John @semanticist

I make and fix internet things. I live on the internet, which makes for a short commute. Cat Ops. Fuck off TERFs. 🏳️‍⚧️ @[email protected] semantici.st Edinburgh, Scotland Joined April 2007

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John @semanticist

5 months ago

Just FYI: there is no ethical way to use the current crop of LLMs which are trained on stolen content (lithub.com/how-is-meta-ge…) and abusive scraping (thelibre.news/foss-infrastru…). The better the product of those LLMs the more stuff they've stolen to train on.

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John @semanticist

6 months ago

FYI, if you fancy some easy trolling, boomer terf men are all over Twitter and have no idea how the internet works. I assume they would have learned by now if their toxic opinions (or, in one dude's case, doing time for murder!) hadn't alienated everyone they know under 40.

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John @semanticist

7 months ago

Twitter is definitely a safe place to be, there's no reason to have concerns about its owner being a Nazi and deliberately working to influence public opinion to get fascists elected. I'm sure this guy is just lying. theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks-a…

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John @semanticist

9 months ago

I mean, I always feel the list description made my point for me, but apparently it makes me a ‘soy boy’ (I don’t know what that means, but it feels like something amateur nazis online call people) and my hard drive should be ‘checked’. (Don’t worry, I have SMART monitoring.)

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ADHD Memes @ADHDForReal

a year ago

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John @semanticist

a year ago

Hi makers local to Edinburgh/Fife, I still have this 3d printer free to a good/indifferent home. It's been a good workhorse printer for me, just needs a bit of care to get back into use - or use it for bits for some other fun project.

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a year ago

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John @semanticist

a year ago

Dear local people I know who still use Twitter, I fucked my 3d printer so hard I had to buy a new one, so I'm giving away the old broken one. It's only a _bit_ broken, so someone smarter than me could probably fix it. Details here: mastodon.social/deck/@semantic…

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John @semanticist

2 years ago

I’m not really doing Twitter any more, but it was worth logging in this weekend just to see all the fucking transphobic bigots trying to square the circle of hating Doctor Who for being ‘woke’ while claiming to be fans. Doctor Who, like Trek, was *always* ‘woke’, for decades!

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Ballot Box Scotland @BallotBoxScot

2 years ago

The public vote here appears to be First Past the Post which is entirely inadequate for picking a single winner out of a field this broad. I am willing to partner and help run an STV or Borda Count election next time for the low, low price of getting to clap aw the dugs entered.

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2 years ago

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John @semanticist

2 years ago

Hey, @OXFOBike, top tip: buying lists of email addresses from spammers really doesn't make you look like a serious and trustworthy project. I'll be reporting you to Indiegogo.

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John @semanticist

3 years ago

I didn’t realise it at the time, but this is the face of a cat that has just puked on my blanket on my bed. instagram.com/p/CojRODHILPF/…

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outstar 🧛🏻 in bloodlines 2 era @outstarwalker

3 years ago

JK ROWLING WROTE A POLISH PERSON AND I'M ABSOLUTELY DEAD - she's a cleaner (of course) - she's sexy and seductive (yeah) - she has "Slavic eyes" (sksksksk) - she's called LECHSINKA (she really tried) - she doesn't understand what "detective" means (it's "detektyw" in Polish) 🤣

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Jonty Wareing ⍼ @jonty

3 years ago

I was pickpocketed in Amsterdam, but the only things they lifted were some CYRILLIC LETTER MULTIOCULAR O stickers and a used boarding pass. He glanced at them and handed it all back

Jonty Wareing ⍼ @jonty

3 years ago

I was pickpocketed in Amsterdam, but the only things they lifted were some CYRILLIC LETTER MULTIOCULAR O stickers and a used boarding pass. He glanced at them and handed it all back