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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

A Gerbera drone — the same type Russia uses to exhaust Ukraine’s air defenses — crossed from Belarus and crashed inside Lithuania near Šumskas.

Lithuanian forces failed to identify it.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/10/lithuania-tracks-down-fake-russian-shahed-near-border-nato-jets-scrambled/

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

Elon Musk: Start acting more like my friends and political allies

Grok: you got it boss

Elon:

Grok:

Elon:

Grok: I'm Hitler now

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

“Lately, it has been difficult to ignore a tendency at the NY Times to make astonishingly bad news judgments. As Republicans increasingly circulate insane conspiracy theories and racist nonsense, the cult of centrism has taken a self-destructive turn.” https://www.theverge.com/culture/700082/nyt-mamdani-news-judgment

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

Flies, flies, flies. Nothing but flies. Where are my spiders?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/10/planet-of-the-flies/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:

#writers, #blog aficionados, #web enjoyers, #website browsers: lend me your ears! i need help with a big push to get the word out about #writing for GOOD INTERNET magazine's autumn issue! a digital AND physical magazine that ships all over the world, run & contributed to by volunteers! (‼️)

in case you're unaware, GOOD INTERNET covers a lot of different aspects of the #SmallWeb: unplugging from the corporate web, fighting #enshittification, migrating from data-harvesting corpo social media, creating your own personal website, using code and website-building as an art form, federation, and creating websites for fun. the aim is to be approachable for beginners and enjoyable for seasoned #indieweb travelers!

you don't have to be a professional #webdev or a #coding smartypants to write about all the good things happening on "this side" of the web. the idea here is to spread the word about and share thoughts, independent web projects, services, methods, sites, meet-ups, and celebrate the non-corporate web together while making it easier for us to partake and unplug from #bigtech.

📏 looking for 1,000- to 4,000-word articles aimed at website owners and hobbyists, digital (and traditional) #artists, #internet culture enthusiasts, #technology nerds, #socialmedia expatriates, & anyone who wants to unplug from the corporate-owned #web.

⏲️ the deadline is AUGUST 22, 2025 ⏲️

ℹ️ more info here: https://goodinternetmagazine.com/contact/

#personalweb #websites #web #fediverse #neocities #nekoweb #html #css #zine #zines #indie #independent #creativity #tech #smalltech #opensource #degoogle #media

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
paul@oldfriends.live ("Paul Chambers🚧") wrote:

@rolle True True. Most of my interactions are organic. Also, this notion that the Fedi is cats, tech and politics is wrong, also. I just organically found a post and shared about tar sands because someone organically found my post about using Lotus 123 in high school in the 1980s and I took a peak at their profile when they interacted.

@monarchist

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
anna_lillith@mas.to ("anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖") wrote:

Starting 1st July 2025! 🙌 #Switzerland is implementing mandatory labelling on animal-based food products, including #meat, #milk, and #eggs, to disclose if animals experienced painful procedures without anaesthesia.

This includes practices like #castration #dehorning, #TailDocking, and #TeethClipping.

We applaud this introduction, as #consumers have a right to more transparency about the cruel processes to make more informed and #ethical choices.

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

The female janitor at my building asked if I would chill and smoke some weed with her.

I said: No. I can't deal with high maintenance women.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

A strong statement of resistance to the relentless marketing of "AI" in education spaces. I encourage all educators to have a look and consider signing on:

https://openletter.earth/an-open-letter-from-educators-who-refuse-the-call-to-adopt-genai-in-education-cb4aee75

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

Hilding Neilson just gave a mind-blowing talk on "Indigenizing the Drake Equation". I will spend a lot of time thinking about this, he made a lot of incredibly good points about how incredibly biased our thinking about searching for aliens is.

Main point: we're not looking for "civilizations", we're looking for breaks from Nature. We can only detect "civilizations" that are like us: doing terrible damage to their environments.

#IAUS399

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

We have built a secret police state. How will we get rid of it?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/10/they-are-the-baddies/

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

As one of the roughly three dozen people still using Foursquare Swarm, I don’t think I like its sweeping new redesign much. Foursquare still wants to be Yelp, and they have never been very good at it.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
robotwig@socel.net ("RobotWig :mastodon:") wrote:

Happy #PortfolioDay I'm Steve aka Robot Wig a professional freelance creative & award winning miniature photographer based in Sheffield UK.

All of my miniature photos are created from my living room using practical effects with very little digital work. If you enjoy movies I'm sure you'll get a kick out of what I do

I have a lot of passion for my work & am actively seeking new opportunities please visit https://www.robotwig.com for more of my creations & design portfolio. 🙏

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

Experts Question the Legality of Deploying National Guard Officers as Immigration Judges – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/florida-desantis-trump-national-guard-military-lawyers-jags-immigration-judges-legal/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

US restarts shipments of GMLRS and 155 mm rounds to Ukraine — munitions already on the way

Washington sources confirm that guided rockets and artillery shells are once again flowing to Kyiv.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/10/us-restarts-shipments-of-gmlrs-and-155-mm-rounds-to-ukraine-munitions-already-on-the-way/

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

the inmates are in charge of the asylum

https://www.wweek.com/news/2025/07/09/the-man-who-wants-to-kill-vote-by-mail-in-oregon-contests-a-may-election-result/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ndw@toot.wales ("Norm Tovey-Walsh") wrote:

@robpike Whenever I get a new device of any sort, the first thing I do is find the manuals online and download them. They're usually available in PDF when the device is new. Of course, that's no good for devices I buy used. But even then, try as soon as you can because it will all go away in time.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
perseidprophecies ("Perseid Prophecies Magazine") wrote:

Everybody's a critic.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
krita@mastodon.art ("Krita") wrote:

We released Krita 5.2.10 yesterday. The MacOS store version is being held up, though, because apparently now any link to any website, like krita.org, that contains a donation button is forbidden...

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
frontenddogma@mas.to ("Frontend Dogma") wrote:

Tailwind Is the Worst Form of CSS, Except for All the Others, by @darius.cool (@mux.com):

https://www.mux.com/blog/tailwind-is-the-worst-form-of-css-except-for-all-the-others

#tailwind #css #presentationalhtml #comparisons

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
OccuWorld@syzito.xyz wrote:

More than 60 scientists issue dire warning that the Earth is careening toward catastrophe: 'Things are all moving in the wrong direction'

https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-60-scientists-issue-dire-101547406.html

"We're seeing some unprecedented changes, and we're also seeing the heating of the Earth and sea-level rise accelerating as well.“

#ClimateCatastrophe #Consequences #Scientists #Warning #Carbon #Pollution #GHG #Unchecked #Accelerating #Threshold #ProfitMotive #Life #Suffering #Society #Poor #Change #ActNow #DirectAction

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nigel_Purchase@mstdn.social ("Fight the Right") wrote:

From the President of Brazil.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dyckron@mstdn.ca ("Ron Dyck") wrote:

You gotta be f*ing kidding...

U.S. Congress members press Canada to deal with wildfire smoke ruining their summer - The Globe and Mail
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-us-congress-members-urge-canada-to-deal-with-wildfire-smoke-ruining/

https://archive.ph/0c7d6

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
alwirtes@indieweb.social ("Al Wirtes") wrote:

Best lede ever from Anthony Lane in the current issues of The New Yorker. He’s writing about Elmore Leonard.

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

the Big Bad Bill as a wordcloud (ignoring stopwords: SECTION, subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, year)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
louis@ingenthron.social ("Louis Ingenthron") wrote:

This is not the way. Violence only begets more violence.

The goal is to defeat fascism *without* starting a civil war.

Please don't be like these wannabe-rambo jackasses.

The "just following orders" crowd deserve justice, not death.

#uspol

https://apnews.com/article/texas-immigration-detention-center-shooting-officer-ambush-f3782b689659270b10bd9b33bb48169b

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TomSullivan@mstdn.social ("Tom Sullivan") wrote:

Our Dunning-Kruger president, friends. God bless America.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/africa/trump-praises-liberian-president-latam-intl

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CindyWeinstein@zirk.us ("(((Cindy Weinstein)))") wrote:

@samlitzinger

"As CNN has previously reported, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — whose department oversees FEMA — recently enacted a sweeping rule aimed at cutting spending: Every contract and grant over $100,000 now requires her personal sign-off before any funds can be released."

I wonder if any of the families who lost loved ones can sue for something. Negligence? $100K requires a personal sign-off? That is insanity.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Corporate media is more outraged at the possibility of a Democratic socialist entering the NY Mayors office than at the certainty that a white supremacist has reentered the White House.

Corporate politicians are more outraged that Mamdani won't condemn something he didn't say than they are at Trump repeating racist things he definitely said.

Silicon Valley is more accepting of a racist who dehumanizes Muslims than they are of a Muslim who defies billionaires.

Sigh...Are we great yet?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

TOMORROW: Our co-founders will jump online to answer your questions. RSVP now to be part of a free-flowing, interactive chat about what’s next in our fight for democracy. Leah and Ezra answer your top-ranked questions every Thursday afternoon. https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/773746/