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"In his new book, Supercommunicators, the journalist Charles Duhigg writes that one of the most common sources of conflicts in relationships is when partners don’t agree on the type of conversation they’re having. Some conversations are practical: Let’s solve a problem together. Others are emotional: Let’s talk about and understand our feelings. Many fights mistake practical for emotional conversations, and vice versa."

Three Ways to Have Better Fights

They don’t try to control each other. They try to control themselves.

^{Derek Thompson (The Atlantic)}

Woke up to enough #UKSnow yesterday that many schools closed and trains were cancelled.

Today it's fading fast. This was a photo from my commute ... Or walk to the shed, if you're being picky.

May the Sun illuminate your day, as today is Wednesday - The Day of the Sea!

#Photography #Photo #Sunrise #Picture #Pictures #SeaWednesday #MeerMittwoch #Sea #Sun

I have emphasized numerous times in the past why you should not use #HCaptcha, especially in situations where equal access is vital. Their practices are not inclusive, locking out users who have no other way to access whatever the captcha protects. This blog post illustrates one of the scenarios: michaels.world/2023/11/i-was-b…

Here's to better captcha solutions in the future, or to indeed existing ones, such as mcaptcha.org/ #a11y #accessibility #blind #captcha

Už jsem tady jednou psal, že náš Tranďák půjde do světa.

Inzerát zde: sauto.cz/osobni/detail/volkswa…

Kdo by měl zájem, rád nasdílím všechny detaily, které o něm vím.

Za sdílení mamuta

Every time I leave the house a bike comes out of nowhere and runs into me!

It’s a vicious cycle.

Today marks 1,000 days since Russia began its full-scale war against Ukraine. 1,000 days of loss and devastation, but also of resilience and courage.

From dismantling tanks to liberating occupied land, every act of defiance showcases Ukraine’s unbreakable spirit. Victory isn’t just hope—it’s a determined plan.

Together, with unity at home and support from global allies, Ukraine will prevail.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war

Welcome to the RB family, Subway Tooter! 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/jp.ju…

Subway Tooter is a Mastodon client for Android 8.0 or later.

With a little help from its dev, the libre (aka NoFcm) variant has now been confirmed to be reproducible

Bringing the RB status to: 345 apps (28.5%) (and the "egg status" to 3.5).

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid

„Subway Tooter“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Simple, and powerful Mastodon client app.

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

My bad bro

#RetroComputing

One of many earlier #British #ColonialCrimes in #SouthEastAsia. The #BriggsPlan in #Malaysia.

The Nazi regime during WWII forever gave the term #ConcentrationCamp a name symbolic of #atrocity, so when British #colonizers once again visited the idea of #ForcedRelocation of #IndigenousPeoples to isolate them they needed another name for the enclaves. They came up with #NewVillages. The New Villages were created under the Briggs Plan, which was developed to combat the communist insurgency in #Malaya during the 1950 #MalayanEmergency. The plan was prepared by Sir Harold Briggs, a British General who was the Director of Operations in Malaya.

#Britain lost the Malayan Peninsula and their fortress at Singapore to the Japanese during WWII and reoccupied their former dominion after the fall of Japan. Among the many difficulties the British encountered was the presence of roughly a half-million #Chinese in rural Malaya, most working as farmers working small plots of land for their own sustenance on land they did not own or lease. The British administration regarded these Chinese as squatters and found them a problem because they were physically distant from the machinery of British authority, which most of the Malayan population was not happy to see return to their country.

When the Malay #CommunistParty received support from armed #guerrillas from Malaya and #China, the British, intent on restoring #Imperial rule to the peninsula, looked with additional distrust upon these rural Chinese. While some of the Chinese were certainly sympathetic to the communists, most were indifferent. The British concern was that the communist #insurgents would receive support from the squatters in the form of food, neglecting the fact that the majority of the Chinese squatters were barely able to grow enough to support themselves. The Briggs plan required the forced relocation of the Chinese.

The New Villages isolated the Chinese, and they were guarded by Malayan police and British Military Police and some troops. The Chinese could not leave the villages except under escort and nobody was allowed in without the permission of the guards, making them effectively prisons. The villages were built with running water and electricity, amenities absent from most Malayan villages, and health care and some educational facilities were provided. This caused resentment towards the British from the Malay outside the villages, who didn’t receive the same amenities, and the Chinese, who resented the forced relocation settlement.

Although the New Villages, of which 450 were built, were an improvement over the forced detention camps of the Boer War, and death rates in the villages were roughly the same as for the rest of the country, there were racially motivated #CollectivePunishments directed towards the Chinese population in the villages. #Deportation without trial by the administration was a common punishment for the Chinese. Law within the villages was the decision of the British. Many of the villages are still standing and in recent years have been restored to serve as tourist destinations by the Malaysian government with support from China.

#AsianMastodon #SouthEastAsia #TootSEA #ColonialismInAsia #Decolonization #DecolonialLearning #ColonizerCrimes #ColonialViolence #Decolonize #AsianHistory #MalaysianHistory #LearnYourColonialHistory

bude snežiť či nebude snežiť?

spravy.pravda.sk/domace/clanok…

Avizované ochladenie je tu. Pripravte sa na nepríjemné vetrisko i sneženie, SHMÚ vydal výstrahy

Slovenský hydrometeorologický ústav vydal výstrahy prvého stupňa.

^Pravda.sk

En cosas que no entiendo: Una empresa con muchos centros pequeños puede hacerles la vida imposible a sus trabajadores porque siendo los centros pequeños no pueden organizarse sindicalmente?

Las tres empleadas de la juguetería Afede en Ansoáin convocan una huelga indefinida

noticiasdenavarra.com/economia…

Las tres empleadas de la juguetería Afede en Ansoáin convocan una huelga indefinida

El paro comenzará el 25 de noviembre | Están abiertas a negociar con la empresa una mejora salarial, de jornada y de condiciones sociales | La dirección ha comenzado a embalar el producto de la tienda desde el pasado lunes

^{Sagrario Zabaleta Echarte (Diario de Noticias de Navarra)}

Subtoot

I find it hilarious that the only-renewables crowd are now actually trying to coopt the phrase "too cheap to meter" (which, for the record, was never a slogan in the nuclear sector, it was just said once by a guy somewhere), at a time when we're increasingly done with the 'easy phase' of installing solar and wind installations.

At less than 10% of total energy use in the West, solar and wind already cause price hikes and, consequently, deindustrialisation in countries like Germany. The 'hard part' is just beginning, and if we insist on only trying to do that with solar and wind alone, it'll cost at least an order of magnitude more than it already has.

We'll reevaluate this cooptation in a few years, but let me say that the 'cost argument' is a very silly line of defense to take.

It's nigh time we face the facts for once: fossil fuels are dirt cheap and using economics alone means we'll be using them in perpetuity. The other side of that coin is that a decarbonised energy system *will* be more expensive. How we deal with that cost will be a social question that we'll need to solve.

Pretending that this isn't true and solar and wind are the best thing since sliced bread, is driving people paying the energy bills to the right, towards climate denialism, towards the fossil lobby. Saw the meme of people voting Trump to save 10 cents on their eggs? Yeah, look in a mirror who is driving that.

Be careful what you wish for, "too cheap to meter" will bite you in the ass.

Mastodon, if you have to do starter packs, *please think about consent* for people being added to starter packs. The bluesky starter packs may be great for new accounts trying to find their people, but it has not necessarily been fun for people who've been added to starter packs without their knowledge. I feel like a couple thousand people looking for a coffee shop have suddenly turned up in my living room.

hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113…

This is the leader of the Israeli opposition. The person who should be debunking the justifications for never-ending war and re-humanize Palestinians.

Instead, he parrots Netanyahu and shows that the entire Israeli establishment is complicit.

We need an arms embargo now.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Hoy estamos con el RAT. Había perdido este tema completamente de vista.

stop shaming people for having phases

if you think someone's dumb for having a phase then you're boring for not having so many different interests and interesting things you've done

Urgent Warning for Fedi Admins
We've discovered an ongoing Denial-of-Service attack against Misskey-based instances. The attacks exploit a zero-day vulnerability impacting Misskey, Sharkey, IceShrimp, and other related software. Patches are in progress and will be released ASAP. We encourage all admins to update immediately!

#Misskey #Sharkey #IceShrimp #FediAdmins #Security

Someone shared this with me today, and it helped me finally come to terms with a truth I've been avoiding:

I'm *tired*. Deep tired, the kind of tired that doesn't go away with a nice weekend.

And I need to do something about it. Idk what. But I do.