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

Infosec must not remain silent while Trump goes after Chris Krebs: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/cybersecurity-community-must-not-remain-silent-executive-order-attacking-former

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ylegall@genart.social ("Yann Le Gall") wrote:

gear sphere with stereographic projection

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
madargon@is-a.cat ("Mad A. Argon :qurio:") wrote:

One day I saw cool #owl photo, with one leg in pose like this. It was normal bird and it still looked like some cartoon #villain, maybe dark #sorcerer preparing evil spell :blobcatjoy:
I HAD TO create this...

#drawing #art #MastoArt #CreativeToots #krita #ArtWithOpenSource #wizard #anthro #character

Drawing of a humanoid white owl with big head, wearing purple robes with vertical blue strip and ren rune symbols. Owl's leg is its right hand here, outstretched ahead, with big black claws visible.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:

Insane, ya say? No shit!

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

Fortinet put out a blog which is going to fly under the radar - half of it is about how good they are at security - but is essentially ‘lots of our FortiGate customers are backdoored by a threat actor despite having applied patches’.

Only of interest if you run FortiGate firewalls and have SSL VPN enabled, which is half the US Gov.

https://www.fortinet.com/blog/psirt-blogs/analysis-of-threat-actor-activity

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:

Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy leading talks with Moscow, has reportedly told Trump that the fastest way to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine is to “support a strategy” wherein Kyiv cedes “ownership” of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions (none of which Moscow full controls). https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-envoys-embrace-russian-demands-174228771.html?fr=sycsrp%5Fcatchall

The Reuters report doesn’t even mention Crimea, which Moscow annexed eight years before it laid claim on those other four eastern regions of Ukraine. I guess Washington feels no need to debate who “owns” that peninsula.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

And this is why countries are dumping their U.S. treasuries and dollars.

A screenshot of a post on X by user Monica (@softtail65 ), whose profile includes a rainbow flag and other emojis. The post reads: "IF I DANGLE YOU OVER THE EDGE OF A BUILDING AND THEN PULL YOU BACK UP, I DIDN’T SAVE YOUR LIFE. I ALMOST KILLED YOU. AND THAT IS WHAT TRUMP JUST DID TO THE ECONOMY." The text is in white and bold, with the second sentence in all caps, set against a black background.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

“Freak sell-off of ‘safe haven’ US bonds raises fear that confidence in America is fading”

https://apnews.com/article/treasurys-bond-market-yield-tariff-46b4818710f01b8cc93fd002081167b0

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

“We’re dismantling Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, all of the media that we’ve relied on really since the Cold War to get messaging across, to accurately reflect the position of the United States against our adversaries.” - US Senator Jeanne Shaheen https://defensescoop.com/2025/04/09/socom-leader-warns-of-information-operations-void-gen-bryan-fenton/

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
KimPerales@toad.social ("Kim Perales") wrote:

"The CDC has rejected a request from health officials in Milwaukee for help with a lead poisoning investigation, after HSS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated the agency's response team."

Trump & RFK Jr find sinister ways to sicken & kill us.

#Resist #HHS #Firings #DOGE #Musk #RFKJr #CDC #GOPDeathCult #USPol

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/milwaukee-schools-lead-poisoning-cdc-denies-help/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=796184961

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
N4JAW@mastodon.radio ("Jim "Ham on a Bike"") wrote:

1st capture of
@ARISS_Intl #SSTV Series 26: Humans in Space 4/11/25 1905 UTC over EM78 Louisville, KY USA #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #ARISS #Iss
#NASARadioClubs #issfanclub

ARISS SSTV Series 26: Humans in Space. Capture over EM78ee Louisville, KY. USA by N4JAW

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

This is the way.

A screenshot of a post on X by user Andy Kim (@AndyKimNJ ). The post reads: "I introduced a bill to ban owning of individual stocks across all 3 branches. After what we saw over last few days, Americans deserve certainty that gov officials, Congress, others aren’t trying to profit from their jobs." Below the post, there is a snippet of an article from The New York Times with the headline: "Trump’s Encouragement of Stock Investors Draws Scrutiny." The subheading reads: "Was the president manipulating the market with his comments, as his critics say, or reassuring Americans, as the White House maintains?"

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

#1A

Via Mueller She Wrote:

If you work for the SSA and want bulletins and updates, you have to create a Twitter account.

“SSA shifts to X posts for official messaging after cuts to communications staff” https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2025/04/ssa-shifts-to-x-posts-for-official-messaging-after-cuts-to-communications-staff/

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

CBC - A GM assembly plant in Ontario will shut down next month with plans to reopen in the fall at half capacity. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/ingersoll-assembly-plant-halting-production-layoffs-1.7508190

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mattround@crispsandwi.ch ("Matt Round") wrote:

ICYMI, yesterday I launched a stylish new site to replace Google Maps https://vole.wtf/comic-sans-maps/

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

So I guess I'm pro-tariff now.

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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.

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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.

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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

A large arched concrete bridge over a park, during daylight.

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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

Panel 1 child looking at dad “Dad, did any good things happen when you were at school?” Dad replying “yes!” Panel 2 child looking out of window to dog in playground “I once saw a dog walking through the playground on its own.” Panel 3 child looking up “And did any other good things happen?” Panel 4 dad looking down “No.” JauntyArt 25

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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/

no way to fix American higher education without replacement, and there is no way to replace them without letting them fail. And in a sense, this is the most obvious conclusion of all time. What happens in the business world when a company does a bad job? 1t fails and another company takes its place. That's how you get progress. Below this is the process of evolution. These places have cut themselves off from evolution at the institutional level and at the individual level, which is shown by the widespread abuse of the tenure system. We have just stalled out. We have built an ossified system, an ossified, centralized, corrupt system.

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Boosted by jwz:
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

farrea pendant brass
radiozoa pendant silver
radiozoa orb earrings silver
reaction shell earrings silver

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

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Sunset Dune Park

an Arrakeen sandworm looming over the new Sunset Dunes 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

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

this is so very not good

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
zackwhittaker ("Zack Whittaker") wrote:

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

a screenshot of an article, titled: "Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?" followed by a bunch of AI company logos that, well, kinda look like buttholes.