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Dave T-W

@kevinrothrock Same here, that and the endless cycle of communities with barbaric leaders isolating themselves. (Maybe a bit too close to reality?) Am told the last series ends well so may skip to that.

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helplessduck

@inthehands

I had a professor/mentor in college that frequently gave a speech pretty similar to this, but for art:
- It's about two way communication with another human,
- Tools (brushes, pencils &c.) and media are the paths to this connection,
- Art for art sake is bullshit, enrich your life and the life of the consumer,
- Otherwise, you will be very bad at this and,
- If you're in this class to become a rich and famous artist get the fuck out.

Surly old Irish man. I loved Sean.

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Paul Cantrell

Re this important thread from @grimalkina:
mastodon.social/@grimalkina/11

I just gave a little soapbox to my Software Design and Development students that I give every time I teach the class, and I’ll give it here on Mastodon.

Software development is an intensely social discipline.

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Paul Cantrell

What you can’t be is misanthropic. When you write software, you are in relationship with other people. And if you don’t care about people, if you just •hate• people, if you can’t care about healthy relationships, if you cannot be bothered to communicate or to listen or to just give a ground-level shit about other people, DO NOT get into software. You’ll crash and burn — and you’ll cause terrible harm as you go down. Find some other discipline to go torment.

The rest of you…come on in.

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Dave T-W

Violencia sexual policial 

@tferrer Al mismo tiempo, la policía aprovechó la oportunidad para atacar a las mujeres en la vigilia por la victima, y luego el gobierno aprovechó la oportunidad para reprimir las protestas en general.

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So it's no wonder we have people going round chopping down Ulez cameras willy nilly. It may well be that the short-term and longer term impact on society and environment is unbalanced, but that's a policy discussion. All they're achieving now is costing me as a tax-payer, and conflating several loosely related measures.

But this is exactly the kind of thing that happens when you cause damage to law and justice.

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Lead here is about people disobeying the law... as if the Tories haven't spent the last few years trying to make the law and justice irrelevant. They're quite happy to invoke "The Will Of The People" when it suits their ends, or to bend the interpretation of rules, even if it damages the rule of law and other critial civic institutions.

theguardian.com/world/2024/feb

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Nonilex

An envelope that contained a white powder was sent to Judge Arthur #Engoron who imposed a $454M judgment against #Trump, causing a brief #security scare Wed at a #NY courthouse.

…the business-sized envelope was addressed to Engoron but never reached him. The powder was quickly determined to be harmless in preliminary testing. Further testing is being done.

#law #RightWingExtremism #StochasticTerrorism #MAGA #Republicans #StateSponsoredTerrorism #MobTactics
cbsnews.com/news/trump-judge-w

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Dave T-W

@Free_Press To quote Jack Nicholson as the Joker, "This town needs an enema."

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@Free_Press Except... Mercedes is the name of his Communication director, who was in the audience. "The Independent" used to be a proper news organisation. Yeah Trump is defective and toxic in every way, but jumping on this isn't helpful.

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@ryanhoulihan Because they stick to the rivers and the lakes that they're used to.

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Dave T-W

Pleased to see that one of my favourite artists, @WinstonRowntree, is on fedi, although seems only to have dipped a toe. Beautifully crafted mini stories of angst, anomie and self-discovery.
Archive at: viruscomix.com/subnormality.ht

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@Daojoan Nice, do you have more cartoons like these?

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Spotted an almost unrecognisable Jarvis Cocker in Wes Anderson's Asteroid City.

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JJ Celery

So you want a quote for a thing, say a storage space, and the website is making you put in a phone number before they tell you how much the thing costs? Is the website validation preventing you from typing in a completely random number?

Worry not. Ireland has valid mobile and landline phone numbers reserved for use in TV and movies and absolutely nobody is validating for that.

Pick one from the range and be uncallable:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictit

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleph

#mastodaoine #LifeHack

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Dave T-W

Hmm, this new sci-fi drama "Ministry of Time" sounds similar to the Spanish series "Ministerio del Tempo". Must be coincidence.

radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/minis

I'm not the first to note this remarkable similarity. (Spanish article) lavanguardia.com/series/202402

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Blimey, we all new Liz Truss was a bit unhinged but I never expected her to go full-on right-wing nutjob.
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/f

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@ArenaCops She looked fierce and resolute on that stage, Putin should be scared. They have a well-organised media team, her daughter's also part of that. TBD if there is enough support or momentum to make Putin replaceable.

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Kriszta Satori

"Those who will mourn Navalny have fled abroad. They will sigh sadly from their permanent exile, secretly glad all the same that it was he and not them that paid the price.
Some may think about protesting or holding public vigils in major Russian cities. It is a dangerous idea, and so most mourners will dismiss it out of hand. They will go back to their families, huddle together, grateful that they can at least think freely, even if they no longer can freely say what they think. "

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Kriszta Satori

"But for the vast, tired, apathetic, silent majority, Navalny’s death will barely register. ‘Who? Navalny? He knew what he was getting himself into.’ He knew."

Above quotes from Sergey Radchenko's opinion piece in the Spectator:

spectator.co.uk/category/inter

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