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You must be trolling us.
Teapot/teacup -> milk first
Brewed in mug -> Milk last
Shurely?
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mastodon 4.7.2Creative obsessive. Childish father. Contemplative joker. Mortal immortalist. Pragmatic optimist. Stay-at-home nomad. New Scot.
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@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk
I'm still struggling to get my head around what's happened. If I were to travel back to the 1980s in a time machine and tell my past self that forty years from now peaceful protest would be criminalised, my past self would probably assume it was a Tory government, or even a full-on Fascist one.
I'd like to propose a new abbreviated reply:
"AI;DR"
It seemed like a good time to wheel this one out, for some reason.
Good night, all.
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@infobeautiful@vis.social
Indeed... and without the log scales it would be WAY tinier, too.
RE: @srtcd424@mas.to
Hard to imagine a clearer illustration of the Overton Window than this.
Evernote are about to DOUBLE my annual subscription fee. It's time to quit! Probably going to Obsidian or something, but whatever I do, there will be days of hassle.
I'm 61, and I don't know how much time I have left in my life. Stupid crap like this burns precious days I could use for other things.
Wouldn't it be nice if I could send them an invoice, not for money, but for extra lifespan? Maybe they could pay it by sending me a year's supply of healthy salad vegetables or something.
Someone in a YouTube comment just said that something "validates the multidimensional nature of reality."
I really wanted to reply with "you can do that by looking around you and noticing that everything isn't just an infinitely thin line", but I couldn't be bothered.
This remains one of the best TV clips I've ever witnessed.
Stanley Unwin meets Bill & Ben
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt It got my location very wrong indeed, which is interesting. However, it's a brilliant idea. The thing that I found most surprising was that apparently browsers can harvest your current battery percentage and use it to track you across sites. That's extremely sneaky!
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@petrillic@hachyderm.io That loss hit me so hard. I heard about it from a friend who casually slipped it into conversation with the same tone of voice he would have used for "my neighbour's cat is ill". Then he continued talking to others in the room about trivial stuff while I sat there speechless, my world collapsing around me.
Towel Day will be particularly important this year. I might break out the bath sheet.
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@anon_opin I think it's a great idea. Why the hell should I put in the effort of loving something when I can have someone else do it for me first?
Yesterday I saw an oystercatcher foraging on someone's lawn, about 5-10 miles from the nearest coastal water.
Is this unusual?
It's really weird that some people seem to have forgotten the phrase "the twentieth century". I've witnessed multiple people on YouTube claiming the 1980s is "the nineteen hundreds". Weird.
Just tried to submit a repeat prescription request. This used to be a simple web form that would always work 24 hours a day and someone would pick it up from an inbox. NOW I get a message that says:
Outside of service hours
We're not currently accepting online administrative queries as it's outside our service hours for these. The next opportunity to use the service is listed below.
BONKERS. This process does NOT need a human present!
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@BackFromTheDud@mas.to @petrillic@hachyderm.io Pratchett was a bit different for me because I'd only read a handful of his books at the time. I've now read almost all of them, and I feel a much deeper loss now, retrospectively. He was a genius, for sure.
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@LJ@zirk.us I totally appreciate that attitude, and I know my dad would have done too. Lost him in 2024, and a few months ago my mum observed that he never used sarcasm in humour and didn't find it funny. The surprising thing is that I knew him for 59 years and I'd never quite realised that about him until she said it. He loved to employ puns, silliness and Goonish humour, and was a very kind man.
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@Natasha_Jay Beautiful! It reminds me of a book I loved as a child, called "The Map That Came To Life".
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@Gh0stlyM0use @joelvanderwerf @Irenetherogue All very good points. There's a thing called faircamp, which helps artists set up storefronts on their own domains... but that sort of thing is always a lot of work.
In theory, the fediverse should be a good alternative... but I'm unsure whether anyone is trying to do that.
A discourteous driver named Bignal
Turned left without giving a signal.
I thought it a crime,
So—bereft of a rhyme—
I decided this was no longer a Limerick and went after the git, ramming him off the road, pulling him out of his car and giving him a damned good thrashing.
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@josh@masto.byrd.ws Great quote. Another way of saying it is that "supernatural" is a meaningless word.
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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social I look forward to seeing this used as a propellant for NASA's next deep space probe.
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@madargon@is-a.cat Did you know there is an actual science paper about whether cats are a liquid?
https://www.science20.com/the_conversation/the_rheology_of_cats_are_they_liquid_or_solid_the_deborah_number_and_how_it_won_an_ig_nobel_prize-237875
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@LJ@zirk.us Thank you. And congratulations to your son. I LOVE puns! (A good pun is its own re-word...)
I think puns are a way of exposing the inner workings of one's mind in public, and those who decry them are akin to Victorians allegedly swooning at the sight of a bare ankle.
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@floofpaldi@mindly.social Hey, I've always been a big fan of Star [TW][ar][er][ks]. And that includes Star Tark and Star Wres.
Why is it so difficult to buy a washing up brush of modest size? Tesco only seems to have one, and it looks like it was designed for cleaning elephants.
Hey spammers... if you send me literally DOZENS of similar emails every day, don't you think it's just possible that I'll ignore them all?
Have you no nuance, you oxygen sinks?
I know we need to defeat Fascism, but when we've finished, could I just point out that there are people walking around at liberty out there who think it's OK to pitch-correct Freddie Mercury's voice? They should be next.
I just heard about this effect, and I'm confused as hell. I'd love to know how I would come out on the experiment, because as far as I can tell, I don't have ANY spatial organisation of numbers in my head. Is this because I have #aphantasia ?
If I'm thinking of times then I definitely do feel them being in a circle like a clock, but numbers in general? No geometry at all — unless it's actually important, e.g. if I'm thinking about XY co-ordinates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial-numerical_association_of_response_codes
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@Finley@layer8.space @nixCraft@mastodon.social Haha! I was just coming here to suggest that such an app would be inevitable eventually — turns out it's already been done! Excellent.
Tesco have ripped out all but three of the checkouts and replaced them with a self-service area. Damn.
It actually looked to me as though they weren't fully installed yet, which is going to make for an interesting Saturday!
I think it's a shame that this is now the norm. Older people (like my dad before he was housebound) often need interaction with human beings, and this is one source of it that's drying up.
One of my favourite scenes in a sitcom is from The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin:
"Why are lions?"
"Why are lions what, dear?"
"Why are lions lions?"
"Because they come from other lions."
"Why aren't lions ants?"
etc.
Perfect "kid conversation" :D But that first line on its own is particularly great. "Why are lions?" I love it.
On a tangential note, Bentley Rhythm Ace named one of their album tracks "Why Is A Frog Too ..?", which has similar energy.
Looks like there's hair stuck in the gate!
I wish people wouldn't assume that we all read emails on a white background...
The main problem with dystopian science fiction is this: the normal people say "well that looks cool, but we don't want it to happen!", while the psychos say "oh, so THAT'S how it's done. Thanks."
Spirit Feel - Roger Kellaway Quartet, 1967
Spirit Feel by Roger Kellaway (1967)
This is your regular reminder that you can't be IN a dimension. You can only move ALONG it.
Thank you.
I finally worked out that turning my socks inside out makes my toes far more comfortable because there's no seam to annoy them.
It's taken me decades to reach this epiphany. Why didn't anyone TELL me?
Warning... weird voicemail I received:
"If you would like to keep attending your local practitioner, please press one to speak with a member of staff at the NHS to show you how to set up our new mobile app."
Looks like a scam to me! If I'm wrong, please let me know.
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@Javensbukan@cosocial.ca @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Nice! Anyone who knows the scene will realise that this is apt on more than one level.
I was just listening to this song and paid close attention to the lyric. Very much a song for our time!
Random opinion: I think OK Go could do a great cover version of ELO's "Summer And Lightning". I'd love to see that video...
"I stream on Twitch."
"That's nothing. Andy Serkis twitched in a stream."
Trending on another site now:
"Farage floats Napoleon III's exhumation"
I don't know why, but I'm picturing Farage literally floating above the grave. Maybe they could do a swap? I reckon Mouldering Boney would be a better option.
A few new anagrams for you!
Twin Peaks
=
Tweak nips
I knew past
Harassing lifeboat volunteers
=
Evil unreason of Brit hate slags
Good Vibrations
=
Avoiding robots
#anagram
Yep. This is still the best loop station video on YouTube.
FUNK EMERGENCY — Marc Rebillet
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@MIfoodie I've been doing this for years to remove everything but the video ID (I hate it when the playlist comes along as a package deal, for example), but thank you for reminding everyone of the privacy implications. Boosted!