Autumn Statement Live: Jeremy Hunt announces Β£55bn of tax rises and spending cuts
Did you not think this would happen? Did you think the magic money fairy would continue to dish out money left, right, and centre?
Did you honestly think the Furlough money was free money? Or the Money spent on COVID was there to be poured out like water?
It was obvious to anyone with half a brain cell halfway through COVID that the money would need to be paid back.
Watched The Young Ones' "Boring" on the TV last night.
Shocking Police IQ levels
Copper 1 "Well, I said something about the Pope, didn't I."
Copper 2 "That's a bit stupid; you know she's Catholic."
Copper 1 "Yeah, I didn't know the Pope was, though."
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#crypto #Cuibono
Hacking fears after $650m vanishes from collapsed crypto firm
Exchange's collapse on Friday risks sparking a wider panicThe Telegraph
Air Fryers are clearly the new "Thing" in this drive to lower household bills. When I got home last night, the wife berated me that from the comfort of our double-glazed home sofa, she had spent nearly two hours on her iPad tracking one down because "Everywhere is out of stock!"
#HeatOrEat
Current status on many of the Federated instances.
ROTFLMAO That'd upset a few people.
I wonder what would happen if #birdsite was to link to #ActivityPub, making twitter.com one of the biggest instances connected to the #fediverse just like that.
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THUNDERSTRUCK Orquestra de Baterias 2018
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Twelve years ago (I'm sure it was longer than 12 years?), this man held us captive in a cellar in Liverpool. It's not The Cavern, but it did look like the sort of place Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb might hang out.
@methoddan
When someone leaves the company and people phone to speak to them, one of my favourite pastimes is to say to callers: "I'm afraid [insert name] no longer works for the company."
The four-second silence is brilliant. You can literally sense them thinking:
"Oh! What happened there?"
"Were they sacked?"
"Did they get another job?"
"Are they still in IT?"
"Where are they now?"
The vast majority of repressed Brits, although desperate to know, will be too tight-lipped to ask. π€£
A whole slew of followers on the shrednivashtar account, "which was nice." Better start using it more, I suppose?
Heard a noise outside my office window that, seriously, sounded like a cat had been run over. Goddam seagull is flying in a circle overhead, screaming its arse off!
What I find so hysterical about the mass Twitter exodus to Mastodon is that the very people and attitudes Twitter leavers will cite as their reason for moving have been on Federated services for a long time. If anything, Far-Right groups are bigger on Mastodon.
I woke up this morning and spent the first hour or so convinced it was Thursday. π€¦ββοΈ
I miss TEXTS FROM DOG
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Today's events demonstrate that you really need your own instance on the #Fediverse.
My biggest mistake was using my dick_turpin@mastodon.org.uk account, which then put that instance owner in a difficult position which made me very concerned for them, TBH.
I posted a comment on someone's post about how their pictures were really good and that they should create an account on Hive so they could earn money for their work. It was a genuine attempt to show them somewhere they could earn some money. I don't even think I mentioned Crypto? The individual just told me to "FUCK OFF", and then the next thing I know; their weenie friends started reporting me to Sem. I was a bit worried for an hour or so.
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Groan. I take it I have to delve into the db to delete the username of an account I deleted on my #friendca instance if I want to use the username again?
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This is why I don't "Play Online" I don't even think it's funny. Because of this, I won't buy "Internet Access Required" games. Imagine if you coughed up the Β£100 for #CallOfDuty #cod and these arsewipes were waiting for you.
24 Minutes of TOXIC Battlefield Memes
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Watched "All Quiet on the Western Front" on NETFLIX at the weekend. Brilliant version IMO although I was surprised [Kemmerich's] boots were left out.
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The wife has a basket of sweets by the front door, ready for the #halloween #trickortreat There is no longer any kids in our street, so unless some urchins from over the road show up, it looks like I'm munching through small bags of Haribo later. 
IMPORTANT:
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0 A.D. on Twitter
IMPORTANT: The person who released the game on steam today is charging 8β¬ for it. Please do not buy it. The game is free and always will be. It might contain viruses and other malware. #FOSS #opensource #indiedev #SteamTwitter
#blockchain #crypto #google
Google Introduces Cloud-Based Blockchain Node Service For Ethereum - Slashdot
Tech giant Google said Thursday it will be launching a cloud-based node engine for Ethereum projects. CoinDesk reports: The company said its Google Cloud Blockchain Node Engine will be a "fully managed node-hosting service that can minimize the needβ¦tech.slashdot.org
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#lug #mailinglists #gnome
The GNOME Project is closing all its mailing lists
Everyone has to join Discourse⦠although you can still participate via emailLiam Proven (The Register)
πππππΌπΊπ²πΏ: "Hi there, I was told to reboot our router, but I don't know what that is?"
π π²: "It will be a white box with Draytek on it."
πππππΌπΊπ²πΏ: "I found it!"
π π²: "OK, on the back is a small black switch.........."
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We were young and hungry! Well, OK. Maybe I wasn't. π
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in reply to Shredni Vashtar • • •Do you think Youtubers go from nothing to earning without putting in work? You can potter around on Hive making pennies or build communities and do better. Your choice.
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in reply to Steve • •Dunno, I'm on Youtube, but I'm not looking to be the next influencer on there.
See, I have said, "I'm not in it for the money." and that's partly true. I'd be happy to accept the embarrassingly low rewards if I had at least seven or eight conversations, but as I said, the only one that makes an effort is you, so the fact is if nobody wants to engage with me, fine, reward me instead. But no, it's a double whammy. Piss poor rewards and a fooking leper gets more interaction than me.
I'll give you an example seeing as you think I'm talking bollocks. Your mate slobberchops. Pretty much every post of his I see (Usually on Twitter); not only do I vote on it, but I also comment on it too. I believe (But I could be wrong) he has only commented on three of my posts. Now I'm not picking on him the point I'm desperately trying to make is; I am putting the work in for feck all in return. How much longer does one bang one's head against the wall? It's why I hardly post I say to myself. "What's the point?"
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in reply to Shredni Vashtar • • •But you feel free to do whatever makes you happy. I just 'led the horse to water'.
I just want #Hive to be better known and for others to give it a go. You certainly did that. I don't bother with some platforms like Insta and Tiktok. Can't spread myself too thin.
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in reply to Shredni Vashtar • • •I was considering a post about this topic as you're not the only one to wonder if #Hive is worth your time. Time is valuable.
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in reply to Steve • •You're taking it personally again, and it's not aimed at you!
It's aimed at the whole concept/structure. TBH with you, it's been going downhill since the split from STEEM. Every hard fork seems designed to fuck the little guy; the problem is, the developers have little choice because if they don't make the rewards harder to obtain, then the big accounts that already earn 5, 6, 7, maybe even ten times what the smaller accounts earn will see their rewards increase to an extent that sees the gap between Rich and Poor π€£ grow even further and that leaves them open to accusations such as I'm making only impossible to refute.
I was thinking about this last night, and Hive is so hypocritical it's untrue. "You don't earn anything for posting on Twitter." but (Potentially) if I post in the style of Twitter (say 200 characters) on Hive, either of two things happens. The post will be hidden because there's little to no content in it, or HW is all over it like a rash for "Poor content." like I keep moaning: "Why should I spend two hours or more of my valuable time creating a post that doesn't even break the $10 barrier let alone the heady rewards I see of $75 for posts I wouldn't even wipe my backside on.
I think it's very unfair to give a response of: "Well, leave then!" that just demonstrates that Hive doesn't have the answer or just doesn't care. π€·ββοΈ
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