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The fact that Ars wrote this without an image is unacceptable. I mean, I get it, but curiosity cannot be held back like that.
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Man turns irreversibly gray from an unidentified silver exposure - Ars Technica
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Man turns irreversibly gray from an unidentified silver exposure
His skin, hands, nails, and eyes had turned silvery gray from the exposure.Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
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Facebook alternatives (an incomplete list): With a lot of people talking about leaving Facebook and other Meta properties, but also often expressing frustration with the most popular other options not having the same functionality, I started thinking about what could be done, where, and how. Here are my initial thoughts. michaelhans.com/eclecticism/?pβ¦
#Bluesky #Facebook #Flickr #Loops #Mastodon #Meta #MicroBlog #NetNewsWire #Pixelfed #RSS #Vimeo #YouTube #blog #geekery #tech
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Yes, it's been shifting and shrinking considerably for years now. At least since Trump announced his candidacy in 2016.
Retrospect is always 20/20. What *was* the lunatic fringe in the late 2000s is now mainstream.
Fucking nauseating, really.
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Do you think these companies are going to stop with trans folks? They're going to enable hate speech and dehumanizing rhetoric against anyone who's not an able bodied straight white Christian man. The time to speak out is now. [contains quote post orβ¦
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SCOTUS seems inclined to uphold the tiktok ban. Meta thru Instagram will be one of the biggest beneficiaries of this. At this point, the only major social media will be Meta, Twitter, and YouTube with Meta effectively having a monopoly on short form videoβ¦
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Zuck will be personally lynching queers from lampposts by the end of the year at this rate. axios.com/2025/01/10/meta-dei-β¦
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They're straight up going to erase trans people from Meta apps. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
π΄ #LifeDev #LiveCoding 343. My dream game on #CPTSD
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#IndieDev #GameDev #UnrealEngine #Linux
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JimmyTheGiant: ... but I'm not done; There is one other son of a bitch, and his name is ...
Me: Is it Le Corbusier? Is it Le Corbusier?
JTG: ... Le Corbusier.
Me: Yaaay! Here we go!
JimmyTheGiant: "How Britain Made a Dystopian City"
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youtube.com/watch?v=ci67HETjmDβ¦
#MiltonKeynes #architecture #CityPlanning #urbanism
#LeCorbusier #CarCentricism #modernism
#MelvinMWebber #DerekWalker #AdolfLoos #RichardLlewelynDavies
#BletchleyPark
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Russia Eyes Libya To Replace Syria As Africa Launchpad
The fall of Russian ally Bashar al-Assad in Syria has disrupted the Kremlin's strategy not only for the Mediterranean but also for Africa, pushing it to focus on Libya as a potential foothold, experts say.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
The Wee Writing Lassieβs 300 Books in a Year β Book 6
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham Goodreads Blurb:This book is fantastic and frightening, but entirely plausible. It doesnβt just seem scientifically possible, but its characters are liβ¦The Wee Writing Lassie
State Sen. Scott Wiener announced legislation Thursday aimed at bolstering the privacy of transgender Californians.
sfstandard.com/2025/01/09/tranβ¦
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Keir 'Neville Chamberlain' Starmer going for a special pre-election dinner with America's new King and the self proclaimed 'First Buddy' is going to get rid of him anyway.
Once again bending the knee to Fascism only gets you thrown in the trash, but Centrists will keep doing it....
#UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #ElonMusk #Musk #Starmer
I'm as big a fan of American pop culture as any on this island, more so than most in fact, and it's because of that I say "Believe them when they tell you what they want to do"
UNIMAGINABLE!
Massive wildfires continue to spread in Los Angeles and Los Angeles County amid extreme winds, including the Palisades Fire, which has exploded to nearly 20,000 acres, and the Eaton Fire, which has scorched over 13,000 acres.
At least ten people have died, and many more have been seriously injured due to the fast-moving, wind-driven infernos.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #PalisadeFire #Breaking #BreakingNews #california
The Devastation Is Complete
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If you wish to become great in any particular style of writing, let your reading extend beyond the books of that class. Even if you do not want your branches to cover a great deal of ground, it will always make for fertility to have your roots well spread out.
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in reply to Matt • • •en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria
(most common in people taking the snake oil βcolloidal silverβ)
(and I see even Ars has to throw in a couple paragraphs warning about hokum therapies)
medical condition
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