Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@bruces You'd think it'd at least show you the alt text it was offering to post, so you know you're not consenting to "yo' mama, in combat boots"

Saturday's Toronto Star

@sinabhfuil @fj Since the advent of e-bikers with bluetooth speakers blaring their terrible music I take nothing for granted anymore.

@EverydayMoggie @bruces
Read that in a bad Australian accent, including the at-tagged part, and it all comes out very Philosophy Department of the University of Woolloomooloo.

@bruces
My AP nearest the street was advertising a "USDA Poultry Inspector" SSID for a few weeks.

@davidallengreen
It seems to give equal weight to every clause of every sentence, and overdecorates each one with rather trite, stodgy formalisms. It's creepy and the mind sort of recoils from it after a few sentences.

@bjoern I remember it was once said that the ratio of jabber users and servers was 1:1. (I too ran my own at the time.) That's almost like the mastodon ratio now.

@Dartagnan_C @exador23 I just came in here to say that

@ZTLaidlaw @jmaris Oh, he knows what it means. When an autocrat teams up with ideologically-compliant members of the private sector and then begins using both state and corporate power to punish and reward, and flouts, ignores or rejects all judicial or legislative constraints, that's textbook fascism.

@Corb_The_Lesser @ElleGray Well c'mon, be fair, he'd have counted him as 3/5ths of a vote for congressional representation purposes.

@Fife4Europe I think if they're going to go through the upheaval and disruption of relocating, "slightly better, for now" isn't much of a draw. The EU's a far better bet.

@bruces Also, the effect relies on calcium levels not present in everyone's water. We have very soft water where I live.

@n_dimension @evacide @mattblaze

It's not like it'd have to be any damn good to be an improvement on this lot.

@bigpawedbear @davidallengreen Never understood this expression. Why is this a good thing? And who outside of Russia or Mississippi grew up with shithouses to compare random other things to anyway?

@bruces Also it can predict the twist ending of an M. Night Shyamalan film before his mother has even conceived him

@bruces As a side effect, it'll also be able to predict the course of a billiard ball after 12 collisions before the player has even taken his cue out of its case.

@thomholwerda I thought Peter Jackson made a (rare) good choice in having Arwen save the hobbits from the ringwraiths instead of an elf who, irrespective of his importance in the Tolkein canon, has little else to do in the film. It tied her into the story and turned her into something more than a princess bride.

@thomholwerda
Curious that he didn't extend that to elves though, only Men. Galadriel pretty much rules to the exact extent she chooses to. She has a couple of male peers but doesn't defer to them or even consult them on most things.