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pandion@kolektiva.social wrote:
@mr_modular ("Allen Nemo") wrote:
“The official said Chinese balloons briefly transited the continental United States at least three times during the prior administration.” F-22 Safely Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon Off South Carolina Coast https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3288543/f-22-safely-shoots-down-chinese-spy-balloon-off-south-carolina-coast/#.Y9_ng5JH75o.twitter
@trixiemattel ("Trixie Mattel™") retweeted:
@TrixieCosmetics ("Trixie Cosmetics") wrote:
Raise a hand if you've been there ✋🏻
@mr_modular ("Allen Nemo") wrote:
Every Vaccine in Star Trek: a Supercut of Inoculation - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD0Bd9lTda8
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Does anyone else find themselves working on their job harder on the weekends than the weekday?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/05/this-is-not-normal/
Sure, Beyoncéand Adele might scoop up even more awards for their collections. But with prizes being handed out in 91 categories, a lot of folks stand to see career boosts due to the Grammy Awards.
@gaywonk ("Carlos Maza") retweeted:
@holy_schnitt ("ellie schnitt") wrote:
idk how to play dungeons & dragons but it doesn’t matter, I will wipe the floor with these fools (if it is the type of game you win, which is still unclear to me)
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@gaywonk ("Carlos Maza") wrote:
SO EXCITED to the lineup for "All Goblins Are Bastards," my first ever Dungeons & Dragons live-show!
- @xychelsea
- @holy_schnitt
- @ClimateTown
- @How2DrinkWill our doomed heroes be able to escape in time? Find out this Saturday at @caveatnyc! https://caveat.nyc/events/dd-prison-break-agab-2-11-2023
@mr_modular ("Allen Nemo") wrote:
Antivaxxers are no joke. Fucking POLIO (yes, THAT polio, remember?) discovered in NYC wastewater. Whether or not it’s carried from where endemic there are increasing populations of unvaccinated children who are at severe risk.
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@IanCopeland5 ("Dr. Ian Copeland (PhD)") wrote:
Antivaxers think it's a game...
In July, a person from NY was paralyzed from Polio!!!
Wastewater testing confirmed 8% of samples were positive and genetically related to the polio strain he contracted.
THAT MEANS MULTIPLE PEOPLE ARE INFECTED IN NY!!!
@gaywonk ("Carlos Maza") retweeted:
@How2Drink ("Greg Parody Account") wrote:
In a very unexpected and insane turn I’m playing #DnD on stage @caveatnyc with @gaywonk @holy_schnitt @RollieWilliams & @xychelsea! How did this happen? Who knows! Should you attend/watch the stream? Yes if you ever want to talk to me again!
For tickets https://caveat.stellartickets.com/events/dandd-prison-break/occurrences/7039218a-1833-447a-a7ee-b3176a7fd82f
@gaywonk ("Carlos Maza") wrote:
SO EXCITED to the lineup for "All Goblins Are Bastards," my first ever Dungeons & Dragons live-show!
- @xychelsea
- @holy_schnitt
- @ClimateTown
- @How2DrinkWill our doomed heroes be able to escape in time? Find out this Saturday at @caveatnyc! https://caveat.nyc/events/dd-prison-break-agab-2-11-2023
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
@JohnFugelsang ("John Fugelsang") wrote:
If you’re outraged over a Chinese spy balloon being able to look down on America wait til you hear about this Google Earth thing.
Oh, and satellites. You don’t even wanna know about those.
@TracketPacer replied to a tweet by @TracketPacer:
also annoying is the “man just wants to play vidya games, mean nagging wife won’t let him” trope. can we please kill it already? jfc
somebody in the network/tech space on my TL RT’d this recently. i get that this is a joke, but i have never found the “ha ha my WIFE doesn’t understand TECHNOLOGY” bullshit funny. can we please move past sexist humor in tech, where women are already discouraged from existing? thx
@ewarren ("Elizabeth Warren") wrote:
Every door knock, every phone call, every $5 contribution—it all added up. And now new Democratic majorities are making a difference. https://www.wsj.com/articles/minnesota-with-new-democratic-control-enacts-state-abortion-rights-11675190873
@KamalaHarris ("Kamala Harris") wrote:
In 2022, we capped the price of insulin at $35 a month for seniors on Medicare, made the largest investment in climate in a generation, and much more.
Help us continue building on this progress by chipping in today:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/social-feb-2023?refcode=sm_20230205_kdh
Koch world is over Donald Trump. Americans for Prosperity Action, the group that spends millions on conservative candidates in American elections, backed by the billionaire Charles Koch, announced Sunday that it would take sides in the GOP presidential primary after sitting out the last few cycles—vowing to support a candidate who is not Trump. “The […]
@mr_modular ("Allen Nemo") wrote:
Whaaaat? Stormy the gay reality TV host? Nice.
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@StormyDaniels ("Stormy Daniels") wrote:
This is amazing! Thank you @maddow but I should only caution that you'll learn a lot of other words by watching the episodes. I know I did! I'll never look at otters the same again 😂 https://twitter.com/tophcus/status/1620469489224798209
@NikkiMegaplaza ("Nikki") wrote:
I'm so glad I accidentally found out about computer networking first before any other field in tech. Everything builds off of networking. wow.
@RikerGoogling ("Riker Googling") wrote:
does gaydar use gamma beams or tachyons
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Apple’s exploring the possibility of launching a more expensive iPhone “Ultra” above the iPhone Pro and Pro Max models, according to Apple tracker Mark Gurman. The high-end device could arrive as soon as 2024 with the iPhone 16 lineup.
Last September, Gurman predicted that an “Ultra” model could replace the Pro Max branding with this year’s iPhone 15, but his latest theory suggests that Apple wants to establish a more powerful — and more expensive — tier of iPhones. That means the device could have an even higher price tag than the iPhone 14 Pro Max, which starts at $1,099.
During Apple’s earnings call last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook didn’t rule out the possibility of a future price increase on iPhones. He instead indicated that customers...
@LolOverruled ("Lolo") wrote:
Mamma Mia
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@disclosetv ("Disclose.tv") wrote:
JUST IN - Large-scale Internet blackout in Italy: reports
@reduct_rs ("ReductRs") wrote:
QUIZ: Will Using ext4, A Journaling File System, Make You Feel Better or Bring You to the Darkest Place You’ve Ever Been?
The newest SmartThings hub can also charge your smartphone and find your keys — plus it’s a Matter controller and Thread border router. But there’s no support for Z-Wave, and too many features are only for Galaxy phones.
The acknowledgement from the country's supreme leader follows months of anti-government protests sparked by the death of Masha Amini after her arrest by the country's morality police.
@dorrismccomics ("Alex Norris") retweeted:
@Josh_Gabbatiss ("Josh Gabbatiss") wrote:
I'm proud to announce a project that has been nearly 22 years in the making:
Josh'es [sic] Book of ANIMALS 🦭
Since the age of nine I have been writing and illustrating my own animal encyclopedia, and as of last week I can confirm that it is finished...
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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:
@AnnTelnaes ("Ann Telnaes") replied to a tweet by @AnnTelnaes:
In America, you have to opt out of religion in public life. That’s backward. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/03/religion-god-nonbelievers-opt-out/
@AnnTelnaes ("Ann Telnaes") replied to a tweet by @AnnTelnaes:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/03/religion-god-nonbelievers-opt-out/
@AnnTelnaes ("Ann Telnaes") wrote:
Read @PostOpinions Kate Cohen--->
In America, you have to opt out of religion in public life. That’s backward. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/03/religion-god-nonbelievers-opt-out/
World leaders recently announced a $20 billion deal to help get Indonesia off coal power. But there are doubts about the deal, because -for one thing- the country is building brand new coal plants.
Pope Francis celebrated Mass before tens of thousands of people, to close out an unusual mission by Christian religious leaders to nudge forward the South Sudan's recovery from civil war.
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s late October in the northeast corner of Wisconsin. Trees have started to change colors and a colder wind whips across Lake Michigan. Gas station marquees welcome back fall hunters on their annual pilgrimage. Tucked away at a technical college, citizens of […]
nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
There's a new Snail's house EP, excellent as always: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nQ_e3KmKNGc6VMMgsr-mJJyT2E9CJrVPk&feature=share
nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Kotlin isn't high level programming; it's highest level programming. Jeez. Kotlin makes Swift look like machine code.
Not hating on it, having a great learning experience. But I've simply never used such an insanely high level programming language, and I mostly write Go.
The unexpected deaths are hitting humpbacks and North Atlantic right whales on the East Coast and gray whales on the West Coast — populations that were already under watch.
On Tuesday, Biden will deliver his State of the Union speech to a divided Congress — and a big audience at home. It's seen as an unofficial kick-off to his expected re-election campaign.
Big companies such as Amazon and Google have recently announced layoffs. In Wall Street, getting cut is always acknowledged as an ever-lurking prospect – but it still stings when it happen.
Send leaders into space for perspective, tap solar power to offer electricity for all, make "dignity" a priority — those are some of the wishes readers have for 2023.
Congressman George Santos' constituents are furious and don't think he's doing the work to represent them. A recent poll finds most GOP voters want the scandal plagued Republican to resign.
After months of eye-popping prices, egg lovers are finally seeing some relief. Wholesale prices in the Midwest fell by 58 cents at the end of January, but the days of a $1.50 a dozen may not return.
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andthisismrspeacock@mastodon.lol ("AndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳️🌈") wrote:
Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the U.S. war in Afghanistan against the Taliban, has died. He was 79.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
To be good at frontend, the ingredients are the same as for any essentially creative medium:
- find the kind of UI that brings you joy to make
- make it, even if it's bad (but just for you)
- discern teachers from bootcamp...er...grifters
- practice
- focus on users
- re-learn the new new in light of what you just learned
- GOTO "practice"
Finally starting Bravely Default II and everything is the CUTEST
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
As I (visibly) age, something about changing social networks and the anxieties around it come to the fore. Namely:
- Were you unfairly shitty to me and mine? Blocked
- Fairly shitty? Follow, want.
- Rote defense of power, privilege, or caste? Muted
- Fascist? Fascist-adjacent? Fascism curious? Blocked.
- Not previously excluded & focused on how we make tech better for users? FOLLOW
@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") wrote:
A gay night at the theatre!
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
TFW you want every single person in a video to be able to retire immediately and be able to make incredible music together the rest of their days:
@travisthetechie ("Travis Smith") retweeted:
@queersurgeon ("Blair Peters, MD (he/they)") wrote:
Trans people are fighting for their own liberation but they are also fighting for yours.
In a landscape of widespread assault on personal autonomy: if you are not standing up for Trans people, you are not standing up for yourself.
@travisthetechie ("Travis Smith") retweeted:
@Esqueer_ ("Alejandra Caraballo") wrote:
If an article about a new state law has to start with a suicide number because of the effects of a law on a particular population, you've abjectly failed as a government.
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
@RepSwalwell ("Rep. Eric Swalwell") wrote:
As Tommy Lee Jones famously asked another actor in The Fugitive, “Do you want to change your bullshit story?”
We now know Trump let 3 Chinese balloons pass through U.S. airspace without shooting them down.
What’s your story now?
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@RepMTG ("Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸") wrote:
I just spoke with our GREAT America First President Trump.
He would have never allowed China to fly a spy balloon over our country and our military bases and assets.
Pres Trump would have shot it down before it entered the US.
And so would I.
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
@JamesTate121 ("James Tate") wrote:
After all the faux outrage from Republicans over the Chinese spy balloon, the Pentagon just revealed that at least THREE Chinese spy balloons flew over the U.S. during Trump's presidency. He HID THEM from the public and NEVER shot them down! Trump let China spy!
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
@realTuckFrumper ("#TuckFrump") wrote:
Twitter Critics Post Jan. 6 Photo Of Terrified GOP Rep Now Handing Out Assault Rifle Pins http://dlvr.it/Shy2qk
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
Jason Momoa Asks Fans to Send 'All the Mana' to Friend
"There's my buddy up there," Jason Momoa said from the hospital parking lot, where his pal Travis Snyder has RSV pneumonia after recovering from COVID, all during his fourth bout with leukemia https://apple.news/ANB4Wf_2bTbWcdKPKyd4abQ
@volkadav ("Mike Jackson (see also: @volkadav@hachyderm.io)") retweeted:
@MarkHamill ("Mark Hamill") wrote:
"Great shot, kid... that was one in a million!"
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@AndrewWMBF ("Andrew Dockery") wrote:
Our good friend @RealPhotoholic got the awesome 4K video of the #ChineseSpyBalloon going down and even added some music to it. 🤣@jamiearnoldWMBF @wmbfnews
@alicegoldfuss ("malice ghoulpus") retweeted:
@zachsilberberg ("zach silberberg") wrote:
if i could be permanently ratatouilled i would. just relinquish all control. let the rat do it. im done
@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") wrote:
MUNI Floppy.
SF's Market Street Subway Is Running on Reagan-Era Technology: "Our train control system in the Market Street subway is loaded off of five-and-a-quarter inch ...
I'll be abandoning Twitter soon. Join me on Mastodon: @jwz@mastodon.social
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toon@merveilles.town ("Jonathon Toon") wrote:
@hiro_asari ("あさり 🗣🇯🇵🏴 📚🇪🇸🇫🇷🇵🇹") wrote:
Welcome to America.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Learn to spot, and write off, the Hacker News trope that real problems with real frontends aren't real problems for actual users because Rust and WASM will save us.
Nathan Fielder has to be like, watching each episode of MILF Manor as it airs right
@lvaughn ("Lowell Vaughn") wrote:
Somebody get those pilots some new underwear.
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@BNODesk ("BNO News Live") wrote:
BREAKING: Disaster averted at Austin airport after FedEx cargo plane aborts landing, narrowly missing a Southwest Airlines plane
@LolOverruled ("Lolo") wrote:
RRR is better than any Marvel movie ever made
Hey I lost a balloon has anybody seen it?
bcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:
TIL you can use arduino-connected sensors to automate parameters in Ableton! quick demo using what i had lying around :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbfjtqABaeg
Thank goodness
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@thedoomclock ("DOOM Clock (SPEED RUN MODE)") wrote:
Twitter is planning to block bot access on the 9th of Feb. What should the DOOM clock do?
Just before a FedEx cargo airplane was due to land, an air traffic controller cleared the Southwest flight to depart from the same runway. The FAA and the NTSB are investigating the incident.
TIL you can control Ableton parameters with any Arduino-connected sensor! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbfjtqABaeg
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") wrote:
serious Pickle Rick vibes
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@gigadgets_ ("GiGadgets") wrote:
Scientists used spider carcasses to make these mechanical grippers.
A team of scientists at Rice University used the carcasses of wolf spiders to create mechanical grippers.
#gigadgets #engineering #robotics #innovation #spider
@alicegoldfuss ("malice ghoulpus") replied to a tweet by @alicegoldfuss:
"email with your budget" I am not an ad agency, please give me a range
@alicegoldfuss ("malice ghoulpus") wrote:
It would be really cool if artists could give me some idea of their commission rates so I don't waste their time
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cyberlyra ("Janet Vertesi") wrote:
@katya_zamo ("Katya") retweeted:
@CaptainMelendez ("Ileana Meléndez") wrote:
I see this clip from time to time and always remember @katya_zamo
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@BrndnStrssng ("Brandon Streussnig") wrote:
https://twitter.com/mattzollerseitz/status/1620628914786930688
@TracketPacer replied to a tweet by @TracketPacer:
y’all. this hardware is not going to carry my home network data 🤦🏼♀️ this is a study/learn lab lmao why wtf would i use ubiquiti to learn for the CCNP
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Yet another team at work staring down months of remediation thanks to "modern frontend" has caused me to write down why I've been *intensely* frustrated with the clearly broken market for web technology over our long lost decade:
https://infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/
Thanks to @brucelawson, @heydon, Taylor Hunt, @andy, and @phae for spotting errors in (even more splenetic) drafts.
PSA: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is available to stream on Disney+ now. https://disneyplus.com/movies/black-panther-wakanda-forever/7MAONYZ92wDT?sharesource=iOS
This was Braun's last ever HiFi system, released in 1990. In their own words:
"The consumer electronics market is characterized by cut-throat competition. Manufacturers not offering an innovation or at least cosmetic pseudo changes every 2 years are quickly suspected of being obsolete.
This increasingly risky development would mean having to weaken certain principles of our design philosophy: honesty & durability. We will no longer support this development.
Braun HiFi becomes history."
why are ppl so hell bent on telling me to replace everything w ubiquiti? lmao let me have my crustyass switches
@joelle_emerson ("Joelle Emerson") wrote:
There’s nothing that screams competence as much as quickly and unequivocally taking responsibility for a mistake.
👀👀👀
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@j_gust ("Julius Gustavsson") wrote:
Nice to see more players in the automotive space are seeing the benefits and potential Rust brings to the table. Rust in cars is inevitable 😀 https://blogs.blackberry.com/en/2023/02/this-is-the-kind-of-rust-the-automotive-industry-needs #rustlang
@rochers ("Scott Rocher") retweeted:
@mayli ("may-li khoe ✨ maylikhoe@mastodon.social") wrote:
I feel like every creative person needs to have some separate creative outlet that’s low stakes, in which they can do stuff and be unattached, let it go
anyone else feel like this? if so what is that thing for you right now? and has it been something else before?
@foonathan ("Jonathan Müller") replied to a tweet by @foonathan:
For this poll, "legacy language" means a language that is mostly driven by inertia and enthusiasts and does not or should not be used for new projects.
@foonathan ("Jonathan Müller") wrote:
I've been reading "C++ has become a legacy language" a lot recently; I'm curious what you think.
Has or will C++ become a legacy language in the near future?
Please RT for reach.
#cpp #cplusplus #rust #safety
@RikerGoogling ("Riker Googling") wrote:
how to cope with all the news in the galaxy
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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow's linkblog") wrote:
@alicegoldfuss ("malice ghoulpus") replied to a tweet by @alicegoldfuss:
in that vein...who are your favorite artists for space/scifi environments? bonus if trans/queer