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

Drink Special @ Hubba Hubba: Make Art Degenerate Again -- Bulleit bourbon, lemon, Aperol, Bruto Americano

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• gifv: 980b27be4725563e.mp4

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

This is a perfectly put description of the management style practiced by a seemingly large portion of currently revered "innovators":

> giving an assignment and screaming at engineers until it arrives

(Source: https://electrek.co/2025/09/01/tesla-master-plan-part-4-vague-ai-promises/)

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JaxVent@lgbtqia.space ("Jax UK") wrote:

#men DO NOT STARE AT YOUNG GIRLS.

Had my 15 year old daughter in tears for last hour because she had a man on bus staring at her for a solid 10 minutes and she felt scared, humiliated, frozen, PHYSICALLY SICK.

'first time man stared at me so creepily I felt physically sick' is NOT a milestone ANY girl shoudl have to go through.

FUCKING STOP IT.

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

TIL that there is an "Elite the Musical" based on the Elite video game:

http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/musical/book.htm

Video game:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite%5F%28video%5Fgame%29

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Herne@corteximplant.net ("Problem Fox") wrote:

Just saw Solderpunk's announcement for this year's #ROOPHLOCH , the Remote Outdoor Off-grid Phlogging Challenge, which runs through September.

Finding it on a random read of kelbot's gemlog aggregator gave me yet another great example of why I love #GeminiProtocol and the #smolweb. The event is simultaneously whimsical, creative, and technical while being as simple or complicated as the participant wants to make it.

Find out more at...

gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/announcing-roophloch-2025.gmi

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

"You should be nicer" said the troll.

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

@pigworker Then you can fuck right off.

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

@pigworker
The supreme court has a terrible composition right now. And yet, the judiciary rules against Trump's excesses at least as often as they allow them.

That's the hand we were dealt. Don't want to play it? Get the hell out of the way.

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

One wonders what they think they're accomplishing by shitting on those who are using the tools they have to find paths forward through this mess. Maybe they can't wait for a civil war, imagining themselves to be future heroes of some fantastic, glorious revolution. Or maybe they secretly like the idea of the unstoppable dictator they pretend to oppose.

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

Repeating this, because it really bugs me.

The people here (and I've heard from many of them today) complaining that legal or constitutional analysis of Trump is irrelevant, naive, or pointless because "law can't stop him" are simply wrong. So far, law has been the only tool out there that actually HAS (sometimes) managed to rein him in.

These clowns are doing the fascists' work for them by fatalistically normalizing the administration's lawlessness as unstoppable and inevitable.

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rubenerd@bsd.network ("Ruben Schade :runbsd: 🔰 🇦🇺") wrote:

@mattblaze

I had to put this in my site's FAQ after getting similar messages.

"My expertise, preferences, qualifications, experience, circumstances, constraints, kinks, background, genes, ethics, locale, and sources of joy, wisdom, and/or education may differ from yours, that's why."

Admittedly did nothing to stem the "why not X?" questions, but it made me feel a bit better.

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

I must say, this place has very high expectations of me. Tough room.

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

@ahltorp Again, I apologize if you found my analysis insufficiently broad. However, I think you have also mischaracterized it.

Again, my best advice is to find posters to follow who better serve your needs.

I am sorry that I am unable to be of further assistance.

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bogpunk@chitter.xyz ("Maxxi") wrote:

"Wow, the year 2025. Computers and the internet must be mindblowingly fast now!"

"Plain text has a loading screen."

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

"Why did you post about this thing instead of that other thing?"

It's usually because I am myself more interested in or knowledgable about this thing than I am about that other thing. Or it might be that it didn't occur to me at the time to post about that other thing. Or perhaps many others have already posted about that other thing and my comments would therefore be redundant.

Fortunately, I am no longer the only source of information on the Internet.

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

@ahltorp The reason I posted my thread was to add context to a current event that touched upon an area of my expertise. I apologize if you found it lacking. Hopefully you can find a source of analysis and information elsewhere that better suits your needs.

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nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

@jwz All riots are Bell Riots now.

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

notifications are tiny jump scares we willingly inflict on ourselves out of FOMO

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herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club ("azteclady") wrote:

#PSA #CallToAction

If you have a newsletter (or know someone who has one) on Substack, please pass this link on: soon they won't be able to port their paid subscriptions off to a different platform, because Apple will be handing the money. They must act ASAP to get off the Nazi propaganda platform to an alternative.

#SubstackHasANaziProblem #Substack

https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/substack-just-killed-creator-economy

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Gonna say goodbye to this magnificent heap soon.

jwz wrote:

Happy Bell Riots Day, to all who celebrate.
https://jwz.org/b/ykuj

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I feel like I'm getting the hang of SwiftUI's basics, but it’s kind of like a weird mix between C, web programming, and Excel macros.

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

More of this orchid over the years: https://www.flickr.com/photos/isagalaev/albums/72177720306047034/

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SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange wrote:

Normie cyber people it brings me no pleasure to announce the aerospace cyber people absolutely cooked us

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• video: Badge that tracks planes

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

Our orchid is blooming again. It's been at it for 11 years!
This time I decided to play with focus stacking to get all the flowers in sharp focus, while keeping the background uniformly blurred. It came out a little *too well*, almost unnatural. But it was a nice experiment.

Thanks again to @patdavid for the instructions https://patdavid.net/2013/01/focus-stacking-macro-photos-enfuse/

#photography #FocusStack #flowers

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jackofalltrades@mas.to ("Jack of all trades") wrote:

Norway, the most environmentally superior country on Earth.

https://youtu.be/zYjooTz%5F1lA

#Norway #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #EVs #oil

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
relay@acties.todon.nl ("Todon Acties") wrote:

🍉 Together across borders: Netherlands joins Brussels

Noordstation, Brussel, zondag 7 september om 14:00 CEST

Will you join us in Brussels? 🇵🇸

In cooperation with the Belgian and German delegations, the Global Movement to Gaza NL is organizing a protest at Brussels Noord Station from across Europe for a powerful demonstration on 7 September, and we want every city in the Netherlands to join!

Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Zwolle, Helmond, Enschede and Den Bosch are already on board, who’s next? ✊

See you in Brussels! 🇵🇸

[note: This a part of a larger national demonstration with de title 'Red card genocide']

👥 Global Movement to Gaza NL and others (source)

https://acties.todon.nl/event/together-across-borders-netherlands-joins-brussels-1

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nolan@toot.cafe ("Nolan Lawson") wrote:

Ubuntu and LineageOS have terrible built-in emoji pickers, so I made the emoji-picker-element docs site just copy to clipboard. Gonna make this my go-to instead of searching the web every time I want an emoji: https://nolanlawson.github.io/emoji-picker-element/

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

@mattblaze

Around here, they're banning books, even in high school. So, our plan is to build tiny libraries around the school. We have a resource who will keep us as supplied as possible with the books being banned, and we're going to stock the tiny libraries with age appropriate banned books. We're talking to land owners now, to find folks who will let us put one in their yard. (Which, given that we are in the dead center of Yeehawdist territory, is a delicate conversation.)