Esta mañana iba en bicicleta, por el centro del carril derecho en una vía de dos carriles, uno por sentido. En un semáforo, el coche que tenía detrás ha decidido usar un estrecho margen a mi izquierda para intentar ponerse en paralelo, cosa que no ha conseguido porque, como digo, yo estaba en medio del carril. Y, además, había vehículos que estaban detenidos y miraban en dirección contraria.
Circular en el centro del carril es clave para la seguridad porque eres más visible, te adelantan menos y se ralentiza el tráfico de la calle, mejorando la seguridad de terceros.
Pero el señor™ quería pasar. Y quería pasar tanto que primero me ha rozado, luego ha tocado la bici con el morro, y finalmente ha empezado a empujar. Tras un intercambio de palabras sin sentido que no llegó a la categoría de 'diálogo', el señor™ no me ha dejado otra opción: he metido una pedalada, poniéndome delante, he metido mi bici DEBAJO de su coche, y luego he llamado a la Policía Local.
El señor™ no podía echar para atrás porque había más vehículos detrás, que han empezado a acumularse. Varias peatonas que contemplaban la escena se han quedado a comer palomitas y, una vez ha venido la policía, han servido de testigos ante los eventos. No ha ayudado nada que el señor™ condujese sin seguro, el coche no tuviese la ITV pasada y tuviese varias multas sin abonar. Pleno. Tampoco ha ayudado que se haya enfrentado a la policía a voces y que luego se haya puesto a darle patadas a una papelera.
✅ Ha sumado una multa más, se le ha retirado el vehículo y no se ha ido esposado de purito milagro.
✅ Al menos durante unos días, quizá semanas, tendremos un energúmeno menos en nuestras calles.
Y esta es la política a partir de ahora, sin medias tintas, sin grises, sin mirar hacia otro lado. Hay gente a la que hay que sacar de la calzada porque es un peligro. PUNTO
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Zemřel Paul Di'Anno, bývalý frontman Iron Maiden. V Kolíně už zpíval jen na vozíčku
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This Raspberry Pi ghost talks to trick-or-treaters using AI
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What happens when you're told to keep up appearances to family and friends when all you really want to do is confess?
What happens when walls get built and secrets are all you dabble in?
Find out in my latest #blog.
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Welcome to Nepal this week. We're starting off in Kathmandu and the joy of walking around some marvellous temples with a camera. So much to work with. So much inspiration.
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I love these pictures, such a beautiful place and people! ❤️
It breaks my heart that so many buildings are still held with support beams, so much earthquake damage everywhere.
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T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users
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Wow, it's great seeing more of the Internet Archive back in operation. I was so disgusted at what happened to them. This amazing library helped me to find electronic copies of out of print books that I've wanted to read for decades. These are books that I honestly never thought I'd be able to read, short of purchasing used copies of the books and spending hours of my time scanning them. I can't express enough my thanks for the hours of joy I've received from this service after finding books that I thought would always be inaccessible to me as a blind reader.
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Our DM is experimenting with giving us players more free rein to suggest aspects about the world and especially stuff that concerns our characters. He's finding it's more fun for him if he gets to enjoy what other people add to the story.
I think it's fantastic, but it's difficult to foster that approach in #DnD. It's not really built for it. Of course, at this point the version of "D&D" we are playing is so homebrewed and tweaked that it's eventually not going to qualify as the same game.
I wish they'd just be content to sell books with cool, creative content instead of trying to somehow gain control over the *game* itself.
You can own the license to publish official D&D content. You *cannot* own D&D.
Blame Hasbro and their investors for fundamentally failing to understand the D&D community, and instead wanting to tightly control and monetize it in search of the greatest profits.
Personally, I've been liking the campaign architecture of newer systems like Forged in the Dark or Apocalypse Word for using different ways of encouragement towards specific play styles. Even the way they use dice like 2d6 means you've got a better bell curve distribution of success. Or how "well, bad thing happened, but you can push yourself to resist the bad thing, but the pushing yourself adds up".
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in reply to Patrick Bouchard • • •I mostly treat Mastodon as an instance-agnostic Twitter replacement for keeping up with the accessibility, blind, and software dev communities. For that specific use case, it works well, and there are things I wouldn't be exposed to if I wasn't here.
Having said that: It's absolutely useless for real-world event tracking/news (e.g. I saw like three posts about the recent hurricanes). And outside of the communities I mentioned, I have basically nothing in common with the people on my feed (as far as I know). All of my non-tech/non-work interests are non-existent here, and I miss being able to search for a TV show or whatever and scroll through all the conversation.
Speaking of that... the search/trends features are useless, and probably always will be for both technical and people-related reasons. In particular, the federation model limits servers to only serving search results that they've seen, which limits discovery particularly on smaller instances. Many Mastodon users also seem to be fundamentally against full-text search features being opt-out, rather than opt-in. That means that the number of people who've enabled it is miniscule.
I dunno... it's a mixed bag and I honestly don't like Mastodon much. But I don't care for social media in general, so if I wasn't here, I just wouldn't be anywhere.
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in reply to James Scholes • • •The most positive thing my switch from Twitter has brought me is the restoration of a more conversational atmosphere. While I would like to see more human-generated content about world events outside of my tech bubble, I don't miss my feed consisting primarily of links to news articles, posted by newspapers and magazines either.
In that way, it reminds me of the early days of Twitter which felt more like a community than a platform. It's just a shame that in order to gain that sense of community, I have to live on an island with very little outside contact, constantly reminded about a bunch of mostly arbitrary rules, cultural norms and technical ideals I don't always agree with, and the inevitable echo chamber effect.
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