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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
Danni@purplepenguin.lol ("🐧Danni :unverified:") wrote:

Today was a great day. After working on sitting up and sensory tolerance for the last few months, I finally felt well enough to go out in my wheelchair! @izzy took me to a green area near where we live, and then as I was still feeling good she took me into Gateshead to look around Big Tesco. Bought ribbons, plastic cutlery, chewing gum and a blue cardigan (I was cold but it's going to be Izzy's).

To save Izzy's weak girl legs we got the bus back up the hill and apart from not fitting on the first one (the wheelchair bay was too small for my chair) I did fine on the second bus, which hasn't been the case in many years. Motion sickness has definitely improved!

I spent some time in the living room before getting back into bed, mostly because my bum was sore. According to my heartrate monitor, the only time it went higher than my normal was when I was being hoisted, which fits with how I felt. How I recover will determine when I can go on my next adventure, but I'll be living off the memories of today for a while 😊

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

https://tariffsarebullshit.com/

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

"The Port of Long Beach is seeing a 35-40% drop compared to normal cargo volume. The Port of Los Angeles had a 31% drop in volume this week, and the Port of New York and Jersey says it’s also bracing for a slowdown. On Wednesday, the Port of Seattle said it had zero container ships in the port, another anomaly that hasn’t happened since the pandemic." https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/business/zero-ships-china-trade-ports-pandemic

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

#MAGA

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

Objectively I have nothing against bees but I wish they were less fascinated by open-air cocktail bars than they seem to be

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

Pick one.

Boosted by jwz:
weaponisedapathy ("punk rock stepdad") wrote:

Obligatory Star Wars day post
@RadicalGraffiti

Boosted by jwz:
babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

Lots of people have commented on the portrait on the wall of the Hog's Hedge over the past few years. He's Lord Admiral Hogratio Quillson. When I was redecorating the feeders @PhineasX offered to contribute some art to the project, and I *love* him. He's my favourite thing about it.

Not just a great artist of naval ancestral hedgehogs, @PhineasX has lots of other art, prints etc you can look at on https://octophant.us/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
hl@social.lol ("Henry") wrote:

More Love Letters, Please @stickerspotter

#sticker #post

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

It's always so jarring to hear a European talk about race because they sound like an American from the 90s talking about race and you wonder if maybe you fell into a time hole

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

“Aral, you’re scaremongering about this whole privacy thing.”

– A veritable smorgasbord of random people over the past decade

https://jacobin.com/2025/05/airlines-data-ice-trump-immigration/

#USA #fascism #data #privacy #humanRights #democracy

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

just one more nudge to the right bro. If we give up one more ideal the moderates will vote for us bro. This time'll be different bro. Just one more marginalized identity into the volcano bro. I promise bro. Please ignore one more atrocity bro. We put out fires by jumping in the flames bro.

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

It’s strangely nice to sit in a loud bar with AirPod Pros set to adaptive noise cancellation, playing no music. I can still hear everything, but it’s ratcheted down from 80+ dB to ~62 dB.

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

lol, automated case closure.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

The issue that has really moved a lot of folks like me who used to be distracted by the "why did they have gun?" argument off to fully into the ACAB perspective is that bad cops are so rarely punished.

It can be the most cut and dry case of murder and the cops get off, typically with ZERO jail time or direct economic penalty.

Literally the same one of the US most well covered cases of police murder had this update . . .

https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/114485081433719815

#TyreNichols

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

The people who are the very loudest critics of social media are those who find it frustrating that they can’t block or mute decency into oblivion. These are the same people who will call criticism of hateful behavior “toxic” and then call it a “dogpile” when a second or third person agrees that it’s wrong to treat queer people like shit.

Social media has never been the problem. People with hurtful views are the problem.

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

Social media is *awesome*. The only people I ever see lamenting it are those who feel intimidated by the raw power of open and candid dialogue. Especially when that power is used to hold them or their friends accountable.

Only then does this thing that they’ve previously loved somehow turn into something unpleasant or problematic. But nothing actually changed; they just finally realized that an open forum will have voices that don’t always agree with them.

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

Microsoft Azure isn't just a home for script kiddies running their DoS tools and vulnerability scanners, you also can't even report it because their reporting tool is broken.

F'ing idiots.

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

It's been difficult to separate the new World Trade Center building from that terrible day in 2001, but we now have the benefit of just enough time that we can begin to discuss the tower as a piece of architecture and as part of the skyline, on its own terms.

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

It's generally simpler to capture tall skyscrapers like this from a distant vantage point; the classic photos of WTC are usually shot from Brooklyn or New Jersey. But here I wanted to show it as it's seen in the neighborhood. The foreground buildings look taller in the frame, but the (much taller) One WTC tower still stands out, given its uncrowded position in the skyline, as if its neighbors maintain a respectful distance.

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

This was captured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR Digaron-W lens. A large image circle allows room for considerable movements, used here to swing to selectively focus on the WTC tower. A polarizer darkened the clear sky a bit, as well as taming some of the highlights reflected off the glass wall of the tower.

The shape of the new One WTC makes the light catch it differently throughout the day and in different weather. I made several exposures at different times before settling on this one.

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

One World Trade Center (and Neighbors), NYC, 2019.

All the pixels, none of the traffic, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/49291055921

#photography

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

Future Sound of London are back with more new music! What I've heard so far feels like a throwback to Dead Cities era acid and breaks, but with a more contemporary sonic pallet. You know this one is going on the wishlist.

(And if you want to hear way too much about this band, may I direct you to #FSOLTime?)

https://fsol.bandcamp.com/album/multiple-angled-distortions

#CrateDigging

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
fossheim@front-end.social ("Sarah L. Fossheim") wrote:

why do something like
click me

if you can just

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

*boop*

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

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

Once again: The animating principle of representative democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of deranged rich people, be they king or oligarch. Everything else is wainscoting.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:waplkqr2wuy2c4qbge6h6ed4/post/3lordjz5hvk2g

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

As we approach the release of Bonfire 1.0, this isn’t your typical launch announcement. Instead, it’s a moment to reflect on how we’ve built Bonfire, a roadmap of values, methods, and intentions – and an invitation to define what comes next.

In a world of “move fast and break things,” we’ve chosen a different tempo — one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship...

📣 Read our latest blog post: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/slow%5Fsoftware%5Ffor%5Fa%5Fburning%5Fworld/

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

Spending a beautiful morning with some Highland cows.

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

okay, this is amusing https://javalab.org/en/triboelectricity%5Fen/