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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Aug 02, 2026

Replying to @minego@pdx.social

@minego@pdx.social On the contrary. It’s maximally efficient. And sustainable!

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Jul 27, 2026

Is feckin joke é an t-Iarnród Gearmánach.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Jul 20, 2026

RE: https://mstdn.social/@junesim63/116950959416958830 Is cearta daonna iad cearta tras. Sin deireadh an scéil. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TerfsAndHomophobesFuckOff

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JuneSim63 💚 @junesim63@mstdn.social

"This is about clarity, it's about leadership, it's about standing with people who are asking for us to stand with them. I think one of the reasons why I'm here is that, as a gay man, I understand when they come for one of us, they come for all of us. Ultimately we've got to stand together in solidarity." Zack Polanski #Trans #TransPride #GreenParty #UKPolitics #ZackPolanski https://www.scenemag.co.uk/zack-polanski-on-standing-with-trans-people-when-they-come-for-one-of-us-they-come-for-all-of-us/

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Jul 16, 2026

Replying to @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io I would have loved to see France crush Argentina in the final. As it is? My cheers are for Spain, of course. But I'd even have accepted England ending their 60-year dry spell if that's what it took to send the Argentine squad home in tears. Mbappé is a true gentleman -- not merely a sporting genius but a man of deep and obvious intelligence and (even more important) admirable character.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Jul 13, 2026

Replying to @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Not that this is in any way bad news, but I fear you might be inflating its beneficent effect. Even if they did come to NYC, those people would never venture more than 50 m past the Olive Garden and Bubba Gump's Shrimp Factory in the Giulianified Times Square. New Yorkers would never see them even if they did come.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Jul 11, 2026

Replying to @davep@infosec.exchange

@davep@infosec.exchange @Nickiquote@mstdn.social My T.,W.I.M.: Being stupid as dung is a real advantage for a striker. Bill Shankly famously said: "If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards". A talented and sufficiently dumb striker never suffers from such existential doubts. As you move backfield, IQ can and should go up. Keepers are often unusually intelligent (but also usually as neurotic as a cat on meth).

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Jul 03, 2026

Replying to @Devonkiwi@mastodonapp.uk

@Devonkiwi@mastodonapp.uk @Nickiquote@mstdn.social It does, does it not? Pommes rot-weiß (chips with ketchup and mayo) is very common here, though almost always with a simple, OG dollop of each, not this bizarre pre-combined-but-not-mixed stuff from a tube. (Which is not, perhaps, optimal in purely visual terms.)

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie in techtakes · Jun 15, 2026

Replying to @sc_griffith@awful.systems

@sc_griffith@awful.systems "Soma Capital", eh?

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Jun 12, 2026

Replying to @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social [Nelson Muntz laughter]

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Jun 09, 2026

Replying to @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party When you're looking at an illuminated mediaeval manuscript, you can spot straightaway which are real and which are AI slop.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · May 12, 2026

Replying to @fesshole@mastodon.social

@fesshole@mastodon.social @jonathankoren@sfba.social

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · May 12, 2026

Replying to @redsad@ohai.social

@redsad@ohai.social This really needs to find its way into the next edition of Hölldobler and Wilson.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · May 11, 2026

Replying to @minego@pdx.social

@minego@pdx.social I feel that I must point out here, in the interest of full disclosure, that Beckett’s famous quotation (“Try again Fail again Fail better”), read in context, is not — emphatically not — a message of hope and encouragement.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · May 06, 2026

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · May 04, 2026

Excellent.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/may/04/sim-spanish-civil-war-artist-jose-luis-rey-vila-barcelona-exhibition

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · May 04, 2026

RE: @servelan@newsie.social

"Tyson Homosexual Wins Race."

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · May 04, 2026

RE: @tazgetroete@mastodon.social

Klingt ja dem ewigen Ach-keiner-wird-so-wie-ich-verfolgt-Jammern von Trump verdammt ähnlich.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @jeffowski@mastodon.world

@jeffowski@mastodon.world Oh, but it is a Christian nation. “Ye shall know them by their fruits”, as somebody or other once said. Well: we now know American Christians.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @cstross@wandering.shop

@ChrisMayLA6 @mdm @linuxgnome @cstross @david_chisnall @graydon But everything is radioactive and on fire *right now*.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Apr 19, 2026

Replying to @garymcm@mastodon.social

@Richard_Littler @garymcm I’m not at all a Whovian. (For me, “the Doctor” means Stephen Maturin.) But from all I’ve heard, Tom Baker is not only a beloved incarnation of, umm, that other Doctor, but also an absolutely wonderful human being.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

@EUCommission As a general matter, the EU should follow a strict anti-cake policy. But Erasmus participation isn’t cake. It doesn’t require EU or even EEA membership, and UK students should not be penalized for the belligerent stupidity of their Brexiteer grandparents.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @marcas@mastodon.ie

@cstross@wandering.shop @militant_dilettante@mastodon.social * Ordoliberals are not like liberals in the UK sense, let alone the American. They are spiritual heirs to the British ministers who refused to stop food exports from Ireland during the Famine because that would have violated the sacred laws of The Market. 3/3

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @marcas@mastodon.ie

@cstross@wandering.shop @militant_dilettante@mastodon.social These were pretty right-wing guys, but more from the business than from the blood & soil faction. They weren't nazis, and they were true believers. They were all (including the founder) purged in about 10 seconds by the nazis and expelled from the party. One of the leaders of the (now) homophobic, economic-populist, xenophobic AfD is a lesbian ex-investment banker who lives in Switzerland with her Sri Lankan partner. 2/n

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @cstross@wandering.shop

@cstross@wandering.shop @militant_dilettante@mastodon.social When AfD was formed, it was not a nazi party. Its founders were ordoliberal* economists whose idea was to withdraw Germany from the eurozone to alleviate the Greek debt crisis. (As a € state, Greece could no longer kill debt by devaluing the drachma. AfD figured German withdrawal would effectively devalue the euro.) 1/n

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @militant_dilettante@mastodon.social

@militant_dilettante @cstross @fgbjr I don't know how devoted Putin is to all things German. But having watched the broadcast of his speech, many years ago, to the Bundestag, I can confirm that his German is very good.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Apr 08, 2026

Replying to @D_Perris@plasmatrap.com

@D_Perris@plasmatrap.com @cstross@wandering.shop I think they both protest too much — I’m not certain I can believe them.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Apr 01, 2026

Replying to @opencage@en.osm.town

@opencage But, look, I’ve been to Bielefeld. Twice. And it really doesn’t exist.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Mar 25, 2026

Replying to @shoq@mastodon.social

@shoq Don’t hire them. Don’t lend them money. Don’t buy from them. Don’t piss on them when they set themselves on fire.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Mar 02, 2026

Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop

@cstross@wandering.shop But those bunny eggs are made of yummy, yummy chocolate!

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Feb 16, 2026

Replying to @marcas@mastodon.ie

@kirtai@tech.lgbt @cstross@wandering.shop And who knows? If, 20 or 30 years on, England has by then managed to comprehensively detorify and defaragize itself, Scotland can sponsor its southern neighbour’s article 49 petition for accession to the EU. 4/4

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Feb 16, 2026

Replying to @marcas@mastodon.ie

@kirtai@tech.lgbt @cstross@wandering.shop Fast forward. When IndyRef2 comes, I will gladly and publicly encourage Scots to vote Go. It’s about European union, a fight in which I very emphatically have a dog. The EU will fast-track Scottish accession; Spain, specifically and expressly, has stated it will throw up no barriers. Scotland won’t be the seceder. It will be abandoning a seceder to rejoin the Union it overwhelmingly supports. And Europe will welcome it back home. 3/n

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Feb 16, 2026

Replying to @marcas@mastodon.ie

@cstross@wandering.shop @kirtai@tech.lgbt But if Scottish friends asked what I thought, I said: don’t leave. You value EU membership; you won’t have it if you go. Spain will certainly veto, and you’ll have a cold shoulder from the rest, as the EU is not in the business of encouraging bits of its member states to secede. 2/n

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Feb 16, 2026

Replying to @kirtai@tech.lgbt

@cstross@wandering.shop @kirtai@tech.lgbt At the time of IndyRef1, I took no public position. I am not a Scot, nor otherwise British; I had no (direct) dog in the fight. 1/n

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Dec 19, 2025

Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop

@cstross@wandering.shop I voted No, but should qualify that. For me “instar” says not only “one of a series of physical forms” but also “and each new form shows some significant change or development from its predecessor”. For what you describe, I might use “instance”. Which is probably why nobody would buy my books, if I wrote any! So: go ahead — go with “instar”.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Jun 02, 2025

Replying to @kate@shrike.club

@kate@shrike.club "Are you quite sure about that, Charles? Take as much time as you need to answer."

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Jan 23, 2025

Replying to @Pkbwood@mastodon.online

@Pkbwood@mastodon.online The key word of your advice is “start”.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Nov 18, 2024

Replying to @evacide@hachyderm.io

@evacide@hachyderm.io During the run-up to the election, Teen Vogue and People were the New York Times and Washington Post, while the New York Times and Washington Post were busily being Teen Vogue and People.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Nov 04, 2024

Replying to @gavinisdie@masto.ai

@gavinisdie@masto.ai @MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social What I wonder, though, is whether women in Iran, Afghanistan etc. back in those days enjoyed these freedoms generally, or whether that was the preserve of the affluent, educated, professional upper-middle and upper classes in the major cities?

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Jun 26, 2023

Replying to @marcas@mastodon.ie

@joelmartinez @dawni But a few years ago, visiting NY with my family, we spent a day on the beach in the Hamptons. (The south shore of Long Island is basically one big beach, 100+ miles long.) We didn’t see any of this, but on the Monday we learned that five people drowned off the beach we were visiting that day, fighting against rips. They were all strong, fit young men.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Jun 26, 2023

Replying to @dawni@mas.to

@joelmartinez @dawni Can’t help you there. At the time I learned the term, I had only the very vaguest idea what an *ahem* was. In retrospect, I can see how the term came about (the “pus” thing only makes sense on fairly rare occasions — rips mostly *don’t* look whitish, unless there is a simultaneous strong undertow (which is not the thing that will kill you).

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Jun 26, 2023

Replying to @marcas@mastodon.ie

@joelmartinez @dawni The idea being that the sand being sucked out to sea turns the rip a bit whitish and, I guess, pus-like. Which, yeah, sometimes. But not always by any means. And anyway, nice try, but like it or not — and no longer being a giggling snotnosed prepubescent brat, I don’t particularly like it myself — it’s sea pussy.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Jun 26, 2023

Replying to @marcas@mastodon.ie

@joelmartinez @dawni I’ve seen that bowdlerized as “sea pus”, as in the awful whitish goop oozing from an infection. Hard to see that as an improvement, frankly.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Jun 26, 2023

Replying to @dawni@mas.to

@dawni @joelmartinez The most common term — the one your parents would use when warning you about them — was “undertow”, which is technically incorrect. (Undertow is a thing, but that thing is not a rip current.) But we kids always called them “sea pussies”.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Jun 25, 2023

Replying to @greene@wandering.shop

@greene Thanks, but really, I’m just passing it along, as are all the people boosting this post. It *is* good advice, though! I grew up very close to a beach and learned this as a little kid. Most people don’t grow up near beaches and, too often, don’t learn it. Hence my eagerness to pass it along — it really can save your life, and it’s stupidly easy (though counterintuitive).

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Jun 25, 2023

Replying to @ArmyGirl@mastodon.world

@ArmyGirl Yep. Grew up five minutes from the beach (albeit at a much more northern latitude), learned this early on. We had a different term for rips, a term not really suitable for a family fediverse.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Jun 25, 2023

Replying to @marcas@mastodon.ie

Credit where due, BTW. I found this on a Facebook Friend's page; he had shared the post of a group called "The Other 98%", of which I know nothing, other than that this is good advice. I had to drastically paraphrase their text to fit Mastodon's character limit, but that's the gist of it.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus @marcas@mastodon.ie · Jun 25, 2023

HOW TO SPOT A RIP CURRENT:

IT'S WHERE THE WATER LOOKS EASIEST AND SAFEST, with no waves breaking or rolling in.

NEVER ENTER THE SEA HERE.

If you get caught in a rip, DON'T FIGHT IT. You can't swim back to shore against it; you will become exhausted and drown.

Instead, SWIM ACROSS IT, parallel to shore. You'll soon be out of the current and can then easily swim back.

Boost, please, and make sure your friends and family know this when they hit the beach.

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