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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
wim_v12e@merveilles.town ("WimⓂ️") wrote:

I hope I can be forgiven for posting a #drawing for #drawtober that I made last weekend. I did finish it only yesterday. The odd colour is because I had to photograph it by artificial light, daylight having grown scarce here.

It's a portrait study of 1930s actress Anna May Wong.

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

Look at the response Nazis get when they visit a college campus. It's positively heartwarming.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/02/so-proud-of-my-alma-mater/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

Lucian K. Truscott, whose father was an Army colonel and whose grandfather was a general, and who himself graduated from U.S. Military Academy, explains the loud racist subtext of Hegseth's attack on beards in the military.

I recommend reading the essay to get the full story — and note that Truscott quotes someone from the past who uses a raw, ugly racist slur term.

#Trump #Hegseth #military #fascism #dementia #WarriorEthos #racism
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-great-mustache-revolt-and-the

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"The silver lining is that every high-ranking officer stationed everywhere in the world now knows, without a doubt, two crucial facts they may only have suspected before Quantico:

1. Hegseth plans to bend the rules to deliver maximum 'lethality,' regardless of domestic and international law; and

2. Trump is mentally unfit to serve as Commander in Chief."

~ Sabrina Haake

#Trump #Hegseth #military #fascism #dementia
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https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/insanity-at-quantico-will-make-it

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
faduda@mastodon.ie ("Gerard Cunningham ✒️") wrote:

After the bubble bursts, they will tell you there was no way anyone could know it was going to happen.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
servelan@newsie.social ("Servelan") wrote:

That Pete Hegseth Speech Could’ve Been A Spam Email For Boner Pills

https://www.wonkette.com/p/that-pete-hegseth-speech-couldve

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

Donald Trump’s cure for drug prices is worse than the disease - The Economist

“three-fifths of the excess profits, defined as those that are above a 10% return on capital, are taken by others, including hospitals, and middlemen, such as insurers, distributors and pharmacy-benefit managers. Three pbms handled nearly 80% of prescription claims last year”

https://apple.news/AGPWPWCYvS5WSyL0sQ0Refg

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

that would suck

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
emacsomancer@types.pl ("(mapcar #'emacsomancer objs)") wrote:

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

Ask a creationist for affirmative evidence for creation…and they bring up Pokemon.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/02/i-could-have-predicted-this-would-flop/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
STrekQuotes@nerdculture.de ("Daily Star Trek Quotes") wrote:

Happy Birthday to Avery Brooks. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Avery%5FBrooks #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
ryan@social.miyaku.media ("みやくモード") wrote:

2025LOOPTO01 on the deck, assist from nature #looptober

Attachments:

• video: dubby loop with nature sounds

Boosted by jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi"):
thisisgww@threads.net ("G. Willow Wilson") wrote:

We are here.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@higgibe303/post/DPTzxbqjeL0

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
tek@freeradical.zone ("Tekniquelly correct") wrote:

JetBrains will be opting all free IDE users into sharing their program code to train JetBrains’s AI models.

Today I’m blocking JetBrains IDEs in our MDM. Then we can turn it back on for employees who show that they have a paid license and it’s configured to opt out of the sharing.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/09/30/detailed-data-sharing-for-better-ai/

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

The flotilla has been seized. This is not a victory for Israel.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/02/israel-demonstrates-their-criminality-again/

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

Jamie Lee Curtis Gets Emotional on Maron Podcast Over Charlie Kirk Killing:

"In the interview, she also compares the Kirk snuff videos to the media coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks and the Zapruder film of the JFK assassination."

This is a pattern of behavior for Jamie Lee Curtis. I’m starting to suspect that perhaps she isn’t a very good person. https://amp.tmz.com/2025/09/15/jamie-lee-curtis-emotional-charlie-kirk-murder/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sir_pepe ("Peter Kröner") wrote:

I am apparently going full joker for this next round of #webdev and #javascript conference CfPs.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
vmstan@vmst.io ("Michael Stanclift") wrote:

The problem with DNS jokes is it can take a while for everyone to get it.

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

Today in History: Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967

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

Today in History: Jacques Cartier reaches area now known as Montreal, Quebec, 1535

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

Today in History: First robotics-based CAM, 1939

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

Today in History: Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India, 1869

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

Today in History: Aristotle dies of indigestion, 322 BC

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

Some brief thoughts on the Anthropic settlement, and why I think most authors should claim their share of the settlement if they can, inadequate though I think it is:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/02/authors-time-to-get-that-bag/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
jakelazaroff ("jake lazaroff") wrote:

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/

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

It’s been a year since @keenan published this amazing piece. It’s still *so* good. https://social.lol/@keenan/113239491156824295

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

St Jude 2025 Recap https://rknight.me/blog/st-jude-2025-recap/

We fell a bit short of our target but we still managed raise over $15k which is incredible. Thank you to everyone who shared or donated 💕

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

“Rise and shine, kiddo, we got a catch operation on runway 22. 1700pax onboard.”

“Second one this month. Heckin sloppy, boss.”

“You know, they used to just land airplanes on the belly if the landing gear got stuck”

“That’s wack. Surely it’d wreck the plane?”

“Pretty much yeah. They had the computing power to deploy a catch truck but apparently it just never occurred to them. They were catching these fuckoff huge primitive rockets, but if an airliner with 300 people on board had a gear issue it was ‘whelp let’s try a bellyflop, what could possibly go wrong?’ ”

“So what woke them up?”

“It was that AI bullshit in the twenties. When the bubble burst you could buy surplus vector processors by the skipload. All sorts of clever folk attacked previously intractable problems. That’s how we got tumourphages, catchtrucks, and dogvoices.”

“Wow but no cat translators, eh?”

“Oh they worked but nobody would pay to be told ‘fuck you feed me’ all day”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
urlyman ("Jonathan Schofield") wrote:

https://writes.casa from @adele is such a lovely idea. It’s been out there for just over 1 month. You can submit posts to a weekly theme that are <= 1,000 characters, in English, French, German, Spanish or Portuguese.

I hope more take up the invitation 😃

https://social.pollux.casa/@adele/statuses/01K429VH0XW3HF0R5HZM4ZFT2E

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

“Can the people who never took a chemistry class please stop ‘teaching’ us about chemistry?”

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/02/the-misinformation-economy/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wCi-xe0gl5w