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wraith@phantasmal.work wrote:

@jef #19, sigh

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Drink special @ Nu Metal World: Elon Musk Memorial, Ketamine-Dick Awareness Cocktail -- Casamigos blanco, sour, grenadine, lime

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

So yeah. That’s all. I just want to acknowledge this and openly commit to being better. I think there’s so much awesome stuff that we can do as a community, so much more of a positive difference we can make, and so much more fun that we can have together. But not if I’m dragging us down. Only if I’m lifting us up.

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

Earlier someone mentioned that they opened their timeline and something I had posted was the only negative thing there. What a thing to be: the only negative thing on someone’s timeline. Can you imagine? This person was in a happy mood and was like “hey I’m gonna see what’s happening online” and there I was, doing my thing, messing things up.

I *want* to say that’s not who I am. But, let’s be real: that’s who I’ve been for 13 months now.

So: no more. That has to change.

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

The thing is, I made this bad mood my entire personality. I didn’t set out to do that, but I let it happen. I prioritized my own anger in a stupid and unfair way. It was lazy. I didn’t manage my feelings correctly, and others had to deal with it.

I might have said some harsh things to you. Or about you. Or about your friends. Or about your community. I don’t regret my views, or anything that I said, to be clear. But in some cases I regret how I said those things. And how often.

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

Hi, my name is Adam and I’ve spent the past 13 months in a really bad mood. You might have noticed. Maybe you wanted to say something about it but thought I might get mad at you. I wouldn’t blame you for that. Maybe you became quietly upset with me and walked away. Wouldn’t blame you for that, either. Maybe you’ve just been hoping I’d snap out of it. If so, I’ve been disappointing you for while now.

I’m working on it. Really. You deserve better from me. I’m sorry.

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abc@flipboard.com ("ABC News") wrote:

Video FBI: Minnesota suspect was a doomsday ‘prepper’
https://abcnews.go.com/world-news-tonight-with-david-muirT/video/fbi-minnesota-suspect-doomsday-prepper-123078237?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News @news-abc

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manton@manton.org ("Manton Reece") wrote:

Some of the problems Trump has created are fixable. They are painful for many people, and clearly so morally wrong, illegal, or just plain dumb that they will have to be reversed, with time. And then there are the disastrous, long-term mistakes like bombing Iran that we’ll be stuck with for decades.

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samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

I hope Hegseth can stay sober for the next few days. Things might get busy.

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rooster@beige.party ("Jessica") wrote:

In the next weeks I anticipate we will hear a lot about Iran's ~400 kg of 60% enriched uranium, which they will probably refer to using the more scary phrase "Highly Enriched Uranium" or HEU.

They will talk about how it is "out of control," which means the IAEA doesn't have tracking of it.

This COULD be enriched to weapons-grade, and used for a bomb, IF they have an enrichment facility to do it in. That's a very very VERY big if. There's a very high chance their only three facilities were just destroyed.

I think the odds of having a secret facility outside the knowledge of the international community is low. Not only are they hard to hide, but they're almost impossible to build without raising flags. As it turns out, a lot of centrifuges require very specialized equipment and parts. You can't build a nuclear facility in secret very easily.

This is RIPE for fear mongering. I'm not a non-proliferation expert but I'll do my best to keep folks informed, as well as boost any voices or sources I find on the matter. As always happy to field questions.

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drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

Evergreen

#fuckTrump #war #kakistocracy

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patrickworld@mastodon.online ("Patrick 🌎") wrote:

‘So yeah, he’s even dumber than you’

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virtualbri@mastodon.online ("Brian Tatosky") wrote:

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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Today in particular I’m just so glad Merrick Garland prioritized “norms” over the U.S. constitution, our republic, and any hope of saving our democracy. Otherwise we might have run the risk of a functioning government.

I hope Garland knows that—along with Mitch—cowardice will always be his legacy.

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

"Be Gay, Do Crimes"
Poster spotted in Newtown, Sydney

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

"The only ICE we need"
Pasteup spotted in St Paul, Minnesota

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Time once again to post Get Your War On #1. From 2001. Time is a flat circle.

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isagalaev@social.seattle.wa.us ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:

I love our book store!

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mckra1g ("Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦") wrote:

I like this idea.

#ICE #immigrants

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blakespot@oldbytes.space ("Blake Patterson") wrote:

Flickr (which hosts the largest collection of Creative Commons-licensed photos in the world) has just rolled out Creative Commons 4.0 licensing.

https://blog.flickr.net/en/2025/06/18/creative-commons-4-0-has-arrived-on-flickr/

I use and support Flickr heavily.

#Flickr #IsupportFlickr #CC #CreativeCommons #photography #photographs #photos #gallery #digitalphotography #license

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

Hot take: 10x engineers are those whose wives (or mothers) take care of everything else for them.

jwz wrote:

Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice.

But what can I, one coward, do alone? you might ask. It's true. As a solitary person, your fecklessness will make little impact. But if you join together with the most craven senators and...
https://jwz.org/b/ykpq

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

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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.