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A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny... Let's have it!

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  • Yrtree.me - it's still early days for me in the Fediverse, so bear with me

  • If you shit your pants, do you keep going with your day or is your day over?

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  • It depends on the severity.

    • If you are touching cloth, then it is a shart and should be relatively well contained. You just need to clean-up and perhaps discreetly dispose of your undercrackers.
    • If you are touching socks, then the world has dropped out of your bottom and is pretty disastrous as everything is contaminated. You also have a larger problem as this would suggest you have food poisoning or some kind of illness and this is just the start of your problems. When I was in hospital the guy opposite me got C. difficile and the result was unexpected and borderline volcanic - that wasn't just a bad day, it was a bad week.

  • How many of you have nice parents that listen?

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  • My folks were great and I miss them a lot.

  • When should I be worried about cardiac health?

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  • Go and see your GP. It wasn't a heart attack but it was a wake up call and I don't think jumping to seeing a cardiologist will be that helpful, although a GP can refer you on if they think you need it.

    I was in the foothills of heart health problems - high BP, cholesterol creeping up, etc. and the health staff were starting to express concern (suggesting I might need to go on statins). So I turned it around in two years and at my last health check my weight and bloods were all "perfect" according to the nurse. So it is doable.

    However, from what you say, mental health issues may be holding you back and making important and sweeping changes to your lifestyle require effort and focus. So the GP may want to get this addressed while starting to monitor your health through regular checks. I found the checks motivating in themselves as the data can really prod you into action because you no longer can say you are probably unhealthy - it is there in stark numbers. I also suspect I was slightly gamifying it as I made beating the numbers a focus and figuring out what I needed to do to adjust each on (as lowering triglyceride levels requires different action to lowering LDL, bad cholesterol). I even made a spreadsheet.

  • are you permanently banned off reddit? or do you just like lemmy more?

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  • Left during the APIcalypse, largely only go back to help guide people to the fire exits.

  • Choose wisely

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  • Don't sink shame.

  • Choose wisely

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  • My cousin's husband is pissing in the sink then, after his operation for testicular cancer left him in the "none of the above" category.

  • Choose wisely

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  • And the left is for bicyclists?

  • Trending Communities for Thursday 13th March 2025

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  • Winning!

  • Local/regional Lemmy servers (March, 2025)

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  • Yeah, that's a tricky one - it does have local content but this is about helping reduce confusion and helping people sign up, and it won't help in that regard. So I'll remove it from the list.

  • Lemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Local/regional Lemmy servers (March, 2025)

    www.reddit.com /r/Lemmy/s/m0X8oAJYL2

  • Update on the hexbear.net situation

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  • That's great news.

  • Update on the hexbear.net situation

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  • I'm curious to know if they got the auction stopped or if they had to shell out thousands for it.

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    how come james bond movies are so popular?

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  • It's escapism, albeit rather dated at this point.

    I suspect one of the reasons for the delay in announcing the new Bond is trying to figure out how to navigate Bond around more modern sensibilities. There were rumours that they might go back to being less serious but, after the Amazon takeover, who knows what will happen. Other than a massive glut of Bond media.

  • Are there any apps or services that aggregate RSS, Mastodon and Lemmy?

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  • Facebook Deletes Internal Employee Criticism of New Board Member Dana White [404 Media]

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  • That's just misdirection for all the other policy changes:

    Meta on Tuesday announced sweeping changes to how it moderates content that will roll out in the coming months, including doing away with professional fact checking. But the company also quietly updated its hateful conduct policy, adding new types of content users can post on the platform, effective immediately.

    Users are now allowed to, for example, refer to “women as household objects or property” or “transgender or non-binary people as ‘it,’” according to a section of the policy prohibiting such speech that was crossed out. A new section of the policy notes Meta will allow “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality.”

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    How is this astroturfing?

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  • We're usually somewhere around the top 20. I think we're currently 21st by user numbers, 22nd by MAU. I'd usually class us as medium-sized, but as l.w is as large as everyone else combined you can really only class them as large.

  • How are Americans supposed to survive the next 30 years?

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  • Good bot

  • How are Americans supposed to survive the next 30 years?

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  • What is your star wars character of choice?

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  • And one became the Death Star.

  • What is your star wars character of choice?

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  • Without R2 ANH would have gone very differently.

  • Does anybody here still wish the Fediverse just had more people?

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  • I think if more people took on tasks like running the communities while educating people the benefits of the fediverse, then we can see a bit more growth.

    This is the way - be the change you want to see in the world.

    Lemmy isn't the size of Reddit, so it isn't at a place where the vast majority of users can just passively consume content.

    If there's a niche for a community then start it. If you want more Mods, keep an eye out for active posters and ask if they want to help. If you are unsure about starting a community or want help from the start (as it might be popular) then start a thread on [email protected]. The more active communities, the more likely it is for the next wave of users to stick around and some of them might start new communities.

    If you build it they will indeed come and stay.

  • Fuck Subscriptions @lemmy.world
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    Life saving hurricane data locked behind a $10/week paywall

  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
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    TiddlyWiki: An Open Source Alternative to Notion or Obsidian

    thenewstack.io /tiddlywiki-an-open-source-alternative-to-notion-or-obsidian/
  • Fuck Subscriptions @lemmy.world
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    Parents outraged at Snoo after smart bassinet company charges fee to rock crib for crying babies

    www.independent.co.uk /news/world/americas/snoo-bassinet-baby-sleeping-subscription-b2597869.html
  • Fuck Subscriptions @lemmy.world
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    Disney Seeking Dismissal of Raglan Road Death Lawsuit Because Victim Was Disney+ Subscriber

    wdwnt.com /2024/08/disney-dismissal-wrongful-death-lawsuit/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
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    One Login: Towards a Single Fediverse Identity on ActivityPub

    thenewstack.io /one-login-towards-a-single-fediverse-identity-on-activitypub/
  • British Archaeology @feddit.uk
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    Carrot harvest helped detectorist find hoard of ancient coins

    www.bbc.com /news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-68659675
  • British Archaeology @feddit.uk
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    Archaeologists Find 'Remarkable' Roman Villa Full of Coins, Jewelry and 'Curse Tablets'

    www.smithsonianmag.com /smart-news/a-remarkable-roman-villa-in-britain-boasts-magnitude-decor-and-mysterious-miniature-objects-180984063/
  • searchengines @lemmy.world
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    Search engine results are getting worse, research confirms

    www.theregister.com /2024/01/17/google_search_results_spam/
  • searchengines @lemmy.world
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    Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says

    arstechnica.com /gadgets/2024/01/google-search-is-losing-the-fight-with-seo-spam-study-says/
  • searchengines @lemmy.world
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    The Forums Dominating 10,000 Product Review Search Results

    detailed.com /forum-serps/
  • searchengines @lemmy.world
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    How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh

    housefresh.com /david-vs-digital-goliaths/
  • British Archaeology @feddit.uk
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    Thornborough Henges unlock Yorkshire's ancient past

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68685372
  • British Archaeology @feddit.uk
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    Dan Snow presenting new Stonehenge documentary over Easter weekend

    www.salisburyjournal.co.uk /news/24219518.dan-snow-presenting-new-stonehenge-documentary-easter-weekend/
  • British Archaeology @feddit.uk
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    New research claims Stonehenge stones not transported from Wales

    www.salisburyjournal.co.uk /news/24209635.new-research-claims-stonehenge-stones-not-transported-wales/
  • retrocomputing @lemmy.sdf.org
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    ZX Touch Is A £220 Portable ZX Spectrum With A 7-Inch Screen

    www.timeextension.com /news/2024/03/zx-touch-is-a-p220-portable-zx-spectrum-with-a-7-inch-screen
  • British Archaeology @feddit.uk
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    Detectorist hid eBay coins in Herefordshire field

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cz7z1rgy32no
  • British Archaeology @feddit.uk
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    3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology

    www.thecollector.com /dark-age-kings-britain/
  • British Archaeology @feddit.uk
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    Pictish stone of 'international significance' set to be excavated near Doune

    www.thenational.scot /news/24172167.internationally-significant-pictish-stone-set-excavated/
  • British Archaeology @feddit.uk
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    Archaeological dig unearths treasures on A66 route in Cumbria

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cd1v7rr43vvo