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alisonphipps@mastodon.scot ("Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡") wrote:
Yes, it’s Genocide
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adamghill@indieweb.social wrote:
My wife is on a stained glass kick recently and this #Godzilla is amazing.
I love the fire everywhere, atomic breath, and the textured glass for its body.
#art #stainedglass #movies #artist #cinemastodon #Letterboxd #monsterdon #japan #cinema #horror
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:
The federal judge let Google off the hook in the antitrust case that the company supposedly lost. He said no to any serious remedy. And he indirectly killed Mozilla (Firefox and Thunderbird).
A good day for Google, and a terrible day for what's left of the open web.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/google-wont-have-to-sell-chrome-judge-rules/
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
What I remember about my EMS days mostly were a few near-PTSD-inducing jobs (none as intense as the one at the end of the article, though), but chiefly a level of camaraderie that I've rarely encountered sense (perhaps helped by the lens of nostalgia). I was an EMS medic in the early 80's, before it merged into FDNY, still during the long tail of the city's financial crisis. Everything was breaking all the time. The city was more violent. But it felt meaningful, and we had each other's backs.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“A temple was worth a dozen barracks; a militia man carrying a gun could control a small unarmed crowd only for as long as he was present; however, a single priest could put a policeman inside the head of every one of their flock, for ever.”
from “Matter” by Iain M. Banks
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
That said, at this particular moment, I am very definitely likely to react uncharitably to strangers advising me to be "nicer" or "more understanding".
Ditto "you have a lot of followers so you have to expect this/accept this". No, I really don't. No one does.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
noplasticshower@infosec.exchange wrote:
The law does, in fact, matter.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/09/trump-national-guard-law-california/684084/
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
Anyway, if you're a stranger and I respond uncharitably to a genuine reply from you, I apologize. I know I must do that from time to time, and it's not who I want to be.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
I'm able to keep it under control with unapologetically hair-trigger blocking, but that's the only thing that keeps it bearable for me at this point.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
I'm coming to the conclusion, perhaps late to the party, that the old Twitter troll farms have started to migrate here in earnest. Or this place has recently attracted a much higher than usual number of very angry, unhinged people. Or maybe both.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
adam@elefanti.co ("Adam Isacson") wrote:
Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed.
"Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/politics/us-military-strike-caribbean
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Mastodon FeedThe Alleged Sandwich.
We go now to DC:
https://jwz.org/b/ykuu
Mastodon FeedIn the last 4 hours, fail2ban has nuked nearly *two thousand* distinct IP addresses for probing .git/config
Mastodon FeedThe murderbots need not love us, so long as they fear us.
At one point, three Waymos were all stalled, seemingly confused:
https://jwz.org/b/ykur
Mastodon FeedBoosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:
We hit $3000 raised so the second sticker reveal is here - its omg.lol's _other_ mascot - Penelope!
BUT WAIT - more stickers?! For your $20 you're going to be getting _four_ stickers, which will be revealed at $6k and $8k raised!
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Mastodon FeedBoosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
@georgetakei Wow, I've haven't seen such a severe case of unbalanced humours in years. He really needs to get to the leech farm soon.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
It's been a pretty weird few days here for me.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
I just spent a solid 20 minutes after class going through my mentions for the day and hitting block, and then one I missed popped up. Like Whack-a-Mole but without having to insert any quarters.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("Joe Groff") wrote:
what does it say that when i hear that "Fooble is forked from Barble" these days, my first question is "which one's the nazi one"
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
traitors as victims? riggggggght
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
Captured with a 45mm shifting and tilt/swing lens and a DSLR camera. A bit of swing kept the side of the trestle in sharp focus, and a bit of shift enabled the framing.
The long, tall, Alhambra Viaduct on the BNSF railroad is also known as the "John Muir Trestle". People far bolder than I had tagged it with graffiti.
This is mostly a study in lines and convergence.
Infrastructure is heroic.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
Alhambra (Muir) Viaduct, Martinez, CA, 2010.
All the pixels, none of the hiking or physical activity required, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4685718995
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
but of course
Mastodon FeedBoosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
@aapis I get that you think I’m working on the wrong things. That’s very clear. But I find it unhelpful that neither you nor any of the other people so righteously angry about my personal ineffectiveness have suggested what I should be doing differently, or revealed how their own work does any better
Mastodon FeedBoosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
@aapis Most of my work concerns enabling trustworthy elections in adversarial environments and with imperfect technology. Maybe that’s not the most important thing to focus on at this moment in history - I don’t have sufficient clarity of vision to really know - but I do what I can with the tools I have.
Mastodon FeedDNA Lounge Update, Wherein you vote for us in Best of the Bay
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2025/09/02.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Today in "no shit"
Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:
Thanks to the amazing support and generosity of a bunch of omg.lol members yesterday, we were able to make a really nice (large!) donation to the @robb × omg.lol fundraiser!
There are still some lifetime address upgrades available, so if you’d like to hook yourself up with omg.lol for the long haul and support an amazing cause at the same time, this is your chance!
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Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Reminder: The Shattering Peace, my next novel and the 7th installment in the Old Man's War series, is out two weeks from today! Still time to pre-order from your favorite bookstore, and to plan to see me on my US book tour! Here's the link with all the tour info:
