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

Blog post: Discord users are first victims of UK's Online Safety Act
https://chriswere.wales/posts/discord-users-are-first-victims-of-uks-online-safety-act.html

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The colors of autumn.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria

jwz wrote:

Also greatly enjoyed fielding the multiple questions: yes that is in fact the official Warner Bros Entertainment-approved music video for Cry Little Sister, I am *not* pranking you on this -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az-zvXNxfu4

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fingolas@journa.host ("Martin Holland") wrote:

Macron: "We were incredibly naive to entrust our democratic space to #SocialNetworks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

🤔

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art_codesmith@toot.cafe ("Artemis") wrote:

@davidgerard I don't know what the third social network will be like, but the fourth social network will be sticks and stones.

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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

while researching the rubygems takeover situation, I ended up on the blog of someone who insists on using AI header images, and now instead of engaging with the actual post I’m stuck on “why is there a puppy on the table? WHY do the evil corporate overlords holding a sinister meeting have a PUPPY on the TABLE?”

but of course, there is no “why”; it wasn’t an artistic choice meant to convey anything deep or clever. This is much worse than no image or a boring image: it’s a nonsensical assault on the senses preventing any possible connection to meaning; it’s the bitwise inverse of art. It doesn’t decorate your writing, it casts a shadow of profound doubt upon it.

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neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

Have your personal data been exposed in a company's personal data breach?

jwz wrote:

In these fascist times, sometimes all you can do is fill a room full of people singing and screaming along with a dumb movie about ambiguously gay vampires.

https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/10-05.html

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TheOldGuy@qoto.org wrote:

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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Last month Judge Diane Goodstein ruled against the Trump regime, and blocked the State of South Carolina from giving millions of voter data files to the DOJ.

Last week Harmeet Dhillon of Trump's DOJ openly condemned Judge Goodstein's ruling in a tweet.

Yesterday Trump lackey Stephen Miller called "left wing judges & lawyers" as "terrorists" requiring force to rebuke.

Now this is Judge Goodstein's home, on fire, and being investigated for arson.

Probably just a coincidence.

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evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

I don't want to be alarmist, but "troops occupying major cities" seems like the kind of milestone that we'll look back on and regret that we didn't stop.

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spocko@mastodon.online ("Spocko") wrote:

How we fight in #Portland.
Ridicule is working! #ICE & #CBP backed up!

The frog finally jumped out of the slow heating pot!

Thank you #AntiFascistFrog on TikTok
https://www.tiktok.com/@theantifascistfrog/video/7557153362249026846 @lolgop

@emptywheel @GottaLaff @jimstewartson @nicolesandler

Attachments:

• video: #AntiFascistFrog going up against ICE in Portland on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@theantifascistfrog/video/7557153362249026846

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LAGilman@raggedfeathers.com ("Laura Anne Gilman") wrote:

Trump tried to circumvent a judge’s ruling this weekend by calling up the California NG to go to Oregon. California and Oregon both went “oh fuck no” and tonight the judge, in an emergency hearing, ALSO went “oh fuck no” and issued a second, broader ruling saying Trump can’t send ANY state NG into Oregon w/o real cause.

DOJ lawyer requested a stay, stay was denied.

Judge 2x reminded the DOJ lawyer that he was an officer of the court. That… you do NOT want a judge to have to say that to you.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
FediGarden@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Garden 🌱") wrote:

Toot.wales is a Mastodon social network for Wales and the Welsh, at home and abroad! Y rhwydwaith cymdeithasol annibynnol i Gymru, wedi’i bweru gan Mastodon!

This server has been online since 2018.

:Fediverse: https://toot.wales

You can find out more at https://toot.wales/about or contact the admin account @teamtoot

#FeaturedServer #Wales #Welsh #Cymru #Cymry #Cymraeg #Cymreig #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

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

@adam It would have been nice if I had not been given reasons to reconsider my line about "I don't have the same feeling of ill will" in the following months quite so regularly!

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

This remains a great post, and is especially relevant today. https://coyotetracks.org/blog/pressure-to-stay-genteel/

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literalgrill@sakurajima.moe ("LiteralGrill") wrote:

Ya know, right now would be an AMAZING time for Mastodon's leadership to break bread with the Black programmers that really wanted to help make this place less racist.

Bluesky just banned a prominent Black user from basically being seen by anyone. Because Bluesky's CEO is mad about their posts. ATProto is clearly showing serious signs of weakness.

Do the people who love the Fediverse have the guts to admit we have poorly served the Black community and need to apologize? To take radical steps to show this place will be worth investing in for Black users who may want to leave Bluesky?

Now is the time to act and do so. If ever there was a time to put a massive amount of momentum behind the Fediverse, it'd be now. We should do it.

#Mastodon #Bluesky #ATProto #Fediverse

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irene@discuss.systems ("Irene Zhang") wrote:

Our resident front yard hummingbird having a bath. Sometimes, I can’t believe that I live here. #seattle #pnw #birds #birdsofmastodon

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• video: A bright pink throated green hummingbird enjoying a bath in a natural stone fountain.

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

Another interesting thing this about this piece is the timing:

1. Manton gets super upset about me daring to call him out for his awful, insensitive take on the Bluesky situation.

2. He announces that he’s disconnecting from Mastodon because it’s “broken” and “divisive”.

3. Not long after, Manu posts about how social media is awful.

4. Manton promptly boosts Manu's post.

Manu’s blogroll.org site is sponsored by Micro.blog, but I’m sure this is all coincidence. 😎

https://social.lol/@adam/115324443935427207

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

This has been said a million times a million different ways but it’s worth repeating: the goal of a good developer isn’t to write code that compiles and tests that pass. The goal of a good developer is to solve a problem and hopefully in the process write code that can be understood by the next person maintaining it 10 years from now. The challenge is not in creation itself, it is in decided what to create and how and why

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

In the past, when I’ve chosen to call people out like Vincent Ritter and Manton Reece for their harmful statements and actions, the “calling out” was a crucial choice. Both Vincent and Manton had (separately) implored me to keep my comments private and send an email instead. But private channels are where accountability never sees the light of day.

There are times when calling in is more appropriate than calling out, but never when you’re seeking genuine accountability in the face of harm.

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GamingNews@meta.masto.host ("Gaming News") wrote:

PC Gamer just posted:

First US videogame champion, legendary programmer, and Interplay co-founder Rebecca Heineman is fundraising to deal with the costs of an aggressive cancer diagnosis

Heineman's uphill battle to save an infamous early port of Doom has gotten renewed attention in recent years.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/first-us-videogame-champion-legendary-programmer-and-interplay-co-founder-rebecca-heineman-is-fundraising-to-deal-with-the-costs-of-an-aggressive-cancer-diagnosis/

#gamingNews

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

This was an interesting piece, not for what it said, but for what was missing. Noticeably absent is any recognition of the real power that social tools offer for public accountability, and how open criticism can empower people who would otherwise be completely oppressed.

It also seems to make the assumption that all negativity in a social context is “shit” posted by “despicable human beings”. No room for the possibility of valid criticism? How strange.

https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/on-public-online-behaviour

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

Another one I really like. I miss the Wild West. I think this was Wyoming or Montana?

#photography #ios

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

And so, after about six month of slow, faltering progress I could consistently run three 5-milers a week.

Back to that overpass photo. During all these 5 years, whenever I drove near that place in a car I looked longingly at cyclists and runners going through that trail and wondered whether I'll be able to do it myself every again.

Today I finally ran through that spot again, on a distance of 7 miles!

The end.

(Thanks Kirstin!)

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

But for the insurance to cover it I needed to go through yet another therapy, because rules.

This time things have been different. My PT loaded me way more than any therapy before and was able to convince me after a couple of months that I was measurably improving, even though I didn't feel it. We also discovered that what was holding me back wasn't my knee, but all kinds of other problems you could think of, pains in various joints, muscle cramps, etc. So she taught me how to work with those.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

So I got referred to physical therapy. That didn't really help, and to make it short I'll say that I've been through MRIs, x-rays, ultrasounds, PRP therapy (this is when they separate your own blood and inject plasma to where it hurts), and two more physical therapies. None of that helped completely, although I could *occasionally* run 5 miles, but never routinely.

So I asked my doctor to refer me to a knee surgery before I get to old for it to make sense.

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

I can't keep up with reality, it's clearly beyond satire and taking the piss now: Palantir, whose UK CEO is the grandson of the notorious fascist founder of the British Union of Fascists, and whose Trump-adjacent leader has the knives out for democracy, backs away from key Starmer policy on digital ID cards, fearing *reputational damage* from being associated with something "Too Evil even for Palantir":

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/starmer-hit-major-blow-tech-36013892

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

Please don’t call me Dr Flimnarf. I didn’t complete my degree

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

This is the spot through which I used to run my 13 mile and longer distances. About 5 years ago something clicked in my knee after another run, and after a couple of weeks I realized I couldn't run freely anymore. And then I couldn't run at all. Eventually I found time and worked up enough courage to go to a doctor. And ultimately a surgeon said I had "plica syndrome". I didn't know them that "syndrome" in doctor speak means "something is wrong with it", not that they actually know what to do.