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

Canonical’s drift toward turning Ubuntu into a corporate-first distro feels all too familiar, just like any other tech giant. Maybe it’s time for Linux Mint Debian Edition to become Mint’s main version… and for all Ubuntu-based distros to rethink their roots. 🐧 #Linux #FOSS

jwz wrote:

There were *several* quarters in the payphone, since the last time I opened it years ago, so I guess I need to put a sensor on the coin slot to make it say thank you.

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aud@fire.asta.lgbt ("Asta [AMP]") wrote:

looking at the epstein ballroom that Microsoft "donated" money to and thinking back on how they used to get salty at me, a lone engineer, when I took too long to do my annual "compliance" training which involved watching a video and taking a quiz about how it's wrong and against company policy to bribe public officials for preferential treatment in business.

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volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy ("David Roberts") wrote:

Such deranged, casually fascist shit.

House Republicans want to stri...

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Zohran Mamdani is so scary because he is planting the idea that you can tax billionaires and use the money to help people instead of debating what services to cut to pay for tax cuts. Which is literally why the US government is currently shut down.

He is destroying decades of messaging by billionaire sponsored think tanks and politicians.

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

Lol.
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/dont-forget-these-html-tags/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay 🇪🇺") wrote:

A guide to changing clocks this weekend ⌚

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
DejahEntendu@dice.camp ("DThoris") wrote:

#JustFinished The Refrigerator Monologues by @Catvalente

Ho. Lee. Fuck! That was amazing! I honestly didn't know what the stories were. I just read it because I love Valente's work. This was an excellent send-up of women in comics & how they're used as set dressing for the male characters' lives and motivations. Painful, harsh, gorgeous & starkly feminist. I wanted to stand & cheer at the end!

There are legit trigger warnings on the book. That's the point.

#comics #Bookstodon #Books

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

The witch took her hands off the patient's body.

"First of all," she said with absolute conviction, "there's nothing wrong with you."

"The doctor-"

"Said you must be either man or woman?"

"That it's black or white, no grey."

"Nonsense. Every colour in the rainbow is between black and white."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
blair_fix@mastodon.online ("Blair Fix") wrote:

In a 2024 paper criticizing the 'billion-dollar-disasters' database, Roger Pielke Jr. published analysis that is best described as a Russian-doll of errors.

Here's my in-depth take down of his appallingly bad work.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/roger-pielke-jr-s-appallingly-bad-analysis-of-billion-dollar-disasters/

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

@kornel @andrewrk Great post; thanks for sharing.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

It's so windy in the UK right now that the electricity price is negative

https://grid.iamkate.com/

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
ryanhodnett@mastodon.world ("Ryan Hodnett") wrote:

#Arachtober 26th

#SpiderWeb #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Arachnid #Arachnids #SpiderWebs #Spider #Spiders #Animal #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Arthropod #Arthropods #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
dandean@indieweb.social ("Dan Dean") wrote:

Setting aside the personal beliefs, convictions, etc, of the Framework guy - it’s wild how poorly he managed that forum post. Just astronomically bad at managing a community. Unfit.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse wrote:

So, the US Gestapo has detained and intends to deport, internationally acclaimed journalist Sami Hamdi because he criticized *checks notes* Israel - which btw, a court just told the Trump regime is illegal/a violation of the US constitution.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/sami-hamdi

Now, that's bad. But the cherry on the shit sundae? Fucking DHS is BRAGGING ABOUT KEEPING US SAFE SOMEHOW and Laura Loomer was apparently intimately involved in the decision to abduct and deport Hamdi.

Brey, we're a sick joke.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

Break the law, face the consequences. That goes for ICE agents who commit illegal acts outside of their official functions.

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

40+ million Americans could lose food aid in days. The USDA is sitting on $5-6 billion in emergency funds — money Congress already set aside for crises like this — and refusing to use it.

This could become the largest hunger crisis since the Great Depression.
#snap #shutdown #press https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5572490-usda-snap-funding-impasse/

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

‘"All personnel involved are safe and in stable condition. The cause of both incidents is currently under investigation," the U.S. Pacific Fleet said in the statement.’

and the Captain of the Nimitz is updating their resume for after the hearings…

https://mastodon.social/@WarnerCrocker/115443217933105720

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Catvalente@wandering.shop ("Catherynne M. Valente") wrote:

A true saga unfurled on BlueSky over the last few days. A family member died unexpectedly & left behind a dog who desperately needed a home.

But she was on the other side of the country.

My god, somehow, BlueSky turned out an old-fashioned internet miracle. And she is ON HER WAY TO US.

This is the whole story, for all to read: https://www.patreon.com/posts/142111668

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dargslan ("Dargslan") wrote:

🎯 “If you can explain your code in plain English, you truly understand it.”
#Programming #CleanCode #Developers #DargslanX

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nars@mastodon.hams.social ("Narwhal Amateur Radio Society") wrote:

We're trying something new! On the Tuesday's that aren't the monthly club net, we're going to do a "no-host" round robin - i.e. anyone interested just show up at 10 eastern 7 pacific, and chat with whomever else shows up!

https://nars.narwhal.be/nets

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
M0PWX@mastodon.radio wrote:

#POTA @ParksOnTheAir
not only got my 25 DX entities today,

i just got my 200 park Hunter Award :)

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

hungry kids? who cares?

“The new notice comes after the Trump administration said it would not tap roughly $5 billion in contingency funds to keep benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly referred to as SNAP, flowing into November. That program helps about 1 in 8 Americans buy groceries.”

https://apnews.com/article/food-aid-government-shutdown-snap-trump-democrats-8a52a63b26a707ea676962226b090bb1

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

Flights to Los Angeles International Airport halted due to air traffic controller shortage

https://apnews.com/article/lax-airport-flights-delays-shutdown-b2e0c13f3241e415784c3118fc8f0c9d

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

This part.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

I'm old enough to remember when having your photo and fingerprints taken by the authorities was reserved to convicted criminals.

Now it will eventually be all of us.
All of us constantly tracked by governments and corporations alike, requiring our biometric data for anything they feel like.

Our privacy rights are going down the drain under the pretext of security.

But it will not make us safer, on the contrary.
Don't believe their authoritarian lies.

#Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nezchan@wandering.shop ("The Book of Kels") wrote:

I am going to set this #knitting project on fire.

Knitting is not a craft. It is an ancient form of torture for the sin of wanting nice socks. A sin unforgivable, deserving only pain.

#beginner #frustration

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

"No attempt was made to preserve elements of the East Wing of the White House, including portions that date back to Thomas Jefferson’s Presidency in 1805. The rubble from Trump’s desecration of perhaps the most important building in the world has been carted off to a nearby public golf course."

~ Simon Rosenberg

What was the east wing is now to be used to create mounds on a golf course.

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/sunday-hopium-the-importance-of-voting

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CStamp ("Carolyn") wrote:

@StillIRise1963 Being stuck in airports is a crappy way to spend time.

"The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a temporary ground stop for flights departing to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Sunday morning."

Caused by shortage of air traffic controllers, so at least he's safe on the ground.

And this is sad: "Duffy noted a rise in controllers calling in sick, citing financial concerns and job stress, with 22 staffing triggers recorded recently."

https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/flights-lax-international-airport-air-traffic-b2852553.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:

But don't worry - they'll have a health care plan in two weeks!