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

yurnidiot@mstdn.social ("Mandu 🥟") wrote:

"This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!"

#Caturday

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• a ginger cat walking outside the window comes in just as another gray cat enters, squeezing under the ginger cat. it looks like the gray cat appeared magically from nowhere. (remote)

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

OnlyU wrote:

The sharpest image ever taken of Venus.

From the Japanese spacecraft Akatsuki.

The dark side shines in the infrared, which is how this photo was taken.

It's real!

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• The sharpest image ever taken of Venus. From the Japanese spacecraft Akatsuki. The dark side shines in the infrared, which is how this photo was taken. It's real!

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

I pressure cooked some 🐷 which I will finish off over some charcoal for dinner tonight. I love me some Instant Pot 🙂

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• pressure cooked pork ribs cooling on a platter (remote)

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

Heliograph@mastodon.au wrote:

@djwfyi have you tried a #cupoftea? :blobcat_smilehappyeyes:
@mentallyalex

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• four panel JIMBENTON cartoon of a cat saying "I feel lousy" and the other cat replying "I get a cup of tea" and puts it on the table, and the first cat throws it off, and both laugh and say "Hey I do feel better" and "Works every time" (remote)

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

rnd@toot.cat ("/dev/urandom") wrote:

general midi specifies a list of instruments, so that any genre of music can be played properly on any device

except sea shanties

those are handled by admiral midi

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

MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art ("Michael Whelan") wrote:

Full post here:

https://www.michaelwhelan.com/unethical-use-of-data-at-meta/

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

cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

On May 19, three American citizens were hanging out at their apartment complex swimming pool -- A mom and her two children, a little girl, 3, and a boy who was 7 years old.
The mom was Muslim, so she wore a modest swimsuit and a hijab.
This infuriated Elizabeth Wolf, a 42-year-old white woman,
who, upon arriving at the pool, began loudly berating the young mother,
using racial slurs to tell her she wasn’t welcome in white America.
Wolf then jumped into the pool and grabbed the two children, who were playing in the shallow end, 💥and tried to drown them.💥
With mom’s help, the little boy escaped with scratches from Wolf’s fingernails, but Wolf succeeded in dragging the 3-year-old girl into a deeper part of the pool and was repeatedly holding her head under water as the little girl began to drown.
A bystander intervened, jumping into the pool and rescuing the little girl; when police arrived and handcuffed Wolf, she screamed at the arresting police officer:
“Tell her I will kill her, and I will kill her whole family.”

An eyewitness who was also in the pool with her own 7-year-old told a reporter for KDFW:
“That was like 10 seconds, but it felt like forever. She was like, ‘Help me! She’s killing my baby, she’s killing my baby!’”
The little girl was so traumatized by the incident that she’s now afraid to leave her family’s apartment. Her PTSD may well affect her for the rest of her life.
Can you imagine if that had happened to your child or grandchild?
The mom, whom news reports aren’t identifying to protect her from the other many violent racists daily encouraged by Trump and Texas Republicans, told the local media:
We are American citizens, originally from Palestine, and I don’t know where to go to feel safe with my kids. My country is facing a war, and we are facing that hate here. My daughter is traumatized; whenever I open the apartment door, she runs away and hides, telling me she is afraid the lady will come and immerse her head in the water again. Also, my husband’s employment is jeopardized, due to having to leave work to accompany me and our four kids whenever we have appointments and errands to run.

https://c.im/@cdarwin/112680305280684938

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

The_Whore_of_Blahbylon ("The Whore of Blahbylon") wrote:

Well that escalated quickly.

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• ff284ceac8ef3079.jpg

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

flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:

2/3 of Supreme Court "Justices" have taken bribes and refused oversight

And that's how you get this:

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• Headline Supreme Court wipes out anti-corruption law that bars officials from taking gifts for past favors The Supreme Court is and has been illegitimate

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

RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Is Not A Wizard Tarr") wrote:

This has the energy of a Renaissance painting.

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• This is a photo of a middle aged man holding a muffin on a plate, from the corner of the frame a cats paw is reaching out and grabbing the muffin. The man's face is filled with anguish (remote)

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

It's uh... It's not a very good feeling.

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

TFW you're all "objdump -S --disassemble" on your compiler output because you can't figure WTF is going on.

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

benpate ("Ben Pate 🤘🏻") wrote:

Ok kids, here we go:

#Bandwagon, the open #Fediverse alternative to #Bandcamp is ready for its first steps into the light.

I have a waitlist online at
https://bandwagon.fm if you'd like to try it out.

I'm planning to build the first (dozen? I don't know) profiles in the waitlist personally, with an email questionnaire and FaceTime follow-ups if necessary.

Once I'm confident in the UX, we'll open up self-serve signups for everyone.

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

stim3on@fosstodon.org ("Simeon Schmauß") wrote:

I was speechless when I saw this appear on my camera's LCD screen last night - this is only the second time I photographed #RedSprites.

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• Photograph of a red sprite. It has three vertical columns that branch out towards the top and and in the middle. The thing looks a bit like someone's crude attempts to paint lines with a can of spray paint. The color is a very vibrant red against a blueish nightsky with many stars. (remote)

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

W6KME@mastodon.radio wrote:

@jsonstein Well, there it is. The day government stopped being For the People. This is bigger than the coverage it's getting suggests.

It's all downhill from here.

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

simple things should be simple to do, like this in D:

——- snip ——-

void createNote( HTTPServerRequest req,HTTPServerResponse res ) {
string topic = req.form.get( "form_topic" );
string content = req.form.get( "form_content" );
render!( "created.dt", topic, content )( res );
}

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

croyle@wandering.shop ("David Croyle") wrote:

@jsonstein It's gone straight to absurdity, because of course it has. We really need to clean up that institution.

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

You don't need guns to protect your home when you've got an army of attack spiders.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/26/why-you-need-guard-spiders-to-protect-your-home/

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• Cover of Biology of Spiders, by Foelix (remote)

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

th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

witness the power of this fully operational amaryllis.

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• plant with four large white flowers arrayed in a circle (remote)

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

for those unsure of this reference, see text at: https://www.amazon.com/Corruption-America-Benjamin-Franklins-Citizens/dp/0674659988

https://mastodon.radio/@W6KME/112683709075662223

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

eieio@mastodon.gamedev.place ("nolen") wrote:

I made a website. it's called "one million checkboxes dot com". it has one million checkboxes on it.

checking a box checks it for everyone.

that's it. have fun!

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• website with a bunch of checkboxes on it. The user scrolls around and checks boxes. Other boxes are being checked by other users. (remote)

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

OMG, Franklin must be spinning in his grave

“officials may be charged and prosecuted for bribery, but not for simply taking money for past favors”

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-06-26/supreme-court-anti-corruption-law

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ainmosni@berlin.social ("Daniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I use #Firefox because I refuse to use #Chromium based browsers. As the IE6 times have shown us, a monoculture on the web is horrible, and it's even worse when it's a company like MS or Google in charge of the monoculture.

That said, god @mozilla keeps on making weird and boneheaded moves that make me sad that their browser is the only viable non-blink-based browser out there.

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

Today in History: modern toothbrush invented, 1498

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

“The two armies suffered between 46,000 and 51,000 casualties. Union casualties were 23,055 (3,155 killed, 14,531 wounded, 5,369 captured or missing), while Confederate casualties are more difficult to estimate.“ - Wikipedia

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

Today in History: preliminaries to Battle of Gettysburg begin, 1863.

“…elements of Major General Jubal Early's division of Ewell's corps occupied the town of Gettysburg after chasing off newly raised 26th Pennsylvania emergency militia in a series of minor skirmishes… but did not collect any significant supplies. Soldiers burned several railroad cars and a covered bridge, and destroyed nearby rails and telegraph lines. The following morning, Early departed for adjacent York County.”

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

Language is dangerous in the wrong mouths.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/26/watch-out-for-the-abuse-of-language/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZGTT_Vy_Bw

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Shooting black and white during golden hour almost makes it look like the lighting is artificial. Or maybe it's just me.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8, Yellow filter
👤 Wife

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

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• A black and white photo of a woman with black hair, hoop earrings, a straw hat, wearing a trenchcoat, and a tank top, looking to the side.

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

What's the difference between a storm that rages permanently, and a series of storms that emerge in the same spot over and over again?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/26/the-great-red-spot-controversy/

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• Comparison between the Permanent Spot and the current Great Red Spot. (a) December 1690. (b) January 1691. (c) January 19, 1672. (d) August 10, 2023. (remote)

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ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

Deployed another discone antenna. This one was going to get scrapped off the roof of an EMS building, so it was free! #antenna #hamradio

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• Discone antenna next to a tree, evening sky in background - discone almost a porcupine with lots of metal arms along the bottom in rough approximation of a cone. The design allows it to receive across a very wide range of frequencies (remote)