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

The spam-in-a-can sings!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/15/major-space-news/

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I didn't grow up with Dunkin' and therefore have no residual nostalgic affection for them, so I can say with authority that their donuts are... fine. Not great, not terrible, just fine and not worth seeking out if a local donut shop is available. My residual nostalgic affection donut is Winchell's, which I can't now get anyway because I'm in Ohio.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@joe%5Fhill/post/DIcHXt3y3F6

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

@ivory Hi! A member of our instance is getting this message (on Ivory for Mac 2.3.3), but only when trying to post images > 100KB, and only on our instance (social.lol). They can post smaller images to social.lol, and larger images to any other instances. I can’t find anything in the server logs; any idea how we could get more info about what Ivory is seeing to throw this? Thanks!

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Sure, we have fascism but at least everything is cheaper now

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

Jon Stewart may be scathing, but I'm not seeing any effective change.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/15/is-blood-the-only-alternative-to-comedians/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZbCyBMfy2c

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dntlookbehindu@infosec.exchange ("Dr. Russ :verified:") wrote:

The risks wrought by individuals who lack respect and due diligence to safety, security and privacy controls are not new; but they are more terrifying when it is your country's data at risk, and the bar is lowered to making it more accessible by adversaries.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
CartyBoston@mastodon.roundpond.net wrote:

Sometimes I worry there is not enough contempt in the world for Sam Altman but then sometimes I feel like the scope of my contempt will do for all of us.

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

Drink Special @ Hubba Hubba: Bobby Brainworms -- Bombay gin, lemon, orgeat, bitters

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• gifv: 3df47d4b347acfdf.mp4

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

Drink Special @ Death Guild: H4ck T3h CrØ55walk - 21 Seeds Valencia Orange, Sour, Soda and a Splash of Grapefruit.

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• gifv: 1f869e2d533ed100.mp4

jwz wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q-J%5FbcHoX4

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thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

This isn’t a history lesson. It’s a warning. When people stop telling the truth because it might upset the boss, the collapse has already started.

Through cowardice. Through a lie of omission.

If that sounds familiar, it should.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why/

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I love the #INSTEROID design.

They took a boring city car and modded it like Renault 5 cranked up to 11.

https://youtu.be/DpaFmy77%5FLo?si=z6COawaR8UVIZEVA

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

I’ve thought about this piece by @ben a lot over the past three months. Lately I’ve been thinking about it every day.

https://werd.io/2025/in-the-face-of-this-who-do-you-want-to

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
coolandnormal@aus.social ("Queer Like The Slur") wrote:

We don't talk anywhere near enough about how the tech industry is fucking with the general public's understanding of consent.

Fairly often I will opt out of something that would have been obviously reasonable a few years ago, and people will look at me like I drove a truck through the room.

Things like:
- I won't be appearing on camera today
- I don't wish to speak on a recording to be published on the University website
- I won't be giving my personal details to an overseas third party just to use a notepad tool in one meeting

I see this seeping through into attitudes about consent in other everyday life contexts. People are so used to being walked all over by their tech that they're increasingly shocked by boundaries.

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

Puts that upside down kiss with Kirsten Dunst in a different perspective.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/14/ill-never-think-of-spider-man-any-other-way/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
shoofle@beach.city ("normaled shoofle") wrote:

aaaand here's my gameboy cover of bach's Prelude in C Major! i like how doing these makes me feel like wendy carlos a little bit. a spiritual successor to Switched On Bach... maybe it's called In The Bach Pocket...

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• audio: it's bach's prelude in c major, but with gameboy bleeps and bloops. the piece features a meandering chord progression that goes through several moods for two minutes before resolving. the rhythm is simple and repetitive but doesn't get old because of the chords.

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

My honest advice (on another platform) to someone who was making extravagant claims and being indistinguishable from a crackpot.

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dnapizza@sfba.social ("DNA Pizza") wrote:

PIZZAMAN 5000!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/04-13.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #powerman5000 #reddevilvortex #makesmyblooddance #hardrock #metal #numetal #electrometal #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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

The Gish Gallop is being mechanized. Is there anything AI can't make worse?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/14/if-you-thought-they-could-lie-fast-before-now-ai-has-been-harnessed-to-spew-them-harder-faster/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
bendaubney@social.lol ("Ben Daubney :prami:") wrote:

This is now a gumball machine maintenance account

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@treehouse.systems wrote:

To all the folks who told me "its' not a constitutional crisis yet," "you can't call them nazis," or "it is not yet time to rise up and resist" by grinding the gears of the machine to a halt with our bodies if necessary, my only question is - what now?

Citing the president's absolute power over “foreign relations," the Trump regime has announced that it has no obligation, nor intention to return Kilmar Abrego García, the Maryland man trafficked to a Salvadoran slave labor prison by "mistake," despite multiple court orders and a 9-0 SCOTUS ruling instructing them to do so.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/14/trump-doj-return-man-wrongly-deported-el-salvador

Trump DoJ says not legally bound to return man wrongly deported to El Salvador

"The comments came a day after the Trump administration claimed it is not legally obligated to secure the return of the man, Kilmar Abrego García,, despite the US supreme court ruling that the administration should “facilitate” bringing him back.

Lawyers for the justice department argued in court filings on Sunday that asking El Salvador to return Abrego García from a notorious mega-prison should be considered “foreign relations”, and was therefore outside the scope of the courts.

The filing said “the federal courts have no authority to direct the Executive Branch to conduct foreign relations in a particular way, or engage with a foreign sovereign in a given manner,” adding: “That is the ‘exclusive power of the president as the sole organ of the federal government in the field of international relations.”

Earlier this month, the Trump administration acknowledged that Abrego García, an immigrant from El Salvador who was living in Maryland with protected status, was deported to a prison in El Salvador on 15 March as a result of an “administrative error”. In 2019 an immigration judge had prohibited the federal government from deporting him."

Folks, we are through the looking glass now and if you can't see that it's one and truly fascism, that's because you don't know what the word means. Apologists will claim that we are still not yet in a "constitutional crisis" because of the regime's paper thin excuse that they're interpreting the SCOTUS ruling to mean all they had to do is remove "domestic" barriers to Garcia's return, while claiming they have no authority to effect the return of a man they're literally paying the government of El Salvador to house in a prison famous for torture and forced labor. This is at best, wish-casting and codswallop of course, because the regime is openly broadcasting its intention to flout the Supreme Court's ruling *while* Trump meets with Nayib Bukele, the President of El Salvador at the White House; these fascist mutherfuckers just said "let them enforce it" while trolling the shit out of every judge in America. Just examine some of the comments from Bukele and Trump regime officials for yourself:

“How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I’m not going to do it,” says Bukele. “I don’t have the power to return him to the United States.”

“The foreign policy of the United States is conducted by the president of the United States, not by a court. And no court in the United States has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States,” Marco Rubio adds."

“The [supreme court] ruling solely stated that if this individual at El Salvador’s sole discretion was sent back to our country, that we could deport him a second time,” Stephen Miller says.

"No version of this legally ends with him ever living here because he is a citizen of El Salvador."

"In 2019 two courts ruled that he was a member of MS13 and he was illegally in our country. Right now, it was additional paperwork had needed to be done. That’s up to El Salvador if they want to return him – that’s not up to us. The supreme court ruled that if El Salvador wants to return him, we would ‘facilitate’ it, meaning provide a plane." - US Attorney General, Pam Bondi.

During that same meeting with Bukele, Trump once again admitted that he also wants to pay to send American "criminals" to a slave labor prison in El Salvador his regime is simultaneously arguing that the US government has no requirement, power, or authority to return prisoners from, even under court order. Need I remind you that this is the same administration currently saying in public that a wide variety of protestors are actually domestic fucking terrorists? Please understand that if the Trump regime can successfully argue that it can keep a man they already admitted should not have been deported, in a Salvadoran prison despite the law, and a direct SCOTUS order, because once they've sent him there its a matter of foreign policy and jurisdictional authority, then there is absolutely nothing stopping them from sending ANYONE to Cecot and claiming it's too late to undo this. The regime is now attempting to legalize disappearing its perceived enemies; full stop.

#Fascism #Trump #ElSalvador #ICE #CECOT #AbregoGarcía #DHS #NayibBukele #SCOTUS #ConstiutionalCrisis

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
Virtualrook@gamerstavern.online wrote:

I have finally made a #gamedev journal!!!! Please let me know how i did, I'm worried i over edited it >_>;; #godot #vr #xr

https://youtu.be/nGsXe2HPdwo

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I'm sure telling the third branch of government they are impotent in this regard is going to go over well

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5247284-federal-courts-trump-administration/

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jana@social.jsteuernagel.de ("Jana") wrote:

I love discovering personal blogs and websites.

No algorithm.
No competing anything.

Just a person, putting out what they want.

It's beautiful.

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

@harriet Time to trade in your Tesla for a sensible, reliable cheddar.

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harriet@pupy.cafe ("harriet!!!") wrote:

was not able to find a person to credit for this, but price per pound of cars vs cheese everybody

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

Tariffs are working! China has agreed to a trade deal.... with Vietnam.

Uh, never mind.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinas-xi-meet-vietnam-leaders-kick-off-southeast-asia-tour-amid-us-tariffs-2025-04-14/

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

The metadata for this image claims it was shot at f/16. That's wrong; it was more like f/2.5 or so. This was an artifact of the too-clever-by-half way Leica M cameras estimate the f stop. There's no mechanical link between the aperture ring and the camera body, so instead they estimate the f-stop with a separate light sensor that's compared with the brightness of the recorded image. This works reasonably well, except when you use an ND filter (as here), which confuses it to no end.

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

Captured with a small full-frame camera and 21mm lens. A three second exposure smoothed waves and surf.

This was an exercise in tone, perspective, and convergence. The four major boundaries of the scene converge (approximately) near the center of the frame, forming a flattened X.

I moved around and composed this both with and without the driftwood in foreground, which interrupts the composition but, I decided, is helpful to anchor the frame.