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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
scattershot@merveilles.town wrote:

This gave me a light chuckle.

https://rakhim.exotext.com/benjamin-button-reviews-macos

Boosted by jwz:
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

"Lesbians are responsible for 100% of all space crime" is by far my favorite statistic to date. Just barely edging out "Mars is populated entirely by robots".

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

Well, good, and also, that took too fucking long

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jimmy-kimmel-live-return-abc-1236374942/

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

What else would you call this bug?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/22/nice-name/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ancient_catbus@jorts.horse ("Catbus") wrote:

when a big account notices your comment

Boosted by jwz:
flargh ("Peter Cohen") wrote:

Me, waking up every morning and realizing I have to face this shit again

#GenX

Boosted by jwz:
bruces ("Bruce Sterling @bruces") wrote:

"What makes this torment nexus special is you can self-host your torment and own your torment identity"

Boosted by jwz:
jasonkoebler ("Jason Koebler") wrote:

New: We have just sued ICE to demand it turns over a secretive spyware contract that it refuses to release:

https://www.404media.co/were-suing-ice-for-its-2-million-spyware-contract/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

The maths proved it was a time machine. The issue was that the speed of travel was one second per second.

"Can you make it go faster?"

"Impossible. We can make it go slower though."

"So you age faster inside the machine? What use is that?"

"We thought we'd try it with some wine and cheese?"

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Inevitably. #grickledoodle #death #grimreaper #life #cartoon #coffee #cafe #art #drawing #funny #horror

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

TPUSA is visiting my university (but not my campus) today, so the university asked to conceal my existence today. Yeah, I don't feel like dealing with Nazis this evening.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/22/i-guess-im-in-hiding/

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
StephanieZvan@toot.cat ("Stephanie Zvan") wrote:

“As we all know, the motives for murder are many. Revenge, passion, gain, fear, or simply the fact that you have seen the fellow’s horrible face in the paper so often that you feel it to be almost a duty to eliminate it.”

A. A. Milne, “Bread Upon the Waters”, 1950

It's so very not Pooh and Piglet. Maybe a tiny bit Rabbit.

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

Baby Yoda won't save you this time, Disney

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/mandalorian-grogu-trailer-baby-yoda-1236374205/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
chriskirknielsen@front-end.social ("Christopher Kirk-Nielsen") wrote:

I cleaned up how I parse and insert filenames in my code blocks, using a custom markdown-it "plugin" in @11ty. I know that's a mouthful — I promise it'll make sense: https://chriskirknielsen.com/blog/custom-filename-in-code-blocks-in-eleventy-in-markdown-it/

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

did I just roll credits on Silksong?

52 hours! guess I'll jump back in and find what I missed...

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

Tylenol does not cause autism but this administration gives me a migraine

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Offering up the #Plushtodon to the lake deity for a bountiful federation.

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

lol even funnier result is, in light of everything going on with Ruby right now, I decided to RE-migrate it over to Hugo. it's fine, whatever

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

A lot of folks assume their ideas for web platform features need a hearing in official Working Groups. Thankfully, nothing could be further from the truth. The only spark we ever needed was web developers and browser engineers talking in a space where they can hear each other.

It's messier, but also better and, I think, more hopeful:

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/standards-and-the-fall-of-iamus/

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Last week on the podcast, we talked about an extraordinary talk from our colleague Dave Pacheco. We put that out there last week:

https://oxide.computer/blog/systems-software-in-the-large

Today on the podcast -- and as promised! -- @ahl and I will be joined by Dave to talk about this extraordinary talk, the system that it describes -- and the experiences of the team in developing it. Join us, 5p Pacific today!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1419707858961956955

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

The mainstream press are such a useless and fraudulent pile of dogshit right now because they're going through the multiple extinction-level events set out in this New Yorker piece from January 2024

going full fash is desperation, you can't argue them out of it

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/is-the-media-prepared-for-an-extinction-level-event

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
nikitonsky@mastodon.online ("Niki Tonsky") wrote:

So I looked at Tahoe release (in VM). Some highlights:

- Window toolbar changing color from white to black for no reason

Attachments:

• gifv: Window toolbar changing color from white to black for no reason

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

Who needs an AI to look up a simple recipe?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/22/a-totally-predictable-ai-delusion/

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

My incomplete application's placeholder icon is in squircle jail

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

#Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of #FairHousing Laws

Interviews & internal documents show that signature #CivilRights protections in housing are being dismissed as ideologically driven & *#DEI* in disguise.

#law #heterosexism #racism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/realestate/trump-fair-housing-laws.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

I did an event yesterday afternoon and at my event people were laughing and enjoying themselves and definitely not declaring our neighbors to be the enemy or any such thing

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

Like good Christians, the Republicans want to erect idols to their horrible, evil saint.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/22/false-idol/

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

🦅 blogged: How Much Does Freedom Cost?

https://dbushell.com/2025/09/22/cost-of-freedom/

spoiler: 16.7 megabytes, that could have been under 1 MB

Attachments:

• gifv: an American Bald Eagle side-eyeing you over the text 'Submit Your Application'

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

White men in relationships doing dishes is antifa

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

developer: "Can you send me the final heading text?"

copywriter: "Submit Your App 🦅 tion"