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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
calcifer@hackers.town ("calcifer :nes_fire:") wrote:

“Real men” aren’t afraid of anything! Except:

  • DEI;
  • Trans people;
  • empathy;
  • minor inconvenience for the common good;
  • literal children who express opinions they don’t like;
  • accountability;
  • people from a different country or culture;
  • being judged by the content of their character;
  • math or science above a 5th-grade level;
  • thin pieces of fabric over their nose and mouth;
  • shots;
  • actual free speech.

This list is incomplete.

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

How many SpaceX contracts were cut in this latest round of DOGE-driven NASA cuts?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/25/the-fox-is-in-charge-of-the-henhouse/

DOGE coin

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nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Today I tried something that Bulgarians call “hummus”. I have nothing to add.

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

She has an appetite, which means she must be girl.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/25/feminine-stereotypes/

greenbottle blue tarantula

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

I take the kiddo to the library fairly often, and in the kid area they have low tables with some paper and blank bookmarks. Unfortunately (but understandably), the art supplies on offer are big stubby crayons and some mediocre, kid safe markers.

I've made the best of the available art supplies, but I recently started to bring a ballpoint pen with me. I'm also trying to have some prepared ideas to try for the odd format.

Just some fun doodles.

#yaombaaa #doodle

Top down view of thee cars careening through a winding two lane road outside the city. The cars race from top to bottom of the bookmark. There's also a couple of deer looking like they want to cross the road. At the top I wrote "THE RACE!". (Yes, I probably played too many top down racing games as a kid.)
Along the right side of the bookmark, a tree grows from bottom to top. It's branches protrude out to the left. On the branches we see creatures peering out at us. From bottom to top: A large caterpillar type creature with four eyes, a furry monkey like creature, a very hairy creature with a broad head with only the round eyes visible (behind him a creature pokes its head out upside down from behind the tree), a bird and a mischievous gremlin sit together, a hairy ball with arms and legs hangs from the topmost branch, and finally a creature with three eyes on stalks sits on the topmost branch. The most challenging aspect of these bookmarks is the fact I'm trying to draw one of these while also managing the kiddo in a space where at any moment other kids and parents can come by and interrupt things. Managing to make anything is somewhat surprising.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
david@photog.social ("David de Groot 📸") wrote:

My morning was improved one-hundred-fold by the discovery of this tiny Eastern Dwarf Treefrog on a citrus fruit.

It was no bigger than a beetle, and almost the same colour as the unripe fruit.

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #frog #EasternDwarfTreefrog

A tiny green frog with black stripe through its eye and around the nose, huddled on a green citrus fruit. It is almost the same colour as the fruit and is presumably hoping not to be noticed.
A crop of the previous image to better show the tiny frog. It is green on top, with a black stripe running along its side, through the eye and down to the nose. The legs are tucked up under it, but some of the gold colouring on the legs is visible.

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

Cherry pie at dawn,
Sweetness on my morning plate,
Rules bend with each bite.

courtesy https://arghstudios.com/

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

This comparison is offensively stupid, and says far more about the ignorance and delusions of Christians than anything about atheists.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/25/the-average-christian-is-a-believer-in-lies/

Cartoon comparing the "average atheist" with the "average christian" that gets nothing right.

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

In today's mastodon.social update we have significantly improved the media overlay in Mastodon's web app. You can double-tap to zoom in and out instead of clicking the 1:1 button, and panning and pinch-to-zoom work a lot smoother on touch devices. You can also finally swipe up or down to close the overlay.

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

If I had to start my morning gagging at this song, so can you.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/25/so-bad/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX2%5FGxM8C1I

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

HEY THREADS: Today is the North American release date for When the Moon Hits Your Eye, my latest novel, and also I am on the road for a two-week US book tour! Please buy my book and/or come to see me on the road! All the details about both are at the link.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/03/25/when-the-moon-hits-your-eye-is-out-today-and-also-hello-i-am-on-book-tour-please-come-see-me/

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

I’m sure the Inspectors General of DoD, State, National Intelligence, and Secret Service will be all over thi… excuse me, you won’t believe what I just remembered

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
johnvoorhees@macstories.net ("John Voorhees") wrote:

We've seen reports of developers having trouble with App Review over apps that let users input an API token for a third-party service.

If you've run into this with App Review, get in touch. I'd like to get a sense for whether this is a widespread issue and what kinds of apps are affected.

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Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

The prophecy is fulfilled.

a CyberDumpster filled with trash

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SteveD3@infosec.exchange ("Steve Ragan (SteveD3) :verified:") wrote:

When you get invited to the NatSec group chat....

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thomasfuchs.at@bsky.brid.gy ("Thomas 🕹️🔭") wrote:

Peak camera, I will not take questions at this time

A Sony floppy disk camera that has 14x zoom, optical image stabilization and a flip out tilt screen

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

Drink special for Death Guild: NEW SECDEF
WHO DIS? -- BULLIET BURBON, GINGER, DASH OF ORANGE BITTERS

$13

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Boosted by jwz:
simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

Work slowly.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
raph@mastodon.online ("Raph Levien") wrote:

I've now published my blog post, "I want a good parallel computer." https://raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2025/03/21/good-parallel-computer.html . Thanks much to all the feedback on the draft, I'd like to think I've clarified some things that might have been confusing.

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
DocPop@pixelfed.social ("Doctor P. Popular") wrote:

Jazzy street art on 19th and Capp in SF. Artist unknown. #SFGraffiti #Graffiti #StreetArt

A US postal box that has been painted all white, with teal and purple zigzags running along the middle of it. This was done by a street artist and it resembles a disposable cup by Dixie Cups.
A postal box that has been painted all white with teal and purple lines in the center. The postal box used to be blue, but now it looks like the "Jazz" design on the cups by Solo Cup Company. This photo is taken at night and has a gritty vibe to it.

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ghibli@beep.town ("Studio Gifli Bot") wrote:

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:

he probably saw a line item saying “seed vault,” said “psh hahaha farmers? no, we need to fund tech. my tech, that is,” and deleted it https://infosec.exchange/@Blueteamsherpa/114220475814351853

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Boosted by jwz:
kbeninato@mstdn.party ("Karen Dalton-Beninato ☑️") wrote:

me in the national security team group chat

Lily Tomlin on the phone

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Boosted by jwz:
gwensnyder.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Gwen Snyder is uncivil") wrote:

I am again just reminding Dept of Ed employees that you could probably accomplish debt jubilee just by labeling the student loan record folder "DEI" on your way out the door

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Boosted by jwz:
kyleve@mastodon.online ("Kyle 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Me and the boys in the google doc where JD Vance and Pete Hegseth are planning WW3

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selectric@tacobelllabs.net ("liz ten eleven") wrote:

me in the national security team group chat

screencap from the x-files (S7E19): a three way split-screen showing agents dana scully and fox mulder in their respective bubble baths, on the phone. assistant director walter skinner has also joined the call from his bubble bath.

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Boosted by jwz:
MatthewChat@mstdn.social ("Matthewchat") wrote:

@Daojoan

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evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

They don't use Signal for the encryption; they don't know what encryption is. They only use it for the disappearing messages.

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Pritzker is the kind of Democrat we need -- no more Newsoms and Schumers.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/24/jb-pritzker-makes-my-day/

The Virgin Newsom vs the Chad Pritzker.

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jwz wrote:

Lest We Forget the Horrors, Part 2:

An Unending Catalog of Trump's Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: Early in President Trump's first term, McSweeney's editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his...
https://jwz.org/b/ykk-

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