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legumancer@tech.lgbt ("legumancer Davy") wrote:

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• Diagram of a small airplane viewed from above with many red dots on the tail, wings and area aft of the cockpit. There are no red dots on the cockpit, nose or turbines. (remote)
• Screenshot from @leonard_ritter, presumably on twitter "Our dwarven engineers came up with a new armor design protecting against the typical injuries sustained by warriors returning from battles in the netherworld" Left image: rough drawing of a person with many red dots on the arms and legs, just a couple on the torso, and none on the head and vital organs Right image: picture of highly revealing bikini armor with arm protection and long armored boots, no protection for head and vital organs (remote)

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Live, Laugh, Lube, Love

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tiff@hachyderm.io wrote:

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tmorman@mastodon.world ("monkeytime") wrote:

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• Bright Jupiter and Venus near a crescent moon in a purple and pink sky above the Great Pyramid of Giza. Photo by Osama Fathi. (remote)

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georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Across its avatars and transformations, the baqt has always, as far as it is possible to judge, retained two essential characteristics: on the one hand, it shielded Nubia from holy war for more than six centuries at a time when Islam was carried from Europe to China; on the other hand, it instituted a system of very asymmetrical obligations in favor of Egypt.”

— The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages by François-Xavier Fauvelle
https://a.co/2auAIeJ

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

kind of boggles my mind that there's no standard mechanism to signal "no longer on hold" over a phone line. seems like being able to listen a to your own music or podcasts or audiobooks while on hold would be a huge quality of life improvement

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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“One or two days from the coast of Zanj one found Qambalû, perhaps the island of Pemba, just off the extreme northern coast of current Tanzania… a mixed population of idolaters and Muslims… the early days of the Swahili civilization that would develop and spread from the beginning of the second millennium: a civilization that was at once African, Muslim, seafaring, and commercial.”

— The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages by François-Xavier Fauvelle
https://a.co/gxbQ5Dd

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Luke@typo.social ("Luke Dorny :ComputerClassic:") wrote:

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roh@mastodon.art ("richard "roh", 🏳️‍🌈 🇧🇷 💚") wrote:

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• pixel art; tile style pixel art, showing mountains, buildings and small bodies of water. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

(Not to mention the ever growing tower of complexity we seem to be building.)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

The idea of not delivering software may seem weird. However, instead of delivering software as complete artifacts to be consumed, what if we shared and delivered ideas and approaches, which would then need to be implemented locally where they are used? The idea being to foster a culture of practice and independence.

I admit not shipping bits is an artificial constraint considering the nature of software, but it is something I ponder due to the power imbalances that result.

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

Speaking of a "Day of Hate", to quote Jake: "I hate Illinois Nazis."

OK, any flavor of Nazi.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/24/tomorrow-is-a-day-of-hate/

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• Fucking Nazis on parade (remote)

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

i'm learning from instagram that the actors who play spock and nurse chapel (a) hang out together and (b) go hiking in runyon canyon

i have to say that if i ran into them "in the wild" i would absolutely freak out

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kat@weatherishappening.network ("Kat :WIH:") wrote:

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• “The act of making music, clothes, art, or even food has a very different, and possibly more beneficial effect on us than simply consuming those things. And yet for a very long time, the attitude of the state toward teaching and funding the arts has been in direct opposition to fostering creativity among the general population. It can often seem that those in power don’t want us to enjoy making things for ourselves—they’d prefer to establish a cultural hierarchy that devalues our amateur efforts and encourages consumption rather than creation. This might sound like I believe there is some vast conspiracy at work, which I don’t, but the situation we find ourselves in is effectively the same as if there were one. The way we are taught about music, and the way it’s socially and economically positioned, affect whether it’s integrated (or not) into our lives, and even what kind of music might come into existence in the future. Capitalism tends toward the creation of passive consumers, and in many ways this tendency is counterproductive.” — David Byrne, How Music Works (remote)

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

The 7 Star Pikachu raids are pretty easy to solo with the Arboliva build listed here. Sunny Day and then spam Gigadrain until you can terastallize. Your attacks do nothing before you tera but once you do, you can completely refill your HP at any time with another gigadrain https://pokepast.es/81bea0ea9fcadd0b

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“How 20 Seconds of Film Changed Movie History
This kiss is more than just a kiss.”

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/black-cinema-something-good-kiss

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