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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

Army Will Seek Right to Repair Clauses in All Its Contracts

🔗 https://www.404media.co/army-will-seek-right-to-repair-clauses-in-all-its-contracts/

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

🤩 I’m in awe at how amazing this community is. It hasn’t even been 24 hours since we began our May charity event, and we’ve already reached nearly $3,200 in donations and matches for 18 different organizations (many of which are local to our members). The sheer generosity is beyond inspiring. :prami_hearts:

If you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, stop by and see how we’re making a difference together! https://home.omg.lol/giving/gift-tracker

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jepyang@wandering.shop ("jnpegay") wrote:

apparently there is a “rave collective” in toronto that has offered to be on-call for any reports of right-wing protests to bring a portable sound system and drown them out with 200bpm hardcore acid techno

i am so fucking here for this

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DrOinFLA@lounge.town ("OhSnap!Dragon") wrote:

The fact that my hair has gone gray and wiry, while my pubes have remained as silky and golden brown as when I was twenty, is just another example of how the universe is fucking with us.
#DeepThoughts
#DeepThoughtsWithJackHandsey

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nerdd@mstdn.social ("Rasmus Grouleff (he/him)") wrote:

@jepyang Awesome!

Here in Denmark, there was this dude, who would rock up to right-wing extremist protests armed with a saxophone and a sign saying something like: “Free jazz against racism”. Then he would start producing the loudest and most hideous sounds on the sax, and he would continue relentlessly, until the extremists packed their shit up and left.

Boosted by jwz:
luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:

The COVID vaccines have been taken by billions of people, saved millions of lives, and are some of the most rigorously tested medical products in history.

Someone who has zero experience in vaccine development should not be influencing the approval process. This will kill people.

Boosted by jwz:
nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

"they did not even possess gender (a social role, as opposed to sex, which is biological)"

This is a quote from a book published in 1999 about native American cultures from thousands of years ago. Apparently, it wasn't Democrats and Obama personally who "invented" all this gender stuff.

Boosted by jwz:
grammargirl@zirk.us ("Mignon Fogarty") wrote:

The federal government seems to be liquidating its supply of COVID tests, and you can get 300 or more free. That's supposedly the minimum, although I ordered 300, and they sent me 360 because they come in boxes of 120.

I'm now essentially "that lady in a hat who keeps trying to give everyone free COVID tests."

The tests I got expire in July, and the page says the program was still active as of yesterday, so get some for your community!

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1cm3L20wSAkVpvm3YufXEyX7j3viaeGZSwCIOz2%5FeunY/mobilebasic

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz ("Albert Cardona") wrote:

@jonny @cstanhope

There's another creature – the larvae of beetles in the Chrysomelidae family – that carries around all of its lifetime faeces as a shield or as a form of camouflage. Like a shit umbrella.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal%5Fshield

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
transworld@masto.ai ("Transgender World") wrote:

For those who have not looked into the complexity of biological sex, here is an illustration from Scientific American that presents the main points.

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #intersex
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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

👇🏽

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay 🇪🇺") wrote:

If you ever think you're not great at tech, web design or use cases you're almost certainly still better than the person who built this

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

New Kitten Release 🥳

https://kitten.small-web.org

(Run `kitten update` to update your dev machines. Production machines will automatically update in a couple of hours.)

• You can now add a generic script block to your markdown pages (see https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114432417394114105)

• Markdown pages can now be `KittenPage` instances and attach `KittenComponent` instances (so you get a full server-side component hierarchy with an event-based workflow; ideal for authenticated pages where you can be use only the author of the page will be accessing them and thus the additional memory and processing overhead are not issues. Isn’t the Small Web great? Only having instances of one makes it possible to optimise so many things for the human experience instead of vertical scale of the data farming machine.)

• Two new examples showcase the new features: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/examples/streaming-html/markdown-script-simple-components and https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/examples/streaming-html/markdown-kitten-components

• Attributes with object values are no longer serialised into the DOM (but your components’ render functions will continue to receive them, of course.) This is because only string values make sense for attributes in the context of the HTML DOM. (You can still, of course, have stringified representations of objects in attributes, as used by the `data` attribute to pass data from nodes to event handers on the server.)

#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #kittenRelease #markdown #scripting #OOP #eventModel #web #dev

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
fionafokus@mystical.garden ("fiona :loading:") wrote:

As you all know, the easiest way to set the time on a microwave oven is to plug it in at the right moment.
(Reference: https://chaos.social/@ant/109265527654254544)

Tired of doing this every few weeks to keep up with the drift of the shitty RTC?
Just add NTP to your microwave oven. The home appliance industry does not want you to know this simple trick:
Smart Plug + Home Automation

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

A new post: Thoughts on the State of Things

https://my.stuffandthings.lol/blog/2025-05-01/thoughts-on-the-state-of-things.html
2025-05-01

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

In before someone coins the phrase "Slop Economy" because we are definitely living in an age where the quality of digital goods is taking a nose dive.

jwz wrote:

Bobby Brainworms.

So I guess we're reaching the point where if you want to remain vaccinated against COVID, you'll have to figure out how to buy an illegal import from this "dark web" I've been hearing so much about.

Or maybe go down to one of our famed "Open Air Drug Markets" and buy it from a.... Blade Runner...

https://jwz.org/b/ykm4

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

It's nice when judges state the obvious; less nice that the obvious needs to be stated

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/politics/alien-enemies-act-trump-rodriguez-ruling

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

Regarding LB[1]: ... and memory use, and correctness, and the people who will be forced to use the software, and the people who will maintain the software in the future, and...

[1] https://wetdry.world/@freeplay/114433656552717298

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
freeplay@wetdry.world ("Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :ablobfoxbongohyper:‮‮‮‮‮‮") wrote:

stealing for alt

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

The OSU Open Source Lab is asking for donations; unless they can raise $250,000 in funds, the OSL will shut down later this year.

https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

OSU pays their football coach two million dollars a year. Last season he went five and seven.

A bargain compared to the previous coach, who was making almost five million dollars a year.

https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/football/coach/team/3466

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/oregon-state/index.html

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :donor:") wrote:

How to win my instant support as a customer:

"We have decided not to focus on generative AI features, and instead reinvest heavily in quality assurance for our core products through hiring, training, and process development."

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

What the heck? Jackie Chan can sing too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QENkNn93ezQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie%5FChan%5Fdiscography

(I'm sure this is well known by many, but just in case you are one of the unlucky few who did not yet know, I wanted to share the knowledge.)

Boosted by Mastodon:
CelianGodefroid@piaille.fr ("Célian Godefroid") wrote:

Bravo aussi à @Mastodon pour leurs nouveaux recrutements au sein de l'équipe, qui viendront accélérer l'impressionnant travail de développement du projet Mastodon, jusqu'alors réalisé par une poignée de personnes (+ contributions bénévoles) ! 🔥

Si vous le pouvez, donnez au projet Mastodon, qui vit en grande partie du crowdfunding : https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors#donate

Pour rappel, Piaille reverse chaque année 10% des dons reçus au projet Mastodon ! https://www.helloasso.com/associations/piaille

Boosted by jwz:
SethRudy@c18.masto.host ("Saethelred the Unsteady") wrote:

On this day in 1956, the toxic stew created by Jewish scientist Jonas Salk was “made available” to the public as part of his plan to deny Americans their God-given right to have polio

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

An emolumental deal for the Trump family.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/politics/trump-cryptocurrency-usd1-dubai-conference-announcement.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.D08.MoO3.qzJCjzhVyk6M&smid=url-share

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

London's "Thin House" looks as if it belongs in a Potemkin village or as a background facade on a Hollywood studio lot, but it's something of a Tardis, larger on the inside than it appears on the outside. Created to make way for the tracks of the Metropolitan Railway (now the District and Circle lines) behind it, its triangular footprint gives it the illusion of being little more than a shallow rectangle when viewed from the street.

Boosted by jwz:
joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("Joe Groff") wrote:

As we all know, a conclave must first be tessellated into convlex primitives before it can be rasterized

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50), Cambo 1200 camera (shifted vertically -10mm).