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jwz wrote:

Another brilliant Apple design decision.

Hey, you know those giant glass stairs in the Apple Store? So sleek, so Apple... So cracked. Every one of them.

They should have put a screen protector on these. I don't think AppleCare is gonna cover this.
https://jwz.org/b/yknh

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

This is genius: https://circlejerk.blog

(I didn’t create this. But I know who did, and this person is a treasure.)

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GriffithPark@pixelfed.social ("Michael Perry") wrote:

Phainopepla literally translates as “shining robe” but this dark, dapper aristocrat with the piercing red eyes and high-fashion crest is sometimes called The Goth Cardinal.
#naturephotography #nature #photo #photography #birds #birders #birdwatchers #birding #California #birdwatching #GriffithPark #DailyBird #BirdsOfPixelfed #BirdsOfMastodon #goth #gothcardinal #phainopepla #naturephotos #LAWildlife

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sohan@freeradical.zone ("Sohan Murthy") wrote:

We have a sound strategy. We simply failed to execute. That is why I, the chief executive officer, had to make the difficult decision to lay off everyone at the company who couldn't execute. Except me, of course, the person in charge of executing.

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ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

Flipboard just launched 124 new publishers to the Fediverse - bringing the total number it hosts to 1,241. #Fediverse https://werd.io/2025/flipboard-expands-publisher-federation-with-international-partners

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

Sometimes when I charge my AirPods one of them doesn't charge and hearing the low battery chime in my ear sends me into a murderous rage is that normal

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janet@floss.social ("Janet") wrote:

@Gina Just saying that you won't talk about something for the rest of the day doesn't actually work long term btw, it just makes it extremely clear you only care to deflect and not have an actual conversation, in this case literally with the person who reported the mod you yourself say is improper. You are a TERRIBLE admin

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YKantRachelRead@treehouse.systems ("Rach(el) Against The Machine") wrote:

in case folks haven't been following along, new Fosstodon instance owner Gina has, at this point, repeatedly doubled down on the idea that instance founders Kev and Mike were victims of "harassment" for the innocent little oopsie of openly sheltering a fascist on their moderation team.

yesterday, she escalated that rhetoric, calling it "outright abuse at worst."

those of you who defederated from Fosstodon can rest assured that the new boss is the same as the old boss.

#fosstodon

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11ty@neighborhood.11ty.dev ("Eleventy 🎈 v3.1.0") wrote:

Eleventy v3.1.0 is now available 🎈

⏩ 11% faster!
🤏 22% smaller!

https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/releases/tag/v3.1.0

jwz wrote:

Mail de-badged.

Fucking Apple. Anyone got a theory on why Mail.app suddenly won't show me an unread badge in the Dock icon any more? No matter what I set "Dock unread count" to, nothing shows up. And, when I quit and restart, "Dock unread count"...
https://jwz.org/b/yknf

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

Telegraph poles like these, with multiple "code lines", were once a common feature along American railroads. They are distinguishable from ordinary power or telephone lines by their multitude of cables, often occupying several crossarms. They typically carried a power bus plus individual lines for the signals along the route, with more efficient encodings used as technology improved.

They've been mostly supplanted by more modern SCADA systems that don't require so many individual wires.

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

Captured with a DSLR and 24mm shifting lens (vertically shifted just a bit) on a hot day in the Mojave desert.

This is a simple composition, characteristic of the early 20th century Precisionist school. There's little in the frame that isn't essential. The pylons, wires, and tracks all converge at a vanishing point at the edge of the frame, suggesting, but not showing, a more expansive network of wires, tracks, and, for better or worse, human dominance over nature.

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

Code Lines, Union Pacific Railroad, Harvard, CA, 2010.

All the pixels, none of the tumbleweeds, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4612902834

#photography

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

I think the MOVE bombing isn't as well remembered as it should be partly because it's so over-the-top crazy that people brush it off as something where "there must be more to it than that". But no. The police department literally used a helicopter to drop an incendiary bomb on a row house in order to evict the occupants, burning down two city blocks in the process. That's what happened.

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claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

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

MOVE was, without doubt, guilty of being annoying. They had occasional confrontations with police. There were unsanitary conditions. Their neighbors complained about them. But the response was a case study in wildly disproportionate overreaction that should never be forgotten as a cautionary tale of where militarization of local police leads.

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romy@mastodon.berlin ("Romy Ilano") wrote:

Deathguild: delete your Instagram ! Join mastodon seize the means of production 😂😂😂 I love that DNA lounge is by nerds for nerds @dnalounge and they have great pizza

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

40 years ago today, the Philadelphia Police Department used a helicopter to firebomb the headquarters of MOVE, a radical collective that was being evicted for what amounted to building code violations. Eleven people died (including five children). The fire eventually spread and completely burned down two city blocks.

Then the remains of those killed, were, for unclear reasons, turned over to the U. Penn Museum, where they sat for decades. https://share.inquirer.com/m7vjmf

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

Liberals who declared the Defund the Police movement as "political poison," do so as if they're not the ones who got to decided if defunding police brutality was a worthy pursuit.

So often, Liberals will play the role of political saboteur, then swap hats to become the political pundit observing their own undermining.

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

This framing has completely flown over liberals' heads because, apparently, the only lessons we're capable of learning are the ones that reaffirm "we're smart, they're dumb." That's it. That's every thread, every think piece, every infographic.

We've refused to look at anything that might suggest we fucked up. Look at Defund the Police-

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

Democrats, as a whole, are not against these fascist systems. They are against Trump's access to them. Those politics fall short of anything approaching real resistance.

We would not be where we are now if democrats took a stand against the corporatization of our government and the militarization of our police.

To be clear, I'm not saying they tried and failed. Dems are largely pro-police state, pro-surveillance state and surveillance capitalism, pro-ICE, pro-plutocracy. That is a fact.

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

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to stomach any Trump-is-a-fascist discourse that doesn't first acknowledge that he inherited a dictator's war chest. Trump inherited a police and surveillance state. He inherited militarized police forces. He inherited a plutocracy.

Imagine how much more difficult it would be for Trump if he didn't already have everything he needs to turn this country into a fascist state. This is being completely ignored on the left.

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

Okay, something I don’t get about Windows 11, maybe just this enterprise setup: after having me create a username/password like a normal OS, it also had me create a much lower-security PIN and has me use that, nothing else, to log in, even after power on. Whose idea was this?

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

okay, that finally worked right... I have to remind myself that "context is king" over and over again.

mongod and firewall now properly configured, and I am reminded to pay attention to where it is exactly that I am when I run mongosh #HeadDesk

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fraser@m.universetoday.com ("Fraser Cain") wrote:

When spacecraft are constructed, they're assembled in special cleanrooms that are engineered to have extremely low levels of dust and microbes. Now, researchers have found that specific types of extremophiles have evolved to thrive in environments designed to remove all their competitors. They examined space agency cleanrooms and found 26 novel bacterial species, with specific features that let them handle decontamination and radiation.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1083406

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

https://alex.party/posts/2025-05-05-the-future-of-web-development-is-ai-get-on-or-get-left-behind/

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

Me: [climbing around on the roof precariously trying to clear a gutter downspout]

🧠: 🎶 Up on the roof 🎶

Me: [hands in the gutter grabbing gunk] I don't think this is what they meant...

🧠: 🎶 I get away from the hustling crowd. And all that rat-race noise down in the street (up on the roof).
On the roof, the only place I know Where you just have to wish to make it so. Let's go up on the roof (up on the roof). 🎶

Me: *sigh* Okay fine...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b%5FksNvivbEI

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

I should also mention that @futurefonts is such an amazing website. You can find and buy some really cool stuff there! Some fonts are unique one-off experiments, while others are more serious efforts that improve over time. You can buy a font for super cheap early on in its development, and you’ll get free updates through its final version. Prices increase as fonts become more mature, so you get a break for supporting designers earlrier on. I love it. :prami_contented:

https://www.futurefonts.xyz/

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

This Devanagari pixel font is really cool! I can’t read Devanagari, so I’m not sure how legible it is given its extreme height constraint (just a few pixels!), but it sure looks nice.

https://www.future-fonts.com/lipi/ikat-devanagari

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jcrabapple@dmv.community ("Jcrabapple") wrote:

Cool blog.

fromjason.xyz

https://www.fromjason.xyz/