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Boosted by jwz:
Memere ("Mémère") wrote:

It's a beautiful day for #NoKings - here's my sign. #amphtifa

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@jef "I apologize for the concern it caused" is NOT AN APOLOGY. The passive "it caused" leaves the fault with the nameless "concerned", not with the speaker.

"I apologize for the fact that people freaked out when I shouted fire" is not the same as "shouting fire was wrong".

An actual apology takes the form:

1: What I did was wrong;
2: This is why;
3: Here is how I'll be changing my behavior.

Most people, and no politicians, understand this.

ETA: Cleese understands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7mIy97%5Frlo

Boosted by jwz:
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Frogs for freedom. #NoKings

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

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

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

Morris stood strong in opposition to tyrants today.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/18/the-morris-protest-march/

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

There's been some fog here lately

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

Blackbird in a nearby tree.

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

For this #caturday, three of my neighbours, the cats Skotta, Grása, and Loðmundur respectively. And the fourth cat is the one I spotted through the fog during my walk today

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
amerpie@social.lol ("Lou Plummer 💖") wrote:

My kid’s signs for No Kings today. Their politics are the best testimony to my parenting.

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

I don't give a good goddamn what RFK jr thinks about sperm counts in teenage boys. Why are conservatives so obsessed with children's genitals?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/18/you-didnt-know-youd-wake-up-this-morning-to-hear-an-old-man-raving-about-teenaged-boys-sperm-counts/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
ansate@social.coop ("Melissa Santos") wrote:

Just learned about https://queeniescrew.com Queenie’s Crew - an opportunity and set of activities for kids age 6-10 to imagine a world without prisons (they will also send info and activities to educators and activists working with kids) #abolition #PICAbolition #interruptingCriminalization

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

Protest today!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/18/no-more-kings/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
jarunmb@techhub.social wrote:

👑 Everyone be safe out there today.

rust@mas.to ("Rust tips") wrote:

`&mut` references are exclusive and non-copyable¹.

When they're a field of a struct like an Iterator, you'll get `&'call mut &'field mut`, which usually limits *both* to `'call`'s lifetime.

Modifying the field's reference is going to need `std::mem::take` to operate on the only instance of the reference.

https://quinedot.github.io/rust-learning/lt-ex-mut-slice.html

¹) #RustLang can "re-borrow" them to make a new `&mut` loan, but it's not a copy, because it must have a shorter lifetime and makes the source temporarily unusable.

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

And on the Ellis thing, I'd actually met him and chatted a couple of times, so my gut feeling of him being a narcissist wasn't just based on his behaviour on the forum, although, apparently, for a lot of people that's where they first encountered his misbehaviour.

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

IIRC it wasn't even a quick "you crazy" quip. He went on at length about how I clearly needed substantial psychiatric help. Sounded like a fun guy.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
stevegis_ssg@mas.to ("Steve Gisselbrecht") wrote:

Please remember that "Red Tape" is why there's no sawdust in your bread and the nearest river has not actually caught on fire lately.

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

Runner up: getting called mentally ill by the guy who's thing was a web comic the shape and size of a banner ad claiming it was the future of comics syndication, after I wrote a column pointing out that banner blindness meant he had effectively specialised in making invisible comics

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

Thinking back, to the 90s internet, probably my greatest claim to 5 minutes of internet fame (not much fame, just a tiny bit of notoriety) was getting banned from the Warren Ellis Forum for calling Ellis a narcissist (wasn't proven right on that one for over 25 years)

Boosted by jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi"):
jswatz_tx@threads.net ("John Schwartz") wrote:

If these billionaire buttheads had gotten a good liberal arts education, they’d have read “Ozymandias.“ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-17/america-s-tech-right-is-obsessed-with-building-giant-statues

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

By not trying to shoehorn it into every damn thing and/or just writing that email ourself, like a normal educated human would?

https://search.app/uvK5c

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

Not mentioning the exec because they’re a candyman type that shows up when somebody even alludes to their name, and not mentioning the “AI water use is fake” people because you don’t need that level of intellectual dishonesty in your life and there’s already too many of them to mention

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

Then there are the usual suspects claiming “AI” environmental impact is fake, comparing it to environmental disasters like the US beef industry or global textiles, and disregarding, well, everything sensible

(We’re trying to prevent a disaster, you gaping anuses, that it’s early is the point)

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

I see the “AI isn’t a broken tech and has reasonable uses” crowd is out in full force this weekend, the big one doing the rounds is a tech exec with a catastrophic track record claiming there is a silent majority of reasonable tech managers out there, honest, they’re just vewy vewy qwuiet

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange ("☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻") wrote:

“#JossWright, an associate professor at the #UniversityOfOxford who specialises in #cybersecurity, said it was easier to use stolen #British #phones in #China than elsewhere because many of the country’s #NetworkProviders did not #subscribe to an international #blacklist that barred devices that had been reported #stolen.

“That means that a stolen #iPhone that has been blocked in the #UK can be used without any problems in China,”

<https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/london-became-a-global-hub-for-phone-theft-now-we-know-why-20251016-p5n2zx.html> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/A5DIg>

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz, but scary") wrote:

If there are games in the Fallout series you missed, for the next week GOG has every Fallout game in their inventory on deep discount (mostly 75% off):

* Fallout: $2.49
* Fallout 2: $2.49
* Fallout Tactics: $2.49
* Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition: $4.99
* Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition: $6.59
* Fallout 4 Game of the Year Edition: $9.99

GOG being GOG, these are all DRM-free.

(All prices above USD. Pricing may vary in different regions.)

https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20251017%5Ffallout%5Fday

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

And at last, some geometry.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #decay #door #concrete #green

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

#WritersCoffeeClub 18/10: Do you tend to incorporate supernatural elements in your work?

No, there are absolutely no supernatural elements in the Laundry Files whatsoever, just science we haven't fully explored yet but h̶̜̎ä̵̜̙̳̗̱̗͙͉̹́̈̎̑̾r̷̡̧͙̭̫͇̠̀k̵͍̺̳̜̠͑̍̂̏̋̀̆̉̈́͜ͅ ̴̧̗̩̫͖̹͍͕̎̓̐̆͝͝ͅḑ̶̞̻̣̝͐̿͐̋͗̐͒ô̶̖̦̙ ̴͇͍̟͉͉̰͖̂̀͐̉̀̽͠ẏ̴̪̾͑ö̷̩̮͚̣̮̪̦u̴̢̥̹͙̅͑̏̀̎͂̓̚ͅ ̵͇̮͆̉̿͂̋̑̇͛͆h̴̺͎̲̤̜͐̿͐́ḙ̸̢̪̰̼͒͒͑̓͝a̵̧̠̖̓͂̅̾͋̒̊̌ͅr̶̡̩̘̗̰̝̺͍̎͋̍͛ ̴̨̳̀͗͗̇̔̈͋̅͆ẗ̶̨̛͖̫̤̹́͐͝h̸̗͇̱̒̉͌̈̏͂͌͐e̴̮̹̋̇ ̶̣̄͒̅̀͘̕t̶͇̦͆͂̅̉̀̎̈ͅẹ̷͖̩̞͎̝̥̱̓̊̕r̵̢̝̻͕͕̰̺͉̽̅r̸͎̥̭̞̯̗̜̳̣͂̄̕̕͝i̸̺̺̗̫̿̿͊́b̷͙̲̗̜̩͚̉ļ̵͓͇̹̚̚͜e̴͔͊͒̀ ̸͉̙̩̫̇͑̈̄̈́̚͜͝p̵̥͎̹̣̱͇̘̻̪̓̊͗̊i̵̖̙͔̙͍̽p̴̨̮͍̥̻͈͚͉̌̔͆͌̋͠i̷̧̠̤̹̜͕̋̃́̂̓̾̔̚͝ñ̸̢̙͕̘̹̬͎͈͉͊̏̋͑̈́͝g̵͖̹͕̪̳̺͌ ̷̹͇̳̥̣̺̫̝͛̉̆͌͋̉̅ą̶̺͔̭͑̓͝ͅņ̵̛̯̖̙͆͌̄̍̌ͅd̵̺̗̯͕̗̖̣̊̒ͅ ̷̜̲̣̱̂̿͒̃͝ť̸͎̱̥͓̪̞̣͍̌̊̌̌͐̍ͅh̸̰̪̻̙̣̦̓̌̔̾̈̊́̕̚ȇ̷̡͙̖̜̳̋͠ ̷̙̦̻̱͗͗̀̋͂͗͛͘b̶͈̖̺͛̊̊̒̀͐̃̆͝ͅl̴̻͍̤͖̜̐̌̄͗̈̀͘͝ͅë̷̢͙̪̬̗͎́ä̵̢̧̼̺͈̖͓̞̹́͠t̵͇̗̙̉͘͝ ̵̧̢̢͓͍̺̮̖̃͒ơ̴̮̦̯̟̐͋͐̂̉́͂̾f̴̨̮̺͒̀͘ ̵̜͕͑̌̄a̸͕̜͙̪̋̔̏̃̉͠͝ç̴̲̥͕̟͛̀c̷̣̪̈́̽̃̂́̊̀͊ư̴̼̝̊̈͛̐̐̌͊r̷̞͐̾͐̓̍̄̓̍s̶͖͕̦̞̑̄̈́͛̈́́ͅę̵̛̞͉͋̓̒̆͂́̏̌ͅd̵͛̑̅̀̄ͅ ̶̤̜̗̭̺̦̥͔̥̾̄͘d̶͕̟̗̜̻͍̗͆͒̓̓r̴̞̯͒̆̐ữ̷͍͕̰̖̬͙͋̿͆́̕͠m̵̡͚̦͚̠͓̱̞̗̅̓͌͘s̷̢̛̪̗̱̟̥͒̔̆ ̴̨̰͎͌̅͋h̵͚́͝e̸͕͌͆̇̔̒̀̈́͂͝ ̶̧̛̔̓̽ī̸̡̺̹͕̪͙̼̹̑̃̓̍͛̄̋̊s̷͔̩̞͇̎̿ ̸̢͓̳̹̼̫̾̆̆̓͆ͅͅc̵͇͍̰͋̇ȍ̴̢̒̿̃̊̌̏m̶͍͋̅̾̈͋̈́̎ȉ̸̲̥̣͕͇̞͎̺̳̆͐͋n̸̖̤̝̝̤̲̦̣̬̎̓̋̆̽̓̑͝͝ǵ̷͔̟͇̫̣̦͓̊̃̊͜͜ ̶̭͕͓̣̲̹̮͎̐͋̔̇̿̏͘͝͠ḩ̵̘̭̪͚̣̠̩͔̆́̓͗̑͝ẽ̸͖́̏̑̇̄̕ ̴͍̝̼͙̮͛̑̊͑̋͌̀ī̵̼̥̬̦̃́̚ş̶̛̠͌̐̉ ̶̢͖̳̦̖̹͈̲̗̋͌c̶̺̣͖̳͔̖̆́͗̓̒͜ͅo̷͉̲̰͇̝͉͎̫͎̽̈̈͘ṃ̸͙̬̝̩͓͑͌i̶͖̳͈̚̚ͅn̶̗̒̉͊̂̔̿̔͒͠g̶͙̃̉̌̂̈́̐

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
sicurezza@mastodon.uno (":tor: Sicurezza Digitale") wrote:

🚨 Oggi volevano far approvare “Chat Control” nel Consiglio UE. Ma hanno fallito! 🎉

Tuttavia, Chat Control tornerà di sicuro in altre forme.

#ChatControl non è altro che un Cavallo di Troia per cittadini europei. Perché?“Chat Control” è il regolamento che obbligherebbe le piattaforme a controllare tutte le comunicazioni private (foto, messaggi, video) per proteggere i minori, ma è invece un #CavallodiTroia per la #sorveglianza di massa

👉 Segui il gruppo @sicurezza@diggita.com per non perdere aggiornamenti

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

Can we interest you in a cocktail?

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