet central heating in the UK is seen as a basic necessity, but air conditioning is seen as an extravagance.

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Chloé Raccoon 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@ret @patterfloof Given my AC for my computer room eats around £1.21 an hour, it is an extravagance...

@patter @Ret

Ret 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@chloeraccoon @patterfloof yeah it’s expensive. Especially these days. Shouldn’t be though :(

@patter @Chloé Raccoon

Chloé Raccoon 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@ret @patterfloof my AC is 12 years old, it has a run time measured in days. Around 30 days, over that time.

@patter @Ret

Rivaclaw🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@ret We're at least moving in the right direction; towards heat pumps. Just need to get AC added onto that too.

@Ret

Brian Loffler 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Saw a 100% battery-electric bus doing an Adelaide city route today. Excellent. When we have a big fleet, many will be parked at off-peak lunch time & will be able to charge cheaply from our excess midday solar.
Many more #EV buses please; love a win win.
https://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/about-us/news/news-items/2023/introducing-adelaides-first-electric-bus

Introducing Adelaide’s first electric bus

Enjoy a smoother, quieter and cleaner ride.

^{Adelaide Metro}

#EV

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Avon DeRussate 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"People who refuse to take sick days are costing the economy billions every year, analysis says"

You're such a Trooper, Tim! Hey, team..why can't you all be more like Tim?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/work-while-sick-cost-economy-b2588311.html

People who refuse to take sick days are costing the economy billions every year, analysis finds

A report calls for a ‘health-led economy’

^{Storm Newton (The Independent)}

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Brooke Vibber :neocat_cofe: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

many people have binary gender

some people have non-binary gender

and then there's application/octet-stream
we don't really know what's up with them

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Erin the Wolf Kitsune ΔΘ 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Keep furry weird!!!

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RevK :verified_r: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

That is genius!

Update:

LOL, someone reported me to, err, me... The first report I have ever had!

Seems I have to clarify.

All junk calls I get, are either not legal under PECR, or actually fraudulent. I am assuming this is the nature of this call. If not, then not so funny.

I have zero sympathy for someone that works for criminals. Arguing that the only job you can get is working for criminals does not justify it. Sorry. But that is my free speech opinion.

So I won't be suspending myself.

Image showing a humorous social media post by Chris Blasko dated August 5, 2014, about a conversation with a telemarketer. The post details how he pretended to be an IT administrator and tricked the telemarketer into performing a reset

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Ret 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@SteffoSpieler menu **#** is a fun one on Cisco too. Just a reboot, the reset one is sadly too long winded.

@Steffo :steffo:

Esme Ciredutemps 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

c'est nul

Robbert 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

wait, there are callcenters who don't (re)configure their phone systems with network settings?

phone was acting weird -> factory reset and the network did the rest.

Gerhard D. 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

😂

Adyya 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

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RevK :verified_r: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

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@Adyya

Lux :flag_genderfluid: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

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@Adyya

RevK :verified_r: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

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@Adyya

Ylösellä, Paavi puhelimessa 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

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@Adyya

Océane 9 months ago • iceshrimp (AP)

I'm not sure you understand how much stress this person has put on a delocalized worker, who's already alienated in normal conditions, having to follow a route made by white collar workers. He may have a family to feed and he isn't the problem himself. He may have been fired, or at best he's lost an hour of paid labor while fearing losing his job, in great distress.

This is only funny for ignorant people, and there's arguably racism in that. Do better.

RevK :verified_r: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@oceane I'd only do it to someone that is a an unlawful junk caller - which is most of them - and I would assume such in this case.

@Océane

Marcos Dione 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

the telemarketer is the company, not the person calling. They're doing tht shitty job because they hve no other option. I worked in a call center and none of the positions are an easy or rewarded job: sales, cold callers and support.

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Nangpa 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@oceane
Maybe I can't read, but the topic here is not skin colour, nationality or race - not even close...
So, I don't see the racism issue

@Océane

Océane 9 months ago • iceshrimp (AP)

Because this kind of call center is often abroad, and because the call operators are often PoC.

Nangpa 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Sorry, @oceane

Fediverse is worlwide with people/users from around the globe and we can't be too "woke" all the time.

I don't mind "woke" people but this got nothing to do with this post by @revk

@RevK :verified_r: @Océane

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Océane 9 months ago • iceshrimp (AP)

Indeed but speaking as a white person I can tell you without a shadow of doubt that when white people think about call center scams they think about brown people. If harming a call center scammer is harming a brown person, then this post is embedded in a racist culture and in racist practices. I didn't say that revk was racist, and I have the luxury not to have to jump to conclusions. I'm just saying, I will repeat, that "there's arguably racism in that".

24😷-185 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

There are call centres in India who make fradulent calls to English-speaking elderly people about their computer.

They are brought down by hackers because Indian authorities won't do anything and are often bribed by local politicians.

The bosses make hundreds of money by selling inefficient computer protections. The cold-callers barely hide their joy when they see a well-fed bank account and when they are caught about lying about their identity, they resort to insults.

Are you seriously suggesting that nothing should be done against that because that would be considered as racism!?

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RevK :verified_r: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I was not considering race at all.

Océane 9 months ago • iceshrimp (AP)

(I didn't mean to imply you did. I said there was "arguably racism in that [i.e., in the context in which this message was written and shared]".)

Océane 9 months ago • iceshrimp (AP)

You should understand that there's an historical precedent here with neo-Nazi instances leveraging "free speech" as an excuse. You probably aren't aware of it, but your update feels even more appropriate than the image itself for this reason.

RevK :verified_r: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Sorry to hear that - I am puzzled it has now got in to race, which was not in the original post at all. Indeed, I rarely get calls that don't sound like they are in the UK, but that was not my consideration at all in the post.

Junk/fraud calls are a plague on us all, and this post was an amusing rebalancing of the nuisance caused by them.

What of all the people on low wages trying to make a living who are interrupted by junk callers.

Océane 9 months ago • iceshrimp (AP)

Absolutely not! But are you sending this message in the context of national Indian calls, with (1) based on what you say, lacking legal resources due to political corruption, and (2) from my point a view, a negligible number of elderly white people?

I'm saying here that sharing this kind of messages on social media is embedded in racism, and that racism isn't a solution, it's part of everyone's problems with crime, scamming, and so on, because it reinforces a social system based on forcing people to contribute to it to meet their own needs (Adam Smith), and that's been coopted by a class of oppressors, that defend a system waging wars for their own benefits (e.g. natural resources appropriation, such as oil, or even as weapons manufacturers). If this is in the context of national Indian calls, then racism from white people feels irrelevant, isn't it?

I won't improvize myself an Indian activist, but I'm sure that you can find a trust-based network of local orgs in about 15 minutes by querying about any reputable search engine. Racism isn't part of the solution, but lending these orgs a hand on your spare time, sharing their press releases on your account, blogging about them would be. From the top of my head, these would be the solutions I would suggest in this context.

24😷-185 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I was writing the message thinking about international calls, targetting people in UK or United States from India. But the points you raised are valid, although I wouldn't consider the ratio between the amount of money fraudulently obtained and the number of victims as "negligible".

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Océane 9 months ago • iceshrimp (AP)

Sure, but then I would encourage you to join local data protection activists. It's all fun and games until you ask which data broker has sold them your contact info.

No need to hurt anyone.

RevK :verified_r: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

That gets you nowhere - they just hang up!

Océane 9 months ago • iceshrimp (AP)

Threatening them to sue them if they did has worked in the single case I did this. They've indeed hanged up twice, then I've threatened them, then they got concerned.

RevK :verified_r: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I'm impressed. The fraud ones don't have anyone to sue - you don't get any identity of who they are. The junk calls are crap at identifying themselves, I have tried hard on occasion to just get a company name that is not made up. *if* I played along enough to get as far as paying something, maybe I could identify who I paid somehow. But until then, who do you sue.

Well done making progress. But it is a battle, which is the point of the original post.

Océane 9 months ago • iceshrimp (AP)

In my case they were contacting me on behalf of SFR, a crappy French ISP, so I could just have sued them.

Oh and I was recording the call.

RevK :verified_r: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I record all calls anyway, but I have had the odd case like that and the company they name obviously deny any wrong doing.

They may, for example, have some sort of referral or commission system, but have in no way authorised or requested junk calls, so why would they care?

I appreciate laws vary on this.

But if you win the nice way, people still lose jobs!

Océane 9 months ago • iceshrimp (AP)

I didn't say it would be a bad thing, I said abusing workers was a bad way to do this. They aren't the enemy. Their employer is.

RevK :verified_r: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

And to be clear, some of them, especially those working for fraudsters, know exactly what they are doing and have chosen to do, so I see no reason they are "not the enemy" too.

There are those working in a call centre that does sell something vaguely legit even if it fails to follow the rules on junk calls. Those people may not appreciate what they are doing until someone explains it (which I do).

Océane 9 months ago • iceshrimp (AP)

I'm sorry but I've only done it once, with the intent of suing the data broker, not the call center. It was a mistake and I won't do this again.

However, there's a difference between this and breaking a sweatshop worker's tools for about an hour, which feels cruel and gratuitous to me. The person has actually lost some of their free time to laugh at a dark-skinned Indian. As I replied to some people denying the racism I was feeling in the cultural context surrounding this post, white people were, indeed, thinking about delocalized PoC.

Other solutions include mandatory phone number prefixes and then apps like AnyCallBlocker IIRC, or training elderly people not to give their bank/insurance credentials over a phone call. The EU has made MFA mandatory for online payments, and so forth.

Part of these solutions include being part of the safety net we're probably voting for, and then getting an actually leftist government training elderly people over deconcentrated, local, convenient, free workshops, in small groups.

There are solutions. None of them imply getting a sweatshop worker worried. I was just saying that this one, as ad hoc as it was, was more efficient. This was a personal, slightly bootlegged personal experience. That was the point.

RevK :verified_r: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Why does everyone have to make things about race, where in the original post did anyone say "dark-skinned Indian"? You are creating a straw man, if I have my false arguments right.

Océane 9 months ago • iceshrimp (AP)

Because the French law requires us to inform people they're recorded (including by e.g. CCTV cameras) that's how I was starting my call. Then "if you hang up, I'll sue you", "give me the name of the data broker", and the call operator probably started to feverishly look up diagrams.

RevK :verified_r: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

So you got some low paid worked anxious and worried about his job because they have had to hand over details that could get the company sued (and recorded their side as well I am sure)... So "abusing a worker", the very thing you don't want to do.

And if you succeed in suing then they lose the job.

There is no nice way to sort this out, and breaking their phone for a bit is no worse.

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Océane 9 months ago • iceshrimp (AP)

Again, abusing people doesn't disrupt the workplace because it's already a sweatshop built around disciplinary measures.

RevK :verified_r: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

OK but *any* measure that works, and gets the place shut down causes those workers to all be out of a job, probably without being paid.

Doing the right thing and getting the bad guys sorted out causes people to lose their jobs.

The trick is not to work for criminals and scammers in the first place.

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justsusanholdingon 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

as creative as this might be chances are they calling through a conmputer system not an actual headset. So this really would never happen.

Crafty 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Yay, let's abuse telemarketers, 99% of which are poor teenagers trying to make some pocket money. I'm sure that totally will have zero consequences in how they treat other staff groups that are often looked down on, like retail staff or so. Not like this cunt just showed them that workers deserved to be abused. What a fucking genius.

Jae Bloom 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

THAT IS AWESOME!!! 🤣🤣

Lutz Helm 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

If true, it's also a shitty thing to do to somebody who is most likely working in a terrible callcenter job for a minimum wage.

Jeroen Wiert Pluimers 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

luckily the original was saved in the @waybackmachine at https://web.archive.org/web/20170220163142/https://plus.google.com/+ChrisBlasko/posts/GzCuzTyUXNq

Today is a good day. I just had a call from a telemarketer. Did I yell and sc...

Today is a good day. I just had a call from a telemarketer. Did I yell and scream at them, you ask? Certainly not. Like a good IT administrator I put my... - Chris Blasko - Google+

^{web.archive.org}

@users/waybackmachine

Dgar 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

😘🤌

Ben 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Edit - unboosted/unfaved...... so I could reboost and refave. Hurrah!

txt.file 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

the commercial phone setups I have worked with did pull their config on _each_ boot. So factory reset would be only a ~10 minute downtime of that phone.

CC: @luebbermann

@luebbermann

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Dany 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The year is correct, I remember this one.

Catarina Lourenço 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

not cool :/

David "Dave" Treloar 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Same here, criminal spam is rampant, and if anybody is trying to justify that as okay, like some in this thread, they need the heads checked, why do you think so many (especially elderly victims) are getting ripped off, because of these people, they are scum and deserved to be treated as such.

Vera "mpk" 🌸 girly arc 🌸 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

idk saying that working for a criminal is universally bad is kind of iffy to me? illegal doesn't mean unethical (though i'd say this specific thing is unethical)

Getting people to buy something they don't want or need is bad, yes, but by the same logic working at IKEA would be unethical

DJGummikuh 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I am amazed at the bullshit bubble some people live in. "You have to consider the situation the caller is in" - fuck you, if I get an unsolicited call, the caller - completely irrelevant of his state or situation - is fair game in my opinion. If the nobody would work for the scammers, the scammers would be out of business. Also "you could have pressed the 9" - no, they could've just not called. By no way am I going to abide by the rules that some random number tries to impose on me

piofthings 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

sorry, you got pulled into some silly conversations there! I’ve removed you from one.

Josh 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I feel that reporting you (to you 😆) unwarranted.
If "legitimate" telemarketers are a thing, still the individual calling me is the front line representative of a corporation that wants nothing but my money and employs legions of people to ensnare/trap/fool me into getting it.

What were those codes again?
😂

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Piloot 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

There is an easyer way to keep them from calling anyone else. When you get a call from someone who wants yo sell you insurance or an energy contract, tell them that your spouse handles these things and that you will call him/her. "Just hang on." Then you leave your phone and wait until they hang up. They think they will get a potential new customer on the line, so they will wait. And wait. And wait.

Allpoints 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

this thread is fascinating. The number of folks advocating "Scammers are people too and deserve our respect." is not something I would have expected.

Stilvoid 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

🤌

Taya Nielsen 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

You are officially a genius!!

Nerb 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Interesting how many virtue signalers feel for the poor telemarketers. Me I waste their time, Microsoft calling to inform me my computer has a virus? After 15 or so minutes when they finally figured out what I was doing and hung up with some unintelligible language I chuckled.

Local Sheriff calling to let me know they have a warrant out for my arrest because I skipped jury duty? I am proud to say I tied that sucker up for over 1 hour and 45 minutes with him thinking I was driving to the bank then over to a gas station that had a bitcoin atm. First I had supposedly gone to the bitcoin atm but it would not accept my card. So I needed to go to the bank but could supposedly only get $500 from the bank atm so I needed to go inside. And they instructed me on what to say to the teller.

Finally got tired of it and asked him if he thought I deserved an award for fooling him. Again I suspect I was cussed in a foreign language as they hung up.

J. "Henry" Waugh 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

that's even better than what a friend did

When he got one of those "hello this is MSFT to debug your computer" scams, he kept them on the phone for 45 minutes: enabling remote access, watching them delete some system32 folder files, and then demand the ransom

...until it mysteriously repaired itself, because he was in a VM the whole time and restored from a snapshot

He got them so mad they couldn't scam him, they hung up on him! 😄

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I say to them "do you feel happy when you wake up in the morning knowing that you're going to be spending your day scamming people?"

Jinshei 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I had a scam caller who seemed not to be allowed to hang up. I teach and can literally talk for hours. I talked to her for over 90 mins nonstop. Nicely, friendly, but I TALKED

Ted Cannon 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@nickhobart thought you’d enjoy this.

@nickhobart

Alexander Portnoy 🌊 🏳️‍🌈 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Yes, this is Lawful Evil.

QRSS_Test 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I don’t know if I’ll escalate to this, but I have started telling the scammers calling from “TV service” that they are criminals. Mostly they just hang up, but sometimes they argue with me for a few minutes.

Bec 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

While clever, Blasko there is a mean-spirited person who makes much more money than does that telemarketer.

That person is just trying to do their job.

They're trying to make a living and likely hate the job as it is.

I'm certain the daily hostility and passive-aggressive (as that is) and aggressive BS they experience is no help.

So, thumbs down for me.

Karl Baron 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Funny how all these people replying have so much empathy for the scammer but not empathy for the people who would be scammed by them for the hour when the phone is offline

kdehairy 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

That is exactly as mean as bulling a sweatshop worker for "helping" the corrupt system that you hate! .. And being publicly proud of it is just being a dumb teenager flexing his muscles!

Hendi 8 months ago • mastodon (AP)

And all the people that complain how you could do that to "some accidentally poor crime worker paying his bills" - they have a equally bad setting at their moral equalizers channel. You wasted time in which the bad guys have not been able to do crime. Good job.

Taya Nielsen 8 months ago • mastodon (AP)

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

myrmepropagandist 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Signs you have carpenter ants

1. keep finding tiny tools
2. city sends a very tiny permit to affix to baseboard
3. try to move a book and are told “keep this entrance clear, ma’am” because of the “cement delivery coming later”
4. Your dish rack is dismantled “because it’ll be cheaper to rebuild from scratch”
5. no room on the dresser due to like 85 tiny pickups illegally parked there
6. husband keeps hearing high pitched wolf whistles when exiting shower

(my new drawing for this PSA)

Color drawing of realistic carpenter ants with little hard hats and tools. One says "hey bay-be" the other says "wow we"

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cat://Katze :neocat_flag_agender: :battery_empty: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Stop giving links on websites the text "here".

You can find something here.

is making it really hard for anyone with a screen reader to go back and "click" the link afterwards.
Your link should have a text like:

You can also have a look at the accessibility guidelines for websites if you want more information.

Bam, suddenly everyone knows exactly what that link is, and if someone with a screenreader gets the link names read out they also know exactly what this link will be without having to let it read the entire sentence again.

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Climate News Now 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

100% of toxic "forever chemicals" break down overnight in new method from Japanese scientists.

Scientists in Japan have developed a new way of breaking down toxic “forever chemicals” quickly at room temperature. The technique broke down 100% of certain types of these pollutants overnight, recovering some useful components for reuse. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

https://www.popsci.com/science/pfas-led-light/

LED lights may be key to breaking down forever chemicals | Popular Science

A promising new technique separated 100-percent of fluorine from one PFAS overnight.

^{Andrew Paul (Popular Science)}

#ClimateCrisis #globalwarming #climatechange

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Atari Scene News 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Decent USB Host, a new extension in development for #Atari8bit computers that brings USB, Bluetooth
and Wifi capabilities. Open source and low cost. https://youtu.be/hgaEhkeXd_A #atari #retrocomputing

Decent USB Host: USB, Wifi and Bluetooth on Atari 8-bit computers

The DecentUSB Host aims at being a low-cost extension for Atari 8-bit computers that brings USB, Bluetooh and Wifi capabilities to the platform.It's open sou...

^YouTube

#retrocomputing #atari #atari8bit

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Benjamin Rosenbaum 1 year ago (Received 9 months ago) • mastodon (AP)

widespread archaeological evidence suggests that many North Americans of this era acknowledged the existence of three genders: "men", "women", and "employees only"

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Colto Fox 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Giving some belly rubs and snugs for #TummyTuesday

🦦 Makitoba
📹 @KivuliTiger

#furry #fursuit #belly #BellyRubs #FursuitVideo #LupeSuits

#furry #fursuit #lupesuits #belly #tummytuesday #bellyrubs #fursuitvideo @Kivuli

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Duane Johnson :verified: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"Keeping VLC free and without ads is a no-brainer. I know people focus a lot on that part but, for me, it’s just the way it should be and it’s not difficult for me to keep it like that... Sure, more money would be fun, but most of the people I know who have more money are annoying." -- Jean-Baptiste Kempf

EDIT to add: You can donate at https://www.videolan.org/ in the upper-right hand corner.

https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/kempf-interview-vlc-videolan

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/g6cqr/iama_vlc_media_player_developer_ama/

https://usesthis.com/interviews/jean-baptiste.kempf/

#OpenSource #NonExtractiveSystems

The one who kept VLC free

Jean-Baptiste Kempf discusses how he initially got involved in VLC and shares his tips for developers who want to improve and get hired.

^{Welcome to the Jungle}

#opensource #nonextractivesystems

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Jenni Leder ( ͡♥️ ͜ʖ ͡♥️) 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"Public Work is a search engine for public domain content. Explore 100,000+ copyright-free images from The MET, New York Public Library, and other sources.”

https://public.work/

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Public Work is a visual search engine for public domain content. Explore 100,000+ copyright-free images from The MET, New York Public Library, and other sources

^public.work

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Aatheus 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I need name suggestions for my new #bat #fursuit

Possibly something related to being purple, or looking like a certain type of fruit, or just something bat-sounding. Suggestions please!

Edit: So far my favorites are "Plumbob", "Pleione" and "Professor Mustard"

Purple and gold bat fursuit from front, wing arms extended. Body is mainly purple, with gold on the wing membranes, ears, nose and claws

#fursuit #bat

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The Tech Lord ⊕ `Lex Pendragon 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Purple and Yellow makes me think of Adam Warrock's song. Maybe Boompow Smash? (Sounds better backwards: Smash Boompow.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpPuayhQFCU

Adam WarRock "Purple and Yellow" [Batgirl rap]

Free download: http://www.adamwarrock.com/?p=4537Beat used: "Rivers of Blood" The RZAMore free music at:http://adamwarrock.comhttp://adamwarrock.tumblr.comh...

^YouTube

Twig 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Taro or Ube

artemist 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

i hate how home consoles now are just "pc with fucked up freebsd/windows".

they should make another console that has 7 cores of an architecture you've never heard of

games should run at kernel level and have to include their own scheduler. don't worry, you can have 3 cores of 3 different architectures to manage filesystem access and such.

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Kevin Marks 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The reason calling MAGA weirdos weird works is Wilhoit's law:
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
If you tell them they're the out-group their entire worldview collapses and they imagine what it would be like if they were on receiving end of habitual cruelty.

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Juggling With Eggs 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

As a Brit I don’t find ‘weird’ that bigger insult, it feels a little tame given I tend to like a lot of people who self confess to being weird.

Don’t see so many folks describing themselves as ‘creepy’ though…

Apart from a Thom Yorke from Radiohead who said both:

‘But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here’

Which if #Trump had Yorke’s self awareness would mean he would acknowledge he didn’t belong in the White House…yeah, right?

#trump

Kevin Marks 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@JugglingWithEggs that's why it works; we're comfortable with being weird and hanging out with weirdos, but MAGA types pretend they're the normal ones.
Think of how Farage goes on about normal people.

@Juggling With Eggs

Yag Fox 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Bought one of those £30 "hologram" fan things. Has a rather pleasing "Back To The Future 2015" kind of vibe to it, and surprisingly easy to load your own images on to! :) #hologram #retrofuturist #hologramFans #backtothefuture

#backtothefuture #hologram #retrofuturist #hologramfans

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MarkP 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

ooh, which one did you go for? Been looking at them but didn’t want to be limited to predefined graphics!

Yag Fox 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@markp This one Bewinner 3D Hologram Advertising Display Fan Projector, 224 LED Light Beads, 800x480P Trade Show LED Display Fan, 3D Holographic Fan for Store, Shop, Bar, Holiday (224 LED) https://amzn.eu/d/0bgMsERK

It comes with a micro sd card that contains a file converting application and WiFi remote software. Haven't tried the remote yet, but to upload pictures you just upload a file, run a converter, it then produces a file you drop in the root of the SD card, and it displays.

@MarkP

MarkP 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

thanks! I’ll take a look at that… more toys to play with!

Robert Reich 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Just four companies in the U.S. control:

85% of beef processing

80% of corn seed distribution

77% of fertilizer production

69% of grocery sales

Wondering why food prices are so high?

Minimal competition means maximized price-gouging.

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Lennyaa 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

🤗hugs
🐈 @lennyaa
🐉 @AilurusThePanda

#fursuit #kemonofursuit #kemono #furry #furryfandom #fursuiter #fursuiting #kemonosuit #fursuitphotography #furrycommunity #catfurry #catfursuit #fursuits

#furry #fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #kemono #kemonofursuit #fursuits #furrycommunity #catfursuit #catfurry #kemonosuit @Lennyaa @Ailurus, Ryuki & Juzi

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Logan V. | Animal Shapes 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Time for a swim.~

(commission)

Loosely inspired by Flood Falls near Hope, BC - a wonderful little hike on a hot day!

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Logan V. | Animal Shapes 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@CheetahObscura Thank you! :D

@Cheetah Obscura

Cheetah Obscura 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Most welcome!

Doggie :neofox_snug: :therian: 9 months ago • iceshrimp (AP)

I have yet to figure out how to configure something like waybar, so, this is my desktop for now

similar to what I had on awesomewm - demonic xenia drawn by neotheta, except it's centered and on a darker background, and without the "awesome" text

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heyda.tech 11 months ago (Received 9 months ago) • mastodon (AP)

it would be cool if there were a public wiki for how to lobotomize modern cars.

like:
software to enter dealer mode to reset or disable location history,
the CAN message to disable a biometric / tracking system,
how to physically unplug the 5g radio / antenna,
remove all phone contact info

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Vicious Babushka 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

#Weird

Cartoon of "G-d" and "Satan" sitting at a bar enjoying a drink.

GD: I have to admit Luc, getting all those Evangelicals to believe that a racist billionaire that makes fun of disabled folks and dead soldiers, has 5 kids with 3 wives, gropes women, incites violence and lies all the time was sent by ME? HA HA How that's pretty darm imprressive!

SATAN: Oh stop it G-d, you're making me blush.

Little doggie in the lower left corner says "Like Jim M said, people are strange."

#weird

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David Zipper 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Would be nice if NHTSA spoke about road safety as clearly as Jalopnik.

https://jalopnik.com/these-are-the-unbreakable-rules-of-driving-1851608168/slides/8

These Are The Unbreakable Rules Of Driving

The dos and don'ts for when you're out on the road.

^{Collin Woodard (Jalopnik)}

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Juggling With Eggs 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

#Trump is not only saying he only needs Christians to vote this once, because then he’ll ‘fix it’, he’s also saying people don’t need to vote at all for him to win.

He’s saying the election will be determined by something other than votes…the crooked officials he’s already got on board to certify the results.

He’s not even bothering to hide his fascism.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-points-out-frightening-truth-about-trump-s-lack-of-concern-about-votes-215958085917

Maddow points out frightening truth about Trump's lack of concern about votes

Rachel Maddow rounds up instances in which Donald Trump not only assures his supporters that if he is elected they won't have to vote in the future, but also that even for this 2024 election he does not need votes.

^{MSNBC.com (MSNBC)}

#trump

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Juggling With Eggs 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Would it be such bad idea if #Biden were as his last gift to democracy request assistance from the UN with election monitoring?

When #Trump says he doesn’t need votes…I think so.

‘United Nations electoral assistance is provided only at the specific request of the Member State concerned or based on a mandate from the Security Council or General Assembly’

https://dppa.un.org/en/elections

Elections

Overview History and Evolution Types of Assistance Requesting Assistance UN Entities Providing Electoral Assistance Electoral Resources Overview Elections are a vital part of democratic processes,

^dppa.un.org

#trump #biden

Roknrol 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Internationally speaking that would probably be seen as a "weakness", especially in the United States. It's a good idea though...I would love to see it happen.

Juggling With Eggs 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@roknrol

Just waiting to see what happens if Republican voting officials refuse to certify Democrat wins doesn’t seem like a great idea given Trump’s previous. How else can the integrity of the election be protected? Can it be done from within the US given the Supreme Court is also compromised?

@Roknrol

Mushy 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I was asked by @panda_paco at AC to draw something nerdy and I think I did just that! #furry #furryart

#furry #furryart @Paco Panda

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Micr0byte 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

why are you still up

i was fixing my DNS
that way i could turn the lights off

go to fuckin sleep

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Nadia :neocat_flag_trans: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Two types of fedi admin

There will be some downtime FOUR MONTHS from now please be ready uwu

omw to reboot the server in 15 minutes cope

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Squishlord Zachariah 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Can somebody turn the sun down, please?

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@ExcelHumor
OneDrive: file saved auto saved
me: where?
OneDrive:
🤷🏻‍♀️

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Work Chronicles comics 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

(comic) Above and Beyond https://workchronicles.substack.com/p/comic-above-and-beyond

(comic) Above and Beyond

Comics about work. Made with love and lots of coffee.

^{Work Chronicles}

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RevK :verified_r: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

FYI, some of us do pay staff "above and beyond" with Christmas (and other) bonuses.

mark 8 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@revk and many of those places will conveniently include bonus as something to be considered in the overall package.

Either it's a bonus or it's pay. Problem when it is pay is that reducing it makes people really mad.

@RevK :verified_r:

Smitner // Hazard Pay ☣️ 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I am now a gardener.

#memes #gamedev #ProgrammerHumor #indiedev

4 panel comic.

How to become a gardener, become a game developer, burn out, become a gardener

#gamedev #programmerhumor #memes #indiedev

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Aatheus 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

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Kevin Standlee 💉x7 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Bodie, right?

Aatheus 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Bodie!

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Wuffpet 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

It’s important to make sure your plush toy gets plenty of fresh air and exercise. Maybe add another level of security for good measure. 🔒🔒

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Jonly 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

love the tag with the washing instructions.
Hand wash and then up at the clothesline to dry

Gallen 🔜 EF 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I wonder if pc power supplies are able to taste different flavours of power being fed to them.

Maybe like Spain has a specific high frequency ripple voltage that makes it spicy or sweden has a very low .02hz +/-1v fluctuation that has a calming effect on capacitors.

(I am hoping nothing goes wrong plugging in my PC to Sweden's grid XD)

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Tufty Indigo 🪗 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Wait, I haven't finished designing my capacitorsona yet! Mine would be a bit vintage and starting to bulge in the middle

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