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LillyPip

@ LillyPip @lemmy.ca

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Sci-fi & horror author, UXD, software dev, composer/engraver, gamer, seamstress/tailor, nerd, etc; she/her. Aroace.

  • US orders travelers on Air Force One to throw away gifts, pins, and burner phones after China trip

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  • Pretty sure this is SOP. At least, it was before these idiots took over.

    Not sure why this is news, unless this didn’t occur to these morons before now and they think it’s a Very Good, Big Brain Idea™ that was obvious to literally everyone else.

  • What's an interesting etymology for a common term?

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  • The abbreviation ‘lbs’ for ‘pounds’ comes from the Roman ‘libre pondo’ meaning ‘a pound by weight’.

    This is also the reason the symbol for Libra in the zodiac is scales (Libra is the only sign represented by an inanimate object).

    I just learnt this today, and I can’t believe I never noticed before now that ‘lbs’ for ‘pounds’ is weird. I always just mentally glossed over it.

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    FBI agents deeply concerned after being asked to investigate Atlantic journalist who wrote blistering story about Kash Patel: report

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  • ‘Deeply concerned’.

    Not going to do anything about it, but we’ll furrow our brows really hard.

  • Trump Administration Lifts Ban on ‘Cyanide Bombs’ on Public Lands

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  • Oh thank goodness. This was really impacting my life.

  • Tennessee Republicans redraw maps to erase last Democratic, Black-majority district

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  • It’s the Deep South. Are we surprised?

    They’ve been itching to reinstate Jim Crow down there.

    A bit more disenfranchisement and the plantation owners politicians will get slavery back.

  • Xbox is ditching Microsoft's Copilot AI

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  • Xbox has adopted and abandoned AI in the amount of time I stopped playing, stopped paying for Live, and will maybe start again. (eta: if I don’t find something else that has 3D VR).

    Weird, that.

  • Superb cool

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  • I just watched a long form video on the difference between war and conflict, and how we can’t really call many animal conflicts ’war’.

    And then how some animal conflicts, like ant and chimp wars really are war. It was pretty cool.

    Since some dinosaurs species were around for a very long time, I wonder whether they did wage war? They had plenty of time to develop culture and more than enough to hate each other. Maybe war really never changes.

    eta: and as mum to a young dino enthusiast back in the day, I hope they were that complex cuz that’s groovy. Still hip to please that little boy, lol.

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  • Uno dos tres quatro cinco cinco seis

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  • Back when my sister and I would hang at the mall, sometimes we’d get bored and play this game of trying to get the highest number of random strangers to stare at the ceiling. We’d just walk down the mall, both looking at the ceiling as if looking for something specific.

    You’d be amazed how contagious that is.

  • RFK Jr cut off dead raccoon's penis on family vacation 'to study later'

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  • The dead moose would be profoundly better as the surgeon general.

  • Pete Hegseth Is Trying to Resegregate the Military

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  • We need you to die for us, but only if you have the right genitals.

    Genitals win or lose wars, apparently.

  • The American Hitler and the morality of the ruling class

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  • I really think this is worth reading:

    https://www.newsweek.com/hitler-incompetent-lazy-nazi-government-clown-show-opinion-1408136

    And note you can easily substitute the word ‘Trump’ for ‘Hitler’ throughout, and it’s uncannily accurate.

    It’s important to understand that, despite the popular image of Hitler – of a genius tactician who was ruthless, &c – he was actually a narcissist, an imbecilic buffoon, and it doesn’t take smarts to do a holocaust. Only power and sociopathy.

    That’s why these people are so dangerous. Not because they’re smart, but because they aren’t, and people give them power anyway.

  • The US president just instructed the USPS to seize any ballots cast be anyone not approved by the federal government.

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  • Uh, isn’t that how it’s always worked? Like, everywhere?

    You can’t vote if you’re not a citizen. That’s like, duh. Floating this onto the USPS is stupid. It already happens exactly where it’s supposed to…

  • Are you the Key Master?

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  • No, I am the gatekeeper.

  • Health couch

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  • But the siren call…

  • Trump signs order directing creation of a national voter list, a move sure to face legal challenges

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  • Still playing the accordion, I see.

  • Markets plunge and U.S. oil hits $100 as Trump fails to reassure Wall Street

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  • Welp. I’d like to not say I told ya so, because that’s not helpful.

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  • Rubber duck debugging - Programmers often discover solutions while explaining a problem to someone else, even to people with no programming knowledge.

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  • This has a name? I thought this was just how it works. It’s why we think out loud.

    eta: thinking + speaking + hearing engages more of your brain. That’s obvious, right? More engagement == more connections?

  • Investigators Believed Trump Hoarded Top Secret Gov’t Files for Personal Financial Gain: Report

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  • Oh shit, did we forget about all this treason?

    Nice. So, yeah.

    And remember how there were office printers in the rooms with these stacks of documents? Nothing but boxes and a pro level printer in each of these rooms?

    Every photo shows this. A room full of boxes and a very nice printer.

    Good lord, I’m not the only one who remembers these photos??