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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
markwyner@mas.to ("Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:") wrote:

Some people have asked about my @omgdotlol account. They want to know what it is. Or simply why it is?

I’m not really sure how to respond It’s just fun and interesting. It feels like the small web. The “web 1.0” (which wasn’t even called that at the time) but with modern tools.

And @adam is good people. He cares about his products and the people using them.

Check it out. Maybe join us.
https://home.omg.lol/referred-by/markwyner

#OMG #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #Internet #Community #Profile

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

I’ve been thinking a lot about this post from @thagomizer - https://thagomizer.com/blog/2017/09/29/we-don-t-do-that-here.html

It isn’t always right to try to educate. Sometimes it won’t land, sometimes you don’t have the energy, and sometimes it’s a lost cause…

And instead of slamming your head into a wall, just tell the offender “We don’t do that here.”

No right or wrong. No explanation or defense. Just “we don’t do that **here**” with the implied “if you want to stay here you don’t do that again”

Boosted by jwz:
ancient_catbus@jorts.horse ("Catbus") wrote:

liberal: omg how do we defeat Trumpism

socialist: *explains how*

liberal: that's not realistic, I meant without changing anything

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

I'm sure I'll be fine.

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

planning a train ride in a train with less than 10% average punctuality in the last 30 days according to zugfinder.net, AMA

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

Climate scientists, every goddam day.

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

I'm almost done with this semester!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/30/winding-down/

Attachments:

• gifv: countdown clock

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
fringemagnet@sunny.garden ("Annie Hsh 👾🖖☕") wrote:

Today marks the 30th anniversary of Full Throttle, released on April 30, 1995. A cult classic little gem from the golden age of LucasArts point-and-click adventure games. Tim Schafer's first solo project, featuring biker gangs, storytelling and cutscenes that draw inspiration from the Mad Max films, a protagonist who gets wrongfully framed for murder, a distinct cinematic style, and a soundtrack by the Gone Jackals.

Ben, the main character, was voiced by Roy Conrad, while Mark Hamill voiced the game's villain. Despite its planned sequels never getting off the ground, and the title being relatively short, Full Throttle has more than managed to perfectly stand out on its own thanks to its humour, memorable story and characters, and its fresh new approach to the adventure game genre. Decades later, it still deserves all the love it's getting, and if you've never played it, the 2017 remaster is an excellent way to fix that.

#FullThrottle #OTD #AdventureGame #PointndClick #VideoGames #Games #Gaming #RetroGaming #RetroGames #LucasArts

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mahryekuh@hachyderm.io ("Marijke Luttekes") wrote:

So you want to block threads.com and threads.net, but Mastodon UI is making it difficult?

Tip! Use Mastodon's Import function:

1. Create a file, any filename will do as long as it ends with `.csv`. For example: `blocked_domains.csv`.

2. Put these two lines in the file (without the backticks):

```
threads.com
threads.net
```

3. Save the file.

4. Go to the Mastodon import settings (`/settings/imports`).

5. In the form on this page, select import type "Domain blocking list".

6. In the form, select your newly created CSV file as the Data file.

7. In the form, select "Merge " instead of "Overwrite" (this should be the default value) as the import strategy.

8. Upload your file.

9. Profit!

#FediTips

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

You’ve probably seen email address delimiters in use before (e.g. name+whatever@gmail.com) or have used them yourself. Did you know that #omgdotlol uses them, too?

But in typical omg.lol fashion, we didn’t just stop at the plus sign. Use can use any of these characters to separate your address from an arbitrary string: '*+/=?^_`{|}~.

This means that these are all valid ways to email me:

- adam=dork@omg.lol
- adam?who?@omg.lol
- adam/dev/null@omg.lol
- adam{'wow'}@omg.lol

Try out your own! 😄

Boosted by jwz:
wokerati ("Wokerati") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
flexion@oldbytes.space ("/usr/people/flexion") wrote:

Peak 90s: Thronglets + LSD + Indigo2 IMPACT 😎

Boosted by jwz:
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

@quinn I’ve never tried Fetanyl but I have tried morphine, and my understanding is that fentanyl targets the same use case. I don’t really think the analogy stands up:

• Morphine is cheap to produce.
• Morphine use reduces the amount of pain you experience.
• There are real-world use cases for morphine.
• Using morphine makes you want to use more morphine.

Boosted by jwz:
quinn@social.circl.lu ("Quinn Norton") wrote:

People keep talking about AI and crypto coins as things that are popular and interesting. But Fentanyl is also popular and interesting, so y'all will need a better argument than that.

Boosted by jwz:
anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:

A bunch of tech CEOs are talking about being “AI-first”, the latest in a series of CEO fads like “return to office”, “founder mode” and “pivot to full fascism”. This one’s weird, though, because it only makes sense if… none of their workers are great at their jobs. https://www.anildash.com//2025/04/19/ai-first-is-the-new-return-to-office/

Boosted by jwz:
deane@contenttechtodon.org ("Deane Barker") wrote:

This guy isn't screwing around. https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection

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

Woke n Broke

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
resl@mas.to ("Resl") wrote:

Tomorrow is May Day. Take a break, go to a protest, and/or boycott a monopoly if you can. Long live our solidarity... and death to finance capitalism.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
tek@todon.eu ("Etienne / Tek") wrote:

Billy Bragg - Rich Men Earning North of a Million
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGNFR7pgxDY

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
W_Lucht@mstdn.social ("Wolfgang Lucht") wrote:

Imagine a publishing house with the mission of making knowledge and insights available to everybody for free, while ensuring high standards.

Well, the three universities of Berlin and the Charité have now joined forces to do just that.

They founded "Berlin Universities Publishing". Neither authors not readers pay. The pdf of books are freely available under a Creative Commons licence.

It's called "Diamond Open Access". They're just starting up. Much more to come.

https://www.berlin-universities-publishing.de/en/index.html

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.