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It's always a pleasure to see a popular Threads account with fediverse-sharing enabled. Despite such a vast difference in the platforms, we can achieve a human connection. But fediverse integration in Threads is still in a sorry state over a year since launch. They need to be able to follow us back. They need to see when we mention them. Those are such basic things.
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  @Gargron I presume it's working as designed. Just enough crippled interop to muddy the waters when they're fending off anti-monopoly regulators. But not enough to actually make it viable for people to free themselves from Meta's Chains and move elsewhere in the fediverse. If we had a third cat I'd think they were queuing for the litter box, but no. They're just chilling. #CatsOfMastodon #OrangeCats #TuxedoCats #Cats   @xol Well now I'm procrastinating looking at him. I think there's the same amount of procrastination it just shifts who's procrastinating. I wouldn't consider my new flat to be 100% liveable yet — still lots to buy and renovate (and still no Internet!) — but John Mastodon has already arrived, and I think he likes it here If you're still on X when the new Terms of Service drop on Nov. 15, you should probably leave. That's because your posts can officially serve as food for X’s Grok chatbot and any other AI systems that X might create in the future. https://www.pcmag.com/news/xs-new-rules-blocked-posts-will-no-longer-be-hidden-tweets-will-train-ai The fact that 'Worcester' is pronounced 'Wusster' is wild. But have you ever seen the five-syllable Old English name it stems from? 'Weogornaċeaster'. It meant "fortified settlement of the Weogoran (a Saxon tribe)". Click to hear a reconstruction of its pronunciation:
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 @yvanspijk All right, that's enough, borcester - these pronunciations have left me all a-florcester. Related: "High Wycombe has an interesting derivation - the Saxon word 'Wyc' means a small village community, 'Combe' was the Celtic word for a small depression or hollow, while the middle English 'High' has the same meaning as today, hence the literal translation 'Hello, villagers who live in a hole!’.” @yvanspijk Oh hey, I wasn't terribly far off on the OE pronunciation (tho can't do it as smoothly as you did). That one class was a lotta years ago!  @christianselig did the cat just dodge an armor breaking bullet that hit the concrete wall? Would explain the expression  @christianselig He just like me fr (I also had an ear infection and needed drops recently)  Haj‘s are still a little confused about the species of their newest family member #plushtodon Mr. T (working name) has arrived well ahead of my birthday (thank you @jan!) and is sharing my work day. |
