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

mintyfresh ("Minty") wrote:

#halloween #witches #skating

Some witchery taking place

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• Two witches skating

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

KamalaHarrisWin@newsmast.social ("Kamala Harris News Group 2.0") wrote:

ICYMI: WaPo: GOP-Backed Wisconsin Group Promotes Stein to Boost Trump in Last Days of Election https://front.moveon.org/icymi-wapo-gop-backed-wisconsin-group-promotes-stein-to-boost-trump-in-last-days-of-election/

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

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

I don't know where that giant Twinkie takes you every day, but I'm glad it always brings you back!

#dogs

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• dachshund waits outside for school bus to drop off child. as kid steps off the bus, dog runs to greet her best friend returning from school. (remote)

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

kingkaufman@sfba.social ("King Kaufman") wrote:

Let's not let it get out there that Jamie Dimon is supporting Harris.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/business/jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-harris-trump.html

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

my initial take is that I’ve driven my per-request costs down by at least a factor of 50% (and possibly more, I need more data) by switching from gpt-4o to gpt-4o-mini

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

“… published hours after it was revealed that Bezos, who has owned the paper since 2012, had pulled the plug on a prepared endorsement of Kamala Harris over Donald Trump in the 5 November election.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/25/ann-telnaes-cartoon-donald-trump-kamala-harris-washington-post/

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

YouTube Shorts is like that guy from work who emails you memes but you just know what he'd love to show you is inner city crime statistics.

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

diggita@mastodon.uno ("diggita :verified: :wordpress:") wrote:

L'annuncio del NO all'endorsement alla candidata #KamalaHarris sul Washington Post da parte di #Bezos è assolutamente sconcertante. potrebbe essere la prima volta nella storia dei media USA che questo accade.

Ma dimenticatevi del Washington Post per un minuto: Bezos ha distrutto la sua credibilità nel giro di una notte. non importa se ha la più grande valutazione al mondo, che lo rende lo stronzo più ricco sulla carta.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

archaeohistories@ohai.social ("Archaeo-Histories") wrote:

😆😆😆

#archaeohistories

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• 564bc6c0f911d710.jpg (remote)

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

Today I was playing an Olivia Rodrigo song on guitar and my 5yo was able to identify it in exactly four notes, and I'm kinda weirdly proud of that.

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

I've been going through the CWV scores for the sites on the "Showcase" sections of a few metaframeworks because...reasons...and, y'all, I cannot stress enough just how much of a disaster Vercel's dogmatic need to justify client-side React has been.

For example, Astro absolutely wipes the floor with Next in no small part because it doesn't tax every page with libraries it doesn't need.

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

Jerry Coyne made a fool of himself at CSIcon, like any transphobic bigot.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/26/transphobia-rots-your-brain/

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• IN DEFENSE OF THE BINARY NATURE OF SEX Argument is completely limited to humans; is the binary of reproductive systems also “delusional” in other animals (e.g., foxes, ducks) or in plants? No evidence of any “brain modules” for gender identity. Do people who are temporally binary, with gender fluctuating over time, change sex each time they change gender? Fluctuations in referrals for gender dysphoria over time (20-fold in last ten years in UK) Are “pure” members of one sex (with the corresponding genitals, chromosomes, gametes and chromosomes), but who feel they're not of their natal sex, actually of the other sex? People have incorrect feelings about their nature all the time (yes, in their brains), but this doesn't mean that their self-image should be taken as biological reality. And what do we do with people who sincerely feel that they're other animals? Are they Indeed animals likes horses and cats? (remote)

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

The JavaScript community doesn't need new tools and architectures so much as remedial courses in statistics, epistemology, and the theory of science.

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

How bad is the JS community's web performance conversation? Let's just summarise last week:

• React bro discovers HTML can be pretty quick, fails to measure/understand large JS payload impact on "super fast" site
• React startup CEO bro "holds my beer"'s, builds rewrite on contemporary Reactor stack that *paints* faster, but spends just as much time camped out on the CPU...because React
• Reactors bleat loudly about how fast it is, looking only at *desktop* PSI scores.

Meanwhile...

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• Mobile PSI score in the "needs improvement" for a supposedly "highly performant [SIC] e-commerce template built on Next.js" (remote)

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

Web technologies that should exist:

• `` blur preview w/ View Transition CSS for loaded state
• `innerHTML`/`setHTMLUnsafe()`/`document.write()` should accept `ReadableStream`s, and `DocumentFragment` should have similar APIs
• `createImageBitmap()` in CSS Custom Paint API
• say-what-you-mean versions of `querySelectorAll()` (e.g., the old `element.find()` proposal)
• `element.uniqueID`

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

jk ("josef") wrote:

kid: have you got any games on your phone

me: games?? my god weve got 4 phone lines here, just dial in, weve got door games, weve got 200 megs of shareware, weve got chat, weve got it all. even the dogmail

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

landley@mstdn.jp ("Rob Landley") wrote:

I've taken to answering the phone "Potato" instead of "Hello", because a human will go "what?" and a robocall will fail to determine what language it should start its script in.

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

thomasapowell@fosstodon.org ("ThomasAPowell") wrote:

Sometimes it seems like my lot in life is to be like some sort of Morpheus trying to help young devs escape their own perceptional Matrix dominated by technology thinking so they can find their way back to the real world filled with actual humans. I’d be happier though if I had a cool coat and his way of speaking.
😎

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

owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

iOS and Android? Time for someone to do a web spec!

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/26/24280157/android-16-rich-ongoing-notifications-beta-code-iphone-ios-live-activities

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

I bet if you polled new frontend devs 2–5 years from now, the vast majority wouldn't even know the `~` adjacent sibling selector exists, because they would have virtually no reason to use it.

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

Envious of, and excited for, an entire generation of frontend devs who can just use `:has` without even thinking about it, blissfully oblivious to all the decaying hacks they'll never have to learn about. #css

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

The_Whore_of_Blahbylon ("The Whore of Blahbylon") wrote:

Know your shits.

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• To be truly fluent in English, you must know your shits Shits Dogshit - Very poor quality Bullshit - Not true Horseshit - Nonsense Apeshit - Rambunctious Batshit - Insane Chickenshit i- cowards Ratshit - poor quality No shit - Obviously Holy shit - mind blowing/unbelievable Hot shit - very good Dipshit - a total dumbass Tuff shit - Take it or leave it. Jack shit - nothing The shit - perfection

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

LeftistLawyer@kolektiva.social ("Leftist Lawyer") wrote:

Woke language cops are still cops.

What pisses people off about cops is their insistence on enforcing the letter, rather than the spirit of the law.

This combined with the violence they do while enforcing petty offenses outrages people.

For fuck sake ... context matters.

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

At 43, my favorite game to play is— "is this allergies or am I dying of an incurable disease?"

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

garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:

i thought i would simply force sand to hallucinate and replace our interns with it. what could go wrong

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

Prediction for 2025: moderate-liberal discourse is ripe to fruit another hate group. The TERF movement is the blueprint.

"Tankie" will be the shorthand for *anyone* on the left who questions the DNC.

"Progressive" will be the word they co-opt for themselves to obfuscate their ideology.

This will be a legitimate group. They'll have a logo. Their website will have smiling diverse faces.

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• Brianna Wu @BriannaWu • 6h I fully agree that whatever happens after November, getting rid of Free Palestine, Tankies, Commies and the fringe left freaks is a top priority of the Democratic Party. They do nothing but cost us votes. They are a cancer stopping us from winning elections.

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

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

#SilentSunday
#photography

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• A Taxus branch in close up, three red pseudo-berries amongst green needles. The sun sets them off nicely. (remote)

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

It's 2024, and I'm a little disappointed in whoever put the dictionary together.

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• Screenshot of my compose box before I sent the above too. You will notice the browser has put a red line under "cromulent" as though it is not a word. smh (remote)

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

Me: [clicks very cromulent link embedded in toot]

webbed site: "You are leaving mastodon.social."

Me: "Oh, thank goodness!"

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

Oh no, the FDA wants to suppress sunshine!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/26/the-fda-hates-sunshine-and-exercise/

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• Teletubbies sun (remote)