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Boosted by jwz:
counterpoint_politics@threads.net ("Jon Cooper") wrote:

This was satire from The Onion just 3 weeks ago

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

'... both the caller and Shriner believed the hit-and-run suspect was behind the fence and was the one who shot her. They make no mention of police officers firing weapons or making commands.

Shortly afterwards, Shriner can be heard on the 9-1-1 call, explaining to the dispatcher that she was shot by the hit-and-run suspect. “I had my gun… and he said ‘put down that gun, put down that gun’ and I said ‘put down your f**king gun.’ And then he shot me.”'

https://flipboard.com/@cnn/entertainment-kdo79uqrz/-/a-eZkqOmrERqKp3oSyjUKEjg%3Aa%3A132361178-%2F0

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

WGMC benefit tonight

Smooth notes fill the air,
Saxophones and soft piano,
Heartbeats dance with jazz.

courtesy https://arghstudios.com

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
hacktheplanet@beep.town ("HACK THE PLANET") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: okay speaks japanese

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

…or what's the weather like in #Skyrim? But really, what it's really really like?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgkTj7yq0QQ

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I love AnyAustin's genre of over-analyzing the heck out of the most mundane things.

https://youtu.be/pKzPpyCWkak

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

irregular reminder that Billy Idol has more cyberpunk cred than most musicians and he’s old school nerd

Boosted by jwz:
petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

Buy books. But not from Amazon. Buy them from Bookshop.org, the independent site. This move by Amazon is shameful.

Here is a link to my book on Bookshop.org.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-three-ages-of-water-prehistoric-past-imperiled-present-and-a-hope-for-the-future/18943639

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

I’ve seen this movie before, and it’s awful. 2/10 on IMDB. But the main characters are masterful actors who excel at deflection, ignoring the central issue, and defending all of the wrong people for all of the wrong reasons.

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

Concerned Netizen: “But what about these deeply concerning issues involving a person who holds power and influence within your online community?”

Fosstodon Co-founder: “Let’s keep this about Rampart, okay?”

https://fosstodon.org/@mike/114394345053697948

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

This week saw a new kind of failure mode for open source projects: a company (Synadia) trying to claw back a project (NATS) that it had donated to a foundation (the CNCF) -- and the foundation fighting back. The belligerents themselves have their own agendas, but @ahl and I will be joined by fellow non-combatants @adamhjk and @rstephensme to talk about their perspective on the shootout -- and what it means for open source. Join us live, Monday, 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1365446018149253160

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@th Phono jack electrical signaling is one of the oldest standards still in use -- basically as old as electrical transmission itself. With a physical adapter that you can still buy today for pennies, you could plug contemporary headphones into a telephone switchboard from 1870 and it would *just work*.

It is a god damned war crime that Apple took this away from us. I will die on this hill.

Boosted by jwz:
RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr") wrote:

In Medieval Germany, they had what was called Marriage Duels, where a husband and wife could physically fight each other.

To make things fair, the husband had to stand in a hole with one hand tied behind his back, holding a sword in his free hand, while the woman hit him with a bag of rocks.

I'm going to bring this up every time someone has a problem with No Fault Divorce.

Boosted by jwz:
catandgirl@socel.net ("Cat and Girl") wrote:

Quoth the craven evermore

Boosted by jwz:
Ttubretep@mstdn.social ("Ziggy Sawdust") wrote:

Enric Torres-Prat
#pulp #pulpart

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

Pretty amazing oscope music demo out of Revision 2025.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DifrkaALOg

Boosted by jwz:
th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, the 1/4" stereo jack is still in use. #Andor

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("L. Rhodes ⁂") wrote:

"Strike" is sailing jargon. To strike the sails is to take them down. With the sails down, the ships won't travel. In 1768, London sailors struck the sails of merchant ships, stopping international trade to protest wage cuts. That's why deliberate work stoppages are now called strikes. Direct action so potent it changes the language for more than two and half centuries.

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

Next.js, and the React ecosystem more broadly, are deeply McLuhanist. NPM and JSX are the medium, and the message is "it's your fault for being poor".

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀") wrote:

It's incredibly easy to be full of despair right now. I get it, I feel it too.

Don't let anyone tell you that the people who are doing the best are because they *deserve* it or are "geniuses".

And also don't let anyone tell you that a group of people who by and large who seem to be suffering and aren't doing as well relative to the metrics of the system is because they're not worthy or have failed themselves.

We have to try to build the best world for each other we can, the best we can.

💜

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
davidbisset@phpc.social ("David Bisset") wrote:

Why I 🧡 the web.

https://www.foldnfly.com/

A database of paper airplanes with easy to follow folding instructions, video tutorials and printable folding plans.

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

This would be fun to see. Too bad I'm diagonally opposite, geographically speaking:

https://mimmsmuseum.org/exhibits/#byte

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
bornach@fosstodon.org ("Bornach") wrote:

Mitxela's next clever idea involves a Eurorack controller knob that converts to a CV input
https://youtu.be/dLw2QQdOLaM
#modularSynth #electronics

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Lol. #grickledoodle #horror #cthulhu #lovecraftian #cartoon #art #drawing #selfie #funny

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
eclectech@things.uk wrote:

So far I've drunk coffee, scribbled on a flower and watched a robin who is definitely doing circuits that involve a couple of critical stopping spots in our garden. None of these things are on my to-do list.

#photography #bird

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

this is so very 1850s, and so very dangerous to Constitutional government:

“FBI director says a judge accused of helping someone evade immigration agents has been arrested”

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-judge-arrested-7997186bbca5730e70a25f2347e631f6

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

'“a warrant was not presented in the hallway on the 6th floor,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.' https://www.apg-wi.com/news/state/fbi-investigating-milwaukee-county-judge-after-third-courthouse-ice-arrest/article%5F15ff37fd-3a9a-5627-afd6-c49a65433c14.html

h/t https://mastodon.social/@WarnerCrocker/114399095111148866

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

my sysadmin turned 56 yesterday, so I went looking for a picture of me that year... me, trying hard to look tough like only a 19 or 20 year old can try

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

this is a sweet demo, v niocely done:

https://mastodon.scot/@svgeesus/114398840379594946

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

Here, as elsewhere, infrastructure is quietly heroic.