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Sex toys 

I worked out how much each wank cost me when my Doxy finally retired after 10 years' exceptional service... See if you can guess the ppw (price per wank) before you click through... girlonthenet.com/blog/sex-toy- #SexToys #sex #Wanking

28 March 1930 | A Jewish girl, Olga Meszaros, was born in Paris. She lived in Cluj.

In 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

Direct eye contact… from moss?? 

Ok #Mosstodon, I may have spotted one of your minor gods gazing out from a rock…

Or at least I’m getting big #pareidolia vibes from this clump, anyway!

#moss #LichenSubscribe

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Przesyłam z Polski serdeczne pozdrowienia i bardzo proszę o przysłanie mi zdjęć **Mappetów**. W Polsce był wyświetlany serial filmowy o **Mappetach** i bardzo spodobały mi się one i chciałbym mieć ich zdjęcia.

(podpisano: Polan, Wojciech (ocenzurowano) 66-400 Gorzów Wlkp.)

W nowojorskim Museum of the Moving Image jest fantastyczna wystawa poświęcona Jimowi Hensonowi. A na tej wystawie są prezentowane m.in. listy, które wysyłano do twórcy Muppetów. A wśród tych listów znajduje się jeden w języku polskim, wysłany w lipcu 1981 roku z Gorzowa Wielkopolskiego przez Wojciecha.

I tak sobie pomyślałem, że fantastycznie byłoby, gdyby informacja o tym, że ponad czterdzieści lat po wysyłce, jego list wisi na ścianie muzeum w Nowym Jorku dotarła do Wojciecha. Bo zważywszy na to, ile lat minęło i w jakim mógł być wówczas wieku, jest wysoce prawdopodobne, że Wojciech wciąż żyje. Szkoda więc, że muzeum zdecydowało się ocenzurować jego dane osobowe. Bo Wojciechów z Gorzowa Wielkopolskiego jest, jak sądzę, wielu.

There's a big chonky turkey vulture munching on some sort of carrion outside

What an a e s t h e t i c

I need to find a better way of creating images (e.g. network diagram) for my presentations.

At the moment, I'm using draw.io, but I've having problems getting high resolution outputs.

Do you know of a different simple to use, FOSS, way of generating images consisting of some (stock?) icons, interconnecting lines, and some text? If so, please do share!

Q: Why is Donald Trump suddenly selling $60 bibles?

A: It enables churches to funnel money to him without violating the (US law) ban on political campaigning by churches—it's a form of money laundering, in other words.

@whitequark well, the traditional (and true for all but my loopback interface) 1500 byte MTU on Ethernet comes from the fact that MTU plus Ethernet header is about 1536 bytes, which is 12288 bits, which takes 2^12 microseconds to transmit at 3Mb/second.

Why 3Mb? Because the Alto computer (for which Ethernet was invented) had a data path that ran at 3Mhz. This meant the Alto Ethernet interface could just write the bits into the Alto’s memory as they arrived (memory was really expensive then, and couldn’t be wasted on a device interface).

Also, at that rate, a bit to 300 ns to send on the coaxial cable, so it was about 300 feet long, a decent size for collision detection on a local area network.

TIL: a former Italian porn star, Carlo Massi, quit porn to do research in applied mathematics, got his PhD, taught real analysis, became a professor, and then got sacked for being a former porn star. He sued and won against the university.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Ma
#til #todayilearned
reddit.com/r/todayilearned/com

Fascist violence/SA 

I was looking into something regarding the milkshake incident with Ngo for someone and came across so many different articles about the attack.
Most of which were at Andy's defense, and some even parroting the "I was almost killed" narrative. I'd be lying if I said it didn't feel at least a little bit dehumanizing.

When I was alone in Olympia and chased & attacked by a group of 30-50 proud boys, I was terrified. You can hear me screaming for dear life and see me struggling on the footage from one of their livestreams. I'm lucky that I got away, and the reason why I fought so hard to get away was because at that moment I knew there were two possible outcomes- one that included forced sexual violence by multiple fascists, or being killed. Their actions and the words of encouragement said as much. As I was pushed to the ground, getting my hair pulled, being groped and bear maced, I could hear other men in their group laughing hysterically and others shouting out other violent suggestions for the men who were assaulting me. I thank the universe every day that I was able to get away and for the bar staff who graciously hid me behind their bar and made sure to keep the proud boys out who were trying so hard to enter by force.

No one covered this. No one asked me about it. No one highlighted *that* violence against a journalist. I even find myself trying to avoid expressing how I was literally almost killed and the severity of the situation for fear as coming off too dramatic because I'm a woman. Meanwhile Andy calls a milkshake to the dome a murder attempt and people run with it. This isn't about wanting that attention, but to highlight the stark difference in treatment and coverage. The media will always take any chance they can get to demonize antifascists whilst simultaneously ignoring actual violence perpetuated by the right. I have no doubt that this was also largely ignored because I'm both a Syrian woman and unapologetically antifascist.

"No one I spoke to for this piece could name a recent sizable pedestrianization or traffic-reduction scheme that had been reversed once it had been given time to have an effect."

wired.com/story/car-free-citie

So I have this bot. It's in Polish, and all it does is show data about the electricity generation mix in Poland at a given time. It shows how much power is made from coal, from wind, etc.

And now for the second time an English speaking account replies to one of the toots, making fun that the bot "believes in the CO2 scam".

Why do people do this.

Kamionka, also know as hashtag town because of its coat of arms.

If you want to cheer up someone who is obsessed with bugs just say something like "Aren’t roaches a type of beetle? I'm so confused can you help?"

Watch them visibly puff up as they explain and get more and more excited.

Caw!

(Actually, this crow was making rather quiet noises that sounded, for lack of a better comparison, like twigs snapping? Haven't heard that before, wonder what's it about.)

#birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #photography

It’s Odin’s Day. Be kind to all corvids. You don’t know which one reports to the big guy.

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