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I'm old enough to remember preventive arrests of protesters before large state events in Poland under the communist regime. I'm not surprised.

The constant-threats-to-defederate thing is going to kill this place, seriously.

Defederating an instance is an extreme measure and it should only be taken in extreme circumstances.

Finding out I might stop getting posts from people I explicitly follow because they happen to be on an instance being defederated by mine all because a bunch of admins I don't know got in a spat over a user I don't follow is just about the most annoying value proposition imaginable.

federate.social/@mattblaze/110

Spare a thought for the techies, somewhere deep in the BBC, tearing their hair out as they try to fix the audio drop outs in the Coronation feed.

Water in the works?

As one can now be arrested for the offence of "being equipped for locking on", the only difference between arresting protestors today, and arresting me every time I go out on my bike, carrying two locks, is whether the police officers around at the time have formed a negative view about my intent.

I'm pretty sure the person who keeps telling me to replace the cable chewed up by squirrels with yet another cable is just 3 squirrels in a trench coat

okay this has been bothering me for a long time:

technically, you only need to stab the twice-stabbed ladybug ONCE

thank you that is all.

#InvertebrateShitposting

Politicians will use the end of the #COVID emergency as an excuse to do nothing. But what they really should be doing is shifting to long-term strategies to mitigate ongoing death & harm:

1️⃣Normalize masks
2️⃣Clean indoor air
3️⃣Develop better vaccines
4️⃣Fund #LongCOVID treatments

Looked over at tree trunk alongside our deck to find this curiosity unwinding itself. I had no idea, but seek got it to Pyractomena and a web search found that it's the larvae stage of fireflies. Crazy.

#fireflies #insects

Y'all, America desperately needs to embrace the metric system.

Fer reals.

Imagine losing your rudder out at sea and sending out a distress call. And then the largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship in the world comes to your rescue. Or in the words of the sailors on the sailing boat: "This moment was very strange, and we wondered if we were dreaming. Where were we? What time period was it?"

Sailing boat rescued by the #Götheborg | Götheborg of Sweden

gotheborg.se/news/rescue-of-sa

O ile z basnią to były klimaty z pogranicza postpunku i dreampopu, to tu będzie znacznie bardziej surowo i niemiło, a także gorzko w cholerę. FFO: wódka, haszysz, lapsang suochong, stare wagony PKP i gumowe uszczelki z Poloneza.

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