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

Beck released an EP of remixes utilizing Game Boy chip sounds? "Gameboy Variations":

https://soundcloud.com/planned%5Fobsolescence/sets/gameboy-variations-hell-yes

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

Major gas leak in Manhattan (122 and B’way) in a high school building, affecting the whole area. They’ve stopped 1 trains between 125 and 96th.

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Kerfuffle between the CNCF, one of its projects, and the company that contributed it? Sounds like a topic tailor-made for Oxide and Friends! @bcantrill and I were joined by @rstephensme and @adamhjk to discuss how we got here and possible outcomes. https://youtu.be/dYIgswVvIt0

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
xkcdbot@me.ns.ci ("XKCD bot") wrote:

#xkcd No. 3083
Date: 2025-4-30
Title: Jupiter Core
Alt text: Juno mission data suggests that Jupiter actually contains Matryoshka doll-style nested copies of every other planet in the Solar System.
https://xkcd.com/3083/

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

And this is why I think it’s important to lean into these issues and shine a light where things are too dim. I’ve spent the past few days engaged in unproductive screaming about this and related issues, so it’s not hard for anyone to be better than me here. We need to figure out how to help people cultivate their ability to relate to others who are different from them, because understanding is a prerequisite to accepting.

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

Wherever you might fall here, just know that we’re cruising through a time of incredibly high tensions related to fundamental aspects of people’s humanity. I’m watching a lot of people become far too comfortable with the idea that it’s OK to just dismiss an entire group’s desire for safety. I think this is the result of cluelessness, which itself comes from a simple inability to relate.

If you’ve never felt unsafe before, you’re going to struggle to understand someone else’s desire for safety.

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

Some folks haven’t had a chance to dive in yet, while others might be choosing to stay away because of the noise and heat. And others might have taken a peek and noped out of the news because they saw some really tough things being said about people they know and like.

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

Fun fact: the Reading was a major northeastern US railroad (made famous internationally by its place on the Monopoly gameboard), which ceded its rail business in 1976 to the newly formed Conrail consortium. But the company kept most of its non-railroad real estate holdings, and today mostly operates cinemas (including NYC's Angelika) in several countries.

(The Reading Company was named for the Pennsylvania city, and so is pronounced with the past tense of what you do with words on a page).

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

The GX680 was a fun but very unusual camera that couldn't quite decide what it wanted to be. It was a truly gigantic beast of a medium format SLR camera providing (limited) view camera movements. It used 120-format roll film with a 6x8cm frame (so a 3:4 aspect ratio), with a built-in autowinder. It's sort of what you'd get if you somehow merged a Nikon F4, a Hasselblad, and a Crown Graphic. Definitely not a point & shoot camera.

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

Captured with a Fuji GX680 camera, 80mm lens, T-Max 100 film. Some tilt was applied to control focus. It was very dark in there, and focusing required the use of a flashlight.

The Pennsylvania Avenue Subway was built to provide a sub-grade freight connection between the Reading Railroad's main line and its "City Branch". It served the Baldwin Locomotive Works' Callowhill plant and, later, the Philadelphia Inquirer's printing plant, among other Center City industries. Abandoned in the 1980's.

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

"Pennsylvania Avenue Subway" Tunnel (Former Reading Railroad), Philadelphia, 2004.

#photography

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
daemon_nova@labyrinth.zone (":minecraftPickaxe: ⸸ cmdr ░ nova ⸸ :~$ 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Have you been watching the #Fosstodon thing happen over the past week, and wondering, "what the heck's going on?" "who said what?" "what's a carrotcypher?"

Guess, and be confused, no more. I put together exactly what you need to see in order to understand what these people did, and why their instance is being silenced.

Neutrality, the biggest problem with large Mastodon instances.

(general warning for topics relating to fascism and the current political climate in the US)

https://mkultra.monster/social-media/2025/04/28/fashtodon

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

Excellent write-up of the situation with #Fosstodon, with equally excellent commentary. If you’ve been out of the loop and care to catch up, this is the one to read. https://mkultra.monster/social-media/2025/04/28/fashtodon

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mcc wrote:

The really funny thing about voting reform is there's a bloc which agrees first past the post is the worst option; but reformists are violently split between IRV, approval, and Condorcet-math-ranked-voting camps, so their support is split and they can't accomplish anything. This is the exact problem voting reform is meant to fix!

In effect we (North American culture) are continuously running a first-past-the-post poll for what voting system we should have, and first-past-the-post keeps winning.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
RikerGoogling@mas.to ("Riker Googling") wrote:

what planet do goths come from

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

“Accepting critical feedback is like taking medicine: it tastes bad, but it’s good for you.”

https://notes.neatnik.net/2025-04-29

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
ambv ("Łukasz Langa") wrote:

Yeah, I agree with this dude, even as a ChatGPT subscriber.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

TIL: you can skip through YouTube videos at double the playback speed by clicking on them and holding the mouse press.

jwz wrote:

Cage-Tech. "Industrial-Grade Juicing for Every Need"
https://jwz.org/b/ykm2

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

Incredible that BA managed to bugger their website with Next.js like a clueless startup burning borrowed cash. Who says trade across the pond is endangered? We import self-sanctioning economic policy, the UK imports failson tech...a "special" relationship in every way.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
TucsonSentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com ("Tucson Sentinel") wrote:

Judge restricts Border Patrol in California: ‘You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin’ https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/042925%5Fbp%5Fcalif%5Fjudge/judge-restricts-border-patrol-california-you-just-cant-walk-up-people-with-brown-skin/
‘You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin and say give me your papers,’ a federal judge told Border Patrol attorneys at a hearing challenging recent immigration sweeps.
#Tucson #Arizona

Boosted by jwz:
charliejane@wandering.shop ("Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️‍⚧") wrote:

Americans confused by the Canadian election need to learn the two types of democracies:

1. a Parliamentary system
2. a Funkadelicary system

In a Parliament, Dr. Funkenstein summons the Mothership to defeat Sir Noze

In a Funkadelic, freeing your mind allows your maggot brain to create one nation

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

🖊️ I just posted a new article to krrd.ing!

navigating power and privilege https://krrd.ing/posts/navigating-power-and-privilege/

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

@endonend I think my favorite review of Crucial Tracks came from @robb who said, "I'm just a lil bit angry that I didn't think of this, it's so smart."

Such a great idea and well-executed. Looking forward to see where you take this.

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

I love the slow, serendipitous nature of Crucial Tracks. It gives you a chance to appreciate everyone's story and vulnerability. Music is one of the key things that links us -- whether you are into rock, pop, punk, jazz, EDM, rap, ska, whatever... it amazes me the variety I see on the site even with a smallish number of users... but in the end each song has humanity and life experience behind it that we can all relate to, even if you don't "understand "the song. ❤️

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

A few days ago my Mom and sis started getting email bounces for me. They are both on iCloud. I got a look at one of the bounce messages today - Apple is interpreting my graylist 421 temp fail status code as a permanent failure.

The problem showed up now because Apple started using a new netblock. I had the old block whitelisted so graylisting didn't get invoked. Whitelisting the new block fixes it for now, until they change addresses again.

But really, Apple should OBEY THE FUCKING RFC.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
alexcox ("Alex Cox") wrote:

People keep asking me about transphobic takes from people I have literally never heard of, asking if I’m “okay…” so if you actually want to check in, look at my bank account and either support me on Ko-fi, Patreon, or heck just give me money. Then, I can buy this month’s hormones and a new binder, and then I’ll let you know if I’m okay, deal?

https://ko-fi.com/alexcoxfm
https://www.patreon.com/alexcox

PayPal: alexcoxfm
Cashapp: $alexcox42
Venmo: @alexcox42

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"