Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

The Guardian manages to "both sides" the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine twice in two sentences in their pop-up begging for new subscribers.

Between this and the free rein they give to transphobes I can't imagine why they're struggling for cash.

Ukraine to officially address Russia’s exclusion from UN Security Council on December 26.
When the USSR broke apart in 1991, Russia assumed the USSR's seat, and more importantly, its VETO power. BUT there was no official process or approval behind Russia's power grab. Ukraine, and the other ex-Soviet-bloc nations, had fully as much right to that seat as Russia, OR that seat should have simply expired along with the USSR.
https://english.nv.ua/nation/kuleba-says-kicking-russia-out-of-un-will-be-raised-soon-ukraine-news-50293352.html

“Booty call” and “butt dial” has been offered up as an example of where the literal meaning of two phrases is the same but the implied meaning is very different (denotative vs connotative meanings).

Today a coffee mug gave me another example: “dad bod” and “father figure”

#linguistics #wordplay

Do you want a #QuoteToot option?

And are you a Newcomer (joined or got serious about using this in November 2022 or later) or a Veteran (here since at least August 2022)?

#QuoteToots #QuoteTweet #QUOTE_TOOT

And now, miracle 🎉

Lanzaboote in a VM on AArch64!

#nixos #secureboot @NixOS

so, a word on the current state of internet #search from the point of view of an average john doe, i.e. me.

#duckduckgo continues to marker «private search» but i fail to see how this service can be useful at all if it totally ignores the ubiquitous search phrase language? of course i get amazon and youtube results first when specifically asking to exclude those.

rating: useless

1/🌞I tried to put in words why #solarpunk resonates so deeply with me:

I've been a part of the #climatejustice movement for a few years now, and I have huge respect for the millions of people worldwide involved in it, fighting the climate catastrophe and building a more just world.

Solarpunk shares al lot of the same values; in addition, it has at least 3 traits that the movement (in my opinion) could really learn from: diversity, hopefulness and a more balanced relationship to technology.

These findings are great.

They demonstrate clearly how the Russian perception of cyber as an information sphere is so useful as a concept. Here is evidence that disinformation actually can lead to social instability and disruption of the state.

Maybe the cyber war in Ukraine hasn’t been spectacular. But cyber has certainly been an important and powerful factor this decade

https://mstdn.social/@katestarbird/109570790510519866

A most excellent graphic from @Hazie

Why people are expected to excuse racist behaviours and/or comments from white people.

#racism101 #racism