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@pre@boing.world
2025-11-14 16:33:53

Final day of having the carpenter here. A lot of sawing. Built the dresser desk drawers, cut all the perspex into shape for the windowed doors that fit together now but still need gluing.
The dresser drawers are just about big enough to put the hairdryer in, so that's nice.
Still quite a bit for the other workers to do. Detailing for panels on the doors, gluing and hanging the window doors, handles and painting and touch ups. They reckon another 5 days work still, only two of which can be next week because I have stuff to do.
Must be weird being a builder and finishing your part of the job then never seeing it completed. He's done all this great work on it but will only see the completed work if he has to come back for something else. And he doesn't want to come back coz he's fed up of driving across London 😆

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-01-01 19:14:48

Just rewatched Jurassic Park (33 years old now!) and it totally holds up.
There's maybe some obvious CGI in a few scenes but it's all so well constructed and comes together so amazingly that it honestly didn't distract at all.
Definitely in the top 5 most perfectly executed movies for me.

@blaise@mastodon.cloud
2025-12-08 21:57:17

Shit people, idioms only work if we all agree on the definitions!
After nearly 200 years of "Out-Of-Pocket" meaning "Paid for it yourself", some ignorant bonehead mashed "Out of office" together with it, and now all of corporate America says "Out-of-pocket" when they mean "unavailable".
Culturally it important? No, of course not. Am I irrationally furious every time I spend time during a meeting looking like an idiot because I h…

@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de
2025-12-29 16:12:36

This is what BBC news articles look like nowadays: Every single sentence is its own paragraph, and I absolute cannot stand this “style” at all. I suspect the editors only care about making articles look nice in the mobile app.
IMHO, paragraphs are specifically meant to intuitively communicate which sentences belong together because of content/meaning. Just separating any sentences is what full stops do. If actually no two consecutive sentences belong together, the article is just incoh…

An actual article on the BBC website. The headline has been replaced with “Lorem ipsum”, and all numbers and Latin characters have been censored, so that only punctuation remains. Now, it is clearly visible that every single paragraph contains only one full stop (i.e. at each end).
@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-12-04 17:32:39

"...the scams perpetrated during the Corbyn period by Labour Together, CCDH and its sock-puppet ‘Stop Funding Fake News’ (SFFN) to topple Corbyn and install Starmer in his stead, have led directly to the burgeoning police state Starmer is building against the people of this country, their rights and their freedoms, all to protect Israel and its interests."
Starmer's attempt to destroy Corbyn reaches US

@matzekult@chaos.social
2026-01-01 13:00:26

Not off to a great start this year: wasted 300g of filament and 9 hours of print time because the designer of a model created two different versions with a 5 mm difference in size and just put all the files in one folder without clearly labeling them. And since I had to print them in batches and didn't realize the slight size difference I now have a bunch of parts that do not fit together and I'm out of that particular filament (which is apparently also no longer produced). 😒

@bibbleco@infosec.exchange
2025-11-21 02:30:42

As this isn't a wet bulb measurement, the wind chill effect isn't shown. This is my bedroom BTW, and yes, the icy draught coming up from the cellar is strong enough to make it feel colder than that.
All together now: "So much for global warming!!1!" /Jk

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-12-01 09:34:36

While I'm not much for the law, I recognize that not everyone I talk to thinks the same way. But even if you are like me, the enormity of the list of Trump's crimes is just staggering. There really couldn't be any more clear of an illustration of the fact that there are two legal systems: one for the elite, and one for everyone else.
We all know #Trump just does crimes all the time, but it can be hard to track the enormity of it. The YouTube lawyer LegalEagle put together a list and it's pretty incredible. It's a little over 40 minutes of him rapidly listing times that Trump has violated the law during his second term (completely ignoring his first term).
#MassBlackout is a #Boycott of the American corporations that support the dictatorship. By showing
that people have the power to shut down the economy if elites don't listen, we can hit them where it actually hurts.
From now until December 2nd, do as many of these things as you can:
- Stop online or in-store shopping (except for small businesses)
- Stop work
- Stop streaming, cancel subscriptions, no digital purchases
This is one of the few times that boosting stuff on social media and doing nothing else actually *can* make a difference. Boost posts tagged with #WeAintBuyingIt, #MassBlackout, and #BlackOutTheSystem. Make sure everyone you know knows about it. Hold each other accountable to keep from spending. You may already not be spending because.... well,.. Trump has already made everything too expensive. The thing is that elites can't actually tell the difference. Spreading word, making the protest seem as big and impactful as possible is all that's really needed to fracture elites and turn them against each other. Boost, write your own post, make these tags trend on every platform you can, then do nothing.
Don't buy things, (if you can) don't work. Just stop. Refuse to participate in capitalism. This is the ultimate "fuck you, make me" because they absolutely can't make you. This is the ultimate reminder of where power actually comes from.
I've been trying to remind everyone, every day. Please do the same. Keep this opportunity at the top of everyone's mind. Keep it in your mind.
Trump is more vulnerable now than he's ever been, and there is no time in the next year that we have more power than right now. This is one of the most important parts of the year for the US economy. What you do, or don't do, right now has more of an impact than any other time.
#USPol #BlackFriday #CyberMonday