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owl@beach.city wrote:

It smells like earth and I can see the eldritch stars between the clouds. There's only two sounds: the ventilation of the houses, and water dripping. Only me and a cat are out.

owl@beach.city wrote:

It has rained. I didn't even notice because I was staring at a screen for money. It feels really nice outside.

owl@beach.city wrote:

fir needles are fir fur

owl@beach.city wrote:

Buchla that's not completely bongos amounts of money?
https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2021/09/15/classic-buchla-200-series-modules-returning-as-inexpensive-eurorack-modules/

Reblogged by technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see..."):
Ivafakename@efdn.club ("Ivafakename (Official villain)") wrote:

Good news everyone I finally got into medical school!

The locks were hard to break but I am learning all I can about real unethical science

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

on the one hand it's good to see that the embargo had at least *some* effect, but on the other hand, the junta seems to have found a way around it, even if it is inconvenient. it's tempting to blame Telenor and say that they should have held on and protected the citizens, but the military was making veiled threats to Telenor employees stationed in Burma, so it's understandable they want to get out. ugh.

power to the people of burma; I hope they can overthrow their corrupt military.

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

the despicable military dictatorship in Burma has been pressuring the Telenor communications company to install surveillance systems to monitor dissidents. so far they have refused to activate it because of an EU embargo law, but now they're bailing on their Burmese operations altogether and selling their business to another company outside the EU that may not have any hesitance to activate the surveillance.

https://www.reuters.com/world/norways-telenor-says-myanmar-unit-sale-came-after-juntas-pressure-surveillance-2021-09-15/

owl@beach.city wrote:

Ál Hás

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

And yet, it's now colder outside at 09:30 than it was when I posted that toot around 06:00.

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MicroSFF ("Micro SF/F stories by O Westin") wrote:

RT @MicroSFF "If I understand correctly, professor, it is not only theoretically but also practically possible to travel to change the past?"
"Yes."
"Have you tried it?"
"Yes, that's what motivated my research."
"Will you tell us what you changed?"
"No."
"A 'no' is sacrosanct."
"Yes, it is."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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

Nobody asked me, but here's how I feel about the death of Bob Enyart. Fuck that guy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/15/my-true-and-honest-feelings-about-the-death-of-bob-enyart/

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

It's getting harder and harder to love America.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/15/depressingly-accurate-lesson/

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

Despite it not really being high on my conscious priorities, I really want to make a new avatar. This one... has run its course.

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

Despite being a little breezy, it was somewhat warm this morning on my run. Summer lingers for a while longer.

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

Relieved at the results in California, dreading the future of Amefican politics.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/15/good-work-california/

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

Spiders have always been prolific beasts.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/15/tell-me-about-it/

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

Don't bother to read this, it's just me expressing my dismay at the failures of university administrations.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/15/futile-whining/

cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

How I write my Journal https://blog.m5e.de/post/how-i-write-my-journal/

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itnewsbot@schleuss.online ("IT News") wrote:

Wikipedia bans seven Chinese editors, alleges 'infiltration' and risk of 'physical harm' of users - Removes sysop privileges for another dozen, warns more about doxing, frets about preservi... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2021/09/15/wikimedia_china_bans/

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Olm_e@mamot.fr ("Olm-e") wrote:

here some butterflys ... lots of them 🤩
(reexport /o\)

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owl@beach.city wrote:

How can everything else, like some foss email client, ensure that I don't have to deal with the same notification once per device, but Teams and Outlook and all those things cannot?
It's driving me bongos.

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patdavid ("Pat David") wrote:

RT @patdavid My December break project was to finally sit down and work on the Libre Arts website for my friend @prokoudine.

We soft-launched on Jan 1 and he's now ready to announce the site is open and ready for all! Come check out the amazing work he's doing reporting and covering the world of Free/Libre Arts!

https://librearts.org/2021/01/introducing-libre-arts/

#FreeSoftware #FOSS #LibreArts #news

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owl@beach.city wrote:

When the singer starts death metal growling in the live version, the whole band should switch into death metal IMO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK4lD3Uf8_o

owl@beach.city wrote:

Local culture: Everyone is FirstName.
Teams: Displays everyone as "LastName, I(nitial)"
Me: Whomst whom‽

owl@beach.city wrote:

First week of using the cloud: Oops databases were exposed to anyone by default through a feature that was silently enabled for you.

Third week: Oops remote root on any machine through automatically installed, undocumented MS software.

And here I thought The Cloud meant thinking _less_ about servers.

owl@beach.city wrote:

I have seen a pay slip once in my life, on the other side of the planet.

owl@beach.city wrote:

English is a hoot.
Many things are hoots when you're an owl.

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dredmorbius@toot.cat ("Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​") wrote:

All the vowels, including 'y', once each, in order.

Anathema wrote:

I need more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHENRaquRHo remixes

Anathema wrote:

https://uproxx.com/movies/modern-movie-endings/ more things should just end. Not gonna say which things though!