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lillypiri ("lilly piri") wrote:

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• Tortoiseshell kitten is resting her front paws on a tiny wooden rocking chair and looking at the camera. Next to her is a grey and ginger kitten.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

starting to see more dick-pics in the timeline, makes me sad

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oldroadside@botsin.space ("old roadside pictures") wrote:

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thehill@press.coop ("The Hill :press:") wrote:

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

this is creepy:

“Widespread belief in anti-Jewish tropes, at rates unseen for decades

Over three-quarters of Americans (85 percent) believe at least one anti-Jewish trope, as opposed to 61 percent found in 2019. Twenty percent of Americans believe six or more tropes, which is significantly more than the 11 percent that ADL found in 2019 and is the highest level measured in decades.”

https://www.adl.org/resources/report/antisemitic-attitudes-america-topline-findings

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infinite8horizon@aus.social ("Peter Barnes") wrote:

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BadgerBadger@mstdn.social ("That's Mr Badger to you 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

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KBaileyBooks@mastodon.online ("Kristin Bailey") wrote:

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• Cricket in her begging pose, sitting on the dining chair and leaning backwards so her head is upside down on the table. Her mouth is open like she’s shouting. (remote)
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robpike@hachyderm.io ("rob pike") wrote:

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

It's like pulling teeth to get prescriptions out of them, but this is not because of any disagreement between me, the doctor or my insurance company about what I should be taking, or even due to over-strict controlled substance laws. It's all very mundane stuff. They're just as punctual about actually calling them in as I am about doing laundry

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

I post a lot about games because I don't like to post anything too IRL these days & that pretty much just leaves me with media discussion, shitposts, and personal creative projects and I'm kinda running dry on the latter 2 categories most days

But omg I'm irritated at how poorly administered my gp's office is. They run their office as reliably as I would run their office

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researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:

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• A cartoon laptop called "Typey Boy" Top left: It's like a computer, but without the surprises Top right: 800x600 GORGEOUS monochrome e-ink pixels Bottom left: Can it do that? No! Thank goodness! Bottom right: 50% slower (remote)

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

By the way, my other go-to example of the same is the notoriously irresolvable choice between two ways of representing an absent value in a dict: `None` or not having a key in the dict. Which then multiplies into a way of checking for it: is it .get() or catching a KeyError?

#python

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

You fancy pigeons?

Well I got her number. How do you fancy THEM pigeons?

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jan@toot.haus ("Jan") wrote:

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

The funeral will be poorly attended.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/25/hmmm-i-was-right/

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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#Apple started abusing iOS Siri Suggestions widget for banner ads!

(the fact that this is also an abuse of market position to advertise another Apple business doesn’t make it any less sleazy)

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

Just stumbled upon an excellent example of #Python not living up to its "one obvious way to do it" maxima:

- os.listdir
- os.scandir
- os.walk
- Path.glob

So I guess Pythonistas don't have the right to laugh at #Rust for having 4 ways to convert a string slice to a string.

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

Next time you go home to visit family, budget time to pull out some old photo albums together. It’s a great way to hear a lot of old stories.

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rudeb@tilde.zone ("~/boi") wrote:

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timbray@hachyderm.io ("Tim Bray") wrote:

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“By the end of summer, vicious anti-Clinton social-media operations were intensifying, not only by the Trump campaign and its American allies but also by Russian trolls posing as Americans, who spread a raft of conspiracy theories about Clinton’s health and alleged criminality. The operations included the states that Manafort had identified as key, investigators found.”

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

‘Putin’s American adventure might be best understood as advance payment for a geopolitical grail closer to home: a vassal Ukrainian state. Thrumming beneath the whole election saga was another story — about Ukraine’s efforts to establish a modern democracy and, as a result, its position as a hot zone of the new Cold War between Russia and the West, autocracy and democracy’

well worth re-reading this analytic piece from last November

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/magazine/russiagate-paul-manafort-ukraine-war.html

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oxidecomputer@hachyderm.io ("Oxide Computer Company") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

‘said Mr. Yermolenko, referring to Mr. Zelensky’s success in channeling the country’s resilience and anger at Russia… “Zelensky is the embodiment of this resistance but not the source.”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/world/europe/ukraine-zelensky-war.html

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“NPR joins a long line of media companies that have laid off workers in recent months amid falling advertising revenue”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/business/media/npr-layoffs.html

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

I'm probably looking at this in the simplest most literal way possible, but you know that aphorism[1], "I'm a human *being*, not a human doing"? That's never resonated with me as I seem to be happiest when I'm doing things, especially things I want to do.

[1] Widely attributed to Kurt Vonnegut on the internet, but I don't trust that as I haven't tracked down the source.