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

Brought to you by the letter B for Browser Company:

https://circlejerk.blog/the-last-tab

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Yesterday I changed a car battery for the first time. I've never been much of a car guy but making a non-working car run again without any professional intervention is amazingly satisfying

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:") wrote:

#Laserblasted in print, exclusive to my store. Buy print, get the epub free!

https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/laserblasted/

(Kickstarter backers: your copies are coming!)

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

Some more #urltown updates:

1. Profile pages are live. Nothing fancy, but you can see a person’s submissions all in one place, which is nice.

2. A simple stats page is live now: https://url.town/stats

3. You can now edit your submissions with the Edit link that appears beneath anything you’ve added. There’s a small bug involving URL changes that I’m working on, but otherwise it works!

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

So... this button was boring. Now we have new buttons that aren’t boring! #urltown

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

The "US is turning fascist" discourse almost never includes stuff like this. Fascism requires this exact infrastructure the US has been building for decades.

From: @eff
https://mastodon.social/@eff/114581358065979359

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

An update on my essay:

I'm doing it. I'm not doing it. I'm doing it again. I hate this rewrite. Wait. I love this rewrite. Oh never mind I'm not doing it. I'll tweak it one more time no it sucks why did I even bother oh wait I like it again.

*throws phone in garbage*

Boosted by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
ryanprior ("DNA schedule") wrote:

@xor insightful description of why a backing spreadsheet is desirable! The most promising free software option I've found for that use case is https://www.getgrist.com

Boosted by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
davecb@hachyderm.io wrote:

@xor In a previous life, we built a database where the relations mapped to spreadsheets. It was fast enough for humans to enter and review and for printers to print.

Queries were quite slow to set up but fast to evaluate. They were constructed by creating new relations, building the first line out of links, and then doing a copy-paste to fill up the form with them. Good enough that small companies used it for their main ledger.

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

flipping logs

#salamanders #amphibians

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay (she/her) 🇪🇺") wrote:

UK contemporary sculptor known as Anna & the Willow creates nature-inspired sculptures made from rods of willow

'Huntress of Skipton': Castle Woods in North Yorkshire 🏹

#womensart

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I'm building another collaborative project that uses Google Sheets as a "database," so I wrote up some thoughts on why that keeps happening https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/05/google-sheets-database-for-projects/

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

The Who Cares Era: https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-05-23-who-cares/

Via @sleepless. I’m a little late to this piece but if you haven’t read it yet, please do.

The challenge is to care more. We can remove some of the disheartening feeling by doing more things *with heart*, something the machines can’t. ❤️

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
trevorflowers@machines.social ("Trevor Flowers") wrote:

TL;DW: Let me know if you're interested in supporting and/or benefiting from me driving around North America scanning historical computers and sharing the 3D models.
https://communitymedia.video/w/eQnEcqMdUTFuEjLo2CZwkh
#scanVan

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

Reminder: The GOP wants you and your children sick or dead

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/27/health/covid-vaccine-pregnant-women-children-recommendation

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
MW1CFN@mastodon.radio wrote:

Marconi archive document showing the armistice announcement transmitted by VLF stations in France:

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

(I barely even use these devices, but apparently my mental model of how things work lets me help people better than somebody who works for T-Mobile.

Now that I think about it, probably doesn't help the tech person may not even use a computer themselves. I mean, who does anymore? 😆 )

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

I just talked with somebody who had come from a T-Mobile store where support personnel apparently told them they needed to upload all their photos to google drive in order to download them off their phone.

Me: o_O

I showed them how to use the USB charging notification to enable sharing files over the USB connection.

Them: How did they not know about this?

Me: 🤷

jwz wrote:

If you want a picture of the future, imagine *a boot stamping on a human face forever* a spicy autocompleter submitting software changes to a regular expression parser.

Also, you can't block it. As Kyle Reese reminded us, "It absolutely will not stop -- ever -- until you accept its pull req̷̩̓u̸̾͜ḙ̶̈s̶̫͑t̶̙͒."

https://jwz.org/b/ykoZ

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

Coffee Pros Share Tips for Making the Perfect Moka Pot Coffee:

"Invented in the 1930s by Alfonso Bialetti in Crusinallo, Italy, this modest coffee maker has become an archetypal symbol of efficient design around the world."

I have a moka pot tattooed on my forearm. Just a little nod to well designed things. And a reminder that the only reason there are hundreds of coffee makers is because of capitalism. https://www.foodandwine.com/why-coffee-pros-love-moka-pot-coffee-11741498

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

In •public discussion• about conservatives supposedly being oppressed on campus, people act like that means free markets, minimal government, centering religion, etc.

But the •actual experience• the loudest complainers are talking about is very often (not always, but •very• often) that they were ostracized for being transphoic, queerphobic, racist, and/or religiously bigoted.

“Conservative views” gets to mean something polite and acceptable in op-eds, but then gets to mean outright fascism on the ground.

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Boosted by jwz:
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

The #Seattle Police Officer's Guild helpfully clarifies that they are anti-antifa; or, more compactly, fa.

There's another more commonly used word they could have chosen, though. Something "fa" is short for, you know?

https://kolektiva.social/@sidereal/114577434150264298

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

Finally broke down and tried Mercury Weather, and bought it instantly. It was like, “Oh, yes, this is the particular thing I’ve been looking for all this time, isn’t it.”

(N.B.: Ask me again in 9–12 months.)

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

In case you're also sitting at home anxiously awaiting the delivery of a big package of spiders, may I recommend the movie "Spider Baby"?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/27/spider-baby/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Few songs make me happier than "My Little Website" by Louie Zong https://youtu.be/Yt9dNXnlA3o?t=916

Nicely captures the best part of cozy little personal websites on the internet

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

This creates a new security vulnerability, "slopsquatting," in which a malicious actor creates a library with the expected name, which replicates the functionality of the real library, but also contains malicious code:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai%5Fcode%5Fsuggestions%5Fsabotage%5Fsupply%5Fchain/

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

Despite it sounding like a very niche news, I think it is important. The more people around the world would know and care about Ukraine, the easier it would be for politicians to continue support the country in its fight against Putin's Russia.

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

The last #sumo championship ended in a dramatic fashion, and had all sorts of headline news. But one important news concerns #Ukraine.

There is a new rising star in sumo's top division going by the name of Aonishiki[1]. He doesn't just fight on the level, he is inventive and resilient. I only started watching sumo last year, and even I can see it! This time around, Aonishiki earned a Fighting Spirit award. (cont.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aonishiki%5FArata

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

What caught my eye here was the line of people at the door. Something about the way they were dressed felt timeless, like the photo could have been made at any point in the last 50 years.

I'm not particularly a street photographer, but this scene seemed worth a try. Fortunately, everything moved slowly enough to allow me time to set up my clunky tripod and gear.

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

Captured with a Pentax 645Z (a medium format DSLR) and a 75mm lens. I had no shifting lens for the 645Z, so I shot a bit wide and cropped to maintain the geometry.

The main challenge was the red neon, which was so bright it washed out the red channel and would have required overly darkening the interior in order to expose properly. This was a rare case where contrast filtration couldn't be done in post. So I used a blue optical filter to darken the red, allowing reasonable exposure and tone.