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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
dusepo@toot.dusepo.co.uk ("Jo Dusepo :oud: جوهانا دوسپو") wrote:

A matching pair of charango and ronroco completed yesterday.

Jo Dusepo luthier www.dusepo.co.uk #lute #oud
#luthier #lutherie #laute #laúd #medievallute #liuto
#luteria #lutheria #laudarabe #ud #worldmusic
#earlymusic #renaissancelute #lutemaker #woodworking #woodwork
#musicalinstrument #عود #oud_maker #charango #chillador #ronroco

A collage of front and back views of a charango and ronroco, upright leaning against a fence.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
coprolite9000@pixelfed.hylobatidae.org ("Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed") wrote:

Another dragonfly - a migrant hawker, Aeshna mixta? Obligingly perched on the twig of a rose bush just as I was walking past...

#Derbyshire #insects #dragonflies #macrophotography

Large dragonfly hanging from a smooth green twig with a thorn on - body and abdomen with intricate blue, brown and yellow-green patches - a slight pale fuzz around the thorax, blue-black legs turning brown close to the body, and four wings outstretched - shimmering with golden patches in the sunshine.

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

We are live from DEF CON in Las Vegas with Merin MC with kampf, rusty and djdead coming up later in the day. Tune in at https://somafm.com/player24/station/live or the SomaFM Live channel in your app

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
helenclayton@mas.to ("Helen Clayton") wrote:

A big pop of colour in the veg patch random flower bed.

#BloomScrolling

Photo of a bright pink mallow wort flower - trumpet shaped with bright green sepals. Two flowers in stages of opening and blurred blue cornflowers in the background. Also some small pale pink (silene I think) flowers below.

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

I know a lot of folks here have their qualms about Bluesky, but I hope folks are paying attention to what Rudy Fraser and Blacksky Algorithms are doing to decentralize their community from Bluesky PBC infra.

Decentralization at every level of the stack is happening on ATProto. It started *within* the Bluesky infra, slowly drifting away one step at a time, and it's inspiring to watch it all happen.

You can learn more here: https://www.blackskyweb.xyz/

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Boosted by jwz:
mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

"we were like 2-3 years away from finishing landmark cures that would change the medical field forever, but the leader wanted to put another coat of gold paint on his ballroom so instead he canceled the funding" is something you might read in a gilded age novel

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

A slightly unhinged calculator fact: in the golden era of electronic calculators, some Japanese shopkeepers were reluctant to trust the newfangled tool, so Sharp made a line of combination calculator / abacus devices.

Here's a photo, next to some other stuff I own.

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jwz wrote:

As of yesterday, yt-dlp with cookies can only download SD videos but the instructions for extracting PO tokens from Youtube Music don't work for me: it's not in the JSON body. Anyone get this working?

(If I don't use cookies at all, I always get "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot.")
https://jwz.org/b/yksu

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

Should I do a run of the stickers? And should it say “AI Training Data” or just “Training Data”? Vote either way I guess. Dunno how to do the options right here really

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

"yes officer, for my models"

The Pirate Bay logo but it says AI Training Data

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
skippy@dungeoncrawler.world wrote:

I did what I said I was going to do! https://skippy.net/freetrm

https://dungeoncrawler.world/@skippy/statuses/01K1R9DP5DC3GB1P5JCGKHWYVX

Paging @adam

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

Steatoda borealis spiderlings!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/08/many-fat-happy-babies/

Steatoda borealis spiderlings

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
da_667@infosec.exchange wrote:

I really wish you all weren't so cocksure about letting shit like HTTP/1.1 die.

Gonna miss the last vestige of the web that doesn't require wireshark to fuckin' parse it.

I kinda hate that HTTP/2 is straight binary and requires wireshark to make any sense of it, and that http/3 is basically just quic, which is google's love child of weird shit.

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
petrillic@hachyderm.io ("Chris Petrilli") wrote:

This will finally destroy all US research leadership for the next 50 years. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/new-executive-order-puts-all-grants-under-political-control/

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
therightarticle@mas.to ("Michael") wrote:

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/over-500-risk-arrest-protest-against-palestine-action-ban-saturday

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
therightarticle@mas.to ("Michael") wrote:

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/08/08/documents-reveal-police-using-all-our-passport-photos-to-spy-on-us-via-unlawful-facial-recognition/

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
TechDesk@flipboard.social ("Flipboard Tech Desk") wrote:

Don't ask ChatGPT for health advice. Seriously. @404mediaco reports on a man who gave himself bromism, a disorder that can cause psychosis and hallucinations as well as gastrointestinal and dermatological effects, because he had replaced salt with sodium bromide based on information gathered from the AI.

https://flip.it/nwR1qk

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology #Health #Medicine #Science

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de wrote:

Psst... looking for a new club to join? 👀

Great news, ours is looking for new members: https://codeberg.org

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

We’re asking for help simply to stay alive. We’re trying to secure enough food for just one week, and we still need $21. If you’re unable to donate, please consider sharing — it might reach someone who can help. Here’s the donation link and our full story 👇
@palestine @mutualaid

https://chuffed.org/project/138285-help-sehwel-family-with-their-medical-treatment

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

“Fuck Israel. Free Palestine.”

Give this brave young woman a medal for confronting a Zionist wearing an IDF t-shirt at their university while Israel and the IDF commit genocide in Palestine.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5s%5FUwhZAYUA

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FuckIsrael #FreePalestine

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
stacey_campbell@aus.social ("Stacey Campbell") wrote:

@aral "Affordable housing, fully-funded education and NHS, smashing racism, and reversal of Brexit key for cutting crime, says police chief."

Ad in a parallel universe.

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
BenartyComputer@mastodon.scot ("Billy Watt") wrote:

@aral Ah yes, like in the good old days where you could be stopped and searched for the crime of walking around while black

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61167875

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay") wrote:

A bus station is where a bus stops.
A train station is where a train stops.
On my desk I have a workstation …

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

New @the_freebooters video is out. We talk about i3 and the 'Online Safety Act'.

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/aRj8ot5FpRKMwgHLV5WY34

#Linux #OSA #Podcast

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

a grin above the abyss

#mastoart #oilpainting #timelapse

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

So much of #freelancing requires that you maneuver through your clients' office politics gracefully. This is the part of the #freelancer life that no one tells you; that sometimes, the best move is to eat shit and move on.

As a freelancer, you eat a lot of shit.

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

"The bottom line is clear. Trump long since missed his chance to shrug the Epstein matter off as a nothing burger. It now walks, talks and quacks like a duck, in this case of the truth. A cover-up of this scale implies a crime of equal measure. And that means many in the public won’t be satisfied until something really bad finally comes out…."

#Epstein #Trump #CoverUp
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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Idk how, but my new #MBP was delivered a whole week early! What a great end of week present.

Been waiting five years for this. Are you even a #freelancer if you don't have an M series? 😅

#MacBook #MacbookPro

Two laptops side by side on a white table. Screens show a transfer of info.  Left side: new MacBook Pro 16in M1 Right side: old MacBook Pro 16in i9 Intel

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

So far (before the hordes arrive, at least), excellent ventilation in the Voting Village suite at DEFCON!

Come join us in W222 at 10am for fresh air and election security.

A CO2 meter showing 386ppm in an indoor space.

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

Either “the West” stops this bullshit right fucking now or they live with the blood of 2 million Palestinians on their hands. And more so with zero moral standing on any issue ever again. “European values?” You can’t even stop a genocide. Don’t make me fucking laugh.

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/8/8/shock-and-fear-in-gaza-after-israel-announces-occupation-plan

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine