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

Good news, though: I have made a special deal with John Mastodon, and people are no longer required to follow me! They can even block or mute me if they want now. You are no longer required to read and study my every thought, unless you want to.

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

Just got a long screed from a total stranger (who follows me) explaining how they will be "forced" to block me because I "rudely" don't put content warnings on posts about election security.

With all due respect, go pound sand. I study election security for a living. It's what I *do*. It's a big part of who I am, and not something I make any attempt to keep secret. Anyone who follows should know this; it's right on the label.

I get that you might find what I do boring and tedious. Sorry.

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Thrilled that @kateaconger
@mac_ryan_ are going to join @ahl and me to discuss their superlative Character Limit on the next Oxide and Friends. Join us, Monday 4p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1360676081534767304

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georgebaily ("George Baily") wrote:

The people who made "how to use the internet" books in the 2000s are still at it:

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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

Attachments:

• gifv: Abstract Mathematical art. Zooming, growing and rotating geometric objects rotating through space...

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

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

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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vicgrinberg ("Dr. Victoria Grinberg") wrote:

#tulip #bloomscrolling #keukenhof
4/21

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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

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tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld ") wrote:

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

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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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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.

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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

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/

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

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/

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

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

interesting

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

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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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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.

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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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.

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.