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Absinthe is back, says The Observer. The emerald spirit – beloved by “history’s most bohemian creatives, from Oscar Wilde to Vincent van Gogh” – was nicknamed the “green fairy” thanks to its supposed hallucinatory properties (possibly something to do with its whopping 70% alcohol content). In 1915, French officials banned the drink for almost a century, but an EU rule change overturned the ban, and in recent years the harsh-tasting liqueur has become something of a staple at in-the-know bars.
in reply to Col

Me and a few friends had a night on the absinthe once.

One thing we noticed was that it made us incredibly flatulent. Being the mature grownups we were at the time, we decided it'd be funny to let rip into jars, and seal them up.

Anyway, next day, in my jar, there was a tiny motorbike- a replica of the CRF1100L Africa Twin.

Unbelievably, this is a common occurrence, and all the bikes came from the same manufacturer.

Turns out that absinthe makes the fart grow Honda.




dream, racism, historical inaccuracy, strangeness, long post, anti-black and anti-Irish prejudice

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Apple released emergency security updates to fix two zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited in attacks on Intel-based Mac systems.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…



Úloha z Angličtiny odoslaná a teraz mám pocit že som bez úloh, ty vole konečne.
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Neviem prečo to toľko odkladám, mal by som tie úlohy robiť hneď len mám z toho stres zbytočne.



📖 “Quebec to cut Montreal commuter rail lines by over 50%, another backward move by the CAQ” cultmtl.com/2024/11/quebec-to-…

#Montreal

in reply to Heliomass

operating the province like a business. A business of hate.

in reply to Jack-Frostodon

Not even just the pronunciation. The voice itself sounds wrong.
in reply to aaron

@fireborn Yeah, they're trying to make it run on Dectalks' standard frequency with some success in a test environment, but right now on the actual builds it's using Microdectalk's default.


"When cis people try to understand what it is to be trans, I think they often try to imagine what it would feel like to want to be 'the opposite sex'. What they should be trying to imagine, instead, is how it would feel to wake up and find that the whole world insists they *are* the opposite sex. That would be a much closer scenario to how it feels to be trans." Sage

#TransAwarenessWeek #Transgender #Trans #LGBT #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #Queer



Tieto Vianoce by som chcel robiť to čo minulé... nič a piť víno. Ty vole ako keby to bolo včera.


New OSM tool (to me):

sb12.github.io/OSMStreetLight

It is an easy way to see where lights are already mapped, and what still needs to be covered. I do believe MapComplete has one as well.

#OpenStreetMap

in reply to end0fline

Correct: our street light map is here: mapcomplete.org/street_lightin…?

Feel free to tag us on your future posts!



Jako je moc fajn, že #Bluesky profily maj RSS feedy. Já jen, že #Twitter je míval taky a jak to dopadlo… 😄 Asi bych ani RSS, ani @fed.brid.gy nebral jako samozřejmost.
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in reply to Radomír Žemlička

přesně. Veřejně dostupné příspěvky, bridge na kde co i rss twitter míval. Ale jen do té doby než se začlo tlačit na monetizaci. Nepoučitelní...


Continuing on my journey to switch to Windows Terminal, I want my various terminals to have separate pinned icons on the taskbar so I can get to each one quickly with Windows+number. Nothing I do seems to allow me to do this. There are command line arguments to focus a specific tab in a specific window, but that doesn't help with the initial launch where you need to specify a command line. This all worked just fine with conhost and various shortcuts. 😩
in reply to Jamie Teh

I found a very ugly, not at all intuitive way to do it:
1. Create a shortcut which starts the terminal with the desired command line, specifying a unique window name with the -w option; e.g.:
wt -w wsl wsl.exe ~
2. Create another shortcut which focuses the first tab in the same window name; e.g.:
wt -w wsl ft -t 0
3. Pin the second shortcut to the taskbar, but not the first. You can then delete the second shortcut from wherever you created it if you like.
4. When you want to launch it, you'll have to use the first shortcut. However, once launched, you can use the pinned taskbar shortcut to switch to it.
in reply to Jamie Teh

It took me a while just to figure out how to create a simple shortcut to open a specific Windows Terminal - mainly so that I could open a WSL Terminal at a specific folder without navigating to it.

I tested pinning one of those just now, but as you note, my shortcut doesn't manage new vs multiple tab instances.

Windows Terminal keeps improving and sometimes surprises me as I continue to learn more neat things about it, but it definitely still has some awkward quirks!



“Cyber Monday” is notable as one of the few surviving coinages that contains the forgotten English word ‘cyber’, an archaic term for sexting.



Today is one of those days I am forever grateful I have my Tom Baker scarf for walking the dogs. #snow #DoctorWho


theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

"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."

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I'm trying to look up contractions in Unified English Braille, but the majority of stuff I'm finding are PDF's. Big surprise.
in reply to Stu

the rulebook is also available as digital braille at [Unified English Braille (UEB)](iceb.org/ueb.html)


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.

in reply to Sean Randall

I read in a magazine today that, by 2040, only 1.5 million people in the UK will rely on a TV aerial. There were supposedly some in that picture and I wonder how many of them are up without being used these days.



Seriously? You notice pixel errors in the back but missed to notice her FEET HANDS? 😅


@Tutanota
For reasons I signed up for a conference as a private individual without organization, using my Tuta email. As a result you are now Finnish and represented at IoT14. You're welcome. 😁
@Tuta


ráno bol "tejsting" a keby neberiem lieky už slopem


Eyeing up the bottles of water on my desk and deciding that actually, a coffee might be more fortifying for my next meeting. is it reasonable to go stretch ones leg after an hour?


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.



The more I learn about cryptography, the more I think Alice and Bob should probably just talk in person.

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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 :awesome:

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

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid



Opět jediné koho zaskočilo zimní počasí, jsou v karlovarském kraji silničáři. Už je to taková pěkná každoroční tradice.
in reply to Archos

nejvíc překvapuje sníh v zimě hlavně řidiče....
in reply to The_ERROR

@The_ERROR
Mě to nepřekvapilo, jezdím každý den do práce 60 km, jsem připravený. Pneumatiky jsem měnil v čas a jsou nové. Jen bych čekal, že když je kolem nuly a a prší se sněhem, na autech to namrzá, tak aspoň dálnici by chtělo trochou posypat. Zase z Varů na hranice, to není zas tak dlouhý úsek. Chápu, když je kalamita, že se nestíhá, ale do té to bylo daleko.



Sometimes I feel like life is one of perpetual questioning. Everyone else seems to have the perpetual answers.


[Nightly Blog] Celebrating 20 years of Firefox – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 171 blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/…


It costs nothing to be kind. Being mean is also free, but people are likelier to want to hurt you.
in reply to The Amazing Panini

Being kind and compassionate requires a lot of effort in a society which emphasizes the self, be it personal gain, fame, or physical appearance. The mindset is very important, which is why selfhelp books work for many people.


Welcome to a Rogers/Shaw internet outage.
USB tethering on two Android phones is not working reliably with my router, and only one of the two works on Windows, so I'm serving up 5G from two separate phones until cable comes back.
This is probably because of bad weather, so the extra reminder to charge my stuff also doesn't hurt.


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


in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Podle předpovědi se má koncem týdne oteplovat. Až 13 stupňů Celsia.


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…

in reply to Óscar Gorri

No exactamente.

En empresas que tengan en la misma provincia o en municipios limítrofes dos o más centros de trabajo cuyos censos no alcancen los 50 trabajadores, pero en su conjunto lo sumen, se constituirá un comité de empresa conjunto. Cuando unos centros tengan 50 trabajadores y otros de la misma provincia no, en los primeros se constituirán comités de empresa propios y con todos los segundos se constituirá otro.

Artículo 63.2 del ET.