Something I would say infrequently and irregularly on the only other social service I've ever used, and will translate to the #Fediverse:
All boosts, re-toots or re-posts (or whatever they're called) from this account are to be considered endorsements. If I don't endorse the post, I will either not boost, re-toot or re-post it, *or* it will be clear in my comment accompanying the boost, re-toot or re-post.
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Thanks, @Tupp_ed for organising the Mastodon/Bluesky meet-up.
Unfortunately there was no dance-off, but thankfully there was no karaoke!
And a good question posed - we have #MastoDaoine but what's the #bluesky equivalent?
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Happy December everyone.
This is to formally announce that the 2024 Grand Auld Sthretch in the evening will commence in Dublin at 16:05:47 on the _15th_ of December 2023, when the sun will set 4 seconds later than on the 14th. 🎉
We're hoping you'll help us get the tag #TheGrandStretchIsBack trending on Mastodon this year.
For answers to those questions, see here: https://www.gibiris.org/eo-blog/posts/2020/12/13_theauldsthretch-faq.html, and for general information, see here: https://www.gibiris.org/eo-blog/tags/theauldsthretch.html
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"Israel announces resumption of combat in Gaza Strip as truce with Hamas expires"
Here's an alternative headline: "Israel recommences field testing of American-made weapons in the only part of the world where the rules of war don't actually apply."
Israel announces resumption of combat in Gaza Strip as truce with Hamas expires
Qatar and Egypt, which have played a key role as mediators, had sought to prolong the truce by another two daysAssociated Press Reporters (Irishexaminer.com)
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#Forgejo currently has two supported stable releases. v1.21, the most recent major version published a few days ago. And v1.20 which was published in July 2023.
Both v1.21 and v1.20 have patch releases which can create confusion when they are published simultaneously.
To help clarify which patch release is relevant to a Forgejo instance, the release page was reworked: v1.20 are "oldstable" and v1.21 are "stable".
Releases — Forgejo
Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.forgejo.org
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https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts
Get more from Low Quality Facts on Patreon
Creating Low Quality Facts written in lower quality handwriting.Patreon
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My clone and I often argue about which came first. I say the egg she says Culture Tube, Borosilicate Glass, 12 x 75mm, 6mL
It’s an ongoing argument
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Someone external has created the account using our naming and branding.
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Honestly, I think Tom Lehrer is still alive because he's waiting for Henry Kissinger to die so that he can get back to doing some real satire.
#TomLehrer #HenryKissinger #ReallyObscureJokeIJustCouldntStop
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Can anyone recommend a managed #Nextcloud hosting provider for a 25-50 user instance including #CollaboraOffice and #Talk #HPB; ideally based in the EU?
Thanks!
I've been looking at #Ionos and #TheGoodCloud, any firsthand experience with the very welcome, too!
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"We need to get real: the entire system of criminal justice is in crisis" by Michael McDowell.
Surprise. Surprise. The man who gave us the racist referendum in 2004 claims it's not racism that gave rise to the riots last week, but an insufficiently thuggist justice system.
Michael McDowell: We need to get real. The entire system of criminal justice is in crisis
Dublin’s image has been severely damaged by last week’s rioting, but some of the most vulnerable and deprived communities have been most damagedMichael McDowell (The Irish Times)
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Let us never forget that all intrusive technologies are used first against those who are unlikely to be defended by the commentariat.
By the time that the Irish Times and Sunday Business Post op-ed writers and readers understand how dangerous this tech is, it will be too late.
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"Then they came for the journalists, and I wrote an article for the Irish Times titled First They Came For The Journalists."
I can't claim credit for it; someone else had a version, but I can't find the exact quote (it was aimed at the NYT, as far as I remember).
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One of the stupider things #newspapers do is to put syndicated stories behind the #paywall. As if we can't to somewhere else to legitimately read the very article for free.
Yes. This is a subtoot.
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Proud British patriots demand Elgin marbles be ‘sent back where they came from’ after learning they came here illegally on a small boat
A group of self-proclaimed British patriots, long vocal about their anti-immigration stance, has demanded the Elgin Marbles be immediately ‘sent back to Greece’ after discovering that t…NewsThump
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In which I give out about the term average voter and related terms (like average user and average person).
https://www.gibiris.org/eo-blog/posts/2023/11/28_no-such-thing-as-the-average-voter.html
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"RSS should be used for so much more than just blog posts and statuses”
#rss #indieweb #syndication #mastodon #fediverse #federated
https://colinwalker.blog/blog/?date=2023-11-19
Colin Walker - Nov 19, 2023
Writing, blogging, life, tech and mental health with a philosophical/psychological slantcolinwalker.blog
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One thing that’s important to note about National Geographic discontinuing its news-stand edition and Popular Science no longer publishing their magazine is that both were still making money.
They were, even after the massive changes in the media landscape over the past few decades, still profitable.
They were shuttered because they weren’t profitable enough.
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Here's what I don't understand about American Fascism enthusiasts: how do they propose to keep the majority in line? 60 to 65 percent of the country is anti-fascist. And yes, you'd think that number would be higher, but it's not.
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They might implement a voting system that has nothing more than a passing resemblance to democracy.
They might ignore the anti-competitive behaviours of large corporations such that a highly-polarised apologist media landscape will emerge.
They might allow the President to appoint whatever fundamentalists to cabinet positions, and permit them to be accountable only to the President.
They might appoint corrupt raving rapist fascist lunatics to the highest court of the land to get all those inhibiting laws thrown out.
But, then again, they might not. They might not see the need for any of that.
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"Conor McGregor social media posts on Dublin riots being examined by gardaí"
Investigators are examining social media posts from various accounts to determine if they may have incited violence
It has just occurred to me: how is it possible for a social media post to be determined to have objectively incited violence?
I get the point: is there something that C. McG. said last Thursday night that may have (or can be shown to have) caused others to go out and riot?
How explicit does it have to be, though? ("grab your hurleys lads and let's break some bones," sure, but "we must do something"?) How far back before the violence are the Gardaí looking? Maybe C.McG.'s posts for just that day? maybe the whole week? all of 2023?
What's the relationship that needs to be shown between C.McG.'s posts and the violence on Thursday night to secure a conviction of incitement? Do we need someone to say "yeah, I saw that post by Conor, and thought 'fuck it, he's right, let's go burn some buses'"? or is it enough to show that someone involved had just seen a possibly-inciting post from McG.? Is that even needed? "Correlation doesn't imply causation 'n' all, but he did say that thing on twitter, and not long after other people broke windows, so there must be culpability."
Can we consider public utterances by others over the years? Like, if a single post by C.McG. can be shown to have incited violence, does that mean we can discount the possibility or likelihood that things said by a T.D. named McGrath or Healy-Rae or a commentator named McGuirk or Quinn over the years may have fed into the feelings on the parts of some that breaking windows and robbing armfuls of left shoes is the only answer?
It'll be interesting to see this play out.
As a follow-up: I appreciate someone saying that a social media posting might be an attempt to incite violence, and maybe that's all what the law requires.
In that case, all that would need to be proven is the intent of the person making the post, and whether it resulted in violence doesn't really matter.
But, that also means that if no violence ensued, it was still an attempt to incite it and a prosecution should follow ("I see what he's doing there, but nah, he's a bit of a has-been and it's not worth it"). In which case should we not be seeing queues and queues of defendants outside the courts waiting for their trials on (failed) attempts to ginny up riots?
This is #disinformation. The BBC should not be permitted to get away without explaining and correcting this. However, given the state of UK politics at the moment, it will be left to the BBC's own sense of shame to do anything about it.
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The deadnaming bit in Doctor Who was an important and honest portrayal of what sadly happens. I think it needed to be shown to show how horrible it can be when it does.
I think it’s fair to show nasty people existing in a drama to paint the full picture of what we put up with.
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TV documentary reveals hidden stories of female couples involved in the Irish revolution including Sligo women
A new television documentrary will air next week which focusses on female couples at the heart of the Irish RevolutionIndependent.ie
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"US, Britain, Other Countries Ink Agreement To Make AI 'Secure by Design'"
Boll- -- and I can't emphasise this enough -- -ocks!
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"Senior gardaí promise large-scale arrests of Dublin riot ringleaders and participants"
Hmm. That headlines sounds a little like "... whether we do it legally or not!"
Dublin riots: Senior gardaí promise large-scale arrests of ringleaders and participants
Drew Harris under pressure to make progress in inquiry into widespread violence which followed stabbing of schoolchildrenConor Gallagher (The Irish Times)
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@apicultor Funny, you didn’t read all of the panels. There is most certainly something to see here.
Perhaps less “bro-know” and a little more inquiry would serve you better.
Ah! My bad. You definitely got me :)
Edit: I cannot brain. My apologies to @apicultor
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We are very fond of that graph over here in Sthretch Towers. Ours from 2017 (with a slightly different y-axis) can be seen on this page: https://www.gibiris.org/eo-blog/posts/2016/12/05_grand-auld-sthretch-starts-earlier-than-you-think.html
When does the Grand Auld Sthretch in Dublin start?
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