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ErosBlog@kinkyelephant.com ("ErosBlog Bacchus") wrote:

Folks, never miss a chance to reframe "Alligator Alcatraz" as "Alligator Auschwitz". Don't let MAGA yuck this one up in contested spaces.

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

This is a strong indicator that the app is worth your time.
https://mastodon.social/@austinkocher/114784753277343173

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mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

imagine what it's like to be someone that survived a Japanese internment camp in the USA watching the USA build new internment camps for housing "bad outsiders"

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lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E12
🎥 Episode: Landscape
🎬 Directed by: Ryūtarō Nakamura
📅 Release Date: September 21, 1998
⏯ Frame: 1283

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
abbynormative@mstdn.social ("Abby") wrote:

Hail O'sha!

#covid #WearAMask #CovidIsNotOver

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
seachanger@alaskan.social ("wet forest moon folklorist") wrote:

day 3 of city worker strike in philly

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/dc33-strike-afscme-union-philadelphia-parker-trash-20250701.html

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

I've been talking to GitHub and giving them feedback on their "create issues with Copilot" thing they have in the works.

Today I tested a version for them and using it I asked copilot to find and report a security problem in curl and make it sound terrifying.

In about ten seconds it had a 100-line description of a "catastrophic vulnerability" it was happy to create an issue for. Entirely made up of course, but sounded plausible.

Proved my point excellently.

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

This was an opportunistic capture from a hotel balcony, made with a small camera and 90mm lens. I made several exposures, waiting for good light, which came out briefly for this one.

The wrong gear is definitely better than nothing, but still not as good as the right gear. This is a perfectly acceptable image, but I can't look at it without wishing I had used a view camera, a higher resolution sensor, and a slightly longer lens. But if I had insisted on that, I'd have no image at all.

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

Marina, San Diego, 2012.

All the pixels, barnacles not included, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/8270972060

#photography

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
KathyReid@aus.social ("Kathy Reid") wrote:

Are you a top US-based scientist looking to relocate to #Australia?

The Australian Academy of #Science is now offering generous relocation packages and guaranteed #research funding.

https://www.science.org.au/news-and-events/news-and-media-releases/are-you-a-top-us-based-scientist-wanting-to-relocate-to-australia

#FediScience

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

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wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

Equitable Atmosphere Declaration

We, the undersigned, believe that:

1. All people must share equal rights and responsibilities to Earth’s atmosphere.
2. Failure to explicitly value atmospheric resources leads to overexploitation through accumulation of greenhouse gases; this failure is one of the root causes of climate change.

https://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/carl/climate/ead.html

#ClimateEmergency

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

In honor of their 10th anniversary, #AppleMusic made users an "All Time" playlist.

So here's all the songs I listed to the most (lol).

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/replay-all-time/pl.rp-OBC5A6zM4

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

cool, looks like I found all the pieces for my little (collapses to 65cm, so will fit in bike trailer, and expands to 6m) fiberglass antenna mast & guying kit. time to dig out a portable endfed HF antenna next, and look for a not-rainy evening to load up my bike with a rig & a battery and set up somewhere… perhaps near the Highland Park reservoir, so I can get some altitude.

#HamRadio 📡

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
nanochess ("Óscar Toledo G.") wrote:

I'm glad to say my port of Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death for Sega Master System is now available! #retro #retrogaming #SMS #sega https://collectorvision.com/games/sydneycodsms.php

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

Weird how that would happen when the CEO spent all his time alienating the core consumers for his company's product

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/business/tesla-reports-another-record-sales-plunge

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

I'm one of those old-fashioned professors who says "FUCK NO" to ChatGPT in the classroom.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/02/im-just-an-old-fuddy-duddy-i-guess/

https://skepchick.org/2025/07/study-chatgpt-is-bad-for-your-brain/

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MastodonEngineering ("Mastodon Engineering") wrote:

We just released Mastodon 4.3.9 and 4.2.22. They contain a number of important bug fixes, and one security-adjacent fix.

If you are running nightly versions, an updated container image is available under the `nightly.2025-07-02` tag

Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/

#mastoadmin

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

do you think they canned the CEO
https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114783900607405824

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
PronounsPage@tech.lgbt ("Pronouns.page") wrote:

For the fifth year in a row we've surveyed the language of nonbinary people who speak Polish – where avoiding gendering yourself and others is incredibly hard.

The resulting report is looooong… 😅

We're preparing a summary report in English 😉

Huge thanks to Szymon, Andrea and Tymoteusz!
https://zaimki.pl/blog/spis-2025

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

I have been using my imposed bed rest to watch Murderbot.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/02/murderbot/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
lash@social.coop ("AB") wrote:

"The critical work, then, lies in building power for people to secure their affordable housing, food, and dignity via a path that does not flow through an authoritarian strongman or the scapegoating of women, minorities, or immigrants.

And that trail will be blazed as it always has been: by workers’ unions, tenants’ unions, debtors’ unions, and similar groups."

https://hammerandhope.org/article/economic-anxiety-election-trump

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agatabednorz@dice.camp wrote:

Poor tortured knight Blanka.

I finally finished an illustration for my first #linocut attempt.
Stay tuned! :D

#dnd #ttrpg #dndart #dndcharacter #characterdesign #linoprint #mastoart

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

It's wild that an individual takes on the task to evaluate SD card performance. In a better world, you'd expect a tech news/reviews publisher would do something cool and useful like this:

https://www.bahjeez.com/the-great-microsd-card-survey/

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paoloredaelli@mastodon.uno ("Paolo Redaelli") wrote:

Tech Hobbyist Destroys 51 #MicroSD Cards To Build Ultimate #Performance Database - #Slashdot

https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/07/01/155208/tech-hobbyist-destroys-51-microsd-cards-to-build-ultimate-performance-database

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

Train verdict: the bed is uncomfortable, the toilet awkward, the folding sink a minor disaster, and I kind of never want to travel any other way again. Coach on the way back will be a letdown, even if it’s terrific relative to coach on airplanes.

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

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seachanger@alaskan.social ("wet forest moon folklorist") wrote:

the one thing i really implore, in the made up year of 2025, is that we don't sit around being continually surprised that things are falling apart. many of us did the math on this years ago and saw it coming, everything is proceeding according to the laws of physics and other sciences. you are not a deer caught in headlights, you are an animal with opposable thumbs and incredible agency on this planet. for fucks sake use your powers

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mntmn ("lucie lukas "minute" hartmann") wrote:

what if—hear me out—instead of building more ai we would build more nonsmoking third places with live underground electronic music bands