Tom Gauld - Useful phrases for the murder mystery writer abroad
Kia bela vilaĝo!
What a lovely village!
Ĉu ĉi tiuj estas venenaj?
Are any of these plants poisonous?
Kie oni povas aĉeti pafilon?
Can one purchase a firearm nearby?
Ĉu la tajdo povus forporti kadavron?
Could the tide carry a dead body away?
Saluton oficiro.
Hello officer.
Okazis miskompreno!
There has been a misunderstanding!
La murdo en mia notlibro estas fikcia.
The murder planned in my notebook is fictional.
Mi ŝatus telefoni al la Brita konsulejo.
I would like to telephone the British consulate.
2025-Jul-06: Tom Gauld on A phrasebook for crime writers – cartoon
#TomGauld #TravelDictionary
#Eo #Esperanto
(via)
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Agatha Christie never had this problem …Tom Gauld (The Guardian)
the Blue Screen of Death …
#BSOD #BlueScreenOfDeath #grand #failure #fail
#EM Quartier #Bangkok #Thailand
(via Twitter, from reddit; here’s what it’s supposed to look like: [1, 2])
(A bit over nine years ago, I posted this on diaspora*. I joined Friendica as of this year, and that post doesn't seem to have federated to here, so I'm re-posting it. "Because I can.") #repost
Frau Horst on diaspora* posted this more than ten years ago, but I think it's still relevant.
(#English translation-ish below)
#erzaehlmirnix #IchBinKeinNaziAber #KeinNaziAber #keinUnterbrecher
#ErzählMirNix #Deutsch
Four-square comic strip, with two stick-figure heads talking.
– So you know, the thing with the refugees here ... I'm not a Nazi, but ...
– .... I'm not someone who interrupts others, but ...
– ... what? What ...
– ... I don't interrupt anyone, but ...
– What's the point of the ...
– ... I'm just saying I'm not an interrupter.
(third square: both heads are silent)
(fourth square: first head is silent, with a grumpy face; second head speaks)
– You should still be allowed to say that.
xkcd 1357: Free Speech
This one's old, but I still find it relevant.
xkcd alt-text: I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.
Treading Water, by Will McPhail
#WillMcPhail #TreadingWater #drawing
The image got me thinking about Luca Bloom's The acoustic motorbike
"pedal on, pedal on, pedal on for miles, pedal on"
#LucaBloom #TheAcousticMotorbike #YouTube #music
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
how to change your profile picture, at friendica.world
1) go to friendica.world/settings/profi…
2) up on the right-hand side, you see the drop-down menu Profile actions
3) click the drop-down menu, and you get the options
- Change profile photo
- Upload profile photo
and
- View profile
I can see 
listed on friendica.world/profile/martin…
so you've obviously managed to upload a photo.
Try the Change profile photo option, and see if you can choose it from there?
(replying back from Friendica 🤗)
diasp.eu is closed for new sign-ups, but other pods are still available
... but I'd say it should be enough with either Mastodon or Friendica, as both are part of the Fediverse (diaspora* is connected to Friendica, but not to Mastodon).
)Hello!
I think that maybe you wanted to add it as an image instead of as a link?
[img=https://i.imgur.com/nRn9TCx.jpeg]image of upside-down cat[/img]
(so: [img=link]alt-text[/img])
All the nutritions for a growing child, and more!
🤪
Yes, there should be - hang on, I'll see if I can find it ...
friendica.world/help/BBCode for friendica.world help,
bbcode.org/reference.php for general BBCode help ...
Ok, let's try this:
this
is rendered by (following is in-between "code" markers)[img=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Friendica_Logo.png]Friendica logo, from Wikipedia[/img]
Hm, your post shows up fine, but the images seem to just be templates?
Here's a linked image for you:
though I suspect an image uploaded from locally would behave differently from an image linked from already-on-the-web ... 🤔
"Ik kan nederlands lezen" ... doesn't mean that I understand it, though. 👻
Hm. I'll give it a try (and we'll see how much Markdown I remember) -
the earth is heading for a warming of 2.6 degrees | what a strange life form appeared on this planet..
[https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax]
... but the easiest is probably just to add the translation below/above it
(I butchered it in Google Translate 🙈)