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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 04:22:16 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   The full "Be Water" quite by Bruce Lee.

   Kind of surprised I haven't seen that on a T-shirt until today, after an effective 11 years of living in Hong Kong.

   #TShirtSpotting
2. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 03:56:22 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   The equinox is almost upon us, the outdoor temperature is slowly falling from unbearable to somewhat reasonable, and for me that means two weeks of some very particular balance of humidity that causes my eyes to go into self-assault. The same thing happens for two weeks in April, a bit after the other equinox.

   I get a lot of eye gravel, my eyes treat that as foreign objects and make gunk to defend itself, then treat the gunk as foreign objects in an evil feedback loop.

   Ironically enough, inserting actual foreign objects, contact lenses, protects the eye against itself and breaks the cycle.
3. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 02:23:36 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   @~~~~~~ Is there an intentional reason why OCRBot replies twice? Sometimes it's the same text, but it seems it's sometimes slightly different.
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 02:42:52 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     @~~~~~~ No worries, just thought you'd like to know in case it's not intentional.

     My quick guess without knowing anything about your setup is that somehow two instances of the bot might be running? And the slight differences might just be the OCR not being deterministic.

4. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 01:41:23 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   It is very satisfying to be watching GTLive on youtube, and both MatPat and Ash are able to say FNAF without the crutch of calling it Fuhnaf.

   So it *is* possible to be a native English speaker and say a run of "fn" in the beginning of a word!

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 01:43:04 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to
     Now I want to hear a US person say "västkustskt" ("of the west coast") and "kvastskaft" ("broom handle").
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 02:30:02 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     • Thomas
     @Thomas Call out to "Estocolmo" being the official Spanish name for Stockholm. 😊
5. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 00:45:45 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   Typhoon warning lowered from T8 to T3, meaning wind speeds at 42–62 km/h.

   #HongKong #TyphoonYagi

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 09:10:14 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     • Efraim Flashner

     @Efraim Flashner T1, T3, T8/T9, T10, it's the steps we have. 😊

     There were more originally, but I think these were the ones that made sense in terms of mobilization steps.

     T1: Storm is coming (< 800 km away)
     T3: Strong wind (41 km/h)
     T8: Storm (63 km/h)
     T9: Also storm, but T8 comes with a cardinal direction while this one is all over the place, also T10 probably coming
     T10: Hurricane (118 km/h)

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 09:15:29 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     • Efraim Flashner
     @Efraim Flashner The social importance of moving from T8 to T3 is that it's considered safe to walk outside, and buses, outdoor MTR stations, shops etc open again.
6. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 11:52:54 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   Me, 2014-09-05:

   Today the Python profiler taught me something:

   Why cache the downloaded XML files, when you could be caching the parsed object tree pickled?

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 00:41:29 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to
     I believe the devices that benefited from that code have been phased out long ago. But it would be cool and kind of typical if that code were still running for some reason.
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 00:42:35 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     • Hypolite Petovan
     @Hypolite Petovan It's just the way grandma used to make 'em!
7. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 10:35:23 EDT Hubert Chathi
   Wow, Poilievre. First he calls on the NDP to withdraw from their agreement with the Liberals, and then when they actually do it, he calls it a "stunt". I don't know why anyone would trust him.
8. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 07:32:37 EDT Hypolite Petovan

   I remember when large supermarket chains switched to cheaper bags made with 30% less plastics allegedly to “save the environment”. They were so weak cashiers had to double-bag groceries, resulting in a net plastics usage increase.

   Good times.
9. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 08:14:12 EDT Hypolite Petovan

   #MiniReview #Movies Dune: Part 2 (2024) is a faithful continuation of the first movie. A lot of spectacular and pointless fighting and too little but tense intrigue. Overall a good spectacle way showier than the books.

   Awaiting the hopefully last movie in the series. Much like Star Wars, this franchise has the potential to bog down with each subsequent release.
10. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 13:47:20 EDT Hypolite Petovan
    #MiniReview #Movies I was disappointed by Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). For someone like me who considered the vehicles as the more interesting characters of Mad Max: Fury Road, there’s a cruel dearth of them. Watching the original right after the prequel, the latter doesn’t stand in comparison. Everything is cranked up to the max in Fury Road, the colors, the action, the characters, the vehicles, which is the only way in my view it could and did work.
    • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 03:59:54 EDT Hypolite Petovan

      • zulu
      @zulu I do not blame you. While Fury Road was at least colorful, Furiosa was just a seamlessly endless stream of pointless cruelty.
11. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 12:38:08 EDT Hypolite Petovan
    Using the Gmail website on mobile, there’s a non-dismissable banner promoting their mobile app taking a whole email row, and this makes me infinitely angry.
    • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 15:35:14 EDT Hypolite Petovan
      @calcifer :nes_fire: I’m appalled this even needs to exist. It doesn’t mention GMail though.
12. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 04:54:00 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    stop shaming people for reading kids’ books. adult books are about sad people having affairs while kids’ books have a magic tree house or a worm driving an apple. you tell me who’s winning

    xcancel.com/SketchesbyBoze/sta…

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 04:54:29 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to
      #NotAllAdultBooks
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 05:00:05 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.

      -- C. S. Lewis, "On Three Ways of Writing for Children" (1952) — in "Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories" (1967), p. 24

      en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._Le…

13. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 07:51:44 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    Kid always orders 8 plates of corn rolls every time we go to a sushi restaurant, several times per year in the last seven years. What happens next is so standardized that we assigned color codes:

    - Code yellow: Staff comes to the table: "Excuse me, the system says you ordered 8 plates of corn sushi, is that accurate?"
    - Code blue: No corn arrives, it's simply ignored.
    - Code green: Corn just arrives, no trouble.

    The other week we had an entirely new one: "Excuse me, it says here that ... oh, it's you guys. Ok then."

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 11:21:33 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Ruben
      @Ruben Yop. HK sushi and Swedish sushi are very similar in their focus: Quite seaweed-oriented, and lots of alternatives to fish, like cucumber, corn and avocado. Much more vegetarian-friendly than eating sushi in Japan.
14. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 14:15:55 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    Finished iZombie S3 and it was a great season.

    Wikipedia says S4 will be great too, S5 will be pretty good, and the final season finale will be "one of the worst TV viewing experiences I've ever had".

    Maybe you can just do like with Star Trek Enterprise and pretend that the final episode doesn't exist?

    #iZombie #iZombieS3

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    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 20:59:40 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to
      I cannot believe that I've watched three seasons, and yet, last night when I was hanging laundry, that's the moment when I realized "Liv Moore" is a pun.
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 03:49:39 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      S4 was great!

      I love how every season ends with some major thing changing and the next season has a world where everyone is still in the same place and with the same relations (except when they're not), but the rules and context of the world have all changed and now we'll see how they deal with that.

      Season 4 was an especially big leap, with a jump of several months ahead, and it made for a really fresh story, but with all the familiar faces.

      Season 5 was less of a drastic leap, but is really interesting so far and very much not an abstract hypothetical fantasy story, but directly related to policing and how we run our societies.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 04:55:41 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Mans R

      @Mans R We 're on the last season, and I don't feel that the zombie aspect ever became irrelevant.

      Most zombie stories are about how humans react to the zombie threat and its consequences, but zombies are the backdrop. This one is different because the zombies are also people and have agency, but it's the same thing: The focus is on how people act now that there are zombies.

      Each season has different drivers and challenges, but zombies aren't just a gimmick and it's not just about Liv eating a new brain and McIver playing a new character each episode (although that would take me very far already, she's awesome doing it). None of the seasons would make sense if there weren't any zombies, the challenges and situations are unique. Maybe season 2 is the most "just a crime-solving drama with a brain-eating oracle", but not entirely.

15. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 21:22:38 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    Celebrating 5 years as a full-time employee in my current company. 5.5 years total, including my initial stint as a contractor.

    I'm not doing the same things I was when I joined, I don't have the same title or rank, I'm still being challenged and growing in my professional role, and I have great colleagues supporting me and being supported by me. 🥰

    As long as these things stay true, I don't mind another 5 years here. We're not running out of things to do any time soon.
16. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 19:25:55 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    School day? Suddenly?

    How do we go about this again? It's been a while.
17. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 07:10:06 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    Kid likes playing the Roblox horror game "Doors". The other day it received a long-awaited update that introduced lots of new levels ("rooms"), monsters and puzzles. Now 120k+ people are playing the game at any given moment. Over 1M people have played the new extended version.

    I was out for a walk and when I came back his face was glowing. He's one of the first 5k people who managed to pass room 150! Now a few hours later, 10k more people have passed the room after he did.

    #roblox #doors #DoorsGame
18. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 06:03:28 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    It should've been obvious since the 90s that @wilw Wheaton was a good trans ally, and would probably be an excellent father to a trans kid.

    Here he is in season 4 of TNG demonstrating just how skilled he is at being transparent

    
    xcancel.com/ZeDingo/status/151…
19. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 10:35:07 EDT Brian Ó

    Months of hard work in the garden have finally paid off.

    #gardening #bean
20. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 15:32:28 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    I love nerds. Nerds are a precious resource, and there are more types of them/us than you can imagine. People who dive deep into a subject and know more about it than you cared to imagine could be known are to be treasured. Here are the Muppet nerds, discussing Muppet media sourcing:

    Honestly, Disney+ is the best, most complete version of the show we’ve ever had. There are only about a dozen episodes with missing sketches.[ . . . ]

    
    With all due respect, I disagree. The DVDs of all 3 seasons are more comprehensive.

    I was talking more as a whole since we never got seasons 4 and 5 on DVD. That said, I agree about seasons 2 and 3, but season 1 is actually missing more content on DVD than it is on Disney+.

    Not if you buy the German release.

    Tell me more!

    farside.link/libreddit/r/Muppe…

    reddit.com/r/Muppets/comments/…