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absolutely nothing to see here
#dogsofmastodon #dogs #Humor

In the big pile of dry leaves heads of two golden retrievers are barely visible, so well they mastered the art of camouflage.

Lovely! @grammargirl calls them familects (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familect) and features one at the end of most of her Grammar Girl podcast episodes, provided by a listener calling in.
https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/114701673167394435

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@grammargirl I more often use en dashes surrounded by spaces – like this – as recommended by Robert Bringhurst (I think).

—Michael

Found the latest XKCD while listening to #9pmEdict on Spaaaaace! Nice coincidence. https://xkcd.com/3103

cc @stilgherrian

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Anyone can become disabled at any time. It’s one of the few minority groups you can always join.

Even if you do everything “right”. Even if you’re young and healthy. Even if you “try hard”

It’s not a moral failing. It’s a part of life.

If more people would accept that and work with us, we would all be better off.

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I probably posted this before, and I do not care. This needs to be said as often as possible.

And we are ruining the environment doing this crap.

#ai #generativeAI

Reid Southen
@Rahll
Rarely have | seen Al described so
succinctly.

Church of Jeff Jul 13
@jeffowski
The underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.
#ai #generativeAl

@peterwilsoncc Or both? 😉

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Fighting stupidity: Might be a good time for folks to go read some Bonhoeffer

#USpol #AusPol #canpoli

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, ed. Christian Gremmels et al., trans. Isabel Best et al., vol. 8 of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2010), 43–44.

Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed—in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical—& when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied &, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless & dangerous.

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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 554
Louise and I got 6/10!
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/quiz/2025/06/13?rival=0101111001

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Ce mème utilise une scène culte de Mr. Bean où il copie sur son voisin pendant un examen. Ici, chaque personnage représente une étape dans l’évolution de la lettre A, depuis les hiéroglyphes égyptiens jusqu’à l’alphabet latin.

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This’ll break your brain. There are only two circles that do not cross over each other.

An optical illusion that is two circles, but the pattern on the circles makes the mind think there are more than two circles that cross over each other.

@peterw At the evening performance now. They are having a great time!

@ibk I am with you: every time I see ‘/‘ used like this I wonder what the writer means, or if they are just being lazy. I always avoid it in writing to be read by others, and most of the time in my own note-taking.

@mike30030 That is what you mean and maybe what they *should* mean but …

What does a slash (or solidus, if you prefer) between two words mean?

An example sentence from some work stuff: “Communicate how the change aligns with individual/team needs/work/values”

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Anarchy in the UK!

#bird #birds #birb #humor #humour #gull #seagull

gull sitting on a sign that says no gulls, with blue sky and white clouds in background

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#auspol
Golding

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wow .... really make u think

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What austerity has demonstrated again & again, is that if you cut everyday social services, you push many people into personal crisis, who then require emergency interventions; which are so much more costly they wipe out any initial saving(s) made by the cuts.

This key factor lies behind the situation that in so many sectors we seem to be paying more for a worse public service; the money now is flowing towards emergency provision to deal with failure(s).

False economies

#austerity #politics

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