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

I love the idea of otters hijacking surfboards

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/science/sea-otters-surfboard-santa-cruz.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

using US Coast Guard funds, "The Department of Homeland Security has purchased two Gulfstream private jets for Kristi Noem, the secretary, and other top department officials at a cost of $172 million, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times."

while children go hungry and working class Americans await huge health care premium increases, Secretary Noem spends our money for her comfort, and spends it like it was chump-change.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/us/politics/kristi-noem-dhs-gulfstream.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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

‘Mr. Vance, who served a tour in Iraq and worked as a media relations officer in the Marine Corps, said that the entirety of the demonstration — the live ammunition, the parachuters descending from the sky, the Navy seals swimming ashore, the F35 jets flying overhead — made his “heart sing as your vice president.”’

I’ll bet it gave that former uniformed PR flack an erection.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us/politics/vance-marines-california-protests.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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

We know we’re reaching the late stages of a bubble when we start to see multiple “people in tech don’t really believe in all of this, honest, we just act like it because we think we have to, we’re a silent majority you see”, but the truth is that what you believe in private doesn’t matter. All that matter is that you’ve been acting like a true believer and you are what you do

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

In work and politics, it genuinely doesn’t matter what you were thinking when you actively aided and abetted in shitting on people’s work, built systems that helped fascists, ruined the education system and pretty much all of media. What matters, and what you should be judged on is what you did

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

Penning a blog post on #React. I have a lot of criticism (https://jsx.lol) but I’m lacking the other side. Who are the top React superspreaders worth reading?

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

On that note, I see many devs prefer CSS Grid as if it supersedes Flexbox, but there are subtle differences. And I always go Flexbox first unless Grid is necessary. Not sure how to explain why though 🤔

https://social.lol/@db/115399784942320341

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

reading: "The CSS Reset, again" https://pawelgrzybek.com/the-css-reset-again/ by @pawelgrzybek

— great research. I'm liking the audacity of that flexbox by default!

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prealpinux@mastodon.uno ("prealpinux :fedilug:") wrote:

Un epitaffio per la fine del web (sin qui conosciuto)

@internet

https://prealpinux.com/2025/10/19/un-epitaffio-per-la-fine.html

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

“The things that didn’t kill you made you stronger, apparently, though that was a lie; truth was, too many things left you still alive but broken and disturbed, and it was better not to experience them.”

— Bad Actors (Slough House Book 8) by Mick Herron
https://a.co/9kxBAnC

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

Well played, soft shark. Well played.

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

Oh hai, from #nokings SF!

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

“All those decades of the arms race, and it turned out there was no greater damage you could inflict on a state than ensure it was led by an idiot. Somewhere, someone, probably, was laughing.”

— Bad Actors (Slough House Book 8) by Mick Herron
https://a.co/e7mfpDm

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
pouyllau ("Stéphane Pouyllau") wrote:

« L’écriture académique au format texte avec Markdown et Pandoc » par Bernard Pochet https://e-publish.uliege.be/md2/ #édition #pandoc #markdown #science

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NinaBernstein1@journa.host ("Nina Bernstein") wrote:

#NoKings #resist #laugh

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Memere ("Mémère") wrote:

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

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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

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Frogs for freedom. #NoKings

Attachments:

• video: 6fdade6abbd7d22f.mp4

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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/

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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.