@bkuhn Eep this was from OSI!? Only saw this after my previous response lower in the thread. Well, I guess we all have our theories (and I think some hunches will be spot on)
@bkuhn @purpleidea @conservancy I'm stubborn like this too, and I'm often pleasantly surprised at how quick they go "ok, well then you can just do this then".
Many institutions are opportunistic in how they chip away at people's rights. People shouldn't give in so easily, there is still some choice.
Many institutions are opportunistic in how they chip away at people's rights. People shouldn't give in so easily, there is still some choice.
Four hundred and nineteen Twitter accounts that posted on Brexit were localized to Russia’s Internet Research Agency… About a third of the discussion of Brexit on Twitter was generated by bots—and more than 90% of the bots tweeting political material were not located in the United Kingdom. Britons…had no idea at the time…that the bots were part of a Russian foreign policy to weaken their country. The margin of the vote was 52% for leaving and 48% for staying. … Brexit was a triumph for Russian foreign policy, and a sign that a cyber campaign directed from Moscow could change reality.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
#russia #unitedkingdom #uk #brexit
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
#russia #unitedkingdom #uk #brexit
re: Grumbling about Nedbank
@confluency @Zumbador This happened every time I went to FNB. So I was on hold for an hour just glaring at the staff member. Then they moved the phones away to a cubicle like area so you can't glare at staff anymore for not being able to help you. So I just closed my FNB accounts and moved on.
@Lapizistik Activists should take a leaf out of Steve Biko's page. Go en mass to police stations and demand to be arrested, effectively DoS'ing the police system.
Israel continues their war crimes in Gaza while the world can't be bothered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8HZkbsUgaA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8HZkbsUgaA
It's amazing how your body adjusts to medication. My doctor put me on new blood pressure medication, which works great! And now my brain is like, "Ok! You can now get a lot angrier without popping a vein in your head, let's do this!"
I've now grown strawberries, pomegranate and now my first granadillas are emerging. I'm kind of impressed that it even survives because I never water it and there's a cactus next to it that is literally dying due to lack of water.
@mbanck @credativde Wow that is amazing, this rarely happens! Congratulations, I'm sure there's an interesting story there, hope we get to hear it one day!
@kuulman Both are! And it's humerous because in the old days, The Chromium-BSU game used to be installed via the chromium package. So lots of people who wanted to install the browser ended up with the game. So the game got renamed to chromium-bsu and chromium browser to chromium... but now we have a similar situation with epiphany and epiphany browser, and the game is probably installed more by accident than on purpose (no offense to the game!)
And this is how it starts. Wonder when they will close the borders for women & gays and start the re-education camps for the intellectuals?
Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/documents-military-contractors-mass-deportations-022648
I'm so old and every now and again I'm still shocked at how yet another song from my childhood was just another cover version.
Did you know that Just another Manic Monday was originally a Prince song and then covered by the Bangles?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnPX-uI7ivM
Did you know that Just another Manic Monday was originally a Prince song and then covered by the Bangles?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnPX-uI7ivM
"Mark Zuckerberg: Everything You Didn't Know About His Sh*tty Past"
Wow, not even 90 seconds in and they used a bunch of descriptions for Zuck that I've never even used. That takes some skill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-5QoRpaRjY
Wow, not even 90 seconds in and they used a bunch of descriptions for Zuck that I've never even used. That takes some skill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-5QoRpaRjY
