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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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I've just added a link-tree inspired page to by website.


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Need sleep. Brain in overdrive from a great night of peopling. Meeting people is the real brain exercise we need, even if we think we don’t.

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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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In case anyone is interested, the reason the earliest sunset doesn't happen on the shortest day, is that the eccentric orbit of the earth means that solar noon doesn't happen at the same time every day. Where I live (Limerick, see image) solar noon varies between about 12:19 and 12:50, averaging about 12:35, currently around 12:25.
Line graph showing time of solar noon in Limerick from 1 Dec 2023 for 1 year, currently at about 12:25, with peaks in Feb/Mar and again in Aug, deepest trough in Nov. Hard work done by suncalc R package.

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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."


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As I handed my dad his 50th birthday card, he looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, You know, one would have been enough.

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Today is 2023-11-30, the sun sets at 16:11:10 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 05 mins and 27 secs. #mastodaoine #GrandStretch

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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".

https://forgejo.org/releases/

Forgejo release page

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Any reason you don’t have a “v1” tag? The absence feels intentional so I figure maybe you’re reserving things like 1.x changes to be breaking to some degree?

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We may never know the truth.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts
Natalie Portman does not know if she is a clone of Keira Knightley or if Keira Knightley is a clone of her.

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Paradox of the Cloned.
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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Mullvad VPN is not the owner of the Twitter / X account MullvadBrowser, please do not send any support or personal information to this account.

Someone external has created the account using our naming and branding.

Mullvad VPN does not currently have a Twitter / X account for Mullvad Browser.

Link to this account: https://twitter.com/MullvadBrowser

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In the Sistine Chapel, Gore Vidal once came upon Henry Kissinger “gazing thoughtfully” at the Hell section of Michelangelo’s Last Judgment. “Look,” said Vidal to a friend, “he’s apartment hunting.”

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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



The world is a lighter place.

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Twitter. Again. It will become irrelevant at some point, won't it?

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There is a special place in hell for web designers who actively block zooming on webpages in mobile. Utter arseholes every single one of them.

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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!

#followerpower #Fosshosting

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Thank you @DetersHenning, @team looks like a great company. What I mean with "managed" is that I can click my Nextcloud and then don't need to worry about anything: updates, separate pieces of software like Collabora instance and the HPB for Talk should all be included.
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sorry, then my response might not have been too helpful, as you would have to take core of updates etc. yourself.

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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.

he seems very excited about how police used to carry big batons. Sad.
I truly wish he could fade into irrelevance, but for as long as he continues to be platformed, we need to continue to resist his form of poison.

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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.


Excuse me, wtf?

"An Garda Síochána is considering bringing the thousands of hours of CCTV gathered during the investigation into the riots to another jurisdiction, to use facial recognition technology (FRT) there, to enable them to identify suspects for looting, rioting and violent assaults during the riots."

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/1129/1419129-garda-justice/

#AnGardaSíochána #Policing #FRT #FacialRecognition #GDPR #Privacy #AI


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@clickhere
"Then they came for the journalists, and I wrote an article for the Irish Times titled First They Came For The Journalists."
@clickhere
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).
"As I walked down the street yesterday, respectfully greeting those nice gardaí with the stronger pepper spray and their aluminium batons and their facial-recognition-powered body cameras, I remembered that I had nothing to fear because I had done nothing wrong. This, then, reminded me of how <other commentator> described me as a sycophant on <other medium>, and I think it's important for me to respond, in this, part 7 of my 12-part series on how I have been silenced."


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 https://newsthump.com/2023/11/29/proud-british-patriots-demand-elgin-marbles-be-sent-back-where-they-came-from-after-learning-they-came-here-illegally-on-a-small-boat/
unhappy man with his arms folded

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"ubuntu fanboy", or as i like to call it – "arch enemy"

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The perfect cartoon for anti-science, combustion lovers.
It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad.

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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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Today is 2023-11-28, the sun sets at 16:12:52 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 07 mins and 09 secs. #mastodaoine #GrandStretch

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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

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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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So if you're a TK Maxx shopper and you've got one of those cards that gets you free gifts, be aware they ship from the UK and Customs charges are being applied.
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#Politics #USPolitics

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.

Guns, mostly.
Plus history shows a lot of people will just go along.

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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.



"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?

Intent is often the trickiest part of any criminal prosecution. But with a social media profile, it shouldn't be too hard to spot the ones you should prioritise for trying to construct a case.


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.


The BBC has been caught falsifying an Arabic translation from a released Palestinian prisoner.

What BBC wrote: "Only Hamas cared... We love them very much"

What she really said: "[Israel] left us to die in the cold when the winter came. They sprayed us with pepper spray". Hamas was not mentioned.

BBC news is not impartial or balanced or even truthful.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/language-activists-accuse-bbc-mistranslating-released-palestinian



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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 - delighted that this is coming to your screens -Radical Hearts, based in my research on queer revolutionary women. Coming to TG4 on Dec 6th #irishwmnhist #queerrevolutionaries #queerhistories #mastodaoine https://www.independent.ie/regionals/sligo/news/tv-documentary-reveals-hidden-stories-of-female-couples-involved-in-the-irish-revolution-including-sligo-women/a478731213.html

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Today is 2023-11-27, the sun sets at 16:13:47 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 08 mins and 04 secs. #mastodaoine #GrandStretch

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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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I'd like to see more outrage about the Palestinian COLLEGE STUDENTS who were SHOT in Vermont.

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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!"

#DublinRiots


@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.

@wreimers @apicultor I think the sarcasm may not have translated well there :)

Ah! My bad. You definitely got me :)

Edit: I cannot brain. My apologies to @apicultor

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@conor @apicultor Also, I’ve been ill with a bad flu for 2 days, so my mental faculties are diminished. I apologize for my surly tone.
@wreimers @apicultor Ah it happens. Hope you feel better soon!
@conor @wreimers @apicultor I would not recommend chihuahua meat soup for the flu, nevertheless.