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Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

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

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

I have just discovered that one of my important admin tasks will have to be totally re-done because apparently I only did it in a dream and not in reality.

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

If you've had cancer and it's in remission, avoid another #COVID infection.

STUDY: "Based on the 128 cancer-related deaths as an outcome, we estimated a nearly twofold increase in cancer mortality in those who tested positive compared with those who tested negative (odds ratio, 1.85; 95% CI: 1.14–3.02)."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09332-0

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
FinalGirl@blackqueer.life ("More boobs than brains") wrote:

Hey if you are seeing the news about radioactive wasp nests, let me give you some professionally informed context, @Rooster -style.

The site is called The Savannah River Site. It is a large facility where many different technologies were manufactured, both manufacture scale and experimental. The bomb-making they talk about ranges from traditional ordinance to nuclear weapons. There’s also a nuclear reactor there.

I was trained as a “contaminant fate and transport hydrogeologist,” which is a fancy way of saying I study how chemicals (contaminants) change (fate) as they move (transport) through groundwater (hydro-) and unsaturated soils (-geologist).

Much of my early study and training was done on the Savannah River Site, partly because one of my advisors happened to be a bigwig in the federal remediation of the site. So I know more about the site that, well probably most people. I say that all as a way to provide context and give you a full and detailed story to help you appreciate it when I say if radioactive wasps are the only thing we find there, then we dodged a bullet that, trust me, was not traditional ordinance.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

What they need to do, and as any follower of Monsterdon knows, is to stage a local social event hosting an abnormal amount of blonde children and that should draw out any radioactive animal mutants...

https://apnews.com/article/radioactive-wasp-nest-savannah-river-site-701e791404f73f1ba7720ac3637977d6

#Monsterdon #Wasps #Radiation

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HollyCo26588808@universeodon.com wrote:

Lost kitten who boarded a NYC subway has gotten herself adopted

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/viral-video-lost-kitten-nyc-subway/6350348/?utm%5Fsource=fark&utm%5Fmedium=website&utm%5Fcontent=link&ICID=ref%5Ffark

#animals #cat #kitten #kindness #compassion #adoption #spiffy #NYC

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

awwwwwww

https://universeodon.com/@HollyCo26588808/114944698664788612

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

"The ICE database did not include any record of Teran" https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/114944620384634049

"No record currently exists for Almanza within the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) database." https://www.newsweek.com/immigration-green-card-migrant-alligator-alcatraz-2105665

what is wrong with this picture?

jwz wrote:

I'm pleased to report the continuing staggering popularity of my five WordPress plugins: the plugin directory reports "fewer than 10" active installations for all but one... and that one has cracked the aspirational "10+" barrier. (Which one it is...
https://jwz.org/b/yksG

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
5t3ph@front-end.social ("Stephanie Eckles") wrote:

Always feels good to help someone remove JS by pointing them to a modern #CSS solution 🥰

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:

Found this website which is similar to the HTML for People vibe. Love it! https://www.htmlhobbyist.com/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

We could not agree more. Democrats must stand up to this wannabe king and his rubber-stamp Republicans.

Attachments:

• video: 9e76b9a837a93390.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
snap30Pix ("Rowan Blake") wrote:

Rushing up rain-soaked steps shadows and reflections tell a story of anticipation beneath the cityjoin me in this months urban rhythm theme. #StreetPhotography, #BlackAndWhite, #UrbanLife, #Leica, #FilmPhotography

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Colarusso ("David Colarusso") wrote:

Today’s nostalgia fix, asking my mom for some quarters¹ . . . but for her grandkids.

¹ I didn’t have any cash. :/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

A federal judge is ordering Kari Lake and USAGM, by Aug. 13, to provide the court with a detailed plan for the Voice of America’s restructuring, the current employee count and how much VOA programming is actually being produced and what steps they've taken to inform Congress of their activities.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

“Won’t Unknown Senders filtering in Apple’s Messages hurt even legitimate fundraising text campaigns?”

There’s no such thing as a legitimate fundraising text from a stranger. My having a phone number does not entitle you to my attention.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
xssfox@cloudisland.nz ("1.3.6.1.4.1.61513") wrote:

I was using mastodon before it was cool.

Narrator: that's currently.

jwz wrote:

Radioactive Wasps.

Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs have found a radioactive wasp nest. Employees who routinely check radiation levels at the Savannah River Site near Aiken found a wasp nest on July 3 on a...
https://jwz.org/b/yksD

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org ("tom jennings") wrote:

I find myself increasingly unwilling to cooperate with anything on the Internet requiring unnecessary logins, and lately, onerous (subjective) cookies requirements.

It seems like, from reading here on the fedi, that lots of people go along with this shit.

I've been active on the Internet since 1993, but def remember life before it. I hate to lose it, but honestly, the shit required to use many websites is way beyond anything reasonable.

So I find myself withdrawing from it.

If "age verification" becomes common here (US) I'm unlikely to cooperate.

I do many of the few things we can "do" online, and I give money to EFF and many orgs monthly and for years, but things are not good.

I've done work on separating electronic and physical (and phone) contacts and even printed out some on paper.

I'm trying to assume nothing.

The Internet is not the world.

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

huh, this looks *really* interesting:

https://github.com/gtnoble/mcp-d

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

okay, this is amusing

https://youtu.be/caffiyCIQgI?si=P4a3JaymtHAYE4fC

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
vkc@linuxmom.net ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

CSS is flipping awesome though. It's so incredibly powerful and when well done, I find it to be downright elegant.

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

There's a Bandcamp Friday happening this Friday https://isitbandcampfriday.com/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
triz@normal.style ("triz of online :verified_triz:") wrote:

look linux is ngmi until they figure out a way to replace 2/3 of the ui with chatgpt like commercial operating systems have. if you don't bash a keyboard button on accident that completely interrupts what you were doing so an electronic wyrmtongue can tell you how handsome and brilliant you are at least seventeen times a day are you even computing

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

@slightlyoff fun fact: I used to work for the company who owned/created CanJS and was a professional CanJS dev at the time of React's rise lol

Additionally: I've mentioned this before, but I feel like folks who talk about web components need to find a really good way to make it clear that comparing a "traditional" JS framework site to a website that uses webcomponents the way I think they should be used (with minimal shadow dom usage, as opposed to just trying to replicate the render-everything-in-JS patterns), the size difference in what you actually ship and how much JS runs is WAY MORE MASSIVE than what this blog post makes it seem like.

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

How a JS framework does in the krausest benchmark is functionally immaterial. The most important quality is cold-start, uncached costs becuase that's the common case.

So smaller code, plus avoiding pathological structural errors (e.g., "CSS-in-JS" w/ a "runtime"), get you most of the story, most of the time.

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

To those who are unsure if they should share their art/interests/knowledge:

* YOUR voice is the one somebody else needs to hear.

* If YOU like what you're doing, somebody else will too.

* Even if you DON'T like what you're doing, somebody else probably still will. 😆

* No, not everyone has already read/heard/seen everything. YOURS will be the first for somebody.

(Above found in a notebook of mine, don't remember writing it. I think I meant to turn it into a web page? I'll do that too.)

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

This blog post remains super important because it's one of the few comparisons I've seen that talks about the main JS framework scaling limit: framework size + code per component

https://webcomponents.dev/blog/all-the-ways-to-make-a-web-component/

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

@ieure Everyday is like:

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
emilymoranbarwick@social.lol ("Emily Moran Barwick") wrote:

@fromjason I’ve always felt like the interplay between HTML and CSS is magic. The first time I wrote a thing in CSS and it shifted the appearance of my HTML, it kinda blew my mind.

(…I still think it’s at least *partially* magic…🙃)