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

Sinclair can go fuck itself

https://sbgi.net/sinclair-says-kimmel-suspension-is-not-enough-calls-on-fcc-and-abc-to-take-additional-action/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It's not a big thing, but relatively frequent travel back and forth from the UK has reminded me just how utterly the BBC broke their site with JavaScript for most of the world.

This is BONKERS:

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=250918%5FZiDcPY%5F9RJ-r:1-c:0

Attachments:

• gifv: c648222ff8a20602.mp4

jwz wrote:

Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today.

This version introduced a number of new features:

• Plugins! This was the first time a web page could make sound, via RealAudio.
• Incremental display of progressive JPEGs on slow dialup connections.
• Animated GIFs that were actually useful.
• HTML frames.
• JavaScript! That wasn't my fault, but you still have my apologies.
• And of course my baby, the first release of Netscape Mail and News:

https://jwz.org/b/ykvY

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

Rust 1.90.0 has been released! ✨🦀

This release makes LLD the default linker on x86-64 linux-gnu and adds `cargo publish --workspace` to publish an entire workspace all at once!

Check out the blog post and release notes for more: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/18/Rust-1.90.0/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
MalcolmNance@defenseofliberty.social ("Malcolm Nance") wrote:

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: You cannot designate an idea as a terrorist group.

There is no organization called #ANTIFA. There is no leadership or funding path. There is no membership. Also there is no law in #American to charge terrorism. Ask Luigi.

What he is doing is setting the stage to designate ANY American as a terrorist. That’s #Fascism.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

the big logo on the 11ty home page is now a font awesome icon 🥰

https://www.11ty.dev/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I'm old enough to remember when Chrome *didn't* shove Plus into every nook and cranny:

https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-ai-chrome-browser/

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 HR-Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50), Cambo 1250 Camera.

This humble, somewhat dilapidated shelter, a few miles south of SFO airport, once housed a medium wave aviation beacon (NDB). It currently hosts a variety of aviation surveillance sensors. Its location is also waypoint on the way to SFO runway 28R.

This kind of infrastructure, integral to so much in the modern world, is often nearly invisible, yet also heroic.

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

FAA "BRIJJ" Station, Foster City, CA, 2024.

All the pixels, no flight plan required, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54128020212

#photography

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

My god, it really is going to be Jimmy Kimmel, not any of the "respectable" news outlets, that shows us how corrupted this Supreme Court has become:

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cpvlje8v17wt

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

I agree with Rebecca.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/18/rebecca-watson-spills-the-tea/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6MShHqqZrw

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

(obviously, it goes without saying that we shouldn't believe anything a pathological liar says, even in his own defence, but that he imagines this will resonate with others is telling)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Imagine, if you can, a moral compass so demagnetised that it's possible to be "let down" by Putin:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/18/trump-turn-fire-on-putin-and-lauds-uk-in-press-conference-with-starmer

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

New website theme:
https://chriswere.wales

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Last week, we were treated to an extraordinary talk internally at
@oxidecomputer. It was at once an expository talk of a complicated software system and an experience talk of developing systems software in the large -- and it was far too good to keep to ourselves!
https://oxide.computer/blog/systems-software-in-the-large

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
lexicaleigh@toot.wales ("Cress 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🌻") wrote:

#defaidodon ❤️

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

hey, Oregonians (#PDX in particular) did you know we have friends trying to get universal healthcare in Oregon?
https://www.hcao.org

(somehow I have both made a friend and agreed to help with data stuff)

Anyway, Portland meetup Sunday after next
https://health-care-for-all-oregon.solidarity.tech/portland-september-chapter-meeting-and-social

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Cornellbox@a2mi.social ("Philip Proefrock, architect") wrote:

Good sentiments to share:

"For it is in helping others that we find our compass and our ballast, the strength to go on and the power to halt injustice. Boxnoggin is a fine furry teacher, reminding his humans of the fact daily.

"Let someone care for you today, in whatever way; let yourself care for someone. Despite all the current darkness, in that small act lies whatever salvation humanity will manage."

https://raggedfeathers.com/@lilithsaintcrow/115225718026537522

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Wrewdison@masto.hackers.town ("The Wrew (WOTYE!)") wrote:

Good morning, fedifriends!

Have a great day! Keep being awesome - we need a fuckton more of that in the world right now! Stay safe, stay healthy, and have fun today!

Oh… and don’t forget that NIN’s soundtrack to the new Tron movie comes out soon!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

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

Thanks to @rysiek for kicking off an important conversation on this issue.

https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/115221050315326934

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

In about 24 hours, omg.lol is dropping its Discord "server". There are plenty of good reasons to do this, but recent events have made it clear that Discord is not on its users’ side, and they’ll promptly hand over your conversation data to any agency that asks for it. At this particular point in time, with people in marginalized groups especially vulnerable, that’s just not acceptable.

More info here: https://omglol.news/2025/09/18/disconnecting-from-discord

Long live IRC! 💬

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

(he said, on a platform owned by one of the largest social media companies on the globe, which got that way in no small part by eating other social media companies, but look, just because this comment is being presented on in imperfect vessel doesn't mean the content of the comment is wrong)

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

So Colbert got cancelled probably in part due to a pending merger of Skydance and Paramount, and the Kimmel thing almost certainly happened because one of ABC's largest affiliates, Sinclair, is trying to merge with another large media company, and in both cases FCC approval is key, consider please that a significant underlying lever for censorship in the US is the absolute fucking lack of diversification/consolidation of the ownership of US media, and then maybe support more non-monster media

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

you had one job CSS linter https://social.lol/@db/115212861122856330

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

stick this in your Interop 2026 or wherever it belongs

just lost 30 minutes over a comma in linear-gradient 🤦‍♂️

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

I'd rather read Ta-Nehisi Coates' perspective than Gavin Newsom's or Ezra Klein's or especially the lying words of the right wing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/18/proving-that-free-speech-was-never-the-goal/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

You can write 'post' in all the places you want but you will never take our toots away

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

Good news! Your action worked! :awesome: 🎉

Germany will be OPPOSING the Chat Control proposition! This (for now) secures a blocking minority to stop this horrifying proposal for mass surveillance.

But keep the pressure on! ✊🇪🇺

The final vote will be on October 14th and many things could change until then. Keep contacting your representatives to tell them to oppose (or keep opposing) Chat Control, as soon as you can.

The blocking vote should be as large as possible to ensure this Orwellian nightmare never becomes reality.

Let's change this blocking minority into a blocking majority! We can do it! :ablobcatnod: 💚

#ChatControl #HumanRights #EUpol

https://digitalcourage.social/@echo%5Fpbreyer/115184350819592476

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

Shared some thoughts on Labour's weird infatuation with AI in my latest blog post. #UKPol

https://chriswere.wales/posts/starmer%E2%80%99s-ai-gamble-risks-labour%E2%80%99s-future.html