Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

@JohnShirley2023 The Republican party always manages to make me think of that line from Stephenson's "The Diamond Age": "if [it] had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy."

@icevislab @unclepj If the tiny pamphlets that come with cheap consumer goods made in China are anything to go by, iceland and ireland are freely interchangeable.

@freemo (just being pedantic. In reality "unamazing women" == { }, the empty set.)

@freemo OTOH, all you unamazing women: as you were.

I read a book

@sjvn On reflection a more precise, relatively modern equivalent might be when you're torrenting something with only one seeder with little bandwidth, and after a couple of days you're at 97% when that seeder disconnects and never comes back.

Ecuador. Murder of Eduardo Mendúa, indigenous leader and environmentalist, shakes the country

https://www.radiotemblor.org/ecuador-asesinato-de-eduardo-mendua-lider-indigena-y-ambientalista-sacude-al-pais/

@sjvn How much and in what way does that pain differ from a 24 hour Windows update that seizes up at hour 23 with an ungoogleable 10-digit error code?

@Sundae_Gurl Tell him to order them to drop and give you twenty.

I'm pretty confident that the only reason no woman has come forward with evidence that Trump paid for her abortion is because he merely promises to pay for it, then reneges.

@RollingStone I'm pretty sure Big Tech supplied them with Adobe Photoshop, and thus that picture of his face on not-fat guy with reasonably-sized hands.

@JohnShirley2023 At this point I'd define ChatGPT as Artificial Inanity. As if there were shortage of the natural kind.

@bkahn Tierra Verde will still be there. They're just going to keep piling up sand, until the world runs out of sand.

@SeanJones I think it's the same gene that causes you to read part of a column out to your wife while chuckling and explaining why it's funny/ironic and all the while she's smiling warmly and thinking "well, he's good with the kids"

@JohnShirley2023 Every day I feel more and more respect for the party of liberty, small government and personal responsibility.

If you're the plaintiff in a libel suit, can you add on a blasphemy charge if you can produce at least one witness who deifies you?

@ChrisBoese @mrbadger42 @lakelady

Seriously? You're gonna gotcha him with that?

I much prefer Ashbury speech over the other thing

If I were organizing a conference, I'd make the ID badges in the form of shiny medallions and the lanyards broad ribbons of fabric which lay flat; that way everybody feels like a winner.