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

Too soon. Now my granddaughter is a kindergarten graduate.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/12/now-what-3/

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

Everyone knows that Steven Pinker is a right-wing racist shill in disguise as a liberal, right?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/12/its-not-just-me/

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

The Minnesota university budgets are going to be lean again.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/12/i-guess-im-supposed-to-be-relieved/

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Kye@tech.lgbt ("Kye Fox") wrote:

You ever think about how a thin sheet of rock and dirt is all that stands between us and an incredible geological dynamism driven by a liquid nuclear inferno

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helenleigh@chaos.social ("Helen Leigh") wrote:

Also we are v close to selling out (for the first time!) so if you were planning to come you should get on that in the next couple days.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2025/schedule

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helenleigh@chaos.social ("Helen Leigh") wrote:

I just got the keys to the ex-GAP for #Teardown2025. The dying mall/liminal space vibes are excellent.

We have a little over a week to fill it with cool projects, hacker art, machines, retro computers, a fully equipped make + hack space, and four tracks for talks, workshops and panels.

It's my second year running the show and I'm considerably less terrified than I was last year. I want to try and have fun!

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

and a good morning to you too @CARROT

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• video: cab8e0cc1f14e789.mp4

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catileptic@chaos.social ("Alex Ștefănescu") wrote:

I love this latest post by @molly0xfff because it echoes so much of my own experience, as someone tooting the horn on technology being used in a way that infringes on human rights: "It matters. I care."

https://www.citationneeded.news/it-matters-i-care/

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

This article provides some valuable historical context regarding the way Trump is following the Project 2025 playbook. Republicans have long hated any education that isn't centered around validating whatever they want.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/11/trump-war-on-harvard

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streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:

📍 US Embassy, London, UK

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

Based on the style and period, you might guess this was a minor work of Eero Saarinen's (it shares many design elements with his arirport terminals of the same era). But, in fact, the architect was the less well known William Tabler, who had many commissions from Hilton. This was one of his most distinctive, I think.

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

The Washington Hilton, completed 1965, was designed by architect William Tabler. It's notable not only for its distinctive exterior, but also for the prominent events hosted there. The hotel is or has been home to the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, the National Prayer Breakfast, the Shmoocon conference, and the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, among many other things.

It has extensive back-of-house facilities and security features to accommodate high profile VIPs.

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

The result here is about 170MP in 16x9 format, which is sufficient for very large prints that retain a great deal of detail (I've printed this at 6 feet wide).

Mid-Century Modernist architecture, and Brutalism in particular, is easy to dismiss as being superficially lifeless and uninteresting, but at its best (and with the right eye) these buildings can be seen as sculptures in the landscape. I don't always appreciate them, but they're often more interesting than they first seem.

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

This is a fairly conventional architectural composition, emphasizing the curved facade. To get a high resolution capture of the wide structure, this was made as a stitched composite of two captures with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens. The Phase One back was shifted left and right by about 12mm.

By using shift movements at a fixed perspective, the two captures can be stitched directly together into a panorama without needing to transform the frame geometry (as you would with panning).

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

Washington ("Hinckley") Hilton, Washington, DC, 2023.

All the pixels, but no room service available, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53007102796

#photography

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

I’ve been mostly away for a few days, but I see that the random stranger who was mad at me for posting a photo of a subject they disapproved of (buildings) is still mad at me.

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cliener ("Chris Lienert") wrote:

While @slightlyoff isn’t physically here at #WebDirections, he is here nonetheless

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

Graffiti seen in San Francisco, California during the ongoing anti-ICE revolt.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

how is rabby formed?

how girl get buny

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"To err is human" and by that logic I'm very much human most of the time.

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

Can't Find My Way Home by Blind Faith on LOUD

https://pandora.app.link/PAQl2O4Q7Tb

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

ahhhhh

“Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood” by Nina Simone

https://pandora.app.link/DRwnsYpQ7Tb

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.

https://www.citationneeded.news/it-matters-i-care/

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mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

Robert Malone, one of the quacks that RFK just put in charge of your vaccines, spent 2021 telling people that:
1. Hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin were effective for COVID
2. COVID vaccines were dangerous and made infection worse

Both of these claims were bullshit. These claims killed people I cared for. I had many patients come in with severe COVID who had avoided vaccination because of Malone’s bullshit, and then took ineffective drugs instead of getting the care they needed. Fuck that guy.

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

listening to Fourth Degree by Eilen Jewell

https://pandora.app.link/WN1f4TPP7Tb

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ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🍑") wrote:

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TheGentYYC wrote:

Attractive

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

Fuck these bigots

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/10/us/southern-baptists-gay-marriage-ban-vote

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theradr.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg") wrote:

This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.

jwz wrote:

@jscalzi Only if it was stolen.