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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

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atax1a@infosec.exchange ("mx alex tax1a - 2020 (5)") wrote:

gee everyone on the timeline who has done unmasked travel recently seems to be getting sick with "not covid", "probably just strep"

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

Oh look, your favorite Overengineer blogged again! (I mean, only if I am your favorite Overengineer...)

This time, I built a custom replacement for the old Google Location Timeline and a live location sharing thingie. If you want to read some words:

https://overengineer.dev/blog/2025/08/19/overengineering-location-history/

(that's actually technically kinda three blog posts? One main one that's very generic and doesn't talk too much about the details, but there's also two links to very detailed sub-topics. Yes, my blog posts have side-quests now. You can't stop me.)

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

“We believe that every individual and family should have the freedom to decide for themselves how much Cesium to include in their diet, free from meddlesome government interference.” - new FDA spokesperson, soon, probably.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
interesting@bookmarks.kvibber.com ("Interesting Links") wrote:

smolweb HTML specification
"smolweb.org promotes simple unbloated web. It provides resources to actors who want to participate."

#HTML #SmallInternet #spec #smolweb

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

The silver lining here is that the FDA is, for time being at least, still opposed to radioactive shrimp. https://6abc.com/amp/post/fda-warns-public-not-eat-possibly-radioactive-shrimp-great-value-brand-sold-walmart-13-states/17586897/

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

He's 100% not getting into heaven.

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

Wheelchairs are harder to drive than I expected.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/19/where-im-at/

Boosted by jwz:
SethRudy@c18.masto.host ("Saethelred the Unsteady") wrote:

Reporter: what are you going to do to keep your data centers from destroying the planet?
Tech bros: we have a robust set of ambitious strategies to—
Reporter: *shoots dart full of truth serum into their necks*
Tech bros: oh god, nothing, nothing at all. You’re fucked, obviously, but we’ll all be fine, so we absolutely don’t care. Not at all. If we could cool our racks for less money by liquefying your pets, we would absolutely do it. You got a cat? You look like you got a cat. Gimme your cat.

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nervous_jessica ("Jessica Rosenkrantz") wrote:

Example 2: our precious metal pieces are cast in India. which one day had a deminimus limit ($800), the next day had a 25% tariff and the next day had a 50% tariff. If I place an order for parts, the tariff situation will be different by the time they arrive and who knows what it will be.

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nervous_jessica ("Jessica Rosenkrantz") wrote:

This tariff situation is absolutely exhausting and never-ending. Example 1: we ship our wooden jigsaw puzzles to Canada. Puzzles are in the same category as all toys, which includes things like tricycles that are made of metal. Since puzzles are in the same harmonized code as tricycles, they are caught up in a 25% steel tariff, even though they’re made of wood!

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

A note from my late Grandmother about Eleventy

https://www.zachleat.com/web/history-of-eleventy-name/

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parental_guidance ("Parental Guidance") wrote:

Violence & Gore:
Brief scenes of human bodies spontaneously combusting in mid-air; no blood or gore is shown, but there is smoke and fire around the bodies and it is said that these people have been killed.

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flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:

I hate buying a car. You’re not negotiating, you’re stuck with some guy who has the authority of a mall Santa. Every time you make an offer, he scurries off to “talk to his boss,”

This post is about Donald Trump

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

My rules for convention panel Q&A are that the question is in the form of a question, the questions have only one part, and the questions are asked as compactly as possible - and the reason is so that we can get to as many questions as possible from as many audience members as possible. If you explain all this up front, people are usually on board, and also, if someone tries to do other than this, you can stop them and move on to the next person. It's fair to everyone.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@laraleecupcake/post/DNi1eg2OSep

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

We’re finishing up the editing on the @defcon Voting Village talk videos and expect to have them online in a day or two. (Bonus: the audio in the videos is much clearer than it was live in the room.)

Didn’t make it to Hacker Summer Camp this year? Watch this space!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
RobotDiver@starlite.rodeo ("Robot Diver") wrote:

As both the weird kid and a figure skater growing up this routine officially wins my heart. Most people would be surprised to know I had trophies for interpretive ice dance.

Attachments:

• video: A small child in an inflatable chicken/minecraft soldier outfit does an extremely enthusiastic figure skating freestyle. Oh my heart.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Kierkegaanks@beige.party ("Kierkegaanks regretfully") wrote:

@dx second time using this today

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
dx@social.ridetrans.it ("🚲") wrote:

Just got contacted by a recruiter for a venture-backed startup looking to replace 911 operators with LLMs to triage emergency calls and boy I can’t express how much A) no I do not want to join your company, and B) how much I do not want to live in the world where 911 calls are handled by LLMs operated by for-profit companies

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

Oh hey, @haymarketbooks is offering free books for a #FreePalestine!

https://haymarketbooks.org/blogs/495-free-ebooks-for-a-free-palestine

#LevePalestina #FromTheRiverToTheSea #BDSMovement #AllEyesOnGaza #GoodReads 🍉🇵🇸

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
alfiekohn@sciences.social ("Alfie Kohn") wrote:

Continuous reports of AI's harmful impact serve as reminder that we need to continue using AI, but more responsibly

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

The dark history of forced starvation as a weapon of war against Indigenous peoples https://theconversation.com/the-dark-history-of-forced-starvation-as-a-weapon-of-war-against-indigenous-peoples-262564

In 1791, President George Washington ordered Secretary of War Henry Knox to destroy farms and livestock of the Wea Tribe that lived along the Ohio River valley – a fertile area with a long history of growing corn, beans, squash and other fruits and vegetables.

#Famine #Gaza #History #IndigenousPeoples

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
AlJazeera@flipboard.com ("Al Jazeera") wrote:

In Gaza City, we are saying goodbye
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/19/in-gaza-city-we-are-saying-goodbye?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Middle East News @middle-east-news-AlJazeera

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
markhburton@mstdn.social ("Mark Burton") wrote:

Israel attacks displacement shelters to force Palestinians to southern Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/8/19/israel-targets-displacement-shelters-in-central-gaza?traffic%5Fsource=rss

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

"We're breaking Gaza apart, leaving it as a pile of rubble, with total unprecedented destruction in the world. And the world still hasn't stopped us."

#Smotrich, asking the world to stop him

https://mastodon.social/@agitprop%5Fn%5Fabsurdity/115056114802396020

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
agitprop_n_absurdity ("agitprop & absurdity") wrote:

Israel’s Minister of Finance Beelzebub Smotrich:

"We conquer, cleanse, and stay... On the way, we annihilate everything that still remains.….We're breaking Gaza apart, leaving it as a pile of rubble, total unprecedented destruction."

Attachments:

• video: a7e0fc117357205f.mp4

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Npars01@mstdn.social ("Nicole Parsons") wrote:

@ErikUden

Examine the money that funded anti-protest laws.

The fossil fuel industry is bent on a course of replacing democracy with oil oligarchy & fossil fuel funded fascism.

Criminalizing protest is part of their strategy to keep frying the planet.

https://www.desmog.com/2023/06/29/rishi-sunak-boasts-that-oil-funded-think-tank-helped-us-draft-crackdown-on-climate-protests/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/anti-protest-laws-fossil-fuel-lobby

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/fossil-fuel-anti-protest-bills-in-montana-virginia-and-illinois-threaten-free-speech-and-climate-advocacy/

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17122024/shell-wins-injunctions-against-uk-gas-station-protesters/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/anti-protest-bills-trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/27/mountain-valley-pipeline-protest

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/29/high-court-challenge-to-constitutionally-unprecedented-uk-anti-protest-law

https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/liberty-defeats-government-appeal-as-court-rules-anti-protest-laws-are-unlawful/

https://www.scottishlegal.com/articles/england-further-court-defeat-for-uk-government-over-anti-protest-laws

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

"Democrat warns US progressives against moving toward the center: ‘It lost me the election’"

If the Dems can't get it done by moving further right, then their corporate donors will settle for Trump's flavor of fascism. In their minds, whatever the cost fascism brings, is pennies compared to a more progressive, socialist government.

So, it's plutocracy (statusquo) or its fascism. Those are their choices. They won't move further left. Ever.

#politics #democrats

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/19/india-walton-interview-progressives-democrats

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🍑") wrote:

We're slowly seeing what leftists always warned about in the UK: all these laws against 'terrorism' are now expanding the definition to be used against every day citizens, from authors being arrested for donating money to activist organizations or hundreds being arrested for protesting a genocide.

It's never just a word, never just a law, and it'll never just affect everyone but you.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
royaards@newsie.social ("Tjeerd Royaards") wrote:

Today's editor's choice on @cartoonmovement, by Spanish cartoonist Saúl Cabanillas Hernández. Despite increasing repression, the voices to stop the genocide grow louder and louder.

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