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

I can't even be mad, he's always been this guy, you look up "milquetoast" in the dictionary and he's there, looking half confused and half guilty

RE: https://www.threads.com/@phil.lewis/post/DPQ%5FMUjDg0o

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

And here's the link to the whole Time Traveler's Passport anthology, edited by John Joseph Adams, and also featuring Peng Shepard, P Djeli Clark, Olivie Blake, Kaliane Bradley and R.F. Kuang:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN8CHTQD

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

Heads Up: If you have Amazon Prime, my time-travel short story "3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years" is now available at no additional cost as part of Amazon's "First Reads" program, a sneak preview of the Time Traveler's Passport anthology, out in November:

https://www.amazon.com/Days-Months-Years-Travelers-Passport-ebook/dp/B0FHHY4S4K/

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

Huge thanks to everyone who supported our @robb/omg.lol St. Jude fundraiser this year. Together, we raised an incredible $15,433! And in the three short years that we’ve been doing this, we’ve raised a total of $48,582 to support St. Jude’s research and care for children and families affected by cancer.

Thank you, again, for your generosity! 🥰 Robb and I will work out sticker logistics shortly and get your sticker packs shipped out soon.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
bkardell@toot.cafe wrote:

Just read that its Julie Andrews' 90th birthday ❤️ here's a drawing i did of her as Mary Poppins in 2016

https://www.instagram.com/p/BJHMdPBBAeO/?igsh=cWg4dnRkbmt2bTlj

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
camille@praxis.nyc ("Camille Winds Down") wrote:

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." - Oscar Wilde

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

1. Mustache

∞ https://rknight.me/notes/202510010847/

#Inktober #Inktober2025

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:

Save the date! The Web Engines Hackfest 2026 will be held from June 15 to 17 in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) https://www.igalia.com/2025/10/01/Announcing-the-16th-Web-Engines-Hackfest.html

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

West Point: definitely antifa.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/01/west-point-is-training-antifa-traitors/

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

oh no the perfect domain for a side project exists

I'm gonna have to buy it and then fail to deliver 😔

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

🆕 blog! “Book Review: Streaming Wars - How Getting Everything We Wanted Changed Entertainment Forever by Charlotte Henry”
★★☆☆☆

This should be a fascinating look at how streaming services evolved and the outsized impact they've had on our culture. Instead it is mostly a series of…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/book-review-streaming-wars-how-getting-everything-we-wanted-changed-entertainment-forever-by-charlotte-henry/
⸻
#BookReview #iplayer #Netflix #NetGalley

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

We are all antifa and need to be rounded up by the bureaucracy and thrown into a hellish prison camp.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/01/are-you-a-criminal/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip (":privTri: Corveon :brdSmol:") wrote:

Herons be like: e x p a n d

Attachments:

• gifv: A heron standing on a rock in a river. It suddenly moves its head way more forward than you'd expect.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

people keep saying to me “everyone was worried about the internet and TV melting our brains and we all turned out okay” and I’m like HAVE YOU SEEN THE STATE OF THE WORLD WE DID NOT TURN OUT OKAY

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mrzool@mastodon.online ("b-loved dreamer") wrote:

“There’s no wiggle room here. No shades of gray. If you let your kids use either of these apps, you’ve failed the most basic test of guardianship: protecting the undeveloped mind of a child from a machine designed to liquefy attention and hardwire addiction.”
—@Daojoan

https://www.theindex.media/p/if-you-let-your-kid-use-sora-you-re-a-bad-parent

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

it's kinda funny/tragic that we've gone from regular stories like "the employee was fired for outsourcing work to sone third party contractor"

and now we live in the opposite world, where refusing to delegate your work to the lowest cost bidder is now grounds for termination

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay 🇪🇺") wrote:

Australian software engineer Sarah Spencer hacked a 1980's knitting machine to create "Stargazing: a knitted tapestry" to show the universe in a unique way. 🇦🇺

Sarah explains, “By using a floppy drive emulator written in Python and a web interface, I can send an image to the Raspberry Pi over the network, preview it in a knitting grid, and tell it to send the knitting pattern to the knitting machine via the floppy drive port ...

https://magazine.raspberrypi.com/articles/knitting-network-printer

#WomensArt #Tech #Knitting #raspberrypi

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

what they need to ban is:

only 10 calories per serving!*
share bag!**

* serves a hamlet of 100 for a month
** you'll eat it all, fatty

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89d54gv44qo

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

So Carr is both a liar and a coward

FCC chair claims he never threatened TV networks over Jimmy Kimmel | Trump administration | The Guardian https://share.google/k0Tpkb3rw6kPuRL5k

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eschaton ("Chris Hanson") wrote:

Since I know a lot of iOS developers still read what I have to say:

Don’t use use a third party “metrics” or advertising stack in your application. Ever. The data gathered by such stacks is being sold, and among the buyers are fascists.

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

reading web dev blogs in [current year]

Attachments:

• gifv: opens fridge excitedly rubbing hands only to leave disappointed (with a "Chrom-only" badge)

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"US government shuts down after Senate vote fails"

But have they tried turning it off and on again?

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

lost the will to blog 😔

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
ballpointcarrot@social.lol ("Christopher Kruse") wrote:

Is there a public database of "stop using because they support the fascists/support genocide/etc." ? I'm finding the individual posts constantly and it's hard to keep up.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
foofaraw@beep.town wrote:

We are up to 98 entries and just a few more hours to go until the price goes up to $10/entry! Can we make it to 100 before that happens??? (No worries if you'd prefer to pay the $10 tomorrow though 😝) https://foofaraw.press/an-ordinary-contest/

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

This sort of deep, in-depth post about how the good web things we have came to be is why I love @marypcbuk's writing:

https://thenewstack.io/how-a-shared-test-suite-fixed-the-webs-biggest-problems/

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

Hello in There by John Prine

https://pandora.app.link/VhQyE5s85Wb

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
imyke@myke.social ("Myke Hurley") wrote:

Once again we have exceeded the goal for our campaign for St Jude this year. Thank you so much for your support.

You never let us down. You never let those kids down.

http://stjude.org/relay

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

What makes me deeply worried for the US is not how many I see scream in terror, because they know what Trump is doing.

What really scares me is, how many US citizens are silent, because they do not even realize that a fascist gang is tearing down every pillar of democracy in their country.

Apathy and ignorance is what made the Russian dictatorship possible.

The Russians did not wise up before all was lost. I sincerely hope the Americans are brighter and quicker.

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

Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia | The Verge

"AI Mode uncharacteristically pulls up a list of 10 web links instead of a written explanation."

The Trump Dementia Rule: If you ask Google AI a question and it omits an answer, then the controversial answer is the answer. https://www.theverge.com/news/789152/google-ai-searches-blocking-trump-dementia-biden