Mastodon Feed
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Ken Ham has announced his successor, young fascist Martyn Iles…another Australian.
Australia, could you please stop dumping your refuse on our shores?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/18/i-called-it/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Li'l baby crab spider just hatched out,and I was rushing to get a photo before they all ballooned away. I got one blurry shot of mama before everyone took off into our garden.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
friggin’ autocorrect
“- [ ] 1 c goat or ptarmigan cheese “
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
pbx@fosstodon.org ("Paul :python: :django: :linux:") wrote:
Who could have predicted that this 11-year-old laser printer (that I got for $50 at a going-out-of-business sale) would have an outdated TLS version?
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Speaking of Talking Heads, I think YouTube & other video platforms have unexpectedly raised the profile of the band/David Byrne with the youths. In the early 2000s I was just coming off of my big TH phase and I generally got blank looks when I mentioned them to other people.
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better has randomly been in my head lately
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
@mhoye That's incredible.
And I do like the fact you can take a car alarm as an encore...
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
2/2:
The overall level of COVID in wastewater is higher than it's been than for more than half of the pandemic.
None of these trends are showing any slowing, as yet. Remember, COVID can be just a mild, acute illness or your next infection could result in a disability, damage to your heart or brain, or an impaired immune system.
Just take a bit more care, please.
Sources:
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_select_testpositivity_00
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dancinyogi@mastodon.sdf.org ("Stacy") wrote:
How many cups of coffee do you drink per day?☕
#pollPlease boost for a wider demographic 😊
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
xyzzy@mastodon.sandwich.net ("Text Adventure") wrote:
You enter a rustic, green room. There is a CHAIR in the corner. You see a RUBBER HOSE here, in the corner. There is a POLITICAL PUNDIT here, reading a newspaper and holding a TIE.
Exits: SOUTHEAST UP
#bot
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Flipboard@flipboard.social wrote:
Today, we're highlighting journalists who cover #CyberSecurity:
@briankrebs — independent investigative journalist, author of "Spam Nation"
@bobmcmillan — WSJ tech reporter, host of Hack Me if You Can
@campuscodi — RiskyBizNews creator, former ZDNet cybersecurity reporter
@couts — WIRED security editor
@dangoodin — Ars Technica reporter covering security
@JosephMenn — WaPo cyber reporter
@kevincollier — NBC cyber reporter
@lorenzofb — TechCrunch cyber reporter
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dankennedy_nu@journa.host ("Dan Kennedy") wrote:
Just locked my Twitter account after the sociopath-in-chief tweeted that he's going to end blocking.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
how is it I let #ForgeOfEmpires suck up my time Yet Again
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ncweaver@thecooltable.wtf ("Nicholas Weaver") wrote:
I want to know how much $ some unscrupulous consultants got from Mike "MyFelony" Lindel for 'strap a WiFi Pineapple on a drone with Velcro'
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/wi-fi-sniffers-strapped-to-drones-mike-lindells-odd-plan-to-stop-election-fraud/
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
oh yeah I forgot to post this during my initial playthrough:
I'm not a huge fan of Cliff The Smoke Room but having Pop Goes the Weasel as his leitmotif is so disrespectful lmao
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
s’truth
(okay, so I’m an olde… iz that a problem?)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:
Even if you paid me to come up with ideas to ruin a social media app you spent $44 billion on, I couldn’t come up with ideas this bad.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The cool thing about virtual desktops is that you can name them so then you have itty bitty reminders of all the side projects you started but didn't finish.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ugh, to have been a teenager fighting in that weird war… thank you, PVT Halecki. RoK is a beautiful place, thanks to you
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Also, I think I get this one, but then again... probably not. Salvatore Ganacci's "Galaxy Brain":
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Surprisingly relatable content in the middle of this action packed music video from Salvatore Ganacci's "Fight Dirty":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZiaXEIQgkE
(CW for a minor spoiler if you haven't seen the video before.)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
and now I have charging batteries and little glowing lights everywhere
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
It's not C's fault that we got into the mess we're in. Maybe we have to put it down for the welfare of the land, but have some sympathy for the poor thing. We made it the monster it has become. 😢
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
But cast your mind back to the late 60s and early 70s where the language was developed on a PDP-11 with 24K 16-bit words (with a lineage linking it to a PDP-7 with 8K 18-bit), generally programmed in assembly. It wasn't a bad choice at the time. It's not like they could just download any number of already implemented programming languages on a whim or run everything in their browser.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Cancel the lesbian spider porn, it looks like it was just morphological variation in my males.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/18/update-i-dont-think-they-were-lesbian-spiders/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
@jsonstein Fantastic! I hope you give us all a report and some snapshots.
The only advice I'll offer is this-no matter how many people show up, do it again. And then again. It builds. People will get hooked.
One of my clubs is having a group SOTA thing tomorrow; listen for us under our club call of AA6CV. I'd love a SOTA-to-micro QSO!
#MicroFieldDay #µFieldDay #µFD #PortableHamRadio #TheBOREDnet
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Monroe County NY μField Day
In the spirit of the μField Day idea ( see http://www.theborednet.net/index.php/field-day/ ),
tomorrow (19 AUG 2023) I will set up next to the reservoir atop Highland Park in Rochester.
If you are in town and looking for another informal “get on the air” (GOTA) opportunity, either come
by and use my gear, or bring a rig and use my antennas, or (better yet) set up your rig in a
park or backyard wherever you might be… there is one at least one other site (in Webster) joining
in. the idea is to have a distributed fun GOTA event, to compliment the centralized
events also happening elsewhere.When: 11:00am East Coast Time, 19 AUG 2023
Where: next to Highland Park Reservoir and
146.520MHz FM voice (simplex, no repeaters no PL codes no programming)
14.285MHz USB voiceI will bring a medium-power FM voice transceiver for 2m and will set up a J-Pole.
I will be calling CQ on 146.520MHz (simplex). The idea is to see how far away I can
make decent contacts *without* a repeater network using a (nominal) 80W rig. Please
do check in if you can… it would be fun to get some real distance with 2m FM.I will also bring a low-power (15w) sideband rig and will set up a “magnetic loop”
antenna, and see what we can do making contacts on 14.285MHz USB voice. Again,
the idea is to play outside, to enjoy a distributed-to-where-you-are event, and to offer
another GOTA opportunity that can include Technicians.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:
James Buckley, conservative politician and U.S. senator, dies at 100
“… Mr. Buckley was perhaps best remembered as the lead plaintiff in a landmark campaign finance lawsuit… that in 1976 unraveled part of the post-Watergate regulation of political money. That ruling set the basis for a chain of court decisions…that embraced the concept that money is equal to speech.”
Quite a wretched legacy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/08/18/james-buckley-valeo-obit/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
thanks again for turning me on to the μField Day idea, @W6KME
I'm trying to get something similar started here in the #ROC area (Rochester, Upstate NY), with an informal "kickoff event" happening tomorrow
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
There are also a lot of ways in which the moniker doesn't fit. Adopting Tailwind doesn't cost you anything, and neither does leaving. (Outside the technical aspects of those decisions, I mean.) I don't know of any secret language or inner power structure to Tailwind.
But cultish behavior is also when you are discouraged from criticism, and well...that part is definitely there.
![A cartoon Salvatore Ganacci standing outside, surrounded by cherry blossoms, looking back over his shoulder at the camera he says, "Sometimes I cry when I'm alone." [A still from the music video for "Fight Dirty"]](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/110/911/850/243/473/480/original/8c167a938ea7892c.png){kind=link}
