ferricoxide

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Ex of Twitter (and many others before that) by way of mastodon.social (same user ID across a lot of platforms). Moved here because I like the ability to format posts and, sometimes, I need more than 500 characters ...plus there had been rumblings about mastodon.social getting widely defederated.

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poloniousmonk, to actuallyautistic
@poloniousmonk@mastodon.social avatar

@AtheismActually @actuallyautistic

I just got blocked for lack of empathy :)

cc:
Forgive my lack of empathy for a rich person with multiple homes during a housing crisis who has to pay exorbitant homeowner's insurance to live in a flood zone he chose to create with his local/state politics.

This is like a person with two homes who wants to live in the one in the desert complaining about the power cost of running the air conditioner.

I have empathy for the less fortunate. Not you.

ferricoxide,

@poloniousmonk @AtheismActually @actuallyautistic

Or people complaining about gas prices to fill their 9mpg behemo-SUVs and pickups.

TheConversationUS, to academicchatter
@TheConversationUS@newsie.social avatar

1957: Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, and there's concern of the U.S.' shortage of Russian speakers to monitor Soviet activity

1958: Congress authorizes funding to strengthen education in foreign language

2023: A new report shows the study of languages other than English experienced an unprecedented drop of 16.6% since 2016

“This creates greater risks for national security,” explains a professor:
https://theconversation.com/fewer-u-s-college-students-are-studying-a-foreign-language-and-that-spells-trouble-for-national-security-198135

@academicchatter

ferricoxide,

@Tanath @TheConversationUS @academicchatter

Machines aren't great on nuance, though.

ferricoxide,

@Tanath @academicchatter @TheConversationUS

A significant number of humans aren't great on nuance, let alone in written form.

kwheaton, to gardening
@kwheaton@sfba.social avatar

Yesterday morning, I looked out the window & went out to take a landscape photo but this caught my eye. @gardening This is the only blooming rose in the rose garden at the moment Ingrid Bergman.

ferricoxide,

@kwheaton @gardening

Yup: we've got what is presumably our last Don Juan and a Fourth of July spray of the season, right now.

kitoconnell, to bookstodon
@kitoconnell@kolektiva.social avatar

"The flipside of the post World War 2 cries of 'never again!' was an unspoken 'never before.'" - Naomi Klein on deliberately overlooked parallels between the Holocaust and of indigenous and Black peoples.

More antifascists should read Doppelganger. Great audio book also. @bookstodon @palestine

ferricoxide,

@kitoconnell @bookstodon @palestine

As I recently heard it put, it's not that what the Nazis did to the Jews was either the largest or the first, it was that it was the first time it really showed what people would do to their neighbors if they had the permission and urging to do so.

ferricoxide,

@Lassielmr @kitoconnell @bookstodon @palestine

Cool: which ones were larger, earlier and not of a nature where either the victims were due to territorial ambitions or political reprisal?

atomicpoet, to fediversenews
@atomicpoet@firefish.social avatar

is actually turning into quite the interesting phenomenon, almost like the social media version of Doom. It's fascinating to see how people are pushing the boundaries and making it work on all sorts of devices!

Just recently, there's been a Mastodon client developed specifically for Apple II, and surprisingly, it's quite impressive. Almost all the features you'd expect on Mastodon are there; from viewing timelines and receiving notifications to even creating content warnings. The only things missing at the moment are bookmarks and polls, but I have a feeling they'll be added in no time. It's genuinely an impressive endeavor!

Who knows what will come next? I'm personally excited to see if someone manages to make Mastodon work on a Texas Instruments Ti-99/4A Ti-84 calculator. Now that would be something truly remarkable! 😉

https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/binary-release-of-mastodon-for-the-apple-c/

@fediversenews

ferricoxide,

@timrichards @atomicpoet @fediversenews

After we get Newton support.

autism101, to actuallyautistic

Some autistic people find making phone calls extremely stressful and unpleasant and will avoid them at all costs.

Please don’t try and force your communication preferences on others.

image: anon
@actuallyautistic

ferricoxide,

@atatassault @autism101 @actuallyautistic

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