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

sometimes one can just be in the wrong place at the wrong time

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IPXFong@mastodon.sdf.org ("Rafael") wrote:

And here's an article about how and why Albuquerque made public transportation free. #NewMexico

https://www.fastcompany.com/91372556/what-happened-when-albuquerque-made-riding-its-buses-free

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

“I don’t have to know an answer, I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn’t frighten me.”

— the ghost of Dr. Richard P. Feynman (in “Hammered” by Elizabeth Bear)

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elilla@transmom.love ("elilla&: flinta* cruising aachen public top") wrote:

porn games kicked out of itch, non-porn queer games brought down together as collateral, karada house deleted from instagram… the capitalist puritanism keeps accelerating as christofascism comes out of the closet… being overtly sexual and kinky was always a political act and is now more than ever, the fascists don't really want to eliminate sexualness or sex work, they want it hidden, marginalised, easily abusable outside of public life… it is by horny on main that we build safety and justice. horny on main is an insurrectionary act.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Capital@catlang.social ("and Null") wrote:

In addition to payment processing, our refusal to prohibit legal adult content makes it incredibly difficult for us to get certain types of insurance. (Like, more than one carrier has literally told us “we can’t write insurance for somebody falling and hurting themselves in your office because you won’t prohibit adult content on your servers.” Oh, fuck off!)

The fuck? That's utterly insane.

https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2025/07/27/a-quick-note-to-our-queer-members/

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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Meta did this? Mastodon gGmbH’s partner Meta at the Social Web Foundation?

But aren’t Mastodon gGmbH the good guys? I can’t see how they’d ever partner with Meta if this were true.

No, no, this must be fake news.

(Otherwise, what would it say about Mastodon gGmbH and the Social Web Foundation?)

https://socialwebfoundation.org/

#Meta #Mastodon #MastodonGGMBH #socialWebFoundation #fediverse #BigTech #capitalism #peopleFarming https://mamot.fr/@Khrys/114935241338278110

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

Anyway, #Webflow kind of gets a bad wrap. But it is a world-class builder for serious front end developers.

No matter what I build, I write my HTML, CSS, and JS in Webflow. I couldn't imagine going back to writing HTML long-hand.

They have the best exporter, and the code is well optimized. Building in webflow is a great experience.

The problem is, Webflow the company kind of sucks. They are vampires.

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

#Webflow has been down for almost a full day. What's more frustrating is me realizing how much of my day is spent in Webflow. I literally have nothing to do right now lmao.

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courtney@friend.camp ("Courtney Stanton") wrote:

Posting about this again - I'm running a 5k this Sunday to help raise money for UNRWA counselors for children in Gaza.

In Gaza, children are living through conditions no child should ever experience.

Witnessing things no human should ever see.

Without mental health care, those images don't fade. They traumatize. They rewire growing brains. They steals futures.

https://getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6486379?is%5Fnew=true

All donations and boosts appreciated. 🇵🇸

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calmeilles@mstdn.social ("Matthew Malthouse") wrote:

20 years ago and still…

#politics #FreeSpeech #internet #tech

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

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olivvybee@anarres.family ("Liv 🐝") wrote:

This is getting ridiculous now

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stevenf@merveilles.town ("Steven Frank") wrote:

It's not so much that Liquid Glass looks bad, which it does, but that without a doubt in my mind there were people in every department saying, look, maybe we shouldn't ship an OS where you can't read the text. And yet here we are anyway.

I know, the readability ship left the port a few versions ago -- my larger point: it's not the look that stings the most, but knowing that the expert people who understand and genuinely care about the human interaction problems have either already left or aren't being listened to.

Obviously this is an industry-wide plague, but it's most noticeable with Apple because, damn it, they used to be the best in the world at this and it's all so unnecessarily self-inflicted.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

Woke up to find that a main gigabit feeder cable had failed. This took considerable time to diagnose. It took much longer to switch to a 100Mb backup circuit that I left in place when I installed the 1G, on the theory that it could indeed be a backup but would likely never be needed.

Now all these years later, bringing up that circuit had the feeling of the direct line between the two planets fighting a computer-directed "virtual war" in the original Star Trek episode "Taste of Armageddon". Yeah, there's a line, but it hasn't been used in centuries.

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

truth!

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@rlonstein/114937641332831396

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ieure@retro.social ("yaml nitrate") wrote:

This is really neat: https://github.com/9001/copyparty

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grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Ever changing. #grickledoodle #life #troll #bridge #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR-Digiron-W (@ f/6.3) lens. Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50), Cambo WRS-5005 Camera (shifted vertically -22mm, pushing the limits of the lens). 16x9 crop.

This fire escape stairwell, retrofitted onto the back of Georgetown's Healy Hall, reminded me a bit of a Piet Mondrian painting. Hard afternoon shadows added to the abstract view.

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

Fire Escape, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 2025.

All the pixels, no need to escape from fire, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54481107849/

#photography

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

@hetzner Hey folks, having a bit of trouble reaching my server. The Hetzner control panel for it is stuck trying to set a new root password and everything is disabled so I can’t even shut the server down.

Opened a ticket yesterday but haven’t heard back yet. (Ticket #: 2025072803032261)

Would you be kind enough to look into it?

Thanks!

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TexasObserver@texasobserver.social ("Texas Observer") wrote:

Earlier: The ban on churches endorsing candidates is overwhelmingly supported by Americans. 77% of Americans surveyed oppose houses of worship endorsing political candidates and 67% say houses of worship should keep out of political matters altogether. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-irs-texas-churches-johnson-amendment/

#religion #Trump #IRS #politics #USpol #economy #news

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

A Las Vegas Festival Promised Ways to Cheat Death. Two Attendees Left Fighting for Their Lives.
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Authorities are investigating why two women fell ill at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival. They both received peptide injections, an alternative therapy promoted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a way to fight aging and chronic disease.
https://www.propublica.org/article/peptide-injections-raadfest-rfk-jr?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #LasVegas #RFKJr #Health #Aging #Medicine #Nevada

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Strandjunker@mstdn.social ("Andrea Junker :verified:") wrote:

Living with the permanent, legitimate fear that on any given day you could be slaughtered with an assault weapon isn’t freedom. It’s madness.

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

and here I thought Apollo was a fighter pilot

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

I'm about to turn into an accountant for a day. I hate it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/29/happy-day/

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nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

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

Too often I hear people in a business context refer to productivity or efficiency when it's clear from their other actions they're actually talking about conformity and compliance.

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blue@bigshoulders.city ("Thorley Walters") wrote:

I love that the earliest written example we have of old Irish is a 9th century poem written in the margins of a book by a monk-scribe that is an ode to his cat

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SuffolkLITLab@esq.social wrote:

TL;DR: Steam and itch.io have removed thousands of adult titles due to new strict rules from payment processors like MasterCard and Visa, following a campaign against harmful content. This move impacts a wide range of games, including award-winning titles, raising questions about content regulation in digital gaming. https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/jul/29/why-did-adult-titles-disappear-from-steam-itch-pc-gaming-payment-processors #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum

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

in the land of ‘an eye for an eye’, everyone ends up blind.

I have argued for more than a half century now that the US should stop military support to Israeli governments unwilling to seek a solution involving a Palestinian state. my arguments have fallen on deaf ears for more than a half century now.

I weep at what we have funded.