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lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E09
🎥 Episode: Protocol
🎬 Directed by: Akihiko Nishiyama
📅 Release Date: August 31, 1998
⏯ Frame: 1040

Frame from the series Serial Experiments Lain

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

Drink Special @ Death Guild: BELL RIOTS DAY: Casamigos Mezcal, Soda, OJ, Revolution, Lime Garnish.

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db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐") wrote:

watching: Introducing SvelteKit Remote Functions, by Simon Holthausen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hy7PCbXyqs

I love SvelteKit! It's kinda like Next.js except not an absolute steaming pile of React

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db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐") wrote:

testing the patience of Let's Encrypt's staging rate limiter

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

@ptesarik oh I agree, of course. But the claim that those pushing back against Trump with the tools of law are stupidly wasting our time - which dozens of people have smugly told me today - is simply wrong, and wildly counterproductive.

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

@PeterLudemann congress can pass laws that govern (federal) elections. But congress doesn’t run any actual elections. The states do that.

Just as congress can pass laws that govern restaurants, without actually running any restaurants itself. Restaurant owners do that.

Clear?

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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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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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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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

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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."

Screenshot of pastecode.io showing a small bit of plain text that is blurred with the message "Editor is loading..." overlaid on top.

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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

DS9 scene. Rom is a Ferengi hero who has a large bald head and giant ears and lobes that sort of connect to make a unibrow and a ribbed pine cone looking nose. He's wearing a jacket that looks like those lick and stick backsplash tiles you can get at Lowe's. He's pictured here standing in a corridor, talking to someone and holding/reading a PADD. Closed caption reads, "Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains."

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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

With Substack's latest launch, writers are actually ceding control of the billing relationship to Apple, which now owns and controls the subscription. These transactions, subscriptions, and customers will no longer be accessible in their Stripe account. (little diagram showing people/subscriptions linked to Substack, where Apple will set a 30% fee for handling payments, while Strip charges another 10% before paying the writer) Most importantly, that means that if writers choose to leave Substack, they won't be able to port their paid subscriptions over to another platform like they could previously. This predatory platform lock-in is incredibly dangerous for writers. It strips away data and control, while locking them into the platform.

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Gonna say goodbye to this magnificent heap soon.

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jwz wrote:

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

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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.

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

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