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

blogged: I Shut The Emails Out

https://dbushell.com/2025/09/12/cloudflare-email-smtp-server/

I want off this rollercoaster!

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

“It is RTÉ’s position that Ireland will not take part in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest if the participation of Israel goes ahead … RTÉ feels that Ireland’s participation would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza.”

https://about.rte.ie/2025/09/11/rte-statement-2026-eurovision-song-contest/

🇮🇪❤️🇵🇸

#israel #genocide #boycott #Ireland #Eurovision #Eurovision2026 #BDS #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

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

"product-market fit" aka we've burned millions in VC funding and nobody knows why

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

let's see Paul Allen's CSS reset

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

Our August 2025 Debian Contributions report is out! We have updates on preparing for the setup.py install deprecation in setuptools, Salsa CI, the Debian 13 “trixie” release and more.

Full report here: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-08-2025/

We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/) for making this possible.

#freexian #debian #trixie #setuptools #salsaci

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

Drink Special @ Nitzer Ebb: ETSY WITCHES: Corona and a shot of Bourbon.

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• gifv: 967e832659bca96f.mp4

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#EU: you can't abuse DRM to charge 30% for what costs 3% on the free market

Apple: but we've bundled it with nice features!

EU: price‑gouging is illegal, unbundling it is your problem

Apple: ok, have the 3% fee, but we add a 27% fee for using our mandatory DRM

EU: no

Apple: ok, we'll keep the DRM, and demand different fees that will cost Fortnite 30% of their revenue

EU: no

#Apple: we've tried everything! it's literally impossible to understand why EU keeps fining us for non-compliance!

jwz wrote:

Sibylla Bostoniensis: Given how weirdly comprehensive of the population the CDC's list is, you might reasonably be asking, "Geeze, is there anybody not covered?" Yes, but apparently not many: Your Local Epidemiologist reports that there's an estimate that 75% of the adult US population is covered by the "at least one underlying condition" exception. [...] You're probably covered by it. Every adult you know under 65 and a whole lot of adolescents is probably covered by it.
https://jwz.org/b/ykvG

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

@drpatois You seem to be using that as an insult. Yes. I admit it, I'm a professor. I've testified in congress several times about mobile phone location technology, and I teach a course on the subject at Georgetown, in both the main campus and the law school. So yes, I'm comfortable claiming to be an expert on this topic.

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

He's gonna have to add a few strokes to his handicap.

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

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

In the era of social media there's always a temptation to treat ourselves as having our own personal press offices, putting out press releases on matters of public concern. I have been resisting that temptation about Charlie Kirk's killing because who cares about my hot takes, but I really feel this deeply.

Newsom is using this opportunity to triangulate to the "moderate" position between "we should murder all trans people" and "no, don't do that".

We must remember.

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kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Stand With Chicago Hat") wrote:

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer. New York Times tomorrow

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Trump and his cult, including many Republican office-holders, have been egging on political violence -- aimed at the left -- for years. They are NOT opposed to political violence.

Our "mainstream" journalists seem mostly unwilling to provide that context in their coverage at the moment.

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

Found my copy of the 1989 World Radio-TV Handbook (if you know, you’re a nerd, too), which had this now rather heartbreaking ad for the Voice of America.

@w7voa

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

‘American soybean farmers are heading into harvest season without a single order from China, historically their largest customer, raising alarm bells about the agricultural sector’s stability and broader implications for the U.S. economy…

“Right now, we’re in a very dire situation… China takes more of our soybeans than all other foreign customers combined,” … 50% of U.S. soybeans are exported and China represents a quarter of total demand’

https://fortune.com/2025/09/09/soybean-harvest-china-agricultural-crisis-trump-tariffs-caleb-ragland/

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

Trump attending a Yankees game tonight. AF1 currently on final approach to LGA, where he will presumably get a shuttle bus to the 7 train and then change at Grand Central for a 4 express train to Yankee Stadium.

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

I mean, this isn't exactly a brag, but it's pretty much exactly as bad as I imagined and it's almost certainly going to get worse from here

https://slate.com/business/2025/09/trump-unemployment-crisis-job-market-black-americans.html

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

Magnificent.

https://alignmentalignment.ai/

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

@marcoarment Aren't you doing the laptop-as-desktop thing currently? I am considering it when the M5 MBPs come out; currently I have an M1 Air and an M1 Studio, and an M5 MBP could replace both. But it's been so long since I've done that I can't remember why I switched back to desktop + laptop…

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

Okay, if I am going to do coding in coffee shops, I think I'm going to want to upgrade my laptop just to get a bigger screen. (And it boggles me that my relatively recent, high-end 15" PC laptop from work has a lower-res screen than this 13" M1 MacBook Air.)

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

I want what Brazil has: A Supreme Court with a fucking spine

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/brazil-supreme-court-bolsonaro-guilty-coup

Boosted by jwz:
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

You see how they do this. The words, whatever they are, are described as "transgender and antifascist ideology" but no specifics. They can't tell us what those words might be, because they might be words you agree with. Words like "trans rights" for instance. Or "fuck Nazis", for instance. So they have to be UNDER described as an "ideology".

Meanwhile, the rifle used is explicitly described in detail as "an older model imported Mauser .30-06 caliber bolt action rifle". Friends, that is quite literally a fascist rifle. As in, a rifle that was used by Nazis. Notice how it's not described as a "rifle associated with fascist ideology" though. Because that might make you feel like maybe this shooter was a fascist who thought fascist things, instead of a mean old liberal who had "trans and antifascist ideologies".

They want you to focus on the trans hate, and not the fact that Charlie Kirk was a fascist who peddled hate and violence and fascist disinformation to other fascists for his entire career and he finally reaped what he sowed.

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

Lists, lists, lists. Put people on a list! So satisfying, I guess.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/11/they-do-like-their-lists/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
kib@d-shoot.net ("wizardry variants lori") wrote:

So, the other day at the dollar store I found this $5 fishing game. And I got the idea...what if I bought this and made a bunch of different little creatures/robots/etc. from the fish? And so I made one. And next time I get bored I'll make another one. And maybe in 50 years I'll have made them all.

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

Hi everyone,

@joynewacc and I had video chats over Signal with three more people from Gaza today and I’d love to welcome them to the Gaza Verified family.

They are:

• @abeerabed22
• @baraaelmoghrabi
• @emanahmed

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse and please help with the fundraisers by donating or sharing them if you can.

Thank you all for the amazing support you’re showing our friends and their families in Palestine in their darkest hour.

https://gaza-verified.org

💕

PS. They will be adding the verified link to their accounts over the coming hours. Once they do, their accounts will show that the link is verified. Please bear with them as Internet access is sketchy at best in Gaza and there are sometimes technical challenges.

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #fediAid

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
drwho@masto.hackers.town ("The Doctor") wrote:

Hey, folks. One of my co-workers has a new book out:

https://www.amazon.com/Numbers-that-Dazzled-World-Imagination/dp/B0FQFVLGHN

#mathematics #history

Boosted by jwz:
kingrat@sfba.social ("Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)") wrote:

It's not up on the COVID vaccine page yet, but Kaiser just announced that vaccinations will be available to everyone in their network starting Monday (according to NBC).

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/kaiser-covid-vaccine/3946558/?%5Fosource=SocialFlowTwt%5FBAYBrand

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stveje@mstdn.social ("S.T. Veje") wrote:

All these people falling over themselves to praise Charlie Kirk worry me way more than whoever killed him. It's not a great sign when we can't condemn a man like Kirk.

If we want political violence to end, we *must* be able to condemn people like Charlie Kirk long before it comes to violence. People who are openly proud of their lack of empathy and who work hard to spread hatred of others belong in psychiatric care or prison, not at the head of political organizations.

#CharlieKirk #USPol

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

24 years ago today. Still aches.