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Totoro🍊🍃

#StudioGhibli #Ponyo

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Jimmy Biscuits 🧻

Whenever I see someone without tattoos, I just assume their mom won’t let them get one.

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StefanThinks

How come cupcakes have to go incognito under the alias of ‘muffins’ to qualify as healthy for the breakfast menu, but pancakes can waltz in with ‘cake’ right there in their name and then we top them off with syrup?

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@april @feld My iPhone, also set to US / English, will not offer any potential corrections for "Menatruation." However, if I correctly type "menstruation," it offers to replace the word with a red droplet emoji. Which is... odd. 🩸

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Nate

Can I tell you about Charles S L Baker? He was the founder of the Friction Heating Co, incorporated in 1904 and I've just learned of him today.

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Working Families Party

To give you an idea of how much more a billion is than a million:

A million minutes ago was April, 2021 — a year into the COVID 19 pandemic.
A billion minutes ago it was November 121 CE — the height of the Roman empire.

Billionaires. Shouldn’t. Exist.

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SeaTea

I am the Director of my own life.

But one of those first-time Directors where everyone on the set realizes he doesn’t know what he’s doing and start calling their agents to see if they can get out of this impending flop before it ruins their careers.

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@ashinillinois@lor.sh Dr Pepper Zero, often with Cream Soda or Strawberries and Cream flavors added. Or Coke Zero, often with Vanilla added.

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@rigo @davew @mike That’s only an issue because of the privatization of ICANN. Surely an EU-level solution means running an EU-level registrar rather than re-inventing the wheel.

DNS is great. We don’t need more technical solutions.

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@rigo @davew @mike DNSSEC and related efforts make DNS secure and resilient, no need to insult something you choose not to personally value.

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@valthonis This is how I found out. Bummer. :(

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@jtrobec Indeed, they are. daringfireball.net/2023/01/mea

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Happy St Patrick's Day!

youtu.be/oxo-loXdcH0

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@doctorjaymarie@mastodon.world Like many wypipo. I got into reading Baldwin thanks to TaNehisi Coates, from whom I first heard the phrase, “people who believed themselves to be white.” So much is packed into that simple phrase. What an idea! What a truth!

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@jtrobec @pluralistic @adamconover That series is so great!

I guess I should watch the entire video, not just the clip. 😃

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If you're trying to find music that is engaging without being disruptive, music you can play during creative work that won't take you out of your flow state, I highly recommend music in a language you don't understand.

parannoul.bandcamp.com/album/t

I stumbled on this album thanks to @cambraca earlier this week, and it turns out Korean shoegaze is exactly the genre I needed, and Parannoul is exactly the band to give it to me. I have no idea what they're saying, because I refuse to click the links on the Bandcamp site to show me the English translation of the lyrics. The tone and energy of the music is all I want to know right now. I mean, the first song is called 아​름​다​운 세상, which I'm told means "Beautiful World." That's fine, that's all the info I need.

It's been my background music during work, my driving music, and I've sent this link to a few people already. Now I pass it along to all of you. Happy Friday! Spend your weekend enjoying this excellent Korean shoegaze album from 2021, and maybe next week I'll check out one of the two albums they've put out since--or maybe not.

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I can’t stop thinking about something @pluralistic said to @adamconover in this one-minute video clip.

youtube.com/clip/UgkxyH968O4_s

To paraphrase, optimism and pessimism are both rooted in fatalism, because they presume that nothing we do matters.

Instead we choose Hope. We do things to make life better at every opportunity, to move toward the world we Hope to see, and what we do matters whether it lines up with a big-picture plan or not. We move forward in Hope, and then we see new ways to move forward in Hope, and then we do it again and again.

What else can we do?

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@lia It gives the game away, right? If the concerns were real, we'd be enacting data privacy regulations and putting laws in place to counter the harms known to be caused by social media apps. That we're not gives it away that this is about politics and racism, acting against the "Chinese app" without any real changes.

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@Enby_Neala @cstross I guess that's a way for aspiring writers to use it without worrying about billing details outing them. Soon there will be ChatGPT in nearly every online service, and shady folks will likely figure out how to use it to author novels under the guise of "I just used that service to send emails" or similar.

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@schizanon @aswath @J12t If true, that fact is missing from the documentation!

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