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1. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 13:45:46 EDT Michael Vogel
   Die Deutsche Forschung hat ein Problem mit dem Namen #Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz. Es sorgt dafür, dass Menschen von Zeitvertrag zu Zeitvertrag hecheln, dadurch keine Planungssicherheit zum Aufbau von Familien haben und ständig am Rande des Burnout stehen.
   Verträge an Unis: "Wie soll ich das schaffen ohne Burnout?" zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deu…
2. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 14:05:35 EDT Michael Vogel
   Ich hab dann mal mein Portemonnaie verschlankt.
   pirati.ca/photo/68619734156626…
   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 14:10:12 EDT Michael Vogel
     Das Rechte ist eine sogenannte "Wallet". D.h. da passen nur ein paar Karten und Geldscheine rein.
   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 14:11:56 EDT Michael Vogel
     Beim Umpacken habe ich gerade festgestellt, dass nicht alle meine Karten reinpassen - und vor allem passt der Blutspendeausweis nicht rein.
   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 16:07:05 EDT Michael Vogel
     Naja, sollte ich mal einen Unfall haben, stehen dort alle wichtigen Daten drin.
3. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 02:47:57 EDT Michael Vogel
   Das EU-Parlament hat das "Recht auf Reparatur" beschlossen. Der Beschluss durch die einzelnen EU-Staaten gilt als Formsache, da sie am Entwurf beteiligt waren. Es ist also absehbar, dass sich die FDP quer stellen wird.
4. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 21:26:47 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   I'm a bit upset about the things I didn't achieve yesterday, but I'm pepped that today I have no meetings, I've had my milk tea and I'm going to hunker down and get them done today!
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   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 03:09:41 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     @Thorwegian ❄️ morning was not terrible, but after lunch, everything Microsoft stopped working

     and that's where everything is

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 12:05:38 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
     @Thorwegian ❄️ yeah?
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 22:39:07 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     @Thorwegian ❄️ Yes.

     Unless all your work tools are down. 😅

     They started working again later in the evening and today I'm in the physical office. Time to catch up on All The Things. I have a List.

5. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 22:33:47 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   Oh gnnng, we're almost in May and then we're soon halfway through May and that means halfway through Q2 and aaaaa so many things I was hoping to finish in Q2 and
6. Ute Hauth (miradlo@pirati.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 12:15:39 EDT Ute Hauth

   Uffputzt:
   Meine Seite mit Infos zu Blogs, neuen Blogbeiträgen und diversen Kanälen und Plattformen sieht seit vorhin so aus, wie ich es schon länger plante.

   ute-hauth.de/
7. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 22:34:52 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   HP = Hewlett-Packard
   HP = hitpoints or health points
   HP = Harry Potter

   Recently I learned that among AA people:

   HP = higher power

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 23:45:15 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     • Hypolite Petovan

     @Hypolite Petovan No, Alcoholics Anonymous have as one of their rules that nobody can recover without the help of a higher power.

     I think the idea is you need to leverage some kind of external pressure to yourself, to hack your peer pressure circuitry as a force to help you do the right thing.

     For some people it's a simple as their God, Christian or otherwise. For atheists, they may use something more abstract like the ideals of Starfleet or whatever.

     Disclaimer: There is a lot of legitimate criticism against AA, ideological and in terms of outcome, I'm just explaining what I've learned of their higher power concept.

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 00:21:29 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     • Hypolite Petovan
     • Abhijith Balan

     @Abhijith Balan It's an originally Christian framework, so people do what they can to make it work, and they redefine the terms as a workaround.

     If you say "I interpret the 'higher power' of this framework to be my loyalty to my family" it doesn't suddenly make you believe in miracles, an afterlife and an omniscient Creator.

     @Hypolite Petovan

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 03:08:09 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     • Abhijith Balan
     @Abhijith Balan Ah, sorry, I mistook which comment you were replying to.
8. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 22:32:43 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   An internet spotted this bumper sticker:

   "Midwives help people out"
9. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 22:00:31 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   Green Raytheon: Because killing people doesn't have to mean killing the environment.
10. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 21:08:48 EDT Brian Ó

    https://youtu.be/5h4P-26kHAw

    This looks like something.

    #film #movies #comedy #slapstick #blackandwhite
11. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 13:58:13 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    I understand why, Roomie is in the music industry and as a youtuber he is even more in the business of knowing what's hot and commenting on it, whereas I'm your typical "stopped listening to new music after college unless a song really forces itself into the zeitgeist", but it's still amazing to me that I have heard less than maybe 25 of these top 100 streamed songs before, and several of the top artists are complete blanks to me, but he has heard 99 of the songs, relates them to other works by the same artist, accurately predicts which artists will show up again closer to the top etc.

    Such different bubbles! He's Swedish, but he's also ten years younger than me, but that's likely not what really puts us apart, it's our interests and especially his professional interest.

    RoomieOfficial: "Top 100 MOST STREAMED Songs of All Time (Updated 2024)" (21:46)

    farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

    youtube.com/watch?v=Z1saPUw-PL…

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 20:23:07 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      @C++ Guy That's what the stats say!
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 20:33:07 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      @C++ Guy I know Dua Lipa because she was on Barbie. I know Billie Eilish because kid liked one of her songs and because people made parody memes.

      Ava Max was in Barbie too (and so was Eilish, but I had already heard her), but she wasn't on this top list.

      They're all great, and I've listened to them more since, but I wouldn't have known of them if they didn't reach me in some incidental way.

      Taylor Swift is everywhere and impossible to have not heard about. She's even in the news, because men older than me aggressively don't like her for angry old man reasons.

      But what I listen to most is Queen, Mike Oldfield and Daft Punk.

12. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 21:48:00 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    "Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the Northern border of Senegal to see an innovative land recovery project within the Great Green Wall of Africa that is harvesting rainwater, increasing food security, and rehabilitating the ecosystem."

    "How the UN is Holding Back the Sahara Desert"

    farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

    youtube.com/watch?v=WCli0gyNwL…

    #senegal #mauretania #desertification
    #sahara #sahel
    #UNFP #GreatGreenWall
    How the UN is Holding Back the Sahara Desert youtube.com/watch?v=WCli0gyNwL…

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    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 21:53:55 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to
      Apart from food security and holding back the desert, improving land fertility also improves local economic prospects and reduces brain drain.
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 09:54:45 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      @Kermode Thanks, it's helpful to see the less rose-tainted view.

      It sounds like they have some problem with vandalism and wild animals, but mostly what they're doing really works, they need to do four times as much of it, and the main problem is funding.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 10:00:46 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • gunnar@diasp.org

      @gunnar Once the soil is stripped of vegetation, it becomes hard and dry, and rain water washes away rather than going into the soil. It's a vicious cycle, but removing the hard, dry layer, building structures that keep water from escaping and adding vegetation that protects the soil, all that together breaks the cycle.

      Plants retain water and the soil retains water -- these are plants that have grown in the area for thousands of years and can handle the dry spells, but only if the whole supportive structure is in place.

13. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 08:09:53 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    "For the people who built it, for the people who release it, and for the furries who keep all of our clusters online, we present to you Kubernetes v1.30: Uwubernetes, the cutest release to date."

    Love to see some furry sysadmin recognition.

    stackovercloud.com/2024/04/18/…
14. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 07:51:42 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    Just noticed that kid's Swedish Cantonese English accent has acquired a sometimes Florida twinge from his favorite youtuber. 😁
15. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 11:55:31 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    #RoomieOfficial is a Swedish singer (amazing), songwriter (amazing), producer (amazing) etc who is also a youtuber.

    I learned of him quite a while back and looked up his channel, and his latest video then was like hey everyone I've been making a video a day for years and it's time for a break ... put up just a few days before I looked him up!

    So I didn't follow him back then, but now I found him again and he is definitely active and pumping out videos, but not daily this time around. Still, there's more in there than I'll ever find the time to watch in full.

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    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 12:07:13 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      Tonight I saw the lovely Making-Of-video of that song, and that's what made me look him up again:

      "The Making of "Good Person" (BTS w/ TheOdd1sOut)"

      farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

      youtube.com/watch?v=6H9IrDn5jG…

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 12:16:06 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      The first thing I watched from the last few years of RoomieOfficial was this analysis of "Surface Pressure" from "Encanto".

      I must admit that this song has passed me by a bit, because the movie is just so overwhelming and full of bangers and *that context* makes it seem comparatively less sensational.

      Roomie's analysis has made me realize that there are many little glorious details in the composition, lyrics and performance that I should have been paying attention to. I will be listening to the song with renewed interest and a deeper appreciation from now on.

      "SONGWRITER Reacts to "Surface Pressure" (From "Encanto")"

      farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

      youtube.com/watch?v=QtpQuNG4Vw…

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 12:23:05 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      @FiXato He has worked with or remixed so many people!

      (side note: BoyInABand turned out to have done some really seedy stuff and several collabs have taken down their videos they made together with him ... real milkshake duck moment 😬)

16. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 14:42:56 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    Person: *spouts nonsense*
    Everyone in the forum: So, you hold this ridicilous position that we all perceive you as holding?
    Person: *spots nonsense attempting to explain their actual position*
    Everyone: Ok, but that's what you already said, but now with more detail it sounds even worse.
    Person: All the people of this place are people of subpar intelligence and reading comprehension skills who cannot see the brilliant point I'm making.

    Yeah I'm guiding myself away from there. I have sleep to do.
17. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 05:37:43 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    Someone just said someone should reboot Andromeda and do it well.

    The someone noted that Star Trek Discovery season 4 was basically the concept from Andromeda done well.

    Wow! Yes. Agree.
18. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 13:35:23 EDT Brian Ó

    I saw Heilung this week on their US tour, and it was perhaps one of the best live performances I've ever seen. It was so much more than I expected.

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

    https://youtu.be/9PFz9FQsU8w

    #heilung #music #folk #performance #art
19. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 00:33:49 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    "Violent gusts hitting Hong Kong. Sudden showers. Thunder warning."

    Well, not around these parts, I'll just go on my usual lunch walk ...

    *thunderstrike and lightning*

    ... alright, the indoor walk through the malls then.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 13:18:38 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Thomas

      @Thomas It was super calm one moment, no sign of rain or wind. The moment I thought of going out, the clouds rollled in. 😃

      HK is structured as a few cauldrons separated by mountains. At least for a few hours, the weather in one part can be quite different from the weather in another, even if the whole region is just a couple of dozen kilometers across.

      A few hours later again, as I picked up kid from after-school tutor, the weather was fine for a two-hour walk.

20. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 14:34:11 EDT Hypolite Petovan
    A new low was reached today in my apartment building's shared laundry room: all six washers were in use, all done and ready to be emptied, and probably for a while.