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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange I saw this in a post a while back and it really hit me… Do you have a problem with socks? NT: No (thinks WTF?) Aut: No (thinks I have a system) I literally have a system for getting socks on so that they aren’t too tight across my toes after I put my shoes on. 🤣

@ClaireH@blahaj.zone @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange why stop there? Mandatory hamster ball for every tourist.

@petrillic@hachyderm.io so long, and thanks for all the fish! 🥲

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange I do this as well, except I still have to match the more worn looking ones together 🫠

@thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space I work in tech, and I 100% agree that we need to challenge the assumption that humanities are somehow not “useful”. The seems to have increasingly crept into public discourse from the far right. An educated person should be broadly well read, including science, tech, arts and humanities, and we need people specializing in all these domains.

@FediThing@social.chinwag.org @CountBinface@mastodon.world I was already following but he has almost as many followers as he needs votes. To really support we should throw him a few bob to cover his election deposit 😅

When you are used to privilege, equality feels like oppression https://nltimes.nl/2026/07/24/dutch-singer-asking-white-men-stand-back-discrimination-hotlines-say

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange Hahaha, I wish I could have gotten away with that as a child. In all my school photos I have tights on, but always with big wrinkles at the knees as I hated tight things. Ireland is usually too cold for sandals 🥲

@Steffi@toot.wales the Dutch way is wear regenbroek (rain trousers) over your clothes, and then a rain coat with that. It really keeps you safe from all the splashing around your ankles. I see guys in suits going to work in the rain like this all the time here in Amsterdam.

@energisch_@troet.cafe @thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space the end game of big tech right now seems to be to flood the world with LLM generated content that echoes the same patterns as human language, but the intentionality of what is being communicated is gone. Real communication is also getting lost in this flood.

@PeterSommerlad reminds me of this meme

@weirdestate these stairs are pretty normal for the Netherlands, if you remove the robust handrails, and then also curve them a bit so they take up less space. The Dutch word for stairs is “trap”.

@thesquirrelfish@sfba.social @weddige@gruene.social @JoBlakely@mastodon.social well, the better the “security” the less an individual can actually do. I agree that it’s a balancing act between ease of use and being cautious. Things like restaurant QR codes where you order and pay are too wide open for abuse, ditto for charity collections via posters with QR codes. Having them on business cards or in other scenarios can be useful.

@JoBlakely@mastodon.social I think if you are an artist or small business handing out cards, this is one scenario where I would have some trust in it. I see this a lot at craft fairs and the like. QR codes for ordering in a busy pub or restaurant, or fundraiser posters put up by who knows what individual are another matter.

@beccadax@soincredibly.gay @plasma@woof.tech wait, you see nerdy stuff at nasa and you be assuming it’s all from one person? I have news for you…

@scruss@xoxo.zone @Daojoan@mastodon.social same in Ireland, the better you know someone the more insulting you can be with them (a mark of respect). People you hate get careful politeness.

@minego@pdx.social seating for indifference is what you get on public transport. Hate seats are what they make us sit in at airports.

@kimvanwyk@fosstodon.org @GrahamDowns@mastodon.africa same, my degree is b-eng ergo I’m an engineer (I earned it) and I studied electronics and have done low level programming enough to actually understand how computers work.

@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe @spinni81@mastodon.social I have one of those Edwardian trouser skirts that was originally designed for ladies to bike (the buttons down the middle open to make it fully trousers). No petticoats with this one I’m afraid, bloomers only. 😅

@dammitjanet @FolksVelo yeh, I was shocked a few years back to discover just how fragile and “norms based” international law really is. I hope someone gets hauled off to The Hague for this, but the reality is that Microsoft will just lock them all out of their documents (they have already done such things, no joke).

@toddalio@mstdn.ca @snap2grid@mastodon.social it’s because all the clean water gets used to cool AI data centers.

@JoBlakely@mastodon.social scanning a random qr code in the wild can be a security risk, they are often used for scams, and who knows what fake websites they might link to.

@MagentaRocks@mastodon.coffee people that know me wonder how I manage to read an average of 6 books a month… here is why 😅 The new #murderbot was great, time for a reread!

@bespacific@newsie.social whereas violent right wing extremists are just a recruitment lead.

@aanee@mastodon.online Same! Enjoy!!!

@bsdphk @oscarfalcon @pluralistic the correct term is “comfort unit” #murderbot #MarthaWells

@holly @gemeenteamsterdam would be nice to have for the greater Amsterdam area as well. Unless you cycle a route every day it’s hard to plan, and crossing Amsterdam recently I hit 3 different major diversions.

@mhoye if your only experience of wood is panels of compressed leftover bits that the cheapest furniture is usually made from, it kind of starts to make sense that trees are outrageous 😜

@reloadedhead @tkissing I didn’t compare them directly, I was merely pointing out that selfish actions that take away the rights of others (in the SUV case it takes away my sense of safety on the roads, but for others it has literally taken lives) are an emotive issue and not an “interesting philosophical question”. There are plenty of right wingers who poison public discourse with “respectful questions” up to an including the extreme example I gave. Disingenuous questions don’t deserve respect.

@reloadedhead @tkissing there are limits to the respect owed to a “respectful question”, depending on the topic. If I politely ask the internet “why shouldn’t an individual have the right to own another human being?” I should remember that for other people it’s not just an “interesting philosophical question”, but something that has caused suffering. SUVs disproportionately kill pedestrians and other road users, and terrify the rest of us. If question is not disingenuous it’s lacking empathy.

@ghard @reloadedhead @richlv @fj yeh, I always make a point of staring at them with a disgusted look on my face. Worst is these things in Amsterdam rush hour, when they go through the traffic lights even though there is no space to go on, and then block the crossing. Most cyclists at RAI crossing will bang on the side as they go past, but it’s necessary as they might move on as the traffic moves and won’t see us.

@fzer0 @lacybarry @Pepijn

@Pedi@darmstadt.social @paparatti@phire.place damn, I came here to make that joke but you beat me to it 😅

@FolksVelo how is this genocide threat not resulting in immediate impeachment?! I mean, I know why, but it’s still… just… Fuck this timeline!

@WanderingWitch@mastodon.scot @tubemapper@mastodonapp.uk you might not like these particular wombles, but the books are excellent (epic like lord of the rings if it was set in the 80s urban decay of London).

@WanderingWitch@mastodon.scot @tubemapper@mastodonapp.uk have you read the borribles books? I read them as a child and can never travel on the underground (or overground part of the underground) without thinking of them sneaking along there finding abandoned tunnels. A dark nod to the wombles in there too 😅

@penny why does this remind me of Spaceballs?

@thesquirrelfish@sfba.social @weddige@gruene.social @JoBlakely@mastodon.social I’ve never been to a restaurant that took away my card! How can I even enter my pin if they do that? Back when they had those physical machines where they took an imprint of the numbers then maybe, but I don’t think I’ve seen that this millennium 😅 Some QR scams to watch out for https://susqr.com/qr-code-scams

@reloadedhead the “both sides” argument isn’t going to cut it when we know who the real enemy is. It’s the one Elon bought Twitter to boost. It’s the one that’s rounding up (shooting) innocent people in the US and putting them in camps. It’s the one with deep pocket funding to systematically pull public discourse to the extreme right, backed by people who were jolly good friends with Epstein, and we aren’t even people to them. They will retreat to luxury bunkers while we die of climate change

@vosje62@mastodon.nl @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net doesn’t trump send Vance in to take the blame when they already know it’s fucked?

@cstross@wandering.shop To make matters worse, it used to be the whole of Ireland in the UK but look how that turned out (they were shipping out grain while we starved, but still they never referred to it as the British or UK famine for some reason).

@vxo @gypsyvegan @plantarum @pluralistic freedom cities and mars reminds me of this song https://youtu.be/vvANy49Kqhw?is=Ld8EuCGEigEgWm_a

@thesquirrelfish@sfba.social @JoBlakely@mastodon.social @weddige@gruene.social that sounds a bit oceans eleven compared to just printing out some stickers.

@thesquirrelfish@sfba.social @weddige@gruene.social @JoBlakely@mastodon.social it’s the context that’s the danger. You can fake the context by walking in somewhere and leaving flyers or putting stickers, and with QR codes it’s way too easy for the average person to already have the link opened before they stop and think. Scammers are never going to rely on hand typing a url, it gives the mark too much time to think. A nice QR code can feel official until it’s too late.

@PedestrianError @eq “boys are more likely to be beaten up by a bully” - are you not paying attention? The rate of femicide is staggering. Recently 2 women who worked together at a bank in Amsterdam were found murdered within a few days of each other. Everyone assumed there must be a connection. There was not. One was murdered by creepy guy hanging around train station, the other by her boyfriend. Many women spend years living with their bully unable to escape.

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st I hate in the uk that they try and get you to book a specific time slot for a specific train. Hell if you miss your connection, which often happens. I want tap on and off except for Eurostar or overnight services where it’s reasonable to book a fixed seat.

@reloadedhead @fj Where is the line for you in the balance between individual wants and the known dangers? We can already count the dead children, and measure how poor the visibility is. More than once I have had to bang on an SUV to stop them driving over my child laden bakfiets at a crossing (because they went through the lights when there wasn’t space to go on and blocked the crossing so I had to pass in front and they couldn’t see me and started to move with the traffic in front.

@tkissing hehehe, right wingers becomes “right and left wing extremists” 🤣🤣🤣

@billgoats@bitbang.social in most parts of Europe it wouldn’t be road legal unless the kit includes a speed limiter (not that far bike sellers seem to care of course).

@wonka @dave_cochran @kallisti @silhouette @malwaretech Geothermal baby, yeh!