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owl@beach.city wrote:

Voice 84 on the Yamaha YC88:
FM Owl Bass

:O

owl@beach.city wrote:

Hall of shame of programs that just come into your $HOME and dump stuff on the floor as if standard locations for those things don't exist.

Attachments:

• A file listing showing various junk in my home folder. Old cruft like .gnupg and a lot of new cruft like .azure and .aspnet. (remote)

owl@beach.city wrote:

*Billionaire voice*
Noo, my Big Number

owl@beach.city wrote:

What if we collectively decide that money is worthless, for a lark

owl@beach.city wrote:

This country is home to the third largest Chilean diaspora community, after Argentina and the United States.
That was a result of the US-backed coup that took place in Chile on the 11th of September, 1973.
Thinking about that today.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Read Grimrock as a music genre. I've even played both 1 and 2.

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freakboy3742 ("Russell Keith-Magee") wrote:

RT @freakboy3742 Smart code goes into libraries.
Boring code goes into projects.

@Ewjoachim @ @PyConAU

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djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

🚨 🚨 🚨

a new sneaker pimps album dropped today

🚨 🚨 🚨

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nasser@merveilles.town ("Ramsey Nasser") wrote:

not sure if my instincts are off so lmk how you all feel about this: "in a hypothetical federated git platform, i would like it if conversations in a repository (eg issues and pull requests) were stored directly in the repository as opposed to in a database on the server"

boosts appreciated

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

That's one heck of a birth announcement:

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/zO9rzD

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

I just realized the story of how industries invented jaywalking...

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern-moloch/

rhymes with the story of how industries invented the fiction of recyclable plastic:

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/recycling-symbol-cant-appear-on-non-recyclable-items-california-bill-says/

And we keep falling for these things.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:

So I heard too much of knee-jerk takes about #ivermectin vs. #COVID-19, so I went on the Internet and read something that looks factual: https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/antiviral-therapy/ivermectin/

So:

- It's not just a horse dewormer, it's a legit drug against some tropical diseases.
- There are lab tests showing it inhibiting the replication of the Corona virus.
- There is however no evidence of it helping in real treatments. Probably because the efficient dose would be ~100 times higher than approved for people.

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kernpanik@chaos.social ("kernpanik 🐾") wrote:

For her research on cat sounds*, Swedish phonetician Susanne Schötz has won this year's Ig Nobel Award in Biology. Congratulations!

https://www.improbable.com/2021-ceremony/winners/#ig2021

*) “purring, chirping, chattering, trilling, tweedling, murmuring, meowing, moaning, squeaking, hissing, yowling, howling, growling, and other modes of cat–human communication”

#cats #mastocats #CatsOfMastodon

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

This is what a car engine sounds like at max power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujp3q_aryRA

owl@beach.city wrote:

*Enter Sandman voice*
🎶
Something old
Something new
Something borrowed and blue
And some things that will bite, yeah

owl@beach.city wrote:

kobyoung

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

That last boost reminded me of the soundtrack to the movie Pi, which I'm now listening to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UuCgIi3Dgk

Film (spoilers here):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film)

Last boost:

https://oldbytes.space/@millihertz/106909057896783931

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millihertz@oldbytes.space ("8 bit & tamsyn & forth, oh my!") wrote:

#nowplaying Iszoloscope - The Fear and Need for an Empty Space
https://ant-zen.bandcamp.com/track/the-fear-and-need-for-an-empty-space

owl@beach.city wrote:

*Gets wet and cold*
Autumn!

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

Such wonderful nerds of all types on here. I'm glad y'all are here.

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rune@mcd.dk ("Rune :blobpeek:") wrote:

I have an audio file named after someone I used to play video games with a decade ago.

The entire thing is just windows error sounds put together in a musical way.

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• d93be608e0bf4a63.mp3 (remote)

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nivex@octodon.social ("Nivex 🐧 📻") wrote:

Ditch Facebook.
https://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/2833.html

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

It's only been a few days, but I'm still diggin' elfeed. A big improvement for me over using an app on my phone.

(The phone app was perfectly adequate. It's just that phones are generally terrible for the things I want to do.)

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franklinlopez@kolektiva.social ("Franklin López") wrote:

Indigenous peoples in North America have helped block tar sands mines, oil pipelines, and LNG export terminals. Their successes against the fossil fuel industry have kept enormous volumes of carbon pollution out of the atmosphere

https://www.nationofchange.org/2021/09/09/indigenous-resistance-instrumental-in-stopping-high-profile-fossil-fuel-projects-says-report/

owl@beach.city wrote:

Nord Grand is a pretty instrument.
You can tell where it's made from the red and the wood.

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

The Halloween season has begun, right? It's not pumpkin spice you should dread, it's the vampires rising from the deep.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/10/friday-cephalopod-theyre-coming-to-get-you-now/

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

Have you people even read Teilhard de Chardin's "Phenomenon of Man"? Of course you haven't, or you'd have plucked your eyes out or would be gibbering in a madhouse somewhere.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/10/ia-ia-teilhard-de-chardin-fhtagn/

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owl@beach.city wrote:

[Intro]
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

owl@beach.city wrote:

Just noticed the "Toyota" on the windows of the building on the right.
Join the fray!

owl@beach.city wrote:

I love the autumn air.
It's sunny and cool and crisp outside.
Every season has something that I look forward to, and then I can't wait to leave it behind towards the end of the season.