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Mastodon wrote:

The Mastodon team will be at re:publica #rp25 in Berlin next week, taking part in a couple of panel discussions.

We're also hosting a side event! If you'd like to join, register via https://lu.ma/7h454kcp

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RBG@radikal.social wrote:

#FreeLuigi

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mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

You know why the Democrats lose?

When a Dem, right now, is asked about Joe Biden running in 2024, the correct answer is “Donald Trump and his Republicans are destroying your retirement, taking your healthcare, and illegally kidnapping people.”, but instead, they keep fucking talking about Biden and analyzing the election. Y’all, it’s over. What matters is blaming the evil fuckers doing evil for the evil they are doing. Quit distracting people.

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

if your "beautiful, elegant, futuristic" huge ring-shaped HQ requires a truly colossal fuck-ugly parking garage that dwarfs it, it's not actually a very beautiful elegant futuristic HQ now is it

jwz wrote:

Recent movies and TV.

Freaky Taies (2025):
I have watched this three times. It is four interleaved stories, happening simultaneously in 1987, and the first one is a bunch of Gilman punks absolutely eviscerating some Nazis. If you aren't already in, I can't help you. It is "Pulp Oakland". The attention to detail is fantastic. Whoever made this.... was there.

This is now both the Second best punk movie, and the second best Bay Area movie, I will not be taking questions.

https://jwz.org/b/ykoE

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
splendorr ("n. splendorr ✨🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

I’m really pleased with the tiny lil coin animation I made today :] making art for yourself and a couple friends to enjoy is a relief after years of struggling to make anything at all, for fear that it is not “worth it”

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
alderwick@merveilles.town ("Andy Alderwick") wrote:

TIL why (in British English) we don't use a dot after the “St” short form of “Street”.

The “t” in “St” is *not* the second letter of “Street”, but the sixth. So it's not an abbreviation (like “Prof.” for “Professor”, “etc.” in “et cetera”, etc.), it's a contraction (like “Dr” in “Doctor”, “Mr” in “Mister”, “St” in “Saint” and so on) and contractions don't have a dot.

🤯

I assumed it was just a weird English thing, but turns out I found the only language feature that's entirely consistent :flan_wink:

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
keenan@social.lol ("Keenan") wrote:

I have joined Crucial Tracks:

https://app.crucialtracks.org/profile/keenan/20250518

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

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lumon@beep.town ("Lumon Gif Refinery") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: yesterday was quite enough

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Drink special @ Obscura: 86 47 -- A shot of tequila & a 9oz guava cider

Attachments:

• gifv: ca23836171bd712d.mp4

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

Radical stickers seen around Melbourne.
We've got a bunch of copies of these, and numerous other designs.If you're interested in buying a mix pack of radical slaps check out:
https://radicalstickers.bigcartel.com/

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

Exclusive: Musk took leased cars back so Tesla could use them as “robotaxis.” Instead, Tesla sold them | Reuters:

"Despite repeated promises, the robotaxis never came. Tesla instead found an unusually lucrative way to make money by flipping many of the off-lease cars to new buyers…"

It’s wild to think about how our tax dollars are funding his Ponzi ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/05/18/exclusive-musk-took-leased-cars.html

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

I can't stop laughing.

From: @mhoye
https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/111213628237303314

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

A slide from a presentation I just finished.

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

That’s Life (2008 Remastered) - YouTube

A music video for That’s Life would’ve gone hard. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TnlPtaPxXfc

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

this is what peaceful anti-war demonstration gets you in Israel today:

https://mailchi.mp/standing-together/they-just-promised-more-occupation-heres-our-answer-9591864?e=d8561ec819

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

Cinzel seems to have become to fantasy book covers what Trajan was to movie posters.

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

mails sent to abuse@sendgrid.com currently bounce with

<<< 450-4.2.1 The user you are trying to contact is receiving mail at a rate that
<<< 450-4.2.1 prevents additional messages from being delivered. Please resend your
<<< 450-4.2.1 message at a later time. If the user is able to receive mail at that
<<< 450-4.2.1 time, your message will be delivered.

yeah i'm sure this is fine.

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davidaugust@mastodon.online ("David August") wrote:

🐘🍎🥖

Attachments:

• video: Elephant trunk appears from below a metal platform and receives an apple and biscuits from human caretaker.

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"Stop Calling the Cops"
Sticker spotted in Oakland

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timberwraith wrote:

I love the irony pointed out by this protest tactic.

The cis controlled state will do everything they can to "unwoman" trans women via the law but we're still female enough that cis people will lose their shit if we show fully visible breasts in public.

Notice that the published photos edited out everyone's nipples.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/17/scottish-parliament-holyrood-trans-protest-supreme-court/

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

LLMs exist to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.

There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

It was a wild week for crooked AI! On the next Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will be joined by Ben Shindel, who wrote a terrific piece on the fraud at MIT:

https://thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materials-and-fraud-oh-my

Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific for a discussion on AI, materials, and fraud!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1373775425725005874

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Every time I read "example" JS/TS code from well-meaning devrels, I'm reminded that disk is so fast on rich-developers devices now that nobody understands what makes something good or bad at scale. I/O: still not free!

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
dymaxion@infosec.exchange ("Eleanor Saitta") wrote:

When I say that I can't recommend third-party forks of either Firefox or Chrome for real world use, this kind of thing is why. *This* is the bar for what the security team for a browser needs to be able to do. A fork where the entire technical team is ten people that can't even keep up with upstream patches is sadly not in the running.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2025/05/17/firefox-security-response-to-pwn2own-2025/

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

“We saw you from across the Museum of Eugenics and liked your vibe”

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

So that's really going to complicate the "let's shit on Biden to distract from the current administration's failures" narrative

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

Anyway, I like the rule of law, even for people I dislike.

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

This guy is still mad at me because I said "likely illegal" in discussing Trump's sketchy (and likely illegal) plane deal. The difference is that over on X I'd be yelled at for using the word "illegal". Here I'm yelled at for "likely".

Never change, Mastodon.

https://federate.social/@jwcph@helvede.net/114530240485631861