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Boosted by jwz:
phooky@hexa.club wrote:

Omg how did I miss @jwz 's amazing Nakagin Capsule Tower memorial screensaver
https://youtu.be/JRXglvnKb6A?si=jzxsmWPzJsyZxLSy

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

The power station has long been an iconic landmark on the south bank of the Thames, distinctive for its four prominent smokestacks (two for each of its two separate generating facilities) and industrial art deco architecture. Perhaps most famously, it featured in the cover art for Pink Floyd's 1977 “Animals” album, with one of London's (sadly now extinct) giant flying pigs captured hovering near the smokestacks.

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

London's Battersea Power Station, built as two nearly-identical halves completed in 1935 and 1955, respectively, was originally a coal-fired electrical generating plant. It was decommissioned in 1983. After being idle for nearly 40 years, the plant has been re-developed as retail space and commercial offices, opened in 2022. Along with the Tate Modern, it gives London a second striking example of large-scale adaptive reuse of an obsolete, but still handsome, power station.

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

Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 Digaron-W (@ f/8), Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50), Cambo WRS 1200 camera (right shifted 20mm, vertically shifted 8mm).

This composition fully exploited the image circle and edge sharpness of the lens. We're to the right of the power station, but to preserve the geometry of the river side facade, the camera was pointed straight ahead, parallel with that side of the building. The camera back was then shifted 20mm to move the building back into the composition.

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

Battersea Power Station, London, UK, 2024.

All the pixels, but no food court, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54079042655

#photography

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

I love blogging. I love bloggers.

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

I have no respect for Bret Weinstein, his communication abilities, or his understanding of biology.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/21/bret-weinstein-is-an-ignorant-clown/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om2f5ISt-X8

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
sarahtaber@mastodon.online ("Sarah Taber") wrote:

Everyone thinks we grow a lot of corn & soybeans in the US "because of subsidies," & that's just... not accurate?

So I made a video about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlSRyPcc-so

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
smalldog@social.smalldog.club ("smalldog club ☑️") wrote:

Me: I'll have a Pepsi

Waiter: We have Coke.

Me: Alright, I'll take 2 grams and a Pepsi, but SHHHH!

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Green door. Croatia.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia

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

Just started my #freelancing journey and would love some shares of my company. If you or someone you know needs any #digital #web work done share this with them please! #indieweb
#WebDevelopment

https://www.kingdompathdigital.com

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:

@adam Although… counter point to my skepticism, omg.lol is kind of proof of this at work. The analogy being corporate social media platforms are to AI generated content as omg.lol is to homemade content. If there are people willing to escape big corporate social media and even pay for it, then maybe there's hope to believe people will pay for human content in a world full of AI.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
via@myf.one ("Sophia :AAAAAA:") wrote:

INCREDIBLY excited to announce this: I collaborated with the Internet Archive to make a new 24/7 lofi livestream!

By day, you can see scanners scanning and what they're scanning, and when they're not scanning, you will see public domain silent movies and pictures. Sorta like an Internet Archive TV

Watch it LIVE here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPg2V5RVh7U

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
trc@social.coop ("Tyng-Ruey Chuang") wrote:

This is so very cool!

~~~

"lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to" ... steaming live from @internetarchive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPg2V5RVh7U

> Ever wonder how government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, become searchable and accessible online? Now you can see it happen in real time.

> This is the Internet Archive’s microfiche digitization livestream—part of our effort to build Democracy’s Library by preserving government documents and making them free for everyone.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

View transitions are mind-blowing. The absolute trivial amount of JavaScript it takes to make this shuffling effect work is astounding.

I mean, I actually spend more lines *changing the background color* than I do moving elements around! 🤯

https://codepen.io/collinsworth/pen/yyymVgq

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

Firefox 128 ESR. The last, best, final version of Firefox. Let's just fork Firefox at 128 and never upgrade, no spyware, no fucked up IP-assignment EULA, no AI, no slithering snakepit tab bar. No more features. Features are over. The software industry can no longer be trusted with features

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mbessey@sfba.social ("Mark Bessey") wrote:

What is the p-Machine, and why is it like that?

Before we can go into greater detail about what the code in our example (and other programs) actually does, we're going to need a little background on what the p-Machine architecture is, and why it has some of the features that it has...

http://markbessey.blog/2025/05/20/ucsd-pascal-in-depth-the-p-machine/

#retrocomputing #software #psystem #pascal

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
SnowshadowII@beige.party ("SnowshadowII :maple:") wrote:

👍 Good People Doing Good Deeds 🥰

Today, it’s home to more than 40,000 books.

Thousands of books were destined for the landfill. These Turkish garbage collectors rescued them and built a public library instead

#GoodNews #Books #Library

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/turkey-garbage-collectors-public-library

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
SailorDisco ("David 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️NB he/they") wrote:

@fromjason 13 since 2020, not counting one person who died in a car accident. Almost 3 a year.

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

It shouldn’t take a generative AI revolution for people to realize just how special real things are, but maybe that’s exactly what we need.

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

I’m not big on tech predictions, but here’s one: in the not-so-distant future, there will be a premium on real things. People will seek out and pay for real things made by real people.

When every piece of content on every free tier of every platform is more likely to have been made by a machine than a person, real things will become scarce and therefore more valuable.

https://xcancel.com/jen%5Fw1n/status/1924914469265649795

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

Biden’s Age Wasn’t a Cover-Up. It Was Observable Fact. - The Atlantic:

"The overriding objective of any White House is to make the principal look as good as possible. This is done through basic flackery, gobbledygook, selective disclosure, and rampant omission. We should not expect aides or congressional allies to run out and announce to the nation that the president—any president—seemed really out to lunch at his ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/05/21/bidens-age-wasnt-a-coverup.html

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

Something new in downtown Morris. I'm not sure how to react.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/21/boots/

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

Crucial Cover for May 21: Hey Ya by Obadiah Parker

https://app.crucialtracks.org/profile/neatnik/20250521

Obadiah Parker took an amazing song and turned it into something amazing in a different way. Slower, more elegant, more emotional. For years, the only way to listen to this was on YouTube, where his live recording went up 16 years ago. I watched it often.

#CrucialTracks #Cover #Music

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

Democrats are two Skeksis saying "mmmmm" to each other while our country burns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMkKuL12FCA

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au ("AJ Sadauskas") wrote:

@korreckj328 @backupbear The abyss was supposed to be an innovative new start-up that was going to completely disrupt the void!

In fact, it was supposed to be the Uber of voids!

Just pull out your phone, open the app, and within 15 minutes, a bottomless pit would open up at your house. Perfect for screaming, or sharing, or just casting things into!

They even promised us an internet of abysses!

I mean sure, the pay for the gig economy workers who made the voids happen was problematic. But at least it worked.

Unfortunately, they've enshittified the hell out of their app—literally!

Now you need to pay $10 per month or more on a subscription plan. Otherwise, you just get endless ads and a shovel.

Frankly, with all the AI crap that now comes pre-installed in each abyss, it's gotten to the point I'm now seriously looking into self-hosted open-sourced abyss alternatives. (There's apparently one hidden in Emacs somewhere.)

Or just dusting off my old analogue voids, which have been gathering dust in a cupboard all these years.

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

Democratic Virginia congressman Gerry Connolly dies aged 75 | US politics | The Guardian:

"He is one of three Democratic congresspeople to have died in office in the last three months, following Raúl Grijalva and Sylvester Turner."

They’re like Skeksis, only giving up their power after they turn to dust on their throne. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/21/gerry-connolly-death-virginia-democrat?CMP=oth%5Fb-aplnews%5Fd-1

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
EveryPkmnCard ("Every Pokémon Card") wrote:

Wartortle

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

Just sent an email to thousands of people with the subject line “Testing!”

How’s your Wednesday going?

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

My father was a dangerous man. About as dangerous as I am.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/21/my-family-secret/