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Boosted by jwz:
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

Vanity Fair staffers threaten to walk out over a proposed Melania cover: “We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife… if this happens, i’m gone, and so is half my team.” www.thedailybeast.com/i-will-walk-...

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

This is the kind of headline that makes me so disgusted with journalism right now: "After six months in ICE custody, Charlotte woman chooses voluntary removal to Honduras" --

ICE kidnapped and imprisoned her. ICE subjects its prisoners to all kinds of indignities and abuses. She "agreed" to leave due to vile conditions inside, as story notes.

There is NOTHING voluntary about this. It's like a "confession" after torture.

At the very least, the headline should have put "voluntary" in quotes.

Boosted by jwz:
Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io ("Doc Impossible") wrote:

Okey dokey, the new COVID vaccine restrictions suck, & you can only get one if you have a condition that makes you high risk.

Here's the CDC's own list of conditions that meet that definition, and will let you get a shot if you want it.

Let's note the most common ones:

Asthma

Any mood disorder, from depression to anxiety to serious stuff like schizophrenia. If you are now or have ever been on antidepressants or antianxiety meds, you should have a pretty solid case you can make.

You have a BMI of 30+ (disclaimer: BMI is a racist, eugenicist measure, but if it lets you get a vaccine that could save your life or long-term health, go ahead and use it this time).

And here's the important one:

**You are physically inactive**. Most Americans who work office jobs can make the case that they live a sedentary life to a doctor. That can get you a shot.

So yeah. Talk to your PCP, or just go to the pharmacy when these shots become available, find your loophole condition, and protect yourself. COVID is solidly on the rise again.

I don't want a trip to the hospital. I'll be getting my shot. You should too.

Oh, and get your flu shot while you're at it! The flu still kills 20-30,000 people a year in the US alone!

https://www.cdc.gov/covid/risk-factors/index.html

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

And it's not just Hitler. Sniper Elite lets you shoot any Nazi in the balls you want. In Sniper Elite 3, there's even a setup where if you get into just the right place and have a powerful enough rifle, you can shoot four Nazis in the balls with one bullet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4XSwqNCDnc

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Drink special for Curse Mackey: continuous vetting -- Casamigos mezcal, simple, lime grapefruit, splash of soda and a dash of paranoia.

Attachments:

• gifv: d402959926393660.mp4

jwz wrote:

It was hard to pick pull quotes from this because every paragraph is perfect:

Anthony Moser: I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

https://jwz.org/b/ykuI

jwz wrote:

The power we use and the power we give.

Philip Bump: It is useful and important to look at this question not through the lens of persuasion but the lens of power. Your engagement and your work, not unlike your vote, is a form of power, something you...
https://jwz.org/b/ykuG

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Just finished watching this retelling of the epic of Gilgamesh, and the analysis at the end was very fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXhXsi%5FC-bY

(I wish there wouldn't be so many jump-cuts, but oh well…)

#history

Boosted by jwz:
pbump@journa.host ("Philip Bump") wrote:

I wrote about my transition from The Washington Post and how I'm looking at my future. But mostly I wrote about who is trying to use your power for their own purposes. https://www.pbump.net/o/the-power-we-use-and-the-power-we-give/

Boosted by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
elly@donotsta.re wrote:

checking whether the C compiler works... no

Understandable, have a nice weekend

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

Thank you all for your donations so far. It’s the middle of the week and we’re almost half way there.

Can we get this to $500 by the end of the week so Aseel can feed her family?

Please share.

💕 https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115095609666982728

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

Our life became nothing but a search for food, drinking water and shelter.

We only look for food and water to live one more day. We know death can come anytime but we still try to survive.

Now we realize that as time passes, the chances to survive are getting smaller and may soon disappear completely.

Kindly help my family to survive in the link in the bio

#palestine #gaza

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

@Aseelsehwel @aral @palestine At the same time the Israeli government is placing paid ad videos on YouTube claiming that everything is fake news, the markets are full, people are going to the restaurants, everyone is happy and have everything what they need available. It’s quite infuriating

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële") wrote:

Smolweb validator v1.3.0 provides a new experimental analysis of the CSS of your page. It does not analyse the complexity of the CSS selectors (only in a future version).

Rules that determine the grade of each CSS property or property value are in a config file.

The online validator also generates how a basic #smolweb browser render your page

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
ricci@discuss.systems ("Rob Ricci") wrote:

Hey cis folks in the US: there is a high probability that things are going to get even darker here for your trans family, friends, neighbors, and strangers. Now is the time to show them that you will stand up for them.

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

Day 1 of the @robb + omg.lol St. Jude fundraiser is in the books, and we’ve already raised over $1,000! :prami_happy: Huge thanks to everyone who donated and got things rolling today. You’re all awesome!

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• gifv: Thank You So Much Laughing GIF by Pusheen

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

(Okay I admit, my inner monologue is not very good with the insults. Come to think of it, neither is my outer monologue.

Also, did they just create that blog yesterday to make that post? It's the only one on there. Stellar.)

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

Wow. It's like somebody's been eavesdropping on my inner monologue about these slop machines.

"I Am An AI Hater":

https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

Especially this part:

"They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave."

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
thomholwerda@exquisite.social ("Thom, I use 9front btw") wrote:

Fahrenheit is the Comic Sans of temperature scales.

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

@LillyHerself Tilt and Swing movements (which are possible with large format view cameras and as a feature on a handful of specialized DSLR lenses) tilt the plane of focus away from the film/sensor plane. Usually, the same distance from the camera is in focus across the frame. With tilt and swing, the focal distance changes across the frame. This can be used to keep, e.g., the ground in focus in a landscape as it goes to the distance, or, as here, to restrict what's in focus to a narrow slice.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:

“My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece & lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him & his legacy proud. The nation’s health security is at risk & is in the hands of people focusing on ideological self-interest.”

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

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

This was made with a DSLR and a swinging lens to provide selective focus on the milepost at left. This moved the plane of focus to be non-parallel with the sensor, yielding only a sliver in focus.

Image was was captured at "Park Junction" in Philadelphia, where the former Reading Railroad once met the former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. What caught my eye was the old school graffiti moniker on the base of the milepost, in a style traditionally used by yard workers and hobos to tag freight cars.

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

Park Junction, Philadelphia, PA, 2010.

More pixels than are warranted at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4472088022

#photography

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

What's the best part of this thread?

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/170758

/cc @Migueldeicaza

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Always fascinating to watch how an artist can draw some circles and then just "draw the rest of the effing owl" (or gorilla in this case.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr5CWB338xE

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

DC is now a sanctuary city for the proverbial ham sandwich.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

Cookies

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
lindsey@recurse.social ("Lindsey Kuper") wrote:

OOPSLA accepted papers list is out! https://2025.splashcon.org/track/OOPSLA

Looking forward to the Jonathan Brachthäuser session

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
audubonballroon ("Audubon Ballroon (he/him)") wrote:

@bpppennsylvaniachapter, a Black Goddess/King shared the video below.

#blacklivesstillmatter #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackmastodon

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• video: b132cd6d08291841.mp4

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

understanding the difference between lawful & unlawful orders is about to become important again:

https://www.militaryandveteranslaw.com/blog/2024/02/lawful-and-unlawful-orders-can-you-tell-the-difference/

https://mstdn.social/@MaryAustinBooks/115100972566488559