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

Smaugust day 2: Forbidden
Pen drawing on paper.

#smaugust2025 #drawing #dragon

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

@djsundog

You probably know these guys already. I really love the bass line of this song—can’t decide if it wants to be rhythm or melody, so it just does both. All the other instruments are lovely but more ornamental.

https://youtu.be/0G383538qzQ

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

Y'all ever rant into your voice dictation about something you are wildly upset about, then you look down at your phone and realize you've vomited 1800 words in like five minutes lol.

jwz wrote:

Ozone and hysterical paroxysm.

High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1910): By champion of electro-therapeutics Samuel Howard Monell, a physician who the American X-Ray Journal cite, rather wonderfully, as having "done more for...
https://jwz.org/b/yksV

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
1Bit@bitbang.social wrote:

cool demo that made 1st place in Assembly 2025 that I captured from my 486 with picogus https://youtu.be/-bryr2NkruU

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

A blog post summarizing our latest work: a static analyzer that leverages Rust in a non-trivial way!
https://blog.brownplt.org/2025/08/03/paralegal.html

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

All I can hear are the insects, many happy little birds, and one frog.

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

These egg sacs are ALMOST ready to pop and release a swarm of spiderlings. I eagerly await the sudden appearance of a hundred babies.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/03/an-almost-day/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:

i’m not a mastermind from the future. i’m a confused bureaucrat from the future. where’s the public commissaries? why is the public catalog called “amazon” and owned by wormfood? what’s wrong with these park benches and why are toilets a privilege? you ask me, how *should* it work? honey, i manage spreadsheets when i’m not working land or relaxing to my heart’s content, so no, i don’t have a just-add-water readymade civilization for you. i only ask, why waste so much being so cruel?

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thibaultamartin@mamot.fr ("Thib") wrote:

At the individual scale, self-hosting is not a good way to “be in control of my data.”

It’s like saying I do a vegetable garden to be in control of my food. I need much more than I can grow, it’s an inefficient use of my time, and I’m one bad season away from losing it all.

Resilience and transparency are key to be in control of my data and I can’t achieve this alone. This is a social problem, we need to bring solutions as a society.

#sovereignty #selfHosting #gardening

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lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E09
🎥 Episode: Protocol
🎬 Directed by: Akihiko Nishiyama
📅 Release Date: August 31, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0347

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computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

are you too busy using the latest image models to insert minions into historical scenes to notice the boots in the hall

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binarydigit@social.lol ("BinaryDigit 💾") wrote:

🧑‍🎤 Be punk, make your own website.

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

Pink: The official color of debugging #CSS

iykyk

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considermycat@eldritch.cafe ("Jae") wrote:

How do you think the New York Times reported Kristallnacht? Go on, have a guess. If your answer was “a shitty, mealy-mouthed sidebar item which centred the Nazi regime’s framing of the event”, then congratulations! You speak fluent NYT!

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Debugging: the art of slowly realizing you're the problem.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

Jonathan Capehart explains why he has now left Jeff Bezos' Washington Post, siphoning yet more brilliance and truth from that cesspool of a journalistic enterprise:

"We’re supposed to ignore [what's happening to the country under Trump]? Leave it to others to wrestle with on their news pages and websites? No, no, no, no, no, said in 'Get Out.'”

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #JonathanCapehart

https://substack.com/home/post/p-169777799

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social ("Democracy Matters :verified:") wrote:

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

— Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

Matt Zeller, an #Army veteran whose #Afghan interpreter saved his life in a 2008 firefight, co-founded the nonprofit No One Left Behind to help resettle #Afghans. He said he fears the #immigration crackdown will unwind that effort.
“The #Trump administration knows what’s going to happen to these folks. They’re not stupid. They understand that the #Taliban is going to kill them when they get back to #Afghanistan,” Zeller said. “They just don’t care.”

#law #USmilitary #betrayal

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
scottsantens.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Scott Santens") wrote:

In Canada's Dauphin pilot where poverty was practically eliminated for an entire town for 4 years, overall crime dropped by 15% and violent crime dropped by 37% (most of it domestic violence). In the Namibia UBI pilot where an entire village of 1,000 people got it, overall crime dropped by 43%.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dccartoonist.bsky.social )

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

@David @cheeaun

Fundamentally, you appear to be asking, "Why don't you like the things I like, the way I like them?"

The answer, of course, is because I like different things from you.

Moreover, I go to enormous, daily, extremely time-consuming lengths to give you a *ton* of ways to get the things I write without following me here.

Surely that's the right compromise: "Use social media the way you like, and if you choose, help others use it the way they like?"

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NaraMoore@sakurajima.moe ("NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi") wrote:

New scam is surfacing on Bluesky, which means it will arrive here soon.

It works by telling you they have information about someone impersonating you, but for thin bogus reasons, you need to contact them on Discord. This is a scam.

#FediTips #FediAdim #mastoadmin #Scam

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
teslatakedown.com@bsky.brid.gy ("#TeslaTakedown") wrote:

"In short, Musk and Tesla are talking a big game to investors and its wide-eyed fans about how amazing its Robotaxis will be — but its private groveling with regulators suggests that it's fibbing to at least one of those groups." #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall futurism.com/emails-tesla...

These Behind-the-Scenes Emails...

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GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

Wake up and smell the #TrumpTax

‪Reuters‬:

China welcomes 183 Brazil coffee sellers in wake of US tariffs reut.rs/4mp1Ise

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dan613@ottawa.place ("Dan Neuman 🇨🇦") wrote:

George is working on his cutemaxxing

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nova@social.lol ("cmdr ░ nova ⸸ :~$") wrote:

Go on my website, click anywhere that's not a link (to be sure the website is "selected"), and then type "amiga"

https://mkultra.monster

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
cemk ("Cem K.") wrote:

@adam What a two-faced hypocrite of a person...

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jay_peper@chaos.social ("Sarah Peper 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

"You're not building protected bike lanes for the people who are biking today, You're building it for the people who aren't biking today because it's not safe" @notjustbikes

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

Your art history post for today: by Demetre Chiparus (Romanian, 1886-1947), three views of “Thaïs,” ca. 1925, parcel-silvered, parcel-gilt and cold-painted bronze and ivory, on onyx base, height 22in (56cm), length 24in (61cm), photo: Christie’s London, 26 Oct 2016. #arthistory #artdeco #artnouveau #sculpture