Notices by The research fairy, but spooky (bgcarlisle@scholar.social), page 2

~ Black Mirror ~

What if there was a printer

But it works

The directory of open access books

https://www.doabooks.org/

2. Install Greasemonkey and make a new script like this:

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button.click();
setTimeout(
function () {
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Hypothesis: There is a level of wealth that it is impossible to reach without exploiting others in a morally indefensible way; and even if one could, the effects of a person with that amount of power over others would be incompatible with a meaningfully free society

They legalised gay in India!

> 'We are no longer criminals': India's top court scraps colonial-era ban on gay sex

Worth noting:

> it was reinstated as a criminal offence in 2013 after four years of decriminalization

Don't forget—sometimes the pendulum of straight people's acceptance swings the wrong way

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/india-court-gay-sex-ban-law-celebrations-1.4812449

If you have an ironic beard, you have a beard in real life

If you make a racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic/pro-fascist/etc. joke ironically, you're being racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic/pro-fascist/etc. in real life

A weird thing about the current techno-dystopia that we're living in is that there are ads for watches that run for "several days" on a single charge

The digital watch that I got for Christmas in ~ 1998 is still running on the same battery

There are actual humans who sold pot (something we have decided as a society that should never have been illegal in the first place) and most of them are now also going to be out of a job because they are not well-connected enough to lobby for licenses to do so

And a lot of this divides along racial lines (note the "Former cops now selling pot! lol" stories btw)

But—the sniffer dogs are the real tragedy?

> Legal pot puts 14 RCMP sniffer dogs out of work

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/dogs-rcmp-marijuana-retrain-retire-1.4759428

Things that often prevent me from boosting your posts:

* Shortened URL (t.co or bit.ly)
* Images without alt text
* Politics, etc. without a CW

Even if I really agree with you or find it clever or funny or insightful, I'll probably just let it pass because of bad etiquette

Hypothesis: Anything a philanthropist can give the world as a gift, the world should have had by rights

Accidental Masto positioning https://scholar.social/media/9dhHOlyf0SH3nZLbyzY