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

Margies Candies, Chicago, IL, 2015.

All the pixels, none of the calories, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/21135096034

#photography

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

So 2031 will be the new 1939?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/27/it-does-feel-like-1933-but-nothing-is-fine/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/i4l8TrrdpTg

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
alexlomas@infosec.exchange ("Alex :nonbinary_flag:") wrote:

A new potato crisp VAT judgment just landed.

https://on.ft.com/4myxG6o

Walkers’ Sensations Poppadoms vs HMRC: the Chip of Theseus

“To rapidly summarise a complicated courtroom clash, Walkers tried the following arguments to get Sensations Poppadoms off the VAT hook:

They are not ready for human consumption

They are not a potato product

They don’t *taste* like a potato product

They’re not like crisps

They’re not like crisps because they’re part of a meal

They’re not like crisps because they aren’t packaged like crisps

They’re not like crisps because they are called poppadoms

They’re not like crisps because they don’t look like crisps

They’re not like crisps because they don’t work like crisps

They’re not like crisps because they don’t do the same things in your mouth that crisps do

They’re not like crisps because the public doesn’t think of them like crisps

Taxing Sensations Poppadoms but not conventional poppadoms will distort UK markets”

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:

The Web Engines Hackfest Starts Monday in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. We're excited to host our largest @webhackfest ever!

https://igalia.com/2025/webengineshackfest.html

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
wmd@chaos.social ("🌈☔🌦️🍄🌱🍉") wrote:

Pretty good description on offices.

#work #religion

Attachments:

• video: tiktok video on someone talking about the office religion.

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

It's so wonderful that you can have a viral post here and not worry about Home Depot commenting for free ad space.

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

When connections fail to greet,
An SMS sent fleet of feet,
To warn the keepers far away,
That trouble brews without delay.

Time ticks in seconds, parsed with care,
Monitoring every byte and flare.
In loops eternal, diligent and true,
A guardian stands for me and you.

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

llm -f ~/Development/tmp/isitup/source/app.d "a short poem inspired by this code"

In the heart of servers bright,
A vigilant watch through day and night,
Checking pings and data flows,
In rhythmic loops, the sentinel knows.

Configuration whispers tell,
Where the virtual kingdoms dwell.
Numbers dialed through code so clear,
To sound alarms when faults appear.

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

I love playing with @simon llm tool

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
twipped@twipped.social ("Jocelynephiliac :reclaimer:") wrote:

Imagine if back in the 2000s all the file sharing companies like Napster and Audio Galaxy had issued a statement that copyright laws were going to kill their industry.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
sixtynine@mamot.fr ("Dan") wrote:

Someone should buy the domain idontwannabekilled.com build an opt-out form properly hidden behind lot of legal stuff and dark-patterns, then send a spam message to the whole Internet saying they have been elected to be killed before the end of the year and giving a link to the "opt-out form".

#meta

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

It’s very funny to me that, in my mind, writers with blogs are dorks and writers with newsletters are the cool kids.

Hi, it’s me dorks.

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

it is long past time for the Senate Dems to start playing hardball

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/politics/durbin-hold-trump-pick-us-attorney-miami

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

stuck stuck stuck | combatdavey:

"Nothing flows. Nothing works. Every sentence is stupid. Every lede is a cliché."

Hey how’d you figure out my writing mantra? https://combatdavey.bearblog.dev/stuck-stuck-stuck/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
combatdavey@micro.blog wrote:

wrote a thing about writer’s block and fear and doubt and you can read it if you want to but you don’t have to okay bye

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be wrote:

Recommended solution to free memory in C: exit(0).

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

Oh, Lord, Morning Joe and Heilemann are slathering over the idea of Rahm running. Stop. We don't need our own jerk.

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

The Crafters of Andor. Anil Dash has compiled the DVD extras for Andor, an expertly crafted action drama about fighting fascism that also happens to be a Star Wars series. https://www.anildash.com//2025/05/22/2025-05-22-the-crafters-of-andor/

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

The Browser Company guy never made a Geocities page and it shows.

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

So…we just get to sit back, powerless, while the Republicans sell us out?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/27/the-big-beautiful-bill-is-a-joke/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XeirUTzisL0

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

Carl Pei Thinks the Phone of the Future Will Only Have One App | WIRED:

"I believe that in the future, the entire phone will only have one app—and that will be the OS. The OS will know its user well and will be optimized for that person."

Gee, I sure hope not. https://www.wired.com/story/carl-pei-thinks-the-phone-of-the-future-will-only-have-one-app/

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

Letter to Arc members 2025:

"If the goal was to build a small, profitable company with a great team and loyal customers, we wouldn’t have chosen to try and build the successor to the web browser – the most ubiquitous piece of software there is."

Heaven forbid. https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-2025

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
anatudor ("Ana Tudor 🐯") wrote:

I turn 13 on @codepen in June, so here are my 13 most hearted demos:

1️⃣ 1092 ♥️ #CSS infinite #scroll gallery https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/XJrYqGb - my only demo to ever get to 1K ♥️ without being in most hearted of the year first

mostly CSS scroll-driven animations + tiniest bit of JS (~200 bytes for infinity part)

#cssVariables #cssTransforms #coding #code #frontend #cssTransform #3D #web #webDev #webDevelopment #dev #maths #mathematics #geometry #filter

Attachments:

• gifv: Scrolling a bunch of times back and forth to highlight the infinity part of the demo. Hovering the cards in the gallery makes them rotate around their axis.

Boosted by jwz:
GrimmReality@beige.party ("Grimm :bc:") wrote:

At the death of any fuckwit reality tv star who never would've been been famous if tv executives weren't lazy sociopathic cunts desperate for cheapshit garbage "content," I breathe a little sigh at there being one less asshole alive with a better than average chance of destroying civilization.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
sinalana.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Lana Sinapayen") wrote:

One of the worst parts of this AI craze is looking at a video of a super skilled artist and seeing 50% of the comments below accusing them of being fake. It took only a few years to persuade people that skill doesn't exist. How bleak.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Ann1944@vivaldi.net wrote:

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

(the Amazon C3 pun kinda was deliberate, because that Canadian thingie is even hosted on AWS - which somehow makes this even more hilarious.)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

Today, Tuesday 27 May, is World Marketing Day, which you all knew thanks to effective marketing. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/world-marketing-day/

Also, Cellophane Tape Day. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/cellophane-tape-day/

And Happy 50th to Jamie Oliver, who doesn’t look a day over 60. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie%5FOliver

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

https://www.reddit.com/r/50501NY/s/NcYtjlzXHv

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

(Apparently I'm itching to feel again the exhilaration that comes from being yelled at by some asshole driving past me in a car.)