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BalooUriza

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Middle aged furry, OpenStreetMap volunteer, Urbanist.

Got the PDXFurs off the ground back in 1997, have helped with various outdoor fur cons in Oklahoma.

Yes, DM me if you want! What's even the point of IM or social media if you're closed to DMs?

Sometimes lewd, you will see kink. 🔞

I don't always CW, but when I don't, I make it easy to filter.

🇺🇸 :ms_bisexual_flag: 🐻 ΘΔ

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BalooUriza,
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@ValueSubtracted Is the Friday Night Death Slot still a thing? Because it's right around this point Star Trek series usually get shuffled into the Friday Night Death Slot.

@NemoWuMing

RM_Transit, to random
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Regular reminder Google should overhaul maps

BalooUriza,
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@RM_Transit Depends, are you expecting it to be a map or be a yellow pages? Because if you're expecting it to be a map, I'm afraid you've radically misunderstood the reason Google Maps exists. Also try OpenStreetMap, there's plenty of tools that make use of it like Osmand or General Magic's Magic Earth.

RM_Transit, to random
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A lot of the discourse surrounding rapid transit systems, especially in North America, is that some cities are "too small" for a comprehensive transit system or a metro, but Rennes - a French city with less than half a million residents, disagrees.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wgbskLXhk4Q&si=UBuJXTRxZH3kSElN

BalooUriza,
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@RM_Transit Periodic reminder that the average population of America's 19,500 cities is ~5,500. If your city has 10,000, you're in the largest 30% of cities. At 100,000 you're in the top 2%. At 1,000,000, your city is in the largest 0.05% of US cities.

arstechnica, to random
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An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban

Official: "It is simply not feasible to read every book" for depictions of sex.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/an-iowa-school-district-is-using-chatgpt-to-decide-which-books-to-ban/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

BalooUriza,
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@arstechnica whoever thought that's a good idea needs to be fired and never have a job with responsibility over other people again.

BalooUriza,
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@worfamerryman Take it easy on Sam, he was trying to go home and his last jump put him on a starship with very little hint as to what's going on.

Gargron, to random
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Going to share a few more up-close shots of the new Mastodon merch! I'm happy that we got to incorporate some Mastodon history in the designs. Mind you there's only going to be 250 of each at launch!

An enamel pin attached to a white t-shirt. The pin features an elephant riding a paper airplane.
A purple mug featuring an elephant on a green landscape. The elephant is waving.
A black t-shirt featuring an elephant riding a paper airplane among different colored planets. The Mastodon logo is visible.

BalooUriza,
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@Gargron When is the mastodon hero stuff coming back to the default UI?

Gargron, to random
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I'm excited for the next major release of Mastodon (4.2) that's coming soon. Half a year of UX improvements (that of course mastodon.social users are already benefiting from). More details to follow.

BalooUriza,
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@Gargron Remote interaction making a comeback?

BalooUriza,
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@Gargron Good!

BalooUriza,
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@startrekexplained @BobKerman3999 Doesn't seem that hard to me. It's entirely possible an entire room of writers would have considered existing apolitical and wanted to cast a gay couple as not even being remarkable, even back then.

I was also in the closet back then. Mostly because there's people out there who want to make existing political, and want me dead now because of it.

BalooUriza,
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@startrekexplained Let me clarify. I believe the writers wanted to openly ship them, and didn't because Paramount was trying to make it a political issue. I firmly believe existing is not political and trying to make it that way is pretty cowardly.

BalooUriza,
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Bell curve on Kinsey scale: centers around 2.5 with exclusively hetero or homosexual people being uncommon

@startrekexplained: "Most people are straight"

BalooUriza,
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@Admin Heh, seems random when we can follow the sub from Mastodon directly! I mean, that's how I've been doing it.

BalooUriza,
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@Tired8281 @StillPaisleyCat I dunno about that! The only reason the Borg plot wasn't a few-episode one-off was because 7/9 was providing some T&A the franchise...basically lacked entirely given it's sausage party crew and Neelix macking on Ocampas in a way that was totally weird and creepy.

BalooUriza,
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@Tired8281 @StillPaisleyCat Let's not kid ourselves. The late 90s were pretty problematic in a lot of ways that Voyager basically leaned into while also passively calling out.

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