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   Carolen 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (carolen@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jun-2025 01:22:41 JST Carolen 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

   Miserable fucking country 😔

   Lollipop man told to stop giving kids high-fives

   A lollipop man said he had been told he could no longer high-five children while they are crossing the road because it slows down traffic.

   Neil Cotton, 57, has been working as a school crossing patrol officer in East Yorkshire for about two years.

   In a social media post, he said he could not high-five the children anymore, because "it upsets some drivers having to wait another 10 seconds".

   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w469ypxzxo

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   Daniel Appelquist (torgo@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Jun-2025 00:34:54 JST Daniel Appelquist

   I'm very pleased to report that I have been elected to the W3C Advisory Board (@ab), and I'll be starting my official term in July! https://www.w3.org/news/2025/w3c-advisory-committee-elects-advisory-board/

   As a result, I’ll also be stepping down from the W3C Technical Architecture Group (@tag) — a group I’ve had the honor of co-chairing for the past 12 years.

   In the AB, I'll be contributing to the W3C in a different way — helping to ensure the governance, process, and strategic direction meet the needs of the wider web community.

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   Randahl Fink (randahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 10:59:15 JST Randahl Fink

   In 2011 Elon Musk said he would put a man on Mars in ten years.

   In 2013 Musk said we would soon be traveling in Hyperloop capsules inside vacuum tubes.

   In 2020, Elon Musk said full self driving Tesla's were "Very close".

   In 2022 Elon Musk promised Twitter would remain a free speech platform.

   Now in 2025, Elon Musk has just promised that he will send a humanoid robot to Mars in 2026.

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   You Will (Not) Escape ☸️ (ubernigga@wizard.casa)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 02:26:51 JST You Will (Not) Escape ☸️

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   @sun @theorytoe That's a nice idea but it's not really true in the iterations that have actually existed for two thousand years.

   In the early Church, there were a dozen esoteric cults where different types of secret knowledge are required, all fighting each other, then these get written out of the history in the 5th Century or so.

   In the medieval church, the lineage that survives breaks into its own schools, all with secret teachings you have to accept, and if you deviate, we have to gather every bishop in the damn empire so we can figure out who to kick out of the club.

   The esotericism at this point is in the monasteries, where orthodoxy is often entirely forgotten. and you has people positing things like a 4th God (and example from the remote hesychasts.) In Ethiopia, they're still in this phase. Externally, they teach monophysite Christianity, but each monastery has its own esoteric insight separate from the public teaching. (This also roughly mirrors how Buddhism worked before the modern period.)

   Then you get to the Reformation and the rise of (Classical) Humanism, people try to justify a homogenous public doctrine from the oldest sources, which they do relatively well, although now everyone is bound to an unholy bloated bookcel canon that none but a few remarkable autists can possibly disentangle, but this new Christendom is dry, boring, and useless for the average man. No one really believes it except academics and low level priests, and even the academics wind up getting bored and deconstructing the whole thing.

   Meanwhile the Renaissance and the Enlightenment happen, we have access to older wisdom from Greece and Egypt again, and yet another esoteric current is born underneath the "basic" Christianity at the same time, based on a mix of authentic and fake writings from Plato, Hermes, and other philosopher mystics, which becomes the occult/left hand path: Rosicrucianism, Masonry, Golden Dawn, Perennialism, and you get another mini-Enlightenment later on with Europe's discovery of Germanic and Indian religion, and those all syncretize with the 20th century esoteric Christian movements to create things like Spiritism, New Age, Thelema, Satanism etc.

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   :apa: スプリットショックウイルス † (splitshockvirus@mstdn.starnix.network)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 16:55:47 JST :apa: スプリットショックウイルス †

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   @benis_redux Multiple factors prevent me from doing that the main one being repairs are cheaper than a car payment (fuck a car payment), also I don't know if I'm going to be allowed to renew my license in two years.

   In January I'm going to attempt a vision test and if I can pass I'll renew it which will be good for 10 years, and I'll consider buying a new car.

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   volkris@qoto.org's status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 05:32:16 JST volkris

   I’ve heard it said that if you don’t vote with whichever party then you are a coward. I think that’s exactly backwards, and even reflects poorly all the person making that argument. It doesn’t take much courage to go with the group.

   Instead I go the other way: no matter which party you might prefer in general, it takes courage to say they nominated a moron, and fortunately the other party also nominated a loser, so no matter what the US is going to slog through these next few years.

   In my opinion the courageous position is to say no, you nominated a moron, and I’m not going to give you my vote. We’re going to be okay I guess, whether you win or not, but I’m not going to let you assume that you have my vote if you insist on nominating a moron. You should have nominated someone better. You should have nominated someone worthy of my vote. Do better next time.

   That’s the state of #USPolitics . As South Park said, big douche versus turd sandwich. So screw both #Democrats and #Republicans. Neither of you managed to nominate someone worth voting for, so I’m voting for my dog.

   To give either party our votes is to sign on to their nomination of garbage people. Let’s not. Let’s say that they need to actually nominate worthwhile administrators.

   But more practically, let’s focus on #Congress. No matter who wins this election, they’re going to suck, but we can still express ourselves through our representation in Congress, and that’s honestly how it should be anyway.

   Check out your representatives. See how they have actually been voting, and vote them out if they have been letting you down. That’s really where our focus should be anyway.

   Not on which jerk ends up in the Oval Office.

   (But thank God #Biden is on his way out, as he has been terrible for #science in the US, which has not gotten nearly enough attention from the press.)