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wish noise cancelling headphones had a setting that inverts their noise cancellation priorities

most of them will filter out everything except speech

we want…kinda the opposite. get rid of the background chatter of people talking, get rid of cars and stuff. leave the birds and the wind and the rustle of leaves.

Something I've been saying for a while now. If you know how to program and are willing to dig in, you don't need permission to create the online world that you want. But that's not sufficient. Very few people have both the skills and fortitude to do something meaningful on their own. I would go further and say that's not even what we want.

Creating the world we want is always a social problem. Because we need to find like-minded people to join us.

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You and your coworkers should talk about how much you get paid. It is not some secret, that is only giving power to the bosses. They want you to be isolated, solidarity is the enemy of the capitalists.

Maybe I should make an autistic news channel where I just read whatever bullshit that's coming out, and translate it to "this person thinks they'll make money if you believe what they're saying"

politics 

This Halloween remember: Damage to property matters only so far as it harms actual people.

@pascaline Hmm. Ik heb er mijn twijfels bij of dat wel echt non-profit is, als ik zo eens naar en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow kijk en dan vooral de aanzienlijke funding daarachter - dit lijkt mij meer op een "non-profit dochter van for-profit bedrijf"-constructie zoals je die wel vaker in de VS ziet, vaak om belastingredenen (en dan is het uiteindelijk wel degelijk for-profit want er is een afhankelijkheidsrelatie).

@Maxnichols Someone happened to link me to this video recently, which talks about exactly this, and what's likely really going on there: hax.social/@rallias/1133876530

UDP jokes are unreliable at best. You never know if someone's going to get it

Most adorable : the conductor had a printed sign "Tickets please" they hold in my sight in the silent area of the train rather than loudly asking for it. They said that'd be more comfortable for everyone than shouting and half of the people in the train were wearing headphones anyway.

I really, really like that idea and their commitment to just print these tiny signs.

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tl;dr In just over 2 weeks I will donate a kidney.

Some of you may know that @joepie91 is preparing for a kidney transplant. That kidney is mine. But if everything goes right, not for much longer.

See their post at social.pixie.town/@joepie91/11 for their perspective.

Lots of people have told me IRL that this is a huge thing. But honestly, it was a "no reason not to"-situation. I'm in near perfect health, and otherwise in a situation where the procedure won't really impact my life that much.

It's my last day of being a Pumpkaboo before the spell is lifted and I may return to my dragon form!

I have had a lot of fun as a Pumpkaboo and I'm especially looking forward to pumpkin carving today, though as a Pumpkaboo I certainly have some mixed feelings.

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Meanwhile I'm learning elliptic curve cryptography, while in the room next to me, boxes are being sorted and repacked to free up space, and somehow my focus isn't completely shot either??

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The gender of the day is an angry gnome on a spaceship.

The street here is outright crowded today. Painters are still repainting the block, bird-blocking mesh installers were installing today, the garbage truck came to pick up the plastic waste, then there was a DPD delivery (mattress) and a DHL delivery (box) several hours later, *and then* the 'leaf collection parade' (tractor + massive vacuum cart + two guys with leafblowers directing leaves towards it) showed up. It's a miracle that there haven't been any conflicts today.

Lidl moment: a manual that's bigger in volume than the product it came with

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