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

digits@ravenation.club ("Digits") wrote:

Asha Puthli remixed once more! This time it's Psychemagik, I love it.

https://nayabeat.bandcamp.com/album/right-down-here #music

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

Which is to say that I think "journey" is getting overused in certain places. You know, like referring to your hobbies, or talking about the frenetic, random activities of a VC backed company.

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

Reflecting on the journey of my life, which consists mostly of a series of unintentional pratfalls, slapstick, scatological humor, and other personally embarrassing moments...

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

Maybe his pronouns are "raging" and "asshole", and they left them off the character creation screen. Did you think of that?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/03/these-people-are-mad/

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• Furious gammon (remote)

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

grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

I wrote about the idea of craft -- a concept I've been hearing a lot lately in conversations about software work and often find myself wrangling with. But it also turned out to be about my grandpa. In a year of many losses, I have been thinking a lot about those I love and try to take with me in everything I do.

https://www.drcathicks.com/post/on-craft

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

Some kind of... music for your Sunday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M64voQEIY9k

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It started with me opting not to keep smart lights when I moved. I found the routine of pressing physical switches more rewarding than the tap of a touch screen. I've since gotten into vinyl, and film photography. I still stream music, and I still take photos with my iPhone when it's more convenient, but I find the physicality of analog devices uniquely rewarding.

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

AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. ~ Billy Sunday

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

PyConUK@fosstodon.org ("PyCon UK") wrote:

📢 PyCon UK 2023 Schedule Announcement!

🎙 "I plugged a Z80 into a Pi Pico, here's how it happened" by Emma Delescolle
https://pretalx.com/pyconuk-2023/talk/77TPKP

Grab your ticket!
https://2023.pyconuk.org/tickets/

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

dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

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• Photo shows a bicycle lane beside a busy road. The bicycle lane is blocked by a mobile traffic sign that advises motorists: GIVE CYCLISTS SPACE (remote)

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

It's hard to feel much sympathy with the Burning Man poseurs.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/03/schadenfreude-for-hippie-wanna-bes/

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• Burning Man, in the mud (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The fragmentation among friends that follows Twitter’s collapse is exactly the kind of problem that Mastodon and the social web solves for. Imagine that you don’t have to pick and choose which new platform to adopt, or make and maintain a million accounts—because you can follow anyone regardless of which platform they’re on. That’s our reality.

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

It's so much easier to set up certain mons for raids now that you can transfer them back to gen 8. I have a ton of extra random cash/xp candy in those games just from shiny hunting during dynamax event raids

Money's a lot more scarce for me in gen 9 since the event raids are 1 and done things where you catch a single powerful opponent and move on.

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adwright ("TheWholeTruthXX 🎨 ❤️") wrote:

ICYMI Mozilla #Firefox 117 has a built-in translation mode that can be manually enabled.

Unlike Chrome and Edge, the Firefox translations are all done locally on your own computer, not sent to Google or Microsoft for their files.

Dunno about you but that suits my ass to a 'T'. I hate it when soulless corporations read over my shoulder.

I wrote a post with how to enable this here:

https://mastodon.social/@adwright/110987973582339164

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

stancarey@mastodon.ie ("Stan Carey") wrote:

Scott Kim's symmetrical alphabet, a beautiful mirror ambigram

#design #alphabet #ambigram #art #typography #calligraphy #wordplay

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• The Latin alphabet, ingeniously stylized and arranged to be symmetrical across the vertical axis. The letters appear in the following rows: A–F, G–J, K–N, O, P–Q, R–T, U–W, X–Z. Though immediately recognizable as the Latin alphabet, it has a striking, almost otherworldly appearance. Its designer, Scott Kim, said that ambigrams can be explained in words but that "it's like describing a dance". (remote)

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

The moral of this story about a developer who helped the team by pair programming and coaching junior engineers at the expense of his own individual metrics is “you shouldn’t judge a fish by how well it climbs a tree.”

Unfortunately companies tend to standardize on performance review systems that are easy to measure. So there are often people who add a ton of value who end up penalized by the system.

https://dannorth.net/2023/09/02/the-worst-programmer/

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

Currently trying to get the Bad End on Spirit Hunter: NG. I'm at the Screaming Author chapter and realized that the crane noises the ghost makes are basically the same as Arrested Development chicken noises https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0l0BludIwc

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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

Out of the Burning Man, Into the Fyre.

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

lashman wrote:

HERE WE FUCKING GO!!! YESSSS!!! :catjam:

"SAG-AFTRA votes unanimously to expand its strike to include the games industry. 'Here we go again! Now our video game agreement is at a stalemate too.'"

https://www.eurogamer.net/sag-aftra-votes-unanimously-to-expand-its-strike-to-include-the-games-industry

#gameDev #gaming #gamingNews

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

I am so very disappointed…

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

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

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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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.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

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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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.)