I have to review 6 years worth of information and write separate letters of dispute to both the Council and to DWP. The levels of procrastination are off the motherflipping charts. My office is so clean, all the plants are watered and I'm considering attempting a Linux install on the macbook.
Em :official_verified:
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Hey #Fediverse can I ask you a favor?
Please don’t post URLs that have been shortened. Link-shortening services can not only potentially *track* your interactions and add telemetry to track your behaviors, they can also *break* and make your links unusable.
You can use services like https://urlexpander.net or install an app (I like Link Unshortener (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/link-unshortener/id1506953658)) to find the ultimate destination of a shortened link, and then post that instead.
Remember, all URLs in #Mastodon count as 23 characters, no matter how long the actual URL is, so there really is no benefit to shortening your URLs.
@Sarahw it was a different festival, the Great Vegan Gathering, that was forced to cancel by Lawyers for Israel https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/vegan-festival-fundraising-rescued-animals-cancelled-after-uklfi-complaint The Big Green Gathering has turned into Green Gathering, is still going strong (and has an account on here but doesn't post anymore, @greengathering )
@afewbugs @greengathering
Ah thanks, I wasn't wrong then, just the name
Research question: is there a specific term (possibly legal) for a person (or people) a ship is named after?
@cstross
In German it's Namenspatron, in case you wondered 🙃
Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49399941
#HackerNews #Hollywood #AI #skills #automation #creatives #technology
@Zumbador probably wandering.shop if youre not advertising a ton
not against creating an instance, but it costs money and you will be fending off a loooot of bad actors.
@pastelexuvia @Zumbador +1 to the Shop
@ai6yr Hey, in my typing class, it was big old MANUAL typewriters, manual like the one I had at home. I still consider the course (in Jr. High) to have been the single most useful school course I ever took. At the time I thought it would help me with term papers and such. I couldn't have imagined that I'd be spending my entire career at a keyboard touch-typing, as at this very moment.
@lauren @ai6yr one hundred percent. And the manual typewriter (and I also took piano classes for many years) made you strong enough to keep your posture and habits good enough to avoid repetitive motion problems. Tho my typing accuracy on glass screens with autocorrect has gotten atrocious. My typing teacher and my editor mom would be ashamed of many of my unedited postings.
Joachim
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“Because these people are either truly AI-pilled, or in on the con. Neither of those deserve our respect, although the former might deserve our pity. Which honestly, I’d rather save up for the people whose lives have been impacted by the AI con.
But the latter deserves our vengeance.”
Mike Monteiro, as usual, on fire:
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-usher-in-an-era-of-abundant-vengeance/
As I can't quite convey why I like Yoko Ogawa's writing so much, I have instead tried to translate a part of her short story "The truck with the little chicks" (ひよこトラック). I hope you'll enjoy reading it.
[context:
The little girl is about six and has not spoken since her parents died. She is sitting on a tree stump, drawing in the dust of a farm road with a branch.
The man is in his sixties. He is oiling the chain of his bicyle, a little distance away. The grandmother of the child has just explained to the man why she doesn't talk.
]
There was not a scrap of cloud in the clear afternoon sky. The plum grove was engulfed in a dazzling light.
At that moment, a kei truck appeared along the dirt road. It drove up with a laborious rattling sound, its wheels bumping on the uneven surface. Through a whirl of dust and sunlight, it came closer, bit by bit revealing its tightly packed, colourful, fluffy and soft-looking load.
The man and the little girl got up simultaneously. Entirely incongruous on that worn-out truck, the load bed looked like it was painted in a pattern of bright pretty marbles in colours of pink, pale green, bright blue and red. Only, the pattern didn't remain still, not even for a moment, but squirmed incessantly. Gradually, drowning out the engine noise, a deafening chirping filled the air.
The truck ran past the man and the little girl.
"Little chicks ...," the man muttered. "Probably to be sold at some temple festival."
Even after the truck had passed into the distance, the chirping could be heard floating over the wind. The little girl stood on tiptoe on the tree stump, staring straight at the end of the road. Until the marble pattern became a speck too small to see, she kept craning forward and straining her ears.
Eventually the quiet returned and the dust cleared up. Just as the little girl was getting off the tree stump, their eyes met involuntarily. Once again, for no apparent reason, the man was flustered. To hide his confusion he wrung the oily rag he was holding. As always, the little girl stared at him in silence, her eyes never leaving his.
"Were those little chicks? They were, weren't they. That's right. Those were definitely little chicks."
In that instant, between the two of them, there was not a gesture, not a single word, only a rainbow called "little chicks".
With a satisfied air, the little girl wiped out her drawing with her sneaker, dusted off her skirt and set off across the garden. Watching her retreating figure, the man sounded the bell of his bicycle, so quietly that only he could hear it.
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/117138695626814753
Single use vapes *have* been banned.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/single-use-vapes-ban
The ban came in last year.
@Edent so why don't we have battery recycling facilities everywhere
Not the half arsed crap in supermarkets where they clearly don't handle them properly.
The local hwrc act indifferently if asked which bin to pur a device with a battery, got hold electronics and that one clearly says no batteries :-/
@aljazmerzen The goal of the blog post was to discuss the broad changes that are coming to 5.0 and where the team wants to go in 5.1 and beyond. It was not whether the border radius would be 5 or 11 pixels. Of all the things discussed in that post, was the border radius your biggest concern?
@scottjenson Well, yes. I don't have strong opinions on the new composer - it's cool and maybe better.
But the overly rounded corners are my preexisting grudge with recent UI design and they stood out like a sore thumb.
Woozle Hypertwin
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metalplates/117055699582025596
Accepted a job doing IT for a local company who is specifically anti-AI and seems to be running things really well! Thanks to everyone who boosted and replied!
@metalplates Congratulations!! 
🎉
"You should never be angry at work" by Sean Goedecke https://www.seangoedecke.com/you-should-never-be-angry-at-work/
I feel like, if you want to succeed in big tech, you should just read everything Sean Goedecke ever wrote. And a lot of the advice still applies at smaller companies.
Bon bein maintenant qu'on a une récolte, on va transformer tout ça et en congeler la majorité !
#potager
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I have finally switched to my Fairphone 6 with Murena e/OS! But I am missing my iOS context-aware autocorrect and text shortcuts don't seem to work. Is there an Android keyboard app that does these two things but doesn't spy on me?
@vaurora Heliboard is what i use, available on fdroid amongst other places
Alex makes autism fun
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Instance recommendation needed:
Some friends and myself are setting up a project called "My Writing Matters", that connects writers to editors, book cover designers, illustrators, proofreaders, and other professionals that don't use AI and won't scam them.
We've set up a website, but need to create a Mastodon account as well and I'm not sure what instance would be best.
Some writers' instances specify in their rules they don't want people offering writers' services so I want to be careful about that.
Any suggestions?
Alex makes autism fun
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🌊 Brussels' Grand-Place Is Carpeted with 750,000 Fresh Dahlias in a Tribute to 19th century Japanese printmaker Hokusai !
#printmaking #bloomscrolling
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/08/brussels-grand-place-flower-carpet-dahlias-hokusai/
/cc @vlrny @minouette
I missed the drama of this place
