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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
checkervest@laserdisc.party ("wicker boyfriend") wrote:

Pulled the last little guys out of the kiln first thing and what a Wednesday delight

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
pkirn ("peter KIRN") wrote:

"Funk was a genre of sonic color, a genre that crossed oceans, a genre rooted in radical joy and inclusivity. We Want The Funk! makes clear that Black art is not just expression — it’s liberation."

- Black Enterprise review. Full documentary is online:

https://cdm.link/funk-music-history-documentary/

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

Most people are aware that Donald Trump is still President of the United States. But did you know that Pete Hegseth is still Secretary of Defense? And Eric Adams is still mayor of New York City? Seriously, look it up.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
andycarolan@social.lol ("Andy Carolan :prami:") wrote:

I recently made some DEIA profile pics for an event.

I'm especially pleased with how the person wearing a Hijab turned out!

#DEI #DEIA

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

If you want to see pure evil, just look at our government. Don't touch it, though!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/23/our-government-is-occupied-by-pure-evil/

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

The upbeat music American Airlines uses for boarding violates the Geneva Conventions

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

Background: there's a web site with a bunch of very pretty charts and graphs of various voting patterns in a few counties from the 2024 election claiming, without any actual rigorous analysis, that this proves "irregularities" in the 2024 tally. Naturally, there's a "donate" link.

It has an army of supporters on social media pushing it. Don't fall for this, no matter how much you want it to be true.

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

No, the pseudo-statistical gobbledegook claiming to "prove" that the 2024 election was stolen is not "justified" by the fact that "Trump claimed 2020 was stolen". (Someone just claimed this to me over on Bluesky.)

A grift is a grift, no matter who it purports to support. (The difference here is that this time around, the losing candidate isn't trying to exploit it).

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

I’m not completely sold on the idea yet… but after putting analytics on Foofaraw, I’ve been toying with the idea of trying to get weekly sponsors to help cover costs while I’m on the hunt for a day job. If you know of anyone with a cool, small project that might want to spread the word while also supporting indie publishing for ~$15-25/wk—let me know!

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

Captured with a BetterLight Scanning Digital back and a 180mm/5.6 APO Sironar-N lens (@ f/16), Sinar P camera.

The BetterLight system was a great way to do digital captures 20 years ago, but it was extremely cumbersome to use in the field.

This is a mostly abstract study in industrial shapes.

These tanks, and most of the other obvious hazards on Treasure Island, have by now been removed, but the soil is still heavily contaminated in some areas.

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

Tank 3 - Regular Unleaded, Treasure Island, San Francisco,. CA, 2007.

All the pixels with none of the environmental hazards at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/2117817283

#photography

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

how delightful @CARROT

Attachments:

• video: 8c638fe017f9e4f4.mp4

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
grrlscientist ("GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦") wrote:

"There was no autism diagnosed before 1930."

Pluto wasn't discovered until 1930, but I'm pretty sure it was there the whole fucking time.

#politics #Vaccines #autism #healthcare #MedicalMalpractice #RFKJr #IdiotAlert

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

rigged up a cool Signal messenger API that I can reach over @tailscale, using a Dockerized wrapper around signal-cli. so far love this setup, wrote some notes https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/04/signal-messenger-api-tailnet-docker-compose/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

When politicians want to cut spending in my country, Denmark, we sometimes postpone the plans for a new swimming stadium, or build a less lavish new library building, because these things are not need-to-haves.

When Trump cuts spending, he removes the suicide hotline for young LGBTQ people, because he thinks those 1.3 million suicide-related phone calls are not important.

Insane.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/national-suicide-hotline-lgbtq-youth-cuts-rfk-jr-hhs/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
antlerboy ("Benjamin P. Taylor") wrote:

Research Associate – using systems thinking to address inequalities in diet x2 (Fixed Term) – MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, £37-45k, deadline 4 May 2025 https://stream.syscoi.com/2025/04/23/research-associate-using-systems-thinking-to-address-inequalities-in-diet-x2-fixed-term-mrc-epidemiology-unit-university-of-cambridge-37-45k-deadline-4-may-2025/

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/

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

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

Boosted by jwz:
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%.

Boosted by jwz:
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/

Boosted by jwz:
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?