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

Scrolling LinkedIn idly (always a mistake) and seeing someone in the far reaches of my network saying, “I’m excited to announce that I’ve started a new role for AOL at Yahoo!” and I have so many questions

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world ("The Sleight Doctor 🃏") wrote:

Thanks to the publicity boost and endorsement of Elon Musk, Germany's fascist anti-immigrant party, the AfD, is now polling in second place with a national election approaching.

Just this past week, more than 200,000 Germans marched in protest against the far-right nationalist party, which has been under surveillance by authorities for suspected extremism.

Those of you who don't seem to be able to say "fascist" with a full chest have something seriously wrong with you.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/15/nx-s1-5298683/jd-vance-afd-germany-olaf-scholz-musk

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

"But Jesus, use your fucking brain!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFUDPqVmTg

#academia #research #bubble

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Every web deve...sorrry, "full stack engineer", should watch this talk by @programmingart:

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4852-how-browsers-really-load-web-pages/

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Thanks to all the folks who have reached out to express solidarity with my petition and accountability efforts.

It will be an uphill battle. The IACR Board is made up of the most reputed, senior people who may not hesitate to discredit me or my effort. I won't give up.

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

The argument from how pretty my prophet's eyes were.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/15/i-get-email-102/

Boosted by jwz:
markmccaughrean ("Mark McCaughrean") wrote:

I definitely wasn't supposed to be doing this this afternoon, but ... 🤷‍♂️🙂

A time lapse movie of the northern hemisphere of Saturn, showing a full rotation of the famous polar hexagon, a very cool fluid dynamics phenomenon in the planet's atmosphere 🪐🐻‍❄️

Taken by the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft over a 12.5 hour period on 3 & 4 April 2014: 35 ISS WAC images 512x512 pixels, CB2 filter at 752nm 🛰️📷

Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SSI, Mark McCaughrean

#SpaceScience

Attachments:

• gifv: A time lapse movie showing the northern hemisphere of Saturn rotating over a 12.5 hour period. There are atmospheric bands at lower latitudes, with small spots and storms too, and then close to the north pole, there is a giant hexagonal structure in the atmosphere. At its centre is a large vortex. The rings of Saturn are seen above the planet and the latter casts a shadow on the rings to the left. The data have been given a silver blue tint, even though they are original monochrome.

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blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

“winter freeze” is the cause of this recession.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-retail-sales-fall-sharply-january-2025-02-14/

after these hellish 3 weeks in Washington DC, with millions tens of millions of Americans affected by the #techbro and #griftocracy smash and grab of Americans livelihoods, it’s the weather the reason why Americans are not spending money.

sure.

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vowe@social.heise.de ("Volker Weber") wrote:

jwz wrote:

"Your personal information is very important to us.", part four.

Three months after Google de-listed XScreenSaver from their "Play" [sic] store, the Google "Play" Console Team are now suddenly very concerned about "Android vitals bad behavior for...
https://jwz.org/b/ykiQ

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Measles doesn't give a shit about your politics, but if your politics make it easier to thrive inside of you or your children, it won't complain either

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/measles-outbreak-west-texas-grows-unvaccinated-rcna192163

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Good Saturday. (Purchase a signed Graham Annable Doodle Collection book here: https://gricklemart.com/second-delightful-graham-annable.../ ) #grickledoodle #cat #catnip #saturday #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

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

Just trying to share some beauty as I am finding everything to be a bit much at the moment. Pink dogwood found in my neighborhood this afternoon.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
iro_miya@mk.absturztau.be ("Miya Ironami") wrote:

I complain a lot about Inkscape vs. Adobe Illustrator when it comes to print design. Do you want to do something about it? Do you want us to have nice free software tools for print?

Well Martin Owens @doctormo@floss.social is making things better, he's the one working on CMYK and revamped PDF export for Inkscape. It seems like a massive endeavour, and it looks very promising!

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1061/cmyk-support-in-inkscape-could-be-a-game-changer-for-professional-print-designers

This would open up Inkscape to a whole new sector. Inkscape is pretty good for digital work, but it lacks crucial features for print. CMYK would be a massive step in the right direction.

You can support his work on Liberapay and Patreon. Personally, I would do so, if I had an income
- https://liberapay.com/doctormo/
- https://www.patreon.com/doctormo

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
mikeolson ("Mike Olson") wrote:

I've been disappointed and frustrated by the silence of tech company leadership in countering the messages coming out of the Trump administration and DOGE. It's absolutely essential that credible, compelling voices speak up now in favor of truth and fairness.

I'm just one guy, but I'm in a position to do that where many others aren't. And I used to do some of this when I was running Cloudera and Sleepycat.

So I'm launching Not A Tech Bro as my platform.

https://not-a-tech-bro.ghost.io/the-genesis-post/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
tapirgirl@flipping.rocks ("Tapir Girl") wrote:

It was a banner day yesterday because (1) my open studio didn’t get snowed out again, and lots of people came, and (2) I discovered that the local co-op is selling Clearly Canadian sodas, which disappeared from my life some 20 years ago and for which I pined every single day.

#Marquetry #Woodworking

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

The Rubber Mallet Man hits us on the head three times every day. No one knows why. I think he just enjoys it. But, what can you do?

It hurts so much. I hate it. But, today was the WORST day. While I was in line waiting to get my bonks, I saw that the guy in front of me was hit just ONE time!

Naturally, I was furious. I threw a fit until they dragged the bastard back and bonked him two more times.

I'm definitely getting angry about the right things in this situation.

Boosted by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

The fedi isn't like email. The fedi is like if you accidentally triple booked a bdsm convention, a FSF convention, and a communist workers AGM all in the same german arena

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

Another way Amazon hurts us: it presents garbage as literature, with a complete lack of discrimination.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/15/libraries-rule-amazon-drools/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

Your Black History Month art post for today: by Barkley L. Hendricks (1945-2017), “Lawdy Mama,” 1969, oil and gold leaf on canvas, 53 3/4 x 36 1/4 in. (136.5 x 92.1 cm), in the collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. #Art #blackart #blackartist #blackartists #BlackHistoryMonth

Art critic Yinka Elujoba describes this work as “a luminous painting of a Black woman cleverly layered on gold leaf with an Afro sitting on her head like a halo, complementing the arched canvas.” New York Times, Sept. 28, 2023.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
forrestbrazeal@hachyderm.io ("Forrest Brazeal") wrote:

I'm going to business hell for this one

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
otaviocc@social.lol ("Otávio :prami:") wrote:

👨‍💻 Folks, I’ve updated my GitHub repository for my #Tapestry (by @Iconfactory) Connectors!

I’ve added a connector for @glass!

This connector allows you to follow specific users from the platform who have a public profile.

You can also show or hide photo descriptions if you prefer a photo-only experience.

Happy scrolling!

https://github.com/otaviocc/tapestry-connectors

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

Sleazy ol' Ken Ham sure gets away with a lot.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/15/the-latest-news-on-creationism-in-kentucky/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2DDe9PL-oQ

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
wholesomememes@mas.to ("Wholesomememes") wrote:

Emotional support buildings ✨ (by u/[Deleted user])
(AI Alt-Text)

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

These people have no fucking clue what they're doing and it would be hilarious, if it wasn't in fact an active danger to us all

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-desperately-tries-to-rehire-staff-after-purge-at-nuclear-agency/ar-AA1z4q5h

Boosted by jwz:
dch82 wrote:

@NanoRaptor Magic Keyboard (1950)

jwz wrote:

"Shouldn't we be using the wetvac for this?"
"Oh, it's way too small."
"Isn't it like 30 gallons?"
"Naaah we killed that one months ago."

jwz wrote:

You just have no idea how much poop my business entails. No, more. Ok you're thinking about even more poop, good, more than that. More.

jwz wrote:

vt100 termcap unicode is a thing I know about now. Actually I knew about it before because apparently at some point I had implemented it. But now I know about it again. Like the unaired pilot of the reboot of Electra Woman and Dyna Girl. Sometimes there are things you forget but they keep coming back.

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Some of y'all are picketing Tesla? Have fun. Not me tho.

BYD sells 10,000 cars a day. A day! Picketing Tesla is like throwing snowballs at the Titanic.🤷🏿‍♂️

And picketing can't stop what's left of the federal gov't from buying a bunch of Cybertrucks.

My protest? Not buying a Tesla in the 1st place.

I'm not saying don't protest. I'm not in the habit of telling people how they should and should not protest.

I'm just saying that some of the people that will be protesting, will drive up to that protest in a $100,000 Tesla, and I don't get that.
🙂🙃

You can't fight your own wallet.