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

brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson") wrote:

"We will not raise the rate of income tax, VAT or National Insurance." promised Bozo and the Tories in 2019. And then they did. Today, they've promised that again. https://bylinetimes.com/2022/04/06/boris-johnson-conservative-broken-manifesto-promises-2019/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A bathroom. San Francisco.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.4 S.S.C.

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #SFBA

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• A corner of a room with white walls and black and white floor tiles. A paned window with frosted glass illuminates a bright red cabinet, on top of which is a little potted plant and an oil diffuser.

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

walpolea@mastodon.online ("Andrew Walpole") wrote:

I've written up some details on an interesting css trick to allow containers to take on a custom top and bottom shape using composed `image-masks` and a few clever calculations.

https://www.andrewwalpole.com/blog/custom-top-and-bottom-css-container-masks/

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

6VCR@mastodon.art wrote:

traffic light #PixelArt

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• In this pixel art image, we see a snowy outdoor scene with a large building in the background. The dominant colors are blue and white, giving off a cold and wintry feel. A street light stands prominently in the foreground, illuminating the otherwise dark surroundings. Despite the snow falling from the sky, there is still some light visible in the distance. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A window in Presidio, San Francisco.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.4 S.S.C.

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #SFBA

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• A tall paned window, slightly opened. Behind it, green foliage.

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

My spider shipment has not been delivered yet. I hope it wasn't dropped off at the wrong address…although in some ways that would be hilarious.

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

wim_v12e@octodon.social ("Wim 🅾") wrote:

For a brief moment, the Japanese irises on the balcony are flowering at the same time. This is a close up of one of them after the rain
#photography
#florespondence

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• close up of the blue-purple flower of an iris, the drooping petals have stripes and veins and are covered in raindrops. There is also an unopened bud like a brush tipped with dark blue paint. (remote)

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

twobraids@octodon.social ("K Lars Lohn") wrote:

An unknown rose growing in the blackberry bramble. I spotted it while strolling though the derelict rose garden. I was about to start pawing through the weeds at the base to see if I could find a tag, but the canes of this rose were tangled with poison oak. It's identity will remain a mystery for now.

#roses #rose #flower #bloomingtoday #garden

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• A "old garden" rose (perhaps hundreds of years old) with the classic bowl of swirled petals. It has light peachy white tones and very pronounced swirl pattern to the petals. (remote)

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

clive@saturation.social ("Clive Thompson") wrote:

"Why alt-rock bass players were so often women in the 90s"

A fascinating 1999 study probed this question by interviewing 43 women who played bass at the time

Item #9 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read here: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-20/

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• A black-and-white photo of Kim Gordon, the bassist for sonic youth, from the waist down. She is playing a bass that has a roughly thunderbolt shape; it's made of brown natural wood with a white pickguard, and has some white handwriting on the far end. She is dressed in a leather vest and is looking down at the fret board. (remote)

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

transworld@masto.ai ("Transgender World") wrote:

A jury has awarded more than $1.1 mill to an Idaho drag performer who accused a far-right blogger of defaming him when she falsely claimed that he exposed himself to a crowd during a Pride event in June 2022.

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ
https://apnews.com/article/drag-performer-defamation-blogger-idaho-c0f3188081e17843059b27d19d5be980

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

sidereal@kolektiva.social wrote:

Source: Business Insider

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• Two panel meme. First panel is Geordi la Forge shaking his head and his hand, indicating his disapproval of the text "i'm using ublock origin because y'all made the internet annoying as hell". Second panel is Geordi la Forge nodding and pointing, indicating his approval of the text "i'm participating in the largest consumer boycott in history" (remote)

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

DM_Ronin@mstdn.social ("ilias :night_ablobcat_wink:") wrote:

Big W for people of Colorado and the right to repair movement, this is really fair and strong bill https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/29/24166894/colorado-right-to-repair-law-electronics-devices-parts-pairing

#Hardware #RightToRepair #UnitedStates #Colorado #Tech #Technology

rust@octodon.social ("Rust tips") wrote:

docs.rs/std

is a short URL that opens #Rustlang's standard library documentation.

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

Scary Russian zombies, their secret weapon.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/29/russias-latest-weapon-zombies/

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• Zombie Lenin (remote)

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

H5N1 is evolving. There, I said it. Accept it, creationists.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/29/there-are-limits-to-how-much-creationists-can-deny/

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• H5N1→human→pandemic (remote)

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

Me: [bursts into room and establishes a power pose] "It's time to power each other up with knowledge, friends!"

Strangers: [startled then nervous chuckles] ...

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

Consider this my attempt at powering you up with knowledge, friends.

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

What the hell is wrong with the US, UK, and the Netherlands? Is everyone racing to elect the most ludicrous clown they've got to the highest office in the land?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/29/despairing-of-democracy/

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• Geert Wilders (remote)

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

trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:

Here it is, your moment of machining Zen:
https://youtu.be/tHdg_emv9bs

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

"The head is heavily armored, but the rear of the abdomen is a weak point for obvious reasons, there has to be an orifice there.

And so they target that, but then they also avoid being targeted by others. And the outcome of following those that are moving away from you and moving away from those moving towards you results in the whole swarm beginning to march together across this desert environment."

Iain Couzin from:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-is-flocking-like-computing-20240328/

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

"And what is better for you in this sort of harsh environment than another individual? Because they are perfectly balanced nutritional composition. So what the individuals do is, they’re attracted to each other, and they tend to cannibalize each other. So they’ve evolved to follow those that are moving away, to try and bite them at their rear, at the rear of the abdomen, which is very hard to defend against.

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

"But in the case of locusts... It was actually the fact that in these desert environments, when the food suddenly becomes short, you’re desperately short of essential nutrients, especially in the desert: protein, salt and water.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

jviide@infosec.exchange wrote:

Several well-known and popular APIs redirect HTTP API requests to HTTPS. This behavior seems to be widespread.

Maybe it's time we amend best practices to explicitly recommend that APIs reject unencrypted requests. https://jviide.iki.fi/http-redirects

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

seav@en.osm.town ("Eugene Alvin Villar") wrote:

Did you know that there is a 1:1 scale replica of the world-famous #Shibuya Scramble intersection that can be rented by TV and film productions located 80 km northwest of Tokyo in the city of #Ashikaga? The real intersection is so busy that nobody can close it down for controlled filming.

This set was notably used in the hit Japanese TV series Alice in Borderland.

Location in OSM: https://osm.org/go/7Q9Mdm_mk?m=

#DYK #Tokyo #Japan

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• Satellite image of the replica Shibuya Scramble intersection (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

TIL: when running software in chroot, there is no /dev, so /dev/null can end up being a regular file, and then reading from /dev/null is a surprise.

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

A superhero/sports multiverse crossover set in the '90s where Peter Parker's MJ is Michael Jordan

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

thezoq2 ("TheZoq2") wrote:

Another excellent OSS EDA workshop: https://woset-workshop.github.io/

The WOSET workshop aims to galvanize the open-source EDA movement. The workshop will (virtually) bring together EDA researchers who are committed to open-source principles to share their experiences and coordinate efforts towards developing a reliable, fully open-source EDA flow.

The workshop is fully virtual so attendance is a no-brainer! Deadline for submissions is September 23

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

“Until Roe fell, many in the party believed the federal right to an abortion was all but inviolable, unlikely to be reversed even by a conservative Supreme Court. The sense of denial extended to the highest ranks of the party”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/us/politics/hillary-clinton-abortion.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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

‘some 75 percent of the human genome consists of dark matter that is copied into RNAs of unknown function. While some researchers have dismissed this dark matter as junk or noise, I expect it will be the source of even more exciting breakthroughs.

We don’t know yet how many of these possibilities will prove true. But if the past 40 years of research have taught me anything, it is never to underestimate this little molecule. The age of RNA is just getting started.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/opinion/dna-rna-modern-science.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vk0.854z.1jaryNdFD_-T&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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

‘we have gone from you’re not supposed to say “hell” on the radio to a nation that is now being permanently exposed to for-profit systems of political and psychological manipulation (and throw in Russia and China stoking the fires today as well), so people are not just divided, but being divided. Yes, keeping Americans morally outraged is big business at home now and war by other means by our geopolitical rivals.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/opinion/trump-civility-society.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vk0.NaLE.hlQGXCuVRgKa&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb