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

Today in History: Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for US President, 1884

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

Today in History: Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954

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

Today in History: Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878

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

Education in the United States sucks

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hollywoodreporter/post/DO0NGbgDuCB

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Kind of weird to see so many people in tech who either don't know who DHH is or hadn't clocked on his douchebro white supremacy despite him flagging his bigotry full mast for years

Dude was a full-on Howard Stern loving, misogynistic, self-described "alpha male" bullshit artist as early as 2009

And 37Signals first imploded in 2021 because they sided with a MAGA manager over their own staff, revealing they'd never actually followed any of the management advice they had spouted over the years

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

Not often I agree with the odious Ted Cruz, but here we are

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/politics/ted-cruz-fcc-abc-mob

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

working on an RSS-only post where I relate video gaming to B2B business (joking, I think...)

:rss: be sure to subscribe: https://dbushell.com/subscribe/

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

Nowadays, I'm happy to have nothing to do with Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft. Impossible to trust them and their Government

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jwz wrote:

@timbray As someone deeply embroiled in this so-called industry I am always shocked when someone else becomes SHOCKED, SHOCKED to discover that the entire business model of TicketBastard and AEG/AXS is scalping, literally nothing but scalping, that's their whole fucking deal. That's the entire business. Scalping their own tickets.

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Trump regime now requires press to sign a document agreeing not to obtain or possess "unauthorized" information.

https://archive.ph/3GGyU

Anyone who agrees to this is not qualified to call himself or herself a journalist.

But I'm betting most Big Journalism orgs will go ahead and sign.

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ghibli@beep.town ("Studio Gifli") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: The time for war's upon us.

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca ("Broadwaybabyto") wrote:

The FBI is reportedly trying to categorize trans people as “Nihilistic Violent Extremists” (NVEs).

They seem emboldened by the Kirk shooting despite the fact that it was not committed by a trans person.

If you’re cis, and especially if you’re cis and white, please step up.

Speak out. Protect trans people. This is a test to see if we’re willing to sacrifice the basic human rights of an entire group of people. We must say “no”.

Trans rights are human rights.

#uspol #Trans #TransRightsAreHumanRights #fascism

jwz wrote:

fail2ban.

Dear Lazyweb, My jail.local has an "ignoreip" setting that is thousands of lines long, because reasons. I would like to put those lists of IP addresses in separate files instead of inlining them all in the same place. What's the easiest way...
https://jwz.org/b/ykvm

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blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

Andor Season 2 | Mon Mothma’s Senate Speech

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KYnE2Mxayco&t=16s&pp=2AEQkAIB

#antifa #StarWars #Disney #fascism #USpol

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
bulbagarden ("Bulbagarden") wrote:

Art Rare version of the new Togedemaru Pokémon TCG card from Inferno X unveiled https://bulbagarden.net/threads/art-rare-version-of-the-new-togedemaru-pokemon-tcg-card-from-inferno-x-unveiled.308415/ #pokémon

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

jwz wrote:

Fuck that guy.

https://jwz.org/b/ykvj

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@qgustavor ah, yep, that sounds like a bug in that implementation!

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
i0null@infosec.exchange ("Hacker Memes") wrote:

the terms and conditions have been altered

pray we do not alter it any further

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

U.S. Investors, Trump Close In on TikTok Deal With China - WSJ:

"The arrangement, discussed by U.S. and Chinese negotiators in Madrid this week, would create a new U.S. entity to operate the app, with U.S. investors holding a roughly 80% stake and Chinese shareholders owning the rest, the people said."

Andreessen Horowitz is on the list of US investors. Bone Chilling. https://www.wsj.com/tech/details-emerge-on-u-s-china-tiktok-deal-594e009f

#Tiktok

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
mhoye wrote:

The way I first heard the expression was, you do not let the camel’s nose into the tent if you do not want the camel’s ass in the tent.

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-confirms-smart-refrigerator-ads-are-coming-3598848/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
CryptoNaturalist@universeodon.com wrote:

I am the pond.

My thoughts are the fish swimming beneath the cattail shadows.

My fears are the frogs, floating weightless, their pointed faces parting the lily pads.

My hopes are the dragonflies, warming themselves on a willow branch, mirrored in the still water.

I can know each as a part of me, without pouring all my identity into the one who captures my shifting attention.

The fish. The frogs. The Dragonflies.

I claim them, but I am separate.

I am the pond.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Ultramorbidi@pixey.org ("ultramorbidi") wrote:

hello fediverse! we are ultramorbidi and we just released our first music video, FEDILIKE! this is for all the people on here who take care of each other and of our digital infrastructures. hope you have fun with it!

this music video was made with floss and love:

kdenlive, hydra visual synth, open fonts by velvetyne

hosted by systerserver: https://tube.systerserver.net/w/qVxqiScM2X59kkwM2NTRgG

#fedilike #musicVideo #floss #foss #fediverse #mastodon #ultramorbidi #music

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

All whiteboard markers should have a white body, and all permanent markers should have a black body.

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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Here’s AOC’s full statement on the resolution honoring Charlie Kirk. She is right in every respect. http://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-releases/ocasio-cortez-statement-charlie-kirk-resolution-and-trump-administrations One passage: 13/

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

The prevalence of transpilers on top of a language's syntax, particularly if concentrated, is a measure of the irrelevance of its standards bodies.

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

@slightlyoff

After following you, Lawson, and Posnick for the better part of a decade, I engaged in my own wanton act of engineering this summer and published it:

https://github.com/localnerve/jam-build

(detailed, workboxjs based, offline first app template/reference)

I've been finding it impossible to get prospective employers or even other developers interested in these webdev ideas - They're not frameworkist.

I might as well be discussing the compositional qualities of feldspar.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
londondreamtime@mastodonapp.uk ("ConnectionWithWonder") wrote:

Graffiti from the heart

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

Raptors testing the fences

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/europe/estonia-airspace-russia-jets-latam-intl

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

I think, though, it's notable that this panel - handpicked to be made up entirely of vaccine "skeptics" - still didn't have the collective stomach to place more onerous restrictions on the availability of the COVID-19 vaccine (though they clearly are hostile to mass vaccination). It suggests that the political and regulatory dynamics here are fairly complex and fluid.