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the western world only knowing about black pepper may be absurdly limiting, but on the other hand it's a good spice, so it's impossible to say if this is bad or not

Meanwhile in Mountain View: Google horrified to learn that a "mock interview" doesn't mean what they thought it did and they spent the last twenty years being complete assholes to candidates by mistake.

Condé Nast Union Members Launch 24-Hour Walkout Amid Layoff Talks

hollywoodreporter.com/business

From the other site:

Starting at midnight EST for 24 hours, DON’T CROSS OUR CLICK-IT LINE, that means no clicks, likes, reshares on:

GQ ❌
Vanity Fair ❌
Bon Appétit ❌
Architectural Digest ❌
Vogue ❌
Allure ❌
Glamour ❌
Epicurious ❌
Self ❌
Condé Nast Traveler ❌
Them ❌
Teen Vogue ❌

[Note that other Condé Nast-owned media sites like New Yorker, Wired, etc have their own unions so aren't part of this.]

Learn how QR codes work, and how to read them without a computer!

@piko and I just released the interactive explainer that we used in our workshop at #37c3!

qr.blinry.org

Sometimes I'm amazed that the fediverse works, feels like a miracle with how often you notice it's half broken here and there

SORTING HAT ALGORITHM

"You will be sorted into one of 4 houses according to your personality and aspirations at age 10, which will take all of 20 seconds to assess"

"That's bullshit!" and you're actually bothered by the nonsensical logistics of all of this -> Ravenclaw
"That's bullshit!" but you just say it to start shit -> Slytherin
"This sounds great and I will base my entire personality around being in The Right House" -> Gryffindor
"Please I just want dinner to start" -> Hufflepuff

”show” is such a fucked up swedish word… it's literally just a borrowing of the english word “show”, /ɔ͡ʊ/ dipthong and all, but… but the initial consonant becomes /ɧ/!!! uncomfortably english and undeniably swedish at the same time…

@autisticadvocacy personally I have an app called DeafNote. It's made for Deaf folks but is the only app like this I've found for android! You type on one side and the words appear upside down on the other. Great for ordering food/coffee/etc or communicating with someone standing in front of you. It has a text to speech function as well. Iphone version is called FlipWriter. Here's what mine looks like:

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Don't forget: today is Penguin Awareness Day. Make sure you know your penguins!

#PenguinAwarenessDay

You are only temporarily abled.

This is not a threat. It is a statement of fact.

RIP the man who was the absolute incarnation of XKCD's "one random dude holding up the entire internet". You may never have heard of David Mills, but your entire goddamn world depends on what he did.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_

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