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

Unrelatable. Anyone with that many spiders would have an easily accessible source of insects in-house.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/26/not-how-it-actually-works/

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• Cartoon character orders a shipment of insects from a grub hub delivery guy. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

He's such a sweet boy.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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• A fluffy black cat (Jiji) is being cradled in arms like a baby. Another hand is giving him head scritches. His ears move back and forth with the movement.

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

all the little sounds he made, all the small things that made Oscar’s presence known are missing, and the house feels silent and empty. I keep listening for his feet paddling down the stairs, on his way to say hello and sniff what we have been doing.

there is a hole in my universe.

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• Oscar the Housepanther, lying in his cat-tree & basking in the Spring sunshine, enjoying the breeze through a window (remote)

jwz wrote:

[suspenseful music]

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parents4future@climatejustice.global ("Parents For Future :verified:") wrote:

5 years ago: "It's Actually Science, Motherfuckers!"🔥

"Grow the fuck up. You're not children anymore. I didn't mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were 12. But you're adults now" — Bill Nye

Last Week Tonight at 18m15s https://youtube.com/watch?v=JDcro7dPqpA&t=1095s

#ClimateCrisis #EndFossilFuels

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• "It's Actually Science, Motherfuckers!"🔥 "Grow the fuck up. You're not children anymore. I didn't mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were 12. But you're adults now" — Bill Nye (remote)

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kauzerei@social.tchncs.de ("Kauzerei") wrote:

@NanoRaptor can a circus be really "mine" in late-stage capitalism? It often doesn't feel like I really own it, and to be honest, it does not feel like I have any influence on the monkeys, yet it's somehow my problem :/

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Random musing: I wonder if in the future, the average joe will stop referring to bots being “programmed” to do things, but rather “trained”.

Then humans will have another, more elevated term…like “tutored” or “educated” or some such.

#machinelearning #ai

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cheetah_spottycat@toot.cat wrote:

Look, it's all my favourite streaming services on one platform!

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• The disney logo, the netflix logo, the paramount + logo and the amazon prime logo .... but all the letters changed to just "TORRENT". (remote)

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

White House in talks to have Oracle, US investors take over TikTok, NPR reports | Reuters

"The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is working on a plan to save TikTok that involves tapping software company Oracle (ORCL.N), opens new tab and a group of outside investors to effectively take control of the app’s global operations, National Public Radio reported on ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/01/25/white-house-in-talks-to.html

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ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

Yay, tuberculosis is back!

https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/politics/government/2025/01/24/kansas-tuberculosis-outbreak-is-largest-in-recorded-history-in-u-s/77881467007/

#tuberculosis #outbreak #health

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blog@social.alexschroeder.ch ("Alex Schroeder's Blog") wrote:

I’ve been asking myself this every now and then. I’m not a party person and while I’ve learned to do small talk, I don’t talk as much as I write, I think. Recently, @adam blogged about the Blog Question Challenge. It reminded me of similar posts of mine. 2024-03-07 Why do we even blog?. 2010-08-05 Why Blog. I keep wondering. The Blog Question Challenge asks the following questions: [a list with 5 items] I think my blogging started with a wiki…
#Blogs #Wikis
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2025-01-25-why-blog

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vzq@social.lol ("Jose") wrote:

I've been challenged by @adam to do the Blog Questions Challenge. It was a great opportunity to reflect on some stuff!

And next up, I challenge @koehn!

https://vzq.wtf/blog/2025-blog-challenge/

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

“Users say they are seeing fewer livestreams, and some activity is being removed or flagged at higher rates for violating community guidelines, including for behavior that was previously permitted.”

‘Am I being censored? Some US TikTok users say app feels different after ban lifted’ - https://www.reuters.com/technology/am-i-being-censored-some-us-tiktok-users-say-app-feels-different-after-ban-2025-01-25/

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EdCates wrote:

Yeah, I'm pretty good with myself right now, not gonna lie.

#ImposterSyndrome #politics #commentary

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• Image that appears to be of a human body lying prone, with its soul/astral projection/etc. shining a brighter color and rising up out of the body itself. Text: The Imposter Syndrome leaving my body as the most insufferable unqualified dorks who've ever lived keep getting more power

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avillavecesn@col.social ("Andrés Villaveces Niño") wrote:

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• A cookbook beautiful and colorful cover, with the legend "How to cook like the people you just deported. Authentic ethnic flavors for bigots who don't deserve them". (remote)

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lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

ProTip: Don't strategize in social media posts.

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TomWellborn@universeodon.com ("TomWellborn3") wrote:

Evangelicals sold their souls for Trump, trading the teachings of Jesus for a grifter’s gospel. Franklin Graham’s praise of Trump as God’s chosen instrument exposes the moral rot at the core of their movement. Pardoning insurrectionists and wrapping it in divine purpose isn’t faith—it’s idolatry. They’ve hitched their wagon to corruption and called it salvation.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/01/evangelicals-trump/681450/

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j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz wrote:

Feels like the right time to start planning for moving all international scientific conferences to somewhere outside the US.

jwz wrote:

Did not have "respecting deadmau5" on my 2025 bingo card.

3lau, a nepo pissbaby, plays a 30 minute DJ set for Donny Convict:
https://jwz.org/b/ykgs

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karlauerbach@sfba.social ("Karl Auerbach") wrote:

Once upon a time - 1960s - this place existed in North Hollywood, Calif:

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• Run down "restaurant" named Mother Phucars. With sign at the door saying "Phine Phood" (remote)

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oli@olifant.social ("D. Olifant") wrote:

Remember when Elon cracked open the DMs of the former head of trust and safety at Twitter and leaked those DMs to Bari Weiss so she could write a hot piece and the person had to hide for their own safety? I think about that a lot every time someone says, “Be careful with Mastodon DMs! They aren’t end-to-end encrypted, so admins can read your private messages.”

That was never a concern unique to the fedi, my Facebook Messenger shit isn’t e2e encrypted, either.

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

Hot take: “Everything was always terrible and you’re naive” is the laziest form of social commentary. It adds nothing, solves nothing, and just serves to make the commenter feel smugly superior. Performative cynicism.

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ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

This is like something from a cyberpunk novel. #Technology https://werd.io/2025/tiktoks-cute-winter-boots-meaning-explained

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mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

Every time a current Dem senator is running for any office, someone needs to ask “Did you vote to confirm Kristi “I murder puppies” Noem as head of DHS.

A yes should be disqualifying forever.

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pixelpaperyarn@hackers.town wrote:

Hi all! I'm currently in civic tech and looking to make an exit back to the private sector.

Here's a summary of me and what I'm looking for in case anyone is looking for a kickass engineering manager:

Fronted-focused Engineering leader with 15+ years of experience, seeking remote leadership roles in established private sector companies

Target roles: Engineering Manager, Sr. Engineering Manager, or Team Lead ($200k-250k+)

Proven track record transforming teams and driving organizational change

Expertise in frontend development and building high-performing remote teams

Looking for: mission-driven companies, people-first culture, experimentation, work-life balance

Not interested in: early-stage startups, government/civic tech, hybrid work, heavy hands-on coding roles

https://aquantityofstuff.com/

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

the CDC now recommends getting an aquarium and growing your own leeches

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DeliaChristina@sfba.social ("Diligence Jones") wrote:

they're breaking government so they can loot it.

that's all they ever do.

they interred the Japanese and grabbed their property.

they lynched free Black people and stole their land.

they shoved indigenous people onto reservations and stole their land.

theft. looting. stealing. breaking. taking.

that's all The Man does.

it's really that simple.

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evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

In general, would you rather run an app in a Web browser, or as a separate desktop program?

#EvanPoll #poll

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EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

Frontline report: Russian tanks trapped in Kursk as dragon’s teeth bite back

Russian efforts to breach Ukrainian lines in Kursk Oblast faltered as their own dragon’s teeth and mud turned the battlefield into a trap.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/01/25/frontline-report-russian-tanks-trapped-in-kursk-as-dragons-teeth-bite-back/

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DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social ("Democracy Matters :verified:") wrote:

This week the CDC failed to issue its “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report” for the first time since 1960.

MMWR is where the medical community first was alerted to what came to be known as AIDS.

Thanks, Republicans!

#TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #CDC #MMWR #RepublicansKillUsAll #USPol