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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🌹"):
lexknowssystems@bots.converged.yt ("Lex knows systems") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
michi@wetdry.world ("Michi") wrote:

I'm never buying a UK-region iPod again.

#AlternateTimelineApple

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🌹"):
kiwix ("Kiwix") wrote:

This self-hosted knowledge aggregator would have made my student days so much easier

https://www.xda-developers.com/self-hosted-knowledge-aggregator-would-have-made-student-days-easier/

Boosted by jwz:
volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy ("David Roberts") wrote:

Arrested for asking to see a warrant. The fascism is here, y'all. What will you do when fascism comes to America? It's whatever you're doing.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zhcfq6acrvb6ermtjt644w2n/post/3luxa57nyxs2r

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Some ramblings on "The Small Web"
https://www.nfnitloop.com/blog/2025/07/smallweb/

#smallweb #smolweb

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
WestportObservatory@vmst.io ("Westport Observatory") wrote:

There's been a supernova and WAS astrophotographer Carl Lancaster has the before and after of this star blowing it's guts out into the universe, erupting in "nearby" galaxy NGC 7331, 40 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. Officially known as SN 2025rbs, it is a type 1A supernova, a type of supernova that occurs in binary systems in which one of the stars is a white dwarf. #SN2025rbs #Supernova #WestportAstronomicalSociety

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

oh lovely

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

Where They Never Say Your Name by Eilen Jewell

https://pandora.app.link/AUA0tVXimVb

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

All the Best by John Prine

https://pandora.app.link/NonnQCLimVb

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

Everybody Knows by Leonard Cohen

https://pandora.app.link/9ZTIuoShmVb

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

them damned dice

The Jailhouse Now (feat. Tim Blake Nelson) by The Soggy Bottom Boys

https://pandora.app.link/CbC9FZ8fmVb

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

I do think humanity's future is in space, but that's only because I don't know where else we'd put Earth. 🤔

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

Pack Up The Louie by Caro Emerald on LOUD

https://pandora.app.link/rmH0N2afmVb

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

ahhhhhh yazzzzzz

One Of Those Days by Eilen Jewell

https://pandora.app.link/y39BcYzemVb

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

Don't go jogging in the sun wearing a banana

The tan line is not as bad in the photo but it's VERY noticeable in real life 😭

#Selfie

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

Brian Lauer is an expert liar.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/27/i-missed-the-tccsa-debate-until-now-nothing-was-lost/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QzDQEGX8y0

Boosted by jwz:
gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz ("Greg Egan") wrote:

World’s least believable phishing email subject line:

Your Amazon Prime Membership has been cancelled.

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

Be sure to always call it please “research”.

https://bsky.app/profile/opalescentopal.bsky.social/post/3luxxx27nos23

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

A long time ago, we used to be friends...

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

“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”

RIP Tom Lehrer

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

one of my heroes has died, a light has gone out

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/arts/music/tom-lehrer-dead.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.Zk8.9mN8.lHtXVRK84lgX&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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ThisIsTrue ("Randy Cassingham") wrote:

Fossilized pizza from the late crustaceous period.

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

oh, well, tnx for the advice @CARROT

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

Pleased to announce that the third edition of my PL book, PLAI, is finally available on paper! Same price as it's been for 20 years (-:. Also made it available on Kindle EPUB, and a few other options. (Always free options, of course.) Enjoy!
https://www.plai.org/

jwz wrote:

The South Park thing.

There are many takes on it. This is mine. Formulated as a series of bullet points because they don't deserve better. All of these things can be true at the same time:
https://jwz.org/b/ykr5

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
SpindleyQ@gamemaking.social ("Spindley Q Frog") wrote:

came across COMFY-65 the other day, I forget how. https://oneofus.la/have-emacs-will-hack/files/sigcol04.pdf

It's a compile-to-6502 assembly language implemented in emacs lisp, with the main thing it provides over raw assembly being structured flow control. (of course you can just use lisp as a macro assembler too, that comes for free.) uses an extremely neat trick of emitting code _backwards_ so that it always has enough context to generate the most efficient branch instructions in a single pass. extremely my shit.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
dalias@hachyderm.io ("Cassandrich") wrote:

PSA: On stock mobile Firefox, you can bypass Mozilla's lockout of about:config using the alternate URL:

chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml

Note that "chrome" here has nothing to do with the Google browser. Google stole the name from what was previously the Mozilla-internal name for "browser UI components".

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

In 2007 Tom Lehrer put all of his music in the public domain.

https://tomlehrersongs.com/

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

RIP Tom Lehrer, a man whose music helped me see through political bullshit when I was just a kid as clearly as seeing the craters on the Moon through a brand new telescope.

Wikipedia has a bunch of great stories about him. This one was new to me:

In 2012, rapper 2 Chainz sampled Lehrer's song "The Old Dope Peddler", on his 2012 debut album, Based on a T.R.U. Story. In 2013, Lehrer said he was "very proud" to have his song sampled "literally sixty years after I recorded it". Lehrer went on to describe his official response to the request to use his song: "As sole copyright owner of 'The Old Dope Peddler', I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?"

Boosted by jwz:
mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

Right now there are hedge fund managers, CEOs, engineers, lawyers, marketing directors, and lobbyists meeting and drafting plans to make money building American Dachau. They have looked at what it costs to starve people, what regulations exist for dealing with bodies, how many people can share a mattress and if you even need mattresses. They have talked about sites, and probably have spoken to certain governors.

These people must not be allowed back into society when they are named.