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

Free Luigi posters seen in NYC

Boosted by jwz:
claraS@piaille.fr ("Clara") wrote:

🤣🤣🤣🥳🥳🥳
#nokings #UnitedStates #usa #antitrump #berniesanders

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai wrote:

9 min

@pluralistic

Good/bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1RSD9-qHTI

#uspol

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

Can someone recommend a currently reliable source for (non-counterfiet) Cat6 / Cat7 cable? Small quantity; maybe two or three 1000 foot spools. I remember the last time I needed some, this was a like buying a used car.

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

This is almost entirely for still photos. I have no idea how people who do 8K video deal with all these bits.

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

Photo nerditry: recently had to upgrade the portable external SSD I use for photos from 4TB to 8TB, and went with the Oyen U34 8TB Bolt drive. Performance seems good so far, and it runs notably cooler than what it replaced. (Long-term reliability remains an open question, but I obsessively back up, as one does).

A bit spendy, but recommended.

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

#Bluesky: think of us like a search engine for blogs. We're nothing. We basically don't exist tbh

Also bluesky when a fascist joins: welcome to our home! We're so happy you're here on this definitely not a centralized platform. Here's a little algo-boost and verification. Tell your friends!

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

This was a three second exposure (with about 10 stops of neutral density). The sun was behind the clouds and just above the center of the frame; the lens required careful flagging to avoid glare.

The rendering of water, especially in the sea, differs greatly with exposure. 30 seconds looks quite different from 3 seconds, which is just as different from 1/30 sec, which is different from 1/1000 sec. About 1/30 sec renders roughly the way our vision does; anything else requires a camera to see.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
democratsabroad ("Democrats Abroad") wrote:

Juneteenth is a celebration of June 19th 1865, the day when the last enslaved African Americans in the United States were informed of their emancipation. We reaffirm and rededicate ourselves to ensuring freedom and justice for all on this special day. #Juneteenth #DemocratsAbroad

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

Edge of Pacific Ocean, 2014.

All the pixels, none of the hypothermia, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/14820439752

#photography

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:

It’s Juneteenth! I didn’t even realize that when I just read this article but it’s so fitting. https://eji.org/news/city-announces-reparations-for-tulsa-race-massacre/

I’m glad Tulsa is reckoning with its past. So may we all - not just on days of remembrance but everyday.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Mer__edith@mastodon.world ("Meredith Whittaker") wrote:

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

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

A headline from BBC: "How Sweden survives without small talk". This will never stop amazing me how people who grew up in a culture where small talk is expected think it's somehow *biologically* natural, and you need to try hard to "survive" without it. I, for one, still can't get used to random people asking how my life is going. A nod should be enough to acknowledge a person.

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

Agreed.

There's a persistent idea in the decentralized revolution, by people who've never experience this type of harm, that if you don't like fascism, racism, transphobia, etc, you can just block.

This is a techno-libertarian worldview that lacks object permanence. It's like a baby playing peekaboo. Just because my hands are over my face, it doesn't mean that the harm disappears.

#fediverse #ATProtocol #openSocialWeb

From: @FediTips
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/114710257356479091

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
miriamboosh.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Miriam Boosh") wrote:

The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Jaden3 wrote:

Hey y'all June is men's mental health month! Nobody checked on my ass 😏
We all keep ts in y'all know that.
Get this hashtag trending. Our mental health is important 🙏🏿
#mensmentalhealthmonth

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

The [NYC] Subway Is Not Scary. “It’s fine and safe. It’s full of women and children. There are tons of old ladies on there.” And: “You sound real corny being scared of the subway.” https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway-is-not-scary

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
itzyg@mostlygood.xyz ("Your Cool Uncle Itzy") wrote:

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

Apologies to the family and friends of Laura Palmer for making light of her grisly, and also entirely fictional, murder.

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

“But Harris can’t be trusted to defend her own election!”

Right, that critically important safeguard apparently falls to some random dude with a substack blog.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

#Juneteenth

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

An important clue (aside from basic common sense and logic) that these nutso claims about 2024 don't deserve your attention is who *isn't* repeating them: The candidate from whom the election was supposedly stolen.

If there were convincing evidence that Harris had the election stolen from her, she'd be *all over* it. But nope.

Do you think they got to her, too?

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

“But Trump (and/or Musk) CONFESSED to stealing the election!!”

Again, no.

But even if they did, whether by talking shit in a speech or in a written confession to the DA, someone admitting to something is not proof that it happened.

I killed Laura Palmer, by the way.

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

“But they COULD have stolen the election this way!!”

No. This is not how these systems work.

But even if they DID work that that way (and they most assuredly don’t), the fact that something COULD HAVE happened is not evidence that it actually DID happen*.

* Many Universes theories notwithstanding.

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

You may or may not remember that “they used satellites to flip the votes” was one of the laughably ridiculous claims after 2020. It’s still laughably ridiculous for 2024.

Come on, at least make up some original bullshit here.

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

If you repeat this stuff, you are a bad person. You’re either choosing not to use your brain’s most basic critical thinking functions, or you’re deliberately spreading disinformation. I think less of you either way. Stop it.

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

I’m not going to repeat or link to this nonsense, but no, you can’t flip votes by satellite via compromised power strips in any actual election system used in the US (or elsewhere on our planet, as far as I know).

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

Yikes, the latest iteration of “the 2024 election was stolen” conspiracy crap is an order of magnitude more bonkers than the last. And, unsurprisingly, echos almost perfectly the bonkers stuff from 2020, with the parties reversed.

Just stop.

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

@superball @hatter @CivilityFan @BlueDot You can decide I’m the problem if you want to. I think a much bigger problem than my disgraceful rudeness to trolls is people uncritically spreading obvious, harmful, election disinformation.

Think before reposting.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
donald_brady wrote:

Finally got round to listening to "Who broke the internet?" from CBC / @pluralistic - really makes it clear why the internet that he and may others including myself grew up with is a big old POS now. Give it a listen...

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1353-the-naked-emperor/episode/16144078-dont-be-evil