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someone on twitter said:

Voting isn't choosing your character, it's choosing your opponent.

Which is an interesting contextualization and good argument against letting perfect be the enemy of good re: candidates and moving the overton window etc.

#cat

Roll a d1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 to define your gender

It's only FPGA if it comes from the PGA region of France. Otherwise it's just a sparkling gate array.

Mission District, San Francisco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_District%2C_San_Francisco

A simple little alien necklace, to remember home..

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#little #alien #necklace #sculpted #ceramic #gold #mastoart

A thing I don't like: misuse of the grammatical term "passive voice" to mean "anything phrased in a way that avoids blaming someone". Orwell identified passive voice as a tool often used in weasely euphemisims, but that doesn't mean "passive voice" and "weasely euphemism" are synonyms.

"He died of injuries he sustained while resisting arrest": Nope, no passive voice there. There's three verbs and they're all phrased in the active.

"He was murdered by the police": Now that's passive voice.

tired: you (pl.)
wired: y'all
inspired: foolish mortals

In northern Ethiopia, at 130 meters below sea level, in the hottest valley in the world, there exists a series of pools that look more alien than anything that should rightly be found on Earth.

This is the dangerously beautiful Dallol Volcano, and hydrothermal system, found in the Danakil depression. The highest point of the volcano reaches -48 meters above sea level. Brine pools and acidic liquid spout from the ground, building up salt and sulfuric pillars as temporary geysers build them. Here, not two but three tectonic plates move away from each other, causing the land to sink deeper and deeper, and bringing up minerals from deep within the Earth. In the next few million years, the Red Sea will eventually fill the depression.

The word Dallol, in the language of the Afar people, means disintegration. The Disintegration Volcano.

How is it that cats know just the right spot to step and amount of pressure to apply on your stomach to for optimal attention getting??

i like to eat spicy food when i'm sick cause i like imagining the germs dying in a fire

A handsome little mastodon pin for those who want to talk about the wonders of mastodon with strangers.

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#little #mastodon #pin #sculpted #ceramic #whitegold #mastoart

This aged well.

Can't wait for the kernel to be renamed systemd-linuxd

What you are referring to as Linux is, in fact, systemd/Linux or as I recently started calling it, systemd plus Linux.

Interesting. Ancient Mesopotamian Tablet are a Cookbook, offering recipes from thousands of years ago.

#Food #Cooking #Recipes #History #Mesopotamia

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/ancient-mesopotamian-tablet-cookbook

It's weird to think that for thousands of years the only music you heard was what the one guy who lived down the road could play on his mandolin or whatever.

I am trying to edit a big C++ codebase without knowing the first thing about C++ and I feel like Mickey Mouse with those cursed broomsticks