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jef ("Jef Poskanzer :batman:") wrote:

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

our military readiness is headed for an historic low within the next year, and we are becoming increasingly vulnerable to attack.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/1Ex7PpFvX1

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

I'm not planning to buy anything tomorrow, but honestly so much of that is wrapped up in having no actual plans to leave the house, is it a boycott if I'm just plain lazy

RE: https://www.threads.net/@pattonoswalt/post/DGl6WdMRgpS

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

I mean, we knew the GOP were cowards, this is just additional confirmation

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/republicans-trump-threats

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The jardin des Tuileries was a little barren, but I don't know what else you could expect in the middle of February. I tried out a wider lens, and Amelia tried out a new, Parisian haircut.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 55mm/4
👤 Wife
⚗ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Paris

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

Font I'm having a temporarily renewed obsession with for prose writing in Ulysses and Obsidian: iA Writer Quattro.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

What we’re losing: “High levels of trust used to be one of our superpowers in the US: specifically, that meant trust in our government to operate with reasonable competence & stability and without the kind of corruption that’s hobbled other societies.” https://kottke.org/25/02/in-what-we-trust

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

Today in History: Alexander Borodin (MD, chemist, and composer) dies, 1887

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

Today in History: Richard Cœur de Lion crowned, 1189

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Not only does Andrew Tate's lawyer work for the White House now, if you read his posts about Andrew Tate, they're sniffing glue stuff going on about how feminists are trapped in "The Matrix" blah blah.

Elon Musk unbanned Tate from Twitter.

There's a great deal of evidence that Tate committed serious crimes.

I keep watching senior US political leaders going on about the Deep State, Dark Money etc - it's all just profoundly awful, it feels like the US is going to have a lost generation.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
violetblue ("Violet Blue") wrote:

New: #Measles spreads and kills in Texas, New Mexico, New Jersey, Kentucky. RFK cancels C19 oral vaccine development. US #Covid levels expected to peak around May 16, UK still rising. Vaccinated kids have 57-73% lower risk of #LongCovid. SNL50 cases: Maya Rudolph, Martin Short, Chloe Fineman; more.

Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-february-123210711

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CStamp ("Carolyn") wrote:

@StillIRise1963 And there are no take-backs. Your kid is dead for good. Because you failed to protect your kid.

Some parents of dead kids by whooping cough regretted not vaccinating, after having seen them suffer in the hospital before dying. "We had no idea..." Yes, you did. You chose to listen to an uncredited wacko over doctors and health care systems.

Boosted by jwz:
danfuzz ("Dan Bornstein") wrote:

Happy First Radian Day, to those who celebrate.

This is the 58th day of the year. 58 ≅ 365.256/2π. That is, it is the day during which the path traced by the Earth around the Sun, starting from the beginning of the year, is momentarily the same length as the distance between the Earth and Sun, to a first approximation. This is of course way more mathematically and geometrically interesting than Decimal Approximation Pi Day on 3/14.

Boosted by jwz:
TheZeldaZone ("🎀Zelda👑") wrote:

Trip: "Whale Cap'n, these relays're fused harder than a junebuggy in a mayfly"

T'pol (emotionlessly): "What the fuck"

#scifi #startrek #shitpost

Boosted by jwz:
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

Sen. Tammy Duckworth with receipts!

jwz wrote:

"I'm clicking a cow!"

For no reason at all, here are some phone numbers.

Left as an exercise to the reader:

1. Identify the owner of these numbers;
2. Generate a list of all the other numbers they own;
3. Figure out how to bulk import numbers into the Messages.app blocklist without clicking "plus" for each one.

https://jwz.org/b/ykip

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

I've got a booming feral spider population thriving in my lab. I wonder why?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/27/thats-how-you-get-spiders-you-know/

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

Good.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/media/washington-post-jeff-bezos/index.html

Boosted by chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin"):
panic@panic.com ("Panic") wrote:

🕵️ Every day is truly full of surprises on the internet. Elizabeth came across this on LinkedIn and, just for the record…… this is not an actual Panic employee.

That being said we WILL be blaming Bradley for everything that goes wrong from this point forward

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

With the recent Firefox TOS noise, I looked at Zeb browser again and it still has some rough edges but has gotten way better. Worth a revisit.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
heyheymomo@socel.net wrote:

What a day

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

For those of you looking for an alternative to Firefox, please do give Vivaldi a try. I've been using it for the last few months and it's really solid. Lots of good privacy features, and lots of good user experience stuff. https://vivaldi.com/desktop/

Also, they're on the Fediverse: @Vivaldi

PS. Runs on Linux, too!

#Firefox #browsers

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
davidbisset@phpc.social ("David Bisset") wrote:

Best (so far) read on #Firefox ToS change.

https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/02/26/mozillas-new-terms-of-use-are-out-of-step-with-firefoxs-direct-competition.html

"Users of #opensource aren’t auto granting dev rights to their work. Why is Firefox different?"

"I immediately wondered whether using Microsoft Word also needed this kind of license grant since it is processing my words."

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

love the video, hate the elevator music https://youtu.be/yPy4lL0fFW0

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

“could br held personally liable” may help managers grow some spine: https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/Z3WqGWfaGa

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

Gonna watch "The Birdcage" tonight and think about how good Gene Hackman was in it, in a film full of people whose fulltime job was upstaging every other person onscreen

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

Putting up giant statues of oneself is usually a good indicator that a revolution is on the way.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/27/is-anyone-still-unconvinced-that-he-is-absolutely-mad/

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

The most significant foreign relations victory for the Trump administration has been the release of a pair of sexual predators, which is perfectly in keeping with the interests and abilities of the current US government, to be sure

RE: https://www.threads.net/@hollywoodreporter/post/DGlC6uvOIxB

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

The "Wow" signal is not evidence for gods or aliens.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/27/a-guilty-pleasure/

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

Looking for a good slogan for my "Stand up for Science" sign.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/27/what-would-you-tell-people-who-want-to-gut-basic-research/