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Mira

@mira@shark.community

23 Followers

69 Following

3.5K Posts

Just some girl who’s old enough to be a grandmother. Former generalist tech worker; currently unemployed. Wannabe goth cat girl techno witch. Wish I was off this rock and working the zero G sections of a starship  Use Linux, Mac, and Windows depending on what I’m doing. Fan of all things sciency with astro, geo, and bio as favs. Also fan of anime and manga, especially of the yuri variety
 Please, no under 18 as on rare occasion, nudes and lewds may be boosted, although they will be CW

Pronouns	She/her
Age	gmilf years

I wish I had friends. I’d really like to converse about cool shit (or listen to them talk about cool shit), work together on things, etc.

@alina Mines about there too, but no way as nice as yours. I’ve always wore my hair as long as I could get away with it. Which was just about to my shoulders in school. I got so much shit from my dad and his brothers and sister. The Dutch Boy paint character was mentioned every time we visited them

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Are you planning on allowing
your posts to be quoted by anyone once the Mastodon feature gets fully implemented later this year? 📢

#Mastodon #QuotePosts

	Yes! I want people to quote me!
	No, I don't want to be quoted.

Poll ends at Jul 16 at 2:05am.

Eris2cats 4h ago

Na.. habt ihr schon alles im IT-Bereich gesehen?

Euch kann nichts mehr überraschen?

Egal wie dumm?

Fesshole 🧻4h ago

In lockdown I started mimicking my cat's meows, and having 'conversations' with him. He now meows constantly, and has developed the most obnoxious sound possible for maximum attention. I broke him.

DrALJONES 6h ago

Report: "Greek dock workers will refuse to unload Israel's 'murderous cargo'"

Piraeus workers "will refuse to unload the Ever Golden, a container ship carrying military-grade steel to Israel, when it arrives in Greece."

“We will not unload a single inch of this murderous cargo. The dock workers of Piraeus will not be complicit. We will not unload military steel from the Ever Golden - no to Greece’s involvement - freedom for Palestine."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/greek-dock-workers-will-refuse-unload-ship-carrying-military-grade-steel-israel

#USPol #EuroPol @palestine .

Greek dock workers will refuse to unload Israel's 'murderous cargo'

The military-grade steel cargo on board the Ever Golden was set to be transferred to a ship owned by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund before being taken to Israel

Middle East Eye

Andy Greenberg 3h ago

McDonald's uses an AI chatbot called "Olivia" for hiring. A pair of hackers found they could access every conversation job applicants had with it—including all the personal info they shared—by exploiting security vulnerabilities as basic as using the password "123456".

https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-ai-hiring-chat-bot-paradoxai/

McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants' Data to Hackers Using the Password ‘123456’

Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai.

WIRED

stop using twitter.

there are no more excuses.

get your news and your cti elsewhere.
the only reason the news and cti vendors stay on twitter is because you, the audience, are still there.

so leave.
take your clicks and your eyeballs to another platform.

it will make them leave.
dont wait for the critical mass to form

BE THE CRITICAL MASS

your body is a vote.
choose wisely.

These women were weeding the tomato plants in Patterson CA. The high reached 90 this day. The women paused for a quick break and share despite the long hours in the sun they keep pushing each other throughout the day to get the job done. #WeFeedYou

Icarosity 6h ago

Bridget just being a perfect beautiful girl for #WhiskersWednesday. Her coat like watered silk. #cats #CatsOfMastodon #catstodon

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i still think this is the funniest block reason my school has ever set

mia Aug 30, 2023

Moved to @hazelnoot@enby.life Aug 30, 2023

@split when I was in high school, several math websites were blocked for "prohibited educational content" and if that doesn't perfectly describe the US education system

skategoat 🐐 🇵🇸Aug 30, 2023

@hazel @split outta here with ur prime numbers

Ángela Stella Matutina Aug 30, 2023

God forbid a kid makes a teacher look ignorant or foolish.

Lucía 🇵🇸 🇸🇻🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️

@split @hazel my school blocked GitHub. Sucks because it's a genuine part of the computer science curriculum, and I'm the type of person who likes to read source code in her free time. Me and my teacher have launched complaints to the people in charge of the block, nothing has changed

leap123 Aug 30, 2023

@hamburger317 @split @hazel imagine blocking a very essential website that even your teachers launched complaints against you

Lily Aug 31, 2023

@hamburger317 @split @hazel in my school for some reason I can't access the arch wiki

They had a cyber attack recently so I understand they had to strengthen their security, but that's such a specific block to a harmless website... I can only assume that it was not on purpose, specially since it doesn't say it was blocked, it just doesn't open when I'm at school

irina [moved to critter.cafe]Apr 15, 2024

@hamburger317 @split @hazel a lot of places block sites you can "download files" from, not realising that a) that's the majority of the internet, and b) nobody can download files from github

beaumains 1d ago

@hamburger317 @split @hazel I'm currently struggling against my work content filter.

It (correctly) allows Github, but doesn't allow gists on Github. It allows me to download Debian images (and access the repos) but doesn't allow me to view the documentation.

For some bizarre reason it allows me to access the internet archive, but refuses to allow me to read the Ceph documentation.

oh hey it's corruptdropbear Aug 30, 2023

@hazel @split ah yes, the forbidden metric system

Lisra The Grey Cat (They/Them)Aug 30, 2023

@hazel @split that is both sad and very funny

verifiedsabakan

@hazel @split well, nothing is more exciting than acquiring forbidden knowledge so maybe its reverse psychology at play

@hazel @split Wouldn't want anyone finding out that Pi's value is not the legislated one.

Timothy Schwinghamer (he/him)Apr 14, 2024

@bjb @hazel @split I don't want to blame the victim, but was it owing to pi?

@schwinghamer @hazel @split
No I was just remembering that state that legislated the value of pi , and thought it would be amusing to bring it up here. That probably happened in a different state. I haven't looked it up.

@schwinghamer @hazel @split
Seems that happened in1897 in Indiana.
And it didn't get passed.

@bjb @schwinghamer @hazel @split I remember something more recent. Some US politician wanted to change its value to 3 to make the math easier. In that case, I think his bill failed to pass. It was one of the wonky “can you believe it’s not an Onion article” headlines that made it outside US borders, I think during the first nutso orange regime.

@hazel @split It was because actual demographic stats on racial income disparity were used, if I recall correctly.

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neofox_cofe_spill

@split oh, gosh. They should've put one sentence description, at least... not one word!

neofox_googly_blep

@hnb they put in the effort to put 2 words for some domains

and sometimes the autogenerated block reasons reach 3!

misskey_loading

neofox_cofe_spill

@split gosh, so helpless...

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verif_androgine

@split hey at least they're actually being honest here, every other district i've been in makes up some bs reason like "security" or "adult content"

@ezra i think my district does this with some other domains too though not sure

Urban Hermit Apr 14, 2024

@ezra @split I am imagining a district that only blocks the words "adult content" so they can honestly say "we strictly block adult content" and "we only block adult content" if they ever have to talk to the press.

skategoat 🐐 🇵🇸Aug 30, 2023

@split no way

That Darn Saucy Moose 🔞Aug 30, 2023

@split "Well we certainly can't have any of THAT"

joy larkin 🌺✨Aug 30, 2023

@split 🤦‍♀️

shiba Aug 30, 2023

@split casually breaking coolviruses.download by being funny

sirlan → @sirlan@derg.social Aug 30, 2023

@split no friends, only study

maxine Aug 30, 2023

@split
this is why instance admins defed from mastodon.social, specifically to prevent you from friendship

Tika (read bio before following!)Aug 30, 2023

@split mine blocked my proxmox subdomain for "Sexual Content" lmao

Tika (read bio before following!)Aug 30, 2023

Child🎈🧸Aug 30, 2023

@split *Mortal Kombat Announcer voice*
School wins!
Friendship!

The Doctor Aug 30, 2023

@split Mastodon: Friendship is block-worthy.

Emacsen Aug 30, 2023

https://tenor.com/en-CA/view/friendship-mortal-kombat-fatality-gif-15948396

Tenor

Supportive Tree-based lifeform Aug 30, 2023

@split
Feels very anime villain.

"in a world where friendship is outlawed"

@Basic_Bench @split For us older German folks, there's this song
"und ich düse, düse, düse im Sauseschritt
und bring die Liebe mit
von meinem Himmelsritt"
(it basically says that they are coming running along the sky to bring love to us)

It had a spoken intro about how hate has been ruling for 10000 years on Earth. And more spoken parts, now that I think of it.

Great, now I have this song playing in my head....

Edit: added short translation.

Allan Chow Aug 30, 2023

Moved to @erpel@hat-eine.entenbru.st Aug 30, 2023

@split but... Friendship is magic!

@ente@brotka.st too bad this isnt hogwarts

Moved to @erpel@hat-eine.entenbru.st Aug 30, 2023

@split at least they know what's good for you and they keep it away so you can be an obeying Student and a good worker later in life!

Chris Espinosa Aug 30, 2023

@split oh no can’t have that

everyone knows friendship is magic
and magic is witchcraft
and witchcraft is satanic
therefore friendship is satanic
only hate allowed

@split "Friendship is NOT magic >:("

@split Friendship

Haelwenn /элвэн/

@split Do they also block My Little Pony stuff with that reason?

MIGRATED TO: mjdxp@fedi.nano.lgbt Aug 30, 2023

@lanodan @split to be fair, i knew a person in high school who would watch fucking my little pony porn on their school laptop during class, they had to have their laptop taken from them

@mjdxp@0w0.is @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me DURING CLASS????

MIGRATED TO: mjdxp@fedi.nano.lgbt Aug 30, 2023

@split @lanodan yup. during class.

@mjdxp@0w0.is @split@coolviruses.download @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me WHAT

@mjdxp @split @lanodan I was going to say "do we know each other?" as a joke, then I noticed the NSFW content warning, so I reread your reply and realised it said porn and now I'm glad I didn't do that xD

Tom Forsyth Aug 30, 2023

@split
Friendship Is Magic.
Magic is the devil's work.
Therefore...

Andrew Brandt Aug 30, 2023

@split 🤦‍♂️

Shoku the MN Wolf 🏳️‍🌈Aug 30, 2023

@split I once worked at a company where all of the social sites were blocked. Except for discord. Because the boss was in a social discord group that he wanted to be able to access at work.

William Robison Aug 30, 2023

@split that really says something about what's going on these days.

Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs Aug 30, 2023

@split yeah, your school doesn't want you to have friendship (serious)

Audric Aug 30, 2023

@split
Friendship is bad!

Végarðr Aug 30, 2023

@split I don't know what's funnier: Blocking one instance of mastodon, or the description being friendship.

Dustin C 🏳️‍🌈Aug 30, 2023

@split

On one hand, this really is very funny.

On the other hand... its seriously depressing

Dr. Guillermo Power

@split how DARE you make friends? How very dare you?!?!?!