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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
ehtelescope ("Event Horizon Telescope") wrote:

Hello Mastodon!

We’re the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) - a global network of telescopes working together to study black holes and other extreme cosmic phenomena.

In 2019, we captured the first image of a supermassive black hole (M87*), followed in 2022 by Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

Follow @ehtelescope for scientific updates, behind-the-scenes looks at our worldwide collaboration, and the latest discoveries from the edge of space and time.

Boosted by jwz:
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Remember:
•1 million seconds is about 11 days
•1 billion seconds is about 32 years

Nobody earns or needs a billion dollars. We should return to our tax rate of 1940-1980, where the super wealthy paid 94% marginal tax.

Billionaires are the only minority destroying our country, and our world. Abolish billionaires. Invest in working people. Save our democracy.

Boosted by jwz:
mainframed767@infosec.exchange ("Soldier of FORTRAN :ReBoot:​") wrote:

To celebrate Hackers 30th I present Plymouth boot screens

https://github.com/mainframed/Hackers-Plymouth

#Hackers #hackers30th #hacktheplanet

Attachments:

• gifv: aa034121e3cda3b6.mp4
• gifv: fd31258538445a31.mp4
• gifv: 609b12b9203f97a8.mp4
• gifv: de58148491572d9a.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
Stevenheywood@mastodonapp.uk ("Steven Heywood") wrote:

@tschenkel @ChrisMayLA6
"You've joined a march organised and led by a convicted football hooligan with a criminal record of race-hate violence, fraud, passport fraud and drug use and his equally racist and fascist mates."
"They're a small minority. We have legitimate concerns."
"I have legitimate concerns that your racism has led you to hold hands with the sort of people your grandad was shooting at in World War Two."
"That's a disgusting thing to say!"
"That's a disgusting thing to do."

I've found that, after decades of hearing the same old guff, over the past week I've finally run out of patience with "legitimate concerns," they can fuck off.

Boosted by jwz:
FlohEinstein@chaos.social wrote:

Why use a URL shortener when you can use a phishy URL extender?

https://phishyurl.com/

Keep your security people alert and awake, generate phishing-looking redirecting links

#infosec

Boosted by jwz:
InternetEh@dads.cool ("Sid🇵🇸") wrote:

I'd hate to live in North Korea, where you get punished for not mourning friends of the ruling party publicly and sincerely enough

Boosted by jwz:
mel@jorts.horse ("mel!") wrote:

the punishment is a bit medieval but i appreciate the enthusiasm

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
nedhamson1 ("Ned Hamson") wrote:

Elon Musk accused of ‘inciting violence’ in UK, as four police officers seriously injured during protests

Oh well, at least we locked up all those grannies and sign-holders the other week. Not a peep from Elon Musk about their free speech, mind. — Read on www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/elon-musk-unite-the-kingdom-tommy-robinson-violence-397891/

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2025/09/14/elon-musk-accused-of-inciting-violence-in-uk-as-four-police-officers-seriously-injured-during-protests/

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

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

not even Apple uses compact tabs they're completely broken in Safari 26

(does it works for you? how nice)

Attachments:

• gifv: Safari 26 compact tab button functionality like refresh and close tab does not work

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
rl_dane@polymaths.social ("R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:") wrote:

You are kidding me!

This is the coolest way to view markdown files I've ever discovered:

lowdown -stman somefile.md |man -l -

#markdown #man #mandoc

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
rl_dane@polymaths.social ("R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:") wrote:

@kkremitzki

That's right, I also use lowdown to convert my blog into gemini: gemini://tilde.pink/~rldane/gemlog

It's not a perfect conversion by far, but it gets the job (mostly) done. ;)

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
kkremitzki ("Kurt Kremitzki") wrote:

@rl_dane Very cool! Just to share for others, from `apt show lowdown`, "Lowdown is a Markdown translator producing HTML5, roff documents in the ms and man formats, LaTeX, gemini, and terminal output."

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

If you click the click the ⓘ (circled "i") — apparently a button — you can remain on macOS Sequoia and still get Safari 26

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social ("Obsidian Urbex Photography") wrote:

🗓️Get your #preorder in! 15% off my Beautiful Abandoned Places Calendar 2026

📷 Each month a full-page A4 photograph, enjoy the unusual beauty of lost places.
🔎 A short caption with history or the story
✍️The lower half has plenty of room for your notes/plans
📨 Calendars ship end Oct/early Nov, in perfect time for Christmas.

https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/shop/calendars/beautiful-abandoned-places-calendar-2026/

#Photographer #Support #Calendar #Photography
#SupportSmallBusiness #Christmas #ChristmasGift #Calendar2026

Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Arnold Schwarzenegger reminds us that he is, deep down, a right-wing Republican. Don't buy his "democratic principles" bullshit for a second as he condemns California's essential-to-pass response to Republican election rigging.

https://apnews.com/article/arnold-schwarzenegger-trump-california-house-redistricting-d15c5dcad9829b94c42cea1118ea782d

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

Xcode 26 appears to still have the "super autocomplete" that I mostly liked, letting me ignore the Claude/ChatGPT coding assistance if I want to. (They're not very good with Swift in my understanding/experience.)

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 Digaron-W lens, Phase One IQ4-150 back, a small amount of vertical shift.

The San Mateo Bridge, spanning the San Francisco Bay just south of SFO Airport, is relatively unremarkable except for its seemingly endless length. Occasionally known locally as the "S&M Bridge" for its often painful traffic congestion, looked at from the right distance, it can appear rather serine.

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

San Mateo Bridge, San Francisco Bay, San Mateo, CA, 2024.

All the pixels, no rush hour traffic, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54129314405

#photography

Boosted by jwz:
ylegall@genart.social ("Yann Le Gall") wrote:

assorted sketches with twisting ribbons

Attachments:

• gifv: d28ee58318c940d3.mp4

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

Some “Thiel worshippers” on the scene!

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

A familiar face makes an apearance at Peter Thiel’s Secret Antichrist Lecture in San Francisco. A line of protestors has greeted the line of tech bros waiting to hear Thiel

jwz wrote:

The White House wants to make it *very* clear that Nosferatu Van Goebbels does *not* play with porcelain dolls.

Stephen Miller Is Leading Donald Trump's Reign of Terror:
https://jwz.org/b/ykvU

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:

when i become CEO of Microsoft, i’m replacing Github Copilot with a picture of a rubber duck

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

It's really hard to make plans right now.

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

It's interesting to watch people demand empathy and sympathy from others when they would under no circumstances offer the same

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)") wrote:

It's weird how all these companies are firing people for being hostile to fascists instead of firing fascists for being hostile to everyone.

🤷🏻‍♂️

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

These are too beautiful. #pokemon

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
plexus@toot.cat ("Arne Brasseur") wrote:

Well yes, soylent green _is_ people, but you can't just apply existing homicide laws to a business like ours. The entire humans-as-nutritional-sludge industry would be out of business.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

#enshittification

Next month, Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows devices outside of the EEA region that have the Microsoft 365 desktop client apps, Bleeping Computer writes.

"The Microsoft 365 Copilot app integrates the AI-powered Copilot assistant with Microsoft 365 suite apps, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as other features like Notebooks and AI agents.

"Redmond also advised admins to notify their organizations' helpdesk teams and users before the app is forcibly installed on their devices "to reduce confusion and support requests."

"The rollout will start in early October and be completed by mid-November; however, the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will not be installed on systems within the European Economic Area (EEA)."

The new AI mantra: You want it. You get it. We got what you need. You ain't gotta sweat it; we're gonna make you bleed.

[okay I stole that last bit from Chris Smither]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-to-force-install-the-microsoft-365-copilot-app-in-october/