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jwz wrote:

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vmaderna@mastodon.art ("Victoria Maderna") wrote:

Still needs some refining and priming and painting but I made this little guy for Federico.

I hadn't done any sculpting for a long time but I really really love it - I definitely need to make more time for it 😊

#claysculpting #shrew #MastoArt

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

My question for the "Golden Dome" system is the same as my question for all other defense contracting proposals: "is this more cost-effective than firing shrink-wrapped pallets of $100 bills at the target"

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tygerkrash@mastodon.ie ("TygerKrash") wrote:

Waiter: Good Evening sir, would you like to hear the specials?

Customer: Yes , please .

Waiter: THIS TOWN (tow-own) IS COMING LIKE A GHOST TOWN.

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

Last month, The Whitest Kids You Know re-uploaded their It’s Illegal to Say video. https://youtube.com/watch?v=KivCRqfFcqY

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WorfEmail@mas.to ("Worf Email") wrote:

Mother,

I have been thinking about life and mortality today. I would rather die gloriously in battle than from a virus. In a way it does not matter. But in a way it does.

Worf

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catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Reading the news deals 1d6 psychic damage per article.

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catandgirl@socel.net ("Cat and Girl") wrote:

For whomst the bell tolls.

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

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neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

My business model of selling tours of people's homes doesn't work if I have to get their consent.

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

Captured with a small mirrorless camera and 18mm lens, on a small tripod. I had no shifting lens, so this was shot head on with a wide lens and then cropped.

Harsh midday sun is normally not ideal for architectural photos, but the hard shadows nicely brought out the clapboard siding of this rather dilapidated old former antique shop (which was demolished and cleared a few years later).

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

Skin Deep Antiques, Alviso, CA, 2013.

All the pixels, good as new, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/10268102744

#photography

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

University of Chicago's Library teamed up with the university's Data Science Institute to start mirroring and making accessible US federal data, including what looks like a verbatim copy of `ftp://ftp.census.gov/geo/tiger`

https://datamirror.lib.uchicago.edu/

This is no small feat! There's a bit more info is available at https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/uchicago-data-mirror-website-launched-to-protect-access-to-public-datasets/

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dbattistella@todon.eu ("DB 🌱💦") wrote:

"When I think about Jewish leadership, when I think of all of these rabbis, all of these politicians and community leaders. Do they really not understand that for the rest of all of our lives, we are going to be haunted by this and we are going to be called to account, that people are going to have to answer for what's being done to the people of Gaza?

This is going to be for us, the greatest spiritual crisis the Jewish people have faced since the Holocaust. The question will not be 'where was God when Jews were being slaughtered', but 'where were we when we desecrated God's name by allowing in our name, this kind of horror to take place.'

We will not move past this as a people. This will shadow us for the rest of our lives."

- Peter Beinart, journalist & political analyst

#Gaza #Genocide #Holocaust #Judaism #FreePalestine

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• video: 4bad85aec83c2f5c.mp4

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
anna@friend.camp ("Anna e só") wrote:

Date your reports. Date your blog posts. Temporal context is extremely important! It's difficult to draw conclusions from them when I have no idea when you conducted your activities and observations, and when it was published.

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

I'm going to make so many tables when this launches 😭

From: @kepano
https://mastodon.social/@kepano/114586426681530734

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ariel@front-end.social ("Ariel Salminen") wrote:

This is where I explain how I built the search index using @11ty for the ⌘+K search on my website: https://arielsalminen.com/2025/building-search-index-with-eleventy/

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

Webbed Sites. https://briefs.video/videos/introducing-webbed-sites/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
aby@aus.social ("1 Aby vs 100 Gorillas") wrote:

#AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #anarchism #CommunityNotCops #FuckThePolice #AllCops #Criminology #CriminalJustice

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wolfgangcramer@fediscience.org ("Wolfgang Cramer") wrote:

To conclude:
a) travel by bicycle and train through Europe is possible,
b) it requires some preparations, though, and then some skills in managing risk,
c) it could be made a lot easier and more popular if European policymakers seriously wanted to decarbonize the transport sector.

I enjoyed the entire journey and ended up doing everything I wanted to do.

My main specific choices were,
- to accept (whether I like it or not) that the smartphone is an essential tool (but you need a power bank along with it),
- to buy and interrail ticket (4 days in a month), this may or may not have been the cheapest option, but it provides some flexibility,
- to navigate google-free, that is with OsmAnd~ (the free version, from https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.osmand.plus/),
- to sleep, when needed, in youth hostels (interesting places, good value for money),
- to make sure the bicycle is not too heavy (ruling out any e-bike).

Thanks for following so far - will try to answer any questions that might come up (and I have some more projects like this next month).

#velotrain2025

77/77

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
riotmuffin@ni.hil.ist ("Luigi Muffingione") wrote:

The 2020 Uprising: That's Not How It Happened -- a short book review and essay by me, hosted at @edistro, busting the bullshit narrative advanced in Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie's purportedly-abolitionist book "No More Police", which pretty much gets it all wrong. (Printable zine download at the link too).

Spoiler: it wasn't petitions, peaceful protests, and submitting to police brutality that made the uprising happen.

https://lib.edist.ro/library/2020-uprising-kaba-ritchie-no-more-police

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

Meta's monopoly exists in its infrastructure. They're laying 25,000 miles of deep sea fiber that spans across the globe and touches every continent.

Meta wants to be the social web's infrastructure. Funny enough the "Social Web" is helping them do it.

From: @arstechnica
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114586179770845140

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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Meta confident monopoly trial will end with win; experts aren’t so sure
Judge expected to take months to weigh Meta monopoly trial verdict.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/meta-confident-monopoly-trial-will-end-with-win-experts-arent-so-sure/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

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

I think a big part of where we went wrong this past decade is focusing too much on the abstract—it was always the idea of Trump we saw as objectionable; his presence. So when he left in 2020, we had nothing left to object to.

We've always had little to say about the infrastructure of fascism—ICE, militarized police, big tech.

When he leaves again, we'll go right back to funding the dictator's toolkit, assuming/hoping a dictator won't ever get their hands on it.

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

Decided I will father 14 Puerto Rican children to offset Elon's 14 white kids.

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stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:

Brick & Mortar

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• gifv: Person creates a stone sculpture of Rick from Rick & Morty Last shot it’s in the garden next to a stone Morty

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

The dark beasts have returned.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/28/look-what-i-found-in-the-compost-bin/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
matthewvenn@chaos.social ("Matt Venn") wrote:

This is the moment Rej's open source Z80 woke up and said hello!

After Zilog’s April 2024 announcement, ReJ quickly taped out a drop-in replacement to preserve retrocomputing and legacy systems.

Taped out on TT07, it's a landmark in democratizing chip design.

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• video: f45cd4166061a45e.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BruceMirken@mas.to ("Bruce Mirken") wrote:

Obstetricians & gynecologists: #RFKJr is full of shit:
"As ob-gyns who treat patients every day, we have seen firsthand how dangerous #COVID19 infection can be during pregnancy and for newborns who depend on maternal antibodies from the #vaccine for protection. We also understand that despite the change in recommendations from HHS, the science has not changed. It is very clear that COVID-19 infection during pregnancy can be catastrophic and lead to major disability..."

https://www.acog.org/news/news-releases/2025/05/acog-statement-on-hhs-recommendations-regarding-the-covid-vaccine-during-pregnancy