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

Some higher ed institutions are rejecting the demands of Trump.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/23/this-is-a-good-time-to-say-no/

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

Man, Graham Linehan is a sad, pathetic fellow. I met him once, before he embarked on his mission of self-annihilation.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/23/another-mammoth-resurrected/

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

I would give this science fair project an A+.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/23/now-thats-a-good-science-fair-project/

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kjhealy ("Kieran Healy") wrote:

RIP to one of the great post-war American sociologists. An immigrant, a keen-eyed observer, and a real straight-talker his whole career. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/books/herbert-j-gans-dead.html

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amerpie@social.lol ("Lou Plummer 💖") wrote:

What I've Learned on the IndieWeb - Although I've been online a long time, I still had a lot to learn about the corner of the Internet where the cool kids hang out. - https://louplummer.lol/what-i-ve-learned-on-the-indie-web/

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

People keep being surprised that webrings still exist!

They really do, check out this huge list: https://brisray.com/web/webring-list.htm

(also, do explore https://brisray.com in general, you can thank me later)

And if you want to start your own, you can take the super easy route that I took, and host it on https://webri.ng

Here's the CSS Joy ring: https://webri.ng/webring/cssjoy

There's a landing page for it at https://cs.sjoy.lol - the maker whipped up an endpoint to get the site names and URLs :)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ieure@retro.social ("egregious philbin") wrote:

@cstanhope Stargard is awesome. They also have a song about space fugitives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwW9D1ZrZiQ

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GrimmReality@beige.party ("Grimm :bc:") wrote:

Serious Business People in Suits flummoxed as car company run by friendless open neo-nazi who also routinely calls people "retard" on his online Klan forum and works as an unelected, unaccountable lord chancellor to materially destroy the U.S. as an economy and as a republic sees profits drop 71%.

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

- Tesla Q1 profits down •71%• YoY
- Earnings per share of $0.27 lower than analyst expectations of $0.41
- Without carbon credits, company would have posted an operating loss

Bad as all that sounds for Tesla, keep in mind that this company regularly publishes falsified data. It hacked its odometers to push customers out of warranty. It wildly exagerrated Cybertruck orders. It almost certainly published fraudulent sales figures in Canada to get in on an expiring gov benefit.

I’m assuming this dismal quarterly earning report isn’t reality, but is the rosiest lie they could manage to sell to investors. The reality is probably even worse.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-sounds-extremely-depressed-after-tesla-profits-plunge-71-2000593013
#TeslaTakedown

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

One day I will finally start using the LibraryThing account that I created a decade ago, but that day is, again, not today.

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

This is like watching Gladiator to get an accurate view of Roman history

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/conclave-streaming-views-pope-francis-death-1236375240/

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mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

I drew this three weeks ago, but this guy sucking shit is an evergreen topic. https://brianmcfadden.org/2025/04/05/elon-musks-suck-cess-seminar/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
falcennial ("millennial falcon") wrote:

you may not know this but Billy Joel's "We didnt start the fire" and The Prodigy's "Firestarter" are both set in the same canonical universe surrounding the multi-year inquiry conducted by Nelly in his number one smash hit single "Hot in herre" in which he uses controversial interrogation techniques to question witnesses of this infamous arson attack

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

Rather than work today I think I will scroll through the directory on omg.lol (https://home.omg.lol/directory) and look at my fellow... uhh... omg-ers?

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I never knew there's some Star Wars funk music. Stargard's "The Force":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAtlJ47NSFw

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
zzclaybourne@wandering.shop ("Zig Claybourne") wrote:

AMNANDI SAILS is a "Project We Love"!

Y'all stirred up such a joyous ruckus it caught Kickstarter's eye.

Don't stop.

Books about witch teens with common sense are cool.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidiansky/amnandi-sails

#Bookstadon

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
falseknees ("False Knees") wrote:

Puffin's Bluff

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

Fun fact: If you don't think everyone deserves due process, you're an actual fascist!

Also fun fact: If you think a lack of due process for others will never come back to bite you in the ass, you're an actual credulous fool!

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

If nothing else, "the Kennedy mystique" is now well and truly fucking buried

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social ("Juggling With Eggs") wrote:

‘The #BBC presenter Evan Davis has been told he can no longer host a podcast about heat pumps due to the corporation’s concerns that discussing the technology risks “treading on areas of public controversy”’

Controversial to #FossilFuel industry and #Reform voters who are trying to kneecap anything that will help us avert #ClimateBreakdown.

#HeatPumps are NOT controversial outside UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/apr/22/bbc-tells-pm-evan-davis-to-stop-hosting-heat-pump-podcast

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
adriano@lile.cl ("Adriano") wrote:

Principios
- Tener hijos? tu decisión.
- Abortar? debería ser tu decisión.
- LGBTIAQ+? Yeah!
- Amar -con consentimiento- es amar.
- El trabajo sexual es eso mismo: trabajo.
- Crees que no hay que vacunar? Púdrete.
- Niegas el cambio climático? Por la cresta quién te hizo ese daño.

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r_flash@mastodon.r-flash.eu ("Adam P") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: An infinite zoom into a photo of a flower deformed into a logarithmic spiral. The color is blue on the outsides and warm yellow in the center, with shades of green where they mix.

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

oops, I purchased another domain

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jake4480@c.im ("Jake in the desert") wrote:

Don't make Poliwhirl do the dishes. Help Poliwhirl with the dishes.

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bodil@treehouse.systems ("Bodil") wrote:

With Andor s2 about to drop, it's good to keep in mind that in spite of popular assumptions, the Galactic Empire isn't based on the Nazis. George Lucas was very explicit that it's in fact supposed to represent the United States.

https://www.cbr.com/george-lucas-vietnam-war-star-wars-inspiration/

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bleuje@mathstodon.xyz ("Etienne Jacob") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: looping animation of woven sphere using inverse mercator

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

look, moore's law clearly states that AI line goes up and to the right forever and also i get a hot robot girlfriend who really loves me

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timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

I'm a big fan of 404, both the quality of the writing and reporting and of their business structure, as exemplified in this piece. Check 'em out if you haven't already.

How 404 Media Is Navigating 'Economic Headwinds' https://www.404media.co/how-404-media-is-navigating-economic-headwinds/

jwz wrote:

You will be shocked to learn that the password was 1234. "We take this matter seriously and are working as fast as we can to respond to the situation." https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/19/us%5Fcrosswalk%5Fbutton%5Fhacking/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
slowcraft@pagan.plus ("grey") wrote:

we got back from our trip on sunday night and i imagine that i will be recovering for awhile. i’m slowly sorting through my experiences and photos to share. those 4 days felt like 2 weeks.

in the meantime, here’s a banana slug doing its thing