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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
grueproof@from.asolitarycabin.org ("Chris Miller") wrote:

New post: https://asolitarycabin.org/deprecation-notice.html

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

A Solitary Cabin - Deprecation Notice:

"And Chet. Chet in his Patagonia vest and Allbirds, Chet who has an MBA from Northwestern and once met Paul Graham at a conference, Chet who says things like “we’re not a company, we’re a family” while denying health insurance to contractors."

Chet is the reason I’ve white-knuckled freelance for 11 years. The Master of Business Administration degree gives people hot dog brain. https://asolitarycabin.org/deprecation-notice.html

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

A Solitary Cabin - Deprecation Notice:

"Kyle is the guy who understands the legacy codebase, all 47,000 lines of undocumented JavaScript spaghetti written by the company’s founding engineer who is now microdosing in Tulum and refuses to answer emails."

WHAT IS TECH CULTURE lol good read. https://asolitarycabin.org/deprecation-notice.html

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

ugh

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Though it's been said, many times, many ways, Fuck ICE and this whole administration

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
davidallengreen@mastodon.green ("dag") wrote:

Dear USA

Policing and law enforcement losing the confidence of the community does not end well.

Yours,
Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
combs@mastodon.art ("Chris Combs (he/him)") wrote:

I've been seeing a lot of Partiful links for event RSVPs.

Partiful is a service created by Palantir employees.

Palantir created and operates vast surveillance and data-correlation services used by ICE, among other clients.

Here are a few cites, others are a websearch away:

https://www.thecut.com/article/wait-partifuls-founders-worked-at-palantir.html

https://nyc-noise.com/drone-party/

I am sharing this information because there could be personal safety implications for using a service that is likely sharing data with ICE.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
lemos@dice.camp ("Francisco Lemos") wrote:

An envoy from a distant world

#osr #scifi #ttrpg #mothership #rpg #alien #drawing #draw #illustration #characterdesign #npc #art #mastoart #artist #artistsonmastodon #sciencefiction #horror

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

No, I do not want to install your app.

No, I do not want that app to run on startup.

No, I do not want that app shortcut on my desktop.

No, I do not want to subscribe to your newsletter.

No, I do not want your site to send me notifications.

No, I do not want to tell you about my recent experience.

No, I do not want to sign up for an account.

No, I do not want to sign up using a different service and let the two of you know about each other.

No, I do not want to sign in for a more personalized experience.

No, I do not want to allow you to read my contacts.

No, I do not want you to scan my content.

No, I do not want you to track me.

No, I do not want to click "Later" or "Not now" when what I mean is NO.

Boosted by jwz:
atax1a@infosec.exchange ("mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)") wrote:

every single slopbot psychosis sounds exactly the same, i can't believe sam altman has gentrified Time Cube

Boosted by jwz:
mattdoyle.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Matthew Doyle") wrote:

ZORHAN IS ONLY PLOWING THE BIKE LANES!!!!

Attachments:

• video: 4323fd6ad6fd1faa.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

My message to Senators:

❝The correct amount of funding for not just ICE but the •entire Department of Homeland Security• is zero. ZERO. You heard me: the entire agency. Under current leadership, it is off the rails. It is dangerous. It it a menace.

“More training” is a pathetic non-answer; that just means more money. These murderers are trained; they are just monsters. Don’t say “better oversight.” Don’t say “more reforms.” Pull the rug. Switch it off. • Shut • it • down • NOW •

If you have to shut down every airport in the country because the TSA budget is in there too, then you shut down every damned airport in the country. If you have to shut down the federal government again, you shut it down. Your inaction is sleepwalking the country into civil war. SHUT. IT. DOWN.❞

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net ("Brooke Vibber :neocat_cofe:") wrote:

while we're all dealing with fascism and shit, don't forget to also unionize your workplace if you can

justice begins at home, and that includes your workplace where you spend all day every weekday

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Is anyone else just super hyper-aware of personal data collection.

I'm eating at a chain steakhouse, and of course, they take my full name and phone number to throw in the pile of data the machine has on me.

I really want to be a "consumer" for a week and see if I can get by with just cash. No email addresses to buy a t-shirt. No phone numbers to eat a shitty steak. Just cash. I was never here.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Sara Sidner, live on CNN just now: “I’m going to call a spade a spade. If the videos are the only thing that [DHS] investigators have—that we have all seen—they are lying.”

Leading by example. The media must continue to push for accountability.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
davidsirota@mastodon.online ("David Sirota") wrote:

A reminder that they defunded the police that target white collar criminals and corruption — at the exact same that time they lavishly funded the police that killed Alex Pretti.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
jiji@ohai.social ("Jiji, the cat") wrote:

there is this meme of “when you grow older you will become conservative, just you wait” and i’m starting to realise that the statement isn’t entirely wrong: many people actually seem to become more conservative. but what’s clear to me is that age hasn’t anything to do with it, it’s purely capital. the saying should be “when you have more capital you will become conservative”

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Bovino can show as many PowerPoint slides as he wants. None of it matters. He’s a liar. They’re all liars. Zero credibility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FBoy%5FWho%5FCried%5FWolf

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

I do another walk-and-talk about plok, the script we use to do the #Freebooters podcast.

Attachments:

• audio: A short audio clip of Chris talking about plok.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I was notorious for leaving my wallet at home. Now, I carry my passport, valid ID, SSN, and birth certificate. And I just hope I’ll never have to show it to some asshole on his first day, who spent last night scrolling white supremacist forums directing him to “save this country.”

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I think it's important that more voices are heard on social media, instead of corporate-approved influencers. That can only happen here on the Fediverse.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Secrets. #grickledoodle #hemanandthemastersoftheuniverse #skeleton #closet #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
overholt@glammr.us ("John Overholt") wrote:

Every copy of Aurora Australis, printed at the South Pole in 1908, is bound in the supply crates from the Shackleton expedition, and copies are identified by which goods are stenciled on them. https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2026/01/14/polar-plunge-an-exploration-of-antarctic-publishing/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
peterbrown@mastodon.scot ("Peter Brown") wrote:

@fromjason yes it’s a bit like saying he’s been charged with trafficking drugs so it’s okay to kill him.

It’s not okay. It’s never okay.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
wim_v12e@tilde.zone ("Wim 🅾→Ⓣ") wrote:

Over the Christmas holidays I finished a large drawing that I had been working on since the summer, on and off, but then life took over and I didn't find time to publish it.

It is a scene from Joseph von Sternberg's 1932 movie "Shanghai Express", featuring Anna May Wong and Marlene Dietrich.

For the story of behind this scene please read my (long) blog post https://quickandtastycooking.org.uk/articles/shanghai-express/.

It is the most complex large drawing I have attempted so far.
As usual, it is the expressions on the faces of both characters that interested me. I wanted to show their watchfulness and apprehension.

I used the rough watercolour paper I like (Fabriano Artistico, 300 g/m² cold pressed “not”), 56 cm x 76 cm. I set up the drawing in ordinary HB pencil and Tombow MONO 100 graphite lead pencils (2B, 4B and 5B). I used a Chinese ink stick and applied the ink using calligraphy brushes.

#drawing #fediart #TraditionalArt #ShanghaiExpress #AnnaMayWong #MarleneDietrich

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:

https://library.xandra.cc/alex-pretti/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

The back of this old farm looks far worse than the front, as the barn and the outbuildings have collapsed almost completely.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Although no longer in use, this stone house appears to be in decent condition from the front at least. For those who are curious, it was constructed around 1920, and the Icelandic state purchased the land in 1941.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #abandoned

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
sperbsen@discuss.systems ("Mike Sperber") wrote:

Fulfilled my New Year's Resolution of moving Scheme 48 development to @Codeberg:
https://codeberg.org/s48/scheme48