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

time is indifferent to one’s valor

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• grave markers of Margaretta and George Fritz. his is tipped to the ground. thank you for your loyalty and Civil War service , Trooper Fritz of Co F, 108th New York Infantry (remote)

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

fascinating window into modern PRC literary culture

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000629789022

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

woo it's October! I haven't picked out what I wanna watch today yet

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

Always left out of the party.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/01/october-is-here/

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• 2f42ee76b042149c.jpg (remote)

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rosamundi@mastodon.world ("Rosamundi") wrote:

This is what you accept when you object to 20mph speed limits. This is what you shrug and say "yeah, that's fine, happy to accept this rate of death" over.

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• A graphic showing the different death rates of pedestrians hit at different speeds. Hit by a vehicle at 20mph, 9 out of 10 pedestrians survive. Hit by a vehicle at 30mph, 5 out of 10 pedestrians survive. Hit by a vehicle at 40mph, only 1 out of 10 pedestrians survive. (remote)

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derPUPE@chaos.social wrote:

I guess #Cisco got tired
of #splunk licensing costs

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• the difficult to decide meme: left: „renew licence for $29Billion“ right: „Buy Splunk for 28Billion“ (remote)

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

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• a93f4830fb9f69a6.jpeg (remote)

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

https://youtu.be/WDbh49bQvlw

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

“Life is need. Its bones are necessity, its organs lust and longing, its skin dissatisfaction. That’s why I envy you, you beautiful, sleek thing. You have intelligence without need. Need does not allow us to think, not really. You and your sisters will be truly sentient.”

— Footsteps in the Sky by Greg Keyes
https://a.co/at7TusI

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

1994clipart@botsin.space ("Corel Gallery Clipart") wrote:

EVANS1.BMF

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• A color illustration of Linda Evans, star of the 80s hit TV show Dynasty, about the oil tycoon family the Carringtons. Dianne watched Dynasty religiously, and when she first met Lou, whom she would later marry, she was charmed by his thick silver hair, which reminded her of John Forsythe. Lou lost his hair, and he later lost Dianne. (remote)

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

must be played LOUD

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• d7850a3669ee29e9.png (remote)

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

Anima Rising
Queen of Queens

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threedaymonk@sonomu.club ("Paul") wrote:

Updated my Twitter profile.

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• name: "you support fascism by staying here" bio: "You should feel bad about still using this website. Go and look at Musk's tweets and replies and ask yourself some hard questions."y (remote)

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

My review of the bowl of the Little Dipper constellation:

4 stars.

nikvo@esperanto.masto.host wrote:

bonan matenon

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• kato (remote)

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

Weekdays: morning routine

Weekend: morning poutine

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

"Twists it off by turning in circles" -- I cringed.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/30/sacrifices-made-in-the-name-of-lust/

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• Tidarren sisyphoides (remote)

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

If I had a manatee I would name it Hue.

...That's it. That's the joke.

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petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

It's not just that Musk spent $44 billion on Twitter and turned it into $8 billion. It's that he has so fucking much money that he doesn't care.
Tax billionaires till it hurts.

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

jasminakuhnke ("Jasmina Kuhnke") wrote:

That's my kind of humor:
A white South African man talking about „invasion vibes“ 😉

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• GermanForeignOffice & @German... 16h • • Yes. And it's called saving lives. × Elon Musk & × @elonmusk • 18h Is the German public aware of this? twitter.com/radiogenoa/sta... Q12,4K 17 28,6K © 152K thil 13,7M Elon Musk OX @elonmusk Abonnieren So you're actually proud of it. Interesting. Frankly, I doubt that a majority of the German public supports this. Have you run a poll? Surely it is a violation of the sovereignty of Italy for Germany to transport vast numbers of illegal immigrants to Italian soil? Has invasion vibes... @

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nyquildotorg@fedia.social ("Jer Warren") wrote:

I've been talking about how AI will directly lead to an Idiocracy (2006) scenario for some time, but today's update to the "can you melt eggs?" saga is as clear an illustration of how as I think it's possible to ever have.

Quora's AI answers made up the melting point of eggs, and then Google picked it up and responded affirmatively that you can indeed melt eggs.

Then people wrote articles about how stupid it is that Google says eggs can melt. Then Google fixes the answer.

Then Google ingests an article about how stupid it is that Google says you can melt eggs, and suddenly Google starts answering affirmatively again that you can melt eggs, citing the article about how stupid Google is for thinking you can melt eggs.

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noelle@chat.noelle.codes ("Eelie 🐍🎃:transper:") wrote:

"LGBT" is pronounced...

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

"Hey, hey, hey, hey-now. Don't be mean; we don't have to be mean, cuz, remember, no matter where you go... there you are."

-- Buckaroo Banzai

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

Anyhoo, I'm feelin' the urge to checkout of here for a while. Hopefully not so long I'll miss #Thinktober entirely, but for a little while.

Enjoy your various 'tober creative challenges, good people of the fediverse. Keep it cool and weird like you do.

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

I had some prior bandcamp Friday pre-orders get released today. It's like some little gifts from my past self. I normally can't stand that guy, but he did alright this time.

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

@Celeste_pewter

The net result of the largest peaceful protest in US history, is that elected officials, including Dems:

* addressed absolutely none of the structural problems being protested
* increased funding for the police. Increased! Over and above what the police even asked for

So yeah, Black folk get touchy when it's suggested that we don't protest as hard as people in Europe do. We do. And we do it peacefully. And we get killed for it. And nothing changes.

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

test photo post from new phone

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• cat on kitchen table (remote)

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yogthos@mas.to ("Yogthos") wrote:

You will experience climate change through a series of increasingly wild videos, until one day it's you taking the video.

#climatechange

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• 33cafb9173735d47.mp4 (remote)

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

(They are almost always the ones that are a response to somebody else's toots. You know, the people wrong on the internet.)

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

I think of all the toots I've made on here, I'm most proud of the ones I had the good sense to delete before sending.