Notices by Mackaj (mackaj@mastodon.me.uk)

@liztai

We're you already there or did you jump because of the exodus?

@dbsalk

Same. I've an 8 Pro and if there's any AI at play during my daily use, I don't notice it.

@chris

@goatsarah

😄

Yeah I can definitely see people taking that attitude. If they did then serves them right.

One thing I found highly amusing were online accounts of "ex-pats" who voted for Brexit, then got stung by it and were shocked later that it actually affected them.

@goatsarah

They're saying they had no communication from the Swedish government about what they were supposed to do and by when. So I can see their pov.

@aworldinpages

At some point in the future, if/when you're a mother and your little cherub totters into your bedroom with a breakfast-in-bed they've made themselves, it will make all the sense in the world. It won't be gourmet, but you won't care 😉

@libreleah

This isn't for the mentally ill. It's specifically limited to the terminally ill, people like my father. When cancer reached his stomach and eroded his ability to eat it slowly transformed him from a rock of a man to a shriveled husk akin to a WW2 concentration camp victim. His end of life was an agony that drugs and palliative care increasingly couldn't cope with.

So this bill is very important to me and my family. People deserve choices when facing that fate. I want that choice!

@liztai Hope you're feeling better tomorrow 🤗

@CppGuy @davidallengreen

I'm of the opposite view, I'd like to see us be a positive influence on #Threads and an advert for the #Fediverse through engagement with the users there. I've started building a list of Threads accounts I want to follow—though most aren't visible on the Fediverse yet. When the list gets big enough (for me) I'll petition my admin to reconsider Federation and if that's not successful then I'll move to another instance that does.

@liztai

Ditto in the UK. Don't have to worry about guns as almost no-one in the general population owns one.

Closest I've come to an earthquake was something that felt like a lorry driving past the house and we hardly ever get twisters.

@geerlingguy

Agree with everything you said there Jeff 👍🏻

I'd not really given much thought to the difference between Free Software and Open Source before today and just treated them as if they were synonymous. I'll pay more attention in future.

@goatsarah

The layers in those rocks are gorgeous. Millions of years of history on display in one view.

@BashStKid

In addition, H2 is a lot less dense than methane. So to achieve a volumetric density that's similar at the point of use H2 has to be pumped at about 3 x the rate of natural gas. Our existing pumping stations can't do that so their pumps would have to be replaced and upgraded to cope.

@Porcia @quixoticgeek

@LukefromDC

How exactly? Federating with us won't give them access to your email address, real name or phone number. #Meta can't feed you adverts or force things into your timeline. If an account from there behaves in a way you don't like you can mute or block, just like here.

Did you know that #Threads are making #federation opt-in for their users, because some people are freaked about their posts escaping onto the #Fediverse.

Irrationality and panic is happening on both sides.

@aral

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) $7,000,000,000,000 were spent on direct and indirect subsidies for fossil fuels in 2022.

Government support for fossil fuels is equivalent to just over 7% of our planet's entire economic output.

By comparison, global education spending accounts for 4.3% of all GDP.

Cutting it could prevent 1.6M premature deaths per year and increase government revenues by $4.4 trillion.

https://www.statista.com/chart/31016/volume-of-global-fossil-fuel-subsidies-timeline/

#climatechange #fossilfuels #energytransition

@aworldinpages

I'm no expert, but what feels wrong to me is the repeat use of "again" to end both sentences. It reads better without.

Also there's a switch of context between introspection about fresh starts and Mia's troubles, so maybe start a new paragraph to separate them?

"Sometimes you don't know how to begin again. How do you make a fresh start?

Mia was struggling and was nowhere close to accepting her misery."

@killyourfm

Good grief. I've never experienced temps like that and don't want to.

@atomicpoet

What version includes this feature?

@fediversenews

@Rachel_Thorn

I saw a post from someone yesterday where she'd added a filter for the string "RT @" to remove any twitter auto-reposts from her timelines. Thought I'd mention it in case it's useful to you.