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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ckr@social.lol ("Cody") wrote:

A small visitor to my dad's backyard in Texas #possum #opossumnews

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

Update on my dinner saga: Backup pizza ordered, delivered, and partly consumed. Original dinner has been sitting in a residential neighborhood about 30 miles away for the last hour.

Hope someone at least got to eat it.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
scottjenson@social.coop ("Scott Jenson") wrote:

Google's latest layoffs on the Chrome team really hits hard. They are letting go of people that desperately want to keep the web open. You can hate on Google on you want (I'm with you!) but the people on the Chrome team were amazing and only wanted what was best for the web.

This was so incredibly short sighted and stupid (and ultimately counterproductive)

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

I feel like I wouldn't be out of line leaving a poor tip.

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

I'm happy to buy some delivery driver dinner if they really need it, but I'm pretty hungry. I think I'm just going to order a pizza from somewhere else and hope for the best.

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

I think the driver must have picked up my food and then either had some kind of emergency or simply forgot what they were doing and went home. Or is exceptionally bad at petty theft.

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

I must have leveled up in the "helplessly watch your delivery driver get lost" game. They are literally now in the next state, with my dinner.

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

live in the #RochesterNY area? join your community in MLK Park on 19 April 2025 for a day of mass mobilization organized by 50501 and others… tell the administration “Hands Off”!

this moment in history demands we set aside Party and Faction to protect the Republic and Constitutional government.

please share widely

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

Yes, random dude with the account created a month ago urging me to commit reckless acts of violence, you are definitely a real person who I will not block.

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

There's an elaborate, but mostly meaningless "analysis" floating around that purports to "prove" that the 2024 election was stolen. It consists of stats and graphs of supposedly "anomalous" voting patters in a handful of cherry-picked counties.

The graphs are very pretty, but they just aren't evidence of fraud. They're very similar to the supposed "proof" that the 2020 election was stolen.

"Proof" that reenforces what you want to believe has to be approached with extreme caution.

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

My concern here is about much more than the unfairness to Krebs, though this abuse of presidential power certainly harms him and makes him and his family targets for threats of violence.

My larger concern is that this represents a clear and direct threat to anyone, inside or outside the administration, who dares raise a dissenting voice or who exposes facts that might be contrary to the party line.

It is diametrically opposed to what the first amendment is designed to protect.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Genuinely laughing at the idea that any business will engage in an expensive multi-year effort to move factories to the U.S. based on an economic policy that changes every week based on how many mean tweets the president just read.

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

@ApostateEnglishman Yes, I am well aware that there are vulnerabilities in much of US election infrastructure, some of which could be exploited to alter an election outcome. That's a serious problem, and we should prioritize addressing it more than we have. I've personally testified before congress multiple times about this. There's no running away from this fact.

But there is no evidence any election outcome has been altered this way so far. We've been fortunate.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
teejay@social.lol ("Teejay") wrote:

101/365

The Alfred Street Baptist Church is the oldest Black Baptist in Alexandria. The church was built in 1818, but the congregation has been worshipping since 1806. #project365

https://project365.teejay.blog/post/101-365

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

♬️ Just announced: Fri Sep 12, 7pm: MISSING PERSONS
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/09-12.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #missingpersons #newwave #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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

♬️ Just announced: Thu Sep 11, 7pm: NITZER EBB
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/09-11.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #nitzerebb #frontlineassembly #clockdva #leadintogold #industrial #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
kagan@wandering.shop ("Kagan MacTane (he/him)") wrote:

@raganwald I prefer more space around my dashes, and I absolutely *hate* when they come at the beginning of a line, so I've been using  — (and then a normal space) since probably around 1999 or so. I wrote a blog post in 2010 that promotes that sequence, along with other things: https://kagan.mactane.org/blog/2010/07/10/typesetting-in-between-the-letters/

You're right: we don't write like AI. AI writes like us. Because it was trained on our work.

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
ryanleesipes ("Ryan Lee Sipes ⚡🦅") wrote:

#Thunderbird on iOS is coming...

Link to post here: https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/mobile-planning/T1f1f1a90aaae9a1d

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
apod@mastodon.bot ("Astronomy Picture of the Day") wrote:

APOD from 2025-04-11

The ISS Meets #Venus

A video from Shoreline, Washington captured Venus and the ISS in daylight on April 5. Despite appearing similar in size, the ISS is much closer at 400 km away, while Venus is nearly 45 million kilometers distant.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250411.html#space #astronomy #telescope #planet #earth

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
markmccaughrean ("Mark McCaughrean") wrote:

A small treat for the weekend.

In the late evening of 24 April 1972, Apollo 16 left lunar orbit carrying John Young, Thomas Mattingley II, & Charlie Duke back to Earth.

The Apollo Metric (Mapping) Camera took a sequence of still images looking back at the Moon, initially the lunar farside & then the nearside as it rotated into view.

Here's a 10 fps movie sequence showing 90 of those images without any processing or alignment.

Credit: NASA/JSC/Arizona State University

#SpaceExploration

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• gifv: A sequence of images taken of the Moon during the departure of Apollo 16 in 1972.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
robdaemon@mastodon.sdf.org ("Rob") wrote:

New Garbage album coming. First single out today:

"There's No Future in Optimism"

https://tidal.com/browse/track/426680784?u

well if that isn't good timing

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

My mom was also carrying around my youngest sister on her back. My mom's always been a bit of a badass in her way.

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

Trump's official denouncement of former CISA director Chris Krebs (in the form of a "Presidential Memorandum") is chilling in substance and utterly Stalinesque in tone. By threatening anyone who hires him, it aims to render Krebs effectively unemployable.

I said it then, and I will repeat it now: There is simply no evidence that the 2020 election was "hacked". Krebs's forthright clarity about this in November, 2020 was a brave and important act of public service.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/addressing-risks-from-chris-krebs-and-government-censorship/

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

My mom reminded me that when I was six or so I was picketing with her as her union was on strike at the time. Standing out in the rain under ponchos. Good quality family time, I think.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
whitequark ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

holy shit, windbg's linux kernel debugging mode can _download sources for your specific kernel build from github_?? why is the windows tooling for linux so much better than the linux tooling for linux

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

The Foreign Service Journal has published my requiem for the Voice of America. https://afsa.org/sites/default/files/flipping%5Fbook/040525/10/index.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Adam Gurri") wrote:

If they're going to have their shot of creating the unitary executive, we'll have our shot at ending presidentialism to avoid any future president ever trying this again. If all bets are off, we might as well aim big. www.liberalcurrents.com/roadmap-to-a...

Roadmap to American Reconstruc...

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
robrey@mastodon.art ("Rob Rey") wrote:

Moon Lander
16 x 12 in, Oil

Character in Context, the largest exhibition of original illustration in the Western U.S. opening May 2! Come see the show in-person at the A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art in Trinidad, Colorado, with several artists in attendance. Demonstrations and gallery talks on Saturday May 3!

https://armitchellmuseum.com

#moon #bird #moonlander #oilpainting

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

Financial Times has a look at airline data and find passengers into the US from basically every European country are falling off a cliff day by day https://www.ft.com/content/6dc16a54-8de1-4f3b-8409-ecb566118127

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

the Colonel has more guts than the Congress

https://www.spoc.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4152328/for-release