"This is all very fascinating, because in most of the world, it really is the height of rudeness to wear your shoes inside someone’s home."...
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2024
"Currently, the authorship feature requires you to use the web version of Mastodon or its official app and have a mastodon.social account or be on...
"When you want to create something, you need to get bored. You need to let your thoughts mingle with each other and discover a new...
"despite my complete lack of shame, I can not, will not, have not, shan't, and also REFUSE TO be manipulated into talking about Pile-Up Poker"...
"Although Japan has become more LGBTQ-friendly in the last decade, it remains the only G7 country not to give legal recognition to same-sex marriages or...
"Richard “Kinky” Friedman, a Texas icon who infused his songs, fiction, and campaign speeches with a unique and crass humor, died early Thursday, June 27....
"It's one of those tools that might not look like much from screenshots or a quick "dip" into it but it is actually quite flexible...
"he’s told average citizens they can post whatever they want in the party’s spaces in exchange for a “donation.” In effect. he’s selling the spaces,...
"Maybe it is futile but I'm not going to stop trying just because it's hard. I have every right to try and block them or...
"The human, after drinking liquids, must pee. So if you're about to go somewhere where peeing is impossible, maybe don't drink a lot of liquids."...
"No prime minister has ever lost their seat at a general election, according to the Institute for Government." #uk #politics 🍜 Latest election poll: Rishi...
"The magic trick that’s made Perplexity worth 10 figures, in other words, appears to be that it’s both doing what it says it isn’t and...
"Atami hit the big time during the madness of the bubble years, as along with money being readily available in general, it also became a...
"Welcome to Tiny Awards 2024. Last year, we decided to launch Tiny Awards, a small prize to celebrate interesting, small, craft-y internet projects and spaces...
"The post-COVID global surge of illnesses – viral and bacterial, common and historically rare – is a mystery that researchers and scientists are still trying...
"Many of the scientists envisage a “semi-dystopian” future, with famines, conflicts and mass migration, driven by heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storms of an intensity and...
"I wanted to share a (not exhaustive) list of 50 useful and indisputable facts on the Palestinian / Israeli conflict." #palestine #israel 🍜 50 Completely...
"For young people right now it is an issue as important as where they will move when they leave home." #germany #kebab #inflation 🍜 Germans...
"If you're into ebooks and have, like me, only ever been within the Kindle ecosystem, I would highly recommend giving Kobo, and this device specially,...
"The foreign ministry’s press service said that the statements given by Shi would not be generated by AI but “written and verified by real people”."...