Notices by stragu (stragu@mastodon.indie.host), page 19

Crawling out on land was a bad idea guys.

Une application mobile fait fureur depuis quelques jour. Elle propose de faire vieillir n’importe quel visage sur les photos que vous lui soumettez. Mais ses CGU indiquent qu’elle conserve sur ses serveurs les photos que vous lui soumettez et s’arroge le droit d’en faire ce qu’elle veut https://www.igen.fr/app-store/2019/07/faceapp-exploite-librement-toutes-les-photos-que-vous-lui-envoyez-108743
Nous soumettez jamais à ce genre d’applis de photos de gens sans leur consentement, respectez vos proches, bazar !

@switchingsocial alguien quiere trabajar conmigo sobre une versión en castellano? #es #español #castellano

I know times are tough financially, so if you live in Australia, here’s my hot tip: if you ignore your dental health for most of your life and ride through the pain and inconvenience of regular gum infections, you’ll avoid spending tens of thousands of AUD in dentist bills! + you’ll be handsomely rewarded by the tooth fairy. 🐷⬅️💵

Don’t thank me, it’s the least I can do.

Coca Cola was invented by Coca Cola to sell more Coca Cola.

Could anyone not too far from Gatwick host me overnight?

I'm currently stranded because of an airport-wide outage and sleazyJet refuses to deal with anything (even though they are legally required to)

Image from page 748 of "XVIIIe Siècle, Galant et Littéraire" (1887)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14579457869/

Daughter has reached the age of asking "why?" to everything.

"hold on to that cup with both hands"
"why?"
"i don't want you to drop it"
"why?"
"It's made of glass, and if you drop a glass thing it can break"
"why?"
"because glass is brittle"
"why?"
"because supercooling molten silicon dioxide makes an amorphous solid which is weaker than the crystalline form"
"why?"
"the crystalline form has a tetrahedral lattice of ionic bonds"
"why?"
"because one silicon atom can bind with four oxygen"
"why?"

Je sais, un peu partout, tout le monde s'entretue, c'est pas gai, mais d'autres s'entrevivent, j'irai les retrouver.

Prévert

This is bizarre but true: in older (and by that I mean largely pre-1900) English printed alphabets, the character & was printed at the end, and was memorized as a 27th character.

It was recited in the alphabet as "per se and", meaning "'and' by itself". So the end of the alphabet went "X, Y, Z, and per se and."

The phrase "and per se and" eventually got contracted - and is how we got today's name for the symbol: ampersand.

No, really: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ampersand

just for the record, while I'm away

the TERF agenda is by definition exclusionary, therefore excluding TERFs is an inclusionary act

fascism inherently operates on a logic of "us and them", therefore excluding fascists opens up the space

neolibs believe we all start out on equal footing, therefore excluding them helps even out privilege

"free speech" extremists have a clear-cut agenda, therefore excluding them allows for a broader spectrum of opinions and experiences to be represented