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

'Ms. Hegseth said after the vote that she had submitted her affidavit only because she had been assured that it would sway key votes. “There are many reasons women are reluctant to come forward, by name, and tell the truth about a powerful man like him,” she said. “What happened today will make women who have experienced abuse and mistreatment even less forthcoming.”'

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/24/us/pete-hegseth-defense-secretary-vote

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tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld ") wrote:

‘The Writer’s Dog’ - My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books

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• Title: The Writer's Dog A writer commands his obedient dog to undertake some tricks: Sit! Shake hands! Play dead! Give feedback on my latest draft, and be brutally, honest, unless you hate it, in which case, be diplomatic! (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I always struggle to pay attention to the metrics, but it looks like #Mastodon for Android downloads are up 455% recently. This tracks with how many new people I've been seeing on the explore page recently. Don't know if it's a coincidence but I think your help in fixing our app's rating might have had a hand in this...

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• A screenshot of the "User acquisitions" metric from the Play Store console, showing "All user acquisitions" as 6.08K (+455.67%) and "All user acquisitions (30 days rolling average)" as 2.96K (+139.2%). The graph below shows a ramp up around beginning of January, coinciding with our latest release of the app, with a large peak on January 21 reaching 8K downloads, and the most recent date, January 23 showing roughly 6K downloads.

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PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

Me clicking on a restaurant website: I wonder when they're open and what they serve

Restaurant website: O U R M I S S I O N

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Last summer. Oxenholme station.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 Wife
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Plushtodon

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• An attractive woman with black hair, visible through a window, wearing a straw hat on her back, is sitting inside a cafe with a stuffed Mastodon toy on her lap. Through the doorway behind, there is a railway platform.

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amit@social.lol ("Amit Gawande :verified_coffee:") wrote:

I want to follow more Indian voices on mastodon.

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amit@social.lol ("Amit Gawande :verified_coffee:") wrote:

25 January 2025 at 10:23 : https://amitgawande.com/blog/2025/20250125-1023

For the past few days, I have wanted to write a lot, but I have stopped so many times. I read views from many people I have learned to trust and have loved them for their opinions. Yet, while they discuss this particular situation, I see them steer themselves toward opposing sides with lit...

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Linux_Is_Best@misskey.de ("Linux Is Best") wrote:

Anyone who goes through my post history, knows I work for Meta (Facebook).

I am "Consumer Content Administrative Manager". My primary duties include content appeals, account appeals, account reviews, and some peer review.

It is no surprise that my job depends on people using Facebook. Today, I am going to suggest, you not do so. I can make that suggestion because we have a user base of billions, and I know most people would keep using Facebook even if the Devil ran the company. People are strange.

But if you feel you can truly live without Facebook, do so. Internally, things are changing, and not for the better. You should especially consider leaving Meta if you are a minority, woman, LGBTQ+, trans, or identify as progressive, politically. If facts matter to you, and misinformation is something you do not want to be subject toward, you should especially consider leaving, Facebook.

You have no privacy from Meta, while using Meta. None. I do not care if you believe you disabled a "feature" or "opt out" of something. You only seem to have done so. And even if you're going to continue to use Meta, uninstall the app (all of them). We collect data on you, even when you're not using the app.

#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #Threads

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matt@isfeeling.social ("Matt Birchler") wrote:

🫡 https://birchtree.me/blog/the-salute/

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codinghorror@infosec.exchange ("Jeff Atwood") wrote:

I love that Teen Vogue is, and I do mean this quite literally -- there is zero irony or comedy in this statement -- on the cutting edge of journalism in the United States right now. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/billionaires-should-not-exist

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jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared “Indie Social Web” White") wrote:

One Week Down, Only 207 to Go! 🤪

Some thoughts on performative apologies, authentic allyship, and being proactive instead of reactive when it comes to social justice.

#blog #TGIF 🔗 https://jaredwhite.com/20250124/one-week-down

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dgodon@mastodon.online ("Demian") wrote:

#seattle voters should be receiving their ballots for the Feb 11 election this week. One of the most important items on the ballot is Seattle Prop 1A to tax wealthy businesses to fund social housing. Don't get fooled by Prop 1B which would rob affordable housing funds and was put forth by Seattle's conservative city council to avoid taxing the wealthy. Vote 1A!
https://www.letsbuildsocialhousing.org/

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celesteh@lgbt.io ("CharLES ☭ H") wrote:

Bluesky users: For a mere $30million USD, we can distribute Bluesky to one other node

Fedi users: I put an instance on my car!

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

Good night, good people. I hope you're able to get some rest.

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regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

I keep coming back and rewatching this, there's something hilariously compelling about using an orchestra to play EDM songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ahPzpySDYc

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meg@fediscience.org ("Megan ⚘") wrote:

I have been on Mastodon for over 5 years and I just now reported my first account. It is not that there haven't been other bad apples (especially in the past 2 years), but they are usually flagged before I need to. This one was harassing Native Americans and spreading lies about our culture, so it was probably not seen by most.

It is going to be even more difficult than usual for marginalized people moving forward, so if you are a privileged person please try to put your own existential crisis into perspective. We need your allyship and courage, not your personal displays. There are a lot of good people here, so I know you can redirect that energy in the right way.

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annie@social.lol wrote:

Fuckity fuck fuck https://anniemueller.com/posts/fuckity-fuck-fuck

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flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange ("AN/CRM-114") wrote:

Elevator pitch: five bucks a month buys you a tiny box with a lifetime data SIM, a battery, a serial port, and just enough smarts to set up a SSH tunnel to a remote server with email, irc, nntp, gopher, fedi, and a shell, (And maybe the Web and/or internet radio), all behind firewalls, adblockers, and a ton of countermeasures, wrapped in a code of conduct and aggressively opt-in federation.

I call it “The New Dialup”

(I should build something like this for myself, perhaps on the uConsole. But to have something like this largely available and easy to use, as an alternative to bloated broadband? What if CompuServe but Fediverse? FOL?)

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

Body horror has traumatized me for the first time ever.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/24/true-horror/

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• Poster for the movie "The Substance" showing a woman lying on a white floor with a scar running down her spine (remote)

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britt@mstdn.games ("Badass Britt :mastodon_lgbt:") wrote:

I’m going to brag about myself for a brief moment because I need the positivity in my life right now.

Story time:

I am in my late 30’s and I’ve been back at University for a year. Yeah, it definitely has felt like I don’t fit in, but I’m determined to do this for myself. It’s been a lifelong dream and I finally have the accessibility supports I need to succeed as a person w/ ADHD, Autism, and Dyslexia/Dysgraphia. Things have changed so much in that realm since I was college age and I’m super grateful for that.

So my humble brag? My GPA is 3.6! 💜 I’m so damn proud of that!! Given everything my physical body throws at me between POTS/MECFS and Rheumatoid Arthritis, I feel like I’m kicking ass and living my dream despite the uphill challenges.

So, that’s all. Celebrate your wins, friends! I absolutely want to hear all about them!! 🎉 🏆 📣 😃

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volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy ("David Roberts") wrote:

Welp, there you have it. The "sin of empathy."

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• the sin of empathy (remote)

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mhoye wrote:

Spending thirty million dollars to get bluesky to interoperate with itself while people are out here connecting C64s, AA-powered PalmPilots, aquarium pumps and toothbrushes to the Fediverse is definitely an entire idea.

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

with a bit of organization and a few handfuls of folks who were willing to volunteer to shoulder the effort to keep it up and running a group could set up a pretty massive e2ee overlay network with whatever peering rules the group wanted to enforce and drop all those services completely off the public facing net without using tor. lots of groups could do that. over and over. especially if the first group or two released some of their tooling to simplify their lives.

just saying.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

This excellent piece by @chipotle sums up the unfortunate dust-up this week. If you’re looking for a fair summary of what happened, this is it.

https://coyotetracks.org/blog/pressure-to-stay-genteel/

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chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

New post: "The pressure to stay genteel" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/pressure-to-stay-genteel/

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cygnoir@social.lol ("cygnoir :prami:") wrote:

You don't get to decide https://cygnoir.weblog.lol/2025/01/you-dont-get-to-decide

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

Best line of dialogue on any current TV show, period. #severance

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• An animated GIF of Jame Eagan saying “fetid moppet”. (remote)

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jjg@social.coop wrote:

Holy shit my kid is in Atlas Obscura!

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bones-in-jars

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computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

are you a better programmer than ai? it depends, how many lakes do you drink to write a python script?

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

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will have 1.3M GPUs for AI by year-end | TechCrunch

"Zuckerberg said that Meta expects to spend $60 billion-$80 billion on CapEx in 2025, primarily on data centers and growing the company’s AI development teams. That projected range is around double the $35 billion-$40 billion Meta spent on CapEx last year."

Meta is pivoting to cloud infrastructure services. https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/24/mark-zuckerberg-says-meta-will-have-1-3m-gpus-for-ai-by-year-end/