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[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I mean, I'm not in the cultural space on this, but trying to be objective and clinical, neither one of you cares about a mutual analysis of the weather, right? You're following a social convention to establish that you're friendly and agreeable and willing to interact with each other and not just coldly ignoring the other person. From that standpoint, the response makes sense.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt here as to meaning, as the second part of his statement is even more incoherent if not, given context. I'm assuming that he just misspoke.

“Myself right now saying, ‘I am a giraffe,’ that doesn’t mean it’s true.”

I don't see as how his giraffe-ness would have much bearing on homosexuality, otherwise.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/08/clacton-byelection-likely-to-be-two-man-race-between-reform-leader-and-binface

Farage has sought to portray the byelection as a “people versus the establishment” contest, prompting Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, to describe Binface as the “people’s candidate”. The prime minister, Keir Starmer, even addressed his candidacy on the sidelines of the Nato summit. “I think it’s actually against Labour party rules to endorse another [candidate],” he said.

For the man himself, or rather the alien, it’s all come as a bit of a shock. The question of whether he might even win is one that he is reluctant to countenance. “It’s earliest days yet and there is a long old road to go, but if in the unlikely event that the humans of Clacton prefer me to old Nige, then I will do my very best to represent them,” he told the Guardian.

Farage is the favourite, but odds on Binface winning have been tumbling. Oddschecker, which provides betting odds from some of the UK’s most popular bookmakers, said odds on the underdog winning had been slashed from 5/1 into 7/2.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/nigel-farage-takes-fight-establishment-160348322.html

Nigel Farage takes his 'fight with the establishment' to the voters

Farage said his decision ‌to stand for re-election was part of a strategy of "sticking two fingers up at the establishment"...

It was at this point that Mr. Farage made the fatal decision that the best way to rally support from anti-establishment voters would be a one-on-one popularity contest with a man wearing a garbage bin on his head.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 68 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (7 children)

“You never see a giraffe, a male giraffe, that mate(s) with a giraffe,” Rod Joseph said.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals

Giraffes

Further information: Giraffe § Necking

Male giraffes have been observed to engage in remarkably high frequencies of homosexual behavior. After aggressive "necking", it is common for two male giraffes to caress and court each other, leading up to mounting and climax. Such interactions between males have been found to be more frequent than heterosexual coupling.[95]

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

If you mean directly, yes, IFAIK. At one point youtube-dl could download them.

Someone could probably set up a proxy tied to a bogus account, but I expect that YouTube will block them if it picks up on it.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 4 hours ago

So far, we've had several times more domestic assassination attempts on Trump than we have Iranian.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 28 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

During the flight, Bertazzo allegedly told Rosario, “You know what to do” before removing his headset, arranging his belongings, taking off his seatbelt and exiting the aircraft.

Instructor: (Encouragingly) "If you can handle this, Rosario, it'll all get easier from here on out. The most stressful moments are when you're just learning."

Student: "Thanks, but I'm sure that..."

Instructor: dives out plane door

Student: ...

[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 5 hours ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_PARTEI

Die Partei für Arbeit, Rechtsstaat, Tierschutz, Elitenförderung und basisdemokratische Initiative ("The Party for Labour, Rule of Law, Animal Protection, Promotion of Elites and Grassroots Democratic Initiative"), or Die PARTEI ("The PARTY"), is a German political party. It was founded in 2004 by the editors of the German satirical magazine Titanic. It is led by Martin Sonneborn. In the 2014 European Parliament election, the party won a seat, marking the first time that a satirical party has won a seat to the European Parliament. With the 2019 European Parliament election, the party gained a second seat, held by Nico Semsrott. The party kept these two seats at the 2024 European Parliament election.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 17 points 5 hours ago

https://x.com/CountBinface/status/2062106018058776948

Here it is: my 2026 manifesto for the #Makerfield By-Election. Makerfield Great Again! #VoteBinface #MakeYourVoteCount

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 5 hours ago

I want to find the yin-yang twin for the Guiness Breweries and the Guiness Book of World Records. There has to be some sort of information/registry company that has done an alcoholic beverage.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 5 hours ago

I mean, you can make physical art using AI.

searches

https://www.art-magazine.ai/program

Anytime, everywhere, all about AI & generative art

A list of AI art and generative art exhibitions, festivals and events.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49199407

The layoffs at one of your studios most able to ship games is a bonkers, stupid decision; but pivoting Obsidian to making a new Fallout game is a good business decision if you don't care about what your creatives feel led to create.

 

I got inspired and decided to try out a few fountain pen inks the other day. I picked up Organics Studio's Nitrogen.

This is a popular saturated blue ink that has a lot of red sheen to it, looks almost like metallic foil when written on sufficiently ink-resistant paper.

I used it with a broad-nib TWSBI Eco. And in that, that, I agree. It does show a lot of sheen.

One really needs video to see the effect, since one needs to tilt it relative to a light source. A static image doesn't really convey the effect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEsHNIn1c7w&t=1460s

But there were some big caveats.

It dries out very quickly on one's nib

My big surprise was how extremely quickly the ink dried on my nib, producing a delay until the ink is flowing and a hard start after just a short time out in the air without ink flowing. People do talk about this online, now that I've gone looking for it, but I wasn't aware of it when getting the ink, and I doubt I'd have gotten it if I'd known about this going into it. One can't just stop and think for very long without needing to start writing to keep the ink flowing. For me, this is frustrating, and really kills the appeal of the ink for me. None of my other inks do this.

One really needs ink-resistant paper to see sheen

Another thing that I hadn't anticipated


not having played around with inks with a lot of sheen prior to this


is that one really needs ink-resistant paper to see the sheen. On ordinary copy paper, it just looks like a blue ink. I knew that there would be a difference, but not that there would be no sheen. On an inexpensive composition notebook I've had sitting around for probably thirty years in my desk, it looks all right, if not quite as shiny as on Iroful paper.

This probably isn't a huge surprise to people who have used inks with sheen, and it's not going to be specific to this particular sheening ink. But I'd expected some sheen to still be visible on more absorbent paper, and it isn't.

It tends to smear and get on things

In the above video, Brian Goulet does mention this and how the ink is infamous for doing this


which I find puzzling, given how quickly it seems to dry out on the nib. So I was expecting to see this. But I still managed to get smearing and blue blotches on my hands multiple times, despite being careful. I haven't seen anything like this with the other inks I've used (though I don't have a huge collection, admittedly).

Other

It has a reputation for staining clear pens. I haven't tried cleaning it out after exhausting my current fill, so no first-hand experience with this, but I thought that I'd also mention this, in case someone runs across this post when considering the ink.

Summary

The ink is pretty, if one wants something with a lot of sheen. I don't dispute that. But it really is a pain in the neck to use.

I don't know of a good "Nitrogen alternative" that performs better, but I have to say that I wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless they are aware of what they are getting into.

 

Not sure what's going on, but for at least today and yesterday, I've seen a fairly high rate of server errors when attempting to load a number of different sorts of pages. I've seen this happen with attempting to view a post (including on communities that are not locally hosted), and attempting to view user pages.

As far as I can tell, if one keeps reloading, one eventually gets through, if you're hitting this. No idea as to cause


all I see is:

Error!

There was an error on the server. Try refreshing your browser. If that doesn't work, come back at a later time. If the problem persists, you can seek help in the Lemmy support community or Lemmy Matrix room.

Sorry I can't provide any additional information, but I can't think of much other information.

An example page:

https://lemmy.today/post/55800972

This successfully showed up on, I believe, my sixth reload. The seventh reload was an error again (so it's not a "it works once and then keeps working" problem for a given page). I've seen it on various networks on my end, so I'm pretty sure that I'm not a factor.

https://lestat.org/ doesn't show errors, so whatever it is, it's not tripping their error detector.

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