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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wi8x@mastodon.radio ("Chris - WI8X") wrote:

From N4RTD via WI8X@0641AM EDT on 10/19/25:
Good Morning Folks! The Sunspot Number has dropped to 80. The Solar Flux Index has dropped to 156. Space weather for the past 24 hours has been moderate. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level occurred. No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours. A-Index is 36, K-Index is 2. Chance of flares today: 35% for M-Class, 5% for X-Class.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dyckron@mstdn.ca ("Ron Dyck") wrote:

🤣 Good luck with that!

Canada needs to start thinking about an auto sector without U.S. automakers - The Globe and Mail
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canada-auto-sector-us-automakers/

https://archive.ph/qmOvL

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
youranoncentral.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Anonymous") wrote:

Turn off your Face ID and Touch ID if you are taking your phones to the protests. Keep it in airplane mode and use encrypted apps where possible. Protect yourself.#3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com ("Carolyn Barber, MD") wrote:

BREAKING: Nearly 7 million Americans took to the streets in all 50 states — and around the world — to say: No Kings. No fascism. No authoritarian power grabs. This is the largest protest against a sitting president in modern U.S. history. #NoKings #press

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

When someone says of Trump's fascist moves, "It is a shocking situation to be in that I don’t think anybody anticipated a year ago,” I want to scream in frustration.

THIS WAS PREDICTABLE IN EVERY WAY. HE BRAGGED ABOUT WHAT HE WOULD DO.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable

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

Seventh Avenue in Manhattan on 18 OCT

(courtesy NYTimes article)

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

‘… about a dozen Gen Z and millennial Republicans in Vermont, New York, Kansas and Arizona… 2,900 pages sent over Telegram over seven months — used racist and homophobic language and glibly invoking Hitler and the Holocaust.

A chief of staff to a New York assemblyman who has since been fired posted “I Love Hitler.”…

The vice chairman of Kansas Young Republicans…: “Bro is at a chicken restaurant ordering his food. Would he like some watermelon and kool aid with that?”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/politics/samuel-douglass-resigns-vermont-young-republicans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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

‘…had responded to a message about “a very obese Indian woman” by writing, “She just didn’t bathe often.” His wife, Brianna, participated in the chat, too, and posted an antisemitic remark… quickly lost political capital, just one week after the Vermont Republican Party named him as a finalist for two awards, Rookie of the Year and Legislator of the Year… said that he was unaware of the “vile and disgusting comments” made in the group chat’

right.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/politics/samuel-douglass-resigns-vermont-young-republicans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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

a “rising star” of the Vermont Republican Party

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/politics/samuel-douglass-resigns-vermont-young-republicans.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.uk8.SAeK.3Ey7mpsSu9bd&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

otter stealing surfboard a few years ago

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!

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
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

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

#NoKings #resist #laugh

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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• video: 6fdade6abbd7d22f.mp4

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/