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

tilde@infosec.town ("Tilde Lowengrimm") wrote:

@xor Inside me, there are two wolves. This is not enough to control the deer population inside me and it is causing substantial harm to the river and wetland ecosystem inside me. Ecologists inside me want to release additional wolves into the region inside me, but ranchers inside me are opposed to the idea inside me.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Please do not call venture capitalists "data piggies" you guys. It's unflattering and not very nice.

Again. Please refrain from calling venture capitalists "little curly tailed data piggies," and never, ever make an "oink oink" noise when you do it.

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

Alice_Swaggen@flipping.rocks ("Alice 🐝") wrote:

Please observe le bébé… France excuse me what??

I found this giant fella hiding in a wooden bench, I think I gasped about 5 times in a row when I saw it, I’d never found one of these before

I had to resist the temptation to give it a lil kissy on its massive forehead :blobaww:

#bugstodon #moth #hawkmoth

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• A large moth with its wings folded perched on the side of a support plank in a wooden bench, my hand is under the moth for scale. It looks about as long as one of my fingers and about an inch and a half at the widest part of the closed wings. Its patterns are mottled grey, black and brown, very similar to the wood of the bench it’s on and has a big raised patch at the back of its head. It’s front legs have a big floof section at the beginning next to the huge round black right eye that’s visible (remote)

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"Every man has two lives, and the second starts when he realizes he has just one"

-- (Probably) Confucius

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

eleventy@fosstodon.org ("Eleventy 🎈 v3.0.0-alpha.20") wrote:

📮 Big news today, y’all: 11ty is joining Font Awesome

https://www.11ty.dev/blog/eleventy-font-awesome/

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

An absolute banger on the ludicrous impossibility of colonizing Mars, as some billionaires fetishize.

"The fantasy—and it is a fantasy—isn't one of space travel and exploration and some bright Star Trek future for humanity, but one of winnowing and eugenics, of cold actuarial lifeboat logic, of ever greater reallocation from the dwindling many to the thriving few. That's the world as Elon Musk and his cohort want it; Mars colonization is just a pretext."

https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars

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

lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social ("Low Quality Facts") wrote:

I have received numerous requests for more Fishy pictures, so here's one from today. Please feel free to comment your favorite thing about Fishy and I will read it to him. He may not be fluent in English, but I believe he has a basic understanding of the language. He just chooses to ignore words such as "don't eat that", "get off the counter", and "please stop biting me".

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• Handsome devil of a tuxedo cat on his cat seat looking out the window. He has green eyes his paws are touching in front of him. (remote)

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

this is hilarious

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/11/opinion/trump-harris-debate-joseph-gordon-levitt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KE4.j-kZ.hCUtn702cKwv&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb&ngrp=mnp

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

an ugly time in our country

http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/sep/12

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

form the “Dealbook” email newsletter:

“Short sellers are circling. This month, traders have netted about $35 million betting against Trump Media — a big turnaround from April — according to S3 Partners, a financial data company.

On the flip side, some stocks associated with Vice President Kamala Harris’s economic agenda soared. Two standouts: First Solar gained more than 15 percent, and SolarEdge Technologies was up 8.5 percent.”

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

Sincerely held, but extremely unimportant opinion:

Slippery surfaces in video games are lazy bullshit.

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

just shut up geese
it is too damned early
Winter can wait it’s turn for a while longer

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

I made today's NYT crossword puzzle! Hope you enjoy!

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• NYT crossword button with my byline (remote)

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

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• 72485b10edebcb23.jpeg (remote)

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

6th CAV was organized for the Civil War. they fought a hard War, then again campaigned hard in the Apache Wars. SGT Armstrong likely had an ‘interesting’ career

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Cavalry_Regiment?wprov=sfti1

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

I'd rather deal with the yellowjackets than Dave Rubin. Ick.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/12/can-we-cancel-this-weird-creep-now/

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• Dave Rubin (remote)

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

Viss wrote:

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• fd6430096836373b.mp4

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

badastro ("Phil Plait") wrote:

The BepiColombo spacecraft passed an incredible *165* km above Mercury's surface and took some truly amazing shots of the planet!

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/incredible-shots-mercury-bepicolumbo-steals-energy

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This goes hard:

https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars

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

fugueish@wandering.shop ("Chris Palmer") wrote:

Web sites are so hyper-inefficient for the same reason C/C++ are so hyper-unsafe: When you have no guardrails — not even positive affordances, let alone bare-minimum Falling Rocks signs — you get people driving all over the place without even realizing they're not on the road anymore.

OOB accesses and UAFs everywhere? You need guardrails and affordances.

14 MiB of JS and 10 6 MiB JPEGs scaled to thumbnail size? You need...

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Ever since moderate liberals decided we weren't doing the defund the police thing we stopped acknowledging state-sponsored gun violence. 🙃

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Can we be mad at cops now?

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/11/police-union-says-fuck-officers-law-and-order-tosses-endorsement-to-donald-trump/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I Wish I Didn’t Miss the ’90s-00s Internet | rohan ganapavarapu

"I wish I was around when people had blogs or even myspace. This era was deeply personal and creative. Most writing on the internet was individual, not written in search of “SEO” or profit but driven by the need and want of people to share knowledge–pure curiosity." https://rohan.ga/blog/early-internet/

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

I couldn't resist. I poked a yellowjacket nest.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/11/flirting-with-danger/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akAMfLc5oLY

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

zens@merveilles.town ("Luci for dyeing") wrote:

proposal: instead of the fediverse we could call it tootyland.

and when you’re an admin of an instance you’re rooty tooty

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Which is worth more?

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

If you make a meal that involves cheese you are entitled to bonus appetizer cheese. Those are the rules.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

MOOMANiBE ("Aura/Moom") wrote:

if there's one thing I'm learning from a lot of the incredibly kind things people have been saying to me on cohost over the last day or two it's that it's worth doing things becuase you find them enjoyable even if there's no immediate, obvious reaction

we're so trained to only care about likes and reblogs but there's so many people who read, don't interact, but still have a positive experience, and that is valuable.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

impactology ("Raghav Agrawal") wrote:

Org chart of

Raytheon
https://theorg.com/org/raytheon-technologies

Lockheed
https://theorg.com/org/lockheed-martin

General Dynamics https://theorg.com/org/general-dynamics

Northrop Grumman https://theorg.com/org/northrop-grumman

Bae Systems https://theorg.com/org/bae-systems

US tax dollars are enriching these executives amid the ongoing genocide.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Free market technocrats won't save the new social web. They broke the old one.