tripu @tripu@qoto.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
These are not all necessarily my “favourite” #podcasts, but this past year I’ve definitely listened quite a lot to them.
According to #AntennaPod (an excellent #podcast client that is both free and gratis), I’ve played 503 hours from 57 different podcasts in #2023 (mostly at 1.5× the speed).
“Like Hannah Arendt and George Orwell, Klemperer understood that the #totalitarianism of the right and the totalitarianism of the left had fundamentally similar characteristics. In particular, they loved to impose #newspeak on those they subjugated.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferguson-treason-intellectuals-third-reich
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Firefox 120 includes cookie banner blocking:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookie-banner-reduction
In the meantime I have enabled the cookie banner and newsletter notices lists in uBlock Origin's annoyances group.
Bodybuilding is so gay. I don’t mean the pursuit of fitness, strength training or weight lifting. I mean bodybuilding.
I feel vindicated about alcohol:
Any amount is bad (carcinogenic) — even small amounts or “moderate consumption”.
Any type is bad — including red wine.
If “moderate consumption” of some types of #alcohol (like red #wine) is considered “good” merely because it’s a source of “nutrients” (antioxidants, polyphenols), then virtually any food or beverage must be considered “good” too (potato chips have potassium and sodium, a cheeseburger with bacon has a lot of iron, a chocolate candy provides fiber, etc). Do you drink a bit of red wine because “it’s good for you”? Then switch to nuts and berries: you’ll get more antioxidants and polyphenols!
Let’s be honest and consume #drugs (like alcohol) because wee seek their mind-altering properties. Don’t be hypocrites about their “nutritional” properties.
I often download #books (and rarely also films) simply because I can’t buy what I want #DRM-free and in an open format. I always had the intuition I was justified in doing so, but now thanks to @pluralistic I know there’s a perfect moral argument to support this practice:
“If buying isn’t owning, #piracy isn’t stealing”
https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill
The idea of being bored in #Tokyo after a couple of days there
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Is that the holiday spirit in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
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Queer doesnt exist, its just a made up word with no meaning or utility.
Trans isnt a sexual orientation so it doesnt belong along side other orientations.
Therefore from now on I think im going to just refer to it as "LGB" which ill use for discussions about orientation. It might make sense to do "LGBP" to include pansexuals/poly people, as that too describes orientation.
Then maybe "TICN" for gender expression (Trans, Intersex, Crossdresser, and Nonbinary).
I think ill just start dropping these in conversations and use each distinctly different. The LGBTQ+ designation never really made much sense.
Then again maybe jsut "non-cis" and "non-straight" might just be more straight forward. But less likely to engage in useful conversation.
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It’s a matter of taste but I prefer understated language – it sounds more authentic to me:
– blazing fast → fast
– We are obsessed with quality → We value quality
– Our app is delightful → Our app is easy to use
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W3C has posted that we are no longer active on X/Twitter and have directed all our followers here to Mastodon.
We are encouraging all W3C-related accounts to do the same.
Encourage your friends to follow us here!
«La #masculinidad ES UNA CONTRUCCIÓN [sic] SOCIAL QUE DEJA FUERA A LAS MUJERES, ES VIOLENCIA EN CUALQUIERA DE SUS FORMAS»
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Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
