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If I worked for twitter and formed a band with some colleagues to play at the holiday party I'd want to call it The Shadow Band

A pretty good way to determine whether I'd be willing to spend one more second in a given person's presence would be to ask them for their opinion on Greta Thunberg, Meghan Markle and Amber Heard.

Never-fail argument-winner:

"I'll have you know I have a doctorate in Confirmation Bias from the University of Youtube."

Every time I think of Game of Thrones sooner or later I always come back to the fact that "Daenerys Targaryen" is the most fanfic name ever devised.

@lauren To be fair, I’d never make an error message that obscure. Mine would say ‘Consult C. I. Lewis, ‘‘Mind and the World Order’, page 232.’)

Elon: "What does Error G493172-K mean?"
Staff: "It means you fired that team."

@DavidDmshepherd @GeorgeCzernuszka yeah but you have blue passports but in Croatia we have ... Oh... wait...

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At least one hosting provider (digital ocean) offers a turnkey mastodon instance that can be fired up on its own servers. What'd be nice would be a KVM disk image that can be started on on *any* hosting provider: start it up, set a few parameters in a single config file, and you're off and running.

I'm competent to make such a thing, but if someone's beat me to it let me know, because I'm also lazy.

(I know there are docker images. Not the same thing.)

I just got proactively jabbed with the shingles vaccine series and I thought I was going to die. I have never been twatted by a vaccine like that.

The covid jabs? Had all of them. Only felt a bit weak and vulnerable the next morning once, when I went for a walk in bad weather....

Thank you, GMail servers, for reminding me that a domain's MX record cannot point to a CNAME.

I actually knew that and forgot when I was refactoring my DNS after a host move.

I suddenly remembered that there was once a roller-disco themed Buck Rogers remake series that featured a small robot with a circumcised penis for a head, voiced by Mel Blanc, which carried an AI apparently made out of a hiker's canteen around its neck.

It ran on major US network TV for two or three seasons.

I'm reminded of what someone said about the Frampton/Bee-Gees "Sgt Pepper" movie: with enough cocaine, anything can seem like a good idea.

Poor countries are not “under-developed”, they are over-exploited.

Me after seeing The Phantom Menace: "Well, that was pretty terrible."

After seeing Attack of the Clones: "What in the name of all the gods was that thing I just subjected myself to? I am NEVER watching another Star Wars film."

(A decision I stuck to until I saw reviews and stills from Rogue One. Which I do like a lot.)

@lauren (Aside: as appalled as I was at the time by the Rolller-Disco Camp of the 1980-ish Buck Rogers series, I recently realized i'm weirdly nostalgic for it now. )

In today's forecast: "patchy fog before 10am, then patchy fog after 11am".

It'd have been just as quick to say "patchy fog, except perhaps 10-11am".

If your Christmas involves a broken or damaged family. If you do not find the season an easy, comforting time, my thoughts are with you and one prayer at midnight mass tonight will be for you.

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How do you explain to a cat that every time he goes to the door and asks to be let out and then changes his mind when he sees that there's an ice storm in progress, it costs like a dollar?

"...Jeremy Clarkson’s grotesque description of his hatred of Meghan Markle—and the actual abuse that he’d like to see her physically subjected to—has actually served a surprising purpose.

"Thanks to him, every person who dismissed Markle and her husband’s claims ... now knows they weren’t exaggerating."

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Cringed good and hard when Nancy Pelosi introduced the president of "The Ukraine" FFS ,half her job is ceremonial, she could at least try to not get the symbolic stuff wrong.

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