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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"The risks of poorly considered and unilateral decisions by the White House are devastating, risking thousands—if not millions—of deaths. The Founders gave us tools to prevent that sort of outcome."

~ Ben Raderstorf

#Trump #Iran #war
/10

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-iran-strike-shows-the-urgent

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

I wrote about the second strangulation of the Voice of America hours before the US attack on Iran. The piece was quoted by AP and BBC. It's even more relevant now considering that VOA Farsi has been reduced to a skeleton. https://newsguy.substack.com/p/zombie-version-of-voa-slain-again

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
k3fnb@mastodon.radio ("Eric K3FNB (they/them)") wrote:

I think it took me roughly 25 hours split over 5 evenings to build. I took it really slow and checked and double checked everything. The biggest mistakes were made last night when I was pushing myself to finish it after spending the morning in the heat on a Coffee and POTA activation. That was risky.

If you want to build one. Take the advice on this video and only build it when you're well rested and with a clear focus. The build isn't hard, just long.

https://youtu.be/pBZ%5FSXO-LlM?si=ClWSgBmPlfi-hOQN

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SnowshadowII@beige.party ("SnowshadowII :maple:") wrote:

⚠️ RED DRESS ALERT 🇨🇦 ⚠️

Please Boost--thanks

👉 Info in Alt Text or
in link here https://www.aboriginalalert.ca/missingpersons/victoria-5105

#MMIW #MMIWG
#EveryChildMatters #NoMoreStolenSisters
#Pinks
#Indigenous

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

#glitterbomb #ICE #chingalamigra

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
quantensalat@astrodon.social ("Alexander Knochel") wrote:

#physics deep stuff 1/2

Electrical resistance is not the first quantity that comes to mind when thinking about the deep fundamental laws of nature - it's very much associated with materials science.
Yet, there are two places where it occurs in fundamental physics, even winning a Nobel prize:

Space itself has an impedance given by the ratio of electric and magnetic fields in a wave - it's roughly 377 Ohms. In fact, antennas can be thought of as impedance matching contraptions.

#electronics /

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

I somehow stumbled into a corner of youtube with Japanese DJs playing sets in various locations. I enjoyed this one quite a bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvz1xAPRQXc

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

“void? Are you there”

「always」

“I’m sorry I haven’t screamed in a while”

「it’s ok. that’s probably good for you, actually」

“Heh, I guess so. Do you get a lot of screams?”

「more every day」

“Does that get you down? Do voids get down?”

「not at all. screams help to give distinctiveness to each point of infinity. a bit like solving a maze in zork」

“You play Zork?!”

「not for years」

“Would you like to? Now? Together?”

「it is a single player game」

“I’ll read the rooms and you give me the moves. Would you like that?”

「yes, I would like that very much」

“This is an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.”

#tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I've only been dipping in and out of individual articles, but the whole @piccalilli blog is on fire this year. Amazing work, @belldotbz:

https://piccalil.li/blog/

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDlDYUl4o6E

The Onion doesn't miss

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
tracketpacer@infosec.exchange ("TracketPacer 🚀") wrote:

how being ND affects my career 🪿

(i always hesitate to self diagnose & refuse to speak for anyone else, but what i can talk about are my symptoms + how it shows up for me personally)

Attachments:

• video: f5519574a86ff3be.mp4

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

years of insisting that volunteers owe things to huge companies that aren't paying them has, empirically, not worked out, you need to try a second idea

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

we have got to stop talking about open source software this way man. someone who published work with an explicit label on it saying "this comes with absolutely no warranty" and is not being compensated is not part of a "supply chain" https://abyssdomain.expert/@filippo/114723318068853623

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

From The Onion: Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice. “Now is not the time for bravery or valor! This is the time for protecting your own hide and lining your pocket.” (They sent a copy of this to every member of Congress.) https://theonion.com/letter-to-congress/

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

I have returned to the United States after a week abroad, please give me a day or so to catch up with the abject couchfuckery that's transpired since I was away, thank you for your understanding, here's an image of the Grand Canal of Venice as compensation

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

I figured it out. #Bluesky and #X are like the two version of Rick and Morty from the detox episode.

Both suck for different reasons

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

True.

#signs #protest

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

The pollinators are going nuts over our garden, while it's just too hot for me to go out and look at them.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/22/found-a-bee/

Boosted by jwz:
Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al wrote:

It's 1991, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

It's 2003, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

It's 2025, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

Boosted by jwz:
reverseics@infosec.exchange ("K. Reid Wightman :verified: 🌻 :donor:") wrote:

#directorytraversalmemes

jwz wrote:

Since Apache 2.4 removed RewriteLog, is there a way to put the mod_rewrite messages into a different file than the standard error_log?

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Here’s the thing: fuck the ayatollah and his mullahs and fuck Hamas (neither of those bastards would hesitate to put a bullet in the head of an atheist apostate like me) but that doesn’t mean you attack the people of Iran (most of whom oppose the regime) or Palestine (who also suffer under the yoke of Hamas – an organisation that, furthermore, was funded and supported by Netanyahu’s regime to sabotage the peace process).

If you cannot separate authoritarian regimes from the people being oppressed by them, and if you condone the indiscriminate slaughter of the latter, then don’t be surprised when the same rules end up applying to you… given the way things are going in the United States, for example.

We have rules of combat and international law for a reason. It’s not because we’re morally superior; far from it. It’s because we don’t want that same shit done to us. That’s a dangerous thing to forget.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
ploum@mamot.fr wrote:

Did you know that there’s a premium version of Whatsapp which :

- Has no advertising
- Has no mandatory AI integration
- Has no tracking and does not gather your personnal data
- Has increased privacy and stronger encryption
- Is exclusive and allows you to chat with other premium members

Best of all ? It is currently free to join!

Go now to your app store and install it before it is too late!

It is called "Signal"

https://ploum.net/2025-05-23-chats-digital-clutter.html

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

In 1960, the station was sold to the "Far East Broadcasting Company", which changed the format to chiefly Christian religious programming. The station ceased operation in 1994, and its antenna field was razed soon afterward.

Fortunately, the transmitter house survives and remains in excellent condition. It currently belongs to a wastewater treatment plant located adjacent to the site. I believe the building is now leased out as office space.

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

KGEI was a 250KW commercial shortwave international radio broadcast station. Originally constructed, owned and operated by General Electric, the station opened in 1939 on San Francisco's Treasure Island. In 1941, it moved to a permanent site in Redwood City. This building housed the transmitter and control facilities; the exterior walls are three feet thick, to better resist any WW II enemy bombings. At the time, KGEI was the only US broadcast station capable of reaching across the Pacific.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 50mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 digital back, Cambo 1250 camera (vertically shifted -5mm).

This modest but handsome, art-deco-accented building was built in 1941 to house the transmitter for "KGEI", a commercial shortwave radio broadcast station whose programming could be heard across the Pacific. It shut down for good in 1994.

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

KGEI Transmitter Building, Redwood City, CA, 2024.

All the pixels, no radio required, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54131707918

#photography

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

(And yes, the Font Awesome Power-Up offers a configurable default size value that is passed to the inline SVG as a width or height value, so your SVGs won’t be hilariously massive on CSS Naked Day. Neato will help you celebrate web dev holidays without looking like an animal. 😄)

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

Dialing in the #Neato tagging syntax as part of the Power-Up architecture. Power-Ups can register one or more tag prefixes to define functions.

For instance, want to use a Font Awesome icon? You can just do:

{fa:solid/ice-cream}

To display this icon:

https://fontawesome.com/icons/ice-cream?f=classic&s=solid

And it’ll displayed as an actual embedded inline SVG, which is way better than using the Font Awesome icon font or their JS-based display methods. (Why? Because your icons will still show up on CSS Naked Day, lol.)

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
gabrielesvelto@mas.to ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

Hey, look, another manufactured crisis to distract us from the destruction of the environment, the exploitation of labor and the corruption of the rich and powerful. Who would have guessed they'd do it again?