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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • I’ve wanted to learn how to use a sling. And also a blow gun. I mean seriously, that’s gotta be untraceable

    Remember the guy who was killed by having a tiny pellet of some radioactive material embedded in his skin when a stranger bumped him with the tip of his umbrella, if what I read when I was very young correctly

    Nope, looked it up. I was close though!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov

    While at the bus stop, he reported feeling a slight sharp pain, as if from an insect bite or sting, on his right thigh. He reportedly saw a man picking up an umbrella off the ground behind him.[17]

    Research Medical Officer, found a tiny pellet in the tissue sample.[5]

    The pellet measured 1.70 millimetres (0.067 in) in diameter … Considering possible poisons, scientists hypothesised that the pellet might have contained ricin.[5]








  • I’m anti-pro-ai. It has use cases. It’s helped me find and remember songs, movies, odd bits of info I have tried over and over again through the years to figure out but had too few details to find using traditional search. And search got ruined by seo which eventually made my quests fruitless

    The ai that got put onto my phone is like the search on my browser but helped me actually whittle out something obscure I otherwise haven’t been able to







  • Hey, just want to give you a heads up. When you share YouTube links, the ? and anything behind it is tracking info. When you shared that long link it shows me this:

    ss of youtube info

    I’ve redacted quite a bit and as it’s not tied to your lemmy username I feel compelled to let you, and the world at large, know. When sharing youtube links, delete the ? and everything behind it