@kludgekml@sunbeam.city

· 8mo ago

@futurebird@sauropods.win Do ants have birth defects? I wouldn't have thought of it affecting animals so small, but I saw a spider with 7 normal legs and one tiny one, and it made me wonder. Like, had it lost a leg and was regenerating, or did it develop that way. (I didn't think arthropods could regenerate limbs, but maybe they can?)

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K M Lawrence @kludgekml@sunbeam.city

· 5mo ago

Had a thought while I was taking burgers* out of the fridge: hey, why don't I do these on the George Foreman grill, I haven't used that in a while!

So now I have badly cooked burgers _and_ I have to clean a fucking George Foreman grill.

Good work, dumbass.

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K M Lawrence @kludgekml@sunbeam.city

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@fedops@fosstodon.org @Gina@fosstodon.org @BZKopensource@social.overheid.nl I mean you gotta hand it to GitHub. In this time of austerity, having six nines is a real extravagance. Feels like a big win for their engineers to optimise it down to just one.

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K M Lawrence @kludgekml@sunbeam.city

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@maco @VileLasagna @Gargron oh, I would have assumed the Dorothy L Sayers translation. Good lord, are there two rhyming translations into English?

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K M Lawrence @kludgekml@sunbeam.city

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises @futurebird@sauropods.win ugh, man. How do they expect the crab to survive with its claws ripped off? They're there for a reason. This can't possibly be sustainable, even if you ignore the moral aspects of causing pain.

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K M Lawrence @kludgekml@sunbeam.city

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@darkling@mstdn.social thanks! (Android browser's share tool seems to have shared an internal link. Have fixed in the original post)

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K M Lawrence @kludgekml@sunbeam.city

· 7mo ago

Taking inspiration from the idea of backing up human civilisation on mars, I've decided to back up my 100 Gb installation of Split Fiction by drawing some stick figures on a post-it note that's on fire

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K M Lawrence @kludgekml@sunbeam.city

· 7mo ago

I've finally made up my own business initialism: EADOC: Embarrassment As the Driver of Change.

It's for when you've put up with something for ages but when you have to explain it to a new dev you realise how shameful it is, so fix it.

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K M Lawrence @kludgekml@sunbeam.city

· 8mo ago

Relatable literature

Me: Why am I like this?
Psychiatrist: Because you're a good person?
Me: (I do not agree with this assessment)
- "i want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki", Baek Sehee

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K M Lawrence @kludgekml@sunbeam.city

· 8mo ago

Turns out if anyone ever wants to know what up-dog is, chapter 8 of The Grapes of Wrath has the answer.

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K M Lawrence @kludgekml@sunbeam.city

· 9mo ago

I feel like Department of Coffee and Social Affairs should give a discount to civil servants.

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K M Lawrence @kludgekml@sunbeam.city

· 12mo ago

Replying to

@futurebird@sauropods.win @notoriousiptg@fediscience.org @mjr@masto.bike @MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk here's how the metropolitan police treated London cyclists in 2012: https://www.counterfire.org/article/london-2012-police-attack-critical-mass-cyclists/ (Important to note that critical mass rides are broadly legal, or at least were at the time)

Counterfire

London 2012: police attack Critical Mass cyclists

Hundreds of cyclists taking part in the monthly Critical Mass bike ride were detained and kettled by the police on Friday evening, while the Olympic opening ceremony was in full swing The cycle ride was in defiance of anticipated

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