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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) born in Wadowice, Poland, 1920

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

that is the life of a Private Soldier:

the Army giveth, and the Army taketh away

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"In his book, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy 1945-1975, Max Hastings explains how meals were cooked by punching holes in a ration tin and using a C4 explosive to heat it. Hastings also writes about the pills that troops consumed daily, including a malaria tablet, salt pills that could be sucked on, as well as Lomotil tablets, taken four times per day to control diarrhea brought on by the Halazone troops used to purify their water."

https://www.history.com/news/soldier-wartime-food-rations-battle-napoleon-vietnam

Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social ("Low Quality Facts") wrote:

Let's work together to make Mastodon a success. Here's some simple things you can do to help:

-Pretend that other social media platforms don't exist. If someone mentions Twitter or Facebook, change the subject by looking up to the sky and screeching loudly.

-Make new users feel welcome by messaging them and saying "I would do unspeakable things to benefit you".

-Get the word "Mastodon" tattooed onto your forehead. When asked about your terrible life decision, you can explain what Mastodon is.

Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

GertrudeZane@c.im wrote:

Pax is playing hide and seek this morning.

#CatsOfMastodon #Pax #Cat #Cats #Tabby #Kitten #Kittens #Kat #Katze #Katzen #Mao #Chat #Catstodon #Pet #Pets #Animal #Animals #CatContent

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• The head of a tiny tabby kitten is peeking out from behind her human, who is lying on his back on a bed, reading an iPad. (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"From salted beef and canned bread to pizza and cheesecake, military food in the United States has come a long way."

as for "Ham & Motherf*ers"
(aka "Ham and Lima Beans")
OMFG

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/american-military-food-history

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#Ford's backup power system requires an internet connection to turn on. They really didn't think this through!

https://youtube.com/watch?t=1270&v=p78rv-3mZyg&feature=youtu.be

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Listen to them, the children of the day. What music they make!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/18/for-the-birds/

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• Seagull making noise (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I might have a few things in common with Lio.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/18/summer-plans/

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• Lio cartoon filming spiders (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

it is *wild* that bluesky is building apps and not a PWA.

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

For those with accounts on Mastodon instances (or instances running #Mastodon forks), this might be a good time to enable this in Preferences → Notifications:

☑️ Block direct messages from people you don't follow

Spammers seem to be (ab)using the DM functionality. Making it impossible to reach you if you do not follow a person makes that much less effective. And in general is just a good idea, IMVHO.

Tried to figure out how to do the same on #Calckey, but could not find the setting. Hjalp?

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

zinnia@kolektiva.social ("Zinnia Jones") wrote:

Unprotected briefly on Twitter just to remind people after several weeks to follow me here and then left, there's no way that racist shithouse will ever get to benefit from my presence again

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Weather: ⛅️ Partly cloudy, +49°F, 34%, ↘2mph, 1018hPa
Timezone: America/New_York
Now: 20:17:29-0400 | Dawn: 05:10:34 | Sunrise: 05:44:16
Zenith: 13:06:52 | Sunset: 20:30:08 | Dusk: 21:03:58
Location: Rochester, Monroe County, New York [43.1572,-77.6151]

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Omer 44th day

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Constitution Day in Nauru and Norway

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: 24' rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Thomas Abthorpe tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org born in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, 1968

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Prinses Maxima (1971)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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Reblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):

hackers_gifs@botsin.space ("ＨＡＣＫＥＲＳＢＯＴ") wrote:

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• You'll do shit work. Scan, crack copyrights, whatever I want. (remote)

Reblogged by zack@toot.cafe ("Zack"):

evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

Fifteen years ago tomorrow I published the first post on the fediverse.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080618164355/http://identi.ca/notice/1

It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that. 🫤

https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg

Thanks to everyone who made identi.ca a great place to be, and thanks to everyone who's expanded the fediverse since then.

Someday soon-ish I'd like to have identi.ca working with ActivityPub. When I get the time for it!

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Another evening away from everything. Hope everything is going well while I’m on my honeymoon!

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• A Mediterranean beach

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Jordan Peterson is good at nothing but grifting.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/17/poor-peterson-beset-on-all-sides/

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• Jordan Peterson, gesturing (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

MicheleV_AK@sfba.social wrote:

Have you ever wondered how a black bear emerges from his/her tree den? Lucky for us, Michelle Hanson was there and took photos!
#Alaska #AlaskaWildlife #AlaskaBlackBears

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• An Alaska Black Bear takes a peak outside from his tree den. (remote)
• An Alaska Black Bear starts the climb out of his tree den. (remote)
• The Black Bear is almost out of his tree den. (remote)
• And the Black Bear is fully out of his tree den. (remote)

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

As a companion to our "Tales from the Bringup Lab" series. On Monday @bcantrill and I started our "Building Together" series by featuring Jonathan and Jignesh from Samtec.

They've been incredible partners, in particular with our rack switch and cabled backplane.

A vendor sells you something; a partner lives your joint success. Samtec is the kind of partner Oxide strives to be for our customers.

... and stay for the discussion of always-18-months-away silicon photonics

https://youtu.be/JtkG18TlA-g

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

… oh, an important addition: *not* Samsung.