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JonBaker ("Jon Baker") wrote:

If you’re in line to be raptured STAY IN LINE

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sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

It is WILD that we now live in a time where my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from "learn cool things about space" to "try to get someone to hold billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit"

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
NIGHTEN@hi.nighten.fr ("NIGHTEͶ") wrote:

Fun Internet Theory

I came across this post by @Jo , that captured a feeling I’ve had for a long time:

“Fun internet Theory” states that there are still a lot of cool and interesting things to do online.

This is a reference to the Dead Internet Theory, which states that the internet is invaded with bots and algorithmic slop.

(The theory has way more strange and absurd ramifications if you dig far enough. They are not worth your time, so this is the basic understanding most people have when they hear the term.)

I love how positive this definition of the Fun Internet Theory is. It’s an optimism that is more realistic than you might think.

You see, I refuse to think of the internet as what is being served by algorithms and mainstream social media. It’s as absurd as looking at the top grossing films every year and being like “Man, all movies are the same these days”.

The old internet, or at least the part we cherish, did not disappear. It wasn’t replaced by bots; we got our attention stolen from it.

We’ve deluded ourselves into thinking that social media (and thus the web) is all there is to see. That you must keep up with international news and the discourse of the day. You must hold an opinion and defend it, or at least find people that confirm your biases.

I refuse to think that the internet is only this.

The other thing I love about Fun Internet Theory is that it states that there are a lot of cool things to do on the web.

The internet is a much sadder place when all you do is consume passively whatever is delivered to you this day. Instead, being active should be at the forefront. But being active doesn’t mean you need to run your own website! It starts with you being more involved in what you see and how you interact with it.

This is not only gonna bring you to interesting places, interesting people (like you!), but it’s also way more satisfying! Even if from the outside view you are missing out on the daily noise.

So go, explore the weirder parts of the web! Weird wiki on a specific topic, obscure game on itch.io, small musician on Soundcloud, or random people’s blog.

But even better, be a part of it!

Comment on someone’s post, share a montage of your favorite game screenshot, seed a torrent, make a meme! Or make friends and help people in a small Discord server!

Do cool things on the internet, because there are and always will be a lot of cool and interesting things to do :)

#socialmedia #internet #web #blogging #fediverse

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
lobsters ("Lobsters") wrote:

Benjamin Button Reviews macOS via @federicoschonborn https://lobste.rs/s/shbssy #mac #satire
https://rakhim.exotext.com/benjamin-button-reviews-macos

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Congress can end Trump’s Epstein cover-up: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/epstein-vote-now/?source=mastodon

Attachments:

• video: 91841c2979df8cc6.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"1 to 2 per day on average"

musk's home planet has declared war on earth and is conducting a sustained orbital bombardment and very few people are even talking about it https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/115255614407483149

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

Lumon Industries just got a new phone number! +1-909-49LUMON

(The four is for the Four Tempers, and the nine is for the Nine Core Principles, of course.)

#Severance

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein you get a bird's eye view
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2025/09/23.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
tomayac@toot.cafe ("Thomas Steiner :chrome:") wrote:

"Trump's National Design Studio has an executive order to 'modernize the interfaces that serve everyday citizens'. That means rich/white people (but not the 'disabled' kind). The US [gov.] had digital service agencies that cared about a performant and accessible web until they got the DOGE treatment.
The NDS' latest website […] is a Next.js disasterclass. Vercel's CEO […] thinks an endorsement by a friend of Epstein is… a good thing?"—From https://dbushell.com/2025/09/22/cost-of-freedom/ by @db

None of this is fiction.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
jgarber@indieweb.social ("Jason Garber") wrote:

clutches pearls

https://xcancel.com/dhh/status/1845197490829889605

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kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Aseeyeomanaseetomanoyo Hat") wrote:

Confidential to person mad that I blocked you: I did it because I was intimidated by your intellect, your righteousness, your charisma, and your smoldering masculinity. They make me feel small and dumb and ugly. It was because of how cool you are. Please don’t tell anyone.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
freebliss@post.lurk.org ("Simon Repp") wrote:

I didn't yet sing the praises for Debian 13 (which already runs on all my devices since shortly after the release): It's beautiful. It just works. I couldn't ask for more! Very very thankful to everyone making Debian possible, year by year. Cheers you lovely people! <3

Boosted by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
djm62@beige.party ("серафими многоꙮчитїи") wrote:

On a street by the railway
Where the traffic gets jammed
Hear the sound of the engines
Rising up from the land
Just a bit down the corridor
I heard the ice machine
Head was heavy but I couldn't sleep
Picturing the scene

All the screens here have coil whine
Air conditioners high
Just a bit before breakfast time
You can hear some kids cry
60 Hz hum sounds too sharp
Even through the duvet
I take a stroll down the corridor
To the main buffet

🎶Welcome to the Hotel Misophonia
You can hear the plates
Every tap and scrape
🎶Living it up at the Hotel Misophonia
All the diners here
Will assault your ears

jwz wrote:

Felon 100 ➡︎
https://jwz.org/b/ykvw

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

If you speak Dutch and English and are in NL, my friend and collaborator Roderick Gadellaa's company is hiring a senior frontend engineer. Honestly this sounds like an incredible gig:

https://decorrespondent.homerun.co/senior-front-end-developer/nl

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

The features of WebKit matter to the health and competitiveness of the web because Apple prevents users from accessing less buggy, more secure, and more capable browsers. But Cupertino *seems* to claim it wants to solve developer problems. Does it? A look at the data:

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/cupertinos-comforting-myths/

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

@glyph NYT tomorrow: The Rapture didn't happen. Here's why that's bad news for Democrats.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

I'm somewhat unexpectedly in SF Gate today.

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/san-francisco-coyote-diet-death-research-21055463.php

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

The frontend treadmill [1] is covered in lava:

https://github.com/sanity-io/styled-components-last-resort/blob/main/README.md

(do not adopt this junk; move away from styled-components if you made that mistake)

[1]: https://polotek.net/posts/the-frontend-treadmill/

Boosted by jwz:
davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

Fuck these guys.

“The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking back federal aid: the projects aren’t designed for cars.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-22/trump-cancels-trail-bike-lane-grants-deemed-hostile-to-cars?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1ODU3NzIyMywiZXhwIjoxNzU5MTgyMDIzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMlpXMlpHT1QwSkswMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI5NTY4NzY4MEU4NTc0MTQ1QUVFREFDMTdCOEQ3MEZGOSJ9.0zX%5F4sO2rgTvRyU8iPtsjTHv6YEKUJ8guhzWFTkBq3w

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americanfietser.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("American Fietser") wrote:

The rapture, but for cars in cities.

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dan@discuss.systems ("Dan Ports") wrote:

I'd just like to remind everyone that each week approximately 23% of Americans take acetaminophen, so if it really caused autism, we'd have a way more functional train system in this country.

Boosted by jwz:
dantheclamman@scicomm.xyz ("Dr. Dan Killam") wrote:

I refer to clams as a cross between a cow and a vacuum cleaner. And like a cow, some species of clams fart out a fair bit of methane, due to methanogenic microbes in their guts! Their farts may account for ~10% of methane released in some environments. So to answer a question I'm sure many of you have, yes, clams fart. #clamFacts

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

Oh, wow…this is the most brutal expose of right-leaning academics like Dawkins & Krauss & Coyne -- 4 hours of cruel (but deserved) vivisection of their views. I enjoyed it, but felt like a real barbarian for cheering Shaun on.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/23/sympathetic-painsrising-rising/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5Xkk6TuE

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

You don't have to ask me twice not to watch your station, my dudes

https://share.google/0cmsATxvDzA3m4XmP

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

Trying Mastodon from the commandline with Toot. So far it's not bad.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

My never-fails trick for finding bugs in almost any software:

Use the app the way its design affordances indicate, just with real-world values. Print resolutions. Non-trivial amounts of text. Data sets with high hundreds of entries, minimum

Almost always results in Bad Things Happening

Kind of hammers home the fact that none of this shit is getting even minimal testing before even major releases.

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

My memory isn't the best, so when I kept hearing that Apple was happy to engage in re-designing challenging APIs in areas it had previously poured cold water on, I had more than a moment of self-doubt. Had I missed something fundamental?

A look at the evidence:

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/cupertinos-comforting-myths/

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
assignedmale.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sophie Labelle ") wrote:

Charlie Kirk never cared about debates.

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

I mean we're not gonna pay attention to him about it over here either

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-23/uk-tells-patients-don-t-pay-attention-to-trump-on-tylenol