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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Sunnier times. #grickledoodle #vampire #horror #nintendo #games #animalcrossing #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

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

The new webpagetest.org UI is working my very last nerve. Let's tally the brokenness:

❌ default, simple configs for newcomers? gone
❌ not just pre-mobile, mobile-hostile
❌ filmstrip view nuked and useless
❌ connection, viewpoint, device, and geo selection UIs lead you to confusion and inevitable comparison failure
❌ sharing requires "generate link" dance instead of, you know, having good URLs

Utter debacle. Roll this back, Catchpoint.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
masukomi@connectified.com wrote:

If you live in Georgia (the US state) you should definitely show up for the impending special election if you don’t want your power bills to skyrocket. Hank Greene explains why

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AExA37/

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

Just bought a bunch of these https://johnnycupcakes.com/products/sticker-why-be-a-butthead

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
MsMadLemon ("Ms Mad Lemon") wrote:

My new track ‘Reminiscence Pt2’ from my upcoming album. Created on Amiga along with modular synth and other synthesizers. Follow-up video on this coming soon.
Watch here and enjoy: https://youtu.be/3eu64hiwvmk
#amiga #modularsynth #music

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
ttiurani@fosstodon.org ("Timo Tiuraniemi") wrote:

"Climate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged."

It's easy to think that what's stopping meaningful #ClimateAction is ignorance or selfishness of people.

But that's just not true anymore: the overwhelming majority of people want to stop the #ClimateCrisis. The problem is active sabotage of democracy by #BigOil, corporations, far right and elites.

100+ scholars contributed to bring together this important book in time for #COP30, read it!

https://cssn.org/news-research/global-assessment/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

The artist may surprise you. Your art history post for today: by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Head of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette, 1886, oil on canvas, 32.3 cm x 24.8 cm, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

From Obelisk Art History: “When you think of Vincent Van Gogh, his vibrant, hallucinatory visions spring to mind. Star-filled skies, electric yellow, and piercing self portraits. This dapper corpse, with its rictus grin and dangling cig, is a whole different beast. Rendered in monochrome on a stark black background, it’s missing Van Gogh’s signature swirling brushstrokes and bold color. His marks are loose, almost casual, neatly capturing form and shadow with the bare minimum of strokes. It’s simple, and kind of funny.”

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
joel@polymaths.social ("Chrono") wrote:

@adele yay!

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

Who will do +1️⃣ ?
😊

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
gtconway3@threads.net ("George Conway") wrote:

This stone is actually at the FDR Memorial, and quotes one of his fireside chats. Even so, I hope the next lawfully elected president, should we ever have another one, pursuant to and in accordance with a statute duly enacted by a functioning Congress, should we ever have another one, will have a replica of it physically, prominently, and permanently installed in the Oval Office and in a restored East Wing.

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

Worth your time:

https://terminal.ahumanfuture.co/posts/2025-10-17/the-world-is-something-that-we-make/

(can't recall link source; apologies if it was you!)

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

These happy mealworms are going to meet a horrible fate.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/24/the-silence-of-the-worms/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
quietui ("Quiet UI") wrote:

Components such as popover, tooltip, and toast use the Popover API to access the browser’s top-layer, meaning you don’t have to hoist or “portal” elements to break out of an overflow container.

All of this just works with no additional effort from the user. ✨

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bramus@front-end.social ("Bramus") wrote:

We heard ya when you asked to take the transform of the anchor into account when using anchor-positioning … coming to Chrome 144! 😊

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cs3zn3kikj5kwzljlvyr55sg/post/3m3tpllasri2i

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊") wrote:

In May 2021, Dr Rachael Kent started a class action against Apple on behalf of 19.6 million UK consumers, alleging it breached competition law and overcharged for app purchases. Today, the tribunal decided Dr Kent was right, and has awarded damages. https://www.catribunal.org.uk/cases/14037721-dr-rachael-kent

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org ("Ruth Mottram") wrote:

The incredible tragedy for #ArcticScience of NOAA shutting down their #methane monitoring data. 5th May 2025 is the last data we'll ever get.
#NCKF25

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

The president becoming a crypto billionaire and pardoning convicted criminals who introduced his family to crypto is the sort of thing that people used to associate with “corrupt” dictatorships and now it’s not even the scandal of the week.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zeldman@front-end.social wrote:

The party of Lincoln cheers as masked vigilantes who can’t pass an open-book test aim guns at pregnant women, an alcoholic TV host murders unarmed fishermen while lecturing the US military on “manhood,” and the GOP keeps the government shut down to keep the content of the Epstein files a delightful secret.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
waldo.net@bsky.brid.gy ("Waldo Jaquith") wrote:

A president who can tear down 1/3 of the White House can tear down the entire White House. A president who can steal $230M from the treasury can steal $1T from the Treasury. We have both legalized and tolerated Trump’s crimes, so they will only get bigger.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

JPMorgan plans to allow institutional clients globally to use their holdings of bitcoin and ether as collateral for loans by end of year (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Attachments:

• gifv: Everything Is Fine Burn GIF

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

This is a partial recording of the performance of "Áfram stelpur" at the women's strike two years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBRGvpsE5WU

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

Here's the women's choir Katla performing "Áfram stelpur" in 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ac8G-NrIg

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

The version you're most likely to hear is usually this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKv3N3zpW7E

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

The song "Áfram Stelpur" emerged quickly as a sort of anthem for the women's strike and the Icelandic women's movement. Here it is being performed at the original 1975 strike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sFdUUnHJi8

Found a hasty translation on Reddit. Could be better but captures the gist.

https://www.reddit.com/r/translator/comments/x3h0km/comment/impfovc/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

A blog with AI slop is called a slog

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
histoftech ("Mar Hicks") wrote:

What’s the opposite of formaldehyde?

casualdejekyll.

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

A lovely view.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #abandoned #autumn #plants #trees #history #WW2 #WWII

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

A couple of years ago, RÚV posted archive footage from the 1975 strike which is also fascinating https://www.ruv.is/english/2023-10-23-film-from-the-first-womens-day-in-1975-394791

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

If you want to follow the events of the women's strike events in Iceland today, RÚV, the national broadcasting service, has an English-language live blog

https://www.ruv.is/english/2025-10-24-womens-strike-2025-live-blog-457024

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:

AV1 is crazy-good for encoding screencasts. 1:28 of video, higher-than-HD resolution, less than 2mb. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show%5Fbug.cgi?id=1996198#c0

There's not a lot of movement, but many codecs just don't handle that well.

Here are my encoding settings, including skipping repeat frames https://gist.github.com/jakearchibald/39932dee13a10a757b86b853e16ac79f