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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Independence day. This year celebrating with a "twist".

#darktable

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

Here it is from a higher angle (just now, got a window seat for a change)

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:") wrote:

Happy Independence Day, everyone!

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
esoterra@hachyderm.io ("robin") wrote:

I'm curious about something. Please fill out this poll!

What hand do you consider your "dominant" hand generally?

What hand do you type the letter "b" with?

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Republicans just passed the most horrific and devastating piece of legislation in a generation, and establishment Democrats are spending their time attacking a fellow Democrat who doubled youth turnout and won the primary with historic numbers. Just Fantastic.

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

Brace yourself, Summer is coming.

#sun #retrocomputing #meme #imadethis

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org ("Chris Trottier") wrote:

I don’t want AI to go away.

I just want to run it on local storage with low power.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
godpod@universeodon.com ("God :verified:") wrote:

If your identity crumbles when someone else gets rights, it wasn’t much of an identity.

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

trying to track ‘young male voter’ sentiment through reddit (about 75% of users are 18-49 years old & most are male) threads is always an interesting experience. nobody posts to reddit without understanding There Will Be Snark (hopefully), but there is remarkably little argument in this thread.

https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/s/edPdOiPRZ0

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

> Steve Jobs was "one of the most disagreeable people in the history of humankind," and that was part of his genius, billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen said

The asshole thinks being an asshole is a hallmark of genius

https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-marc-andreessen-apple-elon-musk-disagreeable-genius-2025-7

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
JenniferJorgenson@mstdn.social ("Jennifer Jorgenson") wrote:

#Spain #house #Pic #pictures #picture #pics

jwz wrote:

I have two identical Macs running the same software and on *one* of them I had to put this in root's crontab:

@Reboot launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.dnalounge.mediamtx.plist

Computers were a mistake.

(Oh right I forgot you're not allowed to type ACTUAL AT SIGNS here.)

Computers were a mistake.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
irene@discuss.systems ("Irene Zhang") wrote:

Teen Vogue nails it again. The American empire (like all others) is built on hate and cruelty. We are simply watching it decline. Unfortunately, also like all other empires, it is going to kill a bunch of people on the way down. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-admin-american-history-indigenous-people

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

The first images from the Vera Rubin telescope. The numbers here are absolutely staggering. The images are incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPVcG8TZ8Wg

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

from @mattpd: "Bit Matrix Multiplication in Commodity Processors" 🤯

https://sci-hub.ru/https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4580146

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Cornellbox@a2mi.social ("Philip Proefrock, architect") wrote:

First I've heard of it: seems there's an aggregation thing called channel.org that is following accounts and collecting/redistributing posts on hashtag topics. (AMHIK)

Not sure what utility that brings over simple following the hashtag.

Newsmast is the org behind it; doesn't look sus on the surface.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
JuliusGoat ("A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆") wrote:

On my country's 249th birthday, I wrote about the problem of sharing a nation with millions of evil people, and how to live a human life in the face of overwhelming inhumanity.

Oh and the Beastie Boys make an appearance.

https://www.the-reframe.com/so-shines-a-good-deed-in-a-weary-world/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Merrick Garland will be remembered as the midwife to American fascism.

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

Guess who is in charge of telling American history for the 250th birthday?

PragerU.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/04/dreading-2026/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGG0BjXeIGE

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
phooky@hexa.club wrote:

Fedi, help me solve a fifty year old mystery. These are the dominoes from my childhood. They're wooden, but they have a very detailed pattern impressed in them. What kind of wood are these? And how did they manage to emboss such an elaborate pattern? (Scale: these are about 1" x 1/2")

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Catlynn@nerdculture.de ("squirrelygirl") wrote:

I’ve been wondering what to name this new hummingbird but than I realized it’s just my backyard hummingbird tricking me. I wondered why the new bird was so comfortable with me ☺️ The light is better in the front yard so it’s easier to see what a beauty he is. I have spent countless hours sitting with this little guy. The world can be crumbling and Little Bit goes about his business. I love his consistency 🤗

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
MLE_online@social.afront.org ("Emily Velasco") wrote:

Other than a few minor loose ends I need to take care of, i think my homemade ebike is, as they say, d-u-n-n, done

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

Wikipedia has a cheat sheet of well-known tells for identifying generated text. (With an appropriate warning not to over-index on minor ones as absolute proof) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject%5FAI%5FCleanup/AI%5Fcatchphrases

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
junebug@slime.global ("Perfect Butterfly Angel") wrote:

Everybody wants to make a game about running a small business when what we SHOULD be doing is making a game about running an office of public infrastructure. i don't WANT to spend every day "making money at my cute cozy shop" i want to run a cute cozy POST OFFICE or BUS STATION or WATER TREATMENT PLANT

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Business Man - Tom Cardy

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

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

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us.

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

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 Digaron lens and a bit of vertical shift. The afternoon light highlights the basic arched form of the bridge structure against the background and foreground foliage. A polarizer darkened the clear winter sky.

The Taft Bridge, named for the famously portly US president and SCOTUS chief justice, is the largest unreinforced concrete bridge in the world. Comprising seven major arches over Rock Creek Park, it links the Kalorama and Woodly Park neighborhoods.

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

Taft (Connecticut Avenue) Bridge, Washington, DC, 2019.

Bigger and heavier pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/49245011451

#photography

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

Herr Trump once again claims he does not know what he says is a racist slur

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/general/donald-trump-calls-bankers-shylocks-says-he-didn-t-know-it-was-considered-antisemitic/vi-AA1HYamm?ocid=BingNewsVerp#details