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it's fucked up how you gotta keep eating food. like I already did that today. why do I gotta do it again now

The Mastodon instance fairmove.net has got a major update today (Postgres database v13 -> v15, Redis 8.2, Mastodon 4.5.6). Your timeline should fill up again soon. Or watch the live feed to be inspired. Happy fediversing!

I got an email at work from the union, asking me to follow them on Bluesky and/or Threads. I replied back that I can't until they enable the Bridgy Fed or turn on sharing to the Fediverse. I'm guessing that I will never hear from them again.

Led by Pope Leo but extending across Christian denominations, the rise of a genuine and global theological debate
is producing the sudden recognition that a kind of progressive Christianity long given over for dead seems to be stirring.
Christ is risen, as it were
– and if people of good faith push hard, the future could be redefined in powerful ways.

Eu realmente não estou nem aí para esse show da #Shakira hoje. Por mais que ela seja, de fato, muito gata, acho que ela só tem umas duas ou três músicas boas. Mas aí decidi ouvir uma dela só pra não ser tão do contra assim: https://youtu.be/B3gbisdtJnA

To be clear: the Segway as released was •not• a very good product. But it was not a worse product than, say, the Apple-1, which was also clumsy, nerdy, impractical, expensive. ($3400 in today’s money and it didn’t even have a keyboard!)
Yet in the latter case the response was “This is the future! Let’s do this! Let’s figure it out!” And with the Segway, the response was “How mockable, nobody should ever try to build anything like this ever again!”
A crumb went down the wrong way with micromobility in 2001, and I’m not willing to lay that entire at the feet of one product’s marketing team. We collectively screwed up.
ETA: This •started• as a thread about e-bikes and e-scooters; scroll up

Does anyone have any service manuals/schematics/etc forr NEC fd1055 (or fd1050/1053) 5.25" floppy drives?
I've got one that's giving a disk fault 18 - which I think is not reading a sector so could be anything from alignment upwards; but occasionally gives a drive fault 10 (index sensor??)
But then again it could be the beeb it's attached to; so hmm suggestions welcome.
#retrocomputing

POL-CUX: Vermisstensuche nach 15-Jähriger (Foto im Anhang) Cuxhaven (ots) - Geestland. Aktuell wird die 15-jährige Kitti Eszter Orgovan aus Geestland vermisst. Sie ist etwa 160 cm groß, hat braune Augen, dunkles, schulterlanges Haar und eine schlanke Statur. Sie trägt eine schwarze Jacke sowie schwarze ... https://www.pr…

It seems the President of the United States is hitting on or trying to date (?) perhaps the President of China, and potus also believes that one must block the Strait of Hormuz in order to open it (big destroy-the-villiage-to-save-the-villiage energy here), and finally potus would rather hug things out but also might get violent and wants you to know that he is a violent man.
Rabies-like logic.
#USpol

Hier im #Stadtwald stehen viele junge #Laubbäume, aber die #Trockenheit im Sommer macht denen zu schaffen. Im