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Kevin Marks 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 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?

Kevin Marks 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.

Yag Fox 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
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Yag Fox 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.

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MarkP mastodon (AP)
thanks! I’ll take a look at that… more toys to play with!

Robert Reich 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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Time for a swim.~

(commission)

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Obscura, Cheetah mastodon (AP)
Most welcome!

I have yet to figure out how to configure something like waybar, so, this is my desktop for now
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heyda.tech 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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David Zipper 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

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Juggling With Eggs 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

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Roknrol 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 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?


Mushy mastodon (AP)
I was asked by @panda_paco at AC to draw something nerdy and I think I did just that! #furry #furryart
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Nadia 🔜 39C3 mastodon (AP)

Two types of fedi admin

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

vs

omw to reboot the server in 15 minutes cope

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Squishlord Zachariah mastodon (AP)
Can somebody turn the sun down, please?
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(comic) Above and Beyond https://workchronicles.substack.com/p/comic-above-and-beyond
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RevK :verified_r: mastodon (AP)
FYI, some of us do pay staff "above and beyond" with Christmas (and other) bonuses.
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mark 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.


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Aatheus mastodon (AP)
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Aatheus mastodon (AP)
Bodie!
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Wuffpet 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 mastodon (AP)
love the tag with the washing instructions.
Hand wash and then up at the clothesline to dry
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Gallen 🔜 SC, NFC 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 🪗 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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mcc mastodon (AP)

A "qualia" I do not like is when you search Google for something and your first result is a forum or Reddit thread on the exact subject asking your exact question and the top response is very abrasively going uhhhhh, why didn't you just Google for it??"

No, john

You are the Google

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demize mastodon (AP)
similarly my favorite is when “closed as duplicate” with fifteen comments saying “but this is the top result on google”
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Leah mastodon (AP)
Reading all these articles about the high traffic from AI bots, here is my experience from a small German hoster: It's a huge problem, and it is getting worse very fast. There are bots like claudebot from Antrophic which are so aggressive that they block whole systems, outranking actual attacks for example against WordPress. And they change their AWS cloud IPs so often that blocking doesn't help for long and they also ignore robots.txt. Our on-call is regularly alerted for such issues.
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I HATE my computer how do I get my friends out of it
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Lennox mastodon (AP)
very proud fox
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Augmentedrobot mastodon (AP)
The best ad about depression awareness I've ever seen.
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Happy #InternationalTigerDay from Mythimorph Labs 🐯

I've decided to let the latest experiment out of its cage... the upgraded Tiger has finally earned its STRIPES!

Helping celebrate is @QuietFire proudly modeling a custom shirt designed to be as unique as he is 🏳️‍🌈

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Wow, an actually good linkedin post.
I'm shocked.
Edit: just don't look at the replies to that post
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Hyshaji Nightdragon mastodon (AP)

Got my #anthrocon #AC2024 photo album posted!
#fursuit #fursuiting

Full set: https://nightdragon0.smugmug.com/2024/Anthrocon-2024

Furtrack for tagging: https://www.furtrack.com/user/Nightdragon0/album-4418

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Aatheus mastodon (AP)

Bloody hell. The Parks Fire is huge. Creating a big pyrocumulus cloud system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WET6EY0z_aU

Started because some dingus pushed a burning car into a ravine

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yagokoro mastodon (AP)
Dear modern web """developers""",
If your 2 factor authentication entry control is anything other than a single text input then you have failed. This trend of "we want a single text box per character" needs to die because it fucks with copy/paste and password managers.
Bonus points if it auto-validates instead of making the user submit so I get locked out of my account because of a typo on my phone. Thanks idiots.
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Sharkie mastodon (AP)

Much of frontend security design is hostile in a way that reduces security.

Most people doing security design are bad at what they do.

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Techwolf12 mastodon (AP)
How to approve and merge a pull request professionally? With two developers and their yubikey as authentication, using the briefcase of launching.
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Got my dude from Wolfberry Crafts! He’s ready to rock your little world!
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Dragonhead mastodon (AP)
What a good DJ!
Nidonemo mastodon (AP)
I love this lil guy!

Gallen 🔜 SC, NFC mastodon (AP)

I found this extremely hilarious XD

#furry

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libramoon mastodon (AP)

I recently ran into an old pro-planet t-shirt from
the early '80s – over 40 years ago we knew,
we even yelled and screamed and signed petitions
and tried to get that difference made

What is wrong with people?

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Juggling With Eggs mastodon (AP)
It’s depressing that when I was a child in the 80’s we were aware of the Greenhouse Effect, because we were taught it in school…and yet here we are 40 years later and the fossil fuel barons are able to cause carnage with impunity while protestors are locked up and made to serve long prison sentences. It’s a Mad World.
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Foone🏳️‍⚧️ hometown (AP)

One of the downstream effects of the AI boom that I hadn't really thought about is that sites are starting to introduce anti-crawling tech as standard, because they don't want all their bandwidth going to training chatgpt7.

This is going to make life harder for people who run benevolent scrapers. How many sites are going to be blocking the wayback machine now, just because it looks too much like an AI scraperbot?

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Eaton hometown (AP)
it’s already as huge PITA and people *pay me to run my scraper on THEIR sites*
依云🦊 mastodon (AP)

I'm blocking those AI bots but intentionally exempt the wayback machine.

To me, the issue is not the crawlers themselves, nor bandwidth nor content. The issue I have with GPTBot and Facebook's bots is they come as a flock, to the extent that my server can't handle. They are rude and never care to learn how search bots behave.


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Kim Scheinberg mastodon (AP)

"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them."

We bring up the Atwood quote all the time to explain why women are careful when rejecting men, but we seem to have forgotten the first part

*This* is why the right aren't bothered when we use adjectives that suggest we fear them, but are melting down over being called 'weird'

The thought of being laughed it is a fascist's kryptonite

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Paco Panda mastodon (AP)

Memories from a very bouncy evening in Reno, Nevada, at the beginning of November 2023

Tigon Kitty, Mikey, Lucky, Mokie Mutt, Jayke and Yoru (nop, that's not me, probably a distant relative)

Partyin', partyin', yeah. Fun, fun, fun, fun.

Digital. Procreate

You can see the short time-lapse process video on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
You can see the full time-lapse video at supporting me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pandapaco

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Thumper mastodon (AP)

The view from the DJ booth was pretty awesome too ;)

Quite a memorable night!

ponytoons mastodon (AP)
This is really cute.

Dairishgoat mastodon (AP)

Random fursuit photos from the archives.

Sauna & rooftop furs, NordicFuzzcon 2017.

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Yag Fox mastodon (AP)
The convention I could only have been allowed to attend under a strict set of rules they gave me. Not a very inclusive event.
Dairishgoat mastodon (AP)
@yagfox
What were said rules? The ‘no heads off’ thing? I don’t think that was ever actually enforced. Not sure, though.
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