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

Listening to John Mayall Jazz and Blues Fusion from Jul 5, 1973

https://wolfgangs.app.link/r0kXRqqrYSb

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

I re-joined Disney+/Hulu for their $2.99/month promotion to watch “Andor” and re-watch “Burn Notice”, and while the ads in the latter don’t bother me, the ads in the former may infuriate me enough to pony up the extra $17/month for a bit.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
clarity@xoxo.zone ("clarity flowers") wrote:

ENGLISH LANGUAGE UPDATE

"Bugs" is now an adjective for describing things that are fascinating, cool, beautiful. Particularly if in an idiosyncratic way.
- "Oh man this album is bugs, you gotta listen to it"
- "Lately I've been getting into painting a picture of the same tree every day" "That's bugs, good for you"

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

it probably won’t work @CARROT

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• video: 70df5e0a06d24b64.mp4

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

New Logo, Who Dis? https://rknight.me/blog/new-logo-who-dis/

I put on my best designer hat and made a new logo for EchoFeed.

With thanks to @adam and @humdrum for their help and feedback.

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

M$: "This is a feature, not a bug."

https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/114066966688053113

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

okay, this is going to break my brain... why the fsck did the email subsystem for my service seemingly at random refuse to handle some (just *some*) gmail addresses correctly for 3 frigging DAYS & now it is fine??? [screaming noises b/g]

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
hosford42@techhub.social ("Aaron") wrote:

@normative.bsky.social Be ready, folks. There will be a lot of negative energy, and we need to make sure that gets directed into marches and resistance, not hiding and running away.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mattgemmell@mastodon.scot ("Matt Gemmell") wrote:

This is the most helpfully packaged box of screws I've ever seen, by a large margin. I just wanted to take a moment to appreciate whomever was responsible for such a triumph of utility and empathy.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🍑") wrote:

That's how I manage my Mastodon servers from the Cuban outback!

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• video: A video of Erik Uden on his phone showing an SSH connection to a troet.cafe server, then the nature environment through the window, and then the camera panning throughout the bus

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
urbandinosaurs@urbanists.social ("Urban Dinosaurs") wrote:

An American crow near (what I’m told) is its nest in Riverside Park in NYC.
And it's now certain that there are at least two chicks in the nest! But the two parents took a break on a rooftop across the street before both headed towards Morningside Park.
#birds #wildlifePhotography #birdCPP #birdsForBecsNan

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

places.pub

I'm making an initial version of places.pub available today. places.pub is a collection of Place objects suitable for use in geosocial applications on the ActivityPub network. Part of my work in the Social Web Community Group at the W3C has been work in the GeoSocial Task Force. This is a sub-group of the SocialCG that is working on implementing user stories in ActivityPub related to the intersection of geographical systems and social networking, for example, tagging an image with the […]

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/04/29/places-pub/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffowski@mastodon.world ("Church of Jeff") wrote:

#TrickleDown #MAGA #TrumpEconomy #TrumpRecession #TrumpTariffs #NoBillionaires #ElonMusk #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #GuillotinesWork

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
scrum_log ("Cam Cook") wrote:

When folks ask me for help dealing with python 2.7 code

#python #programming

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

I decided it was time to obtain some travel & demonstration camouflage, so I ordered an enameled miniature lapel ribbon for my coat (the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal is "for operations for which no other U.S. campaign medal is approved, where a foreign armed opposition or imminent threat of hostile action was encountered." it is a boring story.)

and that, my children, was indeed a very long time ago.

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

Sometimes all you need is a good stretch

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

Satire has run off the rails and crashed and burned.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/29/i-wish-i-could-laugh-anymore/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

uh-oh, if Backblaze is part of your backup strategy, you might want to slowly start looking for alternatives.

I’ve been running Arq for over a decade, open source file format, your choice of storage backend, native Mac client, highly recommend.

I’m also running Backblaze on low maintainance family machines and it’s generally great.
https://mastodon.social/@mjtsai/114422544139882895

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

I mean, when the "Cheap Crap You Don't Need From Overseas" site starts charging you quintuple for the cheap crap you don't need from overseas, it doesn't matter if the tariff cost is broken out or not, you just won't buy it because now it's no longer cheap

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/amazon-says-considered-listing-tariff-charges-ultracheap-haul-site-whi-rcna203480

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

Perhaps the ultimate irony to this sad situation is that the original disagreement stems from when an entirely different guy went online and cried about being “cancelled” as a way to gain sympathy and feel better about what he did.

And we’ve come full circle. When this new farewell post is trending on the Bear Discovery feed tomorrow, the sympathy will come pouring in, once again devoid of any objective context. Nothing was learned; nothing changes.

https://social.lol/@adam/114422390427632672

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

It's frightening how quickly institutions fall.

That country went from crying about Free Speech on every slope that could be even slightly slippery, to having the government directly and personally retaliate over a rumor that someone may state a fact that makes the king look bad.

Whether that's legal or not also ceased to matter, because legality of things is now decided by the king's drinking buddies.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114422571045203340

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

Men taking valid criticism without playing the victim impossible challenge

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

Finally, the “cyberstalking” thing is just *wild*. Dude, I read your blog and write about your bad takes. Maybe you didn’t like what I had to say, but that doesn’t make it stalking.

Throwing that word around so carelessly is an affront to every woman who’s ever *actually* been stalked. For crying out loud, stop victimizing yourself. It’s embarrassing.

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

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Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it ("Andres S") wrote:

This is how taxes work. You are buying bombs to kill brown children. You are buying asphalt to pave roadways, and all the associated machinery and maintenance materials (like road salt) to keep them paved. But the thing is, people who bike are getting better health outcomes than people who drive or take transit (and if people don't make much money, you're paying for that health care one way or another). Bikes also cause hugely less road wear than cars and buses. So buying that bike costs less.

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

It’s astonishing how in every message or post about any of this, the people portrayed as the victims are those who perpetrated the abuse. Astonishing.

There was only one victim in any of this. One. Her name is @melanie, and I wonder how she feels when she sees all of these guys—including the ones who actually hurt her—writing about how *they* are the ones who were hurt. How *they* are the victims.

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

This is sad. No one should feel like they should stop speaking just because someone doesn’t like what they say. https://brandons-journal.com/farewell/

This is a bit wrong, though: “I simply disagreed with how a straight white man decided to shame another straight white man instead of trying to help show them the error of their ways”

You forgot the part where someone *did* show them the error of their ways, and then they promptly ignored that and went on to hurt a trans person. Twice.

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

@annie Thank you for sharing this part of your journey. We need more willingness to embrace empathy and to admit fault. Saying "I was wrong" isn't weakness, it can be virtue.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The upper-middle class left of center doctrine is a steaming hot mess. We need new voices. We need fresh takes.

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
jrconlin@mindof.jrconlin.com ("j-r conlin") wrote:

@mhoye

I dunno.

I mean, I have raging imposter syndrome, and there is one thing that definitely appeals to me whenever I use AI.

"Well, at least I'm not this awful."