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

Once again I am denied the Nobel Prize in Economics despite my groundbreaking work in purchasing musical instruments in excess of my ability to play them, surely one day the world will stand up and notice

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

🥐 by popular demand I'm adding favicons to Croissant (next version soon!)

https://croissantrss.com

uses a proxy to get around CORS for the PWA and a service worker + offscreen canvas to generate/cache images (it's a whole blog topic...)

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

It's been literally moths since I've posted a picture of Krissy here, and that's just too darn long, so here she is with a guitar, yes, it's upside down but she is left-handed and also if it was good enough for Jimi Hendrix then it is good enough for her

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

This is one of those kinds of posts where your plan was to write about a thing, but it turned out your brain had completely different plans

Sometimes what's on your mind just jams itself to the front of your mental queue, plans be damned.

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

The fashion industry that is tech: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-fashion-that-is-tech/

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funhouseradio@mastodon.world ("FunHouse Radio") wrote:

Good Morning. Happy Monday. Keep your head clear and you'll do great.

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

shure

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• video: ff97a1f253a47c26.mp4

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

#Framework

This also goes towards people who might need to cross the US border – for example to attend conferences or business meetings, as is common in my line of work; and as is the case for this friend I was mentioning – even if they think they might not be at risk in the parts of the US they are visiting.

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

#Framework

Obviously only do this if it's safe for you! In fascistic regimes, or countries moving towards fascism, "antifa" is obviously politically charged, and it might get you discriminated against, or even facing state violence. And your personal safety is more important.

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

#Framework

I don't own a Framework, although I had been thinking of getting one before all of this came out to the surface. But over the weekend I was hanging out with a friend who does own one, and thinking that if the logo is becoming a fascistic icon, anyone who disagrees should explicitly counteract it.

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

I was thinking, maybe if you own a #Framework laptop, and you disagree with the whole Nazi bar "big tent", maybe it'd be good to put an antifa sticker on top of the logo.

After all, the opposite of fascism isn't neutrality, and neither it is centrism.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
bastianallgeier ("Bastian Allgeier") wrote:

We've reached the first tipping point (99% probability even if we'd manage to keep the 1.5 degree target) This means coral reefs on any meaningful scale will be lost. Nearly a billion people and a quarter of all marine life depend on them.

https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/5861/new-reality-as-world-reaches-first-climate-tipping-point & https://global-tipping-points.org

To roughly quote Maja Göpel: People don't seem to grasp the irreversibility of such changes in ecological systems.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Mer__edith@mastodon.world ("Meredith Whittaker") wrote:

The war is not over, however. Now we move to the European Council, where the issue is unresolved. We expect closed-door negotiations to engage in rhetorical arbitrage--claiming to support privacy by using word games and bespoke definitions--while in practice undermining it. Tedious and dangerous 3/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Everything in COBOL is global. Variables, scope, pain, despair...

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#HomeAssistant is pretty good.

It has some quirks, but it's not as much hassle as I feared. I had to edit 4 lines of YAML, but everything else I wanted was in the GUI.

Finally, switch to the #Matter standard paid off. I can keep devices shared with HomeKit, while having way better visibility and more features in Home Assistant.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Mer__edith@mastodon.world ("Meredith Whittaker") wrote:

So we remain vigilant & deeply grateful to our allies.

For Signal, Chat Control is an existential threat. If we were *forced* to choose between building surveillance into our services or keeping our integrity, we would choose integrity & leave the market. We hope it never comes to this. 7/

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I've got solar panels + 5kWh battery installed!

The battery makes the largest impact. I can charge during low-CO2 off-peak time and avoid the grid during the peak hours.

The #solar output I get is underwhelming (bad roof orientation), but the battery is going to pay for the system. I could have gotten just the battery!

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

gotta love wasting 30 minutes investigating a bug report that is confidently wrong in both assessment and solution 🫠

it's feeling like a second coffee Monday

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
hamishtpb@mewblog.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Hamish The PolarBear") wrote:

The finale of Space Virgins is finally released:

video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/4A7Nq6ndFx2RPYMK3WGYLe

#Video #PeerTube #Chat

@ChrisWere @uoou and myself finally got together to ramble our way into a finale of this iteration of our show. As always it is mostly us talking nonsense but, hopefully, entertainingly.

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tylerfromtheinternet ("Tyler, from the Internet") wrote:

You have never been in a room without at least one skeleton in it

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cubeofcheese@mstdn.social ("CubeOfCheese") wrote:

Me when I get 2 boosts and 5 likes on Mastodon

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"No Face, No Case"
Seen in Sydney

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

In our standard booking contract:

15. Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco", which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of six hundred seventy six dollars. As ordered by NORTON I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, 1872.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
charcoal@social.seattle.wa.us ("Sjujeniken") wrote:

Unfriendly reminder that the internet is not the real world and boosting memes is not protesting or civil resistance or any of that shit. You have to actually get your fat ass out of your house if you want to precipitate change.

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jwz wrote:

@GuyDudeman @officialgogurt I love that entirely out of context a certain faction immediately knows what "no wedding ring" implies.

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GuyDudeman@beige.party ("G.I. Robot :bc:") wrote:

@officialgogurt @jwz Missing the wedding ring.

jwz wrote:

Someone should sell replacement forearms for The Skelton that are throwing the horns. |m|

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researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:

Canadian AI haters

Your country needs you

https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/public-consultations/help-define-next-chapter-canadas-ai-leadership

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

I’ve installed Asahi Linux on my MacBook Air. First disquieting impression: KDE Plasma is nicer-looking than macOS Tahoe.

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

Aggressive #ICE commercials targeted at me because #YouTube knows I'm Latino. I'm just trying to watch a motherfucking movie man.