What I mostly don't understand about the #coronation is how it's possible to spend £250 million in one afternoon. They already own all the golden whatnot and the venue is provided by the church Charles is head of, so where did all the money go? It's a huge undertaking and I can believe it might cost £20m, but a quarter of a billion pounds? There's just no way that adds up without anyone getting swindled, is there?
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I’m kind of a “Marmite person”, in that I’m essentially a by-product of the brewing industry.
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Today is special because it's the only day you can call yourself a republican on fedi and not be immediately blocked by literally everyone
What am I supposed to do with this? What file? Where is it? What's the problem with it? And can we please at least acknowledge the theoretical possibility that I, the sentient lifeform in this conversation, know what I am doing, and you, the rock we tricked into playing Sim City, might have made a mistake?
Oh, for an operating system that treats you like a grown-up
Can't be doing with this biblically accurate accounting service advert
Big shout-out to Redcar & Cleveland Council, who have called a third recount in the local elections and are now the reason we are technically crowning a new hereditary head of state *during an election* like the extremely normal country that we are
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@idoclosecuts@mstdn.ca I'm granting them £50m as a sum that seems like it should be obviously more than enough to run a suitably lavish bash
@ScepticalScot1@mastodon.scot did they not know it's on the telly?
@FrazzledBrynn@glitterkitten.co.uk foss bros are the worst fashion line
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@lesswrongmorekind@masto.ai I really increasingly feel like macOS is a terrible operating system — they keep adding weird functions like whatever the fuck Stage Manager is, but the basics work less and less well with every release.
@FrazzledBrynn@glitterkitten.co.uk yeah, i seem to remember some controversy with fosstodon ages ago, can't remember what it is but i mean i have my guesses based on, you know, the general vibe of the foss community at large
ok well this latest rash of weird spam accounts is probably the last straw for .social, so i think i'm going to move my main account to another instance.
any suggestions?
i'm currently leaning towards tech.lgbt, in part because i think i probably post too much general nonsense to justify doing so on the mathstodon.xyz local timeline, and self-hosting sounds prohibitively time consuming and rather more expensive than it really needs to be
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@futzle ok but since gender is a social construct, and therefore different societies will construct it differently, it must surely be possible for a person to be a boy in their irl society but a girl on here? Like, could mastodon "make someone trans" by constructing a model of gender *in which* they were trans?
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@mythologyandhistory@home.social yeah, that makes sense, but it still seems implausible to me that security for one event that lasts an afternoon needed to cost a fifth of a billion pounds?
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@fraying@xoxo.zone I really thought Rowling had the wit and composure to keep the mask of weaponised civility up indefinitely, but I guess there's no reason to bother if the media and government are on your side