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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

A 13-year-old Ukrainian karate athlete refused a photo with a "neutral" Russian athlete at a competition in Spain.

Yevhenii Melnyk's father serves in the military, and the young athlete, who lives in Kyiv, personally witnesses the impact of the ongoing Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities.

He took a stand at the Youth Karate League in Guadalajara after winning a bronze medal in the under-45kg (99lbs) category.

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• video: 064b8c19d3c1e938.mp4

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

when the Citizens of a republic fail to exercise their rights, then tyrants flourish. do not just just complain, act.

find a group:
https://indivisible.org/

prepare:
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protest-safely-gear-tips/

know your rights:
https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
markmccaughrean ("Mark McCaughrean") wrote:

A sunny week & the fig tree is in full bloom 💐

No, those aren’t fruit – they’re flowers. Or more properly, syconia, large numbers of inverted flowers in a green outer layer 🙃

Waiting to be pollinated by tiny fig wasps that crawl inside, then living, reproducing, & in many cases, dying there 🐝

Figs are weird 😬

As for the little fig leaves, well, they remind me of the narcissistic sociopaths who’re trying to destroy the world to make up for their inadequacies 🤷‍♂️

#Photography 📷

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TwraSun ("Twra Sun") wrote:

Heute vor 80 Jahren wurde Dietrich Bonhoeffer von den Nationalsozialisten ermordet. 🖤

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

think about it

https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/114307349227074764

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

I'm furious at the local grocery store! I buy many things from them, often every week ... but they buy nothing, not one thing from me!

You may mutter that the grocery has no need for services such as: math education, questionable short stories, or advice about ants... but, I think this is incorrect.

You may mutter that services aren't even included in trade deficits but I don't care!

I'm putting a tariff on the grocery until they correct this horrible trade deficit.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samplereality.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Mark Sample") wrote:

The strategy of keeping your head low and hoping they don't see you is not going to work. On the radar, under the radar, doesn't matter. They're gunning for each and every elite university and college. If they're going to bring us down anyway, we should want to go down fighting.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t246266smqkjxhwir7xpbl3o/post/3lmdtqiggcs2s

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

Soon, the café beckons,
A haven of warmth and comfort,
With thoughts of steaming coffee,
A rich aroma that dances in my mind,
A perfect end to our early morning journey.

[3/3]

via https://arghstudios.com/

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

The trees stand tall, their branches bare,
Silhouettes against the awakening sky,
I feel the chill wrap around me,
Yet, I look forward to the warmth
That awaits in a cozy cup.

The path winds through the park,
Each moment savored,
The crunch of leaves, the distant call of birds,
As we stroll, my heart fills with gratitude,
For this time, this bond, this cold embrace.

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

A Walk With Mookie

In the hush of dawn, the world is still,
A blanket of frost covers the grass,
Breath visible in the crisp air,
Each step crunches softly beneath our feet.

Beside me, my loyal companion,
Her fur gray with wisdom,
Eager to explore, she sniffs at the whispers
Of the morning breeze,
A reminder of adventures past.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
luke@mastodon.macneilmediagroup.com ("Luke MacNeil") wrote:

This is VarAC, a digital mode of communication over HAM radio that uses a software modem to decode audio signals over HF Radio. It reminds me of the old days of IRC and BBSes and it ticks all of my nerdy boxes. It's very high tech and somehow also very primitive.

I can have an ascii chat with someone with a radio and a piece of wire strung up as an antenna and reach all over the world. It fascinates me.

#HamRadio #VarAC #Digital #Geek

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

have to try this out

https://mastodon.macneilmediagroup.com/@luke/114306496147736510

https://www.varac-hamradio.com/

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

well, good... it would appear that the President of Princeton values academic freedom, even if other uni presidents have shown little backbone.

https://www.nytimes.com/audio/app/2025/04/09/podcasts/the-daily/princeton-university-trump.html

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

What a stunning turn of events that absolutely no one could have ever seen coming

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/business/china-us-tariffs-retaliation-hnk-intl

Boosted by jwz:
claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

Every finance person I ask about what's happening lately:

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Precisionism, a roughly century-old modernist American art movement related to cubism, is a strong influence here. Its practitioners included Joseph Stella, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Demuth. Paul Strand was probably the most prominent precisionist photographer.

Precisionism is concerned with structure and geometry as well as the relationship between humans, machines, and the industrial landscape.

I'm interested in how the precisionists might interpret the world as it's become today.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

These (de-electrified) catenary wires were captured with a Sinar P camera and a 240mm lens on Polaroid 55 film (scanned) along the former Pennsylvania Railroad's "high line" in west Philadelphia near the university.

This abstract composition references a 1936 painting, "Electrification", by precisionist artist Ralston Crawford; see https://hirshhorn.si.edu//collection/artwork/?edanUrl=edanmdm:hmsg%5F72.75

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

De-Electrification, Philadelphia, PA, 2005.

All the pixels, none of the rust, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/2155416560

#photography

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
rafial@hackers.town ("Wilhelm Fitzpatrick") wrote:

Transformational technologies like microcomputers and smartphones were so obviously useful that rank and file workers were smuggling them into their workflows despite the best efforts of CEOs to stop them.

The "transformational" technology of LLMs is so obviously anti-useful that CEOs must resort to threats and coercion to get their rank and file workers to go anywhere near them.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mei@donotsta.re wrote:

current status: clicked on a video about Japanese and got so impressed with the content that I'm now meta-watching it as a case study on how to teach things well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMRCLH%5FHfUU

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

The Acting Director of the SEC is looking to rescind or modify even more previous crypto guidance based on “recommendations from DOGE”.

And the agency has dropped even more investigations and lawsuits, including against Trump business partner Crypto​.com.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

Boosted by jwz:
hannu_ikonen@zeroes.ca ("Hannu Ikonen, MD") wrote:

"Roberts sides with Cronus, stays the order barring Cronus from the eating of his children.

Does not rule on merit of infanticide broadly.

Merely that the court of Publilius Syrus lacks standing.

Spokesperson for Cronus releases statement confirming that devouring of his youth will resume with haste."

Boosted by jwz:
dansinker@omfg.town ("Dan Sinker") wrote:

It’s OK I’m sure we didn’t need coffee, bananas, literally all electronics, or the rule of law anyway.

jwz wrote:

Least surprising replies to this post:

"Do you know of a shop that will provide this service?"

"My understanding is that most major cities have shops that will provide this service. I am smart and helpful."

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

if true, glad they had the integrity to resign

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/08/us/trump-news-tariffs?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

Hawt

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

Them: Can you explain this gap in your résumé?

Me: I spent six hours formatting it in Google Docs and you’ve opened it in Word.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

[IDIOT] Dr. Oz spends first meeting as head of Medicare Services promoting dumping humans and letting AI avatars replace frontline health care
workers

https://www.wired.com/story/dr-oz-ai-health-care-medicare-cms-town-hall/

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

After the judge's order to the White House, which goes into effect Sunday, to lift restrictions on the Associated Press, an AP writer and photographer were denied access to this evening’s in-town pool coverage of President Trump's appearance at the NRCC dinner.

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

Pass the bong