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quarrk [he/him]

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  • Good job pedestrianing

  • I continue walking because I don’t want to normalize a mindset that pedestrians need to beg to use public paths. It should be drivers that feel mildly uncomfortable moving huge equipment through areas designed for pedestrian use.

  • Lemmy might, MIGHT have a small bias towards the left

  • activity = (forProfit) ? "Work" : "Hobby"

  • AOC Is Lobbying for Looser US Sunscreen Regulations

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  • The first ever photograph of the far side of the Moon. Taken on October 7th, 1959 by the Soviet Union's Luna 3 probe.

  • The image of Pluto from New Horizons gives me similar feels. People have been fascinated by Pluto since its discovery in 1930, and only a few years ago we managed to send extremely high res photos back from a probe that took a decade to travel there.

    Most of the Cassini probe images of the Saturn system are incredible. One of my favorites

    Granted, I think this post about the moon takes the cake, since humans have wondered about the moon for millennia.

  • marxism @hexbear.net
    quarrk [he/him] @hexbear.net

    Marxist analysis of games in capitalist society?

  • Johnny Hardwick, Voice of Conspiracy Nut Dale Gribble on 'King of the Hill,' Dead at 64

  • It's kinda funny thinking about the stigma around cisnormative men listening to music (especially pop) performed by women.

  • I don't even remember why I thought it wasn't cool.

    A lot of music itself was meant received/marketed to reinforce binary gender norms, the auditory equivalent of pink Barbie dolls juxtaposed with Hot Wheels or whatever. If you’re a kid who has internalized these norms and is afraid of being seen as non-conforming, the answer is to reject those artists whose have cultivated a brand targeted at the other gender. It is a bit more relaxed today compared to the 90s.

    After posting this comment I found a relevant article about the Spice Girls who did not actually want their music to be specific to girls.

  • is federation as fucking terrible on mastodon like it is on lemmy?

  • That’s kinda the same as making an account on an instance which has instance-level white/blacklists. Though I guess the difference is that others can immediately identify and potentially block that account, because it belongs to that instance.

    Probably what will end up happening is there ends up being a few generic instances (analogs to gmail.com, icloud.com) which will host anyone who follows some basic TOS. Then it would be very hard for any small instance to block the generic instances.

    That, or users are encouraged to create their own private instances and control their federation that way.

  • news @hexbear.net
    quarrk [he/him] @hexbear.net

    Biden to designate 1m acres around Grand Canyon a national monument

    archive.today /2023.08.08-163018/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/08/biden-grand-canyon-new-national-monument
  • Comradeship // Freechat @lemmygrad.ml
    quarrk [he/him] @hexbear.net

    Greetings from Hexbear

  • A French Revolutionary hits his pipe as Charlotte Corday is led to her execution by guillotine

  • it immediately made me think of that meme too lol

  • science @hexbear.net
    quarrk [he/him] @hexbear.net

    Gravitational Wave Background Discovered - Spacetime is Vibrating!