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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

(Both of) the people have spoken: 'beef is the same Atom as 'beef.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Weather: ⛅️ Partly cloudy, +65°F, 65%, ↑8mph, 1016hPa
Timezone: America/New_York
Now: 23:15:27-0400 | Dawn: 05:08:28 | Sunrise: 05:42:24
Zenith: 13:06:57 | Sunset: 20:32:10 | Dusk: 21:06:14
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: Pete Townshend is born in London, 1945

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Arwen leaves Lorien to wed King Elessar

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Parshas Bamidbar

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Omer 46th day

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Youth and Sports Day in Turkey

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Ian Dowse iedowse@FreeBSD.org born in Dublin, Ireland, 1975

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Philippe Charnier charnier@FreeBSD.org born in Fontainebleau, France, 1966

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: UNIX is 10000 days old, 1997

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Ho Chi Minh born, 1890

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com ("VM (Vicky) Brasseur") wrote:

Totally gonna stash this Bizarro comic away for future use…

https://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/bizarro/s-2823347

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• The Hulk, sitting in an office cubicle. He’s wearing a collared shirt (arms torn off) and a red tie, a laptop on the desk in front of him. He’s on the phone, saying, “Did you try unplugging it and then smashing it?” The caption of the comic is “Marvel Studios Tech Support”. (remote)

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NoraReed ("Nora Reed") wrote:

Hey Mastodon! I'm a jeweler specializing in fused glass! My shop is at https://www.nora.jewelry/

Shares appreciated, I'm struggling for reach these days.

#handmade #handmadejewelry #art #artistsonmastodon #artistsofmastodon #jewelry #glass #fusedglass #sellingonmastodon #smallbusiness #pride #pridejewelry #fedigiftshop

Attachments:

• rainbow leaf puddle pendant
• trans pride blobs
• jet cufflinks
• trans symbol necklaces

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

liw@toot.liw.fi ("Lars Wirzenius") wrote:

If you're a programmer and use a continuous integration system to build, test, and maybe deliver or deploy the software, what's your biggest annoyance or gripe? (Whatever CI system you use.)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

praeclarum@fosstodon.org ("Frank A. Krueger") wrote:

New Blog: How I Re-implemented PyTorch for WebGPU. It describes my new TypeScript neural net library that works in the browser, has autograd, and takes advantage of the GPU. https://praeclarum.org/2023/05/19/webgpu-torch.html

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

kissane@mstdn.social ("Erin Kissane") wrote:

still cackling about how swallowing all the fanfiction broke the chatbots for everyone who wants to fake writing fiction, just the best thing all week

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

brendannyhan ("Brendan Nyhan") wrote:

What would you say if you saw it in another country?

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• 3d33a321c980e1bf.png

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

If we priced externalities into the cost of fossil fuels, it’s not a profitable business.

The cleanup costs in California will be triple the industry’s projected profits, and that doesn’t even include cleaning up CO₂ and CH₄ from the atmosphere.

https://www.propublica.org/article/cost-of-california-oil-cleanup-exceeds-industry-profits

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

Annalee@wandering.shop wrote:

Hey folks. Everyone--EVERYONE--can get got by a scammer at some point.

When we blame folks who get socially engineered for their carelessness or lack of vigilance, we're making it less likely that people will self-report when they got got, and perpetuating the myth that all we need is vigilance to avoid scams.

The narrative that only fools get scammed helps scammers. Don't fall for it.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

the prose chops of the horny side of tumblr are undefeated even in 2023

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• tumblr screencap. A caption at the top: "That post bang smoke at the porn theater with SMOKEPUNK" In the notes, "heythereguy" reblogs from "theoriginalsmokepunk" with the caption "MORE COCK MEAT HERE", reblog is tagged "hunk."

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“eight months pregnant”

http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/may/19

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

Lauren Boebert does the right thing for once.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/19/i-cant-believe-im-gonna-say-something-nice-about-lauren-boebert/

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• Lauren Boebert caricature (remote)

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

The Onion has deep insight into the minds of transphobes.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/19/the-onion-explains-trans-sports/

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• Transphobe! (remote)

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

One of the great problems in creationist theorizing has been solved.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/19/the-creationist-heat-problemsolved/

Attachments:

• The heat problem: everything in the Flood story would melt the planet (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

📝 How-to add View Transitions to your multi-page app or static site.

- 0kb JavaScript 🏎️
- 1 `` tag 🤓
- 1 CSS property (optional) 💅
- Emoji list clickbait 🤪

https://daverupert.com/2023/05/getting-started-view-transitions/

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

NOBODY TELLS YOU THIS.

They all say "...oh, you want to work on X? You should join WG Y."

As though that's an answer! It's not. It's a late-stage problem that you don't need to solve when you're starting on design.

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

So the skilled players all learn to do design outside of (or parallel to) the SDO WGs. Many WG participants lack an interest in rapid progress, but their eventual ratification of ground reality is necessary to remove a stench or stain. So the dance proceeds, with an in-group that understands the game, and the unwashed masses pretending that SDOs are where progress "happens"...when, in reality (as ever), it happens in small, focused communities of interest.

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

If you said *out loud* that SDO's Working Groups are terrible places to think about doing design...that might make SDOs somehow seem less attractive. The event horizon of the SDO would be pierced, and the reality that there's no immaculate conception in standards for any feature would be laid bare.

And that's pretty unattractive to business types.

But operable!

And if you're trying to solve problems, operability is the only thing that matters.