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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
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Today in History: St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: CDC 6600 introduced, 1963
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Mersenne big naturals
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CosmicTrigger@kolektiva.social ("Hot TⒶkes and DⒶnk Memes") wrote:
I'm starting a movement to call people who PRIDE in their toxic masculinity (Incels, Proud Boys, Andrew Tate) "Junk Males."
(In case someone doesn't get this, maybe it's just the USA, but since before I was born, paper ads that showed up in your snail mail mailbox were called "junk mail." And even now, hotmail/outlook calls the "spam" folder where the annoying emails it knows you will never read the "junk" folder.)
Make this happen plz. Boost
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
An artist who goes by kuki1210 on twitter just created a picrew called "Fantasy-style Giant Oyaji Maker" https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/619843
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andy@bell.bz ("Andy Bell") wrote:
You may remember a while ago, we asked people to visit a little web app that grabbed their viewport sizes.
We had an idea in mind for a visualisation and article that today, we've just pushed live.
The ideal viewport doesn't exist https://viewports.fyi/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️🌈🖖🏽") wrote:
After decades of fighting for our right to love and live freely, the LGBTQ+ community should be long past discrimination. And yet, the scapegoating of our community continues. As a Japanese American who experienced forced relocation and internment as a child, this déjà vu is both alarming and heartbreaking. We must remember the past, demand change, and act to safeguard our future. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/takei-scapegoating-lgbtq-japanese-internment
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Reconstruction was a time of “utopian hopes and shattered dreams, struggles for human dignity and terrorist violence, racism and black-white cooperation… everyday life had become politicized in ways barely hinted at in the Reconstruction literature.”
— A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition] by Eric Foner
https://a.co/dKD1Gti
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raiderrobert ("Robert Roskam") wrote:
If you were to start a new #python project, which tool would you use to manage package requirements?
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A lot of woodworking YT feels like woodglueworking YT.
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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:
Investors have finally caught up to the money saving scam that is unlimited PTO and soon every company will do it.
PTO not taken is money the company literally owes the employee which is paid out in cash when they leave the company.
Unlimited PTO removes this financial liability by saying just take any work day off you like and you just get paid as normal. The reality is people take less time off in that model and tend to work during time off in that model.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
A Case of You by Joni Mitchell
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Hurdy Gurdy Man by Donovan
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
My Ride's Here by Warren Zevon
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
So like, in a lot of media with animal people that isn't subculturally furry, the animalness often stays kind of metaphorical even if represented as a physical state. If Aesop's story has ants, it's because he needs a group of industrious characters.
The Echo VNs are funny because every once in a while they will slap you in the face with the literal truth of "My deputy's a damn otter." He says this to dismiss the idea that the deputy might have missed evidence of a crime hidden in the lake.
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emilylorange@mastodon.art ("Emily L'Orange") wrote:
i said i wasn't doing any more of these and then someone kept sending me more pretty birds 😔
(~2.5 hours speedpaint, based on photo by Mary Fran)
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- a digital painting of a european starling sitting on a stump in profile, facing right, looking at the viewer with one eye. the shapes in the image have been heavily stylized into polygons and triangles. the bird's feathers have an oily sheen in shades of blue, green, and purple. the background is full of more angular shapes, in yellow, green, and blue. (remote)
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It seems ML "standards" are to Internet Standards what "crypto" is to cryptography.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Today in "ways sexism subtly creeps into everything":
It occurred to me that a high percentage of the people I've known who are the best at coming up with so-called "dad jokes" are not men.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘Mr. Trump and the other defendants will be required to pay cash upon being booked in Atlanta, unlike in the three other criminal cases involving the former president.
…cannot violate state or federal laws or communicate with any co-defendants in the case except through his lawyers… told not to intimidate witnesses or co-defendants, or “otherwise obstruct the administration of justice,” by threatening them or 30 unindicted co-conspirators in the case.
He was also directed to “make no direct or indirect threat of any nature against the community or to any property in the community” including “posts on social media or reposts of posts made by another individual on social media,” the bond sheet states.’
Mastodon Feed#TFW you realize that a well-intentioned developer is sorting queries on a UUIDv4 field.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
IMO, making a modal/dialogue/prompt/popup/whatever without a "never show me this again" option should be literally illegal.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Canon AE-1 Program, Kodak UltraMax 400. Bristol.
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Whatever the opposite of bling is.
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
At 11am this morning, the semester officially began for me. Now begins the usual pandemic anxiety.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/21/first-student-meetingaccomplished/
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Chrishallbeck ("Chris Hallbeck") wrote:
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![[a person is sitting at a desk in front of a computer. The room is extremely messy except for what the camera can see in the background] Video chat is a chance for my internet friends to get to know the real me.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/928/580/665/783/593/original/1d18cc934224922b.png){kind=link}
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I don't think you have a good reason to hoard people's remains, Smithsonian. The obligation is on you to justify yourself.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/21/open-the-floodgates/
