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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
gamingonlinux ("Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮") wrote:

Learned today that Discord doesn't allow you to just delete a DM conversation. You can only close it.

You have to delete every individual message inside for them to be gone. Insane.

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
brennan@social.lol ("Brennan Kenneth Brown") wrote:

🎁 Omg.lol Time Giveaway Time! 🎁

I've got 1 year of omg.lol time sitting in my Time Bank, and I want to share it with this wonderful community!

HOW TO ENTER: Reply and tell me why you love omg.lol! That's it. No strings attached.

Whether you're a longtime member or just discovered omg.lol I'd love to hear what makes this place special to you.

I'll pick a winner soon. Good luck! :D

Screenshot of a Time Bank interface showing a balance of 1 year and 24 hours displayed on a purple card. Below is a Withdraw section with text explaining that time can be used to generate gift codes in whole year increments. A duration selector is set to '1 year' with a green 'Generate Gift Code' button next to it.

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Drinking an ice cold seltzer early in the morning 😍

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

That's the value of platforms. The *danger* of platforms is when they grow so powerful that they usurp the relationship between the parties they are supposed to be facilitating, locking them in and then extracting value from them (someone should coin a word to describe this process!):

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/07/usurpers-helpmeets/#disreintermediation

Everyone needs platforms: writers, social media users, people looking for a romantic partner. What's more, the *world* needs platforms.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Say you want to connect all 200+ countries on Earth with high-speed fiber lines; you can run a cable from each country to every other country (about 21,000 cables, many of them expensively draped across the ocean floor), or you can pick one country (preferably one with both Atlantic and Pacific coasts) and run all your cables there, and then interconnect them.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jyn@tech.lgbt ("kulupu jyn") wrote:

an edited version of the "no take, only throw meme" panel 1: me want senior developers panel 2: NO TRAINING panel 3: ONLY SENIORS

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Everyone's demanding transparency in the Epstein files.

Meanwhile Google's spam filter in Mountain View: "I've seen things 🥺".

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

UK tabloid newspapers quote fake experts created with AI

the AI is for spam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcNTUYn7fLQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260210-uk-tabloid-newspapers-quote-fake-experts-created-with-ai - podcast

time: 4 min 28 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/10/uk-tabloid-newspapers-quote-fake-experts-created-with-ai/ - blog post

"Newspaper waste" recycling sign

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Boosted by jwz:
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

A white MAGA man shot & killed his daughter because she criticized Trump. Why is no one asking the questions they'd ask if he was Black, brown, immigrant, or Muslim?🧐

For example:
•Where was he radicalized?
•Why is their culture so violent?
•Is this what they call "honor killing?"
•Why won't they assimilate to our values?
•What radicalism are they teaching in their churches?
•Was he here legally from Europe or was he an illegal?
•Did you know they cite their Bible to command women to be silent?

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Boosted by jwz:
anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:

In his 1998 interview with Guitar World, Prince spoke directly about one of the reasons why he was seeking ownership of his work: to have artistic control so there couldn't be unauthorized digital manipulation of his work after his death. https://sites.google.com/site/prninterviews/home/guitar-world-october-1998

GW: With digital editing, it is now possible to create a situation where you could jam with any artist from the past. Would you ever consider doing something like that? O(+>: Certainly not. That's the most demonic thing imaginable. Everything is as it is, and it should be. If I was meant to jam with Duke Ellington, we would have lived in the same age. That whole virtual reality thing... it really is demonic. And I am not a demon. Also, what they did with that Beatles song ["Free As a Bird"], manipulating John Lennon's voice to have him singing from across the grave... that'lI never happen to me. To prevent that kind of thing from happening is another reason why I want artistic control.

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Boosted by jwz:
mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

Just so EVERYONE understands this:

Moderna has a flu shot. It works. It works well. It is safe. It is safe in people with compromised immune systems (like cancer patients!).

Trump’s nutjob at FDA, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appears to have ordered FDA to refuse to even accept the application to review the shot for approval.

RFK wants to kill your grandma. Fuck RFK.

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Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

If you have a Ring (Amazon) camera, you are -- or will become -- a tool of the surveillance state. Is that really what you want to be?

https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution%5Fid=698b47cbe724d10001786209&attribution%5Ftype=post

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Boosted by jwz:
JauntyArt@crispsandwi.ch ("Jaunty Art") wrote:

Create Your Own Luck*
Caveat Frog

An illustration of a frog in a modern jazz dance pose CREATE YOUR OWN LUCK* * using your parent's considerable wealth and contacts Jaunty Art 26

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keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

Tutto ok #Vodafone?

Una notifica push da Vodafone che dice solo "test"

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Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
solonovamax@tech.lgbt wrote:

WINDOWS NOTEPAD APP REMOTE CODE EXECUTION VULNERABILITY

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db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

Chrome be like:

meme captioned "Friendship ended with AVIF now JPEG XL is my best friend" on top of the original Facebook photo collage

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
johannab@cosocial.ca ("Johanna, CanCon variety") wrote:

Courtesy a climate-related account on LI, take a look at this. Just so's ya know, the current extent of our climate crisis and the worse that is to come was entirely a choice that was made. For us, not by us, but it was a choice.

Here's the link to the OG document if you want to check Dunsky's work.

https://www.worthingtoncaron.com/documents/1982-APRIL-1-1982%5F“CO2-‘GREENHOUSE’-EFFECT.pdf

Figure 3 , Page 7, from"CO2 Greenhouse Effect, A Technical Review", published by Exxon in 1982. There is an overlay indicating the 2025 CO2 ppm levels and degrees-above-norm average annual temperature, showing they appear exactly on the curve as predicted 42 years ago.  The source document is verified to be available at https://www.worthingtoncaron.com/documents/1982-APRIL-1-1982_“CO2-‘GREENHOUSE’-EFFECT.pdf. The overlay is by P. Dunsky

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Boosted by jwz:
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

FDA refuses to review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine
The move comes amid RFK Jr.'s relentless efforts to enact his anti-vaccine agenda.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/fda-refuses-to-review-modernas-mrna-flu-vaccine/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Too many lines have been crossed for anything to normalize when Trump is gone.

Democrats are about to fund ICE again, on the heels of several high profile murders. How do we ever come back from that as a country? The mask is fully off.

Technocrats are spending a trillion dollars on Surveillance Capitalism 2.0. Not only doesn't it need Trump to operate, it'll be better off when he's gone.

Trump leaving is just the end of the beginning. We may even one day find him quaint.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
tillybridges ("Tilly Bridges") wrote:

a day over nine years since this happened, and things have gotten so much worse

i don’t know if i’ll ever be able to forgive the people who chose to put us where we are, or chose to do nothing to try to stop it

Tilly Bridges Feb 9, 2017  At Costco today a pickup was pulling in to the gas station but stopped pretty far back. Two elderly men got out and looked very worried. Turns out their truck had literally just run dry and they didn't speak much English. I helped them push the truck up to the pump. They looked so relieved, like they'd expected to be stuck there all day, or worse. That's what Trump's America does to people. Be kind to your fellow humans, would you? It goes a long way.

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I think it would be very hard to convince anyone reading Hitchhiker's Guide for the first time that Zaphod Beeblebrox wasn't written specifically as a commentary on Trump and the type of power he wields.

We've known about power and spectacle for at least as many years as that book has existed, yet we've managed to distill all of our problems down into a Trumpian sludge, and some of us refuse to drink anything else.

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
bixfrankonis@social.lol ("Bix F.") wrote:

You can’t just say, “Empathy is good, m’kay?”

https://bix.blog/posts/2026-02-10-selective-vagueness/

#Blogging #BixDotBlog

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

The regime has proposed two rules that are intended to make it extremely difficult (if not impossible) for trans youth to receive the healthcare they need.

You can help fight back by submitting a public comment, which will be very important for future lawsuits: https://act.hrc.org/page/183931/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=or%5Fgnr%5Fhrc%5Findivisible

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

If neoliberalism dies tonight, what'll be there in the morning to take its place? Will it be Brooklyn Dad (Defiant!) who helps redistribute all the baguettes once our mad king's metaphorical head is on a hypothetical platter? Will Mueller She Wrote write our new federalist papers on Patreon after the old man chokes on an Adderall pill? Do you see Nancy Pelosi guiding us to the promised land in full Kente Cloth when the Democrats squeak by a win?

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

sane Grand Jury

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/us/politics/trump-democrats-illegal-orders-pirro.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.LVA.TMAF.fW8%5FXG8ea4oi&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

It's not all the banana trees.

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

The downside of living in Minnesota.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/10/i-hate-ice-and-ice/

man slips and falls

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

It's giving Justine Sacco. Man, remember that??

Whew, this was the first "canceling" I witnessed in real time. I think you could say it was the first big online cancellation.

Justine Sacco @JustineSacco Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Content Blocks on #iAWriter are so useful.

I break my essay into three parts, then reference each in a main draft so I'm not scrolling through thousands of words editing.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
IndivisibleSF@sfba.social ("Indivisible SF") wrote:

Please join us for the Indivisible General Meeting this Sunday Feb 15 2-4PM 683 Florida St. SF
The meeting is open to anyone interested in resisting Trump's radical agenda of hate, division, and greed.
683 Florida St. is the Cultura y Arte Nativa de las Americas (CANA) performance space. It's at between 18th & 19th St. in the Mission. Busses run along nearby Bryant, Folsom, and 16th streets.
We recommend that you read the Indivisible Guide before attending. https://buff.ly/rikGNZP