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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Graphic designer, socially distanced since 1966.
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Days like today I get notifications from the power company that there is excessive demand and I should turn off my air conditioning until 7pm; and I wonder: there are at least a dozen data centers within a couple miles of my house; are they turning off their cooling too?
Wow, does this look… pointless. https://washingtonian.com/2026/06/26/i-went-to-trumps-great-american-state-fair-it-was-bleaker-than-i-expected/
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@mathowie I am extremely happy that my now ancient Tesla is dented, dirty, and well worn because it is clear that I bought it before Elon was unmasked.
"Louisiana Republicans have eliminated an elected position days before an exoneree who overwhelmingly won the New Orleans-based clerk seat was set to take office.
Calvin Duncan, who spent nearly 30 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit, easily won election to the criminal court clerk position in November, earning more than two-thirds of the vote. He had been set to take office next Monday."
Most prescient comment I’ve seen so far about Catherine O’Hara:
“We really need Catherine O’Hara to help us deal with the passing of Catherine O’Hara.” 😔
The clearest and simplest explanation I’ve for how so many people feel right now: “Trump has sucked all the joy out of our country.”
250 years should have been a huge celebration. Instead it feels like the end of the great experiment.
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@georgetakei@universeodon.com What will happen to me if I spell “gray” with an e?
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@adwright@mastodon.social @lisamelton@mastodon.social Maybe he wants to squat in the new bunker after his term ends, which i’m fine with assuming the next president bulldozes it and seal him in it forever.
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@Daojoan@mastodon.social I sold my 840sf house in San Jose, CA in 2019 to a 20-something couple for nearly a million, and they had that as cash in the bank. This *is* reality, but it doesn’t make any obvious sense to me at the same time.
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@cstross@wandering.shop @jgobble@mastodon.social I had to put little “Door Open” stickers on the button. This is the *least* of the very poor user interface in this car, which — unlike regular cars — gets worse over time because of software updates and lack of tactile controls.
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@maxleibman@beige.party True story: Ted Turner was a speaker at a conference I worked on. He flew himself in on his private jet, we sent a limo to pick him up, and as he walked through the convention center he simply grabbed drinks and snacks off the little retail carts. Didn’t stop, didn’t pay.
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@lisa@beige.party Thanks for sharing your experiences. This cis guy is impressed by your journey to becoming yourself!
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@kathygriffin@mstdn.social every time someone uses those damned things, gas-powered and spewing pollution, I want to yell, “get a broom, dipshit!”
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@tiago@social.skewed.de A few months ago we were all in a staff meeting when an unknown bot or something joined and started transcribing the meeting. None of us knew what it was, where it came from, or opened the meeting to outsiders. We couldn't figure out how to kick it out.
Now we have an explanation.
Hahahahahahahahaha
Fuck Walmart.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/new-vizio-tvs-will-require-walmart-accounts-report-says/
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl/116332588296024809
They needed a study to tell them this?
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Study (N=595) finds hostile sexism (openly resentful toward women) was the strongest predictor of whether young men liked the tradwife movement. Another predictor: men who believed they needed a woman to feel complete.
https://www.psypost.org/men-who-favor-the-tradwife-lifestyle-often-view-the-women-in-it-with-derision/
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@FediThing If he was just some guy holding that hostage in an apartment somewhere, after he backed down the police would still be storming the place and hauling his ass in.
@aravosis well, are they Scientologists?
Whoa — back when I lived in California, our skies turned orange with the smoke from big fires. But I never thought that I would see the same thing here in the DC area, especially from fires thousands of miles away. And this morning, it's not orange — it's gray. Literal smoke, hanging in the air, like there's a grill cooking next door. #climatechange
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@samlitzinger@journa.host Amazing how antifa is so incredibly competent in their weather engineering.
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@nami@tech.lgbt Fascist dictatorships have no qualms about invalidating or confiscating passports. See also: Jews in World War II.
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@mathowie@xoxo.zone Reminds me of the geo-restricted streaming app that refused to play even on vpn, even after giving it a street address for an account… and then started working when I set my AppleTV time zone to that location. It used the current time, not the location. 🤦🏻♂️