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

Thanks to the tariff craziness, they expedited a repair for a camera I had to send overseas so they could ship it back before new duties were to take effect. Expected to take 4-6 weeks, actually took 4 days.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 Digaron lens and a bit of vertical shift. The afternoon light highlights the basic arched form of the bridge structure against the background and foreground foliage. A polarizer darkened the clear winter sky.

The Taft Bridge, named for the famously portly US president and SCOTUS chief justice, is the largest unreinforced concrete bridge in the world. Comprising seven major arches over Rock Creek Park, it links the Kalorama and Woodly Park neighborhoods.

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

Taft (Connecticut Avenue) Memorial Bridge, Washington, DC, 2019.

Enough pixels for both a president and a supreme court justice at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/49245011451

#photography

jwz wrote:

"Megatron is attacking a steel worker union strike"
https://jwz.org/b/ykmR

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JauntyArt@crispsandwi.ch ("Jaunty Art") wrote:

Dog in the playground

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

Marc Andreessen is an incredibly ignorant man who should have attended university longer.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/11/the-premise-is-false/

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nervous_jessica ("Jessica Rosenkrantz") wrote:

have you been thinking about ordering something sparkly from my shop? Please order ASAP because we will have to raise prices when the tariffs hit https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/shopAll.php?tags=jewelry%2C14k%20white%20gold%2Cbrass%2Csterling%20silver

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vowe@social.heise.de ("Volker Weber") wrote:

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Sunset Dune Park

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

The TV show "Adolescence" sucked. It's brilliantly written, flawlessly acted, excellent film making that causes all the viewers that are already too sympathetic to the violent little incels ruining the world, to be even more unnecessarily and unproductively accommodating of their hateful entitlement.

The show is so well created, that it makes you forget that it's about a young girl that was the victim of CSAM, then revenge porn of that CSAM, and bullying/slut shaming, then attempted extortion, and finally being murdered by an incel who enjoyed that revenge porn, for rejecting his advances.

Most of y'all watched that, and your big takeaway is that social media makes life hard for boys? And won't someone think of the boys, and masculinity is so difficult to navigate and so confusing. 🤡

Did we watch the same show?

What is wrong with y'all?

That little boy was a demon. Y'all just don't recognize him as one because he's a young white boy.

He's by definition, a predator. Women and girls aren't safe around him. But the danger is not from him, or Tate.

The danger is y'all "normal" people that watch the show, and empathize with the demon.

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jimfl@hachyderm.io ("Jim Flanagan") wrote:

@brucelawson Because of @jwz

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

32 years ago today at DNA Lounge: PRINCE

You can listen to the whole set here:
https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/listen-to-two-prince-sets-at-the-dna-lounge-from-1

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

this is so very not good

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zackwhittaker ("Zack Whittaker") wrote:

Cannot unsee. https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

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

🤔 https://www.comicsands.com/isker-tsa-scanners?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=infeed&utm%5Fcampaign=linkprogram

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Yep. I saved hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month just from switching from Substack to self-hosted Ghost.

https://digiday.com/media/former-substack-creators-say-theyre-earning-more-on-new-platforms-that-offer-larger-shares-of-subscription-revenue/

I pay a roughly flat $85/month now (~$75 for mailsending, $10 for hosting), vs. 10% of all my subscription income.

Here’s some napkin math for how expensive Substack is compared to its competitors, assuming that roughly 7% of all subscribers will pay for their subscriptions, and that subscriptions cost $5/month.

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russss@chaos.social ("Russ Garrett") wrote:

Someone nerdsniped me into making this so please enjoy this visualisation of the distance to every public transport station in London.

(Data from #openstreetmap, MapTiler)

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

@FranceskaMann OK. However, none of that involves technical exploitation of voting systems.

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amoroso@fosstodon.org ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

An annotated and commented version of the classic mid-1980s Unix Magic Poster.

https://unixmagic.net

#unix #retrocomputing

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delan@kolektiva.social wrote:

i wrote about the AI situation in servo: how it happened, your feedback, what we should do next, and how the policy could be improved

https://www.azabani.com/2025/04/11/generative-ai-in-servo.html

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

The Environmental Profiteering Agency is going to kill us faster than RFK jr can pretend to cure us.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/11/maha-by-turning-the-country-into-a-toxic-wasteland/

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Free_Press@mstdn.social ("Aure Free Press :verified:") wrote:

Government revenues down as Republicans celebrate the dismantling of the IRS!

U.S. Budget Deficit Widens to $1.3 Trillion as Interest on Public Debt Hits Record
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking

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Alice@beige.party ("Alice McFlurry :bc:") wrote:

I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I do believe there's a connection between autism and vaccinations. For example, I’m autistic and very interested in science and logic and also care about my health and longevity so I want to receive almost every vaccine out there.

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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA
"This would decimate American leadership in space."
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/trump-white-house-budget-proposal-eviscerates-science-funding-at-nasa/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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

seriously USPS? from TX to LA to AZ to try to get a package to New York? WTF?

this suxs

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geekyaubergine@social.lol ("Zoe Aubert 🇯🇪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Cancer Sucks.

I'm taking part in my first 10k with Race for Life to raise money for Cancer Research UK.

https://zoeaubert.me/charity/rfl25

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robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

Right gang, my friend and right honourable colleague @geekyaubergine is doing the Race for Life to raise money for Cancer Research.

*taps earpiece*

I'm just getting word that you have to run the 10k all in one go? That seems like a lot of running so y’all should donate if you can because cancer sucks https://zoeaubert.me/charity/rfl25

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

DNA Lounge Arcade Update! Pac-Man has been resurrected. Born in 1980, this 45-year-old is still running around in the dark, listening to electronic music and chasing pills.

Attachments:

• video: b3fd1b80c5c5bebd.mp4

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

@jeremyjanzen @rwg I block at the first sign of annoyance here, from the start. It seems to have paid off, though I'm probably less well informed as to precisely what kind of dumbass I am.

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

I’ve consolidated my Mastodon accounts! Having different accounts for different projects wasn’t working too well for me, so now everything is in one place (here). I’ll also be sure to use hashtags (like #omgdotlol, #neato, #dnskitchen, #raddad, etc.) for posts about projects, so feel free to follow the hashtags (or even follow them instead of me, if that works better for you!).