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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"Don't make that doomy gloomy post. Don't make that doomy gloomy post. Don't make that doo..."
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wim_v12e@octodon.social ("Wim 🅾") wrote:
Cornflowers in evening light.
#photography
#florespondence
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pearlbear@social.overlappingmagisteria.org ("Max Pearl") wrote:
I'm curious about people on the #Fediverse and their use of corporate social media. So here's a poll. Boosts for coverage appreciated.
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jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
one of the new catnip plants is flowering
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bicmay@med-mastodon.com ("Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:") wrote:
"The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that individuals aged six months and older should be given an updated COVID-19 vaccine for the 2024-25 immunization campaign, irrespective of whether they have previously been vaccinated for the disease."
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
"No, you misheard me; I said 'silly con.' ...Silly con, because everyone here...you know what, that's fine, just call the valley by what you heard."
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Life has taught me that if all of a person's friends are posting unhinged shit on LinkedIn, that's a huge red flag.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I also tried my hand at studying some old portraits.
And I am forever drawing variations of alien/monster heads. Sorry not sorry.
I've also been sketching out ideas for pieces that I will likely never attempt, but it's fun to think about them. That one has mild backside nudity, so watch out!
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- A portrait of a woman. The photograph I was studying was of Lulu Hunt Peters, whose photo I happened to stumble upon in the June 2024 issue of the Smithsonian. I wouldn't say I captured her likeness. (remote)
- Just another alien head. It has large dark eye that stare intensely that give the impression of listening intently, but in reality it is often distracted by its own thoughts. (remote)
- A quick sketch trying to work out an idea I have. In this case, you see a figure from behind that appears to be attempting to open a locked door. It is nude, and its head is mostly a grotesque mouth of teeth and a long protruding tongue. "Familiar but unwelcome" (remote)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I guess it's been a month or so. TIME TO UNLEASH MOAR DOODLES!
Sorry, that was a bit much. I'll keep it down.
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- A doodle of a rather exaggerated "caveman" type character. Short little legs, extra long arms show knuckles drag the ground when hanging by his side. Rather harry. He seems to be extended his right hand in greeting or perhaps gesturing while making a point about the finer points of cave decorating. (remote)
- A doodle of a human face appearing from the trunk of a tree. It has a pleasant expression. "Our Friend in the Tree". (remote)
- Two heads. On the left an insectoid creature. It looks angry, but that's just human bias. On the right, its reptilian friend. It looks sleepy, and that is true. (remote)
- Crammed unwisely towards the binding of the page, you find a doodle of a frog man leaping into the air in a dancelike leap. In his left hand it holds a large gem, which it seems to be focused on. Of minor relevance, but the artist was watching "Jim Henson: Idea Man" while they drew this. (remote)
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kaminenmosher@zirk.us ("Petra Kaminen Mosher") wrote:
@futurebird My cats have obviously been slacking off in the cult department. I think two of them have second families, but no worshipful gifts for them deposited at our door.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
signal report: 5 over 9
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Religious zombies have wrecked Oklahoma…and many other parts of the country.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/29/weep-for-oklahoma/
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galacticstone ("Galactic Stone 🇺🇦") wrote:
This is the face of a stone cold assassin. #Caturday
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johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:
In the Big Bang, about 1/4 of the matter in the Universe fused into helium. Unfortunately, very little turned into heavier elements. As far as I can tell, it took about 10 billion years for pathetic little stars to crank out enough carbon, oxygen and other good stuff to support life. By the time we showed up, the party was almost over: the peak of star formation was long past, and the accelerating expansion of the Universe had begun. In another 10 billion years, the portion of the Universe we can still reach by moving slower than light will shrink by 80%. If so-called intelligent life wants to spread across the Universe, it had better get its ass in gear.
What's the problem here? Why did the Big Bang produce so little of heavier elements?
One problem is that the steps after helium are tough. Lithium, beryllium and boron are not very easy to make, for reasons of nuclear physics, so the next one after that - carbon! - first got made by an awkward process where two heliums crash into each other and make an *unstable* form of beryllium, which decays quickly unless a *third* helium hits it first, making carbon.
Once there's a bunch of carbon around, other processes come into play. But that happened much later.
Another problem is the "deuterium bottleneck".
(1/2)
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MoiraEve@mastodon.world wrote:
Robert Hubbell:
If you work in a safe job, have medical insurance, have a retirement plan invested in the stock market, own a car or a home, have a college degree, and have access to clean water and safe food, then you owe it all to the existence of well-regulated “administrative state” that keeps the complex US economy humming along in a way that is the envy of the world.
// That’s now been subsumed by the Roberts Court. #Chevron
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Savvyhomestead ("Truth Or Consequences ✅") wrote:
Who knew that people, even in rural red America, don't like the orange asshole after all?
https://www.newsweek.com/latino-voters-donald-trump-joe-biden-debate-election-1918795
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
This new album from Eric Hilton, "Out of the Blur", has been my Saturday morning soundtrack:
https://erichilton.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-the-blur
It has been a pleasant companion to the slowly brightening dawn and bird song outside my window.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Beautiful little babies.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/29/teeny-tiny-little-friend/
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Look, I know as well as anyone there are plenty of very good and valid reasons to criticize Democrats in general and Biden in particular.
But I really don't think just wholesale embracing Trump's own framing is helping anyone but Trump.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
If you don't see the journalistic double standard yet, go look for the New York Times editorial board op-ed saying Trump should drop out.
(It doesn't exist. Everything Trump's done wasn't enough to prompt that. But one bad debate was all it took to get them to write it for Biden.)
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Really though: y'all know whose narrative this is, right?
You realize whose framing you're embracing here?
You do actually understand who this is helping, don't you?
Literal fascism is on America's doorstep. Who do you think is happy we're talking about the current president instead of *that*?
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
If only the media would hold Trump half as accountable for being an openly fascist narcissistic violent insurrectionist racist rapist dictator who lies so prolifically it's impossible to judge his actual grasp on reality as they do Biden for having one bad job interview.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Noooooo wiiiiiiiine
Sips like Gascón
Goes with dips like Gascón
Makes you drink to the very last drip like Gascón
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sam@social.coop ("Sam Whited") wrote:
I didn't find any sponsorship for FOSSY this year, but I had a talk accepted and am still considering going despite being even broker than last year (it really was a great time last year). Any chance I know anyone in Portland, OR with a couch I could crash on if I do manage to find a way to make it work?
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ouch
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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
This is a banger
Pluralistic: The reason you can’t buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you (28 Jun 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/28/dealer-management-software/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"But who watches the watchdog?" he thinks to himself while pondering the precarious pile of tech he threw together to avoid the onerous commute.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Probably need a webcam too, now that I'm thinking about it... :thonking:
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I won't describe my WFH setup, but I will say that I am right now researching network controlled power and possibly a solenoid.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Good God, people, he had one subpar 90-minute showing in fucking JUNE. A little perspective, please.