It’s only a baguette if it’s from the baguette region of France otherwise it’s just a sparkling sandwich
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It’s only a baguette if it’s from the baguette region of France otherwise it’s just a sparkling sandwich
For all my #BookSky friends that are trying to move away from the Bezos infrastructure, just a reminder that Goodreads is owned by him through Nash Holdings.
Clicks are currency friends
@thestorygraph.com is a Black Woman founded company
www.womenwhocode.com/blog/world-b...
List of notifications by the Listifications account showing the user has been added to a number of bogus lists.
Anyone else here getting added to all sorts of weird and bogus lists by bot accounts?
Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
I should say that I'm in the lucky position of...never being a fan. Just didn't do it for me. That doesn't make me special but it's pretty easy for me to go "goodbye forever" to Neil fucking Gaiman.
Stumbled over this useful teaching tool at the Poetry Foundation site, a glossary of poetic terms: www.poetryfoundation.org/education/gl...
The war will end
The leaders will shake hands
That old woman will wait for her martyred son
That girl will wait for her beloved husband
And those children will wait for their heroic father
I do not know who sold our homeland
But I saw who paid the price
— Mahmoud Darwish
Neil Gaiman is as sh*tty of a human being as he is a writer.
Never liked his books.
My hopes for the next few years rest entirely on these horrible men having very funny fallings out, being too incompetent to effectively do all the evil and, if we’re really lucky, simply dropping dead
While we’re banning books…
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
LOLed at this, as an actual Urbanist
TBF, if someone commented on the state of the roads to me, I’d actually try to DISCUSS the state of the roads with them, so one can’t win.
I don’t know about that — some “early Twitter” folks were incredibly bitchy, snarky, high-schoolish, in dire need of therapy kinds. I consider them crappies too. Not just the extreme abusive trolls and right wingers. I like grown up, decent behaviour.
Oh, I block freely and copiously. Must have blocked half of Twitter over the last five years :D
Spoke too soon, the crappies are here. :-/
Ok it seems GFM does have pretty good checks and balances incl not releasing payments to sus accounts, and refunding donor money in that case. Thanks to everyone who responded constructively to this (I did see that one unnecessarily snarky post about this, I hope you can be a nicer person in 2025 🫶🏼)
The pinned information on @mommunism’s profile is helpful, and she shares a lot of requests by people that she herself has verified, by video chatting, etc. Gaza Vetters has a list of verified fundraisers as well, as does the Butterfly Effect Project. :)
A genuine question: a LOT of gofundme requests purportedly from/for people in Gaza are appearing on my feed, reposted by people I follow. How do you know these are genuine? I tried to follow the trail on one and it led to a guy living in a Minneapolis apartment.
Anyway this is part of why when people are like "oh no think of what we lost when old twitter got bought" i'm like nah it was toxic af even then a whole bunch of what we "lost" was just we lost is people getting to be wildly toxic from the left instead of nazi from the right
Not just that, it’s also the fact that they inevitably suffer with that sort of life. They get into fights/get attacked by other cats and animals; get killed by dogs/foxes/traffic; pick up diseases from birds and rodents that they hunt; and way too often, they get lost and are never found again.
I’ve had cats my entire life and so did my mom, and some extended family. I think previously the norm was to let cats roam freely, feed them when they (choose to) come home etc. This is still relatively common in parts of the UK (I don’t like it).
Also true. IMO people who want “Persian” cats aren’t true cat lovers, they just like the aesthetics of a long haired cat (esp in India, “Persian” is euphemism for any long haired cat). Here, people do this with Maine Coons — both breeds have distinctive features which these ppl know nothing about.
Very true, and I was talking about this just yesterday. Stray dogs and mongrels aren’t really a thing here — only lost or abandoned ones (and those are quickly rescued and re-homed — the British LOVE dogs). I’d love to adopt a stray mongrel, but no chance of finding one here.
Friendly reminder that on #Bluesky, it is REPOSTING that matters.
The likes are nice, but without an algorithm, reposting is how more people see things.
The one thing that good-intentioned folks don’t seem to get is that the more you talk about the bad-intentioned folks, the more attention, and therefore POWER you are handing to them — which entirely defeats the purpose. Learn to ignore the trolls.
Stop participating in the Outrage Economy™️
"In the end it is the poor who will be chained to the computer; the rich will get teachers." - Stephen Kindel, Forbes technology editor, 1984.
His full argument runs past 280 characters, but he predicted everything that could go wrong with e-learning 40 years ago.
www.forbes.com/forbes/1998/...
Hooray for South Korea impeaching the incel president. When they voted for misogyny they voted for authoritarianism.
melmagazine.com/en-us/story/...
I had ear plugs as well as headphones on top, but I’m hypersensitive to sound and found the whole thing extremely unpleasant and loud regardless (even though I was expecting it — not the first time I’ve had an MRI, but this was by far the longest one).
Love this so much.
cc @zigzackly.bsky.social
Also strongly detest fruity smells. In drinks, food, personal care products, incense, whatever. Can’t stand it.
Love floral and spice-based smells, on the other hand.
