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"Actually, you should like this person because they served in the U.S. military"

Are they currently against the U.S. military? No? Uhhhh pass

The feud being, Morrissey repeatedly insulting Robert Smith for no particular reason, and then Robert Smith forgetting about it for 20 years

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Every time the Internet involuntarily blasts my face-sensors with information about Marriage Story, I dislike it even more, even though I've never seen it. It's like a movie engineered to be hateable.

The Michigan Micro Mote is allegedly as capable as an x86 from the early 90s. And it’s a computer, not just a bare CPU (although it lacks internal storage)

Which means it can probably run Doom

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Body horror 

Pissing out bone meal and marrow, throwing up clots of dark, gelatinous blood. Within a few months, you are shrunken within your own skin -- a shriveled, elfin figure. You've lost so much mucle snd your bones sre achey and brittle that you can no longer walk upright. When you try to speak, you merely emit unintelligible barks and chittering sounds. You live out the rest of your days hiding in the brush along a highway.

Headcanon: When Penny says "They carted Old So and So off to Urinetown the other day." in the opening song of Urinetown: the Musical, it's the same So and So featured in Teen Girl Squad

> Archaeologists—predominantly male—gave ancient ages names like “Iron” and “Bronze,” rather than “Pottery” or “Flax.” This implies that metal objects were the principal features of these times, when they are simply often the most visible and long-lasting remnants.

Kassia St. Clair discusses weaving in prehistory, in an excerpt from her book about the history of fabric. lithub.com/what-if-we-called-i

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[makes a jick dorsey joke for the .05% of people who remember Kingdom of Loathing]

dude probably thinks federation means putting more feds in it

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the axis of evil but it's Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States

honorable mentions to France, Belgium, Portugal and all other colonialist powers. Double triple extra honorable mention to the Catholic Church, which manages to be exceedingly evil without even being a state actor

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> This is an HTML email, please update your email client to view.

This is an email client. Please update your mail generator to stop wasting electricity and emitting extra carbon with HTML mail, or at least provide graceful degradation for users whose email clients only receive plaintext (as anyone who cares about there computer security does).
#MakeHTMLemailOptional!

anyway, pretty much anyone who has risky sex with men/is at risk for STDs is also at a risk for HIV and could be on PrEP. yes, even straight cis girls. spread the word or something.

Twitter has no real incentive to use ActivityPub

1. They don't control ActivityPub. Anything added/modified to the protocol will be seen as Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

2. No Fediverse instance will federate with them so it won't matter to them. Well, no one with common sense, which I hope covers most sysadmins

3. DRM is coming to a TL near you. Think of HDMI "proto-cables" connecting "producers" and "consumers"

4. Money (See no. 3). Want in? Here's a federation key with your subscription fee

bad 

Loving brands more than you love humans

wow is there anything more cowardly than queer organizations refusing to take stances against racism

Us pol, anti-Semitism 

glad to see the new executive order directly ties Jewish nationality to Israel. You know, that country I've never been to, is younger than most of my grandparents, I don't have any sort of attachment to whatsoever, and I'm constantly accused of being an agent of!

the #spacex program means fucking nothing when coupled with a scheme that will rob people of the chance to observe the sky. if its true purpose is to vomit space junk around the earth, it's in fact worse than useless.

please spread the word and get angry about this shit. #starlink is not a savior. it's positioning itself openly as anti-intellectual and anti-science - very viciously so.

if you're returning to space in order to make profit while everyone else takes a hit, stay home.

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