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

I wish I had had more time to photograph this delightfully weird building, but I only had an hour or so before I had to leave for the airport that day. The hard morning light only illuminated this one angle reasonably acceptably.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/5.6), Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50), Cambo 1200 camera (shifted vertically -8mm).

Opened as the London headquarters for the Michelin Tyre Co in 1911, and now a mixed commercial building, the Art Nouveau Michelin House features whimsical tire-themed ornaments and stained glass windows with the original Michelin Man "Bibendum" character in various, generally terrifying, poses.

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saschameinrath ("Sascha Meinrath") wrote:

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

81 Fulham Road ("Michelin House"), London, UK, 2024.

All the pixels, none of the traction or puncture resistance, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54196628571

#photography

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nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

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cyberduck@fosstodon.org ("Cyberduck 🐣") wrote:

The latest update includes a dock tile plugin to make our application icon escape the squircle dogma on upcoming macOS Tahoe. Unfortunately the plugin is not allowed in the distribution on the Mac App Store.

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secretgeek@mastodon.cloud ("Leon Bambrick") wrote:

Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.

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m2m@sonomu.club ("Simone S") wrote:

Steve Wozniak interviewed for CBS:

"I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups [...] I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out."

He turned 75 4 days ago.

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

Someone said they’d like a shirt version of my DEI sticker. So, that exists now!

https://cottonbureau.com/p/K26M6B/shirt/dei-shirt

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

totally not even making this up for internet points - @mconley can vouch for both of these events.

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

earlier today, I said that it has been super quiet at work incident-wise in recent months, and I predicted an incident would happen next week, because the rest of my team will be on vacation.

turns out I was wrong. an incident happened just now. friday, 5:30pm my time.

well played, universe. well played.

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Sergeir@ecoevo.social ("Marcus Brandel") wrote:

Happy #FossilFriday - The Pleistocene cat Petra, found in Virginia's Burja Cave, is now on display at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. Identified as an early puma, it could not be radiocarbon dated, indicating the cat is over 50,000 years old.

Dr. Alex Hastings of the Science Museum of Minnesota, pictured, was part of the recovery team after training to enter the cave's slick vertical passages.

Photo credit: http://www.virginiaplaces.org

See more: @tarplifeadventures https://www.instagram.com/p/DNTSTdcRIE5/

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

Breakfast of champions.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/15/imagine-finding-a-10-foot-long-sausage/

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

Half hour before the poll closes!

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susurros@kolektiva.social ("Scott Campbell") wrote:

"More than 120 education scholars have condemned the cancellation of an entire issue of an academic journal dedicated to Palestine by a Harvard University publisher as 'censorship'".

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/aug/14/harvard-journal-israel-gaza-cancellation

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #academia #education #Harvard

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
JoeGrowling@todon.eu ("Plague Island Resistance") wrote:

#FuckThis Iceland ( UK supermarket, not the country)
Is offering customers a £1 bonus for reporting shoplifters.

Sell your soul for £1.

You saw someone in need stealing the food to survive? ....No you didn't see a fucking thing!.

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

To the world:
Gaza is facing ethnic cleansing and systematic killing, with the widespread destruction of what little remains of its homes.
We are living in terror, and every moment could be our last.
@palestine #StopGenocide #gaza #palestine #genocide #war

Attachments:

• video: Gunfire on homes and tents, destruction of what little remains of the houses.

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

Ah grawlix!

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Cornellbox@a2mi.social ("Philip Proefrock, architect") wrote:

@cstanhope
@willhopkins
@CarrieB
as well as anyone else who would be interested in reading Ursula Franklin's The Real World of Technology, and/or listening to her Massey lectures from which the book was taken.

Some initial (more than toot length) suggestions here:
https://www.psproefrock.com/2025/08/14/ursula-franklin-book-club-2025/

Ideas on CBC just put the show I heard earlier in the podcast queue, and I recommend it as a starting point and introduction about her.
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16163229-massey-60-how-physicist-ursula-franklins-prescient-ideas

Check it out and maybe you'll want to join in.

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

strongly agree with this sobering piece

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/opinion/trump-democrats-resistance-reform.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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continuation@mas.to ("Mx Arjuna") wrote:

When the US Department of War made this film in 1945 to warn about the threat of fascism, they included this scene of a teacher in Germany debunking 'race science,' the same racist myths and lies being promoted and normalized by fascists in the US today. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/24376

Video with captions: https://youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4?feature=shared&t=897

Attachments:

• video: a588fa59baaec6cb.mp4

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

Has the #Threads interpolation deal made the #Fediverse better or worse?

#Meta #SocialWebFoundation #MetaWebFoundation #SocialMetaFoundation #SocialWebMeta #MetaMetaFoundation #MetaMetaMeta #fedipact

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LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot ("Lilly Hunter") wrote:

@andrewducker Scotland really needs independence ASAP as England sinks deeper and deeper into fascism.

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andrewducker@mastodon.scot ("Andrew Ducker") wrote:

Link Post: Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England https://news.sky.com/story/facial-recognition-vans-to-be-rolled-out-across-police-forces-in-england-13410613

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

@ttiurani Always has been:

“When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”

– Golda Meir, A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/664790-when-peace-comes-we-will-perhaps-in-time-be-able

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

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ttiurani@fosstodon.org ("Timo Tiuraniemi") wrote:

@aral If you boil it down it's just the age-old "look at what you made me do" excuse for abuse.

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

Here’s your definition, asshole:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

Now fuck off.

https://indieweb.social/@louis/115029146501580827

#israel #zionism #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #FuckIsrael #FuckZionism #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank

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

According to Zionists, people who don’t want children killed are antisemitic. People who don’t want civilians killed are antisemitic.

Think what they’re saying:

If you don’t want children killed, you hate all Jews. Ergo, all Jews want children killed.

News flash: Implying that all Jews want children killed is antisemitic.

If you don’t want civilians killed, you hate all Jews. Ergo, all Jews want civilians killed.

News flash: Implying that all Jews want civilians killed is antisemitic.

Repeat after me: Zionists are antisemites.

https://bird.makeup/users/academic%5Fla/statuses/1955804699619418366

#zionism #zionists #antisemitism #israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #UEFA #protest #StopIsrael #FreePalestine

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ansuz@social.cryptography.dog ("ansuz / ऐरन") wrote:

chrome developers: we are thinking of dropping support for rendering RSS feeds as something other than garbage code. does anyone have any reasons not to do this?

developers from many different backgrounds: yes, I rely on normal people being able to understand RSS for my business. dropping support will be disastrous for me because I can't rely on people to have some random extension installed.

chrome devs: OK well we're probably going to do it anyway because we can't be bothered to support web standards. uwu google is only a teensy wee company uwu

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523

#xslt #standards #openWeb

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MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!") wrote:

The Good Liars are putting up honest #ICE recruitment posters in #NYC