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

I just don't understand why we can't have coke back in our Coca-Cola. The earth is on fire but I can't be skeeted out of my mind at lunch?

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

I love when my back goes out. It's so dope-- The reminder of my unstoppable march towards death via the degradation of my body. A treat.

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

I'm a bit slow, but I just connected the dots that the emergency alerts last night about a person with a gun near my office at the law school and the horrible news about the double homicide at the Capital Jewish Museum (a block from my office) were the same incident.

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grajohnt@chaos.social ("John T") wrote:

This was also fun (it's the same CEO).

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GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

3/ More from Mark:

This bespoke exception for the Fed is one of the most brazenly made-up things I've ever seen the Supreme Court do (which is saying something). There is no principled basis to distinguish the Fed from other independent agencies. The conservative justices just don't want Trump to crash the market!

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evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

How often do you think about the Byzantine Empire?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%5FEmpire

#EvanPoll #poll

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shoq ("Shoq") wrote:

Trump can complain all he wants – but he can’t stop his own economic mess | Sidney Blumenthal

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/20/trump-economy-sidney-blumenthal

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bud_t@m.ai6yr.org ("Bud Talbot") wrote:

Does anyone know if there is a way to bulk edit the visibility of your toots?

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erininthemorning.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Erin Reed") wrote:

Last night, we were one of the first outlets to report the ADULT ban on gender affirming care for Medicaid recipients who depend on it to access it. This morning, that bill passed 215-214-1. It now goes to the senate. It's a bleak day for transgender Americans.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m65ifh7vn5zdgs7izcmht4gy/post/3lpqei4zr3c2d

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copter_chief@mstdn.party ("CopterDoctor") wrote:

I was thinking about Trump showing videos of the genocide in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the president of South Africa.

Someone on Trump’s staff had that all keyed up, ready to go. I saw Whiskey Pete sitting on the couch. He’s too stupid and drunk to do that.
I also saw Elon Musk standing behind the couch. I bet he had that video set up. Or, it could’ve been the lying White House press secretary.

One of these days, the guest is gonna tell Trump to fuck off, get up & walk out.

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uk@pubeurope.com ("UK") wrote:

https://www.europesays.com/uk/123596/ Murphy Niu receives NSF CAREER award for quantum computing innovation #Computing #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom

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rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

It's a grift unlike anything I've ever seen during my nearly sixty years in politics.

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superball@norcal.social ("🍋 Superball ☀️") wrote:

“After losing her sister in a car crash, Pennsylvania English teacher Kristina Ulmer used the small portion of the money her sister left behind to start an annual kindness challenge. Each year, Ulmer gives her students a $20 bill with the mission to spend it on an act of kindness. The project was such a success that the school started a donation program to fund it. Ulmer has said her students bring her to tears each year through the creativity and kindness they demonstrate in the project, highlighting the story of one student who used the funds to crochet hats for premature babies in neonatal care.”

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/20-dollar-kindness-challenge-1.7486914?ref=readtangle.com

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

Among the many casual, gratuitous cruelties in the current budget bill (now at the Senate) is the denial of basic healthcare to people who make them uncomfortable.

https://federate.social/@munin@infosec.exchange/114553097295533212

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

Dianna (PhysicsGirl) is recovering! This is such a wonderful news!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqeIeIcDHD0

#covid #mecfs

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20002ist@thepit.social ("Live, Laugh, Punch Nazis") wrote:

@mattblaze @ai6yr @dan613 Same set of safety standards:

(Yes, I posted this a few weeks ago. I am large; I contain multitudes.)

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

This piece really got me thinking about how resources were curated and shared in the early days of the web. We used directories at the time because we didn’t have any alternatives. Today, the alternatives are increasingly meh, with ads and AI that nobody asked for. So maybe the original approach can (paradoxically) become its own alternative to those alternatives, and we can restore some humanity in how we find and share information on the web.

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/can-directories-rise-again/

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

If #omgdotlol created and hosted an old-fashioned web directory (like the original Yahoo! or DMOZ), with all members as editors, would you use it?

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

welcome to the future, now your error-prone software can call the cops

(this is an Anthropic employee talking about Claude Opus 4)

#ai

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

@ai6yr @dan613 Anyway, it's amazing that we all somehow survived this.

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

@ai6yr @dan613 Even as a young nerd, I could figure out what was going on, and so switched the plug to be the "right" way to eliminate the risk.

Except that a few weeks later, after someone unplugged the lamp in order to vacuum the room, it would end up back the way it had been.

The more I tried to convince my parents that this was extremely dangerous, the more they were convinced I was just being alarmist. Eventually, I got old and wise enough to just buy them a new lamp.

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

@ai6yr @dan613

I ended up knocked to the floor a few times from this. My parents were unconcerned, and basically told me just to never touch them both at the same time.

It turns out, of course, that the lamp had a fault where one of the two wires was touching the metal housing. So depending on which way it was plugged in, the case was hot. And the ceiling lamp chain was at neutral/ground.

...

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

@ai6yr @dan613 Tangentially related:

In the apartment where I grew up, the foyer had a ceiling fan/lamp with a metal pull chain. We also had a table lamp on a small table by the door. It was natural to want to turn both lights on and off at the same time, and once could easily reach both the dangling chain and the lamp switch with either hand.

Except that 50 percent of the time, performing this time-saving maneuver would result in 120VAC going from one arm to the other through your torso.
...

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evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Did I mention that the data broker industry must be destroyed?

https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/intel-agencies-buying-data-portal-privacy/

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

It's for the good of humanity.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/22/tragically-were-going-to-have-to-nuke-florida/

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colossal@mastodon.art ("Colossal") wrote:

The official photographer of the Black Panther Party until 1973, Stephen Shames created hundreds of powerful images that highlight the party’s actions and ethos around California and the country.

This month, a remarkable selection of his photos opens in 'Black Panthers & Revolution: The Art of Stephen Shames.'

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/05/stephen-shames-black-panthers-revolution/

#photography #history #activism #identity #politics #protest #California #blackandwhite #portraits #resistance

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

Harvard, with its giant endowment and strong academic reputation, is in an almost uniquely better position than other universities here. It has the resources to both weather the short-term impact of these attacks and mount strong and sustained legal defenses.

Every other US university is no doubt looking at Harvard to fight these battles and set strong precedents for the rest of us.

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MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

The sigil was drawn in salt and ash, the candles lit at the pentagram points, the incantation declaimed.

There was a shimmer - a demon appeared.

"Curious. What ritual is this?"

"I got it from ChatGPT. I included all protections in my prompt!"

"I see," the demon said and stepped out of the sigil.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories #vss

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serindwell@mastodon.art ("Elena Ermilova") wrote:

My first proper gouache success, I think!
Been working on this little mermaid and finally finished. Still learning with gouache, but kinda happy with how this one turned out. What do you think?
#MastoArt #art #TraditionalArt #gouache #mermay #illustration

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

I don't know if the the administration understands this or not, or whether it's scarier if they do.