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Boosted by jwz:
drsandman11.medsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("💉Josh Rubin, MD 🩺") wrote:

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

Boosted by jwz:
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

#WritersCoffeeClub May 7: Share a special location you write in for inspiration.

My home office. (See yesterday's picture.)

Basically, I get distracted too easily if I try and write in public. Beer, coffee, and company are both bad for my focus. After 18 years my office has exactly what I need, where I expect it to be.

(Writing is not about inspiration, writing is just hard office work.)

jwz wrote:

Today in ACAB.

SFPD violated the rules on overtime, repeatedly -- but they still got their money: The San Francisco Police Department decided on its own to violate the rules limiting public employee overtime, the Board of Supes learned Tuesday. [...]...
https://jwz.org/b/yknU

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

I wish I had had more time to photograph this delightfully weird building, but I only had an hour or so before I had to leave for the airport that day. The hard morning light only illuminated this one angle reasonably acceptably.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/5.6), Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50), Cambo 1200 camera (shifted vertically -8mm).

Opened as the London headquarters for the Michelin Tyre Co in 1911, and now a mixed commercial building, the Art Nouveau Michelin House features whimsical tire-themed ornaments and stained glass windows with the original Michelin Man "Bibendum" character in various, generally terrifying, poses.

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

81 Fulham Road ("Michelin House"), London, UK, 2024.

All the pixels, none of the dining or lodging ratings, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54196628571

#photography

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

I hope they're discussing this at the conclave.

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

If somehow I become president or pope or something, my top priority will be making it illegal to manufacture or distribute devices with USB-C connectors for power input but that require a USB-A power source to charge.

(I've been encountering this a lot lately. Grr).

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

We’re a week into our May community fundraising initiative, and it’s going great! https://home.omg.lol/giving

If there’s an organization in your community that you’d like to support but you don’t have any extra money right now, let me know (email adam@omg.lol) and I might be able to help.

Boosted by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
mbrubeck wrote:

Take me down to tautology city where the grass is grass and the pretty are pretty

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :togedemaru:"):
Ipstenu@halfelf.org ("Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)") wrote:

Toxic Users: The Unforgiven and the Danger of Unbanning

Toxic users can poison an online community. They harass, threaten, and exploit. Some are beyond redemption. This is why unbanning the unforgiven is a dangerous gamble.

#safety #wordpress

https://halfelf.org/2025/toxic-users-the-unforgiven-and-the-danger-of-unbanning/

Attachments:

• gifv: cf430454018094d2.mp4

Boosted by Mastodon:
MastodonEngineering ("Mastodon Engineering") wrote:

Our latest post marks one year of monthly engineering blog updates. We hope you've been finding them useful! Read about what's changed recently, ahead of a planned beta release of Mastodon 4.4 later this month. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/trunk-tidbits-april-2025/

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

City of Seattle to retire "Find It, Fix It" service request app; will be replaced by new "Fuck Around, Find Out" app

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

Stay home. Americans can't travel, and foreign visitors shouldn't.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/07/none-of-us-are-going-anywhere-anyway/

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

My phrase of the day:

"aesthetic aversion to cloud-centric and energy-intensive tooling"

(source: https://lobste.rs/s/ueacfz/zed%5Feditor%5Fadds%5Ffull%5Fai%5Fcapabilities#c%5Fhm6psu)

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

About fucking time

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/republican-jefferson-griffin-concedes-nc-supreme-court-race-rcna205358

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

He’s on vacation.

#Plushtodon

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

Some high tech engineering happening here.

Attachments:

• video: The fully automated EnterPresser™ 3000: A big red button on a messy desk full of wires activates a solenoid pressing the enter key of a laptop. The solenoid is held in a vice which is attached to the laptop. A lab power suply set to 12.00 volt in the background powers it. Someone is laughing in the backgound.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
tessa_murray@mastodon.au ("LittleBrownBird") wrote:

I haven't been out birding much recently. This lovely Red Winged Fairy Wren reminded me that I should do it more often. #birds #birdphotography

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
tessa_murray@mastodon.au ("LittleBrownBird") wrote:

There is no such thing as too many fairy wrens. #birds #birdphotography

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
alex@social.alexschroeder.ch ("Alex Schroeder") wrote:

I just deleted a reply to two different threads where I wanted say that the thing people were talking about seemed to me to be that pattern in capitalism where "not doing a thing" gives you less power over time, so people always end up doing something.

Like "buy this to save money" instead of "don't buy this to save money" or "buy this keyboard to fight the pain in your wrists" instead of "work less to fight the pain in your wrists".

If you advocate for not doing a thing, there's no money changing hands and therefore no ads to buy, no voice to gain, no political decisions going your way. Which is a slightly different explanation than greed and greenwashing for the failure of degrowth to take hold: If you sell flights and buy carbon offsets you'll always be growing unlike the competition that sells less flights to lower emissions. Even if the employees of the second company are feeling no need to grow, in the general population, their message will tend to get lost, their percentage of the market, even if enough for them, will continue to shrink, and eventually people will not have heard about them.

I don't know how to change that except by laws against doing all the things I think we need to stop doing. Because the entire market, the public speech, the commercial activity, it is all dominated by people who do the thing. Sure, it's greed, in a way, but it's also a ratchet, unstoppable, step by step, a selection process that is ongoing.

Do right and stop doing the thing and you leave that public sphere. Like Voltaire says, tend to your own garden. You'll be happy but the political storms raging around you will seem more and more alien. Because the people that didn't drop out will no longer hear you or see you. The next generation will not learn from you.

So one needs to stay in politics? Fight for the thing even though all the money goes to towards doing the things that we shouldn't be doing?

I don't know what to do.

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

I read the recent Rolling Stone interview with Naomi Klein. Two quotes about oligarchs stood out:

"...these people have everything. But what they want is beyond that. They want to not be accountable to anyone. Because what they want is absolutely everything."

"I believe they’re treasonous to this world and treasonous to creation."

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/naomi-klein-trump-musk-thiel-oligarchs-climate-science-1235330780/

Boosted by chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin"):
quinn@social.circl.lu ("Quinn Norton") wrote:

First they came for the transgender people, and I said nothing because I was not transgender.

Then they came for the furries, and no one knows what happened after that because the net went down and no one could fix it.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org ("Open Rights Group") wrote:

The UK Data Bill lets Ministers change how your data is used without proper scrutiny by Parliament.

Our open letter warned that a governing Party could use this to their advantage at the time of an election.

MPs must resist this power grab in today's debate.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/democracy-groups-warn-of-threat-henry-viii-powers-pose-to-future-election-integrity/

#dataprotection #privacy #data #gdpr #DataBill #DUABill #ukpol #ukpolitics

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

Let's all aspire to ruin Donald Trump's birthday.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/07/i-may-be-in-fargo-for-flag-day/

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

No, we're not colonizing Mars before the USA collapses. No, you don't have to worry about the sun swallowing up the Earth within the lifetime of our species. Yes, Elon Musk is the biggest con artist of all time. Also, Jesse Watters is more creepy and repulsive than the mouth of Sauron.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/07/the-fundamental-fork-in-the-road-to-destiny/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Em4QyUuLUU

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

Jim Bakker isn't dead yet. Tammy Faye wants you to come home, you old fraud!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/07/tammy-faye-is-calling-you-home-jim/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMo2NJ5lFkg

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wonderofscience ("Wonder of Science") wrote:

These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.

Attachments:

• gifv: Two wire frame cubes side-by-side, flashing white and black create the illusions of rotation, movement, expansion, or contraction, as indicated by arrows, but careful observation reveal they are not moving.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:

Trump is such a fool.
https://www.theindex.media/donald-trump-is-a-man-in-decline/
#trump #canada

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Bellingcat@mstdn.social wrote:

EXCLUSIVE: Bellingcat, in partnership with Tjekdet, Politiken and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepfakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. MrDeepFakes(.com) was visited millions of times every month and hosted almost 70,000 explicit videos which have collectively been viewed more than 2.2 billion times. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05/07/canadian-pharmacist-linked-to-worlds-most-notorious-deepfake-porn-site/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon