• Coder in Sydney, Gadigal land • Bass/Rhythm/Lead guitar • Bouba in the streets;Kiki in the sheets • I run a couple of bots. • I have been in #WebDev for many years, did a lot of #perl; currently working in a manual job while I try to get back into programming/dev work; it's difficult at my age! User image and header are both from the animated series "Gravity Falls" in which a fictional President of the USA issues a bill worth -$12.
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More recently "The Deep Sky" by Yume Kitasei or "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet" by Becky Chambers. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @nprofile…75c7 Why is Nigel Tufnel the thumbnail though npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @nprofile…uptt I would love to see that feedback in detail then. And only new users? To me it doesn't look substantially different to Twitter, Threads or Bluesky. I would think users of those systems, or even Facebook, would find it familiar. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @nprofile…uptt I don't hate it. But I don't look at the current layout and think “there's clearly something wrong here”. I don't want things to change for no reason. If this was offered, like the Advanced web interface, as a non-default option, fine. But it definitely, as they say “ain't broke”. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @nprofile…pfuj Your sort of thing: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/these-beetles-are-entirely-dependent-on-ants-for-survival-heres-why-thats-not-an-evolutionary-death-sentence-180988137/ npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @nprofile…pklh Do the PDFs live on a different subdomain? npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @nprofile…w75x > “No Headphones? Subtitle It.” I don't get it. Don't all Netflix shows have subtitles? npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill Here's a rare positive story—Australia is on track to eliminate cervical cancer. Eliminate it altogether. "In 2021, there were no cervical cancer cases diagnosed in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982" https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/australia-set-for-world-first-cervical-cancer-elim #News #GoodNews #Cancer #Health #Australia #WomensHealth #Vaccination npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @nprofile…c59k If your Parkrun is an out-and-back someone needs to stand at the turnaround point and say "you shall not pass". npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @nprofile…c59k @nprofile…v6vf @nprofile…72ze Those people are your local Parkrun people. They're there for you, as a resource, if you need them. The encouragement and stuff is just part of their culture, like if you went to another country. Also they need volunteers every week which is a very Open Source kind of vibe. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill I keep reading the same thing in article after article about #charliekirk — "all of us were forced to see the horrible video on #SocialMedia whether we wanted to or not". Not to be too smug about it but no, not all of us, right? Because I'm on #Mastodon I didn't get auto-playing videos of Kirk's shooting brought to me by an algorithm which decided it was "popular". npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill I can't be the only person who thinks this wacky graphic is in incredibly poor taste, considering the subject matter? Ooh look at comically-tiny Ghislaine, how will she get out from under the comically-large hammer!?!? What were they thinking? #newyorker #news #graphics #epstein #GhislaineMaxwell https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/115/064/517/142/805/602/original/9896c27eedb2f9c4.png npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill Watching some older movies at the moment and realised that two of Dustin Hoffman's biggest roles ended up with him on the back seat of a bus … #movies #cinema #film #filmastodon @nprofile…h4at https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/115/058/785/085/657/853/original/d7a042fd0a5f482f.jpg https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/115/058/785/148/307/439/original/95a485918ac49334.png npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill I almost never see movies in the cinema these days, but I was so intrigued by the reviews I saw “Weapons” today and I was not disappointed. It’s a confident, very scary horror movie which inhabits a believable but terrifying world. The intriguing premise pays off and the abrupt lurch from one vibe to another eventually makes sense. The ending doesn't hold back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W28vpeRBSDg #Weapons #Film #Cinema #Movies #Filmastodon #Cinemastodon @nprofile…h4at npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @nprofile…qwx8 @nprofile…9vtz Then I guess I'll never know. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @nprofile…qwx8 @nprofile…9vtz If he has just one thing to tell me, why is the video 38 minutes? npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @nprofile…36ma If I wanted to count syllables I would simply pick a language where all words are one-syllable. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @nprofile…7a7p How can a full moon be "in oblique sunlight"? npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @nprofile…fe8t @nprofile…whlk @nprofile…kslq We need to check out all the other image URLs between 0000000001 and 3004766859 to see what they are. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill Any idea what Australian technology writer Nick Ross is vaguebooking about here? Vaguelinking! I've googled and can't figure out what the issue is. #Dell #Australia #journalism #technology #industrialrelations https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/114/814/749/590/671/552/original/1a5cc5420cb7ae03.jpeg npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill What do we think Ben Evans means by this: “when you build on a platform you should always be building at right-angles to its provisions”? #tech #Ai #technology https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/114/661/261/308/075/860/original/a1947241f3832a00.png npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill This story is like the opening episode of a new #TV show about a surfing priest who solves murders. He rescues you from the surf and then, as he gets dressed, you say "I didn't even get your name" and he says "Ryan…" casually putting on his clerical collar "…Father Ryan". https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-09/priest-rescues-father-and-son-from-cable-beach-rip/105385608 npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @nprofile…7w93 @nprofile…843t Washington State Park created this playlist for those people: https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/114/638/983/260/067/047/original/b4fbbf05cf9d5ecb.png npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @nprofile…cgs9 Add one more to be the shift key npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill Did you know scientists had turned lead into gold? It's not sustainable because it was ridiculously expensive (it would be way cheaper just to buy gold), required enormous resources, and it didn't last. I will leave you to note the ways in which this is like the current boom in "artificial intelligence"… https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01501-5 #science #AI #LLM #ChatGPT npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @nprofile…2hrv Do you have time to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Titanic? npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill #murderbot #tv #sciencefiction #scifi #sf https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/114/516/413/328/709/433/original/059faed4d01ec981.png npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill I keep thinking about this over and over. It's funny. But also, I really want to hear the mermaids, damn it. https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/114/250/384/971/926/538/original/53a4e3c8cb067aea.png npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill Just in case anyone had missed it, the title of the new book about #Facebook / #Meta is “Careless People” because of this line in “The Great Gatsby”. -- “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” -- @nprofile…9vtz #Books #Bookstodon npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill Hi, #Today I decided to try to #getfedihired — I've got many years of experience with web development, programming and production (#HTML, #CSS, #Javascript), I can make myself useful in anything on the open-source side of back end, i.e. the #Perl, #Python, #PHP, #MySQL, #Linux kind of area. I live in #Sydney Australia and would be happy to work in-office, remote or hybrid. Let me know of any opportunities, or pass this on to anyone else who might know of something? Thanks. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @nprofile…d2rl Even if DEI was what they think it is, the Code Talkers are the literal opposite of that. They had skills nobody else had. They were more useful than any white American. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill Loving the playfulness of this article about a book which Meta forbids you to read … peppered with links to buy the book. @nprofile…9vtz https://gizmodo.com/mark-zuckerberg-doesnt-want-you-to-read-this-book-2000575582 #books #meta #zuckerberg #facebook npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @nprofile…args @nprofile…dtk0 The difference between a cult and a religion in my eyes is the ratio of size to intensity. The Catholic Church is a belief system that millions of people adhere to apathetically. Scientology is a belief system that a very small number of people adhere to intensely. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill #Reddit is down? I mean hell, if #Elon has broken aged care, veterans care, national parks, cancer research and US soft power worldwide, that's one thing. But if he's broken Reddit? Game over, man. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @nprofile…vuu7 They voted for lower gas and egg prices, duh. Remind me … how's that going? npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1upk…tcwy Bit confused by "URLs can't have @ symbols in them" in your latest email? npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub13vv…0sze Sounds strangely similar to "Shadow and Bone"? npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1zdp…vqv8 Seen this? https://www.iflscience.com/watch-a-japanese-honey-bee-yeet-an-ant-off-a-ledge-75162 npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1q4m…3d6g https://youtu.be/QO5dcW0P75M?t+45s npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill I'm thinking of starting a bot which simply finds headlines like this posed as question and reposts them with “I don't know, you're the journalist, you tell me” or similar. #news #journalism #publishing #headlines #writing https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/is-there-a-viking-ship-burial-underneath-this-norwegian-farm-180984631/ npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill I've been looking at this new #Perl feature (5.40) for ten minutes now and I can't be sure what it does: for my ($p, $q) (1,2,3,4) { say $p, $q; } https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/112/669/952/903/072/318/original/e37d50431dac9982.png npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub18h7…frx9 Well actually guy: there is only ever one embassy per country. The other ones would be consulates. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1jwp…dfde For the record, Wikipedia may work like that by default but it also has a locking mechanism for pages subject to abuse and malicious editing. Why not find out how the system works? npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1e7p…nvup @npub1qv0…rtf3 Why bookstAdon not bookstOdon? npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1cel…pmxm "What is this, a school for ferns?" npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill Two #police officers knocked on my door at 7 AM today. I said "who is it?" to my wife and one of them called out "it's just the police". I said "Oh it's JUST the police?". To his credit he laughed. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub18yv…xxyn What's "glass mandolin syndrome"? npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1rv4…ft5j Where did you meet him??? npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1zdp…vqv8 https://aeon.co/essays/the-strange-and-turbulent-global-world-of-ant-geopolitics npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1q8n…kct8 If you're being sarcastic, that's truly shameful. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill Is there something on #Mastodon like the old #CanHasPDF hashtag we used on Twitter? I would like to get hold of a single academic paper without paying some exploitative corporation $25. I already tried Sci Hub. -- #Academia #Literature #OpenAccess npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub12uf…6hdv Can you reproduce them here please? They're not visible without a Twitter account. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1mp2…ca37 @npub1xr8…3q0g I'm getting an unusual Wordpress error when trying to read this article. Are you migrating away from Wordpress or changing DNS? https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/112/148/344/809/018/827/original/0c24510a23bba4bd.png npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub13vv…0sze I was just wondering about that myself! Thanks for doing the research. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1j8m…v5r7 @npub13kj…r6qw No, the other guy shared it. It also claims that the Palestinians ate their raw flesh which sounds unlikely npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1j8m…v5r7 @npub13kj…r6qw You: > It definitely doesn't represent the hand of a Jew The web page being advanced as proof of the claim about the red hand symbol: https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/112/079/458/826/594/634/original/f77a330e5bf8fffc.png npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1j8m…v5r7 @npub13kj…r6qw Which actual proposition are we discussing right now? • red hands symbol represents the red hands of people who had murdered Jews in that incident or • red hands symbol represents the severed hand of a Jew killed in that incident? Because they're both being claimed now. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub13kj…r6qw @npub1j8m…v5r7 Am I serious that I carefully read the other article you linked to, and reported that it does not definitively state the proposition at stake here? Yes. I read it and it says: “when I see the Artists for Ceasefire pins with the red hand on it – that’s what I think about. I can’t NOT think about it. And I wonder if the designers knew about this story. I wonder if they knew but didn’t care. I wonder, also, if it was done on purpose… I’d like to think it wasn’t, but I wonder…” so clearly that article does NOT make that claim, quite the opposite. You've now posted another article. I guess I'll go and read that one carefully too, hope that's OK. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub13kj…r6qw @npub1j8m…v5r7 This article doesn't say that the red hands symbol derives from this incident, right? It simply raises it as a possibility. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1w4m…sa57 Someone on Reddit asserted confidently that it comes from pioneer days when people didn't have scales and therefore had to use 'cup' of water and 'stick' of butter etc. The main thing about that is, it sounds like total bullshit. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1psd…9sr7 Why are the PR people garbage in this specific instance? Sorry, I'm not getting that from the email. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1wcu…9j6s @npub1wgh…0xff Does the US "stand together" with North Korea? Because that's the point of the disfigured billboard. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1j8m…v5r7 What's an example of an INdirectly sexual question? npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1r7v…qwpu Guy who's just invented a time machine: OK let's go back and kill Hitler? Me: Can you drop me off in 1977 please? npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1zdp…vqv8 When we say it's half past, it's thirty minutes past the hour. What's the time if it's one-third past? [In Arabic they actually do that.] npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1zdp…vqv8 Relevant to your interests: https://thebrowser.com/we-trade-with-ants/the-watcher-first-contact/ npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub15th…6nvx I assumed you wouldn't back down. What you're saying isn't just offensive, it's also nonsense, because 'selling your labour to an employer' isn't the only choice, even in capitalist society. Again, shame on you. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub15th…6nvx This is offensive, and diminishes the true horror of ACTUAL slavery. Human beings were bought and sold like animals. Their owners could mutilate and kill them, the way humans can have pets put down. It was all legal. This is not a good comparison, in any way, for "individuals being bound to sell their labour". It is shameful to make that comparison. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1r7v…qwpu “London Calling” because it has “Guns of Brixton”. But also “Sandinista!” because it has two adorable little kids singing “Guns of Brixton”. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill This website has set itself the task of documenting EVERY record shop in the U.K.? A noble idea, even if the main point seems to be for Old Blokes like me to reminisce about the Old Days. Which of course is what I did. Acorn Records, Yeovil, 15 miles from my tiny village. It was worth the trip every Saturday just to be with punks and hippies and grebos and not feel so out of place. -- #UK #Vinyl #nostalgia #punk #music #recordstore https://www.britishrecordshoparchive.org/shops/acorn-records/ npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub16nf…q6as Hey but don't forget all that growth in Japan where <checks notes> they suffered two horrible catastrophes in a few days and Twitter actually prevented them from finding out key information. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub19fc…ay3c Where did you learn this from? Link please. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1zdp…vqv8 Very broadly qualifying maybe “Mercury Rising”? More about cryptography but I think it's somewhere in the area of your Venn diagram. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1vcl…k6t3 Maybe the confusion can be traced back to this moment when I asked "is 2 added to itself not 200" and you confidently replied "no it is not" https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/111/615/040/329/125/470/original/9ef2252532507eb9.png npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1vcl…k6t3 This is one of the strangest conversations I've ever had in my life. I give up. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1vcl…k6t3 I absolutely agree that ChatGPT can't do math but just to be clear, you think 2 added to itself 100 times is 478? npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1vcl…k6t3 Isn't that what multiplication is? '2 x 100' is just the short form of '2 added to itself 100 times'. What's the right answer? I'm genuinely confused. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1vcl…k6t3 Wait is 2 added to itself 100 times not 200? npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1typ…c8hh You're missing a sour, medicinal taste and a huge amount of sugar. That's the dirty little secret of energy drinks. It's not the caffeine or the taurine that gives you energy, it's sugar. But it's not manly to admit that. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1xl5…wsca This is in line with a project I've been considering. Name a couple of photography websites which you think should be in the Fediverse but aren't? npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill It's impressive isn't it? To think that nearly everyone on this ship has #COVID -- #sydney #Australia https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/111/576/142/813/690/599/original/48f902eafd468535.jpeg npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub132q…ua6v Also he's sucking dick all wrong npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1lms…qttu Let's not forget Ketamine though https://futurism.com/neoscope/elon-musk-ketamine npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub13vv…0sze Chrome's developer tools has this Network Throttling option: https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/111/495/321/754/682/041/original/478c917c425e9af0.jpeg npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1upk…tcwy Probably out of scope but this can go horribly wrong and be very confusing with old versions of local git talking to newer versions of remote git: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73356629/why-would-a-local-git-repo-be-more-ahead-of-remote-after-a-pull-than-before npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill I just saw #TheCreator and: • production design: excellent • performances: good, particularly Alfie • special effects: terrific • plot: MADE NO SENSE AT ALL Roughly every 30 seconds I was saying "Wait, what? Why? That doesn't —" It's great that a new sci-fi movie is out based on fresh non-franchise IP. But yeah. Dumb as a box of hammers. #Movies #Film #Filmstodon #moviestodon #Film #Cinema npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1200…aqy2 Israel has funded Hamas? npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1yyx…qa5g Is that advisable? I didn't think we were supposed to have them at the same time! npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub17lg…9uux "Nick Cage 'lost' meme"? What's that? npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill Thought for #today — things which have become normal which I could never have imagined: • facial tattoos • pop songs in Korean being worldwide hits • wholesale contempt for democracy itself • the overt dismantling of fundamental human rights while claiming to be for freedom • Nazis npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1c35…9pmh I read the description of subgrid and I'm still baffled. Have you got a link to an example we can see? npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1zdp…vqv8 I have a few lookalikes I keep track of. There's Guy Who Looks Like Stephen King, and also Guy Who Looks Like David Foster Wallace. Come to think of it I haven't seen Guy Who Looks Like Sam Bankman-Fried for a while… npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1psd…9sr7 They should still publish it, but donate a sum equal to his payment to an appropriate charity. Also they should publish it in white text on a white background so nobody can read it. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1nqs…cgw7 @npub1lcc…l8td Have you seen "From Black"? It's weirdly similar in plot terms at least, but maybe it's just a coincidence. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13497984/ npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill Do people still want BlueSky invite codes? I have a few, please let me know if you want one. Please don't be a nazi or a blank account with no posts. I will give priority to applicants who are people of colour / LGBT+. -- #BlueSky #BlueSkyInvite npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1hyk…3p33 Hey be fair, maybe they just have a series of drinks named after U2 songs! Actually that would be even worse. npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill Why do people say I'll have to take the gun from their "COLD dead hands"? In this scenario haven't they very recently been killed? Surely the saying should be, you'll have to take the gun from my pleasantly warm hands? #guns #guncontrol #sayings npub19v663evkp26sphxaag880zejq27f98zw5c5hqsj0k7t5cc74k2js7axl64 Negative12DollarBill @npub1zdp…vqv8 @npub1jzj…d606 This guy has custom-ordered a board to demonstrate the concepts. I think you can order one from his design. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A-95Z9r1ylA