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  • @Anomander

    This is the second error I described.

    However, I was not trying to tell you what error you experienced, only offering my experience for comparison, or to add to the list of things you're hearing about.

    Cheers and Good Luck

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  • @Anomander

    I've had kbin show me a 500 once or twice, but it was because my ethernet cable had slipped the socket.

    I've gotten more complex custom errors of indeterminate type, generally when posting, but typically the error is in error, as the post completes as expected.

  • Scientists are pulling back from Twitter and looking for alternatives
  • @realcaseyrollins

    I mean, there's a lot of motivation to not do anything with twitter but stay away from it

  • 25 Years Later, The Most Resilient Sci-Fi Show Just Set Up A Massive Reboot
  • @inkican

    Babylon 5 was the show I wanted to like, knew I was supposed to like, was literally made for me by people who's work I freaking loved elsewhere; but as much as I wanted it to, it just never really spoke to me.

  • Russia confirms it hit Swedish plant in Lutsk, saying it was a military target
  • @oforgetaboutit

    The Russian Embassy in Sweden, in a rude comment, confirmed the strike on the Swedish company SKF’s plant in Lutsk

    So I am told.

    That's really not the point though, is it.

  • Trump's legal advisers urge him to cancel press conference to refute Georgia allegations: Sources
  • I told my wife this morning, I think his lil plan is to go on TV for this press conference, declare the whole thing a witch hunt, claim it's because Jack Smith and all his mean judge friends have a boner for Trump, and everything's fine, it's all a sham.

    He'll think this completely absolves him, because he has come out and told 'the truth' and all, and he'll waddle off back to Mar-a-lago, where the Deputies will be waiting for him.

  • abcnews.go.com Trump's legal advisers urge him to cancel press conference to refute Georgia allegations: Sources

    Trump's promised press conference to refute the allegations in the indictment handed up by the Fulton County DA's Office is now in doubt, multiple sources said.

    Trump's legal advisers urge him to cancel press conference to refute Georgia allegations: Sources
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    Looking for squeezing recommendations per the therapist
  • @BackOnMyBS

    There’s always the therapist!
    J/K, the therapist might not care for that lol 😝

    could you be just a little more specific? are talking toothpaste, charmin, downy, ketchup bottle, your significant other? tiny teddy bear? I’m just riffing here, in the absence of guidance.

  • www.pravda.com.ua Russia confirms it hit Swedish plant in Lutsk, saying it was a military target

    The Russian Embassy in Sweden, in a rude comment, confirmed the strike on the Swedish company SKF’s plant in Lutsk on the night of 14-15 August, saying that it is a legitimate military target.

    Russia confirms it hit Swedish plant in Lutsk, saying it was a military target
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    Broadcast and cable make up less than half of TV usage for the first time ever
  • @Haus

    Our household video consumption is pretty evenly balanced between broadcast and streaming.

    #FuckCable

  • How do I make a multipart post in a magazine?
  • @Pamasich

    @djidane535

    It's cool, user @djidane535 dropped some truth on me, and it finally soaked in.

    I'll probably end up with some user scripts, or a browser extension, but I'm holding back until I know more about the ecosystem, what's useful, etc.

  • How do I make a multipart post in a magazine?
  • @djidane535

    Actually, it took a minute to sink in, but that is very helpful. Thanks for enduring my morning dimness :D

  • How do I make a multipart post in a magazine?
  • @djidane535

    Interesting but not really helpful. I found something in a recent FAQ that says I should add an article instead of a post, but the option to add an article is not on the menu on my instance, as it is in their screenie

    Also I'm a mastodon user, and my account there is the focus of my microblogging activity. The user there follows this account, so my posts here, show up there. The short story is, the microblog here is essentially a right pain in my ass.

    At least now I know what it is.

  • How do I make a multipart post in a magazine?
  • Interesting but not really helpful. I found something in a recent FAQ that says I should add an article instead of a post, but the option tadd an article is not on the menu on my instance, as it is in their screenie

  • /kbin meta @kbin.social sparseMatrix @kbin.social
    How do I make a multipart post in a magazine?

    How do I make a multipart post in a magazine?

    I just tried posting the series of parts to my /mag, they showed up in reverse order in the microblog? WTF?

    Please, if there is some advantage to this microblog thing, I'd love to know what is, and also how to make a post in my own magazine that does not feature a link.

    'Threads/Microblog/People/Magazines' is where simplicity goes sideways in this webapp. It is not obvious what those things are; the couple of guides I've found don't discuss this focal point of confusion.

    \#kbinMeta

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    GOP Legal Experts File Amicus Brief Backing January Trial For Trump
  • Sarcasm, you should check it out.

    Also, body text is descriptive or commentary, not editorializing; the title is the original title.

  • Trump Violates Court Order with Attack on Federal Judge
  • @CoffeeAddict

    He's facing consequences now. The conspiracy trial he was trying to have moved to January just got it's schedule compressed down to 'today', the hearing got immediate billing, all witnesses were heard immediately and state organized crime charges leveled instanter.

    This is, "having fucked around" he has now "found out".

    "Trial" is incorrect. In my excitement I conflated "trial" and "hearing". That I got it wrong before coffe though, doesn't change how fucked this guy is.

    Edited accordingly.

    Addendum:
    There are warrants out for him and 18 accomplices. They have 3 days grace to turn themselves in. Anyone who doesn't turn themselves in by then will be subject to arrest.

    They gave him enough time with socmed to finish hanging himself.

    "You love to see it, especially late in the summer."

  • Trump tells Georgia witness not to testify
  • @andyburke

    @style99 @AmidFuror @wagesj45 @ForestOrca

    It's what Trolls do in order to misdirect the energy in a discussion. Don't feed 'em.

  • US Navy joins Army, Marine Corps in having no Senate-confirmed leader, in historic first
  • @fiat_lux

    "Rivals on the world stage"

    Does not refer to individuals

    Bit dense, are ya...

  • GOP Legal Experts File Amicus Brief Backing January Trial For Trump
    thehill.com GOP legal experts file amicus brief backing January trial for Trump

    A group of conservative legal experts on Monday filed an amicus brief in support of the Jan. 2 proposed trial date in the federal criminal case against former President Trump over his efforts to re…

    Maybe, if these shit for brains expert hadn't purchased their law deg...nm

    The GQP have demonstrated beyond all doubt that they are no friend of any court. That's what makes this so funny.

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    *Latest update from **AJC*** is that the Fulton County Website briefly served a Trump charging document, featuring a Racketeering Charge, and 18 others. It was quickly removed, apparently posted by mi

    Latest update from AJC is that the Fulton County Website briefly served a Trump charging document, featuring a Racketeering Charge, and 18 others. It was quickly removed, apparently posted by mistake.

    \#news

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    www.washingtonpost.com Judge rules in favor of Montana youths in landmark climate decision

    “This is a monumental decision," said a lawyer for the young plaintiffs, and could influence similar cases in other states.

    I don't know quite how that happened, but man this could be the start of something

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    www.reuters.com US Navy joins Army, Marine Corps in having no Senate-confirmed leader, in historic first

    The U.S. Navy on Monday became the third branch of the military to no longer have a Senate-confirmed leader for the first time in history, as a Republican senator continues to block military nominations.

    Long since time the prez appoint some 'acting chiefs' -- this represents a clear and present threat, and not just from our rivals on the world stage.

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    Live coverage of Fulton County grand jury
    www.ajc.com Nguyen testifies to Fulton grand jury: ‘No individual is above the law.’

    Live coverage as the Fulton County DA presents her case to a grand jury over attempts in Georgia by Donald Trump and supporters to overturn the 2020 presidential election

    It's goin' down

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    Trump tells Georgia witness not to testify
  • WOOPS, it's witness tampering in the state trial, not the federal one. Prior comment still applies.

  • Trump tells Georgia witness not to testify
  • This should be the one that gets him jailed. My guess is, it'll be a significant fine; but any of us would be in jail already.

  • What Does Dark Matter Look Like? The Euclid Telescope Could Reveal It Soon
  • @inkican

    Dark matter looks like nothing, because that's what it is. Euclid will see a lot of things, but not dark matter. It is not a substance, it is a descriptive term for a breakdown in Newton-Einstein Gravitational Dynamics.

    The new dynamic is the Milgromian Gravitational Dynamic.

    https://scitechdaily.com/conclusive-evidence-for-modified-gravity-collapse-of-newtons-and-einsteins-theories-in-low-acceleration/?expand_article=1&expand_article=1

    Incidentaly, this is not science fiction.

  • Could white holes actually exist?
  • @Sodis

    @readbeanicecream @exscape

    According to my understanding, beyond the event horizon, gravity is infinite.

    I am not a physicist - I'm a guy who read Prof. Hawking. Given the nature of llight vis a vis observation, inside the singularity, mass and gravity approach infinity.

    Mass bends spacetime into gravity. Gravity bends light. Infinite mass > infinite gravity > stops light == singularity.

    Note that things happening near the singularity are not the same as things that happen beyond the event horizon.

  • www.cnn.com Tasers, taunts, torment: How 6 White officers subjected 2 Black men to hours of grueling violence, and then tried to cover it up | CNN

    On the evening of January 24, three sheriff’s deputies in Rankin County, Mississippi, received a group text message from another deputy on the same shift: “Are y’all available for a mission?”

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    Exclusive: Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump’s team is behind voting system breach
    www.cnn.com Exclusive: Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump's team is behind voting system breach | CNN Politics

    Atlanta-area prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia are in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump’s legal team to the early January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County, sources tell CNN.

    Whoops! somebody got the soot on their hands this time

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    www.independent.co.uk Family of Utah man shot dead by FBI after threats to Biden say he was ‘frustrated’

    ‘He was understandably frustrated and distraught by the present and on-going erosions to our constitutionally protected freedoms and the rights of free citizens’

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    2023-08-10 Trump is disqualified from being on any election ballots
    reason.com Trump Is Disqualified from Being on Any Election Ballots

    Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment bans anyone from holding any federal office who has taken an oath to uphold...

    Trump Is Disqualified from Being on Any Election Ballots

    This is The Way.

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    Supreme Court blocks OxyContin maker’s bankruptcy deal that would shield Sackler family members
    apnews.com Supreme Court blocks, for now, OxyContin maker bankruptcy deal that would shield Sacklers

    The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would shield members of the Sackler family who own the company from civil lawsuits over the toll of opioids.

    This is epic AF. I thought these dope pushers were gonna get away scot free, there for a while.

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    /kbin meta @kbin.social sparseMatrix @kbin.social
    So, I've been using mastodon a long time, several years in fact, and I never really understood all the folks complaining that it was too complicated; I mean, it was just always intuitive to me. Now ma

    So, I've been using mastodon a long time, several years in fact, and I never really understood all the folks complaining that it was too complicated; I mean, it was just always intuitive to me. Now maybe that's because I never really did the tweeter.

    What I have done is a lot of reddit, and I gotta say, why the hell is this so complicated? :P

    I'm only half kidding.

    One thing that should always taken into consideration by software peeps is that when making a 'replacement' like this (dont tell me it's not a replacement for reddit, there's too much signal in the noise of this mag about 'reddit migration'), is that users that are relocating their operations will need extra handholding and assistance.

    Unlike a lot of us, these peeps aren't casually learning how to do a new cool thing, they're typically perceiving some real and or imagined (Hey, both can cause a lot of stress and anxiety!), they're fleeing something, and trying to settle into a new, safer place; or so they hope.

    I may sound like I'm 'asking for a friend', and I am, but that friend is me :D

    Please, we need some kind of FAQ that says 'this is the reddit thing you want to do' and 'here's how to do it on kbin'. We need the next section to say, 'You can do these things on reddit, and not on kbin' and one more section in the FAQ that says 'These are cool things kbin does that reddit doesn't'.

    A HUGE ask would be user style sheets to make it look and act more or less like reddit; really, as far as I can tell, there's only really a couple of big differences. Hell, it might suffice if we just had a FAQ that pointed out the substantive differences.

    The biggest problem is, y'all just kinda 'sprung' the whole microblog/People/Threads on us; those single word descriptors are really only useful if you're 'in the know' already.

    I've been posting off and on at kbin now for several months, hoping I'd eventually just soak it up; but it hasn't happened. I still keep screwing some things up here and there; just yesterday I was off to the races posting about some things, and managed to editorialize a title when I thought I was using post body to introduce the link. It's been sent to the ether, now.

    I'm not in desperation about anything. I'm not a 'migrator' or refugee, or any of that. I do have a couple projects on reddit I'd like to bring here, I think this is the future of social media, and I think I will get a higher quality engagement here. I also have some projects already here that I'd like to get supercharged, and I can't really do stuff until I know the ropes..

    So yeah, it would be great if the devs would drop some smooth pdfs or single page html or damn just if they'd 'own' a markdown document that could be loaded off any kbin page or something, that would be bad ass.

    In the absence of that though (or something like it) what do y'all have out there, in userland?

    Thanks for readin' muh screed.

    \#kbinMeta

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    Federal Judge in Trump case says, No, bring your ass to Court on Friday like I said

    This is what Trump looks like when a real judge and an actual patriot is on his case and not playing his game.

    Her Honor is a credit and a relief to anyone truly concerned with justice.

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    Court Listener United States vs. Donald Trump, Document 17
    www.courtlistener.com Notice (Other) – #17 in United States v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:23-cr-00257) – CourtListener.com

    NOTICE by the Parties in Response to Court's August 7, 2023 Minute Order by USA as to DONALD J. TRUMP re Order,, (Gaston, Molly) (Entered: 08/08/2023)

    Still more bad news for Team ShitGibbon.

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    A critique of the 'Divided America' Trope

    We seriously need to start pushing back on this Divided America Trope. It is absolute propaganda.

    America is more divided than ever.

    Wrong. there are a lot of antisocial criminal elements in a America. Though the problems do get more aggravated, there are far fewer violent crimes, political or otherwise per capita than ever before. It is also my sense that even among people who differ in their political views, most people would pick up someone who fell without considering who they were or what sort of politics they practiced.

    The American Congress is frozen by Partisanship.

    At least mostly true. But it doesn't really represent a new state of affairs, at least not in the last decade or so.

    We're headed for a civil war

    Maybe; there certainly seems to be an element that wants one, and a revolution in government on the side. But they have proven to be a relatively tiny, if startling, sliver of the population, the military, and the police. At least, when the chips came down.

    I think that this is a media narrative that feeds on itself in two ways. The first being that it is an insidious 'both sides' framing of the state of affairs. The Democratic party is not just another flavor of political party; the GOP Republicans are not just another flavor of political party.

    The fact is, the Republican party can be shown to be composed of two basic types of people: those being charged with felonies, and those trying to protect or defend them from those charges, often becoming tainted with their crimes.

    The Democratic party is the other half of a previously functional government (I'm being generous here) that has been left holding the bag while the other first half turns to crime, conspiracy, and the craft of procedural sabotage.

    This has all been predicated on the moral tenets of a religion that they neither understand nor practice, and that has opened the door to nationalist authoritarianism and outright fascism as they have been emboldened and supported by the most most crass and self serving of the evangelical 'personality' churches out there.

    The second way it feeds on itself is that by framing the question in this way, the media makes it safe to be someone who endorses what is clearly a criminal cabal run amok. After all, if the axios site all but loads a balance for you (the two sides of this 'divide'), how can it be anything other than just two different teams, with two differing perspectives? You can feel free to substitute just about any 'news' outlet, for 'axios'; because not only is axios not the only one; I don't think I've ever seen a 'news' outlet framing it any other way.

    While it is true everyone is innocent until proven guilty, there is a statistical ratio, given a level field of activity, that asserts that someone is very guilty, given the large number of charges, and a lot of others are accessories before and after the fact, accomplices, and every other variation as we ride the Bell curve.

    Many will be quick to claim that the playing field isn't level; but you'll notice it's always the ones without a defense in the face of a mountain of charges.

    Hell no they don't have, and shouldn't anticipate a level playing field, other than in a court of law.

    Being found at the scene of a murder isn't a good look, whether you're fucking guilty or not.

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    United States vs. Trump, Docket #67656604-15
    www.courtlistener.com Reply in Support – #15 in United States v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:23-cr-00257) – CourtListener.com

    REPLY in Support by USA as to DONALD J. TRUMP re 10 MOTION for Protective Order (Gaston, Molly) (Entered: 08/07/2023)

    This is brutal for team ShitGibbon.

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    sparseMatrix sparseMatrix @kbin.social

    Amateur Radio Guy (General Class Ticket), Python Programmer, UX implementor, Father, Husband of 25 years, Brewer, Technologist, Home Chef, Linux/Unix Whitebeard, Buddhist, Artist, Maker, Guitarist, Sailor, Generally Pervy Old Bastard.

    Champion of Reason, Logic, and Philosophy. Antifascist Punk.

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