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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

OtebNSolrac get a spotlight on TV! They'll be on Main for All Hollow's Eve! 2 Floors/4 Rooms + DJs, Performances, $1000+ in CASH PRIZES! Adv tix are sold out! Get there early!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/10-31.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #allhallowseve #hubbahubbarevue #indie #synthwave #gothic #hiphop #burlesque #sanfrancisco

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MLNow@sfba.social ("Mission Local") wrote:

Waymo confirms its car killed KitKat, Mission bodega cat

Waymo said KitKat darted under the vehicle. Two witnesses confirmed the story, but one said the company's statement can be a bit misleading.

https://missionlocal.org/2025/10/waymo-confirms-its-car-killed-kitkat-mission-bodega-cat/

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docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

Reverse Trick Or Treating (aka the Greatest Halloween Costume Ever). https://docpop.org/2009/11/the-greatest-halloween-costume-ever/ #HAlloween

An 8 panel comic. The title says "The Most Amazing Halloween Costume Ever based on a story by np312 art by Doctor Popular" The first panel shows a kid dressed up as Spock and sitting on a couch in his home when the doorbell rings. The text says "One Halloween our doorbell rang". The next panel shows him opening the door, expecting to see trick or treaters. The next panel reveals a door on the other side of the kid's door. A sign says "Please knock". The kid knocks twice on this pop-up door and then it opens, revealing a bunch of college dudes dressed as really old grandmothers. "Oh my, look at your costumes" one of the grandmas says as they pinc the face of the the young kid. The grandmother adds, "Such cute trick or treaters" before handing the kid some candy. The college kids then close their door, pick it up, and move it to the next house leaving the young Spock in shock at what just happened.

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oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

https://theonion.com/ice-agent-7-year-old-both-wearing-same-military-commando-halloween-costume/

Photo by Ben Collins on October 31, 2025. May be an image of ‎military uniform, costume and ‎text that says '‎DEFEND DEFENDTHEHOMELAND THEHOMELAND E ش ICE Agent, 7-Year-Olo Old Both Wearing Same 'Military Commando' Halloween Costume the ONON‎'‎‎.

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sjvn wrote:

Happy Halloween from your friends on the COBOL maintenance team!

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MLNow@sfba.social ("Mission Local") wrote:

Guards turn away San Francisco supervisor trying to tour ICE facility

On Friday morning, District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood wanted to take a look inside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in San Francisco, where the bulk of the city’s ICE arrests have taken place. But the building’s security had other plans. They promptly turned Mahmood away. Security told him that threats to ICE agents have spiked across the country, and they could not take unscheduled tours.

https://missionlocal.org/2025/10/guards-turn-away-san-francisco-supervisor-trying-to-tour-ice-facility/

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

I guess it's kind of cosy.#Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #countryside #rural #decay

A small decrepit turf house.

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claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

William S. Burroughs with his hatchet-carved jack-o'-lantern, Halloween, in his home in Lawrence Kansas, 1996. Photographed by Philip Heying

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ana@starlite.rodeo ("miss ana vampires 🧛‍♀️ :vheart_fuck_yes:") wrote:

periodic reminder that the concept of the "tragedy of the commons" (where people having unfettered access to a resource supposedly inevitably leads to its degradation and destruction) was popularized by Garrett Hardin, a white nationalist eugenicist who was using it to argue for global population controls

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kirakira@furry.engineer ("they're both a kiragram") wrote:

when i was a kid i had this oracle called "ask the ipod" where i'd ask some question to my ipod and then hit shuffle and whatever song came on was the ipod oracle's answer. and imo this is a lot better than ai

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royaards@newsie.social ("Tjeerd Royaards") wrote:

A visual summary of inequality. Cartoon from last year.

#wealth #poverty #inequality

Cartoon showing a cliff with a giant pool on top filled with money, with a few superrich swimming in and lounging by the pool. A vertical conveyor belt transporting money from the bottom of the cliff to the pool is powered by people on unicycles, balancing precariously on a spinning rod. Signs on the cliff face read 'keep pedaling' One person has fallen off the unicycle and is falling down, passing a red painted line on the cliffside, with the text 'poverty line'.

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docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

At around 10pm we walked back home and decided to see what Valencia st was like. Your surprise, it was absolutely packed for “Dance-o-ween”! One section, 18-19th st, had nearly 1,000 people dancing. With a dozen portable dj booths. Not a single cop around. I couldn’t even see any organizers. This seemed spontaneous and decentralized.

A large crowd at night at 18th and Valencia. The crowd is costumed for Halloween and dancing ont he street. It’s a packed crowd.
A shot of one of the small portable DJ booths, filled with bright lights and folks in costumes who are running it.
Another portable DJ booth in a crowd on Valencia St.
Folks dancing on Valencia St. Mostly in their 20s and 30s, wearing costumes. One has a sign saying “the end is nigh”

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lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

I wonder how far the Affinity team had gotten into developing v3 when Canva said, "Looks great, we'll make it freemium."

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lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Techniques like DiskBBQ that allow performant vector search in memory constrained situations are neat

https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/diskbbq-elasticsearch-introduction

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Ché Aimee Dorval - Almost Again

https://cheaimeedorval.bandcamp.com/track/almost-again

#NP #NowPlaying

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

Jamaica prepared financially for a climate disaster

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/jamaica-hurricane-melissa-bond-finance-9.6958943

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

https://xkcd.com/3160/

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

I am with Justice Jackson

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/us/politics/supreme-court-kagan-jackson-liberal-justices.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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kr1st@mastodon.radio ("Alex KR1ST/PA1ST") wrote:

I always enjoy seeing the Halloween images appear on the waterfall on a night like this.

#swl #shortwave

Images of spiders on the waterfall display.
Halloween images on the waterfall.
Skeleton/skull image on the waterfall of a IC-7300
Ghost image on the waterfall of the IC-7300

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Aaidanbird@disabled.social ("The Bird") wrote:

Repeat after me:

Antifa is short for Anti-fascist.
Antifa is NOT a group. There is no "antifa group."

Anyone who opposes fascism is automatically antifascist.

When the state declares antifascists are enemies of that state, then that state has declared itself fascist.

Sadly, many people bought into fascist logic that demonizes antifascism.

Antifascists are against bigotry and genocide. They stand for equity, equality, and justice.

Thanks for reading my PSA.

#Antifa #Antifascist #PSA

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tsyum@thepit.social ("ts 🚇") wrote:

We remember that the "weekend" was a radical leftist idea in 1886. Thank god for the ancestors who have fought on our behalf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay%5FView%5Fmassacre

Wisconsin's governor had seven union members killed during what is now referred to as the Bay View Massacre. Thankfully the vast majority of people (some 14,000) went on to live beyond the strike.

#history #remember #USA

Text above an image that says The weekend was a crazy leftist idea. In 1886 seven union members in Wisconsin died fighting for the 5-day and the 8-hour work day. The illustration is black and white, showing a large belted person in long sleeves poised with what looks to be a bloody club, as people stand in a group leaning back. The bad guy appears to be standing on someone

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blamellors@mstdn.party ("Blamellors") wrote:

I wager the GOP will lose in red states if people don't get SNAP this next week. Huge losses even in gerrymandered districts. This Bataan Death march #Epsteins bud took the GOP on will be taught in poli-Sci courses for generations.
#SNAP #EBT #Trump #GOP #MAGA #Elections.
Everywhere I go all people talk about is huge angry, hungry people . The ones with means afraid of a crimewave, the poor afraid of hunger.

Stupid is as Stupid does.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

One World Trade Center (and Neighbors), NYC, 2019.

All the pixels, none of the vertigo, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/49291055921

#photography

A distinctively shaped reflective skyscraper with a prominent broadcast mast on top, set apart in against the sky at left. Other buildings, in softer focus, crowd the frame at right.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cliffle@hachyderm.io wrote:

Hmmm this site attempts to assign authorship to pre-version-control Unix sources, and credits tar to Charles B Haley:

https://www.spinellis.gr/pubs/jrnl/2016-EMPSE-unix-history/html/unix-history.html

However, this credit is described as coming from "primary research" and the sources are not cited. So far I haven't been able to locate a primary source. (Haley _is_ explicitly credited in several other areas of the V7 sources.)

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dilmandila@mograph.social ("Dilman Dila") wrote:

Oh, and I'm making a new film, a dark comedy in the #solarpunk genre, about a man in an African techno-utopia who is banished from his village for a crime he did not commit. It's the last short I'm doing as target practice before I embark on a feature film next year, and if you have a few coins to spare, please help me figure out how to imagine this future.

https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign%5Fid=TT9Q7XRPVYB4Y&v=1&utm%5Funptid=a302a27b-b66b-11f0-af04-43e5cd9b43ca&ppid=RT001640&cnac=US&rsta=en%5FUS%28en-US%29&cust=WTQRFDWMY2SMW&unptid=a302a27b-b66b-11f0-af04-43e5cd9b43ca&calc=f1356002b29c8&unp%5Ftpcid=donate-button-campaign-created&page=main%3Aemail%3ART001640&pgrp=main%3Aemail&e=cl&mchn=em&s=ci&mail=sys&appVersion=1.366.0&tenant%5Fname=PAYPAL&xt=145585%2C150948%2C104038&link%5Fref=www.paypal.com%5Fdonate

#mutualaid #kickstarter #crowdfund #art #sff #scifi

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:

Happy Halloween! 🎃

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

Loops Update:

I'm preparing the app for submission to the App + Play Stores, the APK will be published later tonight 🚀

#loops #loopsApp

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

You are here.

Ron Filipkowski writes: “Remember during oral argument on the presidential immunity case when conservative justices scoffed at and mocked the hypothetical that a president with immunity could just start killing whoever he wanted and there was nothing that could be done if he has immunity?”

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
puffer@beige.party ("C Puffer") wrote:

Cutest trick’or’treater tonight was the little girl in the princess costume who came as we were getting to the bottom of our bowl. “How many pieces?” she asked quietly. “Just one. We’re running out and there’s still a lot of kids.” She looks at us with an earnest expression “Do you want some of mine?”

#halloween

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

I’m counting on you to watch the “60 Minutes” interview with Trump. I just can’t bear to do it. Give me the grim details after.