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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

surprising result, to me, was I went with jekyll. it feels like the yaml config + front matter is the most agnostic, and the layout/include model seemed easiest for me to explain to a second maintainer. huh! 2025!
https://tech.intersects.art/@xor/115023085710038885

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luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:

Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers to make sure everyone will still have access.

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dreamwidth.org@bsky.brid.gy ("Dreamwidth Status") wrote:

Reminder that we will begin geoblocking connections from Mississippi tonight, plus new news: we must also temporarily block signups from users under 18 from Tennessee. dw-news.dreamwidth.org/44774.html

Captcha Check

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

Tomorrow, I will introduce you to an anonymous, minimalist writing platform!

With:

• weekly themes to inspire short texts of 300–1,000 characters.
• Daily reveals of the previous day's writings that create collective literary moments at 6 UTC.
• No account creation required, just optional signatures.
• multilingual content (EN/FR subdomains, with more to come soon).
• RSS feeds for slow reading
• SmolWeb compatible!!!

#SmolWeb #Writing #Fediverse #Literature #Anonymous #Privacy

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
nsmsn@social.lol ("Nick Simson") wrote:

Infomercial time:

My Mastodon instance, social.lol is part of a fun small web product offering called omg.lol. During the next month, we're participating in a fundraiser for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. https://omglol.news/st-jude-2025

You can in fact power your online presence with a fun omg.lol web and email address for $20 a year. I happen to use it (with a custom domain) for a little link-in-bio style page at https://nsmsn.co (but that's just me)

I spent a little bit of time writing up how I'm using (or not using) every little feature in case you're been curious about what you get with a membership. Published on my primary website: https://nicks.im/posts/2025-how-i-omglol.html

I'm also proudly sponsoring an annual membership, if you want a fun home on the web but can't afford the annual fee for any reason. https://home.omg.lol/info/sponsorships

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Unlike the boring company's hole these futuristic almost trains can run in two directions at once. They are also still worse than trains in everyway a lesson learned in the 70s

I think they are cute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vca3EF4C5xU

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ieure@retro.social ("yaml nitrate") wrote:

Report from the World's Longest Jeans

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ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🍑") wrote:

i hope all the people who had endless debates with me in 2021 about how NFTs are the future and not just some grift bubble feel... something. like, are you okay, man? how have you been???

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

Before you add an AI-generated image to your blog post, have you considered saving even more time and just putting “YOU CAN STOP READING NOW” in 120 point text

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

The headline here is that

(1) the increasingly authoritarian US government demanded that Google suppress videos serving the public interest because those videos are embarrassing to government officials, and

(2) Google readily over-complied with that request, deleting not just the videos but the entire channel.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/31/fda-official-youtube-videos

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luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state needs to do this!

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attoparsec@clacks.link ("Matthew Dockrey") wrote:

Now THAT is a comprehensive set of warning icons!

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
greenpeace ("Greenpeace International") wrote:

If trains are the greener option, why are we basically being punished for choosing them?

The difference in trains vs planes ticket prices isn’t a coincidence, it’s the result of a transport system that rewards pollution.

Learn more: https://act.gp/460kBvh

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damianogerli ("Damiano Gerli") wrote:

Those '80s developers weren't messing around.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:

I have mixed feelings about this article. The writer, a longtime New Yorker employee, eventually comes to the right conclusion: that human minds are original and “never say quite what you expect”, whereas AI is unoriginal & often cliched. But I found myself annoyed that this comes from a position of enormous media privilege. Kind of the worst of both worlds. Most bloggers these days have little hope of being part of the cultural conversation, thanks to algorithms and AI. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/ai-is-coming-for-culture?currentPage=all

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

Yall ever get high then edit a paragraph for twenty minutes? RIP Hemingway. He would've hated editing not-sober.

#writing #writer #blogger

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
ElSaltoDiario ("El Salto Diario") wrote:

🔴Miles de activistas han despedido en Barcelona a la flotilla que acaba de zarpar hacia Gaza. Está previsto que otros barcos se unan en el camino a las casi treinta embarcaciones que han salido hoy. Mientras, en Gaza Israel ha matado a más de 100 palestinos desde ayer sábado.

📸 Álvaro Minguito.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
stephie_hamburg@norden.social ("stephie :betterpride_flag:") wrote:

Gideon Levy: »Most of #Israel's Protest Movement Only Cares About the Lives of the #Gaza Hostages – Not of Palestinians.

Opposing total evil, one must stand for total humanity, which is almost non-existent in Israel. If it were fully moral, the protest movement would make its main concern the struggle against #genocide, along with the campaign for the release of the hostages«
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-08-31/ty-article-opinion/.premium/most-of-israels-protest-movement-only-cares-about-the-hostages-and-not-about-palestinians/00000198-fc66-d4e1-a3f8-fc66a1620000 (Paywall)

http://archive.today/DyRU0 🧵

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

My grandfather in WWII. I can't tell if there's any resemblance.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/31/my-grandfather-in-ww2/

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

Fuckwads Andreessen Horowitz are moving their newsletter to Substack. No suprise really, Andreessen invested millions in the platform. https://info.a16z.com/index.php/email/emailWebview?email=MzgyLUpaQi03OTgAAAGcoBLv9rSmKB29V5d-2HKorSuQ047IMXjhy39p8cyRxY8FoMXB8nOY3O1JBVjwWwymdjRjvotIrhinngXi1a%5FcnvUqSx40Lx28LA

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
filippo@abyssdomain.expert ("Filippo Valsorda") wrote:

Sometimes mods will do something I wouldn't have. I'll never know because I will never have the full context, but even then they're not wrong.

They are shaping the community. If I don't like it (e.g. choosing borderline assholes over the rest of us), it's just not my community.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
filippo@abyssdomain.expert ("Filippo Valsorda") wrote:

There's a bit of commotion on Lobsters because an unpleasant-but-technically-correct user finally got banned, and I realized that an unpopular opinion of mine is that moderators are always right.

I don't care about the letter of the CoC. I don't care about transparency, even. Moderation is the fundamentally human and nuanced big-picture job that shapes a community.

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

You don't have to repost stuff here from the former Twitter just to dunk on it. We all agree that place is an open sewer, why track shit from it over to here? And when you bring it here to dunk on it, what you're basically saying is "look how clever I am to mock this pile of shit I'm now smearing on these nice clean walls." You do you, of course, but consider not wading in the sewer and bringing back souvenirs.

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

I could write a book on how much time and money are wasted because spreadsheets with data in them do not have established keys.

No, no you don't understand. It should be high treason to send a spreadsheet without an established key column.

The corporate world is so inefficient. It drives me mad. I wish it didn't. Lol

#freelance #excel #database

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

::sitting on a chair backwards::

You know what would be really skibidi? Donating to St Jude. Yeet those donations at us. frfr.

https://stjude.omg.lol

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
kate@shrike.club ("Well, there is a Kate here.") wrote:

i know everything feels pointless but they all thought the world was ending in the 60s and im way happier walking down a street where they planted some trees back then than one where they didn't

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

👇🏾🫶🏾

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

Captured with a small mirrorless camera and 18mm lens, on a small tripod. I had no shifting lens, so this was shot head on with a wider lens and then cropped.

Harsh midday sun is normally not ideal for architectural photos, but the hard light nicely brought out the clapboard siding of this (since demolished) rather dilapidated old former antique shop.

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

Skin Deep Antiques, Alviso, CA, 2013.

All the pixels, none of which are made like they used to, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/10268102744

#photography

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
BlackAzizAnansi@mas.to ("Black Aziz Anansi :vm:") wrote:

Hey Mastodon,

Israel has issued evacuation orders to @Aseelsehwel and her family but they do not have enough money to leave. They currentlt need roughly $900 to leave, please share this post and donate if you can afford to do so.

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

@mutualaid #gaza