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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Who all will be joining me at Skepticon this weekend?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/12/skepticon-this-weekend/

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Anathema wrote:

Bashar al-Assad looks like the kind of person who got bullied in school for sneaking into the girls toilets to listen to them peeing.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I might regret this, but I'm trying to tell myself good things to counter the depressing reality of life right now.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/12/monologuing-at-the-microscope-you-can-wake-up-to-me-trying-to-say-nice-things-for-a-change/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zxY7vm82_g

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soft@stonerkitty.monster ("🌸") wrote:

me, 9 years old: UGH i can’t relate to sailor moon as a character at all. all she wants to do is eat and sleep and play video games!!

me, 23 years old: 😭😭😭😭 i just want to PLAY VIDEO GAMES and SNACK and TAKE A NAP :pinkgirl_cry: :blushycry: :blobcatsadreach: :pusheencry:

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venko@cybre.space ("ｖｅｎｋｏ") wrote:

omg

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f2k1de@cuties.social ("Hornbegleitpersonal") wrote:

In Deutschland wird man nicht gesund, sondern arbeitsfähig.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Now I'm reading about Saxony. Dunkeldeutschland.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Me: *Looking at map* Why is much worse in that area?

Kråkan: It's Saxony, I don't know how else to explain it.

owl@beach.city wrote:

What other waters are there?
I've had
• sulphur-smelling hot water (Iceland,)
• crusty/mineral-rich water (Germany,)
• bathhouse-smelling water (USA)

owl@beach.city wrote:

Still thinking of how everything would get crusty before.

owl@beach.city wrote:

One glass of water please, medium crust

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mahartma@chaos.social wrote:

Pressure seems to be my worst enemy and best friend at the same time.

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cancel@merveilles.town wrote:

FTL: Faster Than Light (Macintosh 512K, 1985)
by Subset Games

#demake

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

🎉 Owncast v0.0.8 is out 🎉

Host your own video streaming instance and say goodbye to Twitch!

Changes:
- Chat moderation
- Embeddable chat
- Custom emoji
- Lots of fixes!

Get Owncast: https://owncast.online/

Full Changelog: https://owncast.online/releases/owncast-0.0.8/

Gargron ("Eugen") wrote:

We reached 10K downloads of the official Mastodon app for iOS!

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calcifer@hackers.town wrote:

SomaFM is amazing. Commercial-free, listener-supported radio stations that are just a standard stream (any shoutcast client works, and they embed a web player on their page). They've been hosting DEF CON Radio for quite a while.

They're awesome, donation-based, and currently badly in need of funds. Like them? Please consider donating a bit. Never heard of them? Check it out, you'll probably find an interesting station or two.

Boosts appreciated!

https://somafm.com

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

someone ported the condition system from common lisp to #fennel and it looks really cool! the interactive debugger especially seems like it could streamline things a lot.

https://andreyorst.gitlab.io/posts/2021-08-08-condition-system-for-fennel-language-and-lua-runtime/

owl@beach.city wrote:

@technomancy *Applies Justin/e logic and elongates the penultimate vowel*

Juuuust

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

@owl this reminds me of when I played Castlevania Harmony of Dissonnance and I could not for the live of me figure out how to prononuce the name of its protagonist Juste Belmont.

"Just"? "Joost"? "Juiced"? "Justey"?

owl@beach.city wrote:

Now I'm finding it amusing that the difference between Justin and Justine in English is that the i becomes longus.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Social Justice Wario

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

ten years ago I thought that it really was a bummer that there seemed to be some kind of ironclad law that every organization becomes increasingly ineffectual and bumbling the larger it grows and that you can't avoid devolving into inane bullshit at scale

today I realize that's something to be thankful for

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

the problem with collapseOS is that once you start down that train of thought it's very difficult to avoid the temptation to write increasingly elaborate fanfic scenarios of post-collapse society and how it will function, and then if the collapse happens you will have missed some crucial detail that completely changes the dynamic of society so that everyone who finds your writing just laughs at you for not realizing some fundamental bit they take for granted as part of their everyday life

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

collapseOS should have been called seldonOS

owl@beach.city wrote:

Makes me wonder if it was common to take the train for such distances back then.

owl@beach.city wrote:

There's a story that sounds too silly to be true, but it's actually true.
A couple from Texas were in Stockholm and asked to buy a ticket to Venice.
Then they ended up in Vännäs, not far from where I live.
Because Venice is not called Venice in Swedish or in Italian I guess, but Venice sounds kind of like Vännäs.
Fortunately they enjoyed their snowy detour, and the train company (back when it was SJ) made it right.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

How do people watch themselves without cringing until their vertebrae crumble?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/11/yikes-a-talking-head-alert/

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

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Dear Samsung, your Fold3 looks really nice! Please notify me when you cut the price in half. And then in half again. And again.

-- A future loyal customer

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The spider colony may outgrow my incubators. If I let a few of them loose, maybe they'll conquer the adjacent labs and I'll be able to expand my empire.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/11/were-gonna-need-a-bigger-incubator/

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owl@beach.city wrote:

It's the same with icebrain. Two brains in cahoots, goofing up my English.

munstycke, munnstykki
dammsugare, ryksuga