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It's important to know that a lot of the book ban horseshit going on right now is being driven by a vanishingly tiny number of people: *Eleven* people filed 60% of the 1000+ challenges the Washington Post reviewed.

Gift link: wapo.st/3MSf6Gx

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Return exhausted
After a day of playing
The kids keep going

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I made a graph of all my past relationships.

It has an ex axis and a why axis.

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The Old Stockholm telephone tower was a metallic structure built to connect approximately 5,500 telephone lines in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. Constructed in 1887, the tower was used until 1913. It was damaged by a fire in 1952 and demolished the following year.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Stoc

#cableporn

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Um lembrete pra quem tem muito eletronico quebrado por ai, NUNCA jogue eletronicos no lixo comum ESPECIALMENTE aqueles que tem uma bateria.

Procure o centro de coleta de eletronicos da sua cidade e se não tiver procure o pessoal que concerta eletronicos, eles sabem oq fazer com essas coisas.

No meu caso eu tenho um colega q ama um fone quebrado ou um cabo usb, mesmo não sendo um profissional da eletronica.

Vc tbm pode guardar os fios e usar em projetinhos de arduino ou raspberry :AngeryCat:

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first they came for the immigrants, but i didn't care, because those people cause a lot of problems and they're unclean and strange

then they came for the homeless, but i didn't care, because i like my cities clean and they could just get a job, really what's so hard about that

then they came for the pregnant, but i didn't care, because men like me can always get their girlfriend's one if needed

then they came for the trans people, but i didn't care, because frankly they're sort of weird and just a fad and we're just indulging them and their wacko doctors

then they came for the permanently disabled, but i didn't care, because i was in good health and they should just stay at home or eat healthier

then they came for the journalists, and i wrote an op-ed titled “first they came for the journalists”

— liberal journalists

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Here's a remnant I found. Fabric for want of a use, so to speak.

There is a place, if you believe
Where the mountains come down to kiss the sea
In memory of promises long gone by
When the earth rose up and left her dry

(think it was going to be a creation story-ish thing)

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If you're a parent, and you're trying to figure out how to break it to your kid that the world is an arbitrary, unfair, bizarre, stupid place, just tell them this:

An adult horse produces about 15 horsepower.

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“Think of the life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what’s left as a bonus and live it according to Nature. Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting?”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.56–57

In terms of Twitter and leaving it behind… 🤣

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@Ryle

How about this:

**No hate speech**, defined as any kind of communication in speech, writing or behaviour, that attacks or uses pejorative or discriminatory language with reference to a protected characteristic, in other words, based on their age, disability, ethnicity, gender, pregnancy, religion, nationality, sex or sexuality.

the change was brought up byu an admin.

@kravietz @ufoi @greg @t1c @SolSoCoG @dump_stack @gregory @joaopinheiro @evan @selea @jonnypencils@social.retrodon.net @steve @thatonecalculator @jens

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Holy hell, I only opened up applications for member sof the UFoI and we already have over 200,000 members total in the application list (the sum of all users across all instances applying).... amazing!

qoto.org/@freemo/1094501037123

@ufoi

🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱  
I am now compiling a list of all servers who may have an interest in joining the United Federation of Instances. Quite a few instances have already...
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It's easier to smack down an instance you are kinda jealous of rather than bother with things like checking facts so long as you have an excuse to do so. God forbid anyone get confused with the facts.

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RT @lintool
This afternoon at #trec2022 we'll be introducing the AToMiC (Authoring Tools for Multimedia Content) Track at TREC 2023: text-to-image and image-to-text search in English Wikipedia. All those multimodal transformers you've been working on? Get them ready for search!

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For those of you who need a graphical explanation of how the fediverse works...

Impzbot :swoobat:  
friend was explaining to me how mastodon instances worked last night and i drew this
Qoto Mastodon

QOTO: Question Others to Teach Ourselves
An inclusive, Academic Freedom, instance
All cultures welcome.
Hate speech and harassment strictly forbidden.