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

I am so very disappointed…

https://mastodon.social/@ravenonthill/110998701362561323

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dkiesow@social.kiesow.net ("Damon Kiesow") wrote:

I appreciate The Athletic led an EPL/Saudi Arabia transfer story by noting the recent death sentence for tweeting. It should be mentioned in every story about the Saudi league.

https://theathletic.com/4825317/2023/09/01/salah-saudi-transfer-league

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• You may have seen the story earlier this week about a man named Mohammed bin Nasser al-Ghamdi, who was sentenced to death by a Saudi Arabian court. (remote)

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

SutroTower@sfba.social ("Sutro Tower :sutro:") wrote:

Go to your window San Francisco 🌇

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• 1bad4de3d35a6ac8.jpg (remote)

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

stevelieber ("Steve Lieber") wrote:

When I talk to comic book artists I always emphasize the importance of clearly separating their planes of depth. This rule is only for comics and does not apply to Turkish photographer Sami Uçan.

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• Black and white photo in which a black cat looms large in the foreground and seems to be walking directly behind a much smaller man in the middleground.

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gamingonlinux ("Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮") wrote:

Microsoft: we will only use what you set when we’re forced legally 🤣🤡

Their desperation to get you to use Edge however they can is just funny.

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• 30d4af9986ef9f1c.jpeg

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

Crell@phpc.social ("Larry Garfield") wrote:

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• Caption: JavaScript developers deciding on the best way to render static HTML. The image below it shows a group of scientists in lab coats examining a highly complex device taller than they are, of the sort used in high-energy particle physics. (remote)

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Where is "single-threaded WAL replay"? The Mariana Trench?

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• Postgres iceberg meme

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

brion@bikeshed.vibber.net ("Brion Vibber") wrote:

We are all swapping
We are all swapping
No time for users
Cause we are all swapping... out to disk

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

Oshare Wanko

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• pic of the box for the Japanese GBA game Oshare Wanko. The box is pink and white and features a bunch of photos of dogs in little outfits.

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

It's been cool exploring some unfamiliar platforms via the Pocket. I think the next core I wanna explore is one for the WonderSwan. For a little while I kinda wished for a WonderSwan because it had portable versions of Final Fantasy 1 & 2 and also a puyo game

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

I've been speaking English for over 40 years and I just today realized we have two completely different pronunciations for the "th" sound.

(The, they, and that are all spoken with a different sound than thing, thought, or thick.)

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

I would watch this if they had called it "New Phone Who Dis?"

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• Netflix blurb for the rom-com "Love Again": "Still grieving her fiance's death, an artist texts her deepest thoughts to his phone and forms a bond with the man who receives them by chance." (remote)

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

Explains a lot:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/02/millions-of-missing-voters-cost-labour-seats-due-to-electoral-boundaries-bias

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mpe@ravenation.club ("Martin Paul Eve") wrote:

As everyone rushes to invest in AI, moving away from crypto, my new favourite term has emerged: grift shift.

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

I really, really despise this list. I hope whoever made it never gets their stupid fingers into school curricula.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/02/dont-put-non-educators-in-charge-of-education/

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• Subjects that should be mandatory in schools: Taxes, coding, cooking, insurance, basic home repaire[sic], etc. (remote)

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simevidas ("Šime Vidas") wrote:

The Economist has not yet mastered the arts of preventing the page in the background from scrolling while the modal dialog is open.

And by arts I mean one line of CSS:

overscroll-behavior-y: contain;

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• d6bd2adbb49247c8.mp4

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

Like the scabby tweaker from Echo and the bird in The Smoke Room whose only role is to pick a fight with Nik, who then punches the life (and literal shit) out of him.

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

I was worried that the echo discord would be toxic but it's mostly chill. The most upsetting thing I've seen so far is the side-characters that some members get horny for.

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

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

Two women are dead and a teenage girl is in critical condition after a Friday night shooting in Northwest #DC. https://wtop.com/dc/2023/09/2-women-dead-teen-injured-after-shooting-in-northwest-dc/ #GunViolence

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

It was inevitable but I finally joined the echo project discord in order to do spoiler discussion. TSR's spoiler channel is unsurprisingly active.

I was surprised to see some late night activity in the Arches channels, because what is there to really contribute at this point except for voice recordings of your own sobbing

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

hoo boy, rip jimmy buffett. this one's a big one for me

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ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🦣") wrote:

A man in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to death for his tweets, and surprise: Elon Musk is NOT funding his legal bill as promised because there's a good chance that the necessary data to identify this man came from the second largest shareholder of Twitter: the Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

Musk has been awfully silent about this as you can't really make your “freedom of speech!!” argument when you assist with killing a retired teacher for the regime critic posts they made on your platform, only possible because that regime owns a huge chunk of “your” platform.

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• A post by Elon Musk on Twitter saying: If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill. No limit. Please let us know. (remote)

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

If there hasn't been a music artist named Sterile Mreep there should be

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

Meyerweb ("Eric Meyer") wrote:

Exactly 20 years and 20 minutes ago, this happened.

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• A clip of the classic “Badgers Badgers” meme.

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

I wish Selena Gomez's stage name was Short Steve, just so she'd neatly close the loop with Steve Martin and Martin Short.

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erosdiscordia@inkdrop.space ("Mystery Babylon :aheartdrawn:") wrote:

Suppose it's time for me to stop being nervous, and just go ahead and tell you lovely Mastodon people:

I have been sharing my science fiction story, "Radiant Inverse", on Royal Road (a serial fiction website) for the past couple of weeks.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/72693/radiant-inverse-a-science-fantasy-adventure

There are already 13 chapters up. :rainbowdance:

I would love it if you'd check it out. No need for an account -- but accounts can comment and leave reviews!

:boostRequest:

> #writer #writingcommunity #scifi #SFF #serialfiction

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Who called him “Humbert Humbert” instead of “Umberto Echo”?

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

ahhhhhh

https://music.apple.com/us/album/k%C3%B6ln-january-24-1975-pt-i-live/1440840566?i=1440840567

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

TexasObserver@texasobserver.social ("Texas Observer Lives!") wrote:

Here's a sneak preview of the September/October issue of Texas Observer magazine, featuring stories by Eva Ruth Moravec, Kit @oconnell, Reynaldo Leaños Jr. and @gabrielarana.

The new issue will be arriving in mailboxes, inboxes, and at select newsstands soon.

#TexasNeedsAnObserver! Help us keep reporting by becoming a member today, and you'll get future issues too: https://texasobserver.org/join/

#news #journalism #nonprofit #USpol #politics #AirBNB #DragQueens #Military #Racism

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• The September/October 2023 issue of the Texas Observer features an illustration of a female-presenting person fearfully peeking over a windowsill at the "party house" across the street, a short-term rental with a raging crowd dancing, fighting, drinking, and dealing with the cops. The top story is "All the Scary Houses: Neighborhoods fight the giant companies pushing the short-term rental tidal wave". Other top stories include "Queens Defiant," "The Last Texan to Die in Afghanistan," and "Toppling Statues." (remote)

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dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz ("Dan Piponi") wrote:

@pervognsen Yes, for the longest time I used to hear endless complaints from the animators about how the mocap was almost useless. I don't know how it is nowadays.

This is why, whenever I talk about the use of optical flow on the Matrix movies, I point out that a lot of hard work was needed by artists to fix up the problems with it.