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Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

petebrown@social.lol ("Pete Brown") wrote:

Sadly, I’m out. https://explodingcomma.com/posts/sadly-im-out

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eedly@mindly.social ("E. C. Bigribs") wrote:

@Daojoan The metaphor that's been gestating in my head is a clown, on fire, running comically through a forest, flapping his white-gloved hands, setting the whole thing alight. Sure, he is a clown, and he makes silly honking noises as he runs in his ridiculously large shoes, and occasionally he comically tries to put the fire out with his squirting flower, but to just say "He is a clown" doesn't really do the situation justice.

As I type this, I realize it's an army of clowns. Still not funny.

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AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

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• "One fun way of getting your Republican family member to acknowledge that Musk made a Nazi salute is to ask them if you can film them making the gesture."

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

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

Hey, he's coming to tour a bit in the U.S.!

https://www.venjent.com

After I've left, of course :sunglasses_cry:

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

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

Venjent and a beautiful kettle.

https://youtu.be/NudylaHRXgM

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

with the attacks on undersea cables continuing, I fear Putin has decided Trump will refuse to act if Russia tries to pick off the Baltic States.

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

emma@fedi.emmajuettner.com ("Emma") wrote:

Today I went to a freecycling party hosted by a friend! We all brought clothes/books/art supplies/etc we didn't want, perused everyone else's stuff and took what we wanted, and then divided any remaining items into categories to donate (e.g. one person takes all the art supplies to our local used craft supply store, another person takes all the clothes to a local thrift store, etc).

It was very fun! And I never would have thought of throwing a party like that, so I'm posting about it here to pass along the idea to others :)

#freecycling #buyNothing

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

ahermitforhire@pagan.plus ("a hermit for hire :plantmage3:") wrote:

I almost missed this. Some of you may remember me posting a link to Tom Waits guesting with Iggy Pop on Iggy’s BBC Radio 6 show. Well, they reposted it!

This expires Tuesday at 6pm! HURRY AND LISTEN!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001st7l

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

GeofCox@climatejustice.social wrote:

Two hundred UK companies sign up for permanent four-day working week - more than 5,000 workers to benefit from reduced hours with no loss of pay... https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/jan/27/two-hundred-uk-companies-sign-up-for-permanent-four-day-working-week

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

I assume at some point the histories of these git repos will be wiped. Can't have a record of what happened sitting around.

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

I mean, they attempt to do it in a lot of ways (e.g. public school curriculum), but it's wild to watch them edit the transcript of past discussions:

https://github.com/nasa/Transform-to-Open-Science/commit/bb7560bd1c35f6e2e200a1ad78f4c78d28ab282b#diff-90ec3c142ac23b2fc386e0464bcc8f652f2022526488bf66880836a4692b3611

(The speed (and lack of discretion) at which this is happening makes me think LLMs are involved. I'm so glad my... *shudder*... peers built these bullshit machines.)

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geerlingguy ("Jeff Geerling") wrote:

Apple wants you to pay $800 for 2TB of NVMe storage.

But if you want that, why not pay $269 and upgrade your M4 Mac mini yourself?

See how in my video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLtE2kMTVOQ

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

raek@tilde.zone ("Rasmus SA5RJS") wrote:

I just discovered this treasure trove: "Basic Linear Design" / "Linear Circuit Design Handbook"

It's available for free on Analog Devices' website!

https://www.analog.com/en/resources/technical-books/linear-circuit-design-handbook.html

#electronics #AmateurRadio #HamRadio

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

Don't follow a diet that has yellow nodules of cholesterol oozing from your skin. That seems like reasonable medical advice.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/27/the-nice-thing-about-all-meat-diets-is-they-kill-my-appetite/

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• 5c785d6b09e575a2.jpeg (remote)

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

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

Hey fediverse friends,

Today's the last day for me to try and buy a week at a cheap discount at the guesthouse my cat and I are staying at, before I have to start paying by the night.

I'd love to stay here in safety while I continue applying for a work visa and looking for permanent housing. If you have any cash to spare, would you consider donating it? You'd be helping a trans person build a new safe life outside America.

Any amount of money is welcome, small or not, and boosting would be kind too. :blobcattransheart:

https://www.paypal.me/tmvshek
https://venmo.com/onychamaze
https://ko-fi.com/erosdiscordia

:boostRequest:

#mutualAidRequest #mutualAid #trans #transgender #transMutualAid #lgbtcrowdfund @mutualaid

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

MattPalmer ("Matt Palmer") wrote:

One of my favourite #abandoned places that I have photographed Dagverðará, #iceland

While photographing it a large Icelandic Raven snuck up on me and cawed loudly right behind me, scaring the crap out of me! It's part of my book Icelandic Echoes, which you can find pretty easily with google.

The house has unfortunately been vandalised externally since I was lucky enough to photograph it here in Winter, 2017.

Hope you enjoy this beautiful old building!

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• An old abandoned Icelandic farmstead missing its roof sits in snow near the coastline of Iceland. Above a distant snowstorm is illuminated in golden tones from the low afternoon light.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I feel like I've already posted all the good stuff last year, so I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel until I can go somewhere and take some new pictures.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Last summer, Ambleside.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

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

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• Under an overcast sky, a grey stone house with multiple tubular chimneys is covered almost entirely in vegetation, including some pink flowers.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

This was an homage to Carrie Fisher.

In my head I hear her saying this with the contextless, perfectly neutral intonation of a speaking dictionary

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• Screencap of a tweet by Carrie Fisher posted at 2:52 AM on September 20, 2009. It simply says, "Gay" with no punctuation

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

I have been temporarily distracted by those lovely, sexy sex combs.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/27/sex-combs/

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• fruit fly leg with sex comb (remote)

Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

tanepiper@tane.codes ("Tane Piper ⁂") wrote:

Are there any freelance Visual Designers on #Fediverse that have experience with motion design? We are looking for someone to come join the #ikea design system team to help work on our new expressive design elements.

Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

Elon Musk attempts to turn Germany fascist by appearing at the AfD party convention this weekend.

How many members of the Bundestag are still using X, thereby supporting his ad revenue?

And all over Europe: If your country has parliament members still on X, ask them why they support the ad revenue of a guy who is spreading fascism.

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• Elon Musk appearing via live stream at AfD rally, shouting “Let’s go guys, let’s go! Fight for a great future for Germany!”

Mastodon wrote:

We’ll be part of the FOSDEM Social Web track on Saturday, and will be talking about the @ngisearch supported Fediverse Discovery Providers #fediscovery project: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4531-fediscovery-improving-search-and-discovery-on-the-fediverse/

You’ll also be able to find the team at Social Web After Hours on Sunday at HSBXL: https://www.hsbxl.be/events/byteweek/2025/social-web-after-hours/

Mastodon wrote:

Hey friends! It’s nearly time for #FOSDEM, the annual free and open source event in Brussels. This weekend, the Mastodon team will be based in building H.

We’ll be raising funds for the project with some of our merch - beautiful limited edition winter mugs, pins, and t-shirts. We’ll also have fun stickers to share for free, so you can show your support for Mastodon everywhere!

(just so you know: we’re a bit short on larger t-shirt sizes, so come early if you want to buy one of those)

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• Photo of the Mastodon Winter Mug, showing multiple Mastodon mascots playing in the snow
• Photo of the Mastodon Winter Mug, showing multiple Mastodon mascots playing in the snow with one making a snowman.
• Photo of the Mastodon metal pin, with the Mastodon logo.

Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world ("Auschwitz Memorial") wrote:

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

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• A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance. (remote)

Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

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

80 years since liberation. A true horror. And yet, memory fades, and as it does, the temptation to repeat. Every week, people show up in my mentions who think the Holocaust was a good thing (or claim that it never happened). I believe that they're serious; they cannot, must not ever win.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

gay

Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

dominikhofer@social.lol ("Dominik :prami:") wrote:

I've moved over from mastodon.design, so it's time for another #introduction toot!

Hi 👋

I'm Dominik, a young coder from Switzerland.

I work as a web dev (mainly with #webflow) and study #cs (in #bern) by ​day, while working with #laravel and on my #personalwebsite by night.

Some things I'm into:
#running
#photography
#blogging
#indieweb
#minimalism

My main home on the internet is dominikhofer.me – you're invited to pay me a visit over there :)

Cheers!

Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

Posting this guy's review of @comfortzone so I can attract more leftist listeners to the show

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• Review left by some random guy on Apple Podcasts for our podcast “Comfort Zone”: "I want a tech podcast… not Nileane’s annoying ramblings about their ideologies or hear their musings about how billionaires supposedly ruin their life and blah blah blah.” (by Moomintroll_IV, 26.10.2024) (remote)

Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world ("Auschwitz Memorial") wrote:

Eighty years ago today, over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army.

1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over.
Today, we all remember. We must keep remembering.

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• A historical black and white photo of young survivors in striped uniforms standing behind a barbed wire fence at Auschwitz concentration camp. (remote)
• Black and white historical photo of liberated prisoners walking under the 'Arbeit Macht Frei' gate at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. (remote)
• Black and white historical photo showing a large hall filled with discarded clothing, with a person visible in the background. (remote)
• Historical black and white photograph of Auschwitz concentration camp after liberation showing dilapidated wooden barracks and victims' bodies on the ground. (remote)