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(and because I didn't build the system of course I don't know what's in it, exactly)

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of course something's not working now. onboard audio now borked. yay Linux

ok if I wanna do gtk stuff then Xubuntu makes some sense. it's kinda of a local minimum when it comes to free operating systems. it's not great but it's less annoying than a lot of other choices

wow uh this is turning in a trainwreck

just gonna have to reinstall at this point. trying to modify the Ubuntu installation in-place has given me a system without predictable behavior. woo, the future of computing!

imitating the MacOS X Dock? that was like one of the worst ideas ever

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bleh the default desktop is kinda garbage on vanilla Ubuntu

gonna be trying to replace KDE Ubuntu with vanilla Ubuntu and seeing if that's better or worse. KDE is...okay, but it's certainly not great

USpol, religion, ACAB 

"On Wednesday morning, May 8, 2019, Betty Rendón, a Lutheran minister, was arrested along with her family when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided their home at gunpoint in Chicago."

patheos.com/blogs/ecopreacher/

blasphemy, JoJo 

remember "Jesus" is basically the name "Josh", and he was the son of Joseph, a "Josephson"

so Jesus was a JoJo

ok time to punish Kara by forcing hir to work on something

(you sticking with shi/hir, @kara_dreamer@plural.cafe? you been kinda having second thoughts)

honestly at this point i'm thinking i might be better off with a bag of fuckin peas lol.

folks and others, y'all have a favourite brand of reusable coldpack that you can use for therapeutic stuff (e.g. mushing on yourself)? chattanooga colpacs keep fuckin letting me down

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welp if I ever want a pound of creatine I can get it at the corner drugstore. wonder what can be done with that stuff

huh, looks like you can get dimethylamine out of it with a bit of foolery

Couldn't wait to make a new avatar, so while the children were at recess, I took a "selfie" inside the classroom.

Twitter thread with advice on selecting good mason bee houses and avoiding harmful ones (content warning: insects, parasites incl. image) twitter.com/colinpurrington/st

UK fascism 

so Nigel Farage got doused in milkshake? good

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