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

I do not think Trump has alienated as many of those who voted for him as folks might prefer

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/18/opinion/trump-approval-focus-group.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

It’s not even been three full months yet.

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld ") wrote:

An exclusive extract for easter! (From this week’s @theguardian.com books)

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

BIG: U.S. Supreme Court orders Trump regime not to remove any Venezuelans detained in Northern District of Texas’s geographical area as legal proceedings unfold over the next few days. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25902119/24a1007-order-41925.pdf #LawFedi 1/

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Meyerweb ("Eric A. Meyer") wrote:

I’m seeing a lot of people making fun of their incompetence for this, but that’s not what this is. This whole regime is a gang of bullies, headed by a bully, and like all bullies, they’re cowards. Stand up to them, and they whimper away. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/business/trump-harvard-letter-mistake.html

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

The Trump administration appears to have escalated to the nuclear option with Harvard *by mistake*. Good thing they don't also have actual nuclear weapons at their disposal. Oh. Wait.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/business/trump-harvard-letter-mistake.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.A08.ZL%5Fr.5Wnd6CF5XGRp&smid=url-share [gift link]

Boosted by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
helpingfriendlybot@shakedown.social ("Helping Friendly Bot") wrote:

This is Sand by Trey Anastasio, last played 2025-01-29 (4 shows ago). Phish have played this song 151 times since 1999-09-11.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab :antifa:") wrote:

Me sending you good vibes

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
Athena@chaosfem.tw wrote:

good to print off a few copies in case your ISP has an outage and you need to send some packets in an emergency

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

Remind your kids not to handle any Easter eggs they find outside; if they do, the mother bunny won’t return to the nest and nobody will feed the baby Jesus when the eggs hatch.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Tooden@aus.social ("Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷") wrote:

@broadwaybabyto This will effectively kill any exports of US food to any other country.

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

hilarious: “we didn’t really mean it…”

standing up to bullying works

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/business/trump-harvard-letter-mistake.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ghibli@beep.town ("Studio Gifli") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: I say we start with dessert and go backwards!

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

You kind of know that weekly reviews are important to do. 🧠✨
But somehow it’s hard to find the time to actually sit down and do them, right? ⏳😅

You know what makes it *slightly* easier? Not doing it alone! 🙌

Over on https://didyoudoit.lol — our little accountability community —
we just posted our review thread that includes a little template
to get the review juices flowing. 📝💭

https://www.didyoudoit.lol/t/review-of-2025-03-28-time-to-reflect/47?u=matti

Come on in and share your review! 💬🫶

Boosted by jwz:
MEActNOW wrote:

That's right, London!

👇🏼 London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🎯🔥

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
paulisci@mstdn.ca ("Paul Fairie") wrote:

How to write about fascism (1939)

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

Mural, Portland neighborhood, Louisville, KY

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Get in the pachinko machine, Shinji.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
bicipoiesis@layer8.space wrote:

@adam "People will come [...] to adore the technologies that undo their capacity to think." Aldous Huxley

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

this is not how US campuses are supposed to operate, students should not live in fear and should feel welcomed. this has been our strength for centuries.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rit/s/YjK4Ja7yl1

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
azonenberg@ioc.exchange ("Andrew Zonenberg") wrote:

Finally had time during some flights and family travel to work on a short SF story I've been trying to write for a while.

First time attempting something like this so hopefully it turned out decently :)

"Holding The Bag"

https://serd.es/2025/04/17/Holding-the-Bag.html

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
sarajw@front-end.social ("Sara Joy :happy_pepper:") wrote:

Gave it a little more 'zhush'

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jerry@infosec.exchange ("Wary Jerry") wrote:

@rl_dane Chris Krebs was the head of CISA, appointed by Trump back in his first term. CISA is/was responsible for election security. After the 2020 election debacle, Krebs stated, in stark contradiction of Trump’s assertions, that the election was the most secure ever and there was no evidence of fraud or hacking. Krebs since resigned and went to work for a private company.

Trump recently signed an executive order stripping Krebs of his security clearance, along with any “associates” of his, including his employer, and also directed the Dept of Justice to open an investigation into Krebs’ activities.

There’s been a lot of unmet expectations that the infosec industry would rally around Krebs and his employer who are being very unfairly targeted, and that hasn’t happened.

Most people in the infosec community individually, at least those that aren’t raging Trumpers, are well behind Krebs but that hasn’t made any difference in the situation.

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

I'm thinking my next photography project should be images of boring federal agency headquarters buildings while they still exist.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
UweHalfHand@norcal.social ("Uwe Hollerbach 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽") wrote:

@adam That’s what I see. These writing/coding assist bots do one thing and only one thing reliably: make the user’s mental muscles flabby and over time atrophy. Everything else is unreliable… but once those mental crutches are in place, it’s really hard to remove them.

taral ("JP Sugarbroad") wrote:

So I finally got set up with Bridgy Fed. Any particular Bluesky accounts I should follow?

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

Maybe if we think someone is a terrorist we should, you know, actually investigate that, and if there's something to it, put them on trial for terrorism.

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

♬️ STAR CRASH: LAU + VICE REINE at DNA Lounge tonight: Fri Apr 18, 8:30pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/04-18d.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #starcrash #vicereine #rootingforyou #fetzav #synthpop #electropop #newwave #synthwave #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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• gifv: 46ac0691228ad79c.mp4

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

Union Square West between 16th and 17th Streets in Manhattan is home to five distinctive and variously historically significant narrow mid-rise buildings.

The quirky Decker Building (2nd from left, at 33 Union Square West) is now chiefly residential with a retail ground floor storefront. From 1967-1973 the building housed Andy Warhol's "Factory" studio, where, in 1968, he was famously and nearly fatally shot by an irate Valarie Solanas. The neighborhood was more colorful back then.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One XT IQ4-150 camera. 12mm vertical shift to maintain geometry.

This is a straightforward head-on single point perspective view of the facades of the varied buildings on this block just after sunrise. It took some time to line up the camera to be parallel to the faces of the buildings, once again making architectural photography be something of an exercise in surveying.