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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vivi 💫") wrote:

there's apparently a massive general strike going on in Italy about Gaza

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:

We just sued ICE. Support us here: http://404media.co/membership/

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Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

There have to be consequences. Would-be quislings need to start having vivid pictures of what’s going to happen to them •personally• if they collaborate with fascists. I’d much prefer those consequences not be violent; in fact, harsh consequences now are the very thing that •avoid• violence. Professional and personal ruin will suffice. That means •we• have to make it stick.

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

The worst part of all this is being in a position where the right thing to do is defend Jimmy Kimmel

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docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

I appreciate that some venues, like the Stork Club in Oakland, are getting ahead of this gen-AI trend by requiring all fliers be human made. "We don't care if it's a screenshot of the Notes app with the show info or a picture of a hand with band names written in Sharpie." (source https://www.instagram.com/p/DOZIJgoEq%5F0/?img%5Findex=1)
I like this energy and hope more venues adopt similar policies.

Image from Stork Club's Instagram that says "No more A.I. flyers"
"Over the last few months we've started getting AI generated flyers for our shows from various sources like indie labels, party promoters, and everyone in between. And we are seeing other venues post them as well. It's giving us the ick. As an independent alt venue, we feel the poster art for a show has always been an essential part of the creative process of live shows. It's like the album cover of the night.  Many graphic artists have cut their professional chops by crating poster art for live music and we wanna keep supporting that by not undercutting artists just to save a few bucks on the production end. Also it’s not very punk AI has it's place in the world, like creating meme slop that makes you stupid and rendering your career irrelevant, or robo-calling your mom once a week and chatting with her in your voice. All important tools brought to us by the scrappy altruistic billionaire overlords that merely want us to live in a future of abundance"
“So starting today, we will be requiring all flyers for our show be made by a human. We don't care if it's a screenshot of the notes app with the show info, or if it's just a picture of a hand with band names written in Sharpie. As long as it's not AI slop being passed off as genuine creation.  Partnering with local graphic artists, we have curated a roster for wayward promoters to choose from that we will send to anyone that can't provide us with proof and credit for any art used to market shows. Thanks to Dracula's flute, Janelle Blarg, Pemex, Gats, WhatsUpAlbert, Roy G Biv, Jessie California, Buster Cagle. For agreeing to hop on board and give us homie prices to help stem this tide. And if you are a graphic artist interested in being added to our in house anti-AI roster, you can send your CV to TheeStorkClub@gmail.com"

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

I have big plans for tomorrow.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/22/dont-panic-if-im-not-posting-tomorrow/

Raptured!

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jwz wrote:

AI company finds a way to be even more cartoonishly evil.

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models: Ultimately, Judge William Alsup ruled that this destructive scanning operation qualified as fair use -- but only because but only because Anthropic had legally purchased the books first, destroyed each print copy after scanning...
https://jwz.org/b/ykvu

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jwz wrote:

MAGA Is Mad at GWAR.

Libs of TikTok called GWAR's performance an act of "incitement." A representative for GWAR told The New York Post, "Normalizing violence? [...] GWAR is to violence what the New York Post is to journalism. Ridiculous."
https://jwz.org/b/ykvs

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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

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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".

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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/

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

What else would you call this bug?

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

sword-bearing conehead

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

when a big account notices your comment

he Watcher  -  Kurt Huggins  a car driving along a road through the forest at night, above a monolithic reptilian eye filling the entire sky gazes down

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

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

#GenX

Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Cameron (Alan Ruck) lies in bed, despondent, singing the melody to Go Down Moses but changing the lyrics to "When Cameron was in Egypt's Land…let my Cameron go…"

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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"

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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/

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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

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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

A cartoon illustration of a man using a laptop in a cafe looking over to see the Grim Reaper with a coffee sitting a few tables over and staring at him. Caption reads "Every day he sat a little closer."

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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/

Announcing that TPUSA is going to be goose-stepping on the UMN campus today

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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.

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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/

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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/

A sample code block labelled "chris-bot dot JS" with some silly code instruction reading "Please clap."

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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...

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

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

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

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

A small apricot colored Mastodon stuffed toy being held up in front of Buttermere.

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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

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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/

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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

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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

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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

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