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jwz wrote:

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fivetonsflax@tilde.zone ("Ben Rosengart") wrote:

@davidgerard a centrist is someone who believes in race science but is too polite to say so

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer :batman:") wrote:

lol

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adapalmer@wandering.shop ("Ada Palmer") wrote:

Looks fake doesn't it? This reconstruction of Medieval Bologna shows how Italian towns used to be a forest of towers, dense as Manhattan skyscrapers!

Here's a stable blog-formatted version of my thread from yesterday about the lost towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline wars https://www.exurbe.com/the-lost-towers-of-the-guelph-ghibelline-wars/

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• Photo of a model of Medieval Bologna, with so many earthy pink tall skinny towers sticking up from every block of the terra-cotta-roofed town that it looks like plant seeds starting to come up in spring. Around the edge you can see the city's moat and battlemented walls, looking tiny compared to the towers which rise to six or seven times the height of the three-story buildings around them. (remote)

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

Power from the skies. Seriously though, this is, in the nutshell, why we have so many power outages in the Pacific Northwest: if you tuck a powerline in between many trees, they're going to fall down and break it.

#darktable

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• A powerline coming downhill from a forest break filled with heavy mist.

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dansup ("Daniel Supernault") wrote:

Wow

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• Pixelfed is the top 12th free app

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

Relic. Spotted this one accidentally while driving by.

#darktable

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• Delapidated carcass of a blue colored old truck abandoned on the side of the asphalt road, shot against a backdropd of an evergreen forest.

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erosdiscordia@onycha.monster ("Mystery Babylon") wrote:

I'm sorry to stick my neck out like this again, but being sick the last couple days and today has made me unable to do much work, so I'm short on money to pay for the place I'm staying. I also need to get a space heater and a hat to deal with the cold, and refill 3 of my prescriptions for a month.

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/tmvshek

As much as I can with mildly feverish brain fog, I've switched my budget around and I'm coming up short $200. Can anybody help me?

I strongly hope this is the last time I have to ask. I'm trying to balance taking care of my health with working hard. Anything to help keep that terrible old mental stress from coming back would be much appreciated, whether it's a few dollars to spare or a boost and good vibes.

Thank you, friends. I'm really trying.

:boostRequest:
#mutualAid #trans #transgender

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Christmas market.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford HP5+ @ 1600
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm

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• A black and white photo of a warmly dressed crowd in front of a large Christmas tree covered in fairy lights. On the left is a food hut equally decorated with fairy lights, with steam prominently emanating from the windows over a pitch black sky.

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mike_malaska@deepspace.social ("Mike Malaska") wrote:

On January 14, 2005 just over 20 years ago today, the Huygens probe touched down on the organic-rich surface of Saturn's moon Titan.

Here is the scene from Titan's surface. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07232

Scientists (I'm one of those) have been analyzing this image and the other descent images from the probe for 2 decades. What have we learned from the probe images about the surface of enigmatic moon?

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• Titan's surface scene of same-sized rounded cobbles and patches of dark sands fading into a distant hazy orange horizon. (remote)

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artist-amejo@pixelfed.social ("Ame Jo Hughes") wrote:

Tiny frog I knitted, in the tiny dress I designed and knit, holding the tiny books I made and bound in the traditional way (standing in front of a stock image on my tablet).

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• Dark dusty pink knitted frog in a mint green dress with white trims, holding two miniature books while standing in front of library shelves. (remote)
• A human finger holding a miniature book down on a cutting mat to show that the book is less than one inch tall by about 3/4” wide. (remote)
• The same knitted frog, held on an open palm (remote)

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nasko@infosec.exchange wrote:

We are looking for an Android security expert to join our team and work on securing Chrome on Andoird. Job posting is available at https://google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/results/104891950447895238, but also feel free to reach out to me directly.

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

Mossy fence post. This is not the shot that I set out to take yesterday, but it's the one you're getting because it's just so damn bright! #mosstodon #darktable

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• A cap of bright green moss sitting on top of an old, rotten wooden fence post with remnants of a wire fence and some rope woven around it. The background is filled with a blurred view of yellowed tall grass.

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

My schedule is such that every Wednesday I teach two classes back-to-back.

My voice is not holding up well to two continuous hours of talking. May die.

How do public school teachers survive?

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Mojeek ("Mojeek Search Engine") wrote:

this is the chrome logo if they were being honest

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jk ("josef") wrote:

2025. you go to a website. you see all the elements on the page pop-in, loading one by one. it's like the 90s again. your internet connection might be hundreds of megabits per second. the web designer is using a 4k video file as a looping background, and that somehow loads quickly compared to all the actual useful elements on the page. three seconds, five seconds, ten seconds. each checkbox and table has to initialize its own software stack of UI abstraction libraries and surveillance middleware

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maleve@zeroes.ca ("Matti Aleve") wrote:

Public health asked if they are aware of any way to slow the spread of airborne diseases.

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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

NiN's Hurt, bardcore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4UZRYShjYU

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

nothing is certain except death, taxes, and tech bros trying to reinvent something they spent 10 minutes learning about

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BenCollver@tilde.zone ("Ben Collver") wrote:

"If OpenSSL were a GUI"

#linux #programming #tech

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• OpenSSL options presented as a GUI dialog. (remote)

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hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange ("Lesley Carhart :unverified:") wrote:

When Florida can report and arrest trans people for just going to the bathroom, and they can now also forcibly detransition people in prison by refusing their meds and shaving their heads, and the industry is still ✨⭐️conference at Epcot✨⭐️!

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ritualdust@merveilles.town ("Lizbeth") wrote:

A recent piece of writing on solar time and older ways to keep time by made me look up the history of time keeping on Wikipedia where i found out about incense clocks. There's something really unique about different hours having different smells and this little device with slowly burning intricate paths

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• Image of an old wooden incense clock, a box with a top section containing sand with incense pattern drawn onto it that will slowly burn over a fixed period of time, a lid with square holes goes on top (remote)

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

Recent commission I shipped off!

Good to dust off the ink brushes and mess around with 80s horror icons

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• Black and white illustration of a surprised looking woman in front of a background of 80s horror monsters including a zombie, the fly, an american werwolf in London, and gremlins (remote)
• Close up of the woman and snarling werewolf (remote)
• Close up of Cronenberg’s The Fly and zombie's face (remote)
• Angled photo of the illustration on a drawing table (remote)

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mattcropp@social.coop ("Matt Cropp 🌲🌲") wrote:

As a hobby project, I've gotten interested in using #mirrors for heating and lighting purposes (and as an outlet for a bit of #climate anxiety). Just did a write-up of my progress over the last few months for the @LabB blog: https://www.laboratoryb.org/diy-seasonal-mirror-based-window-extender/

#solar #passivesolar #solarpunk #lightshelf #heliostat

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th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

The original artist describes their Fortran code that rendered the Nostromo's vector landing display in "Alien": https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1981-06/page/n51/mode/2up?ui=embed&view=theater

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• cover image from the article "Landing the Nostromo" by Alan Sutcliffe with a vector rendering of the mountains and flat spot in the middle (remote)

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

An interesting fact about Bryn Mawr College.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/15/i-knew-a-few-people-at-bryn-mawr/

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• The seal of Bryn Mawr College: three owls and the motto veritatem dilexi (remote)

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

Who needs soil and grass when you've got EPDM all over the parks?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/15/plastic-shall-rule-over-all/

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• EPDM, a common recycled plastic used to cover playgrounds (remote)

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

My sketch habit has been rocky the past month or so. Maybe it's the holidays. Maybe it's because I took a detour working on a Christmas card. Whatever the cause, I've been really meh whenever I tried to pick up a pencil and paper, and my attempts at drawing have left me feeling pretty disheartened.

I realized I was probably approaching things wrong and decided to try to relax and just doodle whatever. No pressure. These little fun guys popped out.

#doodle #yaombaaa

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• Pencil doodle of a cartoon bird with a large beak. The shading on the beak implies it has gradients of colors. He's got some bold feathers on top of his head and smaller feathers around his face. It has it's left wing stretched out holding up feathers like fingers (as cartoon birds do) with a gesture that implies he's maybe ordering two of something. (remote)
• Pencil doodle of a sinister looking face. Scales cover the skin, and the toothy grin is devoid of mirth. Eyes with oblong pupil's look on with keen interest. Where you might normally find ears there are fins with bony spines. (remote)

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

Opinion: "There is no such thing, for Trump, as a positive exchange or a mutually beneficial relationship. There is only winning and losing, the dominant and the dominated.

It is an ugly and repugnant vision, but it is a vision nonetheless. It speaks to the ambition of some Americans and the ennui and frustration of others. If nothing else, it gives the appearance of action rather than stagnation. And for many Americans, that is enough."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/opinion/trump-mckinley-tarriffs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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

Opinion: "We have an incoming leader who threatened on the campaign trail to lock up his critics."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/opinion/trump-biden-pardon-insurrection.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare