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• Post #4087464

  EU resident friends, we can vote on the design of new Euro notes apparently - here's the survey link on case you want more cute birbs on your currency in future: https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknotes/share/ Do feel free to boost/share :)

• Post #3361160

  Fediverse people who know more about home maintenance than me: I'd quite like to clean this very grimy outdoor wall at the back of my flat which I can now access again after some repairs got done. I've brushed some dirt off, but it's still visibly grimy and given what I think is just paint on slightly crumbly concrete + my joints not being great I don't know if soapy water and a bucket is the best option or if I should consider other ideas. Boosts appreciated :) #home #DIY #cle...

• Post #3324859

  A blanket ban on social media for under-16s is the wrong choice. It's not working in Australia, and it won't work in the UK. Social media harms don't magically stop affecting people as they get older. Bans are also rarely difficult to circumvent. So by failing to ask the social media companies to bear any cost - cleaning up their act, making them legally responsible for content they actively recommend and promote through their content algorithms - Starmer has failed to tackle the pr...

• Post #2450017

  Aaaagh, I have had yet another stupid case of someone screwing with Wikipedia edits I've done for no good reason whatsoever. Literally it's about fifty percent of edits on that place that someone will mess with (and yes, I mean it's fifty percent when the edits are perfectly in line with every minutia of Wikipedia policy), and then people will whine that nobody wants to support/edit it and ??? What do you expect when you run a project that asks for work then trashes the...

• Post #2450015

  New solution to the problem of how to get all my gear back to base in first person RPGs whilst wildly overencumbered #gaming #games #fallout

• Post #2159264

  I'm looking to maybe commission someone to draw/paint/art a map for a project, real-world + vignette illustrations of places. Ideally looking at relatively toned-down styles and colour schemes (kinda thinking sketchy or watercoloury though I'm open to thoughts). Absolutely no AI obviously. Further details here: https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?msg=171307 If this might be you, get in touch! If this isn't you, I'd really appreciate a boost on this so I can fi...

• Post #1863669

  Finally properly home from today onward. I've not had a full seven day week at home since early March, which feels like a long time at this point.

• Post #1022288

  duck in case your timeline needed duck #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #cute #birds

• Post #818212

  If you still have an account on academia.edu, you should probably delete it. I'm not sure how their new terms are legal: they give the site the right to use your data *in any manner*. This is mainly to help them scrape academic work and republish/mangle parts of it through AI without credit: but these terms go way beyond that into your likeness, your voice, even your signature. Please boost this to academics you know. Further PSA elements in thread: #academia #science #history #univer...

• Post #500345

  Sitting here and realising I might genuinely have spent twice as many hours on trying to apply for money for myself or other people to do further research as I have on actually researching anything seriously, over the past 12 months. Why do we run systems like this? Is this really a good use of every academic's time?