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

Lost Futures, Smalltalk edition.

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

Lost Futures, Lisp edition.

Boosted by jwz:
mhoye wrote:

I’m led to believe that it’s rare to see a court just straight up tell a public official to pack up their bullshit and get the fuck out.

http://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.447437/gov.uscourts.flmd.447437.5.0.pdf

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

If you're old enough you can actually feel and smell this picture.

Boosted by jwz:
MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!") wrote:

#ICE "recruitment poster" in #LosAngeles

jwz wrote:

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime.

Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 4, 1939: Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret...
https://jwz.org/b/ykvf

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RevXenoFact@dobbs.town ("Xenofact (he/him):jrbd:") wrote:

Biblically Accurate "Bob"

https://www.SubGenius.com/

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alatiera ("Jordan Petridis") wrote:

We should put being anti-fascist in the code of conduct texts, if nothing else as yet another litmus test

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david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

@cstross @Azuaron @Jennifer @ewen

It's a bit more than that. A load of real estate funds were sitting on what was about to become negative equity because COVID reduced the demand for office space. A lot of loans came due this summer, but the new data centre leases let them refinance them and hide other losses. But that depends on their tenants not invoking early break clauses. Rather than the bubble bursting, it was propped up by another one. And that means they are likely to pop together.

Boosted by jwz:
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

WTAF? Hakeem Jeffries, along with the rest of House Democratic leadership is voting yes on a resolution to honor fascist Charlie Kirk. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/19/house-resolution-charlie-kirk

Boosted by jwz:
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

I’m going to keep calling Charlie Kirk a fascist who should not be valorized. I am not capitulating to the climate of repression the Trump regime and its supporters have created. The only way to protect freedom to speak truth, is to keep speaking truth.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Uair@autistics.life ("Poloniousmonk") wrote:

@fromjason

I can't even think of one pro-privacy politician. Not in the mainstream. That's the third fucking rail of politics.

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

Frameworkists are eager to tell you about the name-brand tech they're using on the project, then put a Miele oven in the bathroom. Do not be a frameworkist. Do not _hire_ frameworkists.

Be someone who is agnostic to tools but laser focused on goals.

https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/

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

Hey just saw that the SVG Working Group is back together! Congrats!

Note: The MathML Working Group is still going! We meet once a month, and would love to have all the browser vendors join and participate in our discussions.

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

I just ate an everything bagel, but I picked off the distasteful fascism bits first

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:

friends. if you were me, with a penchant for any combination of the weird, the old (technology, usually), the off-beat, the subversive, what would you see in Milan?

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
helenchong@social.lol ("Helen Chong :prami_pride:") wrote:

Happy first anniversary to my omg.lol membership! :prami_happy:

To celebrate the occasion, I reviewed how I use omg.lol and the various services it provides:

https://blog.helenchong.omg.lol/en/posts/2025-09-19-omg-lol-membership-1st-anniversary/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
freebooter.uk@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 Monmouthshire and Forest of Dean Freebooter") wrote:

Labour just gets more pathetic on Gaza

freebooter.uk/posts/labour-just-gets-more-pathetic-on-gaza.html

Labour’s foreign policy weakness was exposed, yet again, in Parliament when Green Party MP Ellie Chowns asked some pretty strightforward questions on Gaza. Had ministers secured any timeframe for Israel to ease the blockade and allow aid through? Would…

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
m2m@sonomu.club ("Simone") wrote:

Today's the day. 'Alien Pop' is out.

I co-produced, mixed and mastered @rythur debut album. His awesomely quirky (to me) approach to songwriting has always been a source of keen curiosity.

When I heard the demos a defined thought formed: "this could become a great work with the right producer".

I'm not sure if I was the right-est, but it felt good. It took me too long, but the important thing is that today's the day.

Go listen!

https://rythur.bandcamp.com/album/alien-pop

#IndependentMusic #Indie #IndieMusic

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

My interest in de novo genes was timely -- now I'm seeing more popular science articles about them. Or am I just suddenly noticing them?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/19/de-novo-genes-in-the-news/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:

This. This is how I know I woke up in a different multiverse.

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

Comedian in the Coal Mine

Laughter fills the air,
Words wrapped in silenced shadows,
Humor's light grows dim.

Mastodon wrote:

We’re taking another step in building a sustainable financial base as a non-profit. Today, we’re announcing new hosting and support offerings, tailored for larger organisations and public institutions. These enable organisations to own their social identities, on their own infrastructure.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/service-offerings-from-mastodon/

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
gotosocial@superseriousbusiness.org ("GoToSocial") wrote:

Lads lads lads lads!

Here's the first release candidate for v0.20.0 of #GoToSocial! If you're feeling bold, you can try this release candidate and help us find any lingering bugs before we release v0.20.0 proper!

https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.20.0-rc1

Please read the migration notes carefully for instructions on how to upgrade to this version.

The migrations in this release are quite long (can take several hours, even!), as we had to rethread the entire statuses table to handle the new way we cache status threads (and to improve timeline performance). Please plan downtime accordingly, and most importantly hang in there and don't be tempted to interrupt the migration process!

Please also pay particular attention to the metrics changes, as we've significantly changed the way that metrics exposure is configured, so you will likely have to adjust your setup if you use GtS Prometheus metrics. For more information on the new way of doing things, look through this document: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/advanced/metrics/

Release highlights

• Big refactor of timeline code to use less memory and be (hopefully!) more responsive and less error prone.
• Support for scheduled statuses!
• Support for the focal point property on the frontend + over federation, so you can set focal point on your media and have it work properly!
• Notifications when a status you've interacted with has been edited.
• ListenBrainz widget on the frontend, so you can show off the music you've been listening to (https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/user%5Fguide/settings/#profile-fields)
• Instance info panel in the settings, so that non-admins on the instance can see which domains are blocked and explicitly allowed, and the reason why.
• Bunch of new themes for profile views!
• Config option to expose emoji endpoints without authentication -- useful for compatibility with some clients. Default value still requires authentication.
• Footnotes in markdown!
• Configurable thumbnail dimensions.
• Federation of avatar + header image descriptions is handled now, both in + out of GtS.
• The new hidesToPublicFromUnauthedWeb and hidesCcPublicFromUnauthedWeb are federated in and out now, allowing your instance and other instances that support these properties to transmit + respect preferences for the visibility of posts to render on the unauthenticated (public) web view of threads.
• Support for avif file format.
• JSON logging format, for easier log ingestion.
• Atom and JSON feed support for RSS (not just xml).
• Reworked metrics format, more + better metrics, and an importable example grafana dashboard.
• Domain permission subscription retractions are now handled properly.
• Probably a lot more! See below!

Thanks for reading!

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

Since #Firefox seem to be blindly forcing AI into is browser, does anyone know of a Firefox-based browser that has explicitly come out against AI. Have Librewolf or Icecat made a statement that they'll try and remove.not include any embedded AI components?

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

9:05 and I'm throwing in the towel! :sweat_blob:

have a nice weekend :)

Boosted by jwz:
lednaBM@stranger.social ("👁Pooka🫣Boo🫵") wrote:

Reminder...

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leahmcelrath.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Leah McElrath") wrote:

“Goebbels Ends Careers of Five ‘Aryan’ Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime”

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parental_guidance ("Parental Guidance") wrote:

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking:
A scene takes place in a bar where many people are drinking.

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote: