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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

You can't fight your own wallet.🤷🏿‍♂️

That's $10 in Temu flags saying "support trans rights," but $150K in Cybertruck saying "destroy trans people."

(Request: if I have any enemies, please, I'm begging all of you, "oppose" and "resist" me with your words, while shipping me $150K with your wallet! 🤡🙏🏿)

jwz wrote:

Reading the list of prohibited items for Portola Fest and I have questions:

• NO Massagers
• NO More than 7 Pokémon cards per person (STRICTLY ENFORCED)
• NO Racoon Repellant
• NO Stuffed Animals

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"VPN/Proxy Detected. To continue, turn off your VPN/Proxy. This will allow YouTube to locate the best content."

Oh, you mean the “best content” that’s geo-blocked, demonetized, and shoved 12 ads deep into an algorithmic abyss? 🤣

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

Until 1984, the Santa Fe Railroad moved freight cars across the San Francisco Bay by barge. Railroad cars were decoupled from trains and loaded onto special "carfloat" barges, which were pulled across the bay by a small fleet of tug boats, to be re-attached to trains at the other end. The service ended when a fire destroyed the Point Richmond pier (the East Bay terminal for the operation), and that was that.

A handful of rail carfloat operations continue in the US, most notably in NY Harbor.

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

Captured with a small mirrorless camera and 50mm lens on a lightweight tripod.

I normally prefer lower contrast, but the ruined industrial subject worked reasonably well with a high contrast, backlit approach here. The sun was just above and directly in front of the frame,

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

Ruins of Carfloat Slip, Port Richmond, CA, 2011.

All the pixels, use at your own risk, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/5484488587

#photography

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
calcifer@masto.hackers.town ("calcifer :nes_fire:") wrote:

I’m happy, I’m feelin’ glad
I got choc’late
In a bag
It’s tasty, but not for long
This choc’late
Will soon be gone
(Soon be gone)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SidFudd@4bear.com ("Taylor Jessen") wrote:

My great-great-grandfather James Jessen (1829-1886) with his wife Mary Ann Hill (1828-1909). Date unknown, probably taken in Indiana in the 1850s. "This is the daughter of wealthy people who eloped with the gardener" - handwritten note by my grandmother Esther. Photo duplicate of a Daguerreotype.

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

Happy Anniversary

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jun/01

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
stacey_campbell@aus.social ("Stacey Campbell") wrote:

Americans, here's how universal health care works in Australia. There is no reason a version of this couldn't be implemented in the US.

https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/medicare

#uspol #auspol #medicare #medicaid

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
resl@mas.to ("Rachel E. S. Lösche") wrote:

Looking for efforts in the US e.g. to draft policies prohibiting the use or promotion of proprietary software for public infrastructure like education, similar to the FSFE's "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign. If you know of anything like this in the US, please share!

#FOSS #education #USpol #FSFE

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

Here’s a friendly reminder to cis folks: don’t be this meme

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

Happy Pride Month! :prami_pride_rainbow: While that other cishet social web place limits LGBTQ+ pride to a couple of emojis, and the guy who runs it wouldn’t be caught dead saying “happy pride month”, the omg.lol family knows that pride is recognized and celebrated here every day. Wouldn’t have it any other way.

I’m a straight guy happily married to a straight woman for over 20 years. But it’s not hard to see and respect queer people. I’m sorry that so many other guys like me squirm over it.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
midgephoto@photog.social ("MidgePhoto") wrote:

This looks very impressive.
Well "to the left of the bang",?and the fewer A50s around, the better.

https://kyivindependent.com/enemy-bombers-are-burning-en-masse-ukraines-sbu-drones-hit-more-than-40-russian-aircraft/

#ukraine #drones #bang

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
ana@starlite.rodeo ("ana veronica") wrote:

the greatest trick the centrists ever pulled was convincing people that "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" was about sitting on your ass until things magically got better, and not about the inevitable success of active participatory struggle

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

On the coast. Croatia.

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

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Croatia

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

Interview: "Worse Than McCarthyism”: Trump’s War Against Universities & Students

"Today, the repression that’s coming out of Washington, D.C., it attacks everything that happens on American campuses.

"The damage that the Trump administration is doing is absolutely beyond the pale and has never, never been equaled in American life with regard to higher education.”

~Historian Ellen Schrecker

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/30/mccarthyism%5Funiversities

#Trump #McCarthyism #USPol @palestine #Fascism #FreeSpeech #censorship .

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
carithlee@laserdisc.party wrote:

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

Very cool, you can find me in the Internet Phone Book under number 708!

https://internetphonebook.net/#dial-a-site

#internet #TheWeb #InternetPhoneBook #PersonalSites #indieweb

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

That's a fine summary of substance dualism.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/01/dualism/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
batkaren@mastodon.online wrote:

The fact that queer kids are never indoctrinated into straightness from reading about countless hetero relationships, but the mere whisper of the word gay instantly grooms straight kids for homosexual lifestyles really just goes to show how fabulous it is being queer.

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange ("BeyondMachines :verified:") wrote:

AI singularity will not be achieved by AI getting smarter.

Boosted by jwz:
sconlan@metalhead.club ("OshKosh the Vorlon") wrote:

@dnalounge really knocking it out of the park with these drink special names

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

Drink Special @ Secret Psychedelica: My Tesla Burns When I Pee - Fireball, Ginger Ale, Splash of Grenadine.

Attachments:

• gifv: c8243338267f728a.mp4

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

Drink Special @ Une Noche Sin Ti: My Tesla Is On Fire and So Is My Urethra -- shot of Fireballcand. 9 oz Cider

Attachments:

• gifv: d5d99555c05075a8.mp4

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tofugolem ("Tofu Golem") wrote:

This is a neat and accurate summary of American politics, and an explanation of how America got to where it is today.

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scdollins@genart.social ("Steven Dollins") wrote:

64,000 is 40 cubed

#generative #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #Processing #glsl #shaders

Attachments:

• gifv: Looping animation of a writhing, contoured sphere made of 64,000 spheres that deforms into a perfect cube and back

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
nsmsn@social.lol ("Nick Simson") wrote:

I'm hosting the IndieWeb blogging carnival in June! (It's June 1 some places in the world right now)

This month's theme is "Take Two" as in, what a director shouts for a do-over. Also, time travel!

I invite you to explore this month's theme and send me links to your work: https://www.nicksimson.com/posts/2025-indieweb-carnival-take-two

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Kovah ("Kevin Woblick") wrote:

Got my issue of the first edition Internet Phone Book! And im in there! 😍 Thing is such a cool thing!

#internet #smallweb #indieweb #internetphonebook