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Scuttlebutt ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud

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Toots are ephemeral, subject to deletion on a whim.

Born at 323 ppm. Living at the crossroads of the Butlerian Jihad and Idiocracy.

I've been terminally online for ~40 years, long before the big endless scroll. I've seen things some people wouldn't believe. 1200 baud modems on fire from Usenet flame wars. I watched c-news servers stutter at the mere mention of Kibo. All those moments will be lost in AI slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify.
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Deleted my Reddit account, again, maybe the sixth one Iโ€™ve had. Sticky site but the dead internet of bots posting engagement bait and replying with same to everything else, ugh.
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@jake4480 Replying to this via hotel WiFi and vpn to my home, while currently seven time zones away.
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Bathroom law makers would be clutching their pearls if they visit Europe. Coffee shop I was in earlier today had sinks then three full height unmarked stalls with no gaps anywhere, and urinals around the corner past that.

Civilized.

Except for inaccessibility due to steep flight of stairs down.
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Traveling, picked up a cough which I hope is just related to all the pollen at Keukenhof gardens.

Popped into a drug store and navigated the Dutch-only packaging and self serve point of sale to get some cough syrup. Built in translate on iPhone camera mostly works.

Still, even something as straight forward as that has some WTF moments. According to the translation, this cough syrup will improve my driving.

Never blindly trust ai. Use your brain.
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I had no idea country twang has an audience beyond redneck regions of North America.
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My eyes are down here, good sir.

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Our hotel restaurant in Zurich is playing twangy country music during breakfast for some reason.
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โ€œWe should all be feministsโ€
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It's only 14 min past midnight and I've already fallen for an April Fools joke.

At least it dawned on me while I was having a difficult time trying to find an original source for the interesting information.
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@ZenHeathen Cheese battered deep fried garlic cloves?
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Note to self, don't ignore my fountain pens inked up glitter ink.
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Spring lawn maintenance crew are in the neighbourhood.
Pruning, aeration, and fertilization underway.

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@jake4480 SUBSCRIBE
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@vfrmedia but I want mini Hindenburg events, to thin the population some
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If helium is so important and rare (it is), why are we still filling party balloons with it?

I propose switching to hydrogen for party balloons.

(Might need some warning labels to keep away from birthday candles and to not inhale.)

www.euronews.com/business/2026/03/25/helium-supply-crunch-puts-mri-services-at-risk-amid-qatar-disruptions
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@ghorwood I do use usenet still, but only for tv series and movies that aren't available on the one streaming platform we still pay for.
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@ghorwood I've been pondering setting up c-news with taylor-uucp using tcp transport but then I shook my head and took an edible.
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@ghorwood I know you canโ€™t always dictate how a system is built, but oh boy was I ever proficient in lvm at one point.
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@Coreyartus You got this!
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I haven't looked at u toob in a while for anything beyond some street photography interviews and omg is there ever a lot of ai generated garbage. I thought the fake happy-go-lucky influencers were bad before but this just takes the cake. Blargh.
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