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pluralistic, 12 days ago to random

Corruption is a system of concentrated gains and diffused costs: cheaters make a lot of money, and their victims each lose a little. The cheater has a much larger pool of money to spend on keeping the scam going, and the victims need to pay again to fight the cheater.

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IzabelaKaramia, 12 days ago to random

Reluctantly awake. Lots of rain overnight, I was awake for some time and heard it drumming against the window. I finally fell back asleep, my right hand was on top of Ginza and the left was under the blankets underneath her. I could feel her softly purring.

But somehow I got up when the alarm woke me. I've eaten breakfast and fed Ginza hers. She's now snoozing on the upper perch in her cat tree and looks adorable as always.

Me? I'm far from looking adorable.

DemocracySpot, 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago) to random

📷 Outside in. #FensterFreitag

#FediversalPictures

stux, 17 days ago to random

It’s time for some sleep :stux: :sleep: :nkoSleep:

Goodnight my dear friends :mastodon: :fediverse: :blobcathearts: :ablobcatheartsqueeze: :blobcathugyou:

Washington sleeps on his blanket
Washy the cat sleeping on the couch / blanket

stux, 18 days ago to random

Dis makes me happy

A person starts playing on a public piano and summons a whole orchestra in a mall

DanielMenjivar, 18 days ago to FiberArts

For the price I paid for this modal #fabric, I expected these t-shirts to last a lot longer than nine months. I could have bought organic cotton for way less!

I babied these #shirts, never put them in the dryer, took good care of them and only wore them when going out, which wasn’t very often.

It’s a lot of #sewing work to have the fabric (not seams) fall apart so soon. I still like them, but they’re now suitable only as pyjama tops, unfortunately. @sewing

Collars on two modal fabric t-shirts when they were in the process of being made nine months ago.
Daniel Menjívar taking a selfie while wearing a freshly sewn grey t-shirt made from expensive modal fabric.

stux, 28 days ago to random

Tonight on 00:00 CET+1 mstdn.social will go offline for a planned server migration⚠️

I’m trying my best to make this all happen as fast as possible but I estimate a max of 6 hours of downtime.

In the meanwhile you can keep an eye out on our status page at: https://status.mstdn.social

ai6yr, 28 days ago to Dog

Sad doggie. None of his other people around! (I do not count, LOL, except at meal times) #dog #pets