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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

So I'm no Yul Brynner, but the kiddo just told me they like my shaved head. So I got that goin' for me. 😀

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• The completely bald actor Yul Brynner in his role as the King of Siam, looking fabulous and strong with his arms akimbo. (remote)

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

I just found out that Mite wa Ikenai, a Japanese DS game about exorcising haunted photographs, just got a sequel on the Switch earlier this year. https://store-jp.nintendo.com/list/software/70010000067142.html

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

streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:

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• "Live So That if Your Life Was a Book Florida Would Ban It" on a sign at a road (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

This cocktail comes with a gummy shark!

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• A cocktail glass with a blue liquid, ice, and a gummy shark

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Pyrex is short for Pyrannosaurus Rex.

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

ned@mstdn.ca ("Ned Yeung") wrote:

Preach it.

"History without discomfort is propaganda."

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• Fellowship Congregational United Church of Christ sign reads: History without discomfort is propaganda. Sign features the LGBQT2S+ flag in top-right corner, church logomark to the left of the lettermark, and their website of www.ucctulsa.org underneath the lettermark. (remote)

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eloquence@social.coop ("Erik Moeller") wrote:

"I don't believe this is encrypted so I think we’re OK" said a police officer during the recent Marion County Record newspaper raid in Kansas.

Human rights reinforce one another. Privacy is a human right that protects our other rights -- and it requires encryption to be meaningful. Watch out for those who would take it away.

https://freedom.press/training/blog/marion-record-police-raid/

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realcainmosni@mastodon.me.uk ("Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥️ 🔶 (🌻🇺🇦)") wrote:

Long shot...

I have an SD card belonging to a friend, with the last photos she has of her late husband. Unfortunately it seems to have a hairline fracture. Very occasionally I can get as USB reader to recognise the card and the first 4K block, but it's usually dead as a door nail. I'm sure an expensive lab could recover it, but that's well out of reach. Any sane ideas welcome.

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Popehat ("Ken White") wrote:

ICYMI: Josh and I turned around an episode on the Georgia RICO indictment in less than 24 hours and I think it’s one of our better ones. Very good guest appearance by Andrew Fleischman, who brings his knowledge as a Georgia defense and appellate attorney.

https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/unfortunately-this-episode-is-rico#details

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

augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

Scientists and researchers are leaving #Twitter:

“More than half reported that they have reduced the time they spend on the platform in the past six months and just under 7% have stopped using it altogether. Roughly 46% have joined other social-media platforms, such as Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads and TikTok.”

Many “mentioned #ElonMusk’s management of the platform... (and) had noticed an uptick in the amount of fake accounts, trolls and hate speech on the platform.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0

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qurlyjoe@mstdn.social ("Human Kind — Be Both 👍🏻🙈🙉🙊🇺🇸📷") wrote:

"Shitposting" is an anagram of "Top Insights"

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amoroso@fosstodon.org ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

On Mastodon, it's okay to publish a thread. But, if you want to post the full text or a long excerpt of a blog post, or you already published some longform piece, feel free to just toot a link to the post.

This is the open web and posts with links are not penalized as on traditional algorithmic social platforms. Let's re-learn to visit websites.

#mastodon #fediverse

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

wow, they ran against each other on Thursday nights

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• TV schedule from 1977 showing Fish on ABC and CHiPs on NBC (remote)

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

there was a period in the 1970s where these two unrelated police shows were on television

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• Promotional image for the "Fish" TV show. You know, with Abe Vigoda (remote)
• Title card for "CHiPs" (remote)

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

on the one hand, FT8 goes a long way with little power out. on the other hand, if I understand the WSJT-X UI then it is not exactly conversational

#HamRadio 📡

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• world map showing FT8 monitor reports from as far away as Australia, using 30 watts of power (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#ArcTangent tomorrow!

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

A lot of technical writing has long been in the ChatGPT voice and apparently written with SEO in mind, which is unsettling to your humble human reader

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

Florida Republicans lead the way in demonstrating how to wreck an educational system.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/16/how-to-kill-a-university/

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• New College of Florida (remote)

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

I saw a truck with a bumpersticker that said "My other ride is an ambulance." I'm sure it was just a cute way of saying that the driver is an EMT, but it just made me think of someone who's just constantly getting fucked up by life

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

00Aaron@social.coop wrote:

"Many in tech, Wang says, have a fundamental belief in constant improvement through corporate innovation... technology means “you push a button & something in your life is solved.”

But Wang, who practices Buddhism & reads tarot cards, sees things differently, believing that life is all about natural cycles humans can’t control & should accept with humility. For Wang, tech can be rural communities hacking open-source software, or simply something that brings pure joy"

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/16/1077490/collective-action-tech-work/

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amy@mk.amanita.zone ("Amy :verified_nonbinary:") wrote:

As computers get faster and faster developers need to find increasingly creative ways of wasting this potential

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kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:

Damn. They expelled @evahartog. https://www.politico.eu/article/kremlin-russia-vladimir-putin-politico-reporter-expelled/

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

auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world ("Auschwitz Memorial") wrote:

16 August 1942 | The Germans deported about 2,000 Jews from Sosnowiec to Auschwitz - among them many elderly people who had no employment in the ghetto. They were all murdered in gas chambers on the same day.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts

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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment “disqualifies former President Donald Trump, and potentially many others, because of their participation in the attempted overthrow of the 2020 presidential election,” argue two Federalist Society prominent legal scholars in a forthcoming law review article. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4532751

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

Going to an exotic pet fair this weekend. Guess what I'm shopping for?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/16/im-getting-outta-here/

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• Exotic Pet Fair logo (remote)

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oberonsghost@aus.social wrote:

Dispatches from the Russo-Norwegian border.

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/borders/2023/08/another-illegal-crossing-norway-considers-new-means-europes-last-unbarred-border

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ckkellymartin@mstdn.ca ("Cara Martin") wrote:

"To this day, the cumulative per capita death rates from COVID-19 in countries that embraced the face coverings, such as Japan, South Korea and Singapore, are a sixth of Anglo-Saxon countries like the US and UK that baulked at community masking." https://tinyurl.com/3d75pkjf #CovidIsAirborne

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

ieure@retro.social ("Tcp/Ip Man") wrote:

@mcc The number of people claiming Moore's Law is dead approximately doubles every year.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Picked up our merch in person yesterday and discussed potential next steps, including something soft and fluffy. We’ll see! #Merchtodon

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• Mastodon mug, enamel pins, and stickers next to each other on a bedside table

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

jonny@social.coop wrote:

I like genuinely think it's good for smalltown fedi to be a little less tightly integrated with big instance fedi. heterogeneity is good and also the point. we should have both. and we should get out of each other's way. you can make account on multiple instances. be on a private instance sometimes and a public instance another.

the default stance of the fedi to want to homogenize it and freeze it in place sucks.