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Cake day: January 7th, 2025

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  • Neat, I support this effort big time.

    I was so paranoid when I got my memorial tattoo done… it’s in Latin, and my Latin is not awesome… I did weeks of research and was very confident I had it right, so I had my prof take a look and somehow I did indeed get it right, yay!

    I was paranoid because my first tattoo was supposed to say one thing in Japanese, had the right character on the stencil and everything, and the artist fucked it up figuring I wouldn’t notice, and it’s not a word at all. Thankfully it’s covered unless I’m naked, and nobody who has seen me naked can read Japanese…

    Unfortunately I’m so rusty on all my languages I won’t be much help, but I’m for sure gunna lurk!






  • Archive link because this is too important for people to be turned away by a paywall

    https://archive.ph/HYbBG

    The takeaway that I got here is basically that even a burner phone can hypothetically be linked to you, if you take it home with you after a protest. And if you aren’t using a burner phone, they can get so much granular historical data about you that your whole life is laid bare.

    And zero warrants required, because of course this needs to be abused as much as possible.

    What do normal people even do about this sort of thing? Flock cameras at least can be disabled or hacked, but this? We don’t have access to cell towers nor the ability to choose which we connect to, we don’t meaningfully have the ability to opt out of data tracking.





  • I agree with you but it’s a minefield. And the goalposts shift. For example, one time I was leaving a bar after stopping for food on my way home from work. I brought a comic book to read as a signal I didn’t want to chit-chat. This took place in the parking lot, with a guy easily double my age, and I’m no spring chicken.

    “Hey baby” (yelled from halfway across the parking lot)

    “Not interested, thanks.” (Said dismissively)

    “Bitch, I don’t want to fuck you!” (Said extremely aggressively)

    “Not interested in a conversation either!” (Said in singsong)

    “No wonder you are here alone, cunt.” (Intent obvious)

    Like… no shit? I made myself unavailable for a reason, but even minding one’s own business isn’t enough to escape abuse.





  • Having seen an absolute gob of these comments, I’m inclined to agree. They all read largely the same way, there’s an awful lot of comments for being a 1 day account (easily rivaling some of the most prolific humans we’ve had), some of them make very little sense, and they are all top level with very very very few replies to anyone, but they still address other commenters in their top level comment which is super weird. They also only seem to comment on images. Or at least I haven’t seen any that didn’t.

    There was another account, cosmicpancake, that was basically the same. I didn’t realize they were not the same account. That one was purged.



  • MonkeyTown@midwest.socialtoScience Memes@mander.xyzmembrainz
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    5 months ago

    Cats also have them. You sometimes see them in the corner of their eye, or partially covering their eyes when they’ve just woken up or are sick or something. They are sort of a translucent milky white.

    It’s because they evolved in desert conditions, from what I’ve read. They can see well enough through them but it protects against sand and stuff.




  • MonkeyTown@midwest.socialtoNiceMemes@sopuli.xyzWhat's yours?
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    5 months ago

    My favorite is in early spring, just after all the leaves come fully out but before they darken to their summer colors.

    Driving/riding through dense woods on a still, sunny day (with the windows down, if in car) everything smells fresh and crisp, and the sun streams through the neon green leaves.

    Magical renewal.