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

I do find myself in need of a new pet…

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/25/i-want-one-2/

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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

AG Campbell Releases Statement After Court Finds Trump Administration’s Threats To Withhold FEMA Funding Unconstitutional https://www.mass.gov/news/ag-campbell-releases-statement-after-court-finds-trump-administrations-threats-to-withhold-fema-funding-unconstitutional

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MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk ("Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)") wrote:

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brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

PEOPLE OF OXFORD: this is today! Come on over to Blackwell’s on Broad St later this afternoon for an hour of silly poems (mine) and brilliant drawings (Joe’s) as we celebrate the publication of ‘A Poem for Every Question’.

Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brian-bilston-and-joe-berger-a-poem-for-every-question-tickets-1480220562549

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tuckfrump ("The One") wrote:

#tylenol #tylenolgate #epstein #politicalhumor

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ScienceScholar ("Science Scholar") wrote:

New 'Megaraptor' Species Found With Shocking Last Meal Still in Its Mouth https://www.sciencealert.com/new-megaraptor-species-found-with-shocking-last-meal-still-in-its-mouth #science

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Free_Press@mstdn.social ("Aure Free Press :verified:") wrote:

Putin Ally Viktor Orbán states Hungary will continue buying Russian oil, despite US demands to stop.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO

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hanse_mina ("Hanse Mina") wrote:

Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) struck Russia's oil terminals in #Tuapse and #Novorossiysk with naval drones on Sept. 24, "paralyzing" major export operations on the Black Sea coast, a source in the agency told the Kyiv Independent on Sept. 25.

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-paralyzes-russias-key-black-sea-oil-terminals-with-drone-strikes-hur-source-claims/

#Ukraine #Russia

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domo@pizza.enby.city ("Domo 🦇 :they_them: :he_him:") wrote:

stolen to add alt text

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KC8JC@mastodon.radio ("J.C. KC8JC 📻") wrote:

Using pat from the command line to check my winlink messages makes me want to switch back to pine.

It also really makes me want a version WSJT-X that is console based. I'd love to tear that thing apart and reimagine the UI.

#AmateurRadio

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g7izu@universeodon.com ("𝑮7𝑰𝙕𝑼 𝑹𝙍𝑫") wrote:

Space Weather

Solar tornadoes four times the diameter of Earth dancing on the NW limb.

#spaceweather
#nasasdo
#g7izu

Attachments:

• gifv: Video taken by NASA/SDO and processed through Helioviewer.org. SDO filter AIA193.

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

This was a bullshit error message at a service that couldn't be arsed to write a human readable text, which in this case would have been: "fuck off, your country is too small for us to bother."

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

By request.

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

Gotta love a helpful error message

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mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz ("Matt McIrvin") wrote:

The Rapture? Oh, it is as it was predicted when I was but a young man. The man from Mars stopped eating cars and eating bars and now he only eats guitars

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jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

"This relates directly to encapsulation. We want the effect of a function to be contained in the same place – in the same class. When it isn’t, we end up having to share internal details with whichever other class is handling that piece of business – otherwise known as 'coupling'."

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/what-are-the-objects-in-object-oriented-programming/

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

“Goodbye, paywall | Go Make Things”

https://gomakethings.com/goodbye-paywall/

> tl;dr: a paywall is really antithetical to my solarpunk anarchist values, so I’m making most of my members-only stuff free and public.

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

so is it safe to `npm update` yet or are we just not anymore?

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notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social ("swtyndall.notwhatwethink") wrote:

xkallisti@gram.social ("DJ the Nomad") wrote:

Boop the snoot

xkallisti@gram.social ("DJ the Nomad") wrote:

Ryvyn!

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

ICYMI, @owa keeps receipts:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma/

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

"so, um, this law you passed...yes, we know we're not complying, and, well, you see, it's *inconvenient* that we keep getting caught trying to mislead you. Could you scrap it? Cheers."

-- Cupertino

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250925-apple-asks-eu-to-scrap-landmark-digital-competition-law

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saucerlost wrote:

#antifa #antifascism

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

It's a bit of a surprise to me, but there are still tickets available for performance.now(), the most important web performance conference of the year:

https://perfnow.nl/

I'm booking my travel, and hope to see you in Amsterdam next month!

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

So, how is your evening going? Mine's going all right, I have to say.

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mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

I have been learning more about PDFs than I really wanted to for maybe the absolutely most funny reason possible - letting agency forgery: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73317.html

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stevelieber ("Steve Lieber") wrote:

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Iris@scholar.social ("Iris van Rooij 💭") wrote:

“AI technology is much more akin to a ouija board than anything else: promoting and enabling mysticism, pseudoscience, and pseudo-intellectualism” — (@olivia Guest et al., 2025)

Full paper here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17065099

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fasterandworse@hci.social ("Stephen Farrugia") wrote:

Software as a Service permits anti-design because it has none of the attributes that make good products earn the space they take up in the world.

It takes up no space in a store, in your home, and on your computer.

7/x