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

Vertebrates are on the menu at Cafe Steatoda.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/20/big-game-hunters/

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

So, thanks to climate change, it looks like Iceland now has a mosquito population

Add this to the news the other day about ticks arriving as well 😕

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2025-10-20-moskitoflugur-komnar-til-islands-456599

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Thought for the day:

MBA graduates are the Commissars of Capitalism.

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

In Trump's drug war, prisoners may be too much of a legal headache, experts say - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-drug-war-prisoners-may-be-too-much-legal-headache-experts-say-2025-10-20/

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

USB's 5mbit/s data signal causes 2.4Ghz radio interference.

If you have a USB dongle for #Bluetooth or Wireless mouse that has awful range or intermittently lags, connect it via a short USB extension cable.

https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/327216.pdf

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

Setting up my i3 Desktop to bring up an analogue clock on keypress. We chatted about it on #Freebooters latest podcast:

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/xkjXyr15LJFLP93kdb979v

#Linux #i3

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
mms@bsd.cafe ("God Emperor of Mastodon") wrote:

Which #xmpp #jabber server are you using?

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
DeufLeMoelleux@masto.bike ("Deuf le Magnifique") wrote:

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

For anyone who's into #GameOfThrones and/or #DunkAndEgg, me and some friends did a little #PeerTube podcast on the trailer:

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/3wXD7kvvtHvmWMsup54N27

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

You mean to say, he posted a video of himself shitting on Americans

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/19/trump-no-kings-post-jet-protesters

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

“Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call””

https://www.stereogum.com/2326398/garbages-shirley-manson-speaks-out-against-music-industry-economics-this-is-an-alarm-call/news/

> They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.

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

Microsoft sends an email about Copilot straight into the Outlook junk folder 🤡

I've configured nothing this is a brand new 365 account

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

oh dear, did your "serverless" server go down?

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

#Development #Guidelines
The hotel WiFi problem · Ensuring JavaScript resilience in hostile environments https://ilo.im/167pd4

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#Resiliency #WebApps #Networks #WiFi #VPN #HTTP #WebDev #Frontend #HTML #JavaScript

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz, but scary") wrote:

Disney is churning out Darth Vader™ content faster than the people who maintain his wiki entry can take it in

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Anakin%5FSkywalker

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:

You’ve tried Inbox Zero, but have you tried Inbox 404?

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
acdha@code4lib.social ("Chris Adams") wrote:

Looks like Indiana University gave students more of a media lesson than anticipated:

https://apnews.com/article/indiana-daily-student-ids-censorship-homecoming-6d8f4948c93fb0faaa57ff25b8efb8f9

https://www.purdueexponent.org/city%5Fstate/features/indiana-daily-student-censorship-newspapers-editorial/article%5F4cfd4bc6-f5a8-45f5-8091-dd9fc9f9da97.html

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
jesuislibre@mamot.fr ("Bruno Adelé") wrote:

J'ai développé godown 🚀

Le problème : vérifier que mes docs Markdown soient correctes avant de pusher mes commits.

Sans installer 50 dépendances, simple, éfficace. Un seul fichier à télécharger :)

Pour les DevOps qui veulent juste que ça marche 👨‍💻

https://github.com/badele/godown

#DevOps #Markdown

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

Herr Trump understands this:

“some basic truths still held sway, chief among them being: lie and bluster through two news cycles, and you’re home free. The headlines fed like a shark—constantly, but always on the move—and the further afield the scraps you tossed them, the more distant they became.”

— Bad Actors (Slough House Book 8) by Mick Herron
https://a.co/f9k56nl

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
GeePawHill wrote:

These two statements are not contradictory, and I wish folks would stop treating them as if they were.

1. *Every* *single* *act* of resistance helps.
2. *No* *single* *act* of resistance will fix this.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Setting up i3, Chris's new life with Vim, and can you really sell multi-pack cans separately?

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/xkjXyr15LJFLP93kdb979v

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
Walrus@toot.wales ("Walrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿") wrote:

My own web-site was hand made, by me, out of HTML, and nothing much else. OK, it has a .css file that was randomly generated by Strange Banana, but that's as fancy as it gets.

It does not use any cookies at all, apart from anything the Google advertising is doing. So there is no cookies banner.

As far as I know, nobody is being prevented from seeing it by GDPR, or anything else, apart from complete disinterest in the subject matter...

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Autumn walking 🍂

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NiceBastard@social.tchncs.de ("Dorin Popa") wrote:

This afternoon the premises of the production company Palestine Media Production (PMP) in Deir el Balah, southern Gaza, were hit by a rocket. The company has been working for decades with the ZDF. A 37-year-old engineer from the company and the eight-year-old son of another employee were killed in the attack. Another PMP staff member was injured. Images taken after the attack show that the SNG transmission van as well as team vehicles were also destroyed. ZDF Editor-in-Chief Bettina Schausten said: "It is unacceptable that media professionals are attacked while carrying out their work." In response to ZDF’s inquiry, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) stated that the incident is currently under review. https://presseportal.zdf.de/pressemitteilung/standort-von-produktionsfirma-in-gaza-von-rakete-getroffen

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Strandjunker@mstdn.social ("Andrea Junker :verified:") wrote:

The fact that there were no counterprotests shows that Trumpism and MAGA barely exist outside of social media. This movement has gradually collapsed completely within the population. — It’s difficult to fill the real world with Trump government troll bots.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

The fallout is being felt in places like Hays County, Texas,
not far from Austin, where ICE apprehended 47 people,
including nine children,
during a birthday celebration in the early morning of April 1.

The agency’s only disclosure about the raid in Dripping Springs describes the operation as part of a yearlong investigation targeting
“members and associates believed to be part of the Venezuelan transnational gang, Tren de Aragua.”

Six months later,
the county’s top elected official told ProPublica the federal government has ignored his attempts to get answers.

“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them,”
said County Judge Ruben Becerra,
a Democrat.

“By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”

In the raid, a Texas trooper secured a search warrant that allowed law enforcement officers to breach the home,
an Airbnb rental on a vast stretch of land in the Hill Country.

Becerra told ProPublica he believes the suspicion of drugs at the party was a pretense to pull people out of the house
so ICE officers who lacked a warrant could take them into custody.

The Texas Department of Public Safety did not respond to a request for comment.

The Trump administration has yet to produce evidence supporting claims of gang involvement,
said Karen Muñoz,
a civil rights attorney helping families track down their relatives who were jailed or deported.

While some court documents are sealed,
nothing in the public record verifies the gang affiliation DHS cited as the cause for the birthday party raid.

“There’s no evidence released at all that any person kidnapped at that party was a member of any organized criminal group,” Muñoz said.

McLaughlin, the DHS spokesperson,
did not respond to questions about Hays County and other raids where families and attorneys allege a lack of transparency and due process.

(5/6)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca ("Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸") wrote:

I think this might be my favourite sign I’ve seen.

Well done America. Well done!!
#nokings

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
us@newsbeep.org ("United States News Beep") wrote:

Possible space junk found near Western Australian mine site

Suspected space debris is believed to have crashed near a WA mine site, with the Australian Transport Safety…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Space #perthnews #rocketcomponents #Science #spacedebris #spacedebrisre-entry #spacejunk #wanews #waspacedebris
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/237181/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ancient_catbus@jorts.horse ("Catbus of Lost Souls") wrote:

Minnesota doing it right

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
alissaazar@kolektiva.social ("Alissa Azar") wrote:

From last night at the ICE facility in Portland.. Bureau of Prisons??

Don’t think I’ve ever seen this before here