@LizardOrman

Livestreaming from the mind of an engineer sometimes pretending to be a dragon. Also geekery and Scottish millennial politics. (he/him) pfp @Corvirav

 Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined September 2009
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SwiftOnSecurity
@SwiftOnSecurity28 Jun 2018
Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity
Everything is more complicated than you can imagine.
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I think a lot of people overestimate just how much Internet - especially the old Internet - the Wayback Machine has saved. There seems to be an assumption that everything which has ever existed online *must* be out there, somewhere, and that isn’t true.
Cora Harrington@CoraCHarrington29 Jul 2025
There's nothing like rummaging around in the archives of a site that's been around since 2006, clicking on the links of the sites they recommend, and every single one being a dead link. An entire internet, lost. And we were told whatever we put online was forever.
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Google exists bc of a grand bargain: scrape the open web, and profit from directing traffic to the best sites. Around 2010, the betrayal began. YouTube artificially ranked above other video, then over time maps results injected, shopping, flights, events. Now AI answers.
Wetterschneider
@Stretchedwiener23 Jul 2025
This literally shut me down. I used to get clients who want to make toys because they visited my site for blog posts and information. Now they don't need to. Google scraped my content and regurgitates it at the top of the search. Zero visitors now. No clients.
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It's hard to blame people for being confused by social security when the program was specifically set up this way to confuse them. Why? Because the fundamental logic is so clearly unsound: the average person is promised more money out, in real terms, than they pay in.
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@egreghost17 Jul 2025
Really funny that every single retiree on this website thinks social security is some kind of bank account the government kept for them, and not a benefit being actively funded by today’s taxes
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"I wasn't meant for Excel spreadsheets. I was meant to fight in Caesar's legions." Dude, the Romans would have gone nuts for Excel
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Behold!
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awake at 2am with a very runny nose and im feeling this post big time
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The memorable grammar lessons are the best ones.
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I rewatched one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and I forgot that at one point the East India Trading Company straight up blackmails Davy Jones into working for them. It’s like if Amazon captured a Lovecraftian elder god but only made it deliver packages. It’s genius.
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very skilful and nuanced frame from a school priest on the death of a bully
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Naming contractors in my phone contacts and now I know how occupational surnames came about.
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The fact that the simulated world in The Matrix is set in the '90s aged way better than it had any right to.
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Did you know, there are more hydrogen atoms in a molecule of water than there are stars in the solar system?
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I had to go get all my Nazi passports notarized and I could tell from the look on his face that the notary had never notarized a Nazi passport before
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Geostationary launches can accept some big changes to their launch window, because the target effectively moves with the launch site.
Spaceflight Now
@SpaceflightNow7 Jun 2025
As the weather moves on, SpaceX adjusted the T-0 time for tonight's launch of the SXM-10 mission from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Falcon 9 rocket is now set to launch at 11:24 pm ET (0324 UTC). Watch live: youtube.com/watch?v=4XJ7NAS-…

Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral with SiriusXM SXM-10 satellite

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mehow@mehow1237 Jun 2025
Just asked this girl Hannah how she spells her name and she just said “two of everything darling” iconic
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