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

noted: reading "Progressive Complexity: When Islands Should be a Continent"

https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-09-14T06:08Z/

direct link: https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/when-islands-should-be-a-continent

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

Drink Special @ Secret Psychedelica (Virgo): THE BONE FARMER: Bombay Gin, Soda, Cranberry, Lime.

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• gifv: 5e4e20a6a75e6194.mp4

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gbrugman ("Guus Brugman") wrote:

When concrete blooms — faces crowned with petals

#Streetart #Art #3D #3DArt #3DstreetArt #Creative #Creativetoots #Mural #Trompeloeil #Muurschildering #Straatkunst #Optical #OpticalIllusion #Wall #Painting #Peinture #Gemälde #Pintura #Arte #Flowers #Bloom #Beautiful #Cute #Fun #Funny

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• video: Several street art murals on walls, each showing a human face (or heads portrayed) with large, lush clusters of flowers arranged above or around the head, as though the flowers form a crown or halo. The styles vary: some faces are realistic, others stylised; some murals use muted tones, others vivid and saturated colours. The flowers are diverse in type: large blossoms, small petals, leaves, vines — some appear to cascade, others stand upright. In many murals, the flower-crowns contrast with the texture of the wall: cracks, bricks, concrete showing through paint. Light and shadow in the murals give volume to both the faces and the floral arrangements. The compositions emphasise the head and crown: faces often framed centrally, sometimes turned slightly, so that the botanical crown is a focal point. The style is both decorative and symbolic: flowers suggest beauty, nature, perhaps growth or flourishing; the juxtaposition of plant and portrait hints at connection between humanity and nature. Paint strokes, layering, and colour blending vary — some artists use sharp outlines for the petals, others soft blending. Overall mood: celebratory, uplifting, whimsical, with floral vibrancy meeting urban grit.

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

Drink Special @ Glōm Fest: Etsy Witches Redacted -- Bumbu rum, Pepsi, lime

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• gifv: 036a27108effc36e.mp4

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Federal judge is upset that Trump regime fabricated evidence and more while breaking other laws, but says he's not going to do anything to punish any lawbreaker. He talks semi-tough but, in the end, is a coward.

https://archive.ph/PKgjp

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Wannabe devs: "Garbage collectors are too slow, I need total control of memory."

Also wannabe devs: writing a todo app with 27 dependencies that eat RAM for breakfast.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I don't know why Tim Robinson shot Charlie Kirk but I trust his instincts

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ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

BBC History

September 15, 1933 (Nazi Germany)

"First raids against 'vagrants'

First raids against 'vagrants' (the term 'vagrants' being used loosely, to include anyone the authorities are suspicious of). Thousands are arrested, although most are soon released. Welfare authorities tighten restrictions against 'vagrants'. 'Disorderly vagrants' can be arrested, assigned to compulsory labour schemes, or incarcerated.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/nazi%5Fgenocide%5Ftimeline%5Fnoflash.shtml

#history #genocide #politics

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/uc-berkeley-turns-over-personal-information-of-more-than-150-students-and-staff-to-federal/article%5Fa4aad3e1-bbba-42cc-92d7-a7964d9641c5.html

UC Berkeley turns over personal information of more than 150 students and staff to federal government

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Let's see what Prusa has been cooking recently. "Balanced" profile with alpha firmware.

What could possibly go wrong? In both, the worst and best case, it is gonna melt some plastic.

#3dprinting

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nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

As continues to be the situation in this case there isn't really anything conclusive about the attackers motives. Earlier in this thread I explained some of the right wing in fighting that could be at play.

https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/115186717824869062

A lot of people watching this case think that analysis (RW infighting) is still possible bc the memes used by the attacker are sometimes all used by right wing groups who strongly disliked Charlie Kirk.

Someone made a helpful flier on this segment of the right wing.

jwz wrote:

There are hundreds of unruly white people marching through the street and blocking traffic. They are shouting slogans and most of them seem to be wearing matching gang colors.

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

this is a very bad sign for the food web

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/climate/pacific-cold-water-upwelling.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.l08.FWb8.WqNTDlrmfv-W&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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xtaldave@xtaldave.net ("Dave nλ=2dsinθ") wrote:

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today.

https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

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assignedmale.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sophie Labelle ") wrote:

The Groyper Wars

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

Boy, I am not looking forward to updating to macOS Tahoe. Which is ironic given how much I love the actual Tahoe. (Although Big Sur is my favorite California place that shares a name with an OS.)

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cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

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capper@crooklyn.social wrote:

Ongoing situation...

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Doctor_Roo ("Doctor Roo") wrote:

SEPTEMBER 13th, 1999

Remembering the brave men and women of Moonbase Alpha, who were lost when the Moon was hurled out of orbit, this day in 1999.

#Space1999 #GerryAnderson #RetroSciFi

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TheViking@newsie.social ("Lillian") wrote:

Kash Patel's shadow.

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anderseknert@swecyb.com ("Anders Eknert") wrote:

#Bluesky making it their top priority to ensure a dead fascist is treated like a saint IMO validates pretty much every concern folks here have raised about that platform in the past. Happy I stuck around even when it was clear fedi wasn't going to win any popularity contests.

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gilduran.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Gil Durán") wrote:

“Palantir: Software that kidnaps.” Spotted in Oakland

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jwz wrote:

@davidgerard @denny
In case you need a karaoke-subtitled sing-a-long version of Ann Magnuson's "Birds Do It, Bees Do It" (1:55:05)
https://archive.org/embed/DNALOUNGE-VIDEO-2016-01-29-CYBERDELIA-TANK-GIRL?start=6905

Or maybe you need 20 minutes of tanks swinging their turrets around while kangaroos fuck? (1:30:27)
https://archive.org/embed/DNALOUNGE-VIDEO-2016-01-29-CYBERDELIA-TANK-GIRL?start=5427

Or just start at the beginning for every nuclear explosion, paired with bikini girls and machine guns.

I'm here to help.

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algoristo@mathstodon.xyz ("Risto A. Paju") wrote:

2D circle inversion fractals on the spherical surface. This was a fun offshoot of my recent Apollonian endeavours, again using the Riemann sphere mapping to go from 3D to 2D for the iterations.

The inversion circle centres come from a tetrakis hexahedron and a triakis icosahedron, so the circles form approximations of a truncated octahedron and a truncated dodecahedron.

#apolloniancircles #apolloniangasket #inversion #circleinversion #riemannsphere #geometricart #fractal #fractalart #pythoncode #opengl #algorithmicart #algorist #mathart #laskutaide #ittaide #kuavataide #iterati

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

@denny someone on bsky posted the best* review of tank girl ever https://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/movies/review.php?f=long/tankgirl.txt

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researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:

Reminder that you can't insult a conservative or a fascist by pointing out their lies or hypocrisy

The more brazen their hypocrisy, the bigger a flex they and their followers take it to be

Call them weak

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

The Road Goes On Forever by The Highwaymen on LOUD

https://pandora.app.link/pdLzHZSyDWb

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

This is fine 🔥🐶

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/11/google-gemini-ai-training-humans

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

This is fine 🔥🐶

https://princess.industries/@vyr/statuses/01K4ZPG60FKT6WKGYS18AZVPAN

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

This is fine 🔥🐶

https://mstdn.social/@jukkan/115198435789580819