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

Since 90% of folks who responded to the poll said they’d use it, I went ahead and built it! https://url.town

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

New blog post! Seizing the means of discovery: https://notes.neatnik.net/2025/05/seizing-the-means-of-discovery

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

More ICBM photos and discussion here: https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/titans/

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

Captured with a DSLR and a Zeiss 21mm Distagon lens. Handheld (there was no room to set up a tripod).

In 2009, I was fortunate to join a "top to bottom" tour of former Air Force Titan ICBM site 571-7, now preserved as a museum. Titan II missiles carried a nine megaton(!) "physics package" in the "reentry vehicle" (which they emphatically assured me had been removed from this missile, but I still wouldn't advise upsetting them too much).

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ieure@retro.social ("egregious philbin") wrote:

And this is why I love old video games and coin-op. When those don’t want to work, they just catch on fire. Vastly preferable imo

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

Titan II ICBM, Launch Complex 571-7, Sahuarita, AZ, 2009.

All the pixels, but with less radioactive fallout, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4185185541

#photography

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

Walter Cronkite, he's not. I don't even know if Walter Cronkite was Walter Cronkite. I don't trust any of these talking heads any more.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/25/the-guiding-principle-of-american-news/

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

Nazis stole all of their racist ideas from America, and now conservative Americans want to steal them back.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/25/closing-the-circle/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Rocks and water. Croatia.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Croatia

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filippo@abyssdomain.expert ("Filippo Valsorda :go:") wrote:

Fascinating retrospective read on an iOS exploit, but the most interesting part might be the Aftermath section.

Apparently Apple shifted gears with iOS 14 and started implementing deep mitigations, which despite not perfect really changed the game.

https://blog.siguza.net/tachy0n/#:~:text=4.-,Aftermath

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

Drink Special @ Project X: Constitutional Crisis -- Tito's, Cranberry, Soda, and a splash of Blue Curacaçao

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• gifv: 63641688363f3cc4.mp4

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

Drink special @ Riddim Highrise: Thirteen Twelve -- 21 seeds Valencia orange tequila, and tropical redbull

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• gifv: da7e74f1176146bd.mp4

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

Belated #caturday post. Cat from the plant shop.

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nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

The BLM Memorial Garden is being destroyed.

Garden defenders sent me this video of over 40 cops and several large pieces of construction equipment digging up the garden.

I'll be making my way to the site soon for live reporting.

#Seattle #gardening #PNW #F12 #ACAB #BLMG

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• gifv: 75fbaf358b270899.mp4

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phil@wears.tigerpajamas.com ("p2l from t10s") wrote:

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

why yes it would, @CARROT

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• video: ffb6572141ff810b.mp4

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

Good. Fuck the bigots and the censors.

https://www.wdsu.com/article/pentagon-military-libraries-dei-book-review/64844046

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

Not that I expect everyone to talk about everything that happens, but I'm surprised(?) how no one seems to want to talk about the Israel Embassy shooter. Lots of news outlets posting stories here that have zero reposts or comments.

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macmanx@social.lol ("James Huff :prami_pride_pan:") wrote:

New frames, who this? :prami:

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MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social wrote:

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

Today I again stumbled upon this beautiful explanation of what Free licenses and Free culture means, by Mark Pilgrim. I think it's still very pertinent, and this is what formed my own opinions some years ago.

https://web.archive.org/web/20091102023737/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/10/19/the-point

A choice quote:

> If “others profiting from my work” is something you seek to avoid, then Free Software is not for you.

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migtorr@mastodon.org.uk ("Miguel Torrellas") wrote:

I don't understand how did we moved on past this

#google #degoogle #facebook #meta #whatsapp #amazon #apple #twitter

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breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social ("Bread and Circuses") wrote:

This is not a joke. It’s a look at the future.

#Capitalism #Enshittification

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

It's too soon to hope that the fever of frameworkism is breaking, but folks are risking apostasy more readily. If you're hoping for a world in which building UIs isn't a transpiler-ridden hellscape, and the results for users improve, give folks making this turn some support:

https://x.com/mjackson/status/1926043954266406912

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

We can rescue the American electronics industry by paying everyone less and recruiting little kids with tiny fingers, but NOT by training more engineers.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/24/racism-in-the-ny-times-say-it-aint-so/

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pahoittelemme@mastodontti.fi ("Lentävä Kalakukko") wrote:

Turbo Pascal vs. Pedro Pascal.

#Pascal

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

For most of the past decade, the Chromium animation team in Google's Waterloo office has gotten an earful from me about about how the we *had* to get to a point where scroll-based animations were not only possible, but reliably offloaded to the compositor.

And they did it, despite *constant* stop-energy from Apple (who still can't do scrolling right 🙄). The results speak for themselves:

https://codepen.io/spark/448

https://codepen.io/HejChristian/pres/VYwEVPO

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anatudor ("Ana Tudor 🐯") wrote:

5️⃣ 850 ♥️ No SVG, no image fluid slider https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/qByGqOm

#JS used only for
a) feature support detection
b) updating slider value in --val

Uses only
1 × input[type=range] for actual slider
1 × output for current value display
1 × datalist for ruler

One of my best sliders on @codepen.

#CSS #slider #rangeInput #coding #web #dev #webDevelopment #webDev #code #frontend #cssGrid #cssMask #cssGradient

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• gifv: Fluid vertical slider. Dragging the thumb bends the track and ruller around it. The ruler markings also dynamically fade the further away from the thumb they are. On the right, there is a DevTools panel open to show that this is made with a range input, an output and a datalist with options, all inside a group wrapper.

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

This was made with a DSLR and a swinging lens to provide selective focus on the milepost at left. This moved the plane of focus to be non-parallel with the sensor, yielding only a sliver in focus.

Image was was captured at "Park Junction" in Philadelphia, where the former Reading Railroad once met the former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. What caught my eye was the old school graffiti moniker on the base of the milepost, in a style traditionally used by yard workers and hobos to tag freight cars.

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

Park Junction, Philadelphia, PA, 2010.

Too many pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4472088022

#photography