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  • British man putting up UK flags arrested on suspicion of causing ‘alarm and distress’

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  • If all MAGAts and people like the guy mentioned in the article were indeed to go to that place halfway between US and UK, I would be delighted! ❤️

  • British man putting up UK flags arrested on suspicion of causing ‘alarm and distress’

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  • The article says (even though, weirdly, between the lines) that the man had been spewing out anti-immigrant rhetoric and told that the flags are there to show that foreign-born people are not welcome on his island.

    It's not surprising that flags put by a person saying "I am putting these up as a form of showing the middle finger" are interpreted as being a form of showing the middle finger. Or in other words, causing alarm and distress.

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  • I really like the ability to downvote. It enables me to say "this was badly argumented and a waste of my time" without spending too much effort for that. I'd write it anyway, but probably using impolite words that would be worse for the Fediverse than my downvotes are.

    I dont remember where I've seen the stats, but I make about 10 upvotes per one downvote. I strongly believe at least my downvoting behaviour does more good than bad for the Forumverse.

    When I was looking for a good instance for myself, Blåhaj seemed like an excellent fit, but when I noticed the downvote button was missing, I changed my mind. I would be annoyed if that feature disappeared altogether.

    At least on PieFed's Matrix chat there has been very constructive conversations about whether and how to allow downvoting. To my eyes, the solutions they came up with seem very good.

    Not that I'd remember off the back of my hand what the hell they decided in the end. Maybe someone will tell? :) @rimu@piefed.social @wjs018@piefed.social

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  • I find that a good thing. It's a bright red flag that tells me to direct my attention to other people who are able to behave themselves.

    It's good that exceptional-level bigots have a way to visibly out themselves as bigots!

  • Swedish PM offers deal that could see far-right allowed into government

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  • Yeah. Get those votes from them!!!

    ...by doing something that normalizes the far-right in such a way that many more people will be willing to vote them in the next elections.

    Idioter.

  • [QUESTION] What is your easiest method to cook eggs?

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  • Break the egg on a plate,add a little salt, break the egg-yellow and mix it with the egg-white. Put the the plate in a microwave for one minute. Stir the egg on the plate with a fork, put into the microwave for another minute. Repeat until ready.

    Doesn't get easier than this.Just remember: if you let the egg-yellow stay whole, it'll cause a mess. And if you let the egg warm for much longer than a minute without stirring it in between, it will cause a mess.

  • a slightly rusty meme, but it's still funny

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  • That's not a -9-millimeter, though!

  • USF strikes Russian Tor air defense system in Luhansk region

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  • In March, 31 Russian AD systems were destroyed. That's one a day indeed!

  • What’s the Facebook clone in the fediverse?

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  • The closest thing is Friendica, and it's very buggy and the UI would need to be completely remade. Also, its groups are not the same thing as Facebook's groups.

    It has a lot of potential, but fails to really fulfill it.

    I've come to the conclusion that the closest thing to a Facebook replacement out there is... PieFed. Which you are using right now. You do need to combine it with Mastodon to get all you were doing on Facebook, but PieFed and Mastodon together do actually fulfill what at least I had as my purpose to use Fecesbook.

    There is a plan to "some day" add good support for Mastodon style messaging here as well. But that might easily take a year or two.

  • If you saw a mushroom cloud, what would you say?

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  • "Oh, that's a big one!"

    If that was here in Finland, I would of course be scared because you need a lot of explosives to produce a mushroom cloud, and that would probably mean that:

    1. our military has been storing a sizable part of its munitions in one place AND
    2. one our eastern neighbours has apparently developed a will to rid our army of its munitions.

    ...which would mean that some country would be planning to attack us soon.

    So, I would probably start preparing for a war. Maybe go buy a lot of food, at least?

    In some country further from the Russia I would probably assume it's something non-military. Maybe some form of a very large fertilizer storage? It would be kind of less scary, but of course that would mean a decreased farming output for the next season, and that would be shitty.

  • Nostalgia hits hard

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  • I really wish someone could make a racing game akin to NFS II. The track design is incredible because they were able to completely skip all realism. Nothing ever since has achieved quite the same. Okay, Mario Kart and similar come kind of close, but what I really liked about NFS II was the combination of kind of serious cars, and absolutely exaggerated scenery.

  • Estonian city Narva faces Russian-language separatist campaign

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  • ...just like articles in 2014 referred to separatist Russian speaking Ukrainians. And still, in reality they were people who had come from the territory of the Russia for the specific purpose of leading "separatism".

    The Russia says they are separatists. In 2014 DW believed the Russia and in 2026 they seem to believing the Russia again.Okay, I do believe that there are some pensioners that grew up in Soviet times and really want the city to cede to the Russia, but even most of Narva's Russian-speaking pensioners are strongly against that. Still, a hundred pensioners are (hopefully) not what this article's headline is talking about, as that would be intentional misleading. This article's headline is much more likely to be talking about the people who have come from the Russia in order to function as a pretext for the Russian troops to invade Estonia. But in 2014 DW called those people "East-Ukrainian separatists", so it's not suprising they might be doing the same again.

    Also, the video clearly shows Russian-speaking people telling – in Russian language – that the idea of such separatism is ridiculous. They would not say that if they knew even one Russian-speaker who has separatist thoughts.

    There is no reason to believe this is any different from what took place in 2014.

  • After a Long Time, Ubuntu Shows Some Respect to Deb Packages

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  • What I was missing on KDE was a way to switch between programs without going through a bazillion windows. At one point I had five Firefox windows open, plus four file managers, and getting to GIMP ended up requiring a lot of keypresses: Firefox -> Firefox -> File manager -> Firefox -> File manager -> GIMP. I would have much preferred just Firefox -> File Manager -> GIMP. Is there a way to switch directly between programs and not between individual windows until I happen to land upon a window belonging to the program I actually need and can then Alt+Tilde to the correct program?

    (Also, I think "Tilde" here does not really mean "AltGr+^ followed by space", but instead some other button; probably the one overneath Tab?)

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    Young Russians get to experience Iron Curtain 2.0 under Putin.

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  • Estonian city Narva faces Russian-language separatist campaign

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  • No, it actually doesn't.

    it's facing a campaign tryinc go incite Russian-language separatism. But just like in Ukraine in 2014, they'll need to bring actualy Russians from the Russia to do the actual "separatism".

    And it's incredibly saddening that still in year 2026 DW calls the Russian troops "separatists". Were the German soldiers in 1939 Belgian separatists in DW's opinion?

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  • It is absolutely clear form the demeanor of these three that those experiences should be associated with these three. If they weren't, these three would be speaking of some completely different subjects altogether. Plus, they would not be in the Russia.

    There are non-genocidal Russians, but these three have still been pro-genocide at least a month ago. Let's hope they've changed their position recently, but that doesn't really excuse their earlier evils.

  • After a Long Time, Ubuntu Shows Some Respect to Deb Packages

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  • I mean that if I have four Firefox windows open, three file manager windows open, GIMP open and Steam open and press alt+tab, I get cycled through four things: Firefox, File manager, Gimp and Steam. If I want a specific Firefox window, I first Alt+Tab to Firefox and then use Meta+Tab to cycle between the different windows of Firefox. That is incredibly convenient!

    On my other computer I'm currently trying OpenSUSE, and its version of Gnome does not have the option for enabling this in the keyboard shortcuts. Not really sure if my Ubuntu really uses Unity or something else, but anyway it's something that has a feature that makes the workflow much better.

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  • I'm talking about the experiences of a couple hundred people I've talked about this war in the last 12 years. I'm a fucking talkative person :)

    Like you say, those three do not make the connections. And that does tell a lot! And even if they now do, and even if they now are against the war, they were not against the war just a month ago. If they had been, they would not see any sense in complaining about this. Instead, they'd be loooong gone from the Russia.

    At least from 2014 to February 2026, these three people have been supporting the war against Ukraine. They've wanted their nation to FA, now they are FO.

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  • And yet, the regime has stronger support in the Russia than it has abroad. As absurd as that is.

    Just ask any Russian who lives outside the Russia and have visited their relatives in the Russia since 2022.