Alex Fitzpatrick

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Software alchemist and science fiction nerd
@annaleen Crouching Druid, Sleeping Dragon

Or… hear me out, we could stop deliberately destroying the planet for profit?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/port-nelson-hudson-bay-1.7454115

ANALYSIS | A potential U.S. trade war has breathed some life into the fraught idea of shipping oil through Hudson Bay | CBC News

Canada is suddenly considering its short- and long-term export and transport options for the oil industry, which includes breathing some life into the idea of transporting oil across northern Manitoba and filling tankers at a Hudson Bay port.

CBC
@pavsmith Where did you get the coconuts?

This is one of my favourite dialogs in all of Linux. What application? Who is asking for this information and why? Stop asking questions and give me your secrets.

It’s amazing how it is 2024 and - consistently - our front-line security interfaces still train people to do and accept the very wrongest things.

@newsthump Just wait until they hear about where the Anglo Saxons and the Normans came from.
Pro tip: Bring your phone with you on a hike. That way, if you get lost, you can post on Mastodon and someone will invariably come up behind you and tell you how to write your alt text.
@aliettedb Queens always have better moves.

Q: What's the one thing every pirate captain's chair needs to have?

A: Lumbarrrrrrrrrrrrrr support

I just boosted "I think that the biggest reason I believe that we need universal basic income is so that people always have an out. A bad relationship, a bad job, a bad situation, even discovering you've overrotated on something that's turning into a scam or a cult. You should always be able to walk away without fearing destitution."
but,
more than that, we should have UBI so disability isn't a crime with a death sentence.
Innit, though. Reposted with alt-text.