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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
UP8 ("Paul Houle") wrote:

📡 Affordable, room-temperature maser created using LED technology

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-room-temperature-maser-technology.html

#technology #maser #sensors #electronics

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

Stay calm and install solar panels.

Stay calm and install heat pumps.

Stay calm and build a Homelab to keep your data at home.

Stay calm and help your neighbours.

Stay calm and read the news but understand your anger on things you cannot change is wasted energy.

Stay calm and care about your direct environment where you can change things.

You are not alone. Many people around you are doing this already.

#StoicLife

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dustcircle ("Steve Dustcircle 🌹") wrote:

#AmateurRadio Helps Locate #Missing #MotherandSon

https://www.arrl.org/news/view/amateur-radio-helps-locate-missing-mother-and-son

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

"Two sexes," they say. "Any others are unnatural"

MUSHROOMS: but we have 17,000 sexes. Whoops sorry just discovered another one. Make that 17,001.

"The female of the species," they proclaim, "is the one that carries the fetus to term. Males can't get pregnant. It's unnatural."

SEAHORSES: but our males do.

"It's so simple," they declare, a little nervously, "If you were born with a penis, you're a male. Boom."

SPOTTED HYENA: but our females have penises.

"If you were born with a vaginal canal, you're a girl," they scream. "If you weren't, you aren't. End of story."

TURTLES: but our males are. and they can even breathe through them.

"Biological sex can't be changed," they shriek, self-righteously."That's just science".

CLOWNFISH: but we do it all the time

"You can pretend to be a gender you weren't born as, they gasp, assuring themselves that surely this time they will emerge victorious, "animals can't just up and change their chromosomes. That's common sense."

BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS: but we can. explosive chromosomal macroevolution is literally a part of our lifecycle.

"But chromosomes determine biologi-"

BEARDED DRAGONS: ours are determined by the weather

"But the Bible says male and female he made th-"

BLUEHEADED WRASSE: all of us are born female

"But you can't just wake up one day and deci-"

GROUPER (MALE): we literally do.

"But gender isn't flui-"

GROUPER (MALE): sometimes we change back

"But you can't just pick what gender you're going to be on any given day!" They shriek, "It doesn't work that way!!"

GROUPER (FEMALE): ahem

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
amoroso@oldbytes.space ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

ANSI Escape Codes is a suite of online tools for inspecting, visualizing, and listing ANSI control codes and the way they render. Useful for BBSes, emulation, TUIs, and retrocomputing.

https://ansi.tools

#ansi #tools

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
RikerGoogling@mas.to ("Riker Googling") wrote:

get cat out of warp core

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bascule@mas.to ("Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀") wrote:

Don't Look Up called it: during one of the hottest summers on record which has been beset by natural disaster after natural disaster, all with an associated death toll:

Trump's EPA now says greenhouse gases don't endanger people

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/24/nx-s1-5302162/climate-change-trump-epa

#uspol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
solownh@mstdn.party ("sOlOw-NH") wrote:

GOP now stands for Guardians of Pedophiles

"Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump condemned questions about disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein as 'sort of a witch hunt'”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/22/nation/trump-attacks-obama-clinton-questions-epstein/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

Gavin Newsom is showing everyone how it’s done.

Boosted by jwz:
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

holy crap, I just realized:

I ignored the metaverse and inevitably ended up completely left behind! :blobcatscared:

Boosted by jwz:
mhoye wrote:

You might think that in a sane world, cutting staff to pay for rapidly-depreciating, rapidly-commodifying hardware would be an investor-legible signal that something had gone horribly amiss at the top, but that signal is only meaningful if what these companies make actually mattered to its investors. What really matters is "The Market" as a performative exercise for major shareholders, not a signal someone is making useful goods or services anyone wants. That idea is just a polite fiction now.

bendingoutward wrote:

It's about 01:20 local time Sunday morning. Currently sitting in a coin laundry with an attached convenience store. I've learned a few things.

1. CLEARLY I know how to party.
2. If there was a coin laundry with a full service bar, I know where I'd be.
3. I now know how I'm spending my first chunk of surplus cash.

Boosted by jwz:
kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sedatious Hat") wrote:

Contrary to popular belief you don’t have to be a pedo to be an elected Republican, but it obviously doesn’t hurt

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e7gbntp2tzobn7cfi37viei3/post/3luvsdnpd7c2v

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

One of my favorite songs I like to visit from time to time (and they really managed an excellent music video). "20 Minutes of Oxygen" from The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11yPWeBYqQc

("If I had the brains..." often plays in my head when I'm trying to figure things out. That and "If I only had a brain..." from Wizard of Oz.)

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Just released another batch of updates.

* Use Google's Noto font for text, emoji, & CJK fonts.
* SVG button icons. (OK, only one so far. More to come.)
* A fancy new flexbox-ish layout thanks to egui_flex. (Not a big user-facing feature but this'll let me iterate on some upcoming designs more quickly.)

If anybody uses this, let me know how it works for you! Feel free to open feature requests on GitHub:
https://github.com/NfNitLoop/egemi

#gemini #geminiprotocol #smallweb #indieweb #rust #egui

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
h_thoreson@mastodon.world ("hannah") wrote:

I only threw this Dubai matcha latte for you <3 https://on.soundcloud.com/aozMpzjSVhpfyPQWXI

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
staff ("Mastodon.social Staff") wrote:

We're as frustrated as everyone else with these phishing attacks. mastodon.social had new sign-ups in approval mode this week to limit the impact, but offenders targeted other instances and compromised existing accounts. We take the problem very seriously; we're suspending and blocking as quickly as possible, as well as actively working on countermeasures.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
staff ("Mastodon.social Staff") wrote:

Please report any account that claims that you need to verify your #Mastodon account to continue using it. It is a scam. Don't click the links. Real staff accounts either have a special role badge on their profile or are verified through the joinmastodon.org domain.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

*muffled meow*

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

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

lol just spent 45 minutes debugging a uv issue and... it was an actual bug that they fixed this week! gotta remember to `uv self update` first next time

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

The Emperor has no clothes lmao

#SouthPark

https://youtu.be/Afetnw70S04

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

@fromjason

The #American immigration system has been broken—by design—for generations.

ICE is the pointy edges of the systemic shards.

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

This is just my two cents. I haven't seen many folks speak on this specifically. I'm hoping more see this problem— we are debating on their terms and their framing. In doing so, we are inadvertently erasing #Latinos from our discourse and news coverage.

#ICE

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

#ICE is an organization that hunts down and captures #Latinos— brown, unassimilated, and yes, many happen to be #Immigrants. However, #immigration is just the cover story; it's a justification.

We should not be fooled into spreading the narrative that ICE is an immigration enforcement agency. It's a Keep This Country White agency.

When we say “immigrants” when we mean “Latinos” (or #LatinX, #Latine) we are playing their game.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!") wrote:

It has been zero days....

https://www.christianpost.com/news/jason-yates-pleads-guilty-to-child-porn-possession.html

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/ex-tsa-explosive-specialist-arrested-on-child-porn-charges-again-miami-police/3664622/

#NotADragQueen #pedophilia #GOP #MAGA

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
splendorr ("nina splendorr ✨🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

In Action Comics #20, Superman is introduced as:

SAVIOR OF THE HELPLESS AND OPPRESSED

it’s heartbreaking how many people have been convinced that helping others

(aka “being woke”)

is somehow worthy of derision?!?

you fools! cowards! trained parrots repeating gleeful lies!

Superman hates you

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

The Moderator’s Credo

https://social.lol/@adam/114920660056381171

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

As federal immigration agents attacked a U.S. citizen, they warned him:
“You’ve got no rights here.”

What began as a simple traffic stop for Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, an 18-year-old Floridian, in May,
turned into a traumatizing arrest when U.S. Customs and Border Protection arrived at the scene.

Alongside his mother and two undocumented male companions,
Laynez-Ambrosio was laughed at, ridiculed, and violently detained by a group of officers,
according to video footage secretly captured by the teenager,
first reported on by The Guardian.

“Wait, hold up,” Laynez-Ambrosio said when agents opened the door of their company work van.

“You guys have no rights to do that.” “We don’t have rights to do that?” one agent said, laughing.

The video footage, panning upward,
then shows the border patrol agents restraining one individual in a chokehold.

All three men were forced out of their vehicle and onto the ground.

As another companion is manhandled by three officers in tactical gear, the sound of a stun gun is heard going off,
sending the man crashing onto the floor as he cries and shakes in agony.

“You can’t be doing that,” Laynez-Ambrosio said.

“Get on the ground,” an officer screams at him.

“I’m not going to get up, I’m going to just stay like this,” Laynez-Ambrosio responds.

“Y’all scaring the dude.… I’ve got rights to talk.”

“You’ve got no rights here.
You’re a migo, brother,”
an agent told Laynez-Ambrosio.

“I do,” Laynez-Ambrosio insisted. “I was born and raised here.”

In the aftermath of the violence, the ICE agents can be heard laughing and making light of the pain they inflicted on their arrestees, referring to the Taser use as “funny,” and insulting its target as a “dick.”

“You can smell that … $30,000 bonus,” said another officer.

Later, the officers can be heard claiming that more individuals have started to resist their arrests,
anticipating even more extreme uses of force in future.

“We’re going to end up shooting some of them,” an agent said,
referencing Laynez-Ambrosio’s attempts to assert his rights.

“This kid goes like … ‘No, you can’t do that’;
I’m not doing shit.
We told you already to get out,
you either get out or I’m going to pull you out.”

Federal authorities have been tasked
by White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller
to arrest 3,000 undocumented immigrants per day
—but actually doing so has forced the agency to seek out immigrants that the administration did not advertise targeting,
such as noncriminals
and even lawful residents possessing visas or green cards.

So far this year,
ICE agents have been caught interrogating children,
deporting U.S. citizens,
and stuffing uncharged prisoners into America’s very own concentration camp.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198468/immigration-agents-laugh-us-citizen-records-arrest

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

I am cautiously optimistic that this summer's #COVID19 surge may be quite modest. It's getting off to a very slow start, and there's some evidence that it may not peak at a high level. Looking at Florida as a bellwether (since it surged faster and higher than other states in July):

- COVID may already have peaked. (That uptick in the last day of data is preliminary.)
- And, historically, it peaked at a quite low level.

If other states follow suit, this might be the lowest summer surge yet. 1/2