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Ormur
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mastodon 4.6.8Layabout librarian, perennial history student, quiz nerd, animal enthusiast and anti-war activist.
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It's interesting spotting the biases of international tech companies as you engage with them. Airbnb is making a big deal of my apartment not having a carbon monoxide sensor. But we don't have any gas here so I've never even considered that a problem.
Seemingly every month we get an email warning us that there will be a test of the sprinkler system in the city offices. Which doesn't concern us as we don't work there.
I assume they're just periodically getting soaked along with all the documents and electronics down there.
Finding out through Connections that in the US "Black and Tans" refers to a drink and not a notoriously violent British paramilitary force in the Irish War of Independence.
This has predictably resulted in a bunch of hilarious US corporate faux pas.
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@hannah@posts.rat.pictures A childhood neighbor had a workshop in the basement where he spun those elaborate fly lures and I've always pictured that as one of those quintessential old-man hobbies.
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@hannah@posts.rat.pictures @LadyStrawberries@void.lgbt I see from the article he claimed to descended from survivors of the Darien scheme.
First nice weather of the spring this week and exam season is over. Consequently the library has been completely deserted.
Tracey showed me pictures of her sports nephew and while the whole of American sports is like an alien world to me I definitely prefer the aesthetics of baseball to American football, it's so old-timey.
You'd still have to pay me to watch a game of it though.
Finally watched Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (Portrait of a Lady on Fire). A very sparse and beautiful romance that builds up to be an absolutely devastating and layered piece of art.
It helps watching with an English Professor to peel them back afterwards. I really liked how the initial clandestine looks needed to paint the lady in question mirror and turn into a forbidden love story.
The extremely economical use of music also makes it so powerful when it hits.
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Seeing Riker engulfed in slick black goo was pretty horny though.
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@theadhocracy@indieweb.social @dank@jorts.horse It's international worker's day, it's definitely being celebrated in Europe even if it's on the same day as the older May Day celebrations. I don't know how the split is but I imagine most European countries have it as a public holiday because of organized labour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day
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Although I am of course, given cat family dynamics, their mom.
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@srol@mellified.men @wolfteeth@mellified.men Oof, I'm imagining a bar serving Bloody Marys as Bloody Sunday now.
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@wolfteeth@mellified.men I also don't think The Irish War of Independence is that well known here. I just like trivia and didn't know about the drink.
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@notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com I used to be very into the idea of nuclear in addition to renewables and I still think shutting down plants before renewables came in was unwise but since then I've come to assume the economics of solar and prospective battery advances have made the construction of new nuclear power plants unneccesary.
I imagine the case for gas as a stop-gap would be stronger.
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@TeamMidwest@glammr.us Hi, I work for the city library of Reykjavík. Are you looking for something specific or just interesting stuff in general?
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@TechConnectify@mas.to I have on occasion grumbled at looking for information on simple problems and only finding it in video form even if that's not the best fitting format.
But the thing with your videos is that they're entertaining, have a lot of interesting context and give me solutions to problems I didn't even think to look for solutions to. I'd never have googled if I was using my dishwasher sub-optimally.
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