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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
KydiaMusic ("Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦") wrote:

Signs from today’s rally. There were lots of good ones, but I was too shy to go around asking for pictures, or trying to be covert about it.

#Protest50501 #rally #Protest #50501Protest #Resist #ResistFascism #50501Movement #HandsOff

A person wearing a Beaker costume, from the Muppets, holding a sign that says “This is the only orange muppet you should trust about SCIENCE!”
A sign with purple and black lettering that says “Men of quality don’t fear equality.” The faces of Trump and Elon Musk are to the right of the lettering, and have the red circle strikeout/NO symbol over them.
Sign says “Happy Easter. Jesus got more due process than Kilmar.” A cross and Easter eggs adorn the sign.
A very well-made sign with blue and red lettering on a white background that says “NO fucKING way” where the letters NO and KING (of “fucking”) are more prominent, so from farther away, NO KING is visible.

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
alwirtes@indieweb.social ("Al Wirtes") wrote:

Great signs today at #HandsOff #Denver
#HandsOff2025 #HandsOffDenver

Two people hold protest signs in the front of the Colorado Capitol building.
A man holds a protest sign showing Donald Trump in stained glass like a saint. It says: St. Upid Paton Saint of Economic Collapse.
A protest sign says "Down with Fascist Broligarchs" and displays unflattering photos of Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk & Trump
A protest sign says: We're gonna need a bigger Sage.

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

@karlauerbach a very, very large one.

Curta Type II mechanical calculator

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:

1960’s drinks pamphlets from a dad drawer.

2 manuals for making drinks from the 1960s. On the left is a white pamphlet from Fleishmann’s. It’s a “mixer’s manual” with very 60s looking drawings of drinks, fruit slices, whole limes, and shrimp. On the right is a pamphlet entitled “How to give a Vodka Party”. A white man in a pinstriped suit and a white woman in a gold sleeveless dress are on the cover. She’s holding a tray of hors hors d'oeuvre and he is holding a drink.

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
fullfathomfive@aus.social wrote:

"Poses low risk to humans" is the nicest thing anyone outside of Australia has ever said about Vegemite.

#auspol #canada #canpol #australia #vegemite #HappyLittleVegemites

A screenshot from the Guardian showing Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese holding a jar of Vegemite. Below it is a headline which reads: "Albanese claims victory in Vegemite fight as Canada concedes speead poses 'low' risk to humans. The sub head reads: "Prime minister said his government had lobbied Canada to reconsider ruling that cafe could not import Vegemite"

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
itchi5@illo.social ("Itchi5 illustrations") wrote:

Asking for a little favor.

A few years ago -for obvious reasons- I deleted all my american services. (instagram, facebook etc)

The result was my business plummeting down, no projects came in anymore, making it nearly impossible to come around after 20 years of career.

The favor I'm asking is if you know someone who's working with illustrators, or even just interested, just share my stuff please. Thanks :)

My portfolio
https://www.itchi5.com

#freelanceillustrator #illustration #europe

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

Possible signs of life detected on a planet about 120 light years away, which means it will be at least 240 years before they can answer our distress call and come colonize us.

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bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

We got our AMD Turin sled booting! And --in classic @oxidecomputer fashion -- we're going to regale with tales of the adventure: join @ahl and me on Monday at 5p Pacific when we will have the engineering team on hand to talk about bringing up Cosmo!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1362938379364466941

If you want the backstory, check out our earlier tales from the bringup lab:

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/tales-from-the-bringup-lab-2021-12-06
https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/more-tales-from-the-bringup-lab

And learn ,more about Turin:

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/unshrouding-turin-or-benvenuto-a-torino

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

If you like this stuff, there's a sadly out of print book, "New York's Forgotten Substations", with some excellent photos.

https://www.chrispaynephoto.com/books-1-2-1

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

@spacehobo It *is* impressive, and in 1904, it *was* futuristic. What should they have done, not build a subway until high power semiconductors were invented?

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Some good signs from the No Kings protest in SF.

"How many teslas should we throw in Boston Harbor?"
"I love America too much to watch these dumb fucks destroy it and do nothing"

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
digitalsnow@social.lol ("Kerri :usad: :knife_lgbt:") wrote:

Bought this patch at an indie art sale.

Not pictured: an enamel pin that says "Not Today, Motherfucker"

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

Fresh mural at autonomous center Metelkova in Ljubljana. Made during the Antifa fest that takes place annually since 1999.

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

NYC's IRT subway, opened in 1904, is powered by a 600 volt DC third rail running alongside the tracks. Power is fed to the system via a number of substations throughout the city, where high voltage AC is converted to the lower voltage DC used by trains.

Until recently, this was done with electromechanical rotary converters (essentially a combination AC motor and DC generator). They are now supplanted by solid state rectifiers, but a few of the original rotary converters remain operational.

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

Rotary Converter, IRT Subway Substation 13, Midtown Manhattan, 2017.

All the pixels, no Metrocard required, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/32992380451

#photography

An early 20th century electromechanical "rotary converter", resembling a generator, in an industrial space

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Boosted by jwz:
missingthept.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Missing The Point") wrote:

Breaking: The Supreme Court announces that publication of Justice Alito’s dissent in the deportation case will be delayed as it is translated from its original German.

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Boosted by jwz:
adrianh ("Adrian Howard") wrote:

I swear there used to be a time when my reaction to new software features wasn't a resigned sigh followed by figuring out how to switch it off.

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simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

When you go to the lavatory, spend a longer time there than is necessary.

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
skry wrote:

Pork is in the treetops.

David Brooks has called for a mass uprising. As a model "conservative" republican, his signal is an important one, so it's important to spread this NYT (or archive) link on other platforms:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opinion/trump-harvard-law-firms.html (https://archive.is/dB7mw)

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/conservative-nyt-columnist-david-brooks-calls-for-national-civic-uprising-to-defeat-trumpism-complete-with-mass-rallies-strikes/

#uspol

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

I don't think Mary Tyler Moore would approve.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/19/i-went-for-a-walk-in-minneapolis-near-the-atheist-con/

Mary Tyler Moore statue

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:

Found this in my father’s drawer.

This is the front page of a program for the March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom from August, 28, 1963. I found it in my father’s drawer. It says Lincoln Memorial Program and lists all the participants and events beginning with Marian Anderson singing the nation anthem to the Benediction from Dr. Benjamin E. Mayes, President of Morehouse College.

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Boosted by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
mcc wrote:

I have now created three languages along the theme of "what would it be like if we made our programming languages aggressively simple?" and every time the answer has turned out to be "it would be very complicated" https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114365307342990008

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
CityHoosier@mysportgallery.com ("despicable anna") wrote:

rfk: autistics will never pay taxes

me: look, just because elon musk is the only autistic person you know, that doesn't mean none of us pay taxes...

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
simon_brooke@mastodon.scot ("Simon Brooke") wrote:

"at the 'IT for IDF' conference, an israeli commander talked about how they specifically used Google, Amazon, and Microsoft’s cloud storage and AI services for the #genocide... The companies were praised for their AI services and the ability to rapidly purchase much more storage without having to physically build the servers themselves as the military had done before. [Amazon] in particular stores surveillance on almost everyone in #Gaza"

https://www.boundary2.org/2019/08/sarah-t-roberts-and-mel-hogan-left-behind-futurist-fetishists-prepping-and-the-abandonment-of-earth/#authorbio

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange wrote:

We're killing dating apps we're bringing back a/s/l

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

We visited a farm ... https://roberto.mateu.me/2025/04/19/we-visited-a-farm-yesterday.html

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

Dolphins are already angry

RE: https://www.threads.net/@theonion/post/DIoXdgeKKNF

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A new #TheMarsVolta album came out about a week ago, haven't finished listening to it yet but already like this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMehN3wJQBA

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

“Olo”, the super-green that’s more saturated than pure spectral green and so lies outside the CIE chromaticity polygon. The trick is to use a (frickin’) laser to stimulate only the green cones on your retina. It’s like we hacked your eye’s Bayer sensor. https://www.popsci.com/health/new-color-green/

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
smlx4@mastodon.nu ("Marie 🇸🇪") wrote:

When designers think outside the box. Studio Ghibli designed this DVD case to make it look like the characters are checking their reflection in the water.
Sweet!

#manga #studioghibli #dvd #characters #design

DVD box opened with a raised lid & the disc inside. Inside the lid there’s a picture of the characters standing by water & looking down. The reflection in the CD gives the impression that they see their reflection in the water.
Same picture but from a distance for a better overview.