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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“America First promulgates a myth of American homogeneity that the heritage and politics of people like Nicholas Fuentes disprove. The reality is that America has always been a fluid, heterogeneous collective that expands and evolves.”

— Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer
https://a.co/dUPGfsp

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Reminder that starting a post with "Reminder that" doesn't provide it any more credibility, no matter how much its author believes in their opinion being an indisputable truth. It's just a rhetorical device.

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Stoneymonster ("Christopher White") wrote:

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• Comet ZTF c/2022 e3, Mars, and the Pleiades in a single astrophoto.

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

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epilys@chaos.social wrote:

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• An old etching/illustration of two cases containing letter "stamps" that were used in printing. The case on the top is called 'Upper case' and the other 'Lower case'. This is the origin of the terms 'lowercase' and 'uppercase'. (remote)

anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

Current mood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQiHzcdUPAU

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b0rk@jvns.ca ("Julia Evans") wrote:

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CharlotteEowyn@tech.lgbt ("Charlotte Eowyn") wrote:

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eric@social.ericwbailey.website ("Eric") wrote:

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

If someone is paying you to make UI, you have a a professional ethical duty to understand *who* the marginal user is and their situation, and to build to their constraints, not your preferences or priors.

If you aren't doing bakeoffs, or failing that defaulting to the simplest possible tech stack, you are not meeting your professional baseline responsibilities.

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colossal@mastodon.art ("Colossal") wrote:

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• An empowering photo of seven Indigenous Bolivian women posing at a skatepark. Wearing traditional garments, they hold their skateboards proudly and look to the camera. (remote)

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adamgreenfield@social.coop ("Adam Greenfield") wrote:

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• Designer Ken Isaacs reposing in his modular, rather DIY-looking Superchair, date unknown. The Superchair is a cube maybe a meter and a half on a side, made of wooden structural members that are bolted together in a way that permits their rapid mounting and demounting, which contains a cushioned, adjustable, rather comfortable-looking seating surface; two shelves with books on them; an adjustable bookstand; a sideshelf with a coffee mug on it; an overhead lighting fixture; and a pleased-looking Ken Isaacs. (remote)

anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

Wow I really can't have any caffeine at all with this dose of methylphenidate :S

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timfinin@sigmoid.social ("Tim Finin") wrote:

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dave_cochran@infosec.exchange ("Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran :donor:") wrote:

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• A tumblr post from user "gay-irl". It consists entirely of a "Lecturing Lisa (Simpson)" meme, in which the slide Lisa is lecturing from reads "Your teacher dies at the end of Hogwarts Legacy and can't be saved. Also, Rookwood is the one who cursed Anne." Under that is a reply from user "wizardpotions" that reads "there's no way I'm letting you losers enjoy your antisemitism simulator." (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

It's so annoying that UK doesn't have real Post Offices any more.
Cost cutting reduced them all to side jobs in local grocery stores, serviced by people who can only say "that's not my problem, I'm not Royal Mail".

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

First, get rid of all the misogynists.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/10/first-get-rid-of-all-the-misogynists/

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• Fight for a world without sexism (remote)

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

Authoritarian conservativism needs to be recognized as the brain-warping disease it is.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/10/keep-authoritarians-away-from-all-children/

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• He looks so ordinary! (remote)

anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

Pro-tip fellow trans-femmes or anyone getting electrolysis for hair removal: do not combine electrolysis with CNS stimulants such as caffeine or ADHD medication.

That was a nearly intolerable hour!

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

HelloFresh appoints DPD to deliver their parcels to me. DPD manages to just drop my parcels on the street curb, not even ringing - even though I'm home waiting for it.

Because I have the "audacity" to complain to HelloFresh about this practice, they have now blocked me from using their online support.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you lose a four figure revenue per year. 👏👏👏

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

I have a lot of contempt for people who think being an 'influencer' makes them better than other people.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/10/so-thats-what-its-like-to-work-with-musk/

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• Musk is a clown (remote)

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Zee@social.coop ("Zee Spencer (He/They)") wrote:

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Harry Potter and the chamber of shitstorms

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Books. Remember those?

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“In the final count, nearly 20 percent of the entire Mexican and Mexican American population in the United States, up to one million people, were expelled to Mexico during the Depression. Sixty percent were American citizens by birth. For most, expulsion was final.”

— Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer
https://a.co/5wrhFZM

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developers@chromium.social ("Chromium Developers") wrote:

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Jeeeez, IKEA has become absurdly expensive in recent years 🤔

Guess I need to start looking for used furniture.

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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

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sara@hachyderm.io ("Sara Safavi") wrote:

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amy@infosec.exchange ("Amy") wrote: