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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊") wrote:

Following Rishi Sunak and Nick Cleggs' move to advising tech companies, let's all wish Liz Truss well on her first day at Amazon Web Services.

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

I think the best way for me to handle the Netlify outage is to just repost the link to the newest newsletter tomorrow and pretend I just published it 😆

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"It’s obvious that Republican proselytizing and fearmongering about violence and agitators at this rally was strategic, but it’s even more obvious that it was a piss-poor strategy. You can’t plug your ears and yell 'antifa' while hundreds of thousands of Americans march through the streets."

#NoKings #Trump #MAGA
/24

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

Malcolm Ferguson looks at the Washington, D.C., No Kings protest and says Republicans should be afraid. The event itself entirely exploded the fear-mongering lies about a left-wing extremist event full of violence. Ferguson notes:

"The atmosphere was extremely energetic and family friendly for both young and old."

#NoKings #Trump #MAGA
/24

https://newrepublic.com/article/201970/republicans-afraid-who-joined-no-kings-protests

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

Ruth Ben-Ghiat analyzes Trump's AI video showing him crowned and flying over crowds of protesters defecating on them as "an act of infantile rage where again he is the all powerful man who's able by himself to inflict this blow of showing exactly what he thinks about the American people."

#NoKings #Trump #MAGA
/22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNt8YoqQzWE

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"By mid-day on Sunday, the front page of the New York Times website contained not a single news article about the protests. ...

A few days ago many of us would have expected the New York Times to under-cover the No Kings protests relative to its coverage of much smaller right-wing gatherings."

~ Jamison Foser

#NoKings #Trump #MAGA #NewYorkTimes
/9

https://www.findinggravity.net/the-new-york-times-is-full-of-brown-liquid/?ref=finding-gravity-newsletter

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"All last week, Republican leaders tried to portray the No Kings protests scheduled for Saturday, October 18, as 'Hate America' rallies. G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers partnered with Atlanta-based science newsroom The Xylom to estimate that as many as 8.2 million people turned out yesterday to oppose the Trump administration."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#NoKings #Trump #MAGA
/1

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-19-2025

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"It was the senior protesters who really got to me. I can’t imagine what it must be like to be of a generation whose parents endured or fought in World War II, to see where we’re headed right now, and to be all too aware that you may not be around before we know if we’re going to get out of this. I can’t imagine facing the end of life with the worry that your grandkids won’t inherit the birthright for which your parents fought and sacrificed."

#NoKings #Trump #MAGA
/26

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

Fun fun fun https://www.netlifystatus.com

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

The newsletter is also getting a few more email bounces than usual as well

I guess that consolidating the distributed network that is the internet down to a small handful of providers is working well for us, right? 😅

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

Looks like the AWS outage means some sites hosted on Netlify, like mine, are having loading problems for some people in some regions (the details are sketchy at the moment)

These sites are, in theory, static file sites that could be loaded straight off a content delivery network.

I clearly need to ramp up my plan for getting off Netlify and US-based hosting. 😐

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

Okay last one. Isn't this perfect for #autumn ??? #thrifting

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

The series "Mussolini - Son of the Century" from last year is a remarkable one in many ways, but the soundtrack by Tom Rowlands (one half of the Chemical Brothers) is simply outstanding.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
rk@well.com ("rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually") wrote:

Then: The Internet is designed to route around failure.

Now: The Internet is five companies and one of them is broken.

#aws #programming #networking

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

I'm a sucker for J Crew because I have yuppie tendencies

#thrifting

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

The inevitability of anger: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-inevitability-of-anger/

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

Foggy autumn photos: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/foggy-photos-2025/

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

Small but so pretty.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/20/if-you-were-wondering-how-big-these-juveniles-are/

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

No but for real

#thrifting

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

I'm the king of #thrifting nice collar shirts.

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

Foggy autumn photos
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/foggy-photos-2025/

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

The inevitability of anger

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-inevitability-of-anger/

This week's post is on the AI Bubble, how social media shapes what we say and how we respond to it, and the inevitability of a reckoning.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

I want tech that helps humans.
Not tech that exploits humans.

#Tech

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt ("Nina Kalinina") wrote:

I made a tour of an obscure window system called Bellcore MGR, made by the Bell Core Research and bearing a strong resemblance to Plan 9's 8.5.

The tour also comes with a short overview of the $HOME MOVIE film authoring tool from 1990. There are many screenshots, a 40-minute long video with Mozart and Liszt, and a hard disk image for 86box.

Like, share, boost, comment <3

https://www.ninakalinina.com/notes/mgr/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
tpolecat ("Rob Norris") wrote:

I just discovered the disx interactive disassembler and it is so good I can't sit still. Extremely highly recommended if you need to reverse old machine code. http://xi6.com/projects/disx/ #retrocomputing

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I bought a roll of white cardboard to use as a background for product photos in preparation for launching the new #Plushtodon, but naturally, I also used it to update the photos for the previous model. (A few of them still remain on our US shop!)

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
daniel@gultsch.social ("Daniel Gultsch") wrote:

Not everyone can or should self-host, but there is a lot of middle ground between self-hosting and putting everything on #AWS.

Federated protocols like #XMPP, #ActivityPub, and #SMTP give you choice.

#Fediverse #Jabber

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Interesting to see how Amazon Ring is slowly rolling out enabling footage from your doorbell camera to be requested by law enforcement (police, ICE and animal control?). The feature is officially “starting with lost pets” to get people used to the idea.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:

We're currently working on devtools for view transitions in Firefox, but in the meantime, here's a little-known option that helps…

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• video: 99ad611821da5e6f.mp4

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

please be another useEffect blunder it would be so funny 🙏