A kind Canadian sent me this and we will see how it holds up

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A flowchart titled "How to Measure Things Like a Canadian," guiding users through measurement choices based on categories like speed, distance, temperature, mass, and volume. It differentiates between metric and imperial units based on specific questions related to the measurement context

#Guns #Choice #Women #alt #Opinions #2ndammendment

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“If you don’t own a gun, you can’t have an opinion on the Second Amendment.” Cool take! Now do uteruses.

Something BDSM also taught me is that religious experiences aren’t about Sky Daddies, they’re about ritual and people unified in the ritual. So like the whole singing hymns and shit is just How Concerts Be When You’re Into Them and not the Divine Breeze cupping your balls or whatever.

Little known fact, but all phones have a little speaker at the top that you can hold to your ear. It means you can have a private conversation without the whole world listening to it

@miffyhelen @TheBreadmonkey

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English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks thew over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar,

(But if you want lightweight, Sumatra on Windows, and Zathura/MuPDF for *nix, and I think the latter can do Mac, too.)

(Looking for Zathura on macOS brought out Skim, which I had completely forgotten about: https://sourceforge.net/projects/skim-app/ )

#3138 - Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure

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Single-panel comic titled “Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure.” Top left text: “Dimensional lumber sizes are tricky. A ‘2x4’ is actually 1½" by 3½", and a ‘1x8’ is ¾" by 7⅞".” To the right, a lumber labeled “2x4” with dimension arrows: vertical '1½"' and horizontal '3½"'. Below left, two yellow tape measures: the first labeled “12'”; the second labeled “12'*”. To the right of them, text: “If you know someone into carpentry or woodworking, get them our dimensional lumber tape measure.” Middle: a long yellow tape labeled “Normal tape measure” showing inches 1 through 9 with tick marks. Below it, another long yellow tape labeled “Dimensional lumber tape measure” showing inches 1 through 10 with tick marks that are slight more narrow than those of the “normal tape measure”. Bottom caption: “Don’t tell them you got it — just leave it in their toolbox. They’ll appreciate the surprise when all their measurements work out!” Hidden text: "A person with two watches is never sure what time it is, especially if I got them one of the watches."

19 Episodes of Fractured Fairy Tales, From the Moose and Squirrel Show

https://youtu.be/pEHUMV0HjBM

#fandom #cartoon #tv #amusing

"A man on the streets in the UK is asked about "the problem of inmigration" and dismantled talking points with ease"
I'm in love 😍✊️
#uklabourgovernmentimmigration #UKElitesucks

“VA hospitals are clamoring for some way of preventing any gun violence, which is a very real concern,” and to “just throw technology at it is a shame” that has little to do with actual science, EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told Military Times.
https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2025/09/04/va-hospitals-pay-for-ai-weapons-scanners-testers-say-are-error-prone/

In short: the sicker/worse you feel after a booster/vaccine, the better for you.

Red crosses on street furniture converted to resemble battenburg cakes (sweet sponge cakes popular in the UK, made with two yellow and two pink quarters, all covered in marzipan).

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Street furniture on British roads which had been adorned with "patriotic" red crosses, since refined with yellow and pink additions.

Need.

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FB post from a page called 'Français avec Bend'. A picture of a stone gatepost. On it, a sign with a mousetrap glued to it. Written on the sign: "Nous n'avons pas de sonnette, mais appuyez ici [arrow pointing to the mousetrap]. Nous vous entendrons." ["We don't have a doorbell, but press here. We will hear you."]

👀

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent charged with terroristic threatening in Kapolei

"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Honolulu police responded to a report of a woman allegedly being threatened by a man on Monday morning in Kapolei.

At around 10 a.m., officers responded to the residence where the 33-year-old woman reported being threatened.

According to the Honolulu Police Department, the 42-year-old suspect allegedly brandished the butt of a firearm during the incident.

When officers arrived on scene, he reportedly identified himself and presented his credentials as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent...."

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/09/02/us-customs-border-protection-agent-arrested-terroristic-threatening-kapolei/

#fascism #ice #cbp #crime

Found the orange cat that's been hoarding all the collective brain cells.

My undergraduate degree in Sociology has prepared me better for AI than any of my technical certifications and degrees, including my time researching for my PhD in cybersecurity.

Humanities are the key.

Don't forget that.

Oh my god 🤣

Also found on SpaceNook! The hostages are getting restless!

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Simpsons styled meme that shows Lisa Simpson before a white board. The text over it reads, "People who want to refuse care to patients due to personal or religious beliefs don't belong in the medical field or in mental health services."

Best and funniest thing I've seen today on the interwebs. #Canada #Jaws

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Meme: Jaws Canada shows a moose swimming behind a woman on a paddle board.

The amount of ╳ and ✓ icons on iOS and macOS increased *so much* with Liquid Glass, and it’s stupidly hard to know which of the many actions those two icons typically represent is the action the designer intended for any given placement. Stop it.

I’m an icon designer and I know that icons can’t be used for everything. Icons alone can be decent shortcuts for some things, but they cannot always be a substitute for text.

This misfeature rolled out in Office365 last year and was the final straw for me that led to me cancelling my MS subscription and ditching Word.

You should aim to do likewise: if you don't, you're one EULA change away from losing control of everything you say/write using their tools.
https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/115132426182084126

This is excellent. 👌🏼

“Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of $8.8 trillion.
Most of it is one person.

And […] not one of those single person projects have the proper amount of resources they need. If you want to talk about possible risks to your supply chain, a single maintainer that’s grossly underpaid and overworked.”

Yuuup. Baffling how so many companies depend on open source software without funding it, ever.

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person

Thank you Euro Truck Simulator for making me aware of the best border sign ever made ( photo source )

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A large blue sign cantilevered over a road, with text in Georgian followed by, in English, ‘Azerbaijan border / Good luck’

😍 GEEXY STUFF

#geexy #geek #lego

It gives me great pleasure to reject the silly American convention of putting punctuation in quotes, regardless of whether it’s part of the quote. (The practice comes from antiquated situations where an unsightly gap was caused by monospaced type, and it has no business surviving today: https://style.mla.org/punctuation-and-quotation-marks/.)

Just like the Oxford comma, I am all for the British quotation standard, even with American double quote marks.

Cat vs printer - which is reliable?

(by Lynn Miclea)

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A Venn diagram compares "CAT" and "INKJET PRINTER". The left circle is labeled "CAT" and is yellow. The right circle is labeled "INKJET PRINTER" and is purple. The overlapping orange section, representing shared characteristics, lists "MOODY", "SPEND A LOT OF TIME SELF-CLEANING", "UNRELIABLE", "DEMAND FEEDING WHEN CONTAINER IS FULL", and "IGNORE REQUESTS". A cat's head is visible in the bottom left corner, looking up at the diagram.

Windows 95 Nuclear Bio-Reactor Setup Wizard

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A Windows 95 driver installer. Bio-Reactor Setup Wizard This wizard helps you install the software needed to use your portable bio-reactor with Windows 95. You can install new drivers or update existing ones to ensure proper operation and containment. To continue, click Next.

(And this is one of the very few times I will side with Texas: the best chili has no beans.)

@grrlscientist My library requires that anyone challenging a book has to read it and discuss it with a panel. That stops almost all challenges.

I love The Pelican Brief (1993) because it's an amazing fantasy of justice, good journalism and "the good guys" winning and "the bad guys" getting what they deserve

Tip: If the pharmacist gives you trouble about giving you the COVID vaccine, just wink and tell them you have "unbalanced humours". They'll know what you mean.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) : “Our Maternal Death Rates Are Only Bad If You Count Black Women.” And this guy’s a fucking physician. #BillCassidy #Louisiana #GOPRacist

MAY-2022

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/bill-cassidy-maternal-mortality-rates

Friend’s 8 yo is in hospital in Malaysia. This is how lunch comes. Different smiley face every time. Why aren’t we doing this?

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Spag Bol with vegetables made into a smiley face.

it has been zero days since a customer told us we're not allowed to handle their proprietary code on an internet-connected machine and then sent us a setup script that depends on the internet to bootstrap