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As a kid a teacher accused me of "being clever" when I pointed out that his instructions were ambiguous. Further confused, I asked him what he meant, because being clever was generally considered a good trait, but the tone of his voice suggested he might have intended it in a negative way. This was apparently additional proof of my "being clever", and grounds for punishment.

All I was trying to do was to understand him clearly. #ActuallyAutistic

Flying pigs are supposed to be the epitome of the impossible, and yet the grocery store is careful to specify that this is ground pork.

Instead of a thousand words.

Ukrainian anesthesiologist Valeriia plays with a kitten at one of the first-aid posts in the Donetsk region. Here, military medics provide first aid to wounded soldiers before sending them to rear hospitals.
#AureFreePress #Caturday #Ukraine️

#GDPR was used to end the police practice of digital strip searches on victims of sexual violence (demanding data under threat of dropping a complaint).

The #DataGrabBill gives the police unprecedented power to collect and use personal data for law enforcement, whether for loosely defined substantial public interests or the legitimate interest of reporting crimes.

It blunts our ability to challenge the police.

#HandsOffOurData #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

reuters.com/world/uk/uks-data-

@Snowshadow@mastodon.social It will cost us a lot, but at least power cuts won't affect us that much.

If you have a Ubuntu bug with using diacritical characters, where diacritical marks appear randomly and turn z into ż when you scroll, there's a simple fix. Sudo wipe your screen with a wet cloth.

@Snowshadow@mastodon.social No worry. Of course they work in cold temperatures, even air-air pumpd. But we can't afford a ground-air pump.

@Snowshadow@mastodon.social Sorry that was supposed to be PV/HP, photovoltaics/heat pump. I'm tired too.

@Snowshadow@mastodon.social At least you have cheap gas :) Don't worry – were moving to PE/HP in a few months. Just need to survive this one.

@EricLawton All spores are in a net right? But the basic question is, who was first? The spore or the net?

@Snowshadow@mastodon.social Damned, I made a typo and mu instance doesn't really allow me to edit toots. The last word of the first sentence was "customers". And yes, I love simple solutions, like turn it off and on again, to complex problems. Unfortunately such solutions don't work.

The most futuristic but also alarming error message I've ever seen in a car. It's the sort of thing you'd expect to see in a spaceship.

For the record, yelling "computer divert power from life support to forward shields" did nothing to address the situation.

@Snowshadow@mastodon.social I don't have many problems with my rural broadband. Even when there's a technical problem they know what's going on and they know everything is being done to get them back online.

@tanfonto @m0bi13 Gdy pandemia się zaczynała, liczyłem że zrodzi ona kulturę noszenia masek. Czujesz, że coś masz to zakładasz by innych nie zarażać.

Skończyło się tak, że rok temu w środku sezonu smogowego, zaczepia mnie ktoś z pytaniem po kiego mi maska...

Na prawdę, ludziom COVID przeżarł mózgi w najgorszy możliwy sposób. I to, że nasz cykl medialny nie potrafił obsługiwać na raz pandemii i rosyjskiej inwazji wcale nie pomogło.

@shinmera Thanks! This gave me an idea for an experiment, and I'll follow all people who've replied to his toot. No idea what will come out of this, I hope it's something good.

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