Denny πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

@denny@boing.world
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Was a geek and fitness enthusiast, then a brain haemorrhage kinda ruined my day. Now I'm trying to get back on my feet and figure out who I am.
Websitehttps://denny.me
GitHubhttps://github.com/denny
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"#Gemini is to have access to Phones, Messages, #WhatsApp, and Utilities on #Android phones, regardless of whether Gemini Apps Activity is turned on or off..."

#Privacy #DataProtection #AI

https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/gemini-ai-will-soon-access-calls-and-messages-on-your-android-even-if-you

One of the funny things that happened in my assessment yesterday was I was asked quite a lot of questions about my mental health generally. To which I responded - how is anyone supposed to feel tethered or sane at the same time as accepting all of the horrors. Love Island and dead children. McDonald's and starvation. Parking fines and tax loopholes for the megarich. World leaders flying in private jets to talk about the planet being on fucking fire. How is anyone supposed to walk the line of sanity and just accept that. Oil spills devastating wildlife and billions of cows and chickens being murdered and eaten and fake customer service pleasantries and landfill and sweatshops and footballer salaries and violent crime by desperate people and the new face of Estee Lauder and TikTok influencers and the John Lewis Christmas advert and the Westboro Baptists and deforestation and superyachts and celebrities in space and genocide. Oasis ticket prices, Ariana Grande and Andrew Tate and Donald Trump.

Oh yeah I feel great. All perfectly normal. Seems totally fine. Happy healthy way for us all to live in harmony. Surrounded by atrocity and violence and hatred and greed, being told to cheer up and have we thought of mindfulness?

It is a totally stupid question. My question is how is anyone OK? Surely everyone is at maximum? Noone can be surviving this unscathed. I am sure that if anyone out there is happily just getting on with their life they are a) actually insane or b) deeply deeply disconnected. Welp another day another bunch of dead kids. McFlurry anyone? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here. Mr Blobby for Prime Minister. What do you mean you *object*? I'm sorry but the majority of people have chosen him to run the country and make all the decisions. Blobby Blobby Blobby bomb Iran Blobby Blobby Blobby. What's wrong - why are you depressed? There's clearly something wrong have you thought about paying for this medication that will numb you? Have some of that and watch the TV. I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here is on. You can see Curtis Stigers eat some kangaroo shit. Everything's fine. Woooosaaaaaaah.

Come on, folks, I'm 7 responses short of getting 2,000 responses to my
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Climate messaging survey - 2025

A survey on how the climate crisis, how we discuss it, and how we can tackle it

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Queer'Pla! Happy Pride Month <3

https://lemmy.world/post/31928682

It seems to me that we're living in a world dominated by AIβ€”only it stands for Angry Idiots.

Welcome to the Shitularity!

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We are bringing the first EU Space Act to the launchpad. πŸš€

We are proposing a new law to make space safer to protect our astronauts, our satellites, our skies, and our future:

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@cstross "Don't threaten me with a good time!"
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Via bluesky I gather the whiny righties are losing their shit on X right now!
@cstross "Don't threaten me with a good time!"
@denny @cstross Reminds me of a happy memory of student days when exams were over the sun was shining, we had brought chairs out to the front lawn and someone had just been on a booze cruise. As a neighbour walked past, she yelled at us "I suppose you think it's fun to sit around drinking beer all day!"
@cstross something accusation something confession
@cstross
Ah, more Conservative projection propaganda...
@cstross literally fetish material. Also, sounds great! πŸ˜†
@cstross "A fate I would not wish on my worst enemy" is a strange way to say "I've maxed out three credit cards on this", ai autocorrect is crazy these days.
@cstross moving to new york as we speak...
@cstross Sheesh, Mamdani’s not even mayor….yet.
@cstross people would pay ALOT of money for that experience
@cstross They are mining estrogen.
@cstross same as it ever was
@cstross that artist threatened to sue me once. This isn't the first time their femdom fetish art has been used for political ends

@cstross

As a mommy-state liberal engineer, I can't condone those working conditions. No PPEs, uncovered skin, no safety fences at high drops. Those stones are surelyheavier than 90/269/EEC allows for manual handling

They seem to have plenty of budget for safety watchers, but that is not is a replacement for proper equipment and procedures!

Also suggests unfair hiring practices - safety watcher is not the best paid job on a construction site, and guess which job is reserved for women?

@cstross

Look at this guy, his back is not going to survive this for long.

Make a healthy setup, where he can sit or stand normally, and she is on an platform at the right elevation. With a safety fence of course

@Zamfr @cstross re the uncovered skin, it does appear the sunscreen supply must be ample.
@Zamfr @cstross look at that guy lifting with his back! Clearly hasn't had safety training. Where are the shop stewards?! Are these people even unionized?
@Zamfr @cstross Hopefully they're at least getting a good uniform allowance
@Zamfr @cstross Don't like the look of their lifting gear either.
@cstross some people pay good money for this
@cstross
Never realized that Rare Earth mining could be so exciting.

@TidalFlats @cstross

It’s all about process, really…

@glasspusher @cstross
"How to Motivate Underperforming Employees"
@TidalFlats @cstross never looked forward to a bad performance review so much in my life
@cstross I for one, see no problem with that future lol ;)
@cstross There is going to be a kink scene in NYC!? This is a nightmare
@cstross Needs more visible ethnic diversity (at least among the slave-driving dominatrix supervisors) to more fully embody right wing nightmares.
@cstross Suddenly European Mastodon users regret sharing the image of a bald JD Vance so freely...
@cstross pffft. You think a union would ever allow such working conditions?
@emc2 @cstross
You're right conditions like that should be reserved for managers. 😎
@cstross Always scared of a good time…
@cstross
A significant number of them would pay good money to be whipped into line by beautiful women in mini skirts and thigh high boots. It's projection again isn't it?
@cstross The future that conservatives want is basically the same, except that instead of pretty ladies in fetishwear, the guards are all just pudgy white guys in β€œtactical" outfits.
@angusm @cstross They have MTG and Sarah Palin, I don't know why they're complaining.
@adriano @angusm @cstross It's not even original. The Two Ronnies ran an entire series on this theme, called "The Worm that Turned" back in 1980. Here is Part One. At the time this was mainstream comedy, but it's pretty unwatchable these days.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GcMd1F1acSo&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD
The Two Ronnies - The Worm That Turned (1 of 8)

YouTube

@tokensane @adriano @angusm @cstross

I had totally forgotten about that until you mentioned it. Attitudes have definitely changed over the past decades.

#TheTwoRonnies #UKPolitics

@angusm @cstross You're right. The heart wants what it wants, and I'm not here to kinkshame.
@cstross Rightwingers, even in their insanely-stupid nightmare scenarios, have a hard time conceiving of non-whites being in charge of things. I wonder where that blind spot comes from?
@cstross It's always projection.
@cstross
It is always projection.
And desperately banal.
@cstross Weird how they took a depiction of the US South from pre-1861 and swapped women for men.

@cstross the right can't imagine a world without hierarchies, only inverse oppression

to them left wing politics is a scam to replace them on top

its a really important detail

@cstross a pretty good coming out, I would say.

@cstross They certainly are, but this looks like satire, and searching for that poster's name suggests that he's not being serious here.

Case in point: he has a blog that shows he's not a Trumper. https://drewpavlou.substack.com/p/maga-maoism-trumpism-as-a-third-world

MAGA Maoism: Trumpism as a Third World Movement

The MAGA movement has very little in common with modern Western civilisation

Drew Pavlou's Iceberg Journal