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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
adapalmer@wandering.shop ("Ada Palmer") wrote:

Lorenzo de Medici had a pet giraffe. Its name was Giraffe, because it was *the only* giraffe, the first giraffe in Europe since the days of Augustus. It was a gift to Lorenzo from the Sultan of Egypt, in thanks for some trade deals and diplomacy that helped the Sultan in his war against Venice. 3/?

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lolennui.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Amy Ash") wrote:

the democrats should all wear juggalo makeup, I don’t think it would help but it would be annoying to give a speech looking at that

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violetblue ("Violet Blue") wrote:

New: DHS denies confirmed reports US is standing down from Russia #cybersecurity threats, Google to phase out SMS verification, DHS quietly eliminates ban on #surveillance based on orientation and gender, vaccine updates from Europe, #measles now in New York, and more: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-4-123583559

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nowii_memes ("Nowi's Memes") wrote:

:)

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lavaeolus@fedihum.org ("Henrik Schönemann") wrote:

I'm once again asking everyone who got the order to delete or change stuff on their websites etc. pp.:
Before doing so, ping us.
Do it via @SafeguardingResearch or via matrix: @schoeneh:matrix.org

Our main place to organize is the forum:
https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/

And a form to report URLs for #SafeguardingResearch:
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/wL4NNzKWUfZ+GrPV4deTxNgr0MoAvLgOA33eLC2ATUU/

See also re #TransLives:
https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113916747117497296

Please boost and share widely!

jwz wrote:

Make Nazis Sweat Again:

Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery: A Facebook group for Cybertruck owners is full of videos and photos of passersby and other drivers flicking them off, leaving notes that say "WHAT'S ELON'S CUM...
https://jwz.org/b/ykjp

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Last night, @bcantrill and I were joined by our colleague Andrew, @rain and @nerdyjkg to talk about developing a general structure diffing crate in service of our upgrade project. https://youtu.be/BTdxuOwV1eY

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

Well, this is a cool year to be contemplating trying to go fully independent because, hey, I have a decent amount saved up in investments and the stock market has been doing so well

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

Ontario rips up Starlink deal, plans to tax electricity in response to Trump trade war | CBC News

‘The tariffs come despite Trump himself being the president who signed the most recent free trade deal with Canada and Mexico, saying in 2020 it was "the best and most important trade deal ever made by the USA."’

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-us-tariffs-trump-ontario-retaliation-measures-1.7473968

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

Some huge @eleventy core package size wins today from a few small changes after analyzing the package using @antfu’s Node Modules Inspector

https://node-modules.dev/

Retiring unnecessary Node.js version back-compat is a good thing!

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
henry@front-end.social ("henry ✷") wrote:

📝 new quick note on the blog: bunch of one-liners (or three-liners) for when you have `2025-03-02T01:38:41.969Z` and you want to render `March 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM` :)

https://henry.codes/writing/human-readable-date-formatting-with-vanilla-javascript/

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

The free speech absolutists want to end free speech. Fortunately, all protests at my university are legal.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/04/i-thought-they-were-free-speech-absolutists/

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

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

TIL Elvira lives in Portland:

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/03/elvira-portlands-mistress-of-the-dark-sends-tesla-down-the-highway-to-hell-in-viral-video.html

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

Plain text is accessible text. Fortunately I don’t see too many people using faux bold/italic Unicode stuff around here, but if you want to understand the accessibility implications of using those decorative characters, check out the videos in this thread.

https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/114100694128656656

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

https://xoxo.zone/@BrianEnigma/114105485487128307

https://americaisgoinggreat.com/

#USPol #Trump

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sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

I don't know who needs this, but 2 baby eagles just hatched in California: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L2nfGcuE

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ricci@discuss.systems ("Rob Ricci") wrote:

@hpj @djsundog

This Is Just To Say

I have shaved
the yak
that was in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
planning
to shave yourself

Forgive me
it was so tempting
so rough
and so hairy

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

@djsundog Shaving this yak was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. The yak is still present in your time, as it was in ours.

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Bronwyn@sfba.social ("Bronwyn Harris") wrote:

Today I worked with a third grader on multiplication. I told him that zero was an easy one to remember because it made all other numbers turn to zero. 4 x 0? Zero. A million times zero? Zero. I said, "Zero is a bully that way."

He said, "But in addition, zero never gets anywhere. It doesn't change a number at all. I think that's how it became evil; the wretched origin of zero." (yes, he really said that)

I said, "That sounds like a great story to write.

His eyes LIT UP and he said, "Please can I write that story?" When I agreed, he said "THIS is why I LOVE going to Bronwyn!"

The story is barely started but includes the lines:

“Zilch had a wretched soul because nobody wants to be zilch”

(That was because it doesn’t change the number in addition)

"But one day he discovered ’times’ and what it can do” (change all the other numbers to zero)

And then zilch laughs an evil laugh.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
kathimmel@mstdn.social ("it's kat! 🇵🇸✊") wrote:

if you need a soundtrack for just walking down the road, this is probably it.
#music #musique #guyBoyer #moog #france
https://vreemdeopties.bandcamp.com/track/aventure-et-tambourin
('aventure et tambourin' - guy boyer, 1973)

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

Old ways are still valid, and there are new ways left unexplored.

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

Relying on a typical growth-and-profit-are-the-only-priorities corporations to archive, organize, curate, and access knowledge was a bad idea, but that doesn't mean it's not possible to archive, organize, curate, and access knowledge in other ways. I don't think we've (yet) lost knowledge, it's just the corps. we've recently been relying on have proven to be unworthy for the responsibility they assumed for themselves (and which we granted them). We can do it differently now.

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

good

https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2025/03/aba-rejects-efforts-to-undermine-courts-and-legal-profession/

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MLClark@wandering.shop ("M. L. Clark") wrote:

Today I spent an inordinate amount of time staring at our home. Or maybe not long enough?

We live on Orion-Cygnus, a minor arm of a sprawling galaxy, which is itself a drop in the bucket for galaxies all over.

And we only get a few years here to learn as much as we can, witness as much as we can, help as much as we can.

Every moment lost to mediocrity, cruelty, pettiness...

The universe doesn't care how we make use of our brief moments here.

Which is why we have to.

This is all we've got.

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

Does anyone else remember Charles Laughton in this old movie? Classic. Now playing on K2-360b.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/04/interesting-planet-but-not-on-my-tourism-itinerary/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKQJdf8HeUw

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mihobu@social.lol ("Michael Brrrkhardt ❄️") wrote:

🌸🌹🌻 Tuesday is Day 4 of the Battle of the Blooms! 💐🌼🌷

PICK TODAY’S WINNING FLOWER:

Will it be

(7) Tulip
or
(8) Calla Lilly

See replies for pictures.

👉 Remember, there’ll be a new poll every day during the month of March!

#craft
#PaperCraft
#Origami
#MarchMadness
#BloomScrolling
#Flowers

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Update: The original behavior, automatically installing the toolchain from `rust-toolchain.toml`, will be restored in rustup 1.28.1, to be released soon.

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

Working through adding webmention support to my site, finally. I didn't love the existing solutions I found for adding them to static sites, so naturally, I rolled my own: https://github.com/chipotle/get-mentions