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oscarjiminy

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Tin ass, tin drum.

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RickiTarr, to random
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What embarrasses you the most?

oscarjiminy,
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@RickiTarr my struggle

luciedigitalni, to random
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Bizarre use of language in ABC TV news story about cops not marching at Mardi Gras, with reporter saying "it's only four more sleeps". This was a serious story, related to a violent double murder, not a Play School skit

#AusPol

oscarjiminy,
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@luciedigitalni they’re just all over the shop, whatever the issue

there’s noone at the wheel

oscarjiminy,
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@luciedigitalni capital’s at th wheel

luciedigitalni, to random
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Youtube is punishing me for messing with it yesterday by showing me the same ads eleventy billion times

oscarjiminy,
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@luciedigitalni opposed in principle to ad blockers?

oscarjiminy,
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@luciedigitalni you would know better than me if there’s nothing around for android. i’d be surprised if there’s nothing you can at least side-load but there’s diminishing returns with the hassle it can take to get this stuff (and keep it) working sometimes.

i just hate ads with a passion and would do just about anything to solve the problem, including getting into other folks’ business, sorry bout that

oscarjiminy,
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@luciedigitalni that’s the best reason of all not to bother

augustusbrown, to random
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Haircut 💇🏼

oscarjiminy,
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@augustusbrown augustus tintin sounds like a taxonomical category

oscarjiminy,
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@augustusbrown haha i always saw tintin as short back and sides with the tuft (no intentional ref to rudd btw)

oscarjiminy, to random
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‘We understand you don’t want to hear about it. I don’t want to talk about it. But we need to because there’s more we can do.’

#covid #CovidIsNotOver #PublicHealth

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-covid-poses-new-challenges-in-the-fifth-year-of-the-pandemic/

luciedigitalni, to random
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"Whether you’re the demon symbiote fastened onto the brain stem of Rupert Murdoch’s withered undead corpse, an enthusiastic human centipede like Vivek Ramaswamy, or simply one of the unknowable number of angry keyboard warriors ardently stroking their pump action yoghurt rifles, Taylor Swift does not present as a threat. She seems an opportunity."

https://aliensideboob.substack.com/p/what-if-they-had-a-culture-war-and

oscarjiminy,
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@luciedigitalni everyone seems happy to pile on billionaires except this one

StillIRise1963, to random
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Yesterday, I watched a miniseries about Joan Crawford and Bette Davis all day long. Then, I watched "Who's Afraid of Baby Jane" and "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte. Very fun. Reminded me of being a kid, watching many different types of movies because they were the only thing on.

oscarjiminy,
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@prachisrivas @StillIRise1963 Is it no good?

JamesGleick, to random
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Claudine Gay read many books and articles for research, and a clever person armed with a computer can find out where and how she used what she learned in her own writing. Usually she was scrupulous about attributions and footnotes, and once in a while she seems to have been careless.

But she did not commit plagiarism, as far as I can see from the examples put forward by her accusers. I’ve been plagiarized myself—it’s serious. The word shouldn’t be used lightly. https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/111688501659826023

oscarjiminy,
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@JamesGleick I’m not across these events but it sure seems a lot more complex than a lot of folks are assessing it to be.

Here Steven Thrasher gives a blow by blow with some cogent analysis on the bad place

https://x.com/thrasherxy/status/1742266230050869269?s=20

StillIRise1963, to random
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I can't get warm no matter what I do.☹️

oscarjiminy,
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@StillIRise1963 @fulanigirl I always get around my house with fingerless gloves in winter (hoody with wool beanie under the hood as well).

Beats paying for heating!

oscarjiminy,
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@StillIRise1963 @fulanigirl An old sleeping bag to sit in on the couch in the evening’s cosier than an open fireplace imo!

oscarjiminy,
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@fulanigirl @StillIRise1963 I read somewhere a lot of those old places with the steam heaters were designed to have the windows open for ventilation on account of the ‘flu epidemic

BigAngBlack, to blackmastodon
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Undeterred by racist incident, a Black Santa brings cheer to Arkansas | Christmas | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/dec/25/black-santa-arkansas-chris-kennedy

> Chris Kennedy got a note in 2020 criticizing his display and decided to embody the spirit of in return


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Chris Kennedy as Black Santa with wife as Mrs Claus and daughter as elf

oscarjiminy,
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@claralistensprechen3rd @carl @BigAngBlack @Gwyntaglaw @Ulrich_the_Elder You seem to be objecting on the grounds that the historical figure the character is based on is racially specific.

How is linguistic specificity not equally worthy of fidelity to the historical referent?

fulanigirl, to blackmastodon
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#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @blackmastodon Hey family. I've been ragging on my friends who allow Google, Apple, and Facebook (!) to curate their news. And then they complain when I raise news stories they haven't seen. 🙄 Can you all share a very simple way they can create their own list of news sources. It has to be simple. They all have advanced degrees but are still on Facebook (!) and still use Amazon because it's "too"convenient. I need something they can do in 5 minutes or less.

oscarjiminy,
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@fulanigirl @blackmastodon Choose an RSS aggregator for whatever their preferred platform and then curate a list of decent sources.

Little bit of thought and effort to begin but pays off in spades over time

oscarjiminy,
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@fulanigirl @blackmastodon It’s tricky, I know. It is important though (and as you say, important it be simple and approachable/low barrier).

If it were me I’d look at the platform/s and work from there. Mac/iOS as example there are a few apps from NetNewsWire (free) to something like Reeder which is paid but has a very intuitive interface and quite pleasant to use (available for both iPad/iPhone and Mac).

The real work is collating the sources but you can export to an OPML file that can be distributed you everyone with a need and you can update as needed.

I’ve no doubt you know all this.

Good luck!

ixi, to random
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“Jews cannot fight antisemitism alone.

The victim cannot cure the crime.

The hated cannot cure the hate.

It would be the greatest mistake for Jews to believe that they can fight it alone.

The only people who can successfully combat antisemitism are those active in the cultures that harbour it.”

  • Rabbi Sacks

#Antisemitism

oscarjiminy,
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@ixi One way to fight it might be to acknowledge and address the tensions bw the principles of judaism as many jews understand them and the authoritarian impulses of a neurotic colonial ethnostate.

I have never felt so antisemitic (a lover of jewish culture and thought and therefore in essence a lifelong philosemite) as I do now, as I do when forced to contend with the logical implications of Israel as a political entity.

fulanigirl, to blackmastodon
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#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackGamers @blackmastodon
If any of you game, give a look at The Wagadu Chronicles which did early release on Steam. It is a non-European setting, based on African cultural story telling, with African based player characters. The developers are still working on it...early access🙄 but you might want to take a look. It's a 1st person, click to move, survival game. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2464400/The_Wagadu_Chronicles/

oscarjiminy,
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@fulanigirl @blackmastodon would you rate it for its play or more for its novelty (or both)?

luciedigitalni, (edited ) to auspol
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Powerful stuff from Louise Adler on 730 tonight. Worth a watch on iView if you missed it

Edit: here's a link:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mlCPm9Q3wf0

#AusPol

oscarjiminy,
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@luciedigitalni All credit to Louise Adler. Fantastic, unbridled engagement.

luciedigitalni, to auspol
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ICYMI

#AusPol
https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/bruce-lehrmann-sings-i-fought-the-law-and-bruce-won-after-winning-trial/video/79ffc810e3465fa20cd115bf45907c93

oscarjiminy,
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@luciedigitalni what a stupid fuckin asshole

oscarjiminy, to Palestine
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‘western powers are unable to credibly pretend that there is some global system of rules that they uphold. They seem to simply say: there are exceptions, and that’s just the way it is…The lesson is brutal and short: human rights are not universal and international law is arbitrarily applied. I don’t know where that revelation goes, once it arrives‘

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/27/war-gaza-lesson-western-hypocrisy-international-community

#palestine #israel #internationallaw

luciedigitalni, to auspol
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"The prognosis for our democracy is, on this score, grim. Rarely has a Labor government so willingly forfeited the dignity of its office in a bid to surpass the caudillo instincts of an opposition leader so hopelessly unserious, so reflexively illiberal, and so utterly unsuited for leadership that his contempt for norms and customs rivals that of the perfidious moral degenerate who preceded him."


https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/11/21/immigration-detention-clare-oneil-peter-dutton-fear/

oscarjiminy,
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@luciedigitalni oh Maeve, what a beautiful turn of phrase

Daojoan, to random
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It’s important to correctly organise your books and put them in the right place

oscarjiminy,
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@Daojoan @photos_floues @maudenificent i really dislike rand as a person and hate what she stood for but fountainhead’s a pretty good book. atlas’s a steaming pile of preposterous sadness tho

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