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ingrid@everything.happens.horse ("Ingrid Burrington") wrote:

Feels like most mental health modalities I've tried have really failed to acknowledge that maybe it's the living in a dying empire and all the fascism that's contributing to my suicidal ideation

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ngons@mathstodon.xyz ("n-gons") wrote:

Perfect fit.

#Hedron #Geometry #MathArt #3D #PolyHedron

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jwz wrote:

Great Moments in Sorting.

Anyone ever figure out how to make Mail.app stop losing its mind on sorting? Clicking the "Date" header fixes it momentarily but this insanity comes back the next time I reselect the folder. "Rebuild mailbox" does not fix it.
https://jwz.org/b/ykmV

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jwz wrote:

Must be weird on here for conventionally-attractive white girls just looking to make friends, and getting reported as spam. Must be as hard as for legitimate Nigerian philanthropists.

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kopper@wetdry.world wrote:

fedi is weird you go "touched grass today. now my hand is green. i like being green. it makes me feel shrek euphoria"

and someone with a distro icon emoji in their username comes up in your replies with "well systemd developers also touch grass occasionally and they prevent me from using my posix shell clone written in assembly to boot up my fully deblobbed thinkpad i bought second hand in mesopotamia :/"

and like yeah good for you or sorry that happened but i'm not sure why you felt the need to comment that under my post

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timonsku ("Timon 🛠") wrote:

Asus... are you kidding me

Pictogram on a foam bag with hands pointing towards a hole in the bag and arrows pointings outwards, indicating to rip open the hole. The whole thing is screaming Goatse

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chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

First time visiting Sarasota in over nine years, and first time at this sandwich shop in over Jesus Christ I’ve gotten old years

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
vicgrinberg ("Dr. Victoria Grinberg") wrote:

#tulip #bloomscrolling #keukenhof
4/21

Beautiful red orange tulips qith multiple petal layers. They do look like flames.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
soonleenz@wandering.shop ("SoonLeeNZ") wrote:

It's still John M. Ford's birthday (April 10) in some parts of the world. He wrote one of my favourite poems, "Sonnet: Against Entropy" which was first published as a comment to a forum post. https://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/archives/003789.html#29472

#sonnet #poem #JohnMFord

John M. Ford, October 13, 2003, 05:41 PM: The worm drives helically through the wood And does not know the dust left in the bore Once made the table integral and good; And suddenly the crystal hits the floor. Electrons find their paths in subtle ways, A massless eddy in a trail of smoke; The names of lovers, light of other days -- Perhaps you will not miss them. That's the joke. The universe winds down. That's how it's made. But memory is everything to lose; Although some of the colors have to fade, Do not believe you'll get the chance to choose. Regret, by definition, comes too late; Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld ") wrote:

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

Title: Let's create a Movie for Netflix!  Jason Statham is..  [choose path 1, 2 or 3)] 1. THE EDITOR 2. THE LIBRARIAN 3. THE BOOKSELLER A heroic special forces officer retires to a sleepy town to follow his true passion of setting up a... 1. Poetry Anthology 2. Public Library 3. Local Bookshop (image of our hunky hero holding his suitcase looking at a vacant shop) He settles happily into the routine of small-town life, but when the townspeople are menaced by a... 1. Greedy Billionaire 2. Corrupt Politician 3. Evil Corporation (the hero puts doen his morning coffee and looks out the window as a sinister black helicopter lands) He must combine his literary and military skills to protect his new community with the help of... 1. An attractive poet 2. A Young Borrower 3. The Bookshop Cat (The hero runs through a hail of bullets holding a novel and a machinre gun)

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
heliographe_studio ("Héliographe") wrote:

https://AgBr.app was covered by @macstories in their club newsletter yesterday! Check it out: https://club.macstories.net/posts/macstories-weekly-issue-461

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
Betty@fandom.ink ("Luo Binghe baculum truther") wrote:

Sorry to bring you the finest of 2012 tumblr, but I think we could all use some system maintenance this weekend.

Screen cap from Tumblr. User soManyJacks text post: I don't know who needs to hear this but if the phrase "self-care" doesn't resonate with you try calling it "system maintenance" and see if that clicks.  Next post: user wormsSlimes posts a photo of an industrial safety sign that says, in all caps "Warning! If you don't schedule time for maintenance, your equipment will schedule it for you."

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
bri_seven@queer.party ("Luci Scissors") wrote:

that pain everyone is feeling has a direct line to y’all couldn’t just be normal about trans people

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

Greg Abbott as the Jigsaw Killer…perfect.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/12/thats-what-they-are-enemies-of-democracy/

Collection of collectable trading cards, with various Republicans illustrated as Enemies of Democracy

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

do you live near #RochesterNY ?? speak out! rights unexercised tend to vanish

https://events.pol-rev.com/events/1c0c4733-a74f-49ef-9dc5-8fb52e3fb006

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

srsly

“Trump trade team chases 90 deals in 90 days. Experts say good luck with that”

https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-trade-team-chases-90-deals-90-days-experts-say-good-luck-with-that-2025-04-12/

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

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

interesting

https://www.reddit.com/r/GovernmentContracting/s/VhSataKbm9

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

@everylibrary

I think many of us are tired. Calling a congressperson, writing letters, signing petitions seems futile. But, these are first actions. Take them. Do them like little chores.

They aren't the full solution but there are people counting on us being lazy and buying in to the idea that no action is huge enough to be real... and every real action is too dangerous to take.

Instead do everything within your power however small it may feel.

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

@thom It seems like you're trying to insult me, but having difficulty being clear about it. But I can't really tell, probably due to my limited reading and comprehension skills.

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jwz wrote:

Tempest, Pac-Man.

Dear Lazyweb, I got Tempest working again, but I can't get it out of "free play" or in fact get any of the dip switches to do anything. Like, I can't even set it to Spanish. However, the test screen that shows the current dip switch...
https://jwz.org/b/ykmT

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

RFK Jr. is an unprecedented threat to US health.

He just completely eliminated the CDC lead poisoning group and all teams that respond to help address local radiological and nuclear threats and all capacity for natural disasters response.

Mind numbing insanity.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/milwaukee-schools-lead-poisoning-cdc-denies-help/

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GreenFire@mstdn.social ("Kevin Leecaster") wrote:

Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided today to impose a minimum fee of $100 for every ton of greenhouse gases emitted by ships above certain thresholds, in what is effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions.

Which goes to show that maybe it's better when the USA drops out of international climate talks.
https://apnews.com/article/shipping-emissions-climate-change-98ff23ca4739d8b4fc5a8f941a7ca0c4

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simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions.

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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Just shown my daughter, who plays piano, that you not only can bend strings on a guitar, but that you can slightly bend the entire neck against the body, which changes tension on all the strings, producing a cool effect. Her shocked reaction: "OKAY I'M DONE WITH GUITARS!" :-)

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Companies are refusing to hire or even laying off plumbers because hucksters backed by massive unicorn-chasing investment money told them they can build plumbing faster and cheaper out of cardboard.

A few years from now, there’s going to be a hell of a market for people who can replace cardboard toilets with real ones.

And also for people who can replace carpets. And walls and floors.

This is a post about LLM-generated code.

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PacificNic@zeroes.ca ("Nic, Fermenting The Vibes") wrote:

I'm at a much needed eye appointment right now and there are multiple sick people in the waiting room and the CO2 is at 2000 ppm.

It still blows my fucking mind that we had lockdowns just a few years ago and some of us are so intimately aware of the importance of clean air, but almost nobody in any medical profession gives a single shit.

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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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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#WebGPU is an incredibly important API. Not just for browsers, but for GPUs in general.

It forces vendors to converge on common approaches that work across platforms and GPUs, instead of everyone pulling towards their own proprietary APIs and extensions.

It's a unique spec where Apple and Android cooperate. The designs are validated by being implemented by multiple browser vendors, reliably enough to be compatible with sandboxing, across all platforms from Windows to Linux.