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

Skotta here continues to be the raindrop connoisseur who prefers to lick water off leaves over the mud puddles her siblings like #caturday

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

Ducks in a row. When the window to my home office is open, I can hear these neighbours when they're feeding

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

Horses! Horses attract bugs and bugs attract starlings.

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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

@darkling

The story about him being asked to sum all of the numbers from 1 to 1000 and finding a shortcut as a child is probably as fake as the one about George Washington and the cherry tree. But, I still like it and it is a part of Mathematics Culture, it's one of our parables that illustrates the values of the community.

So, I still tell it with that caveat and the hope that it will inspire young people to look for ways to avoid drudgery.

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shoq ("Shoq") wrote:

So much for just going after “criminals”, right?

At the rate they’re taking us down, what conservative fools always said about liberals like me will be true: I will finally hate America

Ice detains superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/26/ian-roberts-ice-detention-iowa-school-district-superintendent?CMP=share%5Fbtn%5Furl

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

“Court records in Pennsylvania show that Roberts pleaded guilty in January 2022 to a minor infraction for unlawfully possessing a loaded firearm in a vehicle, and was fined. The case stemmed from a citation in Erie county issued the prior month by a Pennsylvania game commission officer, who stopped Roberts as he was finishing a day of deer hunting on state lands.”

https://mastodon.social/@shoq/115276063038394115

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

“short squeezes are more common when many individual speculators are active and convinced they have a knack for trading…
The combination of social media and a boom in stock options has made squeezes more common and potent. Sometimes the reason for the crowd’s excitement over a stock is the very fact that a high percentage of its shares have been sold short.”

- WSJ email newsletter

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greenpeace ("Greenpeace International") wrote:

Don’t give in to hopelessness.

Everything we do helps, no matter how small.

jwz wrote:

New mixtape: 4 boosts.
Some shit that happened 30 years ago that you kinda remember: 714 boosts.

You bitches need to get your heads right.

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Viss wrote:

important internet late night things

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joeress ("Joe Ressington") wrote:

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infinimatt@hci.social wrote:

when I say “free software” I mean “free” as in “use after free”

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I have been made to endure much in the last 10 years but being made to simultaneously root for James Comey, Jimmy Kimmel, and fucking Tylenol all in the same week is a bridge too far

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

@zzt when people read a post about fascism in tech and treat it as a personal attack on their tech choices, that's a tell that saves a lot of time going forward

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lety@doesstuff.social ("Lety Does Stuff") wrote:

Psycho question, is anyone here a welder. And I mean, veteran welder with years of experience and fun welder stories to tell, level of welder. If so, I'd appreciate your DMing me.

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fugueish@wandering.shop ("Chris Palmer") wrote:

How a labor movement (free software) destroyed itself, and how to recover from that (CW: Kubernetes mentioned favorably): The Death Of Consequences, by Christopher Neugebauer

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

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oli@olifant.social ("D. Olifant") wrote:

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trevorflowers@machines.social ("Trevor Flowers") wrote:

An open inkjet printer?
You have my attention.
https://www.hackster.io/news/the-open-printer-is-a-raspberry-pi-zero-w-powered-fully-open-highly-flexible-inkjet-printer-30948a1787cc
https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer

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danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

This is the Ladybird guy btw in case you were still unsure about the project’s politics https://mastodon.social/@alatiera/115272605624599561

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eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

Level up your nerd cred 🎮 Snag "the Game Console 2.0," "Game Boy Modding," and more in @nostarch's latest bundle. That's 21 books for as little as $36—and you're supporting EFF! https://www.humblebundle.com/books/electronics-for-the-curious-no-starch-books

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offby1@wandering.shop ("Chris is.") wrote:

I think this article by Bruce Schneier is really important to understand in the world we inhabit today.

The short version is that it is worth thinking about what your real threats are from authoritarian government surveillance and what you’re trying to protect or achieve.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/digital-threat-modeling-under-authoritarianism.html

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

On Little Donnie Boy Seeking Revenge

In shadows you plot,
A heart turned cold by anger,
Peace lost in the chase.

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

Remember when the web was younger and some dude went on Twitter like - "hey my dad is autistic you should hear the shit he says." And that was enough to get a tv show

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petrabrandstrom@mastodon.art ("Petra Brandström") wrote:

Also for those interested, I had some trouble getting the perspective on the wings right, so I built a paper dragon to help me draw the base. :ablobderpy:

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petrabrandstrom@mastodon.art ("Petra Brandström") wrote:

Here it is: Flying Dragon
A tribute to dragons, adventure, and flying!

I finished this just before my first gallery exhibition with the theme "Fantastik" (fantasy), where this painting had its premiere showing as a canvas print. The art show was a lot of fun, and I'm so happy my fellow nerds appreciate my art ❤️ Here's to dragons! 🔥

Digital painting made in Krita.

PS It works great as a phone screen, feel free to download for personal use!

#DigitalArt #Krita #Fantasy #dragon #FantasyArt #noai

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

If this brainstorming program actually comes together, it will probably be too Dramatica-inspired for people who don't like Dramatica, but not enough for people who love Dramatica. 🎯

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tymwol@hachyderm.io ("Timothy Wolodzko") wrote:

The "do something and if it fails return None" pattern is responsible for a lot of strange bugs in Python code. Stop doing this! None is a valid return type only if "no result" is a valid result. Yeah, in languages like Rust or Haskell the Option monad is pretty popular, but they also force handling it properly. In dynamic languages, you end up with "None" strings, math errors when doing arithmetic operations on None, or even less pretty bugs. In such a case, None should be returned only in cases where user should expect it as a valid result, so is expected to handle it properly. Otherwise, it begs for bugs.

#python #monads

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oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

I just want to say... thank you.

We thought this thing was dead in the water. Instead, over 100 independent theatres, bars, improv spaces, and random people with projectors emailed asking to show this dumb movie because making fun of the president and his dead pedophile friend is important.

If your city isn't on this list and you run a theatre or event space there, email jeffreyepstein@theonion.com and we'll let you screen it for free.

Again, this is real. Thank you.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Now I will need a song to dislodge this one, but later... much later.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Woke up with "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" in my head, which is appropriate I suppose.

But I was looking for a way to dislodge the song from my mental record player and came across this new song and video from Florence and the Machine, "Everybody Scream":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03iBgkXb1EE

Which uh... Yeah... 😳