Tweets from 2021/03
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@BenMakesGames1 I saw something similar to that first stretch on here last year, started doing it & my posture improved massively
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@tehNinth I was thinking more of a rolling average
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when did this: 420 (the weed number) become cooler than this: 42 (The Meaning of Life, The Universe and Everything from the Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy series by Douglas Adams)
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@jwaaaap oh, I was going to put it at about 2013, but 2011 also works
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although JW makes a strong case for 2011 @jwaaaap/1366331828026675201?s=19
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RT @P_H_Lee: Example: I can't understand 3D space on a 2D surface. In the past, this would have been literally undetectable. Now, it means…
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@jennie huge congratulations for doing such a good job you get to think hard about succession planning (and then doing a good job of that, it seems)
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@xuhulk I was just thinking the other day how I missed Magpie Kingdom! signing up now
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RT @jamesjyu: Doing some GPT poetry experiments and got this absolute gem
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@oopsohno yeah! I remember it!
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RT @ChrisGreenNews: Exclusive: Pontins used blacklist of common Irish surnames to keep Traveller families out of its holiday parks Full s…
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RT @0x11eaea: I love this so much, absolutely top notch (a stochastic plotter using a triangle array of bristlebots + coil and tablet surfa…
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it's a good book! recommended if you want to have feelings about orcs. @tambourine/1366763633095622664
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@LorenzoPilia bet James Turrell could work wonders with it
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some truly incredible packaging design in here obscuritory.com/essay/incredible-boxes-of-hock-wah-yeo/
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@refikanadol @JoanieLemercier @SuperRare if no-one used the network for a day, the price would crash. and if the price crashed, miners would stop making money. and if miners stop making money, they would stop buying GPUs & racking up such large electricity bills.
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@refikanadol @JoanieLemercier @SuperRare I mean, it might take more than a day for the price drop to stick, but you've got to start somewhere.
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RT @kittynouveau: this is a perfect video everything about it is perfect
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@dannybirchall it's definitely more expensive!
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@nielsen_holly happy birthday!!!
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RT @everestpipkin: i cannot believe i had to write this. but. everestpipkin.medium.com/but-the-environmental-issues-with-cryptoart-1128ef72e6a3
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@danhett big @torahhorse/993916034816950274?s=19 energy
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what's better?
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ice cream is not an option
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@TylerWalpole I think that argument is like saying that taking a flight doesn't create emissions because the plane would still take off if you were on it or not
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RT @moyix: The latest generation of adversarial image attacks is, uh, somewhat simpler to carry out openai.com/blog/multimodal-neurons/ https://t.co/h4…
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personally, i find it very difficult to understand myself without first Doing A Thing & only afterwards Observing How I Felt & Responded To The Thing. @mightyatom/1367602868786659331
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life update: I bought a flat! It's in Camberwell, it's nice. We've got a few weeks to do a bunch of decorating and buying furniture and white goods before the lease ends on our rented place.
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@tigershungry thanks! look at those bricks! They're... okay, they're not my bricks, they belong to the freehold.
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@tigershungry but the hole is mine
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@DNW1710 haha! thank you!
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a perfect shoe @jonty/1368272383002488835
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RT @brb_irl:
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you think you're used to the current situation, and then you read something like this and it just destroys you theguardian.com/society/2021/mar/07/the-lockdown-generation-16-young-people-on-spending-a-year-at-home
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@LiaSae it's clearly true, but it's just funny to see it presented in such a BLEEP BLOOP ROBOT way
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@BanditoJuan In the UK at least, the advertising regulator has told them off for it
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what gets me is all the love these kids have. how much they care.
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@smestorp I was sobbing big tears earlier. but MERRYGOROUND! so glad to hear that.
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It's my birthday!
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No obligation to, but if you wanted to use my birthday as an excuse to donate to a food bank near you, then I think that would be a good thing.
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I am celebrating by applying brilliant white matt emulsion to the walls of my living room. Honestly pretty good as these things go.
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Good thread I like Rust. It's not perfect, but it's useful. Seems to be better than learning C++. It doesn't have a garbage collector but does have a package manager. Match statements are great. And... I think the existence of Rust is going to make other languages better. @mcclure111/1368628911421198336
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@Aquma that was fun! glad we got to do that. today has been good (see follow up tweet). hope you're keeping well through all this.
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@aeoye shhhh, don't tell them
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@LuOulton thank you! hope you and the little one are doing well
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@shysecretagent Oh what! Happy birthday, birthday twin! Just sneaking in under the wire here. Hope you've had a good day!
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@lauraehall Thank you! <3
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@swizzle_kiss Cheers!
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@j3rrytron Thanks Jerry!
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@AndrewJohnMarks Thanks man!
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@Singyamatokun Thank youuu
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@D_Nye_Griffiths @HilariousCow thank you both! and yeah, it'd be lovely to have a call and catch up - Aubrey, I assume timezones mean that it only really makes sense on the weekend?
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Now Play This! March 25-28! Online! it's a great lineup, the team has done an amazing job @profaniti/1368910458753871873
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@jesslynnrose currently watching Yuri on Ice (as good as everyone says), and rewatching Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken (entirely relatable if you've ever worked on a creative project in a small team).
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RT @KLLiiNNG: small inks 64 and 65
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@VitaminPowered I also don't visit FB, so I gotta get my birthday wishes in somehow.
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@katbamkapow that's me!
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@UltraCobalt thanks! I've been considering putting up this floral wallpaper - big roses on it. generally considering a "roses" theme for the living room. thoughts?
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@pangmeli this was an impeccable choice of gif <3
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@artcollisions you'd die of thirst rather than starvation
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@HTHRFLWRS this is a really good, really funny game gamejolt.com/games/the-illogical-journey-of-the-zambonis/37225
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@torpordust I would dwell the fuck out of this tweet, if it was written about me.
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@nwilliams030 I appreciate the point he's making within the scope of airplane safety... but as he acknowledges, airplane safety is a rare field where there has been a continual drive for new rules to make things safer
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@Aquma you can make it work like it's supposed to, but there's a thing which needs to be configured right. that I can't remember now, lol
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@_dollgirls the more you charge, the more serious your clients will be
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RT @Scarfulhu: The dialogue in this game is absolute gold.
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@Aquma makes sense! glad my very vague response could be of some help
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@helvetica @MikeASchneider I especially appreciate it being md5, not sha3. It's a funny detail.
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RT @JustinNXT: This conversation between @JasonAEngland1 and Shaka King, director of Judas and The Black Messiah on black art, Hollywood an…
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RT @lennyjpg:
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RT @thedextriarchy: I got obsessed with Twine development a few years ago, and I wrote something I’ve meant to for a while — about the comp…
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I suddenly remembered that bit in the Hitchhiker's books where they declare that leaves are legal currency, then start burning all the forests to prevent inflation.
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I keep thinking about Steven Universe, wondering why, and then realise it's because of that Fortnite song.
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request: a filk of Stronger Than You about PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
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want to take a moment to say how appreciative I am as a game designer for people who make youtube videos and wikis explaining how mechanics work in other games
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@cYnborg no! the videos and wikis are like, often objectively not interesting, they're just useful when trying to get a handle on a reference quickly. and also, I've gotta be secret about what we're working on at work :(
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@amyhoy Quentin Blake!
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RT @NilsDeneken: A few random sketches from the world of Mutazione.
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fun fact about the human visual system: the minimum number of photons that need to enter the eye to be perceived is 1
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(but you gotta sit in a completely dark box for 40 minutes and have a precisely calibrated laser shine into your eye & then you're able to guess whether the laser went off at a rate a little better than chance. but, y'know, one photon, what do you expect)
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“The most amazing thing is that it’s not like seeing light. It’s almost a feeling, at the threshold of imagination,” says Alipasha Vaziri, a physicist at the Rockefeller University in New York City, who led the work and tried out the experience himself. nature.com/news/people-can-sense-single-photons-1.20282
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RT @ColonialCountr1: The @nationaltrust has been vindicated. Incorporating colonial history into accounts of British heritage sites was lon…
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RT @KLLiiNNG: small ink 70
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RT @Strategictaper: If you’re into North American music, check out Blink-182, who combine the rich timbral overtones of guitar with the low…
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RT @IanZell: Got the worm tunnel working. Gotta feed them 3 stars to get them to let you in
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RT @carsonbot: What are we made of but hunger and rage?
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RT @PublicDomainRev: Adam Wirsing’s Marmora (1776) features hundreds of illustrations showcasing the beauty and variety of marble. Composed…
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this is me & Pixie @cannedcabbage/1370192342444019723
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@andytuba I tried to be non-invasive in packaging it up, but there's a few different versions of Tracery floating around. the main change I made was making it so you have to inject the modifiers when setting it up in code - wanted to make it so non-English speakers could inject their own.
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booking a blood test & the man taking the appointment wished me a happy birthday
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RT @zachlieberman: stills...
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@tigershungry you should get a refund for that
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@chidaboomer @mcclure111 when I saw this tweet I thought it was about Cuomo
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new Olia Lialina essay on the history of the homepage interfacecritique.net/book/olia-lialina-from-my-to-me
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RT @mollysoda: “Don’t see making your own web page as a nostalgia, don’t participate in creating the netstalgia trend. What you make is a s…
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RT @IanDunt: On Monday, the policing bill is being rushed through the Commons. It contains some of the most draconian crackdowns on the rig…
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RT @brokenbottleboy: The newsletter is out. It's a serious one today and comes with a necessary content warning for discussion of violence…
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The government are trying to make protest that involves any noise or has a impact on nearby people illegal. Which is seriously fucked up, because the point of protest is to inconvenience people. To give them a reason to change something.
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RT @good_faces_bot:
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remembering going to the BLM protests last summer. the only people not wearing masks were the police.
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here's the text @UnitePolitics/1370865838140571648?s=19
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@AnthonyJK @ChakatReverse @zombietyr @AlbaMoth here in the UK, property is a valuable investment because it's an asset class that has massively increased in value & that the government has shown commitment to preventing any drops in value. Bitcoin hits the first, but I'm glad it doesn't hit the last.
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fun to realise the necessity for the dot in the corner of the 6, 8 and 9 tiles @henryseg/1370755959157628928
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although imo it would be a good wrinkle to be able to do those ones either way up
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@rubaiyat if you move any of the tiles round a full loop, they'll rotate once.
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@rubaiyat compare the orientation of the 12 and the 16
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@JiraTrello thecatamites myfriendpokey.tumblr.com/
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@willystaley It genuinely is! Fucked up, I know, but that's the state of it.
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don't say the M-word @nicatronTg/1371172614450737156
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RT @Fobwashed: This dude is simultaneously experiencing every possible human emotion all at once.
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RT @fentyfairies: shades of green in paintings
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@mx_walkz you should be able to put in words, then use the test mention box below to see them trigger
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@leighalexander I liked "Dead Mountaineer's Hotel" but it's probably not that helpful to you. It's very 70s and surreal and dreamlike, like the classic ski chalet mystery tropes but everything has melted together a bit.
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last night I dreamt I met a trans dude who had changed his name to Legal Male
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RT @chouxsalad: Gabe Newell, or as he's called in China "G-fat" (G胖), has predicted that BCIs will be "an extinction-level event for every…
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RT @catacalypto: where is my vampire hunter novel where the vampire leverages increasingly ornate tax loopholes to pass his estate onto “hi…
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@mjmcmaster @dinosaurrparty just dipping in to say that I would love to play Roblox with you two! I've been playing p regularly (with @everestpipkin, mainly) and there's so many interesting little worlds in there.
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RT @_EricHu:
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used to work for an SMS company and very unsurprised by this story @jason_koebler/1371516006133293056
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RT @NYT_first_said: sensemaking
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@catacalypto congratulations :) what a slate!
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@catacalypto how does it feel to be mortal rivals with Blaseball?
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this is a funny project: toothgallery.com/ it's an art exhibition in the form of a front tooth. and the first piece installed in the tooth-gap is... actually very touching?
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RT @LalehKhalili: Just been reading elements of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill and the bits that jump out of the House of Co…
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RT @Genderintell: If the current intake of patients holds at its current rate, the waiting time for a first appointment at an NHS adults' g…
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I am looking for the cat. I wave a feather around. I say "pspspspspsps" @KatyHargrove/1371980851513237505
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“That’s the biggest problem with our research, the diamond budget” quantamagazine.org/physicists-discover-first-room-temperature-superconductor-20201014/
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RT @jonty: In short: Right now NFT's are built on an absolute house of cards constructed by the people selling them. It is likely that _ev…
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remembering without all that much fondness my time working for a company selling a weird product on Amazon @jwherrman/1372194984632401924
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RT @isosteph: upon further observation there Are actually 11am bells and 1pm bells and she literally can tell the difference what the fuck
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RT @bswud: @nwilliams030 Sun is so good for health that people who have had a skin cancer diagnosis live longer than people who haven’t had…
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RT @kashhill: After I reported the existence of Clearview AI in January 2020, the company's world exploded: lawsuits, international investi…
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10,000 hours of practice @ws_moron/1372393144453582849
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feeling nostalgic for the unself-conscious writing people did on the Internet 10-20 years ago
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was looking at a film on Letterboxd last night and that seems to be a holdout
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guess I was spurred to this thought by reading @jomc interviewing @TriciaLockwood on an abandoned Usenet forum groups.google.com/g/alt.tv.lost-in-space.danger.will-robinson.danger.danger.danger/c/8SzcEp2KdjE
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@celinejade @rhizome oh shit! congrats!
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@vectorpark it really is, thank you for sharing!
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@markeryjane would make sense that only a single farm is producing it, then!
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fwiw, i could confidently define... 30%? of the American words. and almost all of the UK ones (I had to be reminded as to what a "pelmet" is)
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also this explains some confusing conversations where i failed to give an evocative description of performance issues ("judder")
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@jstsgs mm, i don't know. but also, the American list is far more food heavy than that British, that might be part of it
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@jstsgs (3 of the 4 food items in the British list have foreign origins)
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@jstsgs chipolata : a type of small hard sausage plaice : a flat fish escalope : a thin bit of meat, usually breaded. I think they hit it with a hammer?
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ah, I dug up the source: link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-018-1077-9#Tab1
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@superSGHP yep, tippex is whiteout (a brandname turned generic)
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@ianmcque @withFND sorry to see this
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actual genuine good political news! @g__ferris/1372653028210278401
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@rifflesby hoofed mammal is actually on the right track...
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i hope the Snyder Cut heralds the return of 4:3 displays
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RT @toyukulelee: remember this
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RT @poondonkus: had an idea for the next big isekai
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@SFBDim RUCKUS: 12%
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RT @d_feldman: Ok this is slightly insane. OpenType (the common font format) actually supports simple scripts inside the font for complex c…
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@doougle @KommanderKlobb @tigershungry I should dig up their data and see if they have stats for Australians
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@ragzouken @LiToast yeah, I definitely categorised it as like... a dusty Victorian word
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@mjmcmaster @doougle @KommanderKlobb @tigershungry Good guesses. I think "gazump" might be a dark horse contender.
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@tigershungry @mjmcmaster @doougle @KommanderKlobb Hahaha. Well, apparently 16% of the people there understood the pun.
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@Andy_Makes @abey79 the mail code along the bottom is a beautiful addition
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@mcclure111 we have a lot more readily available Indian food, yes. and i will say that *most* of the American foods we have under different names, or close enough equivalents... like, we have cannelloni, penne, chickpeas, kebabs...
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@mcclure111 (however, do not come to the UK and try to have anything resembling Mexican food)
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@platinum_west @derElbi shish kebab is on a skewer
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i opened their excel sheet!! i can't be bothered to replicate their method of scoring words, but by doing a quick sort, i have obtained more words on either end of the spectrum...
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British words: biro grotty whinge tombola tippex yob kerbside squidgy boffin conker dodgem chipolata stroppy gazump courgette brolly candyfloss natter korma gormless greenfly judder naff chiropody paracetamol skiving budgie binman plaice perspex childminder abseil splodge
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more British words: blackcurrant quango profiterole teletext shambolic bolshy plimsoll sellotape escalope invigilator pelmet aubergine tiddler niggling bedsit bodge butty chaffinch wholemeal busker sultana podgy chinwag pitta skive soya lorry fiver pram gymslip miaow quiff gunge
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more American words: cilantro provolone garbanzo sandlot goober kwanza layaway saltine underclassman spackle crawdad hibachi acetaminophen lollygag valproate tamale charbroil boondocks canola spumoni busywork blacktop heartworm declarative bocce kielbasa decal liter sassafras
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& yet more American words: albuterol zinger flub luau ornery preemie behooves cornhusker breezeway grandbaby kickball scrimmage spelunker potpie doodad rutabaga chili upperclassman arugula slowpoke cookout mom tidbit mesquite lasso scads blintz manzanita catawampus doohickey
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@KommanderKlobb btw, you'll be pleased to hear that "frogspawn" is the 119th most British word.
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the other interesting thing from the data (if I'm reading it right) is that British people are generally more familiar with American words than vice versa.
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for fun, some words no-one recognizes: adyta genipap futhorc eighteenmo stotinka lamellicorn td alsike dittander iwis arseniuret gomuti grosz didapper haphtarah kahikatea witenagemot dasyure bauhinia fylfot smaragd nifle eyrir yataghan gerenuk chon cacomistle guayule autarkist
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@LainKaplan I would welcome someone looking at the data more thoughtfully @v21/1372980692225822722?s=19
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RT @rachelcoldicutt: It’s 5pm on a Friday. What better time to read my massively meandering blog post about Delinquent Telephone Activity -…
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@rachelcoldicutt @NerdNiteLondon this is great. and I have a real "I was there!!!" reaction to seeing the party in the spreadsheet again...
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@rachelcoldicutt @NerdNiteLondon also think you would get a lot out of this recent Olia Lialina essay on tech nostalgia interfacecritique.net/book/olia-lialina-from-my-to-me (although it's probably a bit heavy for 8pm on a Friday)
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@geofisher87 I got gazumped last year
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@ellaguro all I can think about is the UK taxi company, "Addison Lee"
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@imaginari_es huh! i was definitely wondering at that one - elderflower as well
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@jennatar may i recommend to you the words "judder", "bolshy" and "naff", all of which express concepts you might like to have a word for
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@luxaritas @Willeth it's more like shudder, but a shudder that's happening because something is stuck?
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@KeirRice yes, I'd start by making that face
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RT @agirlcalledlina: Happy birthday to this tweet
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RT @konstructivizm: NASA Unbelievably beautiful image of Saturn’s rings up close by Cassini.
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RT @solarpunk_girl: In Hungarian, we don’t use he/she there is only one gender pronoun “Ö”. But it’s fascinating when this is fed through G…
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RT @kchironis: last night a neighbor i don't know well shouted to us from a distance, "saw your company was in the news again! what's up wi…
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RT @RobAskew2: 1 hour old rock!
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RT @darigold: @strutting We appreciate the enthusiasm of the fans! Milkwalker was used in a safety campaign on Darigold milk cartons. Desig…
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@tsawac that... honestly turned out much better than I expected
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RT @StefGotBooted: This is class warfare, plain and simple.
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@hannahnicklin it's your flat now
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From a beautiful digitisation of a 60s government design manual design-of-forms.online/
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@mjmcmaster @LorenzoPilia tagging you both in so you can look at some typewriter fonts @v21/1373374943749083137
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@joonturbo if I had my laptop to hand I would post you a screenshot of a recent MRI of my brain. but just imagine. it looks kind of like a dog or a walnut.
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@LorenzoPilia @mjmcmaster yeah, I love that tall p
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RT @vectorpark: What if I told you about a 100% reliable carbon offset called “not doing the thing that emits it”
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@JodieAzhar @leighalexander this is such a good point. implicit in this nightmare scenario is that the relationship doesn't have space for you to say "please, can we not, that painting isn't actually very good"
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@JodieAzhar @leighalexander "also, none of your paintings are"
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@TheWhitePube @A_i beautiful piece of writing. the game as the grit for you to talk about your pearl
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@Jam_sponge thank you for this thread
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RT @MarkLGoldberg: This is a wild statistic— the total spending on the F-35 is greater than the total spending by China on the entire Belt…
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@C418 there are! thermostatic, I decided against it, as it was an extra £30
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@HAStark too late! I ordered the one that site recommended, £50, seems like it should work fine.
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RT @nkulw: a "VIP card" is an israeli document given to a select few palestinians to allow freedom of movement throughout occupied territor…
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remember going on a march about it in central London with about a million other people t.co/EOtk0UEAZ2
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RT @mccrmx: this is the way
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RT @_ojack_: thegray-market.com/blog/2021/3/21/why-the-hack-of-nifty-gateway-raises-far-reaching-questions-about-the-entire-nft-market "Why the Hack of Nifty Gateway Raises Far-Reaching Questions About the Entire NFT Market"
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RT @zeynep: Incredible New Zealand study on a mystery transmission in a quarantine hotel. For a while, a garbage can was suspected—one of t…
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@fireh9lly the thing i expected to find & then did with this is the police escalating to violence first. normally it doesn't kick off in quite this way, even with that. but it's worth remembering that it's also particular anger with police earlier in the evening, not just abstract anger.
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RT @WilmotsGame:
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@folmerkelly it's just there to accessorise - it accentuates his waistline.
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RT @WYR_bot: Would you rather online or not?
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@dannybirchall Taiwan is a better comparison (except they aren't white, so)
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RT @eric_lang: A common first question I will ask designers who ask for my feedback of their game is: "Why did you design this game?" The…
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Slack is funny, like... a games company failed and now everyone has to use IRC for work all day.
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@tigershungry once could be an accident, twice starts to look like carelessness
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@clockworkfrogs nostalgia
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@clockworkfrogs but there is something fundamentally good about IRC being a protocol, not a product. there have been hundreds of different clients, a bunch of server implementations, it's been around for literal decades, I have no doubt that it'll outlast Slack...
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@clockworkfrogs but Slack is fundamentally nicer and easier to use, and has teams of engineers adding new features
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@everestpipkin next level carpet tile rendering @Johnee_B/1373210297188630530
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(shame we neither of us have a PS4)
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RT @ompuco: okay last thread for now about testing out my favorite looking games on my BVM @ a forced 240p res been dying to try out @card…
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RT @_pem_pem: hi i wrote a deeply personal story about how ketamine saved me from the depths of hell. i would be honored if you’d read it.…
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RT @jsrailton: Latest update: the EVER GIVEN is... still ever-jammed across the #SuezCanal. Also, a teeny excavator tried to help. Thank…
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RT @FalunJimmy: I'd like to cover the curious case of Wen Ho Lee 李文和, a Taiwanese-American scientist at Los Alamos who was accused of spyin…
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RT @pangmeli: I think this is such an important point — that there are more (and maybe better) ways of supporting something or someone than…
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RT @NataniaBarron: 9 - The reason that no one knows how to make Dhaka muslin is because the English purposefully, strategically, & devastat…
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every 74 days, someone I know posts the "dairy tech tree" diagram from Wikipedia
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@FlorianVltmn @AranKoning this is incredible timing
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RT @harphat: How Taiwan triumphed over Covid as UK faltered theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/24/how-taiwan-triumphed-over-covid-as-uk-faltered?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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RT @KLLiiNNG: small ink 83
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RT @vg_history: videogame review ratings, power play, magazine (1990) archive.org/details/Power.Play.N26.1990.05-kultpower/page/n5/mode/2up
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RT @rechelon: Anarchist recruitment for decades had been primarily social / subcultural, with a fringe of super committed altruistic nerds…
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@caiitlinz that's how our calendars are by default here, and it's pretty helpful. but also I would feel weird in your position too. it's the reciprocity of it.
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@AroraXD oh, I mean, it's clearly technology, important cheese engineering. but I was saying tech tree because it's like a tech tree in an RTS game. this product unlocks this other product and all that.
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RT @tigershungry: **This Afternoon** Join us for the @BritishCouncil 's PlayUK Showcase Event. Come hear from videogame creatives & commu…
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@thairyn ugh I want to be outside drinking with friends as the sun goes down and it starts to get actually chilly but we're having a nice time so stay even after it stops being all that pleasant
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I have been saying this! Ban time zones! Everyone should use the same clock! @opinion/1374031937820581892
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@varjmes apparently it sends an email with a confirmation flow before actually connecting you
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@varjmes oops, sorry, I take it back @44/1374737695444901891?s=19
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@notquitereal @polclarissou thinking about the crunchy contact between the bulbous bow and the side of the canal
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@notquitereal @polclarissou thinking about being in the bridge of a large ship when it suffers a power outage, or maybe it ran aground or some currents went weird, and helplessly watching as it starts to go sideways. i imagine it would have taken several minutes. just watching helplessly as that happens.
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white I'm at it: we should get an extra month en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
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@thairyn I *would* get a larger shandy
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people find their own uses for tools @lemonodor/1374803809696817154?s=19
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@franzpatricia @briansantacruz @RepMarkPocan it seems likely to me that the good wages & benefits were connected to having a union in the past. maybe the wages will stay up - if the company is competing for workers with unionised workplaces, they might for a while - but a big reason to keep conditions good has now gone.
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@BanditoJuan I did try to do some soul searching as to whether this is the reason why... but nah, roll a dice to see who gets it, fine either way.
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RT @joncstone: very clear exaplantion of why Right To Buy makes it financially impossible for councils to build enough social housing: http…
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@ok_remi_ok this is a perfect video
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trees so full of white blossom they look like they've been photographed in infrared
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RT @gray:
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@astroblob wait... the hair became eyebrows 😯
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thread on how to construct custom easing functions that have particular properties @rygorous/1374788383692615681
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@TinaRiversRyan my understanding: crypto is an attempt to invent a form of ownership that is technically, rather than legally, enforced. owning an NFT means nothing legally* - it means the ownership field of the NFT points at the address of a wallet you have control of the private key for.
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@TinaRiversRyan what crypto people have, amazingly, managed to do is give that new technical definition of ownership a sense of social consensus - people agree that those database entries being set up that way mean something
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@TinaRiversRyan but there's a whole load of legal ways that you can own something, and it's not any of those. and that was intentional! because the early ideological crypto people wanted to create something that governments would have no control over
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@TinaRiversRyan (and having no government control means it has to not require participants to trust each other, as that trust is ultimately backed by the state (theoretically))
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@TinaRiversRyan * footnote: but it might be the case that the police will get involved if you steal an NFT. idk, I think it's all pretty new and experimental territory. a smart lawyer could argue that nothing was actually stolen, imo. see also: tax implications.
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@TinaRiversRyan all of this is in comparison to copyright, which is a form of ownership governments invented. or physical ownership, which predates the nation-state
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@TinaRiversRyan btw, my personal opinion is that all of this is bad, we continue to live in a society, it's better to have systems where you can't lose everything you own if the wrong hard drive fails, ban this libertarian bullshit before it melts the planet.
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@patrickashe ohhh I had wondered what happened there
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@jazzmickle gotta say, I started this thread going "100mb! boo! do better!" and ended it going "well, 100mb isn't so bad... the web platform does a lot of stuff..."
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@jazzmickle I agree! It's just that all the options are bad and annoying!
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@jazzmickle "a nice thing for writing a reasonably complex and attractive UI in" is so rare... that's the main thing you pay for.
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I have had a distinctly different, but also bad experiences trying to book appointments with my GP. @rachelcoldicutt/1375351036181934083
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RT @BBCRosAtkins: Coming on 350k views for our latest video on the EU’s shift in vaccine tactics - and how we need to step back and look at…
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this is... actually cool videogame merch??? atelier.zaumstudio.com/products/kims-aerostatic-pilot-jacket
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RT @Yara_Haridy: The door to the museum was buried shut in the revolution. To stop looting. So we contacted the mayor and all the proper…
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good diagrams in this thread @vruba/1111380710344916992
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what would be really funny if is they did The Necktie
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@kurai no, it's like that thing where you trip and stumble, and then when trying to correct yourself you go too far the other way and end up running for a few meters, into someone who was standing a very reasonable distance away. but with wind & a canal bank instead.
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@spacetreasured disappointed but not surprised
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vaccine passports seem bad t.co/sUu3ZeFK6k
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reminder that Now Play This is on this weekend : nowplaythis.net/ talks at 3 and 5 pm, and a party in the evening (and games to play at any time)
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RT @GuardianAus: Leonardo, ladies' man: why can't we accept that Da Vinci was gay? theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/mar/26/leonardo-aidan-turner-amazon-prime-video-series-gay?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=soc_568&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1616796106
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it's funny shopping for a fridge at the moment, because the energy efficiency scales are in the middle of being adjusted. half the fridges I'm looking at are A+, half are F, and they're all pretty much the same.
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what they should've done is change it to an "A scale", where every product gets a number. and the number is equivalent to the number of pluses after the A in the old scale.
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(they shouldn't, the way they did it is correct. I went from "eh, I'll get one of these, they're all pretty good" to "oh, I guess I'll have to get one of these, even if they're all pretty bad" - which is a sign it's working, I'd pay a little more for an "E" fridge than a "A++")
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videogames are the best medium because they allow you to buy a dog wig to cover the bald spot you caused by over-petting it. @DaedalusTaiven/1375625768806412288
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it's nonsense, but it's also deeply systemic nonsense. but also it only matters because you care about it!
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@catacalypto it really does! I was definitely trying to describe both this MH mechanic but also videogames as a whole. I felt there was a danger that my initial tweet would not read as sincerely as I meant it
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@catacalypto (about 70% sincere, I don't actually think it makes any sense to rank one medium against another, but this really is the thing that makes videogames stand out)
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@ThePatanoiac isn't it! behind the tweet fact: I googled it to check there wasn't an existing malamute variation called the palamute they'd named the dog after. but no, it's an invention. although you can also put your palamute in a costume that makes it look like a golden retriever.
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@catacalypto @ThePatanoiac attempting to answer this via sheer game designer intuition... dog wigs are a resource sink, but probably not very important. the asset cost for the bald spot is multiplied by the number of skins it applies to, but also there's a small number of dog skins & it's a small asset.
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@catacalypto @ThePatanoiac so ultimately it probably comes down to consistency... if I was designing it I would make the bald spot consistent as skins are swapped. fewer edge cases to deal with all round (what if you apply & deapply the skin, what if you apply the wig when a skin makes it not visible)
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@catacalypto @ThePatanoiac but also it really depends at what stage they added the feature, what random constraints of tooling & staffing intersected.
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@catacalypto @ThePatanoiac imagine the heartbreak if you had it designed and in process and then some detail meant it got caught up in some dependency tangle, a producer sees it and rightly suggests cutting the gordian knot by just cutting the feature.
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RT @mazel_toph: good evening here is my 76 year old dad sending me a list of words he doesn’t understand while reading detransition baby ht…
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RT @nowplaythese: We're launching our #NPT2021 commission strand today: - At 2pm @tomokihara and @jr_carpenter chat with @sebquack about t…
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RT @TheWhitePube: This week's review is Clawee, the live remote claw machine app. I write a love letter to claw machines, my favourite game…
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i love to add to my list of skills I am capable of doing but not especially well
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but for real this is a big reason I'm a game designer, it's something you can get better at by scavenging skills and knowledge from the thousand areas that interrelate. or at least it is the way that I do it.
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I wonder if I'll find a use for "the way that you adjust the pressure on the trowel to allow you to transition from smoothing with the back edge to smoothing with the front edge without lifting the trowel off the wall"...
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@higgyC god imagine applying butter to toast with a flat trowel
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RT @tigershungry: Delighted to be continuing a conversation that started at last year’s @nowplaythese with @neilsonks & @milanimalism on S…
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@awesommelier Camberwell!
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@oopsohno i'm remembering an evening in a hotel room in Canada, when the curling was on the telly
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RT @amyhoy: what gets measured, gets managed give your employees KPIs with an incentive and they’ll gladly wreck your business to fulfill…
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@innesmck "Seller has made many improvements."
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"Seller has made many improvements." @innesmck/1376467257958793224
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RT @GarethLWatkins1: Something the Lil Nas X thing is showing is that American conservative Christians would bring the Satanic Panic back i…
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remembering the month or so where I worked at a studio called "Workhouse Games" before the founders realised that was an awful idea and renamed it @leslee_annsh/1376273610080329728
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@hoskingc both of them ran aground! it was stuck at both ends. they've not freed the stern, but the bow still hasn't shifted (or, it's shifted enough for the boat to rotate, but is still not entirely free)
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@hoskingc typo: should be now, rather than not
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@designCaitlin I know that feeling. Come back meetings! At least then you don't have any choice about whether you're working or not.
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RT @GrantaMag: ‘If you hate flying ant day, we hate you.’ Three poems by Verity Spott granta.com/verity-spott-three-poems/
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@AnnaHollinrake false alarm it's moving @jsrailton/1376527014967017472?s=19
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RT @DefenseCharts:
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@notquitereal did you see the recent comic about the "big internet"? wild!
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@notquitereal we think most internets aren't used for anything yet
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@usablelearning @dingstweets it's fine, it's just full of all the sex dungeon stuff they deinstalled from the basement for when the estate agent came to take photos
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RT @jason_koebler: When you buy NFT art you are not buying artwork you are more buying the idea of the artwork and some code that refers to…
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RT @thisismollym: Overjoyed to have had the opportunity to illustrate for Endgame Sequences Zine! I was overjoyed to work with AD @itskindr…
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@vectorpoem they're definitely not bots (this is not how bots work, idk why people use the word "bots" for this type of posting). but they are generally paid to post. my money is on the person running the Darla account being pro-union, tho.
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@mtrc @vectorpoem but while digging that up I found this one, which is fantastic: @AmazonFCDarla/1376284442273087489?s=19
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RT @haikus_by_KN: Game developers! Now that Satanic Panic is back in style, it's time to rethink our game soundtracks. Specifically: get yo…
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@MimaSweets no, copy pasting is the way. the editor will get slow, but if you create the Tracery source in a text editor (like Sublime Text) you can copy paste into the window to apply it.
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RT @Sierra_OffLine: somewhere inside me dwells a brief essay on why "kitchen systems software" is the failed holy grail of personal computi…
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RT @johnhanke: Exciting to see the progress we’re making to enable new kinds of devices that leverage our platform... https://t.co/yYglk4q8…
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RT @ShellyAsquith: Good morning to the pupils of Pimlico Academy school who are refusing to go to class in protest of their head teachers’…
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@ragzouken this is a metaphor for use when parts of management tries to persuade other parts of management to for time to fix the pipes
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"how about, instead of 'decolonising the curriculum', which seems very negative... we added more colonialism instead?" @Ross_Greer/1377228795078402048
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They are working so hard to define away and paper over anything that could count as structural racism. It's a hard job! @nathanoseroff/1377220050013323264?s=19
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12 years later, and we're still talking about how recommendation algorithms radicalise people and whether there's anything anyone could possibly do about it @v21/1108390875233685504
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prompted by this tweet @imbadatlife/1377200266781548547?s=19
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RT @innesmck: right now i think many trans people feel so visible it's unbearable it's hard to have a day of visibility in the midst of th…
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@craigw1701 racism is over!
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@helvetica @omarieclaire @dinosaurrparty I think this is a good point! these kinds of questions are pretty high trust already - scary and off-putting unless you're already in a trusting place. the mechanics lower the sense of vulnerability & add a load of lower stakes interactions to work up to the scarier stuff
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@helvetica @omarieclaire @dinosaurrparty thinking about a friend who spent literal hours coming up with an acceptable answer for a new-hire "tell us an interesting fact about yourself". or the sheer terror & self loathing that I face when writing online dating profiles.
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@helvetica @omarieclaire @dinosaurrparty if you've not seen it before, this is a good read about trust & friendship in online videogames projecthorseshoe.com/2016/10/02/designing-a-friendship-leveling-system/ (also obviously relevant is Bernie DeKoven's stuff about the necessity of being able to refuse to play to allow any play to take part)
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@helvetica @omarieclaire @dinosaurrparty also: one way that the mechanics make this stuff less scary is that they are less expressive - they allow the player to blame the game for what they did, without feeling so exposed. there's a lot of good reasons to hate on CAH, but this is one of the reasons it's successful.
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@bmfu @TheLiftedBrow this is great. I love the sunfly pose!!!
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@itstheshadsy @lizardengland oh, shit yes, and of course they've all been reverted. but if you look deep within the edit history, you can see that they all came true. and if you look at the other edits from that IP address...
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@grapefrukt thank you!
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@MekraBee the rules are very simple indeed...
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@gamedev_fitness @anabequeerly aw, i'm halfway through that!
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RT @happifydesign: What if I did a thread of just repairs? Beautiful, beautiful repairs? An infinite thread?
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RT @newsmary: my gender experience is much like dessert at the end of a really good meal: everything on the menu looks great and you should…
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RT @SeaExcursion: me: okay the #pleasurecardrpg jam is over, that deadline has passed, you definitely dont have to think about business car…
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RT @planetjedward: 🏳️⚧️JEPIC🏳️⚧️
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RT @chaykak: .@SophieHaigney wrote a great feature for @studyhallxyz about the history of moderation online and why good moderation is like…
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this is... Discord? also I think they already announced it. @TheHustle/1376927196523024386
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@isosteph yes, what a great game!
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RT @waypoint: Jane Jensen was one of games' great storytellers. When the industry wouldn't let her tell those stories, she took her talents…