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

moshboy wrote:

murder!, manual, dos (1991) https://www.mobygames.com/game/10585/murder/cover/group-11788/cover-732411/

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• the simple image of an old revolver and the words 'instruction manual' at the bottom.

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

The new Minnesota flag is official. Good.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/11/the-new-state-flag-is-official/

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• Minnesota state flag (remote)

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Are you still finishing @philipcball's extraordinary How Life Works in preparation for our Oxide and Friends discussion? Good news: you have an extension on the assignment! We need to move our discussion to May 20th, when @ahl and I will be joined by molecular biologist Greg Cost to discuss the book. Read it and bring your comments and questions -- or join just to listen to the discussion! On Discord on May 20th at 5p Pacific:

https://discord.gg/NaxMgtFF?event=1233892673023246387

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

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Here's a family you can help escape Gaza. This GoFundMe has been vetted by Operation Olive Branch.

If you can't donate now, bookmark this link. Or, if they hit their goal by then, visit the Operation Olive Branch link (in comments). I'll also try my best to have at least once active campaign on the homepage of my blog.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-young-muhammad-rebuild-a-life

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

Purple & yellow weeds are commencing along with the Class of 2024 today.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/11/commencing/

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• Pretty and chaotic lawn (remote)

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

A touch more acerbic than I think it needs to be, but still an interesting point to be made.

Complicated Sticks – Faster and Worse
https://fasterandworse.com/complicated-sticks/

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

toxi@mastodon.thi.ng ("Karsten Schmidt") wrote:

Just been checking some of my fave webcams in the Alps for the aurora. Some highlights:

Konkordia (Jungfraujoch/Aletsch glacier):
https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/konkordiahuette/2024/05/11/0030

Zugspitze (w/ Höllental):
https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/zugspitze-ost/2024/05/11/0030

Zugspitze summit:
https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/bzb-gipfel/2024/05/11/0030

Nebelhorn:
https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/nebelhorn/2024/05/10/2230

All images by https://www.foto-webcam.eu

#Aurora #Photography #Webcam #Alps #Mountains

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• Nighttime view of the Konkordiahütte on the edge of the Aletsch glacier with the entire scene tinted pink by the light of the aurora. (remote)
• Nighttime view from the Zugspitze summit north over the dark Höllental and Garmisch-Partenkirchen with the entire scene tinted pink by the light of the aurora. (remote)
• Nighttime view of the Zugspitze cablecar station near the summit with the entire scene tinted pink by the light of the aurora. (remote)
• Nighttime view from the Nebelhorn summit over the still largely snow covered High Allgäu Alps (the ridge just north of Oytal) towards the Hochvogel pyramid. The entire scene tinted pink by the light of the aurora. (remote)

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

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

how innovation works under capitalism 👇

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• 6b6dff656c8f21ff.mp4 (remote)

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

ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org ("Carl T. Bergstrom") wrote:

I've seen the Northern Lights before, but never like this.

Snoqualmie Summit, WA

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• The northern lights in shade of bright pink at the top, then violet, then green lowest down, over snowcovered mountains. (remote)
• Northern lights: Reds and violets and pinks exploding over the trees with a background of stars. (remote)

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

damonyoung@mas.to ("Damon Young") wrote:

Wow. Just wow.

The aurora borealis over Hobart, Tasmania.

#aurora #auroraborealis

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• The aurora borealis seen over Hobart, Tasmania. (remote)

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

aboard tgv 🥲

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Aurora visible from Seattle right now.

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

I'm not very good at photographing the northern lights. I'm more accustomed to shooting very tiny things that are very close.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/11/aurora-time-2/

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• Aurora borealis (remote)

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

scottjehl@mstdn.social ("Scott Jehl") wrote:

🥳 ANNOUNCEMENT! 🥳

I just launched a campaign to crowdfund my next online course:
**Web Components Demystified**. Coming this Summer! Build fast, dynamic, resilient apps for the next phase of the web!

The campaign has 29 days left. Please help make this project happen and help me spread the word! Thank you so much.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scott-jehl/web-components-demystified

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

morganm@subdued.social ("airbr") wrote:

I am immensely happy to pledge to support @scottjehl with his Kickstarter for Web Components Demystified! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scott-jehl/web-components-demystified?ref=thanks-copy

His last course that I took was Lightning Fast Web Performance and it helped me get a job!

#webperf #webperformance #webcomponents

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

extretemps@toot.community ("Extreme Temperatures") wrote:

HISTORIC EVENT
Unbelievable 51.1C/124F at Gallinas MEXICO yesterday, HOTTEST DAY IN MAY IN NORTH AMERICA HISTORY.
By far,the worst heat wave ever recorded in North America and there is no end in sight to it in any foreseeable future.
From SMN/Conagua:

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• 5526079e3ffd713a.png (remote)

Reblogged by teller ("Siim Teller"):

fj ("Frederic Jacobs") wrote:

I'm a bit intrigued by the Italian-made Seabike concept. Seems like an obvious thing in retrospect so curious why there haven't been things like it before.
Anyone tried it already?
https://www.seabike.fr

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• 225979d3ff00a064.mp4

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Directly adjacent on my timeline. @lmorchard @ranjit

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• A post by Les Orchard of a picture of his cat looking out the window, captioned “neighborhood watch.” Just below it, a post by ranjit of a cat in a neighboring window, captioned “neighbor cat.” (remote)

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

I realized yesterday I've been writing code for ten years.

That put me in a (perhaps self-indulgently) introspective mood on the web in general and my strange, lucky career path.

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/ten-years-of-code

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

Oh c'mon! His recently added video introducing patriarchy through the lens of the recent Barbie movie is currently being blocked by Warner Bros. on copyright grounds. Not surprising considering, but still 🙄 .

(I'm watching it on NewPipe, which appears to have buffered a bunch of it before this happened?)

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

I've seen a couple of youtube channels now that have the whiff of SALAMI ("AI") generation of music. "Novelty" channels stuffed with recently produced videos with almost plausible music. I'm not a musician, but the songs contain strange transitions and other audio artifacts and uncanny valley lyrical delivery. The lyrics may have been written by a human, but I haven't spent too much time analyzing that. Best to stick to my trusted outlets for music and ignore the algorithm.

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

DavidDarnes@mastodon.design ("Dave 🧱 :cursor_pointer:") wrote:

I'm still hyped about everything that happened at #11tyconf. The talks were so great, and I'm once again keen to try out @eleventy in new ways.

Especially interested to try out the new ‘Eleventy Transform' option within the Eleventy Image plugin, allowing you to transform any `` automatically into something more performant https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/image/#eleventy-transform

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

Does your lawn look this glorious?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/10/lawns-should-be-golden/

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• Dandelion lawn (remote)

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

very fun stuff in today's Crossword Craze! a full-page ad for the puzzle book and some solver feedback from 1924 https://crosswordcraze.today/in-love-and-war-and-puzzledom/

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

nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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• This is a stand-up dinosaur meme where the dinosaur asks, "What's the difference between a light bulb and a programmer?" The light bulb stops working when it burns out. The audience was not amused. This joke is meant to highlight the issue of burnout and mental health problems that are common in the IT industry but are often not taken seriously. #MentalHealthMatters

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

Just hangin' out.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/10/my-door-guard/

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• Cranefly (remote)

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

So yeah. A colloquial word for “kid” in the far, far East of Asia, ultimately has its origins from India.

#AsianHeritageMonth

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lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

It’s apparently a sino-Japanese word, with the kanji 餓鬼. It literally means “hungry ghost”. What is a hungry ghost?

Apparently, it’s a concept comes from Hinduism/Buddhism, and it’s the Chinese translation of the Sanskrit word “preta”, “the Sanskrit name for a type of supernatural being described in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Chinese folk religion as undergoing suffering greater than that of humans, particularly an extreme level of hunger and thirst”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preta
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lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Work reminds me it’s #AsianHeritageMonth again, so here’s a related nugget:

In Japanese, sometimes you call kids “gaki” (not exactly polite but not really considered a bad word). If you’ve watched anime or Japanese television shows, you’ve probably heard it.

Where does it come from? Most people probably don’t know.

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keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

E con l'intervista allo stand della casa editrice si conclude il mio primo #SaloneDelLibro come #autore -
#fantascienza #scifi #scrivere

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• Qualche copia del romanzo di fantascienza "Il Grande Collasso", sullo sfondo due telecamere. (remote)