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

Halloween is over, but I still have to deal with ghouls.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/01/another-headache/

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• Ghoul (remote)

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

Just in case it solves anyone else some debugging time:

It's not spelled "localhose."

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

https://bsky.app/profile/collinsworth.bsky.social/post/3l7vyotdoem25

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

janl@narrativ.es ("Ja-AH-AH-n Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

PSA: Acorn exists and is great and probably already does way more than you need, and without a subscription: https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/

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

EmilySchnall@mastodon.art ("Emily Schnall✨Commissions Open") wrote:

My magnum opus

#art #illustration #horror #art

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• Black and white illustration of a decayed, dripping, skeletal person crawling out of a muddy pit. Reads “Live through the ditches” (remote)
• Black and white illustration of three witches riding on brooms across the night sky. Reads “Laugh through the witches” (remote)
• Black and white illustration of the dragula coffin car. Reads “Love in the back of my dragula” (remote)

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

“the problem – canvassers falsely claiming to have knocked on doors – that has raised the possibility that thousands of Trump voters might not be reached by the field operation.”

this is the basic issue with ‘outsourcing’ your get-out-the-vote ground game to amateurs in order for you to focus on fan-base TV & online sales promotions and rallies.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/01/trump-musk-america-pac-fraudulent-door-knocks

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

redoak@social.coop ("🧟 Night of the Living Red Oak") wrote:

Yes-andvember

#thinktober

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

Promises, promises.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/01/who-remembers-trickle-down-economics-and-other-lies-of-the-right/

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• If Trump succeeds in forcing through mass deportations, combined with Elon hacking away at the government, firing people and reducing the deficit – there will be an initial severe overreaction in the economy – this economy propped up with debt (generating asset bubbles) and artificially suppressed wages (as a result of illegal immigration). Markets will tumble. But when the storm passes and everyone realizes we are on a sounder footing, there will be a rapid recovery to a healthier, sustainable economy. History could be made in the coming two years. Elon Musk says “Sounds about right” (remote)

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

I cannot believe how many liberals think these voter spy campaigns are a great idea.

Some of you are drowning in a toxic vat of moral superiority and you don't even realize it. You've been high off your own ass for so long that you've convinced yourself that any action is justified.

It's honestly scary as hell to know I must share an ideological space with some of these people.

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power/national-politics/center-voter-information-letters-2ZDGZ56ZW5BXJCYGOK6XDSTFM4/

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• "It's a guilt trip," said Andrew Perrin, a sociology professor at the Johns Hopkins University. "But honestly, if you find it that threatening that someone might reveal that you didn't vote, well, maybe you should just vote."

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

good morning, indeed

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• 8c88e67240e5a946.jpg (remote)

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

stevelord@bladerunner.social ("Steve Lord") wrote:

And now, Daddy Mulk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFjv6_p7qRE

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

sarahtaber@mastodon.online ("Sarah Taber") wrote:

GIANT PUMPKINS let's talk about em

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• Photo of a fair exhibition of giant pumpkins. It's just an open-sided wood barn full of giant pumpkins on pallets. They're a range of light orange, deep orange, and green colors. A line of onlookers is standing to get into the barn. (remote)

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

mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matt Haughey 🎃") wrote:

Portland Japanese Garden fall color report: place is at full “are you kidding me?! levels right now

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• Japanese Maple in full fall red color (remote)
• Japanese Maple in full fall red color (remote)
• Zen garden with fall color report (remote)
• Japanese Maple in full fall red color (remote)

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

djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

Spike Lee produced a show called Do It Acapella in 1990 that was a fun look at some of the different work being done by groups at the time, and it's available on the dreaded tube

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

(at an hour and a half I won't try to ship that one around as an attachment to a toot to a thousand other instances)

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

marsroverdriver@deepspace.social ("Scott marsroverdriver Maxwell") wrote:

Voyager 1 onboard fault causes it to switch to a backup radio that it last used in 1981. *NINETEEN EIGHTY-ONE*. And it worked. Epic spacecraft gonna epic.
https://hackaday.com/2024/10/31/voyager-1-fault-forces-switch-to-s-band/ #space

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seabikeblog@social.ridetrans.it ("Seattle Bike Blog") wrote:

SDOT's Halloween safety messaging is excellent this year.

Map of Seattle's “Trick or Streets,” residential streets closed to cars for trick or treating: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/45b273dd2a6b46439d5bb5e69d1b4b91

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• Quote post of a parody story by The Needling with the headline “Millennial Parent at Trunk or Treat Can’t Help But Feel Weird Telling Kid to Take Candy From Stranger in Van.” SDOT post says, “Don’t want to Trunk or Treat? Dozens of streets throughout Seattle are closed to traffic and OPEN for trick-or-treating this evening. Want to see where? Check out our interactive map.” (remote)
• Screenshot of SDOT post with image of a group of people including children walking and biking on a Healthy Street with text: "Be on the lookout for trick-or-treaters if you're driving this evening. It's your job to be the grown-up so they can be kids. Slow it down, be patient, take extra care around intersections and crosswalks, and let's all have a fun & happy Halloween.” (remote)

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".

#HarrisWalz2024 #Vote

https://buttondown.com/wetdreamtomato/archive/creepy-website-wants-you-to-spy-on-friends-and/

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Obligatory pumpkins. This year going for the cute vibe. #halloween #pumpkin

#darktable

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• An array of assorted pumpkins on lamp-lit doorsteps. Two big orange pumpkins on the two sides are carved as cute faces.

pzmyers@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.

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

ElleGray@mstdn.social ("elle") wrote:

science

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• Curve diagram showing "normal distribution" - smooth symmetrical curve line, looks like a hill. Paranormal distribution - the line has been formed into a cute ghost (remote)

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

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

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

Social web's largest donor 🙃

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2024/10/30/facebook-ads-election-misinformation/

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

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."

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

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 😒

jsonstein@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)

pzmyers@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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• My mother's kitchen (remote)

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

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.

fromjason ("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/

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

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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• A ghostly armoured woman screams as she outstretches her arm towards the viewer while wield a longsword in the other. Behind her a swarm of ghosts charge. (remote)

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

vmaderna@mastodon.art ("Victoria Maderna") wrote:

Little goblin witch.

Happy Halloween!

#MastoArt #goblin #illustration

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• Drawing by Victoria Maderna of a goblin witch with a basket of worms and a big spoon. (remote)