Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I forgot who originally said this but doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result is the definition of practicing

hexchat seems to be steadily migrating to the left whenever i lock my screen, it's now gotten out of my appindicator area and into my clock

De aalscholvers weten de molen weer goed te vinden.

Mijn collega was ooit met zijn kinderen en een natuurgids aan het wandelen. Toen de een grote vogel zagen vroeg de gids aan de kinderen "Weten jullie wat voor vogel dat is?"

Één van de kinderen herkende hem en riep enthousiast "Schijtlijster!"

"Ja", zei zijn vader, "die hebben we op de molen ook."

Sindsdien is dat dus onze officiële naam voor de aalscholver.

My kingdom for a science YouTuber that biases towards research documenting failed experiments.

I just watched a video on a very new model called Time Scapes that tries to do better than λCDM. It was interesting, and described (from a lay person perspective) an easier to understand model than "oooh it's spooky dark energy 👻". But, I was left with this feeling that the two videos I watched, were hype in the way that Popular Science is hype. And, it left me wondering if there's science reporting (video preferred, oddly) that covers content more in the vein of "here's this idea everyone liked a lot but it turns out it's probably wrong the authors are doing 'something' about it" for some value of something.

So idk tell me about videos or blogs I can go to and/or boost?

(It's important to note that I'm very much a lay person in this subject. I like hearing about it because I like being immersed in the vibe and I pick stuff up.)

I hope #Costco is rewarded many times over for standing by their DEI initiative with a surge in new memberships. People should be as good at thanking companies when they do the right thing, as they are at calling out companies when they fail to do so.

Context here on “saying grace”. It’s not a tradition here in Iceland to say grace before dinner, even among the religious. My late grandmother was a religious fanatic. At one point she had two of her grandchildren christened without their parent’s permission, for example. But she never asked any of us to say grace before dinner at family gatherings

So, when somebody unprompted asks for this at a dinner among relatives here, odds are they’re either born-again or in the early stages of extremism

I WILL NOT repost things here if they don't have image descriptions.

I end up adding the description myself, and frankly I pass over MANY posts that I would have quickly shared but I don't have the time to be everyone's mom and describe everything. (I just do that for the really great posts I can't pass up.)

Please, put #alttext on your images! It will make you more popular. It's polite. It makes your posts higher quality and easier to understand. It's cool. Just describe the images.

Gelukkig zijn er ook schapenhouders die ook dierliefhebbers zijn.

Hoiting heeft geen hekel aan de wolf gekregen, ook al is hij er meer dan 150 schapen aan kwijtgeraakt. "De wolf vind ik een hartstikke leuk en intelligent dier. Ik probeer dat dier te begrijpen. En van wie is dat mooie bos nou? Van ons of van de wolf?"

Deze schaapherder houdt wolven op afstand met zijn eigen uitvinding | Wolf | NU.nl
https://www.nu.nl/wolf/6340097/deze-schaapherder-houdt-wolven-op-afstand-met-zijn-eigen-uitvinding.html

Tragic

warning: if you insert a floppy disk into a USB floppy drive connected to your ARM MacBook running macOS Sequoia, it will create a `.fseventsd` directory in it without caring, wasting some of your valuable 1.44MB

oh sorry, did I say `.fseventsd`? no, it's FAT16, so it's actually `FSEVEN~0`

I was *wondering* why Beyoncé went so hard on the country theme for her big half-time show on the Christmas football game. I mean she *is* from Texas, but that was the most "country" thing I've ever seen in my life. (The halftime show was more popular than the game, which also tracks since it was the only part of the game I watched LOL)

Turns out the Country Music Awards snubbed her, and probably for reasons you can guess. #beyonce #BeyonceBowl #Beyoncé #countryMusic #cma #AmericanFootball

I need to write a proper post about this at some point, but for now, here's the short version:

If you're purportedly fighting racism on fedi, purportedly trying to make it a more diverse space, purportedly trying to make it a more welcoming space to people that aren't white, etc, stop assuming people that don't have their race plastered in all caps on their profile are white, k? (*especially* if you're a POC yourself)

Because you know what that is? White-washing, an example of the very racism we're trying to fight, and something that makes a space seem less diverse than it actually is

The fact that it's used against POC to discredit what we have to say is just the cherry on top (and often even a wonderful example of lateral violence )

#SocialJustice #Racism #Bigotry #Fedi #Mastodon #POC #BIPOC

'copilot' is a very funny name for an AI because imagine you were trying to fly an airplane and the pilot next to you was pressing the wrong controls 20% of the time and was saying things like "planes don't actually need wheels to land"

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