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

MERE ANARCHY IS LOOSED UPON THE WORLD

RE: https://www.threads.com/@veronicaroth/post/DKzvylUpHMg

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

Tried several ways to get Emacs to use proportional fonts for Markdown and Org, and fixed-width fonts for everything else (and Markdown/Org code blocks and tables). I haven’t loved the results from any attempt so far, but I’m close. Maybe. :)

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breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social ("Bread and Circuses") wrote:

All is not lost.

We do still have options, good choices we can make that will lead to a better – or at least less disastrous – future.
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Imagine being surrounded by lush natural landscapes, buildings covered with verdant plants and vegetation complete with rooftop gardens, and cities that are completely powered by clean energy. Imagine having our technologies built in harmony with nature and shared equally with everyone on the planet. This is what our world should look like as envisioned by the solarpunk movement.
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In this thread I will post several excerpts from an inspiring article at Earth.org, together with uplifting images that might raise our spirits as we seek to build a happier and more just world for our children and their children.

LEARN MORE ➡️ https://earth.org/solarpunk/

#Economics #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Degrowth #SolarPunk

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GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

"In the days before #Trump suddenly paused most of the punishing #tariffs on foreign countries he had revealed in early April, more than a dozen congressional lawmakers were tied to 1000s of $worth of stock transactions, incl significant purchases as stock market tumbled"

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/politics/congress-stock-market-trading-trump?cid=ios%5Fapp

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buermann ("josh buermann") wrote:

"South Carolina Rep. RJ May, a founding member of the state’s ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, faces 10 counts of distributing child sexual abuse material... May was arrested Wednesday... according to jail records that quickly disappeared from public view... The last legislator suspended while facing federal charges was Rep. Rick Martin in 2021 [for] giving alcohol to a 15-year-old girl..."

https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/sc-representative-charged-distributing-child-sexual-abuse-material

#pedocons

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carrideen@c18.masto.host ("Carrie Shanafelt") wrote:

NYC-area cat people! One of my best friends is going through an incredibly stressful time caretaking for a severely ill parent and is hoping to re-home her two lovely hilarious tabby cat brothers, Sal and Pablo. They're neutered, nine years old, perfectly healthy, handsome, active, and kittenish. They love to play and cuddle and greet guests eagerly. My friend, in upper Manhattan, is rarely able to be home with them and knows they need cuddles and company.

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• video: A 7-second video of Sal and Pablo, two short-haired grey-nosed twin tabby cats purring heavily while sitting up on a pretty floral rug

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

not just ‘yes’, ‘hell yes’

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7338165541917855745?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A7338165541917855745%2C7338939947355168769%29&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd%5Fcomment%3A%287338939947355168769%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7338165541917855745%29

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

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matcha06 ("MatchaMakes") wrote:

i wanna know how much #meta paid for this ad in my taskbar

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

They know what their mission is and that this ain't it

RE: https://www.threads.com/@keithboykin/post/DKzLHwYxhzW

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

When a weed pokes up from within your lovely garden, you have a choice to make: you can pull it out, or you can leave it and let it grow.

If you pull it, you keep your garden lovely.

If you leave it, it’s only a matter of time before your garden is overrun with weeds. But it’s your garden, and it’s your choice.

But if you opt to leave your weeds, don’t look back on your garden later and wonder why it’s in such rough shape. You know why.

This is an online social space moderation metaphor.

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

Further evidence that the Right is oblivious to how repulsive their ideas are.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/12/dont-use-these-posters/

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.