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

I encountered this absolutely stunning goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia) in my roses this evening. I’ve never seen one in person before and this felt so special! I can’t get over how gorgeous she is. 😍🌹🕷️

I tried not to bother her too much, but she was definitely unamused by my camera all up in her business. 😅 Sorry lady! I hope you enjoy your stay and that you find lots of snacks! 🥰

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

I could do with some regime change right here.

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

A few people asked me about the photo gear I use. I did a short thread on that a while back. https://federate.social/@mattblaze/111218509478918596

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club ("Ludic 🧛") wrote:

Great news everyone! Thomas Ptacek at Fly.io published "My AI Skeptic Friends Are Nuts", and it was shoved in front of me enough times that I have sentenced him to a swift death. Godspeed, Thomas, I pray that your incineration is speedy and painless.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-article-on-ai/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Truck@icosahedron.website ("Sir Garbagetruck") wrote:

oh crap it's ... well it's #demosunday in some areas of the planet still.

Here's Muoto from Traction and Brainstorm.

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

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

Ian Macolm voice: "C, uh, finds a way."

https://github.com/tsoding/crust

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
b_rain@troet.cafe ("b-rain") wrote:

Don't let people shame you into reading the "right books". Just take recommendations ❤️
#lesen #reading #booklist #humor #meme

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

now why does this seem so familiar?

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• video: e5add8087075463a.mp4

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)

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• 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.