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vincent

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Trans rights are human rights | #coffee | #SiliconValley | #atheism | #bagpipes | #AmWriting | #Latin | #Caturday | #Newts | 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally

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Banner: nickel ferrules of my bagpipes' drones, pattern of a Celtic knot

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RickiTarr, to random
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Alright, lots of heavy discussions today, so let's talk about something silly!

What is a movie that always makes you laugh?

Personal pick:

Anything Mel Brooks, but Robin Hood: Men in Tights, it's just funny every time I watch it.

vincent,
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@RickiTarr I just watched Jill Bearup's assessment of RH:MiT's final sword fight. For your amusement (and it is highly amusing!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH8MNenLFGU

kentbrew, to ai
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Starting to get sick of this stuff, Brave. I should not be trying to figure how to turn this off, because it should never have turned on without asking me first.

vincent,
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@kentbrew I thought brave was just a crypto-bro browser.

fitheach, to politics
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UK General Election on July 4th.
I wish it was Independence Day.

vincent,
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@fitheach I saw that! Does Scotland hold parliamentary elections at the same time, or is it for the parliament that convenes in London only? (I am ignorant of UK political processes. My own country's vagaries are Byzantine enough)

vincent,
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@fitheach Thanks for that info! Much obliged. When does the parliament that meets in Edinburgh elect its MPs?

vincent,
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@fitheach cool. Thx!

vincent,
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@fitheach I should be working. But I'm a California and US political junkie, and now I'm looking into Scottish politics. Why do I do this to myself?

Anyway, I'm starting here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament

The Scottish Parliament building's interior is gorgeous!

vincent,
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@fitheach The photo of the exterior seems fine, if a tad blocky. I'll bet in 50 years it'll look better just because it'll be old by then.

vincent,
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@fitheach I looked at more exterior photos. It reminds me of Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, which I like.

Is that a Greek temple on the prominence above the parliament building???

vincent,
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@fitheach What an interesting monument! The "unfinished" component I think adds to its significance. Thanks!

dlb, to random French
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Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh---hh--hhhhhhhhh

Par pitié tuez moi! Sincèrement s'il vous plaît.

vincent,
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@dlb qui s'est passé?

wallacewords, to random
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Cool, they speak Welsh here now.

vincent,
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@wallacewords Where in Mountain View is that sign???

Minimus, to random
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fabula murina (mouse story) CLVII
tres onisci in Silvio musculo repunt (Three woodlice are crawling on Silvius the little mouse). Silvius subridet: loricas segmentatas gerunt, similiter milites Romani! (Silvius smiles: they're wearing segmented armour like Roman soldiers!)

vincent,
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@Minimus

Euge, Silvī! imāgō est mihi MMDCCLX AUC (2007 CE) gerēntī loricam segmentātam et paenulam. oniscī milītēs ferōcēs sunt.

cfiesler, to random
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Benedictine College should refund the tuition of every woman graduate who had to listen to the commencement speaker say that her degree is worthless.

vincent,
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@sepdroid @cfiesler WTF??? What am I missing? Bess Kalb's newsletter was satiring this this morning, too.

jens, to random
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Let's merge the code bases of sharkey and mastodon and call it megalodon.

vincent,
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@jens There already is an Android App called Megalodon! It's the one I use for Mastodon on my phone.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.joinmastodon.android.sk

RickiTarr, to random
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Where do you live and how do you feel about it?

Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.

I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.

Pros:

This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.

Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.

It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".

I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.

We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.

Cons:

Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.

While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.

We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.

vincent,
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@RickiTarr @HumToTable CA is culturally dominated by L.A. (Hollywood, plus more people live in Socal), but other population centers have vastly different cultures. San Diego, very proximate to L.A. relatively speaking, is a different place.

We call where I live NorCal (S.F. Bay Area) but Northern California is huge, and we share very little cultural affinity with actual Northern California. For example, my sis has to deal with meth heads, whereas I have to deal with tech bros.

skinnylatte, to food
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LA food diary.

Some of you know I’m a big fan of LA food. I think that dollar for dollar you get a tremendous amount of cuisines, varieties of foods, in this melting pot which feels to me like it has far more immigrant and working class food than the Bay Area. Even the density and quality of ‘fancy food’ is high!

I’m keeping a record of my LA 2024 discoveries.

#Food #LAfood #LosAngeles

vincent,
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@skinnylatte SDG Tofu House in Santa Clara is where we go for Korean soup. I have no doubt that it's better in Socal though.

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