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peterainbow

@peterainbow@mstdn.social

Burnt Out. Terrified. Lonely. Took the money to keep quiet. quite old or actually old? #ActuallyAutistic. please ignore my posts as I'm an idiot in a bad place ( apart from pix of animals and food ).Like a beautiful walk in the park and then you feel a dog turd squish underfoot. oh but also warning as I'm a curmudgeon in the wild.

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RickiTarr, to random
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How much alone time vs socializing do you need?

For me there are a few people who are usually equalizing, and I can just be around them, so I won't count that. But generally, I find about 3 times a week, I'm game for socializing. A day in between to rest is usually nice, but the larger the gathering or if we go somewhere particularly noisy or I'm meeting new people that involves more effort, and my social battery empties sooner. I'm very curious where everyone else falls on this!

peterainbow,
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@RickiTarr I am also very conscious of the science that shows that lack of communication with other people is a predictor for dementia ( along with sleep problems and alcohol which I also tick )

peterainbow,
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@RickiTarr for me sadly at 62 it's been impossible, sarcasm and dad jokes only gets you so far until I do or say something wrong, a life wasted and not worth living

peterainbow, to random
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Please note red wine bottle now empty and whisky engaged, sadly orphan black not engaging me enough so far

ElleGray, to random
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    peterainbow,
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    @anubis2814 @ElleGray They're going after the Reform party vote, which I can only imagine is being part funded by the usual far right from America, a huge amoint of what is going in in the world is coming from America, then russia then saudi. It's not a natural process

    peterainbow, to random
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    Does anyone know how to switch of the thread grouping thing everywhere in @thunderbird as I hate it and every time I open a new folder or whatever I have to go and fix it after not being able to find things

    Mrfunkedude, to random
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    Omg just say what you wanted to say and get it over with.

    peterainbow,
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    @Mrfunkedude

    Oh ok,am a foxlet and can't speak but am too hot and sibling keeps jumping on me

    Two foxlets fighting on lawn, one sprawled on the floor looking too hot in the fur coat

    peterainbow, to random
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    Moaning about it being too hot is now permitted in the UK

    peterainbow, to Fox
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    Foxlets wondering why I've not had my windows replaced, I hear you foxlet but money, maybe I should start a fundraising thing for better foxlets pix

    #fox #WildLife #Windows

    trochee, to random
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    May I never ever ever be the kind of guy who Ed Zitron gets a hate on for

    https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

    Just a devastating career-long rundown of the dude who drove Google search into the ground, and some of the people on whose necks he stepped along the way

    Via @mhoye

    peterainbow,
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    @trochee @mhoye "What Prabhakar Raghavan, the new head of Google Search, the guy that has run Google Search into the ground, the guy who is currently destroying search, did before his job at Google?

    He was the head of search for Yahoo from 2005 through 2012 "

    jwildeboer, to random
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    An EU-wide #RightToRepair has been adopted by the EU parliament with 584 votes in favour, 3 against and 14 abstentions. The directive now goes to the council and after it is officially published, member states have 24 months to implement it in national law.

    And yes, smartphones are included. #ThanksEU

    https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240419IPR20590/right-to-repair-making-repair-easier-and-more-appealing-to-consumers

    peterainbow,
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    @jwildeboer so wondering if this will apply to cars, as in the UK I'm seeing spare parts shops closing and garages closing as the car makers are making it harder and harder and more and more expensive to fix cars. It's also having the side effect of causing massive inflation on car insurance even if you don't own some Tesla type shit

    jawnsy, to random
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    "The enshittification of the services we once loved and still rely on represents a series of victories for the forces of evil over the forces of good – a victory for the people who want to use the internet to trap us, over the people who want to use the internet to set us free.

    As it got harder for users to leave online services, it got easier to abuse users."

    https://locusmag.com/2023/11/commentary-by-cory-doctorow-dont-be-evil/ by @pluralistic

    peterainbow,
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    @jawnsy @pluralistic also see this post about recent Google history
    https://dair-community.social/@trochee/112322372806186643

    peterainbow, to wildlife
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    Suprise visit by a fox and 4 cubs this morning ,playing around in the garden

    #WildLife #fox

    peterainbow,
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    Fox and cubs relaxing in the sun in my garden
    #WildLife #foxes #fox #FireFox lol

    Cubs playing around on the lawn with the mum looking on

    pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to random
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    #ClimateDiary Floods, storms, rain in China - and look at this footage, like an arthouse film

    Heavy floods in Shaoguan, Guangdong this afternoon（2024-04-20）

    [EDIT: as others have pointed out, this may well be fake. I will keep it here as I think this is important to register on Climate Diary itself!].
    [second EDIT: there are now official reports of major floods and storm there this week. But this doesn’t mean this footage comes from there, this week!]

    https://x.com/yangyubin1998/status/1781685226865131893

    peterainbow,
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    @pvonhellermannn @timo21 apocalyptic

    peterainbow, to wildlife
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    I guess it's spring
    #WildLife #fox #FireFox lol

    Fox and cubs cuddling
    Fox cub running about
    Fox cubs gathering to cause trouble

    RickiTarr, to random
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    https://youtube.com/shorts/2jajLTrjIsg?si=IbJgabbMLqMCjFZN

    OMG, my husband does this, but he just sits in silence!

    peterainbow,
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    @RickiTarr I started doing this and turned out was the early days of going deaf, in my case high frequency being lost so lost the ability to tell the difference between Ts and Ss for example and so went from fast thinking brain doing the translation to my slow thinking brain having to translate the noises hence the delay and covering it responses, later I lost more and more.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    I remember being a kid, and having the realization that the money the government has is our money, and how weird it is that people act like using social services is taking advantage of the system somehow. We are the system, the people embezzling money through the "defense" budget are the people taking advantage of the system.

    peterainbow,
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    @RickiTarr in the UK right now by government "we need to spend more of defense" also in "those I'll and disabled are dragging the economy down we need to stop helping them"

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Truly and honestly, I have a great time here, because you all make it great. You boost, you reply, you encourage, and inspire! It is crazy to me that I get to talk to people from all over the world every day. I get to be friends with people I'll probably never actually get to physically meet. I was born into a pre-internet world, and this still feels a little like a miracle to me.

    peterainbow,
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    @bmacDonald94 @RickiTarr Linux exploration you say, so is that you moving to using Linux as your main OS, if so can you inform/educate me in some way?

    peterainbow, to random
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    Very busy in Camden town today

    peterainbow, to random
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    and more satire is now just real life
    "Can a Garrick member chair an inquiry into police sexism fairly?"

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/28/garrick-club-police-sexism-sir-john-mitting-women?CMP=share_btn_url

    peterainbow, to random
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    Urgh, walks away

    Mrfunkedude, to random
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    Some people have really dug their heads into the sand over A.I.

    Regardless if you intend to use it or not, others will. Regardless of who it learns from and if that's ethical, it is simply not going anywhere.

    Instead of hiding from reality, get active and make sure your local, state, and federal politicians know that we shouldn't take A.I. lightly and that there needs to be more restrictions and safeguards.

    Face the things you fear before the things you fear face you.

    peterainbow,
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    @Mrfunkedude seeing saudi arabia investing 10s of billions into AI is kinda both proving your point and also destroying it, meanwhile planet continues to burn

    peterainbow, to random
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    "As Mitchell points you, it's not just Amazon that flouts this rule. We don't know how much money Google makes on Youtube, or how much Apple makes from the App Store (Apple told a federal judge that this number doesn't exist). Warren Buffett – with significant in hundreds of companies across dozens of markets – only breaks out seven segments of profit-and-loss for Berkshire Hathaway." Interesting reading on @pluralistic article on Amazon https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/01/managerial-discretion/#junk-fees

    peterainbow,
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    @pluralistic "Of course, there's an easy way to settle the argument: Amazon could just comply with SEC regs and break out its P&L for its e-commerce operation. I assure you, they're not hiding this data because they think you'll be pleasantly surprised when they do and they don't want to spoil the moment." Is anyone in the EU or UK ( stifles a giggle) looking into this?

    peterainbow, to random
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    TIL I'd started a very hard jigsaw when only about 8 of the edge pieces weren't completely white and there were loads of completely white middle pieces #jigsaw

    Start of doing a spitfire jigsaw on layout case
    Spitfire jigsaw box

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