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

hah! truth

https://www.reddit.com/r/rit/s/mm3kJGOyu1

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
TradescantiaHub@scicomm.xyz ("Tradescantia Hub") wrote:

Exciting news! After years of work, my research paper has just been published. It shows that adding a layer of gravel at the bottom of a plant pot really DOES improve drainage. This exact scenario has never been directly tested before, in spite of a lot of myths and theories flying around.

The full research paper is open access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0318716

There's also a slightly more reader-friendly summary and explanation of the research on my website: https://tradescantia.uk/article/drainage-layers/

@plants #plants

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sarahjamielewis ("Sarah Jamie Lewis") wrote:

General rule of thumb: Every time an organization updates their terms of service and/or privacy policy, it is never because they have your best interests at heart.

Specific thoughts on this latest Mozilla action (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/firefox-terms-of-use/)

Setting aside the "worldwide license" bullshit, the privacy policy appears to have broadened both the classes of data Mozilla aims to collect, and the situations in which they collect them.

These are not the actions of an org that cares about your privacy.

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mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :donor:") wrote:

Firefox now has Terms of Use! This'll go over like a lead balloon.

You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet. When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/

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

welcome to Malta

https://mstdn.social/@VedaDalsette/114072243200516493

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
VedaDalsette@mstdn.social ("Veda Dalsette") wrote:

The Italians knew how to handle Mussolini. Can we learn?

‘Trump gold card’ to offer rich foreigners route to US citizenship for $5m
US president says new visa program would be open to Russian oligarchs, some of whom ‘are very nice people’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/trump-gold-card-visa-rich-foreigners

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

from r/fednews

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25544180-usds-resignation-letter/

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

24-pin TIP 'worse-than-lego' package.

jwz wrote:

How do I get macOS 14.7.2 to stop spamming me with this ad every fucking day?

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

Two, count 'em, two.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/26/a-spider-with-two-hoo-has/

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KiwiEV@mastodon.nz ("Gavin Shoebridge") wrote:

Mildly amusing: this Aussie dude got fed up with people parking in his driveway so he installed a motion-activated sprinkler.

Attachments:

• video: This Aussie dude got fed up with people parking in his driveway so he installed a motion-activated sprinkler.

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fabianocerqueira ("Fabiano Cerqueira 🖖") wrote:

Meg Foster as Evil-Lyn in Masters of the Universe (1987)

#MegFoster #EvilLyn #MastersOfTheUniverse

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

@Daojoan @DSCH

Thank you. Yes.

To these excellent thoughts, I’d add: “What if ‘scaling’ doesn’t mean growth, but sustainability? Scaling up in time instead of space?”

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sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

I almost forgot! Happy Billionaires-Dropping-Shit-On-Canada-From-Orbit Day!!

1 year ago today, a SpaceX Crew Dragon cargo trunk, ejected by the the Axiom 3 private astronaut mission, made an uncontrolled reentry and sprayed potentially lethal debris across Saskatchewan farmland. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-dropped-space-junk-on-my-neighbors-farm-heres-what-happened-next/

SpaceX has dropped a bunch of other shit from orbit on a bunch of other places since then, so I guess this'll be a recurring "celebration"

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jasonkoebler ("Jason Koebler") wrote:

Bluesky moderators deleted the AI protest video of Trump sucking Musk's toes broadcast inside HUD office, called it 'non-consensual explicit material'

https://www.404media.co/bluesky-deletes-ai-protest-video-of-trump-sucking-musks-toes-calls-it-non-consensual-explicit-material/

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Viss wrote:

when the bsky exodus happens, please remember these things:
- dont be the fucking mastodon hoa. everyone hates those people. nobody cares if you think someone should be using a platform "your way". it drives people away. fucking stop it.

- dont shame them for going to bsky. do not mock them, do not give them grief. they made a mistake, and if they come back here, dont shit on them for it.

- make them feel better by coming here, not worse.

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Viss wrote:

- i cannot overemphasize this: dont be the motherfucking mastodon hoa. the entire reason bsky has been as successful as it was, is because too many people here told people "how to behave" on their first day, or shamed them because "they werent doing it right"

if you want mastodon to thrive, you have to make it "worth it to come here". nobody likes being shamed by rando strangers.

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self@awful.systems wrote:

after Proton’s latest PR push to paint their CEO as absolutely not a fascist failed to convince much of anyone (feat. a medium article I’m not gonna read cause it’s a waste of my time getting spread around by brand new accounts who mostly only seem to post about how much they like Proton), they decided to quietly bow out of mastodon and switch to the much more private and secure platform of… fucking Reddit of all things, where Proton can moderate critical comments out of existence (unfun fact: in spite of what most redditors believe, there’s no rule against companies moderating their own subs — it’s an etiquete violation, meaning nobody gives a fuck) and accounts that only post in defense of Proton won’t stick out like a sore thumb

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stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:

Mom: “No videogames, go play outside”
Me: “Ok”

Attachments:

• video: Playing with your shadow on top a bridge over a highway and avoid your shadow getting hit by a car

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cws@social.lol ("cws :verified:") wrote:

@prami Huzzah! How fun.

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

if this us real then our nation has lost an important journalistic resource

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:

Holy fuckerballs. 😳

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Andres@mastodon.hardcoredevs.com ("Andres Jalinton") wrote:

#washingtonpost

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

If you want to know how it's going in Portland, Oregon: we have a minor feud between two competing naked bike ride groups.

https://bikeportland.org/2025/02/25/get-ready-for-two-major-naked-rides-this-summer-392947

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

from reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/VuNWNJegFV

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alpine@infosec.exchange ("Zachary") wrote:

Thanks @adam for adding Finger support for omg.lol !

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mrundkvist@archaeo.social ("Martin Rundkvist") wrote:

The #Pokémon generation, like many before theirs, largely doesn't understand that biological #evolution is not directional. Evolution is not a tale of progress. It's just differential procreative success in the face of changing environments and random genetic drift. It's not headed anywhere. It's as purposeless as the solar system.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
oli@olifant.social ("D. Olifant") wrote:

"Don't use DMs on Mastodon. They aren't E2EE."

Fun fact: They aren't on Twitter. Or Facebook. Or Bluesky. Or any other place unless you use Signal or something.

Not sure why the Mastodons gets to be special here.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
axios ("Axios") wrote:

NEW: The Washington Post's Opinion Section editor David Shipley resigned after owner Jeff Bezos mandated the section only cover two topics, personal liberties and free markets. https://t.co/6ygwEfsfqI

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

RFE/RL reports it has obtained a copy of the US-Ukraine mineral deal but it "does not address key questions and leaves most details to be provided by a future agreement." https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-us-natural-resources-deal-reconstruction-fund/33329059.html