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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jcrabapple@dmv.community ("Cool AF Doc Brown") wrote:

Just absolutely horrid unforgivable behavior. The GOP is the party of rapists and pedophiles.

GOP Senator Changes Child Rape Law After Relative Accused of Sex With Minor - Newsweek

https://www.newsweek.com/gop-senator-child-rape-law-utah-j-stuart-adams-2109138

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
X00001@masto.hackers.town ("🆇00001 :uwasa_sana:") wrote:

Tattoos should make you more employable. They show that you can sit still for long periods while tiny needles are inserted into your skin, which is exactly what every corporate meeting I’ve ever attended has felt like.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
joshuajfriedman.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Joshua J. Friedman") wrote:

Statement from the chef-owner of Good Pierogi of Martha's Vineyard: "In our minds and hearts, selling to Alan Dershowitz was the equivalent to supporting his decisions and statements." 🧵 www.instagram.com/p/DM_g1OyxirL/

My name is Krem Miskevich. I am a chef, and together with my spouse Lily Rose, we co-own Good Pierogi, an Eastern European pop up currently operating on Martha's Vineyard. The business was born from a desire to connect my Polish heritage with local food growers and producers on-island, and to feed its residents and visitors. I want to directly address the incident that occurred last Wednesday, July 30, 2025, at the West Tisbury Farmers Market, which has garnered national attention, and more than a few fabricated and fallacious claims about the events and myself.
The fuss affects not only me, my partner, and our business, but the other extremely hard-working vendors who come together Wednesdays and Saturdays to sell their wares from land and sea. The negative impact on them is unfair and I never intended for my decision to cause so much consternation to a community I deeply care about. The catalyst was our legally justified decision to not sell our pierogi to Alan Dershowitz, a figure recognized locally and nationally. When he came to our booth, I experienced a surge of emotion. As a chef, I love to share what I cook with the public, regardless of who they are. In this case, what was in the forefront of my mind was the fact that this was the high-profile attorney who represented several sexual predators and abusers including Jeffrey Epstein.
I have no desire to argue about the legal system in the U.S., or one's right to a fair trial. But, I personally know too many sexual abuse survivors. Mr. Dershowitz consciously decided to befriend and defend men who have been accused of abusing and harming women. The food we make is a labor of love, it's our craft. In our minds and hearts, selling to Alan Dershowitz was the equivalent to supporting his decisions and statements. It caused me to pause and question my willingness to sell to him and when I did, he began to harass us, misgender me, and film us without our consent.
In the days that followed, Mr. Dershowitz chose to execute a public smear campaign. If not for the traction gained from his one-sided, mythical storyline, we would have remained silent. However, the continued aggression and threats of groundless litigation have been followed by the distribution of defamatory flyers where we conduct business in an effort to cement further falsehoods. He has also taken to the internet and used the news media to circulate his fiction. I do not wish to argue with Mr. Dershowitz about Israel. But, to contextualize his hurtful rant, I think it would be helpful to share a bit about myself and our business:

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
davidaugust@mastodon.online ("David August ❌👑") wrote:

Folks, behold peter thiel’s property, Ohio’s Least Favorite Son, our Veepy Creepy:

“JD Vance’s team had the army corps of engineers take the unusual step of changing the outflow of a lake in Ohio to accommodate a recent boating excursion on a family holiday”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/06/jd-vance-ohio-lake-water-levels

#USpol

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Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

@jwz https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7226027,-122.4177979,3a,15y,322.62h,97.78t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1stydMGJnCAbDpuqx3PgDDKg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb%5Fclient%3Dmaps%5Fsv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-7.776616556296588%26panoid%3DtydMGJnCAbDpuqx3PgDDKg%26yaw%3D322.6174625612288!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu&g%5Fep=EgoyMDI1MDgwNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

street sign saying END WAYLAND

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

The Guardian - US VP Vance’s team had the outflow of a lake in Ohio changed to accommodate a recent boating excursion on a family holiday, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/06/jd-vance-ohio-lake-water-levels

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
trumpwatch.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Trump Watch 👀") wrote:

“Masked #MAGA white supremacists reportedly involved in a violent altercation — now under investigation. Extremism isn’t hiding anymore. It’s marching, emboldened. #WhiteSupremacy #NH #DomesticTerrorism” thepulseofnh.com/police-conti...

Police Continue To Investigate...

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tusk81 ("Gabe Ortíz") wrote:

"The fact that the state is hiding information about the contractors, it’s just — it’s unbelievable and it’s inexcusable." https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/there-is-an-information-blackout-at-floridas-alligator-alcatraz-migrant-detention-camp

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

This was a bright one.

A rainbow spanning the field of view, with fluffy clouds, some trees, and a couple of parking lot light poles.

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

@briankrebs the good news is Morgan Stanley have a history of being right about emerging tech! /s


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Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

*𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘭. 𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦*

Drive-thru speaker: “Can I help you?”

Me: “Hi one pleaseburger cheese.”

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jwz wrote:

After lo these many years, I think I might finally be getting close to understanding ffmpeg's filtergraph language. Maybe.

I recently made some improvements to my resize.pl script, which I wrote so that I wouldn't have to understand filtergraph, and it doesn't get a lot of downloads so I figured I might as well hype it. It is one of the single most useful scripts I've written. If you also would prefer to not learn filtergraph, this is for you. Run it with --help.
https://jwz.org/b/yksq

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Boosted by jwz:
ifixcoinops@retro.social ("Dan Fixes Coin-Ops") wrote:

Free software people I am begging you to stop naming your software

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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

As a 56-year-old, I'm now eligible for an ICE gig, and frankly, I'd rather starve

https://ktar.com/national-news/homeland-security-removes-age-limits-for-ice-recruits-to-boost-hiring-for-trump-deportations/5736334/

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

Chat, did I make the right decision???

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

My daily driver for the past five years has been the #MacBookPro 16in Intel i9 (2019).

It was time for a new laptop. I almost got the brand new M4 with 48gb of RAM.

Price: $2,900

But after making an honest assessment of my needs, and what I actually do on my laptop: web dev, graphic design, and light video editing, I resisted the urge to overspend.

So I got a MacBook Pro 16in M1 32GB refurbished.

Price $930

Saved 2g's. I'm proud of myself 😭

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social ("ophiocephalic 🐍") wrote:

@fromjason
Cool, llms.txt is what I'm naming my zip bomb

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jwz wrote:

Update: It appears that the slash-null culprit is Reeder 5.5.1, helpfully identifying itself only as "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko)".

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

Web devs: are your clients asking for #llmstxt yet? I don't think it's hit the corporate buzzword circuit yet, but it's coming for sure.

#freelance #WebDev

https://llmstxt.org/

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
federatedsocialnews@channel.org ("Fedi Social News") wrote:

@reiver is publishing all the #Fedicon videos to the Fedicon Peertube Channel here: https://spectra.video/c/fedicon%5Fvideos/videos

#Fedicon2025 #Fedicon #TheFutureIsFederated #Fediverse #FediConference

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jwz wrote:

Dear Lazyweb,
Can someone explain to me why lame and ffmpeg have such different ideas about audio volume? Is there some conversion factor that will let me take ffmpeg's number and make it match lame's number?
For example ...
https://jwz.org/b/yksk

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jencmars@mastodon.art ("Jen C Mars") wrote:

A little WIP for Wednesday

#art #drawing #raven

Photo of a small, unfinished drawing of a raven on brown paper. The paper is taped to a board and a black pencil in a pencil holder rests on the left side.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
anji@metalhead.club ("Matthijs De Smedt") wrote:

Amazing Grace with an Octobass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCEYPyUBDAU

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

Anas Al Sharif | A deep sense of fear grips the displaced families in Gaza, as the Israeli government threatens to seize what remains of the Strip after already taking control of more than 75% of it.

There are no safe places left.
No food, no water—famine is spreading rapidly.
This war on Gaza must end.
Please—let our voices be heard before we are silenced by the next airstrike.
@palestine #gaza #StopGenocide #gazagenocide #genocide #palestine

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

How deadly it is to live the same day every day with hunger, thirst, displacement, death, and so much blood.
#gaza #StopGenocide #genocide #gazagenocide @palestine

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

I remember when our nights were calm…
We used to look up at the sky to see the moon and stars,
Not warplanes and missiles.

But now, everything has changed.
And every night, one question haunts me:
Will we survive this time?
@palestine #gaza #genocide

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

Google AI picked up my definition of "data piggy" and I'm having conflicting feelings about it. Lol

#venturecapital #VentureCapitalist

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/data-piggy/


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Boosted by jwz:
gl33p ("Preston Austin") wrote:

I mean, sure, probably the bro whose job is "making edits to the Constitution" messed up 😏

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
yassie_j@labyrinth.zone (" :baba_yaseen: :agenderFlag: :transgenderFlag: ") wrote:

Adults in Britain can no longer type 5318008 into their calculator unless they send a copy of their ID to Casio to verify their age.

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Boosted by jwz:
xtaldave@xtaldave.net ("Dave nλ=2dsinθ") wrote:

Millionaire trophy hunter gored to death by 1.3 tonne bull on African safari

https://metro.co.uk/2025/08/06/millionaire-trophy-hunter-gored-death-1-3-tonne-bull-african-safari-23845140/

Epic handshake meme. Two muscular arms (marked "Orcas" and "Buffalo") clasp together. The hands are overlaid with the text "Fucking up rich dickheads"