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For five years. The NHS keeps texting me about my son Caiden. I've got two sons. Neither is Caiden. This lad's missed jabs, missed the dentist, and is now overdue at the GP. Five years of health admin going to a total stranger.
Just picked up milk and noticed the label says "100% milk from real cows". This wasn't something I was worried about before now.
This isn't a warning but a blueprint.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal
@mattblaze
💙💛 HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY OF UKRAINE!
This is a very long shot (and has nothing to do with history & co 
), but does anyone know of a database/book/compehensive list, or someone who might know one, about crop responses to deficient irrigation?
Also: accessible without academic affiliation.
(sorry for the length of the hashtags)
#help #horticulture #agriculture #sustainability #science #irrigation #aridagriculture #crops #plants #agronomy #drought #environment #botany #watermanagement #water #rhizosphere
Both groups are part of international network of Marxists who consider themselves the inheritors of Leon Trotsky's Fourth International. Which according to Marxist lore, was formed in 1938, after Stalin ejected him from the USSR. There are 2 Marxist of groups in the UK alone who make this claim.
The whole thing reminds me of the guy who who thought he was the hidden king of the UK;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sPl1deOLps
Even in the unlikely event it's true, so what?
(3/?)
When the USSR collapsed and stopped funding Marxist groups outside the Soviet bloc, it quickly became clear how little popular support they really had. Most of them collapsed by the end of the decade.
Like the rest of them, Trotsky's splinter group and its successors didn't achieve anything of significance.
Why would any sensible political group fight over its inheritance?
(4/?)
Browns first-year coach Todd Monken said the piercing comments are a nonfactor as he determines which player is the best option to be the club's QB1. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2026/08/24/more-sports/deshaun-watson-browns-fans/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #deshaunwatson #shedeursanders #clevelandbrowns #toddmonken #nfl
@fesshole I'm dying to know in what way they're objectifying. Were they embroidered with "[Ex's name]'s bitch" or something?
Chapter 72 — Build 239
The day found its own volume
What changed
Build 239 gives listening routines a little more shape. Episode Quick Actions
can open the existing download-count, queue-age, and podcast-speed controls
directly, with VoiceOver focus on the adjustable control. Queue options can
save the current order as a lineup and apply it later without throwing away
episodes that are already waiting.
Playback adds Volume Boost levels from Off through High, globally or per
podcast, without changing the system volume. Silence trimming now shortens
quiet gaps while audio plays and keeps the saved episode position honest. The
old Voice Enhance switch is gone because it changed the audio session and made
playback mono without actually enhancing speech.
Transcript metadata can show speakers, timestamps, or both. The choice updates
the transcript itself and Markdown exports from the viewer or episode Actions.
VoiceOver keeps each transcript segment together and speaks times naturally.
**What to test**
Use episode Quick Actions to open each editor. Focus should land on its native
adjustable control. Save a Queue lineup, change the Queue, then apply it. Saved
available episodes should move to the front in order, other queued episodes
should remain, and Earshot should announce applied and skipped counts.
Try every Volume Boost level during playback, then set a different level for
one podcast. Turn silence trimming on and off during speech with real pauses.
Audio should respond live, remain stereo, and resume at the expected saved
position. Also check ordinary playback speed, background audio, and VoiceOver
responsiveness.
On a podcast with a supplied transcript, try Speakers only, Timestamps only,
and Speakers and timestamps. Check the live transcript, its VoiceOver speech,
an export from the viewer, and an export from episode Actions. Each place should
contain only the metadata you selected.
Kashe saved a lineup before the first drive, news first, the long interview
after lunch. The order stopped being another thing she had to rebuild between
doors.
One host spoke softly, so she raised that show without touching the phone's
volume. Another left pauses long enough to make her check whether playback had
stopped. Earshot tightened the gaps and kept going.
That evening she exported a transcript with speaker names and no clock beside
every sentence. Renata asked why that mattered.
“Because I asked for names,” Kashe said. “Not a stopwatch.” black text on a white background 022270. ...... Earshot Podcasts https://testflight.apple.com/join/u8dj5UTr
@fesshole unless the socks have something objectionable printed on them... seems like a thoughtful and practical gift...?
@cstanhope That said, I have found a pretty stable career for my specific brand of problem-solving creativity, but it's much more desk work, than artsy! Still beats web programming or a corporate job!
@davebauerart I've managed to stay employed for a long while. I, unfortunately, wouldn't call it a career in the sense that I'm not sure I've built on it in any meaningful way. And I'm honestly not sure how much longer I can do it.
But yeah, having a second source of income and health insurance sure would've been handy many times. In fact, it would still be handy. 😆 I notice several of the youtubers I follow also live in countries that have universal health care. :/
For anybody the media covering the privacy beat, you might want to have a look at the Take2 court orders to Microsoft over the Grand Theft Auto 6 leaks. There’s a big story.
I’ll give you some hints - MachineGuid and MSA device identifiers.
Ok good!
V 1.0.1 is out. Post 1.0, so Snowleopard support is fully here. Accented character support should mean that letters with Acute accents don't get dropped as silence, not that the engine is capable of multilingual speech itself.
https://github.com/tgeczy/panthera-speech/releases/download/pantheraspeech%2Fv1.0.1/pantheraspeech-1.0.1.nvda-addon
This does include extraction of the SnowLeopard images in ISO or DMG. Snowleopard.zip on my synths folder for now or other mirrors can be used with the image, so if you already had the voice data in the Macintalk folder, the engine will just show in the list of synthesizers to choose.
Is it more important that publications post on the Fediverse, or that they don't post on X?
posting on X is fine, only on X is bad. that forces your readers to be exposured to their propaganda.
posting on fedi could/should mean posting the actual article on their own site using WordPress or Ghost. ala #APnative. doing more of this would demonstrate to all writers how inferior using the corporate platforms really is.
@federicomena Wait there's a booklet webpage?
(Note to self: finish watching the documentary)
@yuki2501 yeah! It's linked from the video's description.
I think today's sizzle might be a rare, AI/LLM free issue??
@decryption should do it more often!
Popping in from a social media break to say: Reflect Orbital still totally sucks! https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/21/1142755/space-mirrors-night-sky/
@dangillmor Oh, look, another month in which I have never been so disappointed in Hakeem Jeffries. He's on a slower glide path, but he's still making the effort to get down there with Schummer and Fetterman.
Top House Democrat perfectly demonstrates his party's strategy: Surrender in advance.
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