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

This probably isn’t the strangest garnish I’ve ever had on a drink, but it’s up there.

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

I attended my local Pride celebration. Did you?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/21/a-proud-ally-of-morris-pride/

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

@manton, I don't know if the Mastodon "report" feature does anything for Micro.blog posts (because there's never been any action taken in the past when it's been used), so I'm putting this here. Can you please ask this person to consider not lobbing insults about the intellectual capacity of our users? I’ve already had to suspend him because of his continued trolling and instigating earlier, and he’s continuing to instigate and troll. Thanks for your help.

jwz wrote:

Seriously how do you have a wireless mesh network and still have a single fuckin' point of failure that takes out all of SOMA? What kind of Mickey Mouse operation is this?

jwz wrote:

Over 3 hours now. This is great, really great.

Coincidentally, yesterday my condo management told me that our building will have Google Fiber available "some time soon". It's almost like this incident is an ad.

This also makes me wonder if it will be available on 11th Street for @dnalounge but both addresses still show as "not available" on google's site.

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

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

it is officially summertime

Boosted by jwz:
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

@dvandal @strlcat @davidgerard

Wayland and systemd are both symptoms of the same behaviour, as was PulseAudio:

• Observe that an existing system has flaws.
• Don't engage with users to identify use cases.
• Throw up some half-finished code (with incomplete or nonexistent backwards compatibility) that solves some of the problems of the old system but doesn't address all of its use cases and introduces more problems for other people.
• Declare that the old thing is deprecated and everyone needs to move to the new thing.
• Create a load of work in the rest of the ecosystem that other people have to do.
• Silence all criticism by pointing out that the old thing was imperfect.

And that's the kind of thing that you can only get away with if you're able to act as a monopoly, by employing maintainers at key points across the ecosystem.

The biggest problem with Microsoft was not that their monopoly allowed them to be evil, it was that it allowed them to be stupid. A lot of things in the MS ecosystem are actually bad for Microsoft, but they're pushed out because no one inside MS cares enough to do the right thing and no one outside is able to fix the problems. I, personally, don't want the F/OSS OS ecosystem to end up like that.

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

Mild pet peeve: mailing lists configured to not forward a copy of the message to the sender, so you have no idea if your message went out or not.

jwz wrote:

Still loving that traditional eight 8s of uptime.
https://jwz.org/b/ykpo

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

The Voting Village at DEF CON (August 8-10, 2025 in Las Vegas) solicits talk proposals on all aspects of election security. Our speaker track is the premier venue bringing together researchers, election officials, and the broader security community. Come share your work!

https://www.votingvillage.org/dc33cfp

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jbaty@social.lol ("Jack Baty") wrote:

@adam @jack Thanks, Adam. I always know your heart is in the right place. You run a great service and I love that you're working so hard to keep things moving in the right direction.

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

Recently officially renamed the "William H. Gray III 30th Street Station" (but no one calls it that), Philadelphia's main rail station is a neoclassical gem. Located just across the river from Center City in West Philadelphia, it serves Amtrak, SEPTA, and a few NJ Transit trains. The modernist glass Cira Center office complex next door is a striking contrast.

Captured with a Hasselblad (Zeiss) T* CFE FLE 40mm/4 lens (@ f/8) lens, Pentax 645z camera (@ ISO 100).

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

30th Street Station and Cira Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2015

All the pixels, with none of the canceled or delayed trains, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/20784725455

#photography

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

thank heavens for realistic folks like Katie Mack

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:biuxa5pi4c3x7fschwlfp7js/post/3ls4hxxhwck2x

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

life can be so very hard

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

@adam It’s easy to point out some terrible thing that upset you as proof of your virtue, like referencing tears in November 2024. It’s harder to demand accountability of yourself and others when that virtue is not reflected in your actions. Riding the fence in the name of decorum or keeping the calm is simply cowardice, no matter how softly you claim to be on the side of justice.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
donaldball@triangletoot.party ("Donald Ball") wrote:

@QasimRashid @pluralistic https://bsky.app/profile/anthonymkreis.bsky.social/post/3ls4tkfcfnc2n

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Binder@petrous.vislae.town ("Shannon Prickett") wrote:

Me, shifting my attention between four active computers: I need more computers.

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

@pluralistic

After reading your review I decided to get the book.

You never steer us wrong, always surprisingly interesting books these turn out to be (for me at least).

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
adrianhon ("Adrian Hon") wrote:

Very pleased my piece introducing the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser to the Nordic Larp community made it onto their main website!

It looks into whether the Starcruiser can be considered a larp, and what lessons it holds for blockbuster larps overall.

It’s my most up-to-date writing on the Starcruiser, going into more detail about its pricing, the possible reasons why it closed, its marketing mishaps - and the fact that most guests really enjoyed it. https://nordiclarp.org/2025/06/20/star-wars-galactic-starcruiser-the-blockbuster-to-end-all-blockbusters/

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

As Trump attacks students who dare speak up for basic justice for Palestine, a student at the University of Florida Law School named Preston Damsky wrote a paper arguing that the Constitution only applies to white people & Jews and non-whites should be “abolished by any means necessary.”

A Trump-nominated judge named John L. Badalamenti who teaches the class gave Damsky the highest grade and awarded him the Book prize.

University of Florida Law School defended the decision as “free speech.”

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
AlfNoProblem ("Alf No Problem") wrote:

A self-checkout kiosk screen asking if I want to leave a tip. To whom?!?
#funny and #sad

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

Federal Judge Deems Trump Administration’s Termination of NIH Grants Illegal
—

In a ruling issued Monday, the judge called the government’s directives “arbitrary and capricious” and ordered funding for some of the NIH grants, including many profiled by ProPublica in recent months, to be restored.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nih-grant-terminations-illegal?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #NIH #Law #Research #Science #Health #Medicine

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
emptywheel.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy wrote:

As you read CATO's report on how 65% of the people ICE has detained committed no crime, remember that @padilla.senate.gov was asking why Kristi Noem always invoked the same 6 cases when Noem's goons assaulted him. That's why.www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
fesshole ("Fesshole 🧻") wrote:

In large Sainsbury's there's never loose bags in the veg section because they want us all to buy the packed stuff. I get loose bags from the bakery and leave them in the veg aisle. Then I rip open a pack of so organic shrooms, take 3, weigh and print. 30p instead of £1.65.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
Locusmag ("Locus Magazine") wrote:

The Adventures of Mary Darling by Pat Murphy: Review by Gary K. Wolfe https://locusmag.com/2025/06/the-adventures-of-mary-darling-by-pat-murphy-review-by-gary-k-wolfe/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ely@a.bloodyno.se ("ely♡⁠") wrote:

websites can get pregnant

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

Put bacteria in space, and what do they do? They evolve.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/21/microbial-evolutionin-spaaaace/

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld ") wrote:

Since it's almost Midsummer...