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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
sutter@meemu.org ("Sutter") wrote:

Low-key lost it when I noticed the main image on the Wikipedia page for business casual attire is just an edit of the nude figures from the Pioneer plaque

Example of business casual, in masculine and feminine manner.

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

My upgrade bid to move from coach to a “roomette” on a Florida–Pennsylvania train trip tomorrow was accepted. (The return journey will remain in coach, but I’m less concerned about the timing on that one, so it’s probably okay. Famous last words.)

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
yawnbox@disobey.net (":rebel:") wrote:

i need to sell #Pokemon cards to pay for my master's degree. let me know if you're interested in #WOTC (base/jungle/fossil) #TCG cards

(i have 30 days to come up with 5,300 EUR)

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MAKS23 ("MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦") wrote:

🤔 A Russian soldier's reflashed smartwatch that visualizes information from an FPV drone detector and warns of their approach

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
newsthump@mastodon.online ("NewsThump") wrote:

How do you teach an entire nation about the Ship of Theseus thought experiment? You give it to Trigger, and you make it about a broom, obviously! Get the t-shirt here >>> https://shop.newsthump.com/product/triggers-brooms-t-shirt/?utm%5Fsource=Mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=image-post&utm%5Fcampaign=300625TriggerTee

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

I used to think that this thing was so advanced and complicated and that only super experts would understand it at all.

I even thought it was sort of mean that Boldport made it so hard!

Now I'm like "this is baby stuff"

This has happened with mathematics for me many times. But only a few times with electronics. I'm totally self-taught in electronics. My knowledge is hard won, my students get to learn these things much faster with my help.

But, that's what I love about teaching.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Swede1952@universeodon.com ("Swede’s Photographs") wrote:

Good morning. 🌻🌻🌻

30 June 2025

It's Monday, isn't it? I can tell—because it feels like a Monday morning, when everything you touch either fumbles or topples over like it's part of a prank show you didn’t sign up for. When I woke up, Charlie and I shuffled outside. I collapsed onto the bench by the back door and stared, zombie-like, into space. To be fair, I did all the stumbling; Charlie just tagged along in solidarity. The good news? I’m pretty sure I kept my mouth closed the whole time—and no drool, either. Victory! Positive thinking really does go a long way. I think I'll start calling this groggy state “morning head”—and no, I’m not talking about my hair, though I have that going on as well. Has anyone coined that phrase yet, or am I the trailblazer of brain fog? 🎶 This is how we start our day so early in the morning…

“Monday called. I hung up.” - unknown

"Doing nothing is very hard to do. You never know when you’re finished.” — Leslie Nielsen

#morning #flowers #Monday

"A sun-soaked cluster of black-eyed Susans—Rudbeckia hirta—bursts forward in this photograph like golden flames caught mid-dance. Each blossom is crowned with a rich, velvety center the color of dark roasted coffee beans, perfectly round and slightly raised. From these shadowy centers radiate silky yellow petals, slender and sunlit, with a gentle droop that gives each flower an expressive tilt—like they’re bowing to summer’s warmth or whispering secrets to the wind. The field behind them is awash in soft focus—lush green leaves blur into painterly smudges, and other flowers echo quietly from the background. The depth of field isolates the blossoms at the front, allowing their vivid hues to shine like nature’s exclamation points. It’s a frame full of motion even in stillness, where color and light conspire to make you feel the texture of sunlight itself. A small signature in the bottom right— © Swede’s Photographs”—adds a note of pride and authorship, gently tying the whole composition together like the final stroke of a painter’s brush." - Copilot

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

Today in History: "That" explosion in Siberia at 7:17 local time, 1908

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

Today in History: Albert Einstein publishes the theory of special relativity, 1905

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

Would watch

https://youtu.be/m08TxIsFTRI

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

As the month comes to a close, I’m making three personal donations to three important organizations:

1. The Trevor Project, to help sustain critical mental health services for trans youth

2. The Black Voters Matter Fund, to empower black voters at a time when voter oppression is on the rise

3. The Solve ME/CFS Initiative, in memory of Anne Sturdivant 🖤

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

iNaturalist is driven by human intelligence -- why would we want AI slop tainting our results?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/30/keep-your-ai-slop-out-of-my-scientific-tools/

Computer being contaminated by AI

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

A lot of guys on the internet seem to think that no one is paying attention, that no one will notice who they are or what they stand for, especially when they hop across various platforms. But it turns out that people can and do notice. Bigotry always shows.

https://social.lol/@isis/114772257472718393

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

I just realized that the guy who was casually trying to dismiss any concern related to a Nazi dogwhistle is a moderator of infosec.exchange. He went out of his way to draw attention to the “good uses of 88”. 😣

The entire thread is a wild display of denying the validity of a hateful dogwhistle. It’s gross and embarrassing. #fediblock

https://infosec.exchange/@cliffwade/114768383133157164

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

Learning to appreciate the privilege of simple mobility and basic health, since I've lost some of both.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/30/my-self-critique/

Scrawny pair of cartoon legs

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

apropos of nothing, this book cover

A book called Everything I don't like is woke, a book for basic dickheads. A boy in an orange jumper is pointing into a car engine saying this engine is woke.

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rolle@mementomori.social ("Roni Laukkarinen") wrote:

It's sad.

Artist: daniel.mokkies on Meta platforms.

#AI #Art #AIArt

A three people group gathered around magazine, book and a phone. Then: "Wow, so well written!", "Nice art!", "Amazing video!" Now: All asking at the same time: "IS THIS AI?"

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Boosted by jwz:
zbyte64@awful.systems wrote:

I had applied to a job and it screened me verbally with an AI bot. I find it strange talking to an AI bot that gives no indication of whether it is following what I am saying like a real human does with “uh huh” or what not. It asked me if I ever did Docker and I answered I transitioned a system to Docker. But I had done an awkward pause after the word transition so the AI bot congratulated me on my gender transition and it was on to the next question.

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Boosted by jwz:
Pikestreet@ohai.social ("Trickpaw") wrote:

There should be more obituaries like this, not less. No wonder they won't call out the scumbags actually walking around. #StarTribune #Strib

AC @wellgoshacs.bsky.soc... the Star Tribune just called me and told me they would not be publishing the obituary I wrote for my father as it is "unfair to him" and "in poor taste" so here it is and fuck the strib
Charles Dudley Krenz, 72, died from complications of bile duct cancer on May 29 at his home in Winston, Oregon. Charles spent the majority of his life making poor use out of every opportunity and privilege awarded him and attempting to make everyone around him as miserable as he was. Bright but lacking curiosity, confident but devoid of empathy, Charles was given second, third, even fourth chances throughout his life, but squande > them with a predictable consistency that borders on deliberate. At the time of his death, he had alienated himself from almost all who cared for him. Those people will not be surprised that there was no deathbed change of heart here. Chaz remained unpleasant until the very end.
Charles is preceded in death by his partner Jacquelyn Sullivan, whose warmth and good graces provided a reason for others to tolerate him for 27 years until her death from ovarian cancer in 2017. He is survived by his two children, AC Sullivan and Hank <van, who, in the years since their father sie a bunch of money from them and skipped town, have been both relieved and dismayed to learn that breaking generational curses only really takes a modicum of personal effort.

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Boosted by jwz:
streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:

Brickhenge! <3 Genius Art (10 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2025/06/30/genius-art-8-photos/

A playful arrangement of sidewalk bricks mimicking Stonehenge, placed around a small open pit next to a traffic cone on a city sidewalk.

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Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
tarakiyee@mastodon.online wrote:

75% of web traffic flows through Google's Chromium. Apple controls Safari. American companies control how billions access the web.

Building a competitive browser alternative: ~€50-70M annually, 3-4 years. @servo proves it's technically possible with a small team.

The challenge isn't technical, it's institutional: can democratic societies coordinate long-term tech projects?

Read more: https://tarakiyee.com/digital-sovereignty-in-practice-web-browsers-as-a-reality-check/
#DigitalSovereignty

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
abbiistabbii@blahaj.zone ("abbiistabbii :nya:") wrote:

OH SHIT IT'S THE LAST DAY OF PRIDE MONTH, QUICK BE AS GAY AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE!

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

Such a cool card. #pokemon

A colorful Alolan Raichu ex Pokémon card.

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

Have you heard!? Word on the Mastodon streets is that social.lol is a “toxic” place. :prami_distressed:

Don’t worry about the fact that the only people saying this are a bunch of techbros. (They have assured me that *they* know best.)

Anyway, I actually do agree: we definitely are toxic... to fascists! And to various other assholes.

But, you can be the judge. Anyone can spend some time on our local timeline (https://social.lol/public/local), if they dare, and see what they think. :prami_contented:

A graphic which reads “social.lol is toxic to fascists and various other assholes”. The social.lol part is pink and set in the omg.lol brand font, the word “toxic” is green and set in a drippy looking toxic waste sort of font, and the “fascists and various other assholes” part are set in a Blackletter-lookalike font in a red-to-yellow gradient. In the top left corner is Prami, the omg.lol logo, mouth agape in shock. Below that is the text “omg, lol! friendly geeks! and some queer people! so toxic!”. The upper right corner says “Did you know?”, and below that, the text “tech bros hate us!” appears. Below that, in the lower right corner, is another Prami logo vomiting.

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

Precisionism, a roughly century-old modernist American art movement related to cubism, is a strong influence here. Its practitioners included Joseph Stella, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Demuth. Paul Strand was probably the most prominent precisionist photographer.

Precisionism is concerned with structure and geometry as well as the relationship between humans, machines, and the industrial landscape.

I'm interested in how the precisionists might interpret the world as it's become today.

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

These (de-electrified) catenary wires were captured with a Sinar P camera and a 240mm lens on Polaroid 55 film (scanned) along the former Pennsylvania Railroad's "high line" in west Philadelphia near the university.

This abstract composition references a 1936 painting, "Electrification", by precisionist artist Ralston Crawford; see https://hirshhorn.si.edu//collection/artwork/?edanUrl=edanmdm:hmsg%5F72.75

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

De-electrification, Philadelphia, PA, 2005.

All the pixels, each with a tiny "high voltage" sign, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/2155416560/

#photography

Abstract photo of railroad catenary pylons and wires against an indistinct grey sky.

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
matlfb@mastodon.design ("Mathieu Lefebvre :cursor_move:") wrote:

After more than 2 years on mastodon.design, I’ve decided to move my account to social.lol.

One of the main reasons was the defederation of some instances, which cut me off from a lot of creators and designers I wanted to stay connected with.

Huge thanks to the mastodon.design team for hosting my account over the past two and a half years 🙏

This account will now redirect to @matlfb@social.lol— see you there 👋

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

This is an excellent podcast!

https://social.lol/@keenan/114768322787005273

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
hiro@social.lol ("Hiro") wrote:

You guys and gals aren't going to believe this—

A NEW HIRO REPORT⚡ DROPS TONIGHT!

A beautiful pencil, smart running shoes, a single use camera app, great indie apps, and more, all headed to an inbox near you!

Tell your friends (and nemeses) to sign up at:

https://subscribe.hiro.report