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

The least surprising bit of news in a very long time

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hollywoodreporter/post/DQR7N0eEh57

Boosted by jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi"):
jococruise@threads.net ("JoCo Cruise") wrote:

Our next JoCo Cruise 2026 featured guest is Amal El-Mohtar, an award-winning writer of poetry, criticism and short fiction. She won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards for her short story “Seasons of Glass and Iron” and again for her novella This Is How You Lose the Time War, written with Max Gladstone, which also won the BSFA and Aurora awards & became a New York Times bestseller. Learn more about her here: https://monkeylink.co/389f21

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

Leftover pic from this week

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

Half-assing our halloween decorating.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/26/halloween-decorating-done/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

Under #Trump, Federal #Workplace Anti-Discrimination Agency Engaged in…Workplace #Discrimination

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (#EEOC) was established by the 1964 #CivilRights Act to enforce anti-discrimination laws in workplaces across the country. But under Trump, the federal agency tasked with helping workers who experienced hostile work environments became a hostile work environment itself, acc/to one judge’s recent ruling.

#law #LaborLaw #LGBTQ
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/under-trump-eeoc-discriminated-against-trans-man-marc-seawright/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

today’s #yaddaYadda is a memepost from the #incElCamino #wankpanzer bar, with an unusual Sunday cathechism:

BE UNGOVERNABLE, like Sugar

🎶 fuck you, i won’t do what you tell me 🎶

#anarchy #antifa #memes #horses

source:
https://thecanadian.social/@MostlyHarmless/115441061058947649

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

Herr Trump and Company should read this and consider how wannabe kings are treated by Americans

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ElleGray@mstdn.social ("elle") wrote:

science

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

'Before Trump’s inauguration, community-based organizations, non-profits and local and state governments were eligible to apply for the grant. Now, only city, county and tribal governments are allowed. And the stated goal of the program has been changed from “comprehensive, community-based prevention” to “supports law enforcement efforts to reduce violent crime and improve police-community relations”.' https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/gun-violence-prevention-non-profit-grants-disqualified

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
oglaf@socel.net ("Oglaf") wrote:

https://www.oglaf.com/capitalvices/

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

Why is “do not update software while in the middle of a project” a lesson I never learn?

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
GrantMeStrength@hachyderm.io ("Grant Me Strength") wrote:

If you tax the wealthy they’ll leave.

We tax them. They leave.

Every country taxes them. They leave.

Now they live in international waters on giant boats. They hate it. The food is awful. They get norovirus a lot.

The world carries on, considerably better off.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
crk5@layer8.space ("crkⓋ") wrote:

I'm surprised to learn this week that French and British museums consider theft wrong

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

Do not go gentle into that digital stream.

Rage, rage, against the living of the machine.

#AI

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

anyone using Windows (not remote) able to confirm this?

Test: up the cursor size to max in system settings and tell me if the custom CSS cursor on wondermake.xyz scales up too, or not? (obvs. test normal size to compare)

For reference (published a day early 🤫 ):
https://dbushell.com/2025/10/27/custom-cursor-accessibility/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
emmfoolery@dosgame.club (":msdos: Emmfoolery :msdos:") wrote:

https://archive.org/details/MAGPIES

I FOUND IT.

#Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing #MSDOSMonday

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
BrentToderian@mastodon.online ("Brent Toderian") wrote:

It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

I regret not buying a My Marxist Feminist Dialectic Brings All the Boys to the Yard poster because I have some free wall space next to my It's a Slow Apocalypse, You'll Work Through It poster.

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

First snow. Boo. Hiss.

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

It seems DHH doesn’t realise that Kathy Sierra might have changed her perspective on “haters” since her Creating Passionate Users days, after being run off the web twice by Nazis and their tech industry collaborators, nor does he seem to have read her vastly more useful and nuanced book “Badass: Making Users Awesome”.

There is no value in paying attention to DHH except as a precautionary measure in case he decides at some point to pick a target.

jwz wrote:

Needed to use this extremely specific tool today.
https://jwz.org/b/ykw7

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

This guy just nailed it

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
aram@aoir.social ("Aram Sinnreich") wrote:

Back when they invented the DHS after 9/11, many of us in the US said "Dept of Homeland Security? That sounds like some dystopian Nazi-ass shit"

And all the Voices of Reason were like "stop catastrophizing, we need to come together in these trying times"

Flash forward two decades and

https://gizmodo.com/dhs-little-dark-age-nazi-video-2000676359

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

framework be like "we welcome everyone, like queer people and also the people who want to kill them"

very inclusive

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
amydiehl@mstdn.social ("Amy Diehl, Ph.D.") wrote:

50 yrs ago, 90% of women in Iceland went on strike. No cooking, cleaning, laundry, or childcare. Schools closed. Flights grounded. Men stayed home or took kids to work. Today Iceland has smallest gender pay gap in the world & tough equal pay laws.
https://www.thepersistent.com/50-years-iceland-women-strike/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de wrote:

We apologize for the long performance degradation today.
Finally, we identified all of the 'tricks' that AI crawlers found today. They no longer bypass the anubis proof of work challenges.

A novelty for us was that AI crawlers seem to not only crawl URLs that are actually presented to them by our frontend, but they converted the URLs into a format that bypassed our filter rules.

By the way, you can track the changes we have been doing via

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-Infrastructure/scripted-configuration/compare/51618~1..e4aac

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mnot@techpolicy.social ("Mark Nottingham") wrote:

"AI hucksters [...] will tell you that there is only one way that this technology can be used: to fire a whole ton of workers and make the survivors do their job at frantic Lucy-in-the-chocolate-factory cadence. While it’s true that this is the only way that their companies could possibly be worth the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been pumped into them (so far), there’s no iron law that says that investors in tech bubbles should always turn a profit."

https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-reverse-centaurs/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
whitequark ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

huh did github basically abandon CI? (https://github.com/actions/cache)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tommorris ("Tom Morris") wrote:

Oh, look, the entirely predictable consequences of age verification that everyone said would happen. Bravo for all involved with the #OnlineSafetyAct.

https://www.theverge.com/news/797051/discord-government-ids-leaked-data-breach

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
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!)