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

Today marks the first day of Disability Pride Month. ♿️❤️ Nearly a decade ago, we had a pretty serious scare when our eye doctor found an issue with my daughter’s retina. While everything turned out (mostly) OK there, that episode kicked off a journey of deep learning related to blindness and Braille. I spent a lot of time at the American Printing House for the Blind (near where I live), learned to read Braille visually, got up to a halfway decent typing speed on a Perkins brailler, and put my nerd skills to use trying to build some interesting web stuff related to Braille. I’m going to try to dust a couple of those projects off this week and put them back on my website. (One is a Braille cell decoder, and the other is a virtual brailler, which is kind of fun to use!)

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Tijn@dosgame.club ("Martijn Frazer") wrote:

Holy crap the Stop Destroying Videogames European Citizens' Initiative is almost 75% there, while only a week or so a go it was stuck at 50% 🤯

We might make it after all!

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

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

This photo really pushes the limits of what you can do with 35mm format lenses, but I leaned in to the limitations and it worked out OK. I ended up switching to the Phase One system a few months later, which is much more flexible when you need view camera movements.

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

The Inquirer building also housed (until a few years before they moved) their printing plant, making it one of the last major dailies where it was at least theoretically possible for an editor to run downstairs and yell "stop the presses!" if a major story came in. But I'll bet that didn't actually happen very often.

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

This was captured with a DSLR and a 19mm shifting lens. There's a bit of barrel distortion from the lens, but I decided this image looked better uncorrected.

The Inquirer building, completed in 1924, to me evokes a cigar-chomping editor who calls everyone "kid" and who says things like "bring me back a scoop".

The building had been vacant for a few years when this photo was made, the paper having moved to cheaper and leaner facilities. It has since been repurposed as police headquarters.

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

Philadelphia Inquirer Building, Philadelphia, PA, 2017.

All the pixels, none of the ink on your hands, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/32309131520

#photography

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I wanted external live data updates (to my recent movies, books, and concerts) to trigger new builds of my static personal site. I had to do some troubleshooting to make that work, so I put together a little TIL https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/07/cascading-github-action-workflows-for-static-sites/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jaykuo@universeodon.com ("Jay Kuo") wrote:

They’re slashing without a thought or a plan beyond “Give the rich more tax breaks.”

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

So what. The damage is done. Your "regrets" are fucking useless at this point.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/young-men-who-elected-trump-just-realized-they-scrwed-up/

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

arguably, the Union was saved by General John Buford and his dusty cavalry acting as mounted infantry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FBuford

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

Today in History: Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863

"The first-day battle proceeded in three phases as combatants continued to arrive at the battlefield. In the morning, two brigades of Confederate Maj. Gen. Henry Heth's division (of Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill's Third Corps) were delayed by dismounted Union cavalrymen under Brig. Gen. John Buford. As infantry reinforcements arrived under Maj. Gen. John F. Reynolds of the Union I Corps, the Confederate assaults down the Chambersburg Pike were repulsed"

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

Now that summer is in full swing, you might need this Comprehensive Guide to Yellow Stripey Things, so you can tell harmless bumblebees (you can pet them!) from “asshole” yellow jackets. https://kottke.org/18/08/a-comprehensive-guide-to-yellow-stripey-things

jwz wrote:

See Something, Tap Something: ICEBlock is an innovative, completely anonymous crowdsourced platform that allows users to report Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity with just two taps on their phone. The app ensures user privacy by...
https://jwz.org/b/ykqb

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange ("Steve Bellovin") wrote:

The times they are a changin'…
As of today, I'm a professor emeritus at Columbia University. I've also moved to the DC area, where I'm a senior affiliate scholar at Georgetown University's Institute for Technology Law and Policy (yup, back together organizationally with @mattblaze after >20 years at different schools).

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

A brief escape from my confinement!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/01/i-saw-the-sunshine/

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MastodonEngineering ("Mastodon Engineering") wrote:

We just tagged the release candidate for Mastodon 4.4.0 for testing. Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.4.0-rc.1

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stroughtonsmith ("Steve Troughton-Smith") wrote:

So many of the YouTuber reviews of iPadOS 26 are 'wow, I didn't know these iPad apps had all of these features' upon seeing the menu bar.

Just enforces the point: a menu bar is an educational tool with discoverability built in, just as much as anything else.

I have very strong feelings about this, and it's why I think the menu bar should always be visible in iPad windowing mode

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

Major insurance changes are coming to GLP-1 drugs for weight loss. Here’s how that could affect patients
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/health/zepbound-wegovy-insurance-cvs-bcbs-weight-loss?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Health and Wellness @health-and-wellness-CNN

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social ("Imogen") wrote:

@jsonstein

https://youtu.be/XcQ7G665dpc?si=256iya9atWeA9kOi

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

Ayy, @robb has already added it to the official Slash Pages directory! 🤩 https://slashpages.net/#community

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

I feel like this is such an easy page to make that it should be a standard thing for any community. I blogged a little more about it here: https://omglol.news/2025/07/01/community-txt

Our own community.txt page can also be found at https://omg.lol/community.txt, or even https://omg.lol/community, but I think the most important change I made was linking to it on our landing page. Transparency is important, and no one should have to go on a scavenger hunt just to learn that you’re not going to be welcome here if you use “woke” as an insult. 😄

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

I realized earlier that we have a bunch of great pages in the omg.lol Info Center, but we were missing something that clearly spelled out what our community is, who it’s for, what our values are, and things like that. The kind of stuff that someone might want to know if they were trying to figure out whether they’d feel welcome here.

So, I made a page for it! https://home.omg.lol/info/community

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knwmoon@mastodon.online wrote:

@cpi
At the very minimum, ICE agents should have to start every shift by walking through a gauntlet of family and neighbors yelling “Shame! Shame! Shame!” while flinging dung and stones.
And they should have to do it barefoot and on fire.

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cpi wrote:

It is a testament to the apathy and incompetence of the American population that ICE agents don't awake in increasingly complex SAW traps

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Second day of my home office week.. I’ve already overslept and can’t really focus.. I hate to admit it, but I sometimes need the pressure of being perceived by co-workers to get shit done.. 🫠

#JustADHDthings

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donni ("donni saphire") wrote:

I try to be optimistic, but sometimes I encounter facts

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

Drink Special @ Death Guild: IMAGINE BOOT SO BIG WE MUST LICK IT BEFORE IT EXISTS: Aviation Gin, Soda, Splash of Peychaud's Bitters, Lime.

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

Drink Special @ Hubba Hubba Revue: NEVER FORGET ELON'S BLACK EYE: Bulleit Bourbon, Vermouth, Lemon, Grenadine, Orange Bitters.

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
JamesHeady@caneandable.social wrote:

To those who say that it’s not good to lose one’s vision and to go blind, I would ask you seriously to sit and ask yourself why you have these Ableist and toxic assumptions. Talk like that is what causes if not perpetuates problems with which us Blind people have to deal.

#Cure Ableism, Not Disability!!!

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jinx@social.lol ("Jinx :verified_paw:") wrote:

😱 the vet