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Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
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 jwz:
oglaf@socel.net ("Oglaf") wrote:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/safety-briefing-131804344

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mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

Props to a young Philly volunteer who succumbed to my pleas and allowed me to go behind the rope and take a photo of a rare (to me) stencil Gorton.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
photosbygina_yeg@mastoart.social ("Gina Blank") wrote:

I was in #Toronto last week for a conference; I always take at least some of my gear for off-hours exploring. Met some grey squirrels. This new mama was looking a bit rough (unsurprising, as anyone with newborns will tell you)--I learned from a squirrel aficionado that mama squirrels will pull out their fur to make a nest for their babies, since they often nest in cold spaces. Gives new meaning to parents who say their kids make them want to pull their hair out!

#WildlifePhotography

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

My Los Angeles friends, you need to know that the LA Opera is having its costume sale this Saturday and you should. Buy stuff for yourself but also send me photos: https://laopera.org/costume-shop-sale

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
The_Icarian@federated.press ("The Icarian") wrote:

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trochee@dair-community.social ("Jeremy Kahn") wrote:

Seeing usually smart folks getting rope-a-doped into arguing for LLM utility like there's a moral justice zero-sum trolley-problem slider between "useful" and "ethical" and we're just arguing about the best setting

But the real problem is even dumber

-is its mere use a climate disaster? Yes
-is its data provenance founded on theft? Also yes
-will it be used to ruin ordinary workers' lives? Yup
-will it ruin countless organizations who think they're buying their way to cheap labor? That too

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
ksaj@infosec.exchange ("Karsten Johansson") wrote:

Trump says he originated the America First motto.

Checks out.

#trump #americafirst #nazis #kkk

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
cobalt123@beige.party wrote:

October 27 2024 in NYTimes:

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
AdamStuartSmith@sauropods.win ("Adam S. Smith") wrote:

Grass is just ‘grass’ until you let it grow. All this diversity is sprouting from my lawn (or what used to be my lawn).

#Nature #grass #lawn

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
Jgbird@mas.to ("Jerome G") wrote:

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Alice@beige.party ("Alice McFlurry :bc:") wrote:

Can we give all COVID variants names like this so people will FINALLY take it seriously?

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
benroyce ("Ben Royce 🇺🇦") wrote:

My last day of work at the World Trade Center was Sept 10, 2001. I worked late, so I was going to go in late the next day. I never made it in (the planes hit in the morning). I was at 5 WTC, a 9 story building between the towers, all my coworkers evacuated

What I remember most were the missing person posters, especially plastered all over Grand Central Terminal

Now we experience it again with #ICE under #Trump

Powered by the same stupid hate and fear that powered 9/11

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/los-angeles-missing-posters-ice

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

Wow.

Absolute home run ad from Rep. Eric Swalwell

🔥

Attachments:

• video: As showing ICE kidnapping and deportation of US citizens who aren’t white. Not even dystopian when this could be news footage.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
Jaden3 wrote:

June 19 marks the end of slavery but we were never actually free. I listen to my grampa and gramma who suffered as kids growing up during segregation in mississippi they were not free 😔 my grampa stories real bad , klan and shit bad times.
#juneteenth

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

Look people, no matter how much we destroy the Earth by polluting it with CO₂, microplastics, PFAS, etc. everywhere, and even if AMOC shuts down and both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melt, the Earth will still be infinitely more habitable than Mars. Mars is a shithole and we're not going.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

A brief history of gun control in America:

NRA: We need unlimited firearms to stop tyrannical government

Black people: Sounds good, we are open carrying in California

NRA: Not so fast. We're banning firearms

[ICE raids California, targets Black and brown people with illegal arrests]

Black and brown people: Hey NRA, here's that tyrannical government you mentioned

NRA: Oh, we meant tyranny against white people. We're perfectly good with fascists targeting you

The End

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

“This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access the parking lots. They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization. Tonight’s game will be played as scheduled.” - Los Angeles Dodgers

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Instead of using butter with your garlic bread, you should switch to Linux. You can set up a virtual machine to try out various distros to see which one works best for your needs.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
joelle@social.joelle.us ("Joelle") wrote:

The reason Texas is part of the USA is that Mexico made slavery illegal.

Remember the Alamo? A lot of white people don't know is that what the "brave" people in the Alamo were fighting for was slavery.

That's also why it took two years after the civil war ended for enforcement of anti-slavery in Texas. (it wasn't because of slow communication, as is told in revisionist histories, it was because white people willfully defied the law).

Freedom is always worth fighting for.

jwz wrote:

5 Other Scenes in Point Break That Would Be Better With a Beat-Down of Anthony Kiedis:

(As a Point Break scholar, I agree with this.) For all its strengths, "Point Break" is sorely lacking in one of the most important departments of any high-octane...
https://jwz.org/b/ykpi

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

Oh whoa. Unexpected appearance of MEUTE at KEXP. Fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OF-xpiZlGU

(Also, I now finally know how their name is pronounced. 😆)

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

I've listened to Louis Cato's "Black Man Blues" a few times today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nhSvi%5FAQKE

Looks like he did everything on that song except record and edit the video. Sheesh...

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ntnsndr@social.coop ("Nathan Schneider") wrote:

Leading figures across greater Silicon Valley have turned right for the same reason business elites always have: they want more power over their workers. https://lpeproject.org/blog/techs-turn-to-trump-was-a-labor-story-and-the-response-should-be-too/

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

How I have benefited from racism A non-exhaustive list of how I, a middle class white woman living in the U.S., have benefited and am continuing to benefit from the racism built into our systems and... https://anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-have-benefited-from-racism

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

@molly0xfff:

"I made a quick video about media literacy and the misleading Wall Street Journal headline I highlighted this weekend"

Good vid. Manufactured consent. There is no protest peaceful enough; no level of decorum we can reach. Corporate Dems don’t want us protesting. They want us in our cubicles generating shareholder value. https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202506161014

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
steve@mastodon.cooleysekula.net ("Stephen Sekula") wrote:

Mysterious fast radio bursts illuminate ‘missing’ cosmic matter | CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/16/science/fast-radio-bursts-missing-matter

This is not a about #darkmatter, the 85% of the universe's total matter. Rather, this is about confirming that a great deal of ORDINARY matter is spread thinly as gas in the spaces around and between galaxies. Fast radio burst signals have been used to provide evidence that this is, in fact, the case.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02566-y

#MissingBaryons #FastRadioBursts #Astronomy

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

@adam @mattbirchler @alexcox

> It happened because the alt-right came into power, and too many centrists within too many genteel spaces were too weak to say the things that needed to be said about that.

Extremes thrive by creating artificial enemies. Currently it’s immigrants and trans folks and too many people won’t call out their crap and let them make up stuff, dehumanize and demonize entire segments of the population. I’m not particularly OK with spaces who just shrug and say “let’s get along”. Ok mediocre white dude (it’s always that) they might not be coming after you and you might be safe but saying nothing and doing nothing just enables and empowers the evil. “Don’t worry it’ll be ok if we hold space for the fascists. They won’t come after us” is a take not worth having.

Shit is the same energy as mediocre white dude mansplaining the signal roadmap to the CEO of signal just cuz she’s a woman. “Don’t worry honey I got this. I know what I’m talking about cuz I follow tech”.

jwz wrote:

New Yule Log just dropped.

I'm starting to think that the Space Nazi is just not very good at this whole "space ship" thing. "SpaceX Starship S36 Explodes at Starbase, Texas".
https://jwz.org/b/ykpf

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

Decentralized this, distributed that. How about you decentralize your sins and distribute your love for our lord and savior Jesus Christ?

#OpenSocialWeb #decentralized #Bluesky