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mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

I’m gonna take my horse to the
Pink Pony Club
I’m gonna keep on dancing
’til I can’t no more

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

just what I need more of

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• video: 318e59d14230d492.mp4

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
tolmasky ("Francisco Tolmasky") wrote:

Fashion is the state an industry degrades to once all the available innovation has been exhausted.

It is the "white dwarf" conclusion for fields with insufficient justifiable change to provide an indefinite source of legitimate novelty. The term we use to identify the fields that defy this destiny is "technology".

If you want to understand Apple's insistence on a yearly update schedule, you must first understand that Apple no longer sees their software as *technology*, but rather as *fashion*.

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

@tknarr @jlundell The electoral college is simply not gerrymandering as the word is understood by literally everyone who uses it in a professional context. I’m done. I’m really not interested in arguing with people about the definitions of commonly understood words.

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

Happy Pride from DNA Lounge! Queer Joy is Resistance! We are open today for Indie Oasis, 18+ until roughly 8:30, and then we re-open for EDEN! Later!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/06-28.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #edensf #edenentertainmentgroup #hiphop #top40 #sanfrancisco

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ylegall@genart.social ("Yann Le Gall") wrote:

this was a fun exercise in various compositing and post processing effects in #houdini

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

Remember that salsa commercial that implied a dude would be hanged because he brought salsa made in New York City lmao what was that

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

@tobinbaker yup. These folks are remarkably enthusiastic about their fatalism. Almost as if their actual goals aren’t what they claim…

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

I know I must sound like some sort of humorless election fraud killjoy, but actual facts can sometimes matter, and knowing them can occasionally be adventageous.

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

@tknarr Gerrymandering isn't a factor in presidential elections. It's concerned with the boundaries of congressional districts and state legislative districts, which play no role in presidential elections.

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

Aside from the grift, the thing that boils my blood is that this nonsense robs attention and credibility from legitimately real vulnerabilities in US election infrastructure.

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

And - shockingly! - they need funds to continue their "investigation".

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

No, Im not going to link to it - it deserves no oxygen - but these "2024 election was rigged" clowns are taking EXACTLY the same bogus theories that were used to "prove" that Biden stole the 2020 election from Trump to "prove" that Trump stole the 2024 from Harris.

There's plenty we need to improve about election security in the US, but this stuff is just silly pseudostatistical bullshit.

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

This is an IR photo, made in afternoon light with a 1000nm filter and the Phase One Achromatic back. 1000nm is a fairly long IR wavelength, rendering a soft, surreal look. (IR photos are usually captured around 750-800nm). I used the Rodenstock 50mm HR-Digaron, which leaves the moon small in the frame but still recognizable.

This is (of course) a nod to Ansel Adams' "Moonrise, Hernandez, NM". But Adams' 1941 photo was made just after sunset, in the visible spectrum. See https://www.moma.org/collection/works/53904

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

Urban Moonrise, 2020.

All the pixels, no risk of sunburn, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/50083929243

#photography

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

♬️ INDIE OASIS: BIG GAY DAY PARTY at DNA Lounge today: Sat Jun 28, 3pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/06-28a.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #indieoasis #fringesf #indierock #indiepop #top40bangers #sanfrancisco

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MLNow@sfba.social ("Mission Local") wrote:

Oligarch takedown

At 18th and Guerrero Streets. Photo by Aífe Murray.

https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/sf-photos-oligarch-takedown/

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

it is in the fine print

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

H. Beam Piper was prescient

https://pubeurope.com/@uk/114755080268871522

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uk@pubeurope.com ("UK") wrote:

https://www.europesays.com/uk/218469/ How neurons power new biocomputing platforms built from living tissue as AI devours global resources #Computing #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
joshuajfriedman.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Joshua J. Friedman") wrote:

Just called Senator Gillibrand’s office to express how upset I was by her comments on the Brian Lehrer show the other day and got the impression from the tone of the person answering the phone that they’ve been getting a lot of calls like this

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
matlfb@social.lol ("Mathieu Lefebvre :prami_winky:") wrote:

Hey everyone! 👋

I’m Mathieu, a 24-year-old freelance UX/UI designer based in France.
I was on the mastodon.design instance for like 2 years, but I just made the move here to social.lol.

I’m really excited about the Fediverse and the way it brings people together across instances, no matter where their accounts live. It feels like the web as it should be 🌍

Big thanks to @adam for welcoming me to such a great server 🙏

Can't wait to connecting with you all! 😄

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
apps@toot.fedilab.app ("Fedilab Apps") wrote:

I've been working on Fedilab and few other open source projects since around 2017. It was a so good experience, having your feedback and your help. At the time I was financially comfortable and it helped me to spend time to develop useful software. But now, I am unfortunately facing some bad events in life. Each month started to be harder for me. I simply don't know how to ask you to help me financially. I have been accepting donations, but it has been to help the projects, not me personally.

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

#Bluesky is a libertarian manifesto masquerading as an apolitical platform, filled with centrists who think they're progressives, and funded by anarcho-capitalists who are really just neo-cons in Allbirds.

What's not to love?

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

No, I do not want to log into your site. No, I do not want notifications from you. No, I do not want to subscribe to your newsletter. No I do not want your cookies. No I do not want you to send me offers.

And when you wonder why I am taking my business elsewhere, this is why.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I don't know how recent this change is but I noticed #Firefox removed https:// from the address bar so now every link and every website I visit looks insecure. I know there is a padlock icon next to the address bar but it doesn't seem quite as easily scannable to me.

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
realsimon@mastodon.green ("Simon") wrote:

@denschub someone on here once joked about making something like a mumble server for people to scream into and calling it 'Void over IP', maybe look into that :P

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

where can I buy a new pocket void to scream into? mine is almost full

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genex@sfba.social ("gene x") wrote:

Activate the gay space lasers!!!! #pride

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audubonballroon ("Audubon Ballroon (he/him)") wrote:

#blackpeople #whitepeople #blackmastodon