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rwtwm

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I think way too long about things like Bios or profile pics, and then end up with something underwhelming or nothing at all.

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rwtwm, to wwc
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Not for the first time, the evidence on the VAR monitor seems (to me) to back up the onfield decision, but the referee returns convinced of a clear and obvious error.





@wwc

rwtwm,
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@wwc
All of the pundits in the BBC studio agreed that there wasn't enough in it. Maybe my biased spectacles were on...

rwtwm, to wwc
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Last thought today. Japan are the only previous WWC winners still in the tournament.

It's been great following the game on Mastodon today. Thanks to everyone that got involved.




@wwc

rwtwm, to wwc
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Japan will not have seen anything to worry them ahead of the quarter final. Sweden will have to get a lot better to progress beyond this.




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rwtwm, to wwc
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Naeher did not deserve to be on the losing side there. Made one good save, scored her pen, and then got so close to keeping out another.

Finest of margins as we could see from the Hawkeye replay.




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rwtwm, to wwc
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Musovic aside, Sweden have been really disappointing today. This is the first time I've seen them this WC so today might be the outlier.

Definitely expected more from the 3rd ranked side in the world.

#WorldCup2023
#fwwc2023
#wwc2023
@wwc
#SweUsa

rwtwm, to wwc
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What a save Musovic!

#WorldCup2023
#fwwc2023
#wwc2023
@wwc
#SweUsa

rwtwm, to wwc
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And that's why I don't post during sporting events. Since the last two toots, Sweden have had a couple of spells of patient constructive possession. And Fox has been forced into hacking the ball away rather than finding an out.




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TiffyBelle, to Japan

Can we just talk about how great the Japan kit looks? Maybe the best football kit I've seen. 😮

@wwc #WWC2023 #WWC #FIFAFFC #Japan #JPNvNOR #MastodonFC

rwtwm,
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@daridrea @TiffyBelle @wwc
Too pastelly for me. Plus I'm a big fan of the home kit, so I feel I'm being denied that.

etherdiver, to jungle
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Somehow @Nakura manages to compress a good chunk of the history of the harder side of '90s/'00s dance music into just 4 and a half minutes on "NINE." From lush, symphonic #jungle to the jaw-clenching intensity of #gabber, all produced with a modern sheen and a deep, abiding love for the history. Created as an anniversary celebration of their label, it makes for one hell of a fascinating intro!

https://audiovitamin.bandcamp.com/album/nine

#BandcampFriday #music #EDM #MusiciansOfMastodon #Music #listen

rwtwm,
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@etherdiver @Nakura

I love this concept. I think this is gonna be on rotation for me for a while. Thanks for sharing.

unclepj, to random
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Is there a German word for when you’re starving but would rather die than eat anything that’s in your kitchen?

rwtwm,
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@LibertyForward1 @regordane @KatM @unclepj
Tau... Tuuchuh... Tusch...
Ah I give up

helenczerski, to random

ARGHHH.

rwtwm,
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@helenczerski
#AltText -
Screenshot of Online newspaper headline
"Fossil Fuels
Sunak announces approval of 100 new North Sea Oil and gas licences"

It's hard not to get a little doomist when you see this. This is being drilled to be used, and once the infrastructure is in place the cost will fluctuate to ensure the oil is consumed.
The best way to prevent burning fossil fuels is to keep them in the ground.

yassie_j, to random

The UK uses metric in pretty much every avenue of life, except notably on the road, where yards and miles are used.

Except… Not really. The Dept for Transport measures distances in metres, but then changes the unit to yards. Not convert. Change. That is, a sign that says “roundabout 300 yards” has been measured at 300 metres, but the units simply switched to yards.

The UK also measures in fractions of miles (eg ½, ⅓)… Except those are done in metres too! ⅓ mi is defined as 500 m (reality: 533 m), ½ mi is 800 m (reality: 804 m) and ⅔ mi is defined at 1000 m (reality: 1070 m). The only unit that is actually imperial is 1 mile.

So the UK uses metric in distance markings, but then haphazardly converts them to a vaguely approximate imperial equivalent. Madness.

But now it gets even more strange. The UK does not use mile markers on motorways. It uses km markers, at 500 m intervals, with the number of km since the start/end of the motorway, but no units are given. But it’s in km. Not miles.

rwtwm,
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@DJDarren
I'd need to see a source on this too. Paragraph 2 I can buy (because does it really matter?). The last paragraph makes no sense though. There are no mile markers on Motorways. There are occasional distances, but they are actually in miles.

jon, to random German
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When I am NOT working on railway policy, and would have time to work on ferries, I'd work to make it a legal obligation that every ferry everywhere has to carry foot passengers

rwtwm,
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@jon
There was an article in the Guardian recently about the anniversary celebrations in Gothenburg.
Given that it's 'just there' I thought it might be possible to get a Ferry over from Hull or Felixstowe.
Apparently not. Unless I jump in a shipping container.

rwtwm, to steam
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I've seen a game on the Steam summer sale called 5d chess. I'm interested to learn it, but can't think of anyone I know IRL that would want to play. Would anyone here be interested?

I'm awful at real chess by the way.

#Steam
#5dchessWithMultiverseTimeTravel

helenczerski, to random

It’s not “a car” though, is it? It’s an SUV - a two tonne lump of metal with an incredibly powerful engine that is completely unnecessary in an urban environment.

“Eight-year-old girl dies after car hits London primary school”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/06/car-crashes-into-primary-school-in-south-london-wimbledon?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

rwtwm,
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@helenczerski I've kept quiet on this, because I'm so outrageously angry about it and couldn't find the words.
These things will happen completely unnecessarily, because of using a machine disproportionately dangerous to the task it's carrying out.
It's awful that these things have been normalised and there's no other domain where we accept this level of risk.

DJDarren, (edited ) to ADHD
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This morning I'm mostly grumpy about my #ADHD.

Firstly, I didn't get around to taking my pill until an hour after I got up, because I straight up forgot, despite remembering as I was pouring my coffee.

Then I just realised that I missed a Dr appointment yesterday, because it was made two fucking weeks ago, and despite being in the fucking calendar I can't be trusted to fucking remember anything.

I'm particularly angry about that, because it was to review (and hopefully increase) my meds...

rwtwm,
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@DJDarren
I refuse to believe that other people manage it. Not in general anyway. There are probably a few unicorns that have all their shit buttoned up. For the majority though, I've seen no evidence.

Still even the most stressful days will one day just be memories (or not, as the case may be!)

jon, to random German
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If you’re reading this toot there’s a pretty high chance you’ve asked yourself ethical questions about your social media use and that’s why you’re here

You’ve likewise probably got concerns about Meta and Threads

But the 90-odd % of your friends you left behind on Facebook, Insta etc. likely don’t have those concerns to the same extent as you

Mastodon has to win on user experience as well as on ethics. We can’t just berate the Meta users

rwtwm,
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@jon I'm not the only person to mention this, but a big part of the UX is the volume of users.
Yes, there is a little more friction in sign up. But really the best draw for a social network is the content. And that's kind of up to us I guess.

rwtwm,
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@jon There is a lurking fear behind that 90+% of people don't care to the same extent. Social media is probably the lowest stake venue where we see this.
In the analogy, if you're right, it feels like we're doomed to pursuing market based solutions to our problems. Is there no other way?

rwtwm,
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@jon That's a good read. I thought I'd have a go at searching after reading it, and it took me a while to even find the function!

If I read it right though, your issue is more with the fact that your server has to have seen it for it to appear in search? Maybe there's a gap for an activity pub index facility?

britt, to steam
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What games are you picking up from the ?!

rwtwm,
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@britt
Stray is on my wishlist, and I've heard a lot of good things.

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