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

Winter whispers low,
Soft snowflakes hide the warm sun,
Hearts ache for spring's glow.

via Storyteller https://arghstudios.com/

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

When satire edges too close to straight-up reporting…

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/21/i-fear-for-the-republic/

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

1. It's worth knowing the rules of grammar, and worth even more to know that clarity in writing and speaking is more important than the "rules";

2. Which is not to say I don't appreciate my copy editors for novels and other professional work;

2. That said, when some random internet pedant smugly attempts to correct my grammar, my immediate thought is to tell them to go fuck themself

https://youtu.be/RLXV6QPcJHQ

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:

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Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
bkardell@toot.cafe wrote:

It's such a shame that it's possible to have areas of the platform like accessibility, internationalization, print, math and svg that just don't get the love from implmenters. I'm really glad we have at least a few things like NLNet funding accessibility related work:

https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/solving-cross-root-aria-issues-in-shadow-dom/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
bendaubney@social.lol ("Ben Daubney :prami:") wrote:

The audience at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 17th May 1966: https://beep.town/@lumon/114041292838491847

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jcrabapple@dmv.community ("Jcrabapple") wrote:

This person has officially done more actual auditing than DOGE. #USPol #DOGE #ElonMusk

Attachments:

• video: The video is a TikTok duet with a woman responding to a man. At the beginning of the video, a man with a beard, neck tattoo, and wearing a black shirt is shown in the top half of the screen. The man says, "Maybe liberals would understand what Elon is doing more if they followed the money like they were following the science." A woman with a nose ring and wearing a light blue sweatshirt appears in the bottom half of the screen. She says, "Okay, let's follow the money then." The woman appears in a new location and says, "Let's look at this Doge tweet where they claim to have saved $2.2 million by canceling a Health and Human Services contract." The woman continues to appear in new locations, and she displays screenshots of various websites and social media posts. She says: "The documents that he screenshots and posts on his website and on his Twitter account are from this." "But just in case that database is wrong, I also like to check the USA Spending website." "So here's that contract that he was talking about." "It's worth $2.2 million. But we've already outlayed $1.3 million. Meaning that we already sent and paid $1.3 million worth of this contract." "And the total obligated amount is what we are legally required to pay." "So Elon Musk changing the status of the document does nothing. He saved us no money with this." "Let's take a look at this contract that he supposedly canceled and saved us $8.2 million with." "Here you can see we've already paid $3.4 million, and we

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
macmanx@social.lol ("James Huff :prami_pride_pan:") wrote:

“This past election seemed to be a referendum more on the price of eggs than the price of freedom; one winces to recall Ben Franklin’s proclamation that ‘those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.’ (Also, the price of eggs is soaring.)”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/wed-never-had-a-king-until-this-week

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jk ("josef") wrote:

does anyone else do the thing where like. instead of pressing Ctrl-C, you press Ctrl-X then Ctrl-V, to give you feedback the thing you selected was in fact copied, because one time, years ago, you were burned by something failing to go into the clipboard and it wasted 5 seconds of your day, and you want to ensure that it never happens again

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

I got up early to spend a little quality time with my friends.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/21/breakfast-time/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
bendaubney@social.lol ("Ben Daubney :prami:") wrote:

Jimi Hendix would totally have an /about page

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
pratik@writing.exchange ("Pratik") wrote:

I can add #uspol to my posts but I will NOT use a CW coz not seeing reality doesn't make it go away especially when it affects others more than you.

You can unfollow me if you are getting too stressed out. Trust me, there are people whose lives are more upended than yours.

The least you can do is read about it and hopefully, call your elected representatives...every day. Don't know what to say, here's some tips - https://5calls.org/

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

Strangely enough, it takes more than permed hair and a puka shell necklace to make people forget that you're an emotionless fascist-friendly choad

RE: https://www.threads.net/@techcrunch/post/DGTt4thIZvM

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

I mean, I knew, but thank you for the update

RE: https://www.threads.net/@theonion/post/DGTpnfsKRDO

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
metin@graphics.social ("Metin Seven 🎨") wrote:

Lists with free or affordable alternatives to big commercial applications and services…

➡️ https://switching.software

➡️ https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/

➡️ https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to

➡️ https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle

➡️ https://codeberg.org/ADHDefy/delightful-creative-tools

➡️ https://github.com/KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives

➡️ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yNXpuy5tVP0q-El0DqoY-AwmPHT6K09NEZG-Pf0KJ7E/edit?tab=t.0

➡️ https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

#software #tip #tips #free #OpenSource #FOSS #tech #technology #BigTech #FediTip #FediTips #MastoTip #MastoTips #tools

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
riffraff ("gabriele renzi") wrote:

I must have read "I have no mouth, and I must scream" by #HarlanEllison decades ago.
It's one of the scariest things I've read in my life.
Yet I've not read much else of his writings.
I've just gone through "jeffty is five" and it's a masterpiece.
#scifi #books #bookstodon

Boosted by jwz:
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

If you think I'm too critical of Elon Musk you're really gonna hate the history books

Boosted by jwz:
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

Not quite what I had in mind while working on getting HTTP 451 blessed, but appropriate:
https://aphyr.com/posts/379-geoblocking-the-uk-with-debian-nginx

jwz wrote:

Been getting big into papercraft this week. And by big I mean 10' tall, and I used up a quart of white glue today.

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

Trump "is parroting a regular supply of Kremlin talking points stemming from somewhere yet unknown, altering the course of the largest war in Europe since the 1940s. ...

Only one strategic interest has been served by Trump’s radical rewriting of the global order in the past fortnight. And it is that of the one adversary NATO was founded to confront."

~ Nick Paton Walsh

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
/5

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/europe/analysis-trump-zelensky-dictator-intl-latam/index.html

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jason@social.lol ("//Jason") wrote:

Being in the woods without signal is a feature, not a bug.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
Sky4Sushi@oc.todon.fr wrote:

#breizh
#nousaussionpeutdiredesconneries

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
lumon@beep.town ("Lumon Gif Refinery") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: fuck you mr milchick

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

Wow. #Severance. Just… wow.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
realGulDukat ("Gul Dukat") wrote:

ATTENTION BAJORAN WORKERS
#STARTREK #SISKO197

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Peaches busy making biscuits.

#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

Attachments:

• gifv: A white cat with orange patches and a pink nose (Peaches) repeatedly kneading a spot on the couch. There is a plush red Among Us in the background.

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

https://music.apple.com/us/album/that-man/647779447?i=647779577

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

We need more heroes. We won't find them in the halls of congress, on either side of the aisle.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/20/courage-is-what-we-need/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SnfgVguGXU

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
JohannaForster@mastodon.art ("Johanna Forster") wrote:

Ride through the woods 🌱 water colour painting from 2021 I think :) #art #drawing #fantasyart #watercolour

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

Assistant Chief Counsel for ICE in Dallas:

‘Since GlomarResponder was first created in 2012, the account has posted hateful, xenophobic, and pro-fascist content. “America is a White nation, founded by Whites. … Our country should favor us,” GlomarResponder wrote last month. “All blacks are foreign to my people, dumb fuck,” the account posted in September of last year. “Freedom of association hasn’t existed in this country since 1964…”’

https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/