DB Schwein

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social @mhoye@cosocial.ca @404mediaco@mastodon.social I remember reading an article way back in the late 1980s about how the average American read one book a year, and understood that (averages being a thing) I was personally responsible for entire towns never reading at all. Looks like it's only gotten worse.

@vicfroh@mastodon.social As I've said to my, very Catholic, parents many a time. If as individual "good" Catholics, you have to defend your faith against generalisations supported by looking at individual "bad" Catholics, then it's a Catholic problem, and saying that "no real Catholic..." isn't a defense, it's a confession. My father didn't really agree until he was about 20 minutes into a story about how the woman who he saw begging always refused "real" help and only wanted cash. My siblings and I stopped him to ask how he knew that what she needed more than she did. We offered examples of multiple situations were cash would be the "real" help. None had occurred to him because they were outside his world view. It took him being called out very specifically for him to realize he wasn't "helping the poor", he was acting in exactly the way he condemned in "bad" Catholics by putting himself in a position of authority over this woman because he thought he knew better how she should live her life.

@overholt@glammr.us It's just a *micro* ransom - nothing at all to worry about.

@Hex@kolektiva.social Time to write hopepunk fiction!

@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social They're a host who deals with new and continuing registration, and I love love love and 100% endorse the entirely human Tigertech.net. They are based in the US, which is a deal breaker for some. I've been with them for 26 years this month, and dozens of websites. https://www.tigertech.net/referral/i-ddb.com will get you a small ongoing discount, and a matching one to me, but don't feel pressured to use it!

@Axolotl1@gaygeek.social I clicked purple because I love purple, but then I changed by vote because it's the wrong answer despite my love (and clearly other people's) for it!

@Axolotl1@gaygeek.social "it started out as a bit how did it end up like this" - Ada "it started out with a kiss how did we end up like this" - The Killers, Mr. Brightside I thought you intended it! It's even funnier as an accident, but the song is definitely stuck in my head now :-P

@Guillotine_Jones@beige.party @aburtch@shakedown.social @alice@lgbtqia.space @grim_elsewhere@lgbtqia.space FYI you can right click and open the image in a new tab - here you go :-)

@rozeboosje@masto.ai @Sanderde@mstdn.ca @McWabbit@tenforward.social @randahl@mastodon.social The chance to *start* rebuilding trust came in 2021 and would have required a long term course correction. In 2025 we pulled off our masks and revealed pirates were still so the helm. We've now proven that any agreement signed with the US, any alliances made, etc. have a shelf life of exactly how long that particular leader is still in office and no longer. No government or people, liberal or conservative, should ever trust us to do anything long-term again. #USPolitics

@Axolotl1@gaygeek.social Blue - so you've got it on this poll already :-)

@vees@jawns.club @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I accidentally started a little revolution at a prior office (they did not even offer said stipend) because I refused to let them install anything. The next 3 people all said the same. They figured out email authorization pretty quick.

@Viss@mastodon.social

#AltText Michael Crichton > Quotes > Quotable Quote

"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."

• Michael Crichton

@alice@lgbtqia.space Flower to make it better?

@VE3RWJ@mastodon.radio I'm certain the crows have names for them!

@Axolotl1@gaygeek.social Also Heh, Killer pun :-P

@bouriquet@mastodon.social @oz1sej@mastodon.online @ligfries@mastodon.green @ifrit@masto.ai @theorangetheme@en.osm.town @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt You cannot dismiss the college educated racists. Trump won the whites across education levels.

@libramoon@mastodon.social @carstenfranke@mastodon.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Their union, which is ridiculously overpowered. In a country where politicians routinely work to destroy unions the cops seem to have a stranglehold. Literally there are laws on the books that cops can't be fired even when proven negligent.

@rk@mastodon.well.com @simonzerafa@infosec.exchange Thanks! I've got mine on the way 😊

@StarkRG@myside-yourside.net @grrrr_shark@supervolcano.angryshark.eu The saddest part about that ad is somebody who doesn't speak English wouldn't get it. It's targeting the wrong audience. I wonder if it was considered successful by the company who paid for it.

@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks Yes. That's what I was referring to. They do eat ticks randomly, but the study (and all the articles/memes since) pushed that they are tick eating machines, rather than, they're happy to eat a tick if it crosses their path.

@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks I imagine, like possoms, that they're happy to eat mosquitos in the course of their lives but don't focus on them. OTOH, if articles like that make more people happy to see bats in their neighborhoods, it's a win all around.

@Alice@beige.party Perfectly clear.

@anne@scholar.social That's ab fab. and being knitted I bet it stretches to accommodate books or groceries, etc. really well!

@Jam123@mstdn.ca @hamishb@mstdn.ca @davidaugust@mastodon.online Cue @breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social ! And yeah. Sigh!!!

@rj07thomas@infosec.exchange @weatherwest@mastodon.social Looks like it was 1912, not 1910, but here you go: https://archive.org/details/PopularMechanics1912/Popular_Mechanics_03_1912/page/339/mode/1up If it doesn't load correctly the article is called Remarkable Weather of 1911 and is on page 339 of the March 1912 copy of Popular Mechanics. Also in 1896 Svante Arrhenius calculated that doubling CO2 would increase surface temperatures 5⁰C+. In 1902 the Selma paper had an article about it, but I cannot find a copy to read more than this image from the wiki article. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_science#First_calculations_of_greenhouse_effect,_1896

@filmfreak75@mastodon.social @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social Totally following that now too!

@bouriquet@mastodon.social @oz1sej@mastodon.online @ligfries@mastodon.green @ifrit@masto.ai @theorangetheme@en.osm.town @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt The polls I saw at the time had the percentages reversed for white, college educated, but still, an 8% swing is still a whole lot of college educated racism.

@ifrit@masto.ai @theorangetheme@en.osm.town @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt 32 hour workweek

@AimyBits@lgbtqia.space Hi Anna 😊 So are you diagnosed with ADHD, or just dabbling? 😝 Either way, your pack is definitely hanging about here! My suggestion would be search each of those hobbies in the hashtag section and either following the hashtag or individuals you find in there to fill your feed! Follow expansively and worry about weeding later.

@Jeanniewarner@wandering.shop I would not bet against that.

@robkay@thecanadian.socialhttps://fire.airnow.gov/ shows both the US and Canada...at least currently! @mdwyer@mastodon.social

@homegrown@social.growyourown.services @jellyfin@mastodon.online I'm attempting to set it up, but not having a lot of luck getting it to identify the files... It's possible it's just very slow on the first pass but there's no indication it's doing anything so I'm not sure 🫤 I'm hoping to really like it!

@minego@pdx.social On time, or with 15 minutes of on time is my go to. Sometimes this means helping them finish setting up and that's ok!

@lacroixboi@beige.party Snort laugh @Jeanniewarner@wandering.shop

@shom@gts.shom.dev @georgepenney@sunny.garden Ditto 😊

@Jeanniewarner@wandering.shop Yeah, poor wording. Nothing happened to the people *in* the Panama papers!

@laguiri Vaguely where are you located? Shipping around the world likely does not make sense sadly.

@Nonilex@masto.ai Also yesterday the wind was blowing north, and today it's blowing south so whole new areas are getting hit. I hope that also means that some cities in Canada are getting a break, but I don't think we get that lucky ☹️

@redfernmike@tech.lgbt Thanks!

@Jeanniewarner@wandering.shop Nothing happened after the Panama papers were published so yeah, not surprised at all.

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social I've been to Montana just across the border from Grasslands and the sky was incredible. I hope you get clear skies!

@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks Right! With possums it's ticks they're always trying to tell people they eat thousands of them.

@ifrit@masto.ai @theorangetheme@en.osm.town @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt I wish.

@jd@ottawa.place Do you avoid dihydrogen monoxide?

@DavidJBianco@infosec.exchange Another one for you @Jeanniewarner@wandering.shop !

@homegrown@social.growyourown.services @jellyfin@mastodon.online It's a mix of mp4, mkv, and one other. I'll try again and leave it alone for longer!

@chrissanders88@infosec.exchange Kk. Must just be in the system I was using to generate my shipping labels.

@chrissanders88@infosec.exchange I honestly thought 1lb was the minimum price everywhere so I wonder if this was rolled out previously and just now made official... OTOH, if you can stick it in an envelope it's still 1 stamp per oz so likely cheaper.