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mcc wrote:

They say that the eyes are the windows of the soul but personally I think the windows of the soul are those two little windows on your back below the shoulderblades. That's where the wings plug in.

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• Great Buddha at Kamakura, rear shot. Two open windows are on the back

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

cmconseils ("Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

:thonking:

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• The image shows a skeletal figure, resembling the Grim Reaper, sitting at a cluttered desk with a computer, surrounded by stacks of papers and books. The figure is wearing a dark hooded cloak and appears to be working or typing on the computer. The background includes shelves filled with books and other items. The scene is dark and somewhat eerie, with a blue-green color palette. Below the image, there is text that reads: "For the last time: Abyss = for staring into Void = for screaming into Please stop screaming into the abyss we are not insured for that."

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jwz wrote:

@dangillmor My experience is that any article with Twitter embeds isn't an article at all, it's a "some people are saying" listicle. I might as well be watching a local weatherman doing man-on-the-street interviews about how wet the rain is.

"Nothing of value was lost", in other words.

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JonBaker ("Jon Baker") wrote:

I would like to opt out of finding out, I was not doing any of the fucking around

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danwentzel@urbanists.social ("Dan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Watching President Biden and other top Democrats meet with Trump and normalize him in their concession speeches is the equivalent of the "This is Fine" meme.

Donald Trump attempted a coup. Just because he won't go to prison doesn't mean he didn't do the crime.

Who are they trying to convince that everything is normal? Themselves?

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• KC Green's "On Fire" comic with a dog drinking a cup of coffee in a room that's on fire saying "This is fine." (remote)

jwz wrote:

In happier news, I got a really cool book today.

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mattgrayyes@chaos.social ("Matt Gray") wrote:

Music to fall asleep to

https://youtu.be/cHoKkbvvIlM?si=r29bGVDGgDsfnEbV

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• 5 Hours Of Silence Occasionally Interrupted By Soviet National Anthem (remote)

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TechThreadsByAidan@me.dm ("Aidan Raymond") wrote:

Why BlueSky is not a viable alternative https://medium.com/@aidanraymond/why-bluesky-isnt-the-alternative-to-x-formerly-twitter-you-re-looking-for-and-why-mastodon-is-46c8901f2748 #Fediverse #Mastodon #bluesky

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kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how. “I’ll read news, not other people’s reactions to news.” https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/im-a-journalist-and-im-changing-the-way-i-read-news-this-is-how/

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jon@henshaw.social ("Jon Henshaw") wrote:

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• Homer Simpson telling Bart, “ The worst appointment so far” (remote)

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deadline ("Deadline") wrote:

Dick Van Dyke Is Glad He “Won’t Be Around” For Trump Presidency
#Politics #2024Election #2024presidentialelection #DickVanDyke #DonaldTrump #Election #ElectionLine #KamalaHarris #Presidentialelection

https://deadline.com/2024/11/dick-van-dyke-glad-wont-be-around-trump-presidency-1236176321/

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dunequotes@botsin.space ("Dune Quotes") wrote:

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

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AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

The fact that all these court cases against Trump are just self-evaporating right now shows that "checks and balances" was always a silly fairy tale.

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

beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

🦊

As of last night, my first two books — RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN, and RESPONSIVE DESIGN: PATTERNS AND PRINCIPLES — are available to read online, for free.

I had some emotions about it: https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/books-no-longer-apart/

#blogging #bookstodon #ResponsiveDesign

jwz wrote:

Have there been studies investigating whether repeated COVID infections lead to a reduced willingness to take basic precautions like wearing masks? Because it really feels like we've got a Cordyceps / Toxoplasmosis situation going on here.

https://jwz.org/b/ykdK

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subjacentish@zeroes.ca ("Subjacent Banana") wrote:

Academics and media people prefer Bluesky to Mastodon because they fundamentally need to be validated by an institution.

They are completely incapable of constructing their own meaning - even on the internet.😆

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

Liberals declaring Defund the Police as “political poison,” do so as if they aren’t the ones who got to decided if defunding police brutality was a worthy pursuit.

So often, Liberals will play the role of political saboteur, then swap hats to become the political pundit observing their sabotage.

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luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:

From the authoritarian regime survival guide:

"Oppose any legislation attempting to interfere with freedom of assembly, for whatever reason."

Mask bans are a gateway to wider bans on all forms of protest. We should be do everything we can to stop them.

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• 10. They will try to limit freedom of assembly, calling it a necessity for your security. They will enact laws prioritizing state events and rallies, or those of a certain type or ideology. If they can choose who can demonstrate legally, they have a legal basis to forcefully disperse or prosecute the rest. Oppose any legislation attempting to interfere with freedom of assembly, for whatever reason. (remote)

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

Liberals now declaring that the Defund the Police movement was “political poison,” do so as if they aren’t the ones who got to decided if defunding police brutality was a worthy pursuit.

So often, Liberals will play the role of political saboteur, then swap hats to become the political pundit observing their sabotage.

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

Democrats' ‘Fund the Police’ Plan Backfired, Gave Trump Power

"The belief persists against all logic: Four years of proudly Backing The Blue, at a minimum, failed to help Democratic voter turnout—and likely depressed votes from progressives. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s mythical moderate Republican voters, whom the party molded its entire platform to pursue, did not arrive to carry the party to the finish line. ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/11/13/democrats-fund-the.html

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JenMsft ("Jen Gentleman") wrote:

They let anyone be a network admin these days

#ITPro #IT

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• A ceiling tile has been removed in an office - in the open space, a raccoon dangles from an exposed network cable

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

feel free to give it a whirl at:

[https://arghstudios.com:50433][3]

and select “Stories”.

remember: this is early testing stage software, so no guarantees your computer won’t halt & catch fire… but more likely you’ll just get a smile, not a conflagration. I’ll be adding a login/session authentication system shortly, but for now it is open & user reports are welcome ( support@arghstudios.com ). a hard request may take 5-15 seconds, so give the poor Artificial Stoopid some slack. we know latency suxs.

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

I’ll put together a reasonable “About” page mañana, explaining our focus on Safety, Effectiveness, & Trustworthiness. our design goals: child-safe story ideas, at 5th grade reading comprehension level, with minimal logging as necessary for development & QA.

we do *not* track the contents of your story idea requests, nor the response contents. these are *your* story ideas. this product is for adults to operate, not kids. this is not a replacement for human storytelling, nor a babysitter.

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kenshirriff@oldbytes.space ("Ken Shirriff") wrote:

The Pentium processor had a minor error in the division algorithm. This error cost Intel $475 million to replace the faulty chips. I've tracked down the FDIV error to this circuit on the die:

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• A closeup of the Pentium die showing complex circuitry. This image shows the middle of three metal layers. The image shows complex horizontal and metal lines, reddish golden in color. (remote)

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

Matt Gaetz for attorney general, Tulsi Gabbard for National Intelligence director...

What's next? Me as Secretary of not stress eating?

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Criminal Trump nominates monstrous Gaetz to oversee criminal justice in America.

The Washington Post calls Gaetz an "outspoken" ally of Trump, and the NY Times calls naming him attorney general a "provocative" move.

Now THAT is how you normalize the criminals in charge of the next U.S. government.

Please spend your news dollars on real journalism, not the pathetic drivel these organizations are feeding you.

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Thatonepersonwithaface@todon.eu ("youknowthatonepersonwithaface") wrote:

@julieofthespirits Good lord in the midst of every other fuck up I had forgotten about that, ths election was like two rival theater companies having their own "Producers" scheme going.

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nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

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• Star Trek Picard scene. We're inside a ship of unknown specificity and Chris Rios is talking to Dr. Agnes Jurati. Nothing whacky otherwise. Closed caption reads, "What is the nature of your psychiatric emergency?"

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jk ("josef") wrote:

imagine if it turned out intel's performance problems were because they kept putting management engines inside management engines and having a kind of rocket-equation freakout where 99% of the die area was just for a succession of increasingly secret nested departments inside the NSA to spy on each other

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hannu_ikonen@zeroes.ca ("Hannu Ikonen") wrote:

Yo when the police peace out, and I don't speak authoritatively on police in Wales here, it's generally fucked up beyond repair.

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• This month the Berlin film festival said it was quitting X, without citing an official reason, and last month the North Wales police force said it had stopped using X because it was “no longer consistent with our values” (remote)