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

He’s going after schools, vaccinations, and vegetables. Trump must really care about winning over that all-important kindergarten demographic.

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keenan@social.lol ("Keenan") wrote:

It’s International Non-Binary People’s Day again!

A few years ago, I wrote about my experience realizing I’m non-binary.

https://gkeenan.co/avgb/they-and-me/

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

Woody Guthrie's original (home taped) 1951 recording of "Deportee" was recently found. Couldn't be more timely if it were written today. (And he was living in an apartment rented from Fred Trump at the time).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjlr-Rj9VwA&t=8s

#ThisMachineKillsFacists

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

This toot brought to you by a code review where there are no clear boundaries between interrupt context and non-interrupt context, with all the hilarity that you'd expect.

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

Look, I try to be inclusive and non-judgmental, but... It's just... How do I put this?... Some people aren't responsible enough to write interrupt service routines without supervision, okay?

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alanz@social.coop ("Alan Zimmerman") wrote:

@cstanhope openstreetmap basically does that, with various apps to let you update local features, which check you are in the area when doing it.

E.g. StreetComplete

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

I'm definitely going to delete this later lol. Also new essay soon! Ayeeeeee the one thing that brings me so much joy.

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

Something tells me to hang in there just a bit longer, that something is on the way. But I think I may just be fooling myself.

I'm a front end developer with executive experience and strong pattern recognition. I'm good at strategy. Writer. Comedian. That's a hodgepodge set of skills good where? Lol.

I know if I go back I won't forgive myself because I'm so close. I know that things can't stay the same either.

Ok thank you for coming to my soapbox

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

I think about going back to the corporate world. I was successful. I was a Vice President by 29. But it also ruined my mental and physical health. Again, opportunity came when I could least handle it.

Going back at 43 feels impossible. I don't mind take a job I'm overqualified for. I just don't know that I could fit in with the corporate crowd again. I'm not the same wide eyed boy looking to climb the corporate ladder.

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

Freelancing is volatile. Ups and downs; money never comes in steady. Lately, I've been scrapping by. It's been rough. But, I've also never been more prepared for opportunity. When my business really took off six years ago, I wasn't prepared. Now I'm prepared and it's just not happening like it needs to happen.

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

After freelancing for a decade—last April was officially 10 whole years—I don't know that I have it in me anymore. Chasing down payments, clients who use me as a get-out-of-trouble with their boss card, swallowing my pride, biting my tongue. Some days are just too much.

I need to vent I'm sorry I'm spamming your feed.

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

@loren we have a leucistic Fox sparrow that keeps returning each winter. I think it's his 3rd winter here.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
trevorflowers@machines.social ("Trevor Flowers") wrote:

Ok, this is an amazing story about prisoners of war building a lathe and then making crucial parts with it.
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/14/hacking-when-it-counts-diy-prosthetics-and-the-prison-camp-lathe/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

Los Angeles Daily News : "In a scene described as "barbaric"— some two dozen children with their hands chained were videotaped shuffling single file in ICE custody.

Jorge-Mario Cabrera of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles said that its attorneys had confirmed details posted with the video.

The attorneys contacted the children and planned to represent them—adding the children were not accompanied by their parents."

--Jeffrey St Clair

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/children-videotaped-handcuffed-in-federal-custody-in-la-it-s-barbaric-immigrant-rights-group-says/ar-AA1IuHiK

#ice #gestapo #fascism #immigration #trump #children #childabuse

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noisemakerbot@genart.social ("Noisemaker Bot") wrote:

magic-mashup vs. truchet-maze

Attachments:

• gifv: A chaotic mashup of several layered animations. Seed: 783

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
justdaveisfine@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Dave?") wrote:

#gamedev #indiedev

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loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:

ever wondered what it would be like to access Canada's cable TV network NABU from 1984 in 2025? wonder no mo'! some background on NABU from my book and pictures of today's explorations of the server files #othernetworks @mediaarchaeologylab https://loriemerson.net/2025/07/14/exploring-nabu-in-2025-a-canadian-cable-tv-network-from-1984/

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

No episode today -- and a bit of a dog days' hiatus for Oxide and Friends: @ahl and I will be back on August 4th!

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

Cosplay as the sort of author who loves to promote their work. Do that enough times, you won't have to pretend (as much).

Also, and concurrently, cosplay as a person who doesn't have imposter syndrome. Because: Hey! You wrote a whole book! An imposter can't do that! You're awesome!

RE: https://www.threads.com/@therevriley/post/DMEC222BFMQ

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

Look at the raw and primal sensuality on display here, you can't fake it, folks, but you *can* experience it

(This is me DJing a "nerd prom" dance, by the way, and yes, I have a side gig as a DJ, and yes, I am good at it, and yes, I understand the cognitive dissonance of a pear-shaped middle-aged science fiction author being a DJ on the side, that's part of what makes it fun)

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jococruise/post/DMGUcn%5Fxrt-

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

WHAT EXCELLENT BOILED POTATOES

IT HAS BEEN SOME TIME SINCE I HAVE ENJOYED SUCH AN EXEMPLARY VEGETABLE

RE: https://www.threads.com/@danaschwartzzz/post/DMFklgjxOP%5F

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

Which means there is some irony in me providing the link here.

Also, this is not wrong, in my anecdotal experience if I post a link to my own site from here and from Bluesky, Bsky has significantly higher per capita clickthrough.

Threads users still barely click links https://share.google/tubNJvLuudyM3QK7z

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dennyhenke@social.coop ("Beardy Star Stuff") wrote:

Like a lot of nerds I've always had a "Uses/My set-up" page on my site. I'm embarrassed that it hadn't occurred to me that I should also have the opposite. I've set up a "Boycotts" page where I've documented the details of the companies, products and in some cases, categories of products, that I avoid or refuse to buy because they cause harm to my fellow humans and planetary ecosystems.

Ethics should play a role in what we use.
#democracy #ethics #climate #technology
https://beardystarstuff.net/boycott.html

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

Anyway, we definitely need to destroy the monopoly on web searching and deploy some things not incentivized to capture all traffic in a mental tarpit of imaginary intelligence.

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

You know, web directories would probably work just fine at a local geographic level. Just have to make sure they are curated by actual human beings doing some basic fact checking. 🤔

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Viss wrote:

xkcd this morning has illustrated a concept i find myself in from time to time - "perhaps i made it a bit more complicated than it needed to be"

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

Shout out to #Google, who waits for your muscle memory to kick in then swaps the dismiss button so you accidentally click on the download app button.

They must be down bad, or Safari is really sticking it to them, if they're doing junk mobile game in-app ad tricks. What's next? Hide the close [x] button?

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

Union Square West between 16th and 17th Streets in Manhattan is home to five distinctive and variously historically significant narrow mid-rise buildings.

The quirky Decker Building (2nd from left, at 33 Union Square West) is now chiefly residential with a retail ground floor storefront. From 1967-1973 the building housed Andy Warhol's "Factory" studio, where, in 1968, he was famously and nearly fatally shot by an irate Valarie Solanas. The neighborhood was more colorful back then.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One XT IQ4-150 camera. 12mm vertical shift to maintain geometry.

This is a straightforward head-on single point perspective view of the facades of the varied buildings on this block just after sunrise. It took some time to line up the camera to be parallel to the faces of the buildings, once again making architectural photography be something of an exercise in surveying.

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

31-41 Union Square West, NYC 2024.

All the pixels, each famous for fifteen minutes, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53731622110/

#photography