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

pomological@botsin.space ("fruit toots") wrote:

lady thompson strawberries, painted by bertha heiges, 1900

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• abc8e4d182d89854.jpg (remote)

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

rjfaas ("R.J. Faas") wrote:

Blogging platforms - From @fromjason
With creators and consumers fleeing Substack, Twitter and other platforms and looking for greener pastures, this list includes a good deal of simple, free and more full-featured blogging options out there.

(I'd make one addition: Wordpress.com to the list it's what I'm using for my own blog)

https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/01/06/blogging-platforms.html

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Katt Williams is a real one ✌️

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

Magnets don't work when wet? There ought to be some minimal requirement for understanding basic science before you're allowed to run for office.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/08/all-i-know-about-magnets-is-this-give-me-a-glass-of-water-drop-it-on-the-magnets-thats-the-end-of-the-magnets/

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

I am so fucking tired of being constantly asked how my experience was.

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

The snow has finally arrived to western Minnesota.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/08/the-snow-has-finally-arrived/

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• Snowy tree (remote)

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

flacs wrote:

going back to work in January

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• Tom Scott: "That was a problem for future me, and now I am future me,"

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

dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

It is essential to stop using Chrome.

Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware.

Given Google's overwhelming presence in the browser market, this is unconscionable.

We should all despise the ad-tech business, and have no sympathy for the companies getting whacked by Google's actions. But we should not permit one monopolist to replace them all.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/year-review-googles-corporate-paternalism-browser

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Also, who did I offend in the W3 email lists? I know yall don't particularly love the #EEE word thrown around. I can imagine a two thousand word post on #Meta must not have been met with some frustration.

Just want to say I love W3C. Your tutorials taught me to code ❤️

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• Screen shot of referral website traffic lists.w3.org for post copy quite kill

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Okay which one of you dorks blocked my domain (or maybe just the post?) and then clicked to see if it worked? I'm calling the FBI. AND the KGB.

Not very live, laugh, love of you.

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• Screenshot of website analytics with a referral traffic source from block.opendns.com

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Someone called my writing "exhaustingly clever" which, I'm not sure if that was a dig but, pal, you just made my whole year ❤️

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

omg i set a new monday PR

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• Congratulations! You solved a Monday crossword in 2:09 (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

#Sharper on #AppleTV was great. #A24 flick too.

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• Promotional poster for the thriller "Sharper" with four characters superimposed over a cityscape background, with the title and details about the film's platform and duration at the bottom.

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

tef wrote:

it's like that old "fascists made the trains run on time" trope, the actual truth being "they shot everyone who said the train was late"

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

kcarruthers wrote:

TB Joshua: Megachurch leader raped and tortured worshippers, BBC finds

Evidence of widespread abuse and torture by the founder of one of the world's biggest Christian evangelical churches has been uncovered by the BBC.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67749215

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• Alleged Rapist church leader

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

CordiallyChloe@tech.lgbt ("ChloChlo") wrote:

You know what's *actually* the craziest part about being gender non-conforming?

When you realize you can just be whoever you want, whenever you want.

If I get tired of being a girl in 10 years or whenever, I can just stop being a girl.

Yeah, I'll have a vagina and stuff but like, I could just throw on some mens jeans, a men's tee, a baseball cap, and stop shaving. I wouldn't have a beard or anything anymore and maybe people would still gender me as female, but like, 🤷‍♀️

Gender is personal on an intimate level, but also meaningless on a societal level.

I spent 30+ years looking like a guy. I've always been a girl but people thought I was a guy bc of how I dressed mostly.

But now I dress like a girl and take some hormones and people think I'm a girl.

Gender is dumb.

Be trans.
Do crime.

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

Infinite Thread XXX. The triple-X rating implies nothing!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/07/infinite-thread-xxx/

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• No Man's Sky ship coming in for a landing (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

This #kattwilliams interview is 😮‍💨

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

How do we deshittify?

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

There’s some interesting parallels between the Technocracy movement of the 1930s and 40s, and a contemporary movement known as #EffectiveAltruism.

Both ideologies promise a techno-utopia, if only we’d give the world to its believers.

And both share some lineage— Joshua Norman Haldeman, 1940s director of Technocracy Inc, is the grandfather of Effective Altruism’s most powerful evangelist, Elon Musk.

What a gnarly little coincidence.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Every comment under this #threads post is "have you tried training your algo?"

I thought the whole excuse for algorithms was that people didn't like curating their feeds?

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• Screenshot of a social media post expressing dissatisfaction with the default 'For You' experience, mentioning it's full of clickbait and requests to stop pushing it on users, with a reference to a user named @mosseri.

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cyberboy@fedi.catboy.agency ("𝓒𝔂𝓫𝓮𝓻𝓑𝓸𝔂 :v_pan: :v_cat:") wrote:

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Hot take: it's time to make a new #HitchhikersGuide to the Galaxy franchise and James Gunn needs to write and direct it.

I will not be taking questions at this time.

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goodenoughllc@mastodon.world ("Good Enough") wrote:

@fromjason Thank you for listing Pika (https://pika.page)! We're quite early in our journey, but I will say that our blogging platform will probably _not_ be on the overly techie side of things.

Great list!

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

Toastie@journa.host wrote:

Internet service providers are landlords. They don't provide anything, just control access.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

Quick tip for Safari: drag a tab to the left to pin it. 💡

(a friend of mine was genuinely surprised today that you could do this, so I thought it was worth sharing 😁)

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• Screen recording: dragging a couple of tabs to the left of the window to pin them. Dragging them to the right unpins them. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Regarding: Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs

I find it odd, borderline infuriating even, how many left-of-center folks are suddenly very concerned with drug use stigma.

When it’s a brown kid dying in jail for a weed charge, it’s “nuanced”.

When it’s about a billionaire who believes in the great replacement theory, all of a sudden it’s #ACAB and legalize it.

Bro. Please be so for real. https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-illegal-drugs-e826a9e1

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

DeliaChristina@sfba.social ("Delia Christina") wrote:

I'm really curious how many white folks in the fediverse have *any* close BIPOC friends.

Like, work pals don't count.

These are folks who have let you see the inside of their homes, you know whether or not you have been invited to their cookout, and you know how to reach a member of their family in an emergency.

(All my Besties know how to reach my sister or dad and/or have met them.)

Like, are you a Mark or a...Karen?

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

yup

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• Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social - conservatives seem to have replaced “CRT” with “DEI" as a catch- all vessel for their complaints about the feeling they get when someone makes them think about racism b-boy bouiebaisse ®jbouie.bsky.social - they have already started referring to individual people as "DEI hires” and the like so it s also pretty evident that “DEI" is becoming another stand in for a certain slur they won't say in public (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Damn I need to check my #webmentions more often 😅 or burn it with fire