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

"... among many Democrats and some Memphis residents, there was deep discomfort with what some described as a performative show of force in a predominately Black city. Memphis, like most of the cities singled out for perceived leadership failings, is led by a Black mayor, and has other prominent Black leaders in city government. The head of the police department is also Black." https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:di7epi7naqi3rharpcogc5sf/post/3lynh53oxe224

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Also forgot to mention that if you give at https://stjude.omg.lol, your donation and custom message are piped into the omg.lol IRC firehose channel, and a bunch of people will see how awesome you are and cheer you on! 🎉🥳

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

And regular lifetime upgrades are still available (log into https://home.omg.lol/addresses to find the upgrade button), but not for much longer. Can probably only do another small handful before I have to turn off the tap. But half of everything goes to St. Jude, so if you’ve been thinking about doing it, this is the time!

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Time for a @robb + omg.lol St. Jude fundraiser update!

So far, we’ve collectively raised $8,752.96 for St. Jude, which is awesome! And if we can raise that much again (plus a tiny bit more) before the end of the month, we’ll have raised $50K total since we started doing this in 2023. 🤩

Donations of $20+ get an awesome sticker pack with fun Ruminate and omg.lol stickers! You can also support via the lifetime address auctions on https://bids.lol!

Give here: https://stjude.omg.lol ❤️

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

I had to spend this morning understanding the phrase "furry meme bullet" and I can confirm that this is the worst possible timeline.

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

srsly yes

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mdn ("MDN Web Docs") wrote:

📣 Web devs — we need your input!

We're running a short survey (1–2 min) to understand interest in using ReadableStream as a request body in the Fetch API.

Help us guide implementation priorities, especially around support & use cases.

Fill it up! 👇
https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8460326/Fetch-Request-Streaming

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:

Sharing my initially thoughts on using Vim for day-to-day text editing.
https://chriswere.wales/posts/ive-finally-made-it-to-vim!.html

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

(I expect this to accrue a fair number of blockable comments, do your level best not to be one of them, thank you in advance)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Quantensalat@scicomm.xyz ("Alexander Knochel") wrote:

@jsonstein Nice, tell them I said Hi :)
I'm particularly proud that I started with no pre made schematic or plan at all and tinkered myself to a working push pull design half simulating with LTSpice and half by trial and error.

Here's my very first real QSO after it was finished

https://youtu.be/-eqXxwfnthk

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

So I know dozens of trans folk and have met multiples of that number more in my life and honestly the most egregious thing I have ever known any of them to do is ABSOLUTELY OVERSHARE about their love of KPop Demon Hunters, which to be fair I IMMEDIATELY DID IN RETURN, I know this experience is anecdotal, nevertheless based on my personal knowledge if anytime something horrible happens and you immediately proclaim it's a trans person's fault, I'm just gonna file you as a piece of shit transphobe

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

Fall Afternoon

Golden leaves drifting,
Sunshine warms the quiet grass,
Time slows, whispers peace.

( courtesy Argh Studios Storyteller https://arghstudios.com )

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

buying a domain is like: $1.12 / year

(renews at one million dollars)

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

what an ugly rebrand... colours are ok but the uppercase font and bottom heavy "S" is ghastly

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

Hell yes to this. Especially fact check the shit you agree with. The people who spread disinformation are happy to cater to your biases to get you to believe and forward things uncritically.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@theheatherashley/post/DOgF2k0DUuo

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
mohshbair ("Mohammed from Gaza 🍉") wrote:

Have a coffee together with me, and let’s spend a moment together. Tell me about your day. I care about your comfort, my dear friends.

#FreePalestine #FreeGaza #StopGenocide #SaveGazaPeople

Attachments:

• video: Mohammed Shobair, 22 years old, from Gaza City, having coffee together with you, my friends from overseas.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
mohshbair ("Mohammed from Gaza 🍉") wrote:

Hello my friends, this is Mohammed Shobair from Gaza City.

This afternoon, treat yourself to a coffee, and let’s pretend we have it together, from a distance.

It’s important to have a break and to spend time together with your loved ones, or thinking about them

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

This simple composition was made with a small FF mirrorless camera, 21mm lens, and travel tripod during a short hike.

I didn't have any ND filters with me, so ended up having to shoot this in the bright midday light at f/8. That yields too much DoF to allow focus to separate the tree from the background. But fortunately there was just enough haze to reduce the contrast of the distant hills a bit, yielding a high contrast subject with a lower contrast background. So it worked out in the end.

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

Tree, Red Rock Canyon, NV, 2011.

All the pixels, none of the colors, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/5766414314

#photography

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

I remember someone has published a post about a tool permitting to generate diagrams (boxes with arrows) in plain text. I don't manage to retrieve the name of this tool.

User is able to draw ascii boxes with the mouse, I remember

Anybody could help me?

#markdown #textonly #cli #tui

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

Hi everyone, I’d like to welcome Hala and her family (@ghassangaza) to Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org)

I had a video chat with her a few minutes ago over Signal.

She is a mother from Gaza struggling to keep her children safe and fed.

I met Sama, the most adorable child you see in her profile photo during our chat. She was wearing a t-shirt with a lovely swan embroidered on it and I got the most heartwarming smile when I complimented her on it.

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow them, help with the fundraiser if you can (they’re still in the danger zone and haven’t been able to afford to move South), and share their story so we can find others who can help.

Here’s a direct link to her fundraiser:

https://gofund.me/8e758692

Thank you!

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #fediAid #GazaVerified #FreePalestine

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
abeerabed22 ("Abeer Ehab🍉") wrote:

Sudden calls, sounds of departure, homes left as if they never were. Memories, laughter, steps erased. In Gaza, even homes are targets, the air full of fear. Hunger tears us, terror destroys us. Help us you are our only hope

https://gofund.me/f6e9cc9d
@aral
@joynewacc

#Gaza #HelpGaza #GazaUnderAttack #StandWithGaza #SaveGaza #StopTheWar #HumanRights #EndTheSiege

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
joynewacc ("Joy") wrote:

A few days ago, I had a video call with @aral to verify @abeerabed22 for the Gaza Verified
Today, Abeer and I chatted a bit.She's a mom who managed to escape the genocide with her children in Egypt, but her husband is now trapped in Gaza. She has no source of income to pay the rent for the miserable apartment she lives in. Her husband hasn't left the danger zone yet due to a lack of funds needed to evacuate.
Let's help Abeer today & every day, pls

https://www.gofundme.com/f/gw375j-help-abeers-family/cl/s?utm%5Fcampaign=fp%5Fsharesheet&utm%5Fcontent=amp13%5Fc&utm%5Fmedium=customer&utm%5Fsource=copy%5Flink&lang=en%5FAU&attribution%5Fid=sl%3A135441b3-c74f-43da-92fb-bd8dc84d0d22

#gaza @abeerabed22

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

We received reports of a phishing campaign targeting crates.io users. Do not click on links asking to authenticate to protect your account. More information: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/12/crates-io-phishing-campaign/

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

My wife has a talent for growing caterpillars. The plants…not so happy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/12/im-starting-to-pity-the-milkweed/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
csantosb@sigmoid.social ("Cayetano Santos") wrote:

The slides of my talk at #orconf2025 about using #guix in the context of #fpga development.

https://gitlab.com/csantosb/ip/talks/guix-fpga

https://mastodon.social/users/fossifoundation/statuses/115191366166341232

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
mrbiffo@topspicy.social ("Mr Biffo") wrote:

Barely a month old, and our new channel has hit 2k subs. It's not about the big numbers - we just needed a fresh start, and we're grateful to everyone who followed us over. You can see in what we've put out so far that the lightness and silliness is back. New video up now: https://youtu.be/aFAgBSlmfWA?si=6uPNKzSKc17p769Y

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
anon_opin ("Anon Opin") wrote:

Starmer has the worst political instincts of any party leader in history. His entire strategy is trying to appease a bunch of people who already decided years ago they hated him. Meanwhile he's pissing off everybody who tolerated him.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
joenepraat@todon.nl ("joene 🏴🍉") wrote:

WOW! Dit had ik niet verwacht. 🆓🍉

NOS: *Nederland doet ook niet mee aan Songfestival als Israël deelneemt*

https://nos.nl/artikel/2582132-nederland-doet-ook-niet-mee-aan-songfestival-als-israel-deelneemt

"Nederland doet niet mee aan het Eurovisie Songfestival als Israël ook weer meedoet. Dat schrijft omroep AVROTROS in een persbericht.

De omroep "kan de deelname van Israël in de huidige situatie niet langer verantwoorden gezien het voortdurende en ernstige menselijke leed in Gaza". Nederland sluit zich daarbij aan bij Slovenië, Spanje, IJsland en Ierland, die ook niet zullen meedoen als Israël deelneemt. …"

#Israël #Gaza #songfestival #ESF #AVROTROS

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
sarajw@front-end.social ("Sara Joy :happy_pepper:") wrote:

To anyone that was sad that they missed out on the hard copy of the Internet Phone Book (https://internetphonebook.net) - be ready!

You can have another chance today!

At:
10am ET (US)
4pm/16:00 CET (Europe)

I am informed that this page will stop frowning at that time, and allow you to place an order:
https://livingweb.metalabel.com/internetphonebook

Best of luck!

#InternetPhoneBook