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

“One Dead and Two Wounded in Dallas ICE Facility Shooting

Federal authorities previously said detainees were among the victims and no federal agents had been shot.”

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/24/us/dallas-ice-shooting?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

The butterflies are preparing to leave us…

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/24/and-now-its-out/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
meg@fediscience.org ("Megan ⚘") wrote:

Strange Bird Spotted in a Texas Backyard Is the First Known Hybrid Between a Blue Jay and a Green Jay

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/strange-bird-spotted-in-a-texas-backyard-is-the-first-known-hybrid-between-a-blue-jay-and-a-green-jay-180987383/

#ClimateChange #Evolution #Science

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
quietui ("Quiet UI") wrote:

An unlikely component has quickly turned into one of my favorites:

https://quietui.org/docs/components/mesh-gradient

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social ("Low Quality Facts") wrote:

We made a comic about wheels.

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

We'll be seeing new butterflies soon.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/24/the-monarch-chrysalides-are-changing-color/

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

Ancient Greek philosophy still lives! Despite being dead wrong.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/24/it-must-hurt-when-he-ejaculates/

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

My nights are like this too.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/24/i-have-this-nightmare-too/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

This is wild, this kid is a hero!

An 12yo boy noticed a classmate brought a gun to school. So the boy disarmed the other student. Once he had control of the gun he unloaded the bullets, disassembled the gun and hid the parts so the kid who brought it would not find it.

He threw away the bullets, separating them from the gun.

All without any adults ever noticing.

At the end of the day teachers found the gun parts and the kid was expelled for not reporting it.

https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/09/23/nbas-tyrese-haliburton-sends-3000-donation-to-michigan-boy/

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

Historians will one day listen to his speeches and wonder how he wasn't immediately slapped into a straitjacket and trundled off to an asylum. Actually, I suspect a lot of historians wonder about that right now.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/24/its-not-the-escalator-that-was-broken/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pTHXxydUhJ4

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Alright fess up... who the hell wrote this plot description of Angel?? David Boreanaz would be turning in his grave if he were dead but thankfully for all of us he is alive and well

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The upcoming #plushtodon’s compact size makes it a good travel companion.

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
matuzo@front-end.social ("Manuel Matuzović") wrote:

I'm currently auditing one of the worst sites I've ever tested.

Boosted by jwz:
JonBaker ("Jon Baker") wrote:

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

Boosted by jwz:
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

Boosted by jwz:
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

Boosted by jwz:
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/