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davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

Arlington National Cemetery removed links to webpages listing the dozens of “Notable Graves” of Black, Hispanic and female veterans and their spouses. 🙄

https://wapo.st/4isEBv8

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exocomics@mastodon.world ("Li Chen") wrote:

I’ve been getting the most adorable fan letters from kids who have enjoyed my Detective Beans book and the cutest part is they ALWAYS tell me their age and give out a random fact about themselves. It’s like an unspoken child-letter rule and I love it 🥹

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davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

Expedition finds H5N1 in 13 bird and seal species on the Antarctic Peninsula 😬

https://www.science.org/content/article/deadly-avian-flu-strain-spreading-rapidly-antarctica

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I wanted to see if I can recreate Ché Aimee Dorval's album cover for The Widow. I used my two Arri tungsten lights, one 300W with a blue gel, and one 650W with a red gel and a softbox.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 160
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
👤 Wife
⚗ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:"):
mihobu@social.lol ("Michael Burkhardt :usad:🇺🇦") wrote:

Ukraine raised over $360 million for defense through the United24 website in January and February, with 41% coming from the USA. That’s over $148 million. #StandWithUkraine

https://u24.gov.ua/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:"):
binarydigit@social.lol ("Liz :usa_distress:") wrote:

I'm SO damn tired. Tired AI creeping into everything. Tired of switching programs/apps/software because of the tech oligarchy and shitty practices, TOS changes, and everything that lacks integrity. Tired of the state of this damn country. Tired of seeing my friends hurting because of it. Tired of always being on high alert. It's only halfway through March. :aggretsuko_rage:

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

I'll bet the toilets on the Goa'uld Ha'tak motherships weren't even stainless, they were probably stone. Those folks built to last.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:"):
ryanboswell@sfba.social ("Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Was explaining the whole self-hosted/small web movement to someone at work today, and they replied “Oh, so you’re like one of those preppers with a bunker, but digital.”

And I will not be taking any further questions at this time.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cramirez ("Christian Ramirez") wrote:

As far as I'm concerned, AOC is the leader of the democratic party.

She has my full support.

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

I am hardly young, and I too am enraged that Sen. Schumer has brought a wagging finger to a gunfight.

#JustSayNo

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/government-shutdown-spending-bill-schumer-democrats.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.4E4.AxDt.f1sDslhHLa9p&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

just had a very productive & professional interaction with “Trust & Safety” at OpenAI. their bot was mis-identifying the protections we use to ensure our users will *only* get back child-safe materials… as *requests* instead of *guardrails*

a simple email response to their automated warning resulted in a quick problem resolution by a real humanoid. this is A Good Thing +100

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
AzulCrescent@tech.lgbt wrote:

"American Fried Rice"

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

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
bjoernstaerk@snabelen.no ("Bjørn Stærk") wrote:

@pluralistic an older example of the same thing: to be gay in the 1970s, in many countries you had to think you knew better than the health authorities, who believed this was an illness you should try to cure.

and then, a couple of years later, the same health authorities ask you to believe that there's a dangerous illness going around that somehow mysteriously requires gay people to limit their sex lives.

knowing which scientific claims to trust is _very hard_.

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juliehuz@mastodon.world ("Julie Hughes") wrote:

Here is the shameful list...

#uspol #uspolitics

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lambda@chaosfurs.social ("Lambda :neofox_flag_nb:") wrote:

idk that seems like a weird requirement

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niedlichenacktschnecke@kolektiva.social ("Niedliche Nacktschnecke") wrote:

@cstross there's a "i'm drinking goat milk because I can't get chimpanzee milk" to incel white supremacist pipeline

jwz wrote:

"Z is for Zombie: Learning to Spell with House of 1000 Corpses friends"

Rob Zombie out here leading his best life:
https://jwz.org/b/ykkZ

jwz wrote:

Lumon Industries WoeMeter.

A machine that measures Woe in a person, one of Kier Eagan's Four Tempers: Woe, Frolic, Dread, and Malice.
https://jwz.org/b/ykkX

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Flipboard@flipboard.social wrote:

Leaked audio from a staff meeting at the U.S. Social Security Administration suggests the agency may be in peril. Acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek, a career civil servant who was promoted to his current position by the Trump administration, told others at a closed-door meeting: “Are we going to break something?” referring to what DOGE has been doing with Social Security data. “I don’t know.” Here's more from @ProPublica.

https://www.propublica.org/article/recording-reveals-leland-dudek-thoughts-trump-doge-social-security

#USGovernment #DOGE #ElonMusk #USPolitics #SocialSecurity

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NewsDesk@flipboard.social ("Flipboard News Desk") wrote:

Ukrainian troops are withdrawing from the Russian region of Kursk. @dw dives into why.
https://flip.it/sp2wey
#Ukraine #Russia #US #Kursk #Putin #Zelenskyy

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

10 Senators who are Democratic Party members just voted to give Trump a budget he will spend however he pleases. I am ashamed to say I am a constituent of 2 of them: the supposed Senate Democratic Leader, Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, & Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York.

the power of the purse is the only tool they have to deal with a President who ignores the rule of law, & the Congress has abandoned that power & Constitutional responsibility. we have a “Non Player Congress”.

#JustSayNo

jwz wrote:

https://theonion.com/chuck-schumer-helps-pull-democrats-back-from-brink-of-courage/

jwz wrote:

Just checked my spam folder and in the last week there are more than 100 fake docusigns.

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

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

“But all of my followers…”
“But I get better engagement there…”
“But my friends are still there…”

Nobody wants to face the reality that their favorite pub has become a nazi bar. But if you can’t see it, and more importantly if you can’t act accordingly, you’re either ignorant, unscrupulous, or a nazi.

There are no more excuses. It’s over.

jwz wrote:

Spam pro tip.

When a spam message gets past my shields and lands in my inbox, the first thing I do is look at the SpamAssassin headers to see if some rule fired whose priority I should bump up. Usually the answer is "Uggggghhhhhh no". It used to be...
https://jwz.org/b/ykkV

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

This; so very much *this*. I really stepped in it the last time I brought this up, so this time I’ll just say: please, for the love of whatever crumbs of decency still remain in the world, tell anyone you know who still uses that platform to get the fuck off of it.

https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/114159624462377148

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:"):
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Musk's latest amplification of fascist contempt for humanity is a reminder that if you are still on his evil platform -- especially if you're posting there -- you are supporting his vile business.

https://meidasnews.com/news/elon-musk-retweet-hitler-didnt-murder-millions-of-people-public-sector-workers-did

This goes 10x for journalists, who mock their craft and demonstrate a special kind of indifference to ethics and morality by sticking around.

Stop pretending otherwise.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

A temporary government shutdown would be painful, but the alternative is a continuation of the government liquidation sale that's currently in progress.