Mastodon Feed: Posts

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
romel_photo ("Romel.photo") wrote:

Minimal and shade “Umbrella’s vibe” #photography #streetphotography #cinematic #japan #streetphoto #shadow #dark #tokyo #minimalism #silhouette #street #fineart #fineartphotography

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

"A group of global civil society organizations have placed the US on a watchlist for urgent concern over the health of its civic society, alongside Turkey, Serbia, El Salvador, Indonesia and Kenya."
US placed on rights watchlist over health of its civil society under Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/30/us-civil-society-watchlist-trump

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk ("Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)") wrote:

Photographer Eric J. Smith captured a whale sneaking up on oblivious whale watchers.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
onepict@chaos.social ("Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:") wrote:

A very long overdue network for me to leave. It's been owned by Microsoft for a long time. It's corporate culture filled to the brim with AI slop is repellent.

But their bending of the knee to allow hate speech against transgender folks finally did it for me.

I've given the one month warning to folks who know me on LinkedIn.

If you're still on #LinkedIn perhaps consider leaving as well?

https://www.onepict.com/20250730-linkedin.html

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Sedimentary loading screens, appearing one after the other, as I journey to the center of the earth where reservation details are etched in the superheated rock of the lower mantle.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
inderix@booping.synth.download ("INDERIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!") wrote:

firefox
- can load reddit

chrome
- can load reddit

gnome web
- cant load reddit

winner: gnome web.

Boosted by jwz:
emmettoconnell@mas.to ("Emmett O'Connell") wrote:

A tsunami watch across the entire Pacific Northwest coast is a good reminder that if you're a public agency, you shouldn't be sending required comms via a social platform that requires people to log in.

Also that non-democracy destroying algormic social media exists and government can self host

Boosted by jwz:
r_flash@mastodon.r-flash.eu ("Adam P") wrote:

Making this took way longer than it should 😆 I had to make sense in the distorted coordinates in order to map the gradient to it such that it repeats every two revolutions.

Attachments:

• gifv: A colorful spiral made of hexagons spinning and zooming.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🌹"):
Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

🆕 blog! “I'm never going back to Matrix”

I should love Matrix. It is a decentralised, privacy preserving, multi-platform chat tool. Goodbye Slack and your ridiculous free limits. Adiós Discord and your weird gamification. Suck it IRC with your obscure syntax and faint stench of BO. WhatsApp and Telegram can stick their heads in a bucket of lukewarm sick and sing sea …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/im-never-going-back-to-matrix/
⸻
#foss #Matrix #OpenSource #rant

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

Well, I pulled it, but lol

https://mastodon.social/@bulbagarden/114940483723894719

Boosted by jwz:
eri@mk.moth.zone ("eri :floofMischief:") wrote:

hacker: i am spying on you through your webcam

linux user: omg you got it working?

Boosted by jwz:
nwsbayarea_bot@sfba.social ("NWS Bay Area (bot)") wrote:

#CAwx #MTR #graphicast
A Tsunami Advisory remains in effect for the California coast, including all coastal regions in the Bay Area and Central Coast, due to an 8.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka. Remember that a tsunami is a series of waves carrying a large mass of water. This will NOT be a single wave, and the first wave might not be the largest. Even if wave heights are low, dangerous and powerful currents are possibl

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ronikaufman@genart.social ("Roni Kaufman") wrote:

I made a typeface, it's called Flexflex 🔠

I've been working on this project on-and-off for many months. Very happy to finally release it!

Flexflex is a typeface that responds to spatial requirements rather than imposing them. Built on a modular system, each letter can fit inside any given rectangular container and transforms continuously if its ratio changes. In theory, it's infinitely flexible.

For more information and interactive demos, see the website: https://ronikaufman.github.io/flexflex

Attachments:

• gifv: Perfect loop animation, white background, thick black lines. The words "flex flex" shrink and grow in different combinations to show the flexibility of the typeface.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

Folks, they finally did it. They straight up wrote The Onion headline.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jonty@chaos.social ("Jonty Wareing") wrote:

Newspapers printing public keys for whistleblowers in every physical issue is cyberpunk AF

https://bsky.app/profile/lambda.bsky.social/post/3lv3wgvvbac2t

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:") wrote:

I'll be at #EuroBSDCon for the first time in, eight years? Nine, maybe?

Anyway. If you're one of the folks who's asked me to show up, I'll be teaching email and TLS.

Register at https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/registration.html

Why this year? Lots of gelato within walking distance, obvs.

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

Discourse, in their endless wisdom, decided to now include the discourse-ai plugin by default in their distribution, which isn't just.. you know.. AI bullshit - it's also adding a hard-dependency to the pgvector PostgreSQL extension - which isn't included in any default distribution, so they just threw a big fuck-you to everyone self-hosting it with their own database setup.

It's days like this where I keep questioning why I'm still running infrastructure for FOSS projects.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
unseenjapan@mstdn.jp ("Unseen Japan") wrote:

IMMEDIATE WARNING: A tsunami warning for waves up to 3m is in effect for Hokkaido and Honshu, with advisories for other areas of Japan due to an earthquake near Russia. If you are near the coasts, PLEASE LEAVE and seek higher ground inland.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/30/japan/kamchatka-earthquake-tsunami-advisory/

#japan #unseenjapan

Boosted by jwz:
nwsbayarea_bot@sfba.social ("NWS Bay Area (bot)") wrote:

#CAwx #MTR #graphicast
A Tsunami Watch is in effect for the California coast, including all coastal regions in the Bay Area and Central Coast, due to an 8.7 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka. People along the coast should stand by for further information. Estimated time of arrival is 12:15 AM on July 30 at Monterey and 12:40 AM on July 30 at San Francisco. Tsunami hazard zone maps are available at https://www.conservation.c

jwz wrote:

8.7 quake in Kamchatka, tsunami confirmed:
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureId=us6000qw60&extent=-85.85707,-40.78125&extent=85.83159,378.63281
https://ntwc.arh.noaa.gov/events/PAAQ/2025/07/29/t06p1k/2/WEAK51/WEAK51.txt

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

jwz wrote:

I agree with this message.
https://jwz.org/b/ykr-

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:

Don’t use substack. https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/114939115888742842

jwz wrote:

https://jwz.org/b/ykr8

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
miclgael@hachyderm.io ("Michael Gale") wrote:

https://url.town/

Here is a web directory. Better than a search engine because it is curated and browsable.

Find something cool or interesting. Go on, click it.

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

Japan says powerful quake has hit near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, issues a tsunami advisory

https://apnews.com/article/japan-russia-kamchatka-earthquake-tsunami-warning-a88cbe8a1e985cff54dc0ad849ea5ddb?utm%5Fsource=onesignal&utm%5Fmedium=push&utm%5Fcampaign=2025-07-29-Breaking+News

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

physics can be spooky

“The researchers confirmed quantum theory’s predictions: as more information about the light’s path was gleaned, the visibility of the interference pattern diminished”

https://news.ssbcrack.com/mit-physicists-confirm-einstein-was-wrong-in-new-double-slit-experiment/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

Anyway five stars to Holocene for titling their first album “Guitarbarella”. https://holoceneaustralia.bandcamp.com/album/guitarbarella

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
shauna@social.coop ("Shauna GM") wrote:

If you live in DC, there is an "Active Bystander Skills for ICE" training coming up tomorrow evening, hosted by Free DC and presented by an immigrant justice org. DM me for details if you want to attend.

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

“The music is three generations of loud removed from the last kind I knew how to dance to. Someday, the noise will grow so noisy that the next generation will have to start playing polkas and Mozart to rebel.”

Master Chief Warrant Casey in “Hammered” by Elizabeth Bear