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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Last night, my friend texted me an image of a campaign mailer. It read "Your Neighbors are watching...Have you voted yet?"
Tonight, I received a text from an unrecognized number with a website address for me to look up my friends' voting records.
I went digging and found a new online campaign by a group called "Did They Vote".
https://buttondown.com/wetdreamtomato/archive/creepy-website-wants-you-to-spy-on-friends-and/
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Obligatory pumpkins. This year going for the cute vibe. #halloween #pumpkin
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I've given out every scrap of candy in the house. Now I'm hiding in a dark room, silent, afraid the creatures pounding on the door will discover me.
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ElleGray@mstdn.social ("elle") wrote:
science
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aburtch@triangletoot.party wrote:
“The US top rate of tax in 1944 was 97%. The postwar top rate from 1945-63 was 94%, and it was 70% from 1965-80. This was the period of the largest expansion of the US economy in the nation's history. These are the ‘good old days.’”
- @pluralistic
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Social web's largest donor 🙃
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2024/10/30/facebook-ads-election-misinformation/
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sinituulia@eldritch.cafe ("Sini Tuulia") wrote:
The following is the exchange between users latining and memecucker, from an ancient, cherished post on Tumblr. My notes are unclear which is which, but it goes roughly as follows:
"User A: You can tell when someone’s frame of reference for “normal people” is more “people at the church sponsored ice cream social” and less “people on the bus.”
The people in the notes saying “people on the bus aren’t normal” are the people this post is talking about.User B: I took the bus for three years when I lived in Honolulu and haven’t lived anywhere with even usable public transit since, but in those three years I had dozens of utterly bizarre experiences that were also Perfectly Normal. This is because the human condition is vast and also Very fucking Weird.
Kid one the bus next to me whose backpack starts moving and it turns out he’s got three chickens and a painted turtle he caught in there? This is Perfectly Normal. Humans have been catching small game and transporting it home in whatever they had since we invented bags to put chickens and turtles in.
I traded him three king-size snickers bars I had on me for the turtle because I vaguely remembered that many freshwater turtles were toxic to eat (incorrectly, as it turns out, but this was when I still had a Nokia Brick that lived a blissful, internet-free existence), and didn’t want him accidentally poisoning his family, but didn’t want to just. Steal his hard-won turtle. This is Perfectly Normal. Humans have been cautious about poisons, looking out for strangers kids and bartering shit since before we were technically humans, probably.
Having acquired a turtle, I now needed to transport the turtle to the on-campus pond that effectively served as an Invasive Freshwater Turtle Containment Zone, but did not have a bag that could adequately contain him so I had to sit the rest of that bus ride, at the station and all through the next bus ride holding the turtle like the world’s angriest hamburger. Multiple people were curious about and delighted with the turtle. This is Perfectly Normal. Humans love an animal, especially one that is capable of appearing grumpy, and hands are for holding things.
By the time I got back to Campus, the anthropology and child psychology building that the Invasive Turtle Containment Pond was in had closed, so I had to figure out how to climb the tree over the wall and get down off the roof while holding The World’s Angriest And Sharpest Hamburger. I eventually ended up having to briefly shove the turtle into by bra to get up to the initial branch and off the roof without breaking an ankle. This is Perfectly Normal. Humans are, as a species, a bunch of barely-evolved arboreal frugivores and really good at Tree Physics, and I don’t know a single titty-having bitch out there that hasn’t used their bra as Emergency Pockets at least once, if not daily.
I released the turtle into the Turtle Containment Pond and then had to solve the problem of getting back OUT of the locked building, but Nokia Brick never loses a signal or drops a call (including that time I accidentally dropped it off a 13-story building in the middle of a call to my parents and the damn thing BOUNCED but kept the line open. I miss that phone every day.) and while campus security has been carefully trained to not let people IN to places without proper ID and a call to someone inside, they assume that if you got locked in somewhere, that you got in by legitimate means and not Lemur Shenanigans, so i just called them, apologized that I’d been working late with headphones on and didn’t realize I’d been locked in. This is Perfectly Normal, people have been lying to cops since laws were invented, and will continue to do so because all cops are bastards.
Anyway, everyone should have access to good public transportation because freedom of movement is a human right and meeting a broad spectrum of humanity is good for your mental health and spiritual welfare."
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swithinbank@webtoo.ls ("Chris") wrote:
Wasted an hour of my life filtering out AI-generated slop submitted to the @astro showcase
Thank heavens for this life-improving technology 😒
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
well, the client rendering problems *seem* to have been solved [crossed fingers], but it is clear from watching the logs that it is processing requests one at a time rather than many in parallel ;^{
I'll figure that out in a day or two. for now, apparently reasonably formatted story & play ideas with reasonable content appropriate for children emerges from even badly worded, poorly spelled, and just plain weird requests… just not fast enough (yet)
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
On sale now! Happy house full of loving memories in the Pacific Northwest! Everyone should want to live there.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/31/yes-you-want-to-buy-a-house/
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Meyerweb ("Eric A. Meyer") wrote:
Billionaire Peter Thiel once wrote that “capitalist democracy” is an “oxymoron”, and as the years go by and my experience of the world continues to grow, I find myself in agreement with him.
Where we diverge is that he would resolve this incompatibility by sacrificing democracy, whereas I would go the other way.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I wrote about Bezos' op-ed and how it is sprinkled with conservatives treats.
Subscribe to my newsletter WetDreamTomato via email or RSS. If you don't like it, you can punch me in the face. That's a 💦😴🍅 guarantee.
https://buttondown.com/wetdreamtomato/archive/bezos-op-ed-is-an-appeal-to-conservatives/
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denmanrooke@social.coop ("Denman Rooke") wrote:
Happy Halloween!!! Show me your spooky art!
Here's Millicent, Restless Revenant I did for Magic: the Gathering.
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vmaderna@mastodon.art ("Victoria Maderna") wrote:
Little goblin witch.
Happy Halloween!
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
And they did a performance for KEXP!
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tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld ") wrote:
A horrifying cartoon for Halloween (originally for Guardian Books).
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:
new essay
# Why I Love PouchDB
> Like the form of a sonnet, ethics demand and inspire cleverness. I write this essay because we need better tools than we have. The best tools we do have are either insufficient or captured or, realistically, both. PouchDB, to me, is the best option out there for solving a problem at the heart of what makes the internet suck at every level, and I hate that because it is not good enough. So here's why I love it.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Instead of screaming into The Void about uspol this morning, I will simply tell The Void that I stumbled across Ora the Molecule's "The Ball" in my music collection. Its mood is a perfect accompaniment to the dark, rainy morning I'm having over here.
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DoctorDeathray@retro.social ("Doctor Deathray") wrote:
Sometimes we feel unstable. Sometimes we feel like we're going to explode. Sometimes we have exploded.
I've caused a lot of damage in relationships over the years. Mania is a beast. But also, we are powerful.
That's what this song is about.
New single - "Back Away"
Happy Halloween!
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
We all watched Game of Thrones for like four seasons, every Sunday, hoping *this* episode would *finally* be the one where Joffrey got what was coming to him. And honestly, that's what life in America has felt like for the last eight years.
Let's end the character arc of our real-life child tyrant shitweasel at the ballot box this week, eh?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
Monday’s Oxide and Friends was our 4th installment of book recommendations from me, @bcantrill, and the Oxide Friends. A big thank you to everyone who joined us live, and particularly to those who shared recommendations. https://youtu.be/FDPaPU5aRd0
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I want to know which horror movie monster you most identify with. Here's mine:
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/31/what-horror-movie-monster-are-you/
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wryl@merveilles.town ("(hallowryl)") wrote:
I'm incredibly pleased to announce that I'll be giving my first talk in a long, long while at Handmade Seattle this year, titled Democratizing Software.
We'll be covering the widespread, unanticipated effects of the software crisis, and talk both social and technical solutions to it.
We'll talk about how we, as an industry, have been pulling up the ladder behind us, and how to build new ladders for the curious.
Let's go flatten some mountains. See you there.
https://handmadecities.com/seattle/
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Mastodon FeedIf you've ever needed to spin up resources outside your rust process that you want to share _between_ tests via static bindings that need to be cleaned up and run into the "`drop` doesn't just work with static" problem ...
This concoction with ctor and channels might help:
Credit goes to those who pointed out this pattern in the testcontainers-rs repo.
It does lean a bit more to the "chaotic good" side, if custom test harness is "lawful good" 🤣.
Mastodon FeedI don't always adjust my slicer settings, but when I do, I prefer to use gyros infill and garlic supports.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
How to scare a spider on Hallowe'en.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/31/do-spiders-dream/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Reactors debating performance have the energy of boomer "car guys" that want to tell a working mechanic, in 2024, about how much better carburetors were.
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geekysteven@beige.party wrote:
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
(Me flirting) read any good blogs on the existential dread of being chronically online lately?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Realized that the piece of paper that separates the cheese made it into my sandwich and I didn't stop eating it right away
