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

Sometimes, a tangle of legs is hard to sort out.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/05/how-many-legs-does-a-spider-have/

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

The Democrats had a great night last night, meanwhile here's today big news from the GOP

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/05/longest-government-shutdown-trump-us-history/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

Achievement unlocked: caused Hacker News to have a 150+ comment argument about a TikTok joke (while I was asleep) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45820872

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I can't even reboot the switch without pulling it out of the wall and unscrewing wires. WTF. I'm going back to 20th-century light switches.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I've installed #Aqara "smart" switch, and it turned out to be useless: it doesn't work when my wifi is down.
The whole point of a physical switch was to have a backup for the flaky connectivity, but nope. Aqara switch locks up and stops responding, just like the rest of the not-actually-smart devices ;(

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

Over on my own site I have some thoughts on last night's election news: Mamdani, Prop 50, the general good night for Democrats, and how I -- single-handedly! -- assured the win of now-NJ governor-elect Mikie Sherrill.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/05/thoughts-from-an-off-off-year-election-2025

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
greenelects.world@bsky.brid.gy ("Green Elects") wrote:

🚨 The Green Party announce that two London councillors, Guy Lambert (Brentford West ward) and Kath Whittam (Rotherhithe ward), have defected from Labour to the Green Party. 🔴➡️🟢

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

just use a 1.35 MB JavaScript / WASM polyfill 🤡

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
xChaos@f.cz ("Chao-c'") wrote:

#meme #media #science

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

I see “AI spurred the creation of massive amounts of power generation and so does tremendous good even if it fails” is the new party line from the “it’s not a bubble or a broken tech if I personally benefit” crowd

No mention of the fact that it’s mostly coal, gas, or turbines or that the nuclear stuff is either sci-fi or propping up outdated plants that should have been wound down

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
alice@lgbtqia.space ("🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)") wrote:

Dear open registration servers, each day so far this week, I've opened my Mastodon client, only to see slurs, swastikas, and death threat videos of "me" being hanged.

This is the Nazi bar problem. They're standing on the curb and your doors are wide open. Sure, you're kicking them out after they walk in and punch a few customers, but is that really how you want your bar to be known? As the place that apologizes *after* the Nazi assaults you?

With the current US election results rolling in, it looks like we're in for another predictable wave of butthurt GravySeals aching to own the libs in a sad attempt to bring meaning to their poor little wannabe white power lives.

It's time to close registrations and step up moderation to protect the communities you helped grow.

Racism is chasing Black folx off Fedi.
Queerphobia is chasing LGBTQ+ folx off Fedi.
Sexism is chasing women off Fedi.

Do you want another incel white boys club like Twitter? Because inaction is how you get there.

#FediAdmin, #FediMods, don't be a #NaziBar.

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

Been trying out Typst for a project, after repeated suggestions from people, and it seems to work quite nicely. Faster and better PDF results than the open source CSS PDF typesetters, but also easier to use than LaTeX. Converting the HTML output to epub using pandoc is still an ongoing exploration, though.

https://typst.app

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
iBlame@kolektiva.social ("Duchess of Umbrage") wrote:

Random screenshot from my photo library, 2020

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

I wouldn't overstate the importance of yesterday's US elections, but at least it looks like the electorate is sending a message to the establishment.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/05/cocking-a-snook-at-republicans/

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

Vibe coding subreddits have major MLM vibes.

“I’m a retired teacher from Iowa. I wanna make an app. I’ve thrown $200 at it and it still doesn’t work.”

“Keep throwing money at it, it’ll work eventually!”

(I totally get experienced programmers saying “today I can’t be arsed, one shot me a quick Python script”—they have the knowledge and experience to know whether the result is acceptable and to fix the bugs. Vibe coding for a non-technical crowd looks like a really shady scam.)

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

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

cancel Interop 2026 until the visual style of `text-decoration-style: wave` is standardised

jwz wrote:

Pi 4 SPI lossage.

Dear Lazyweb, any idea why switching from a Pi 3b to a Pi 4b made my MAX7219 start behaving like this? If I switch back, it's behaves properly. Same CF card, so no software differences.

https://jwz.org/b/ykxE

Attachments:

• gifv: 62bedfc637fd9a2a.mp4

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
erininthemorning.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Erin Reed") wrote:

Zohran Mamdani wins! He ran on an unabashedly pro-transgender platform, stood up for the most vulnerable, as so many have pushed for the Democratic Party to abandon trans people in order to win. Major win for trans New Yorkers - he has vowed for intense resistance to anti-trans Trump policies.

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

Wishing Trump and the GOP a very happy suck it

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
a@pdx.social ("Anthony Sorace") wrote:

@aleen “Average person commits 6 war crimes a year” factoid is actually just a statistical error. Dick Cheney was an outlier and should not have been counted.

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

How did a party so full of pathetic mewling whiny-ass tantrum-having motherfuckers ever brand itself as the party of masculinity, or, more accurately, of "masculinity"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/us/politics/republicans-reprise-unfounded-claims-of-widespread-election-interference.html

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

Sheltering in place with HVAC switched off following a nearby massive plane crash and petroleum recycling facility explosion. :prami_distressed:

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

In case you're wondering the sorts of stuff I read when producing one of the "Performance Inequality Gap" posts, today I got educated on the A78. Gosh that's a deep pipeline for a mid-tier part!

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm%5Fholdings/microarchitectures/cortex-a78

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Tom Forsyth") wrote:

New Dishwasher Whisperer video dropped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2%5FmPr9W8

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

It's like an abstract painting.#Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #countryside #rural #abandoned #decay

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

WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CONDIMENTS

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/politics/sandwich-thrower-case-washington

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

That noise you hear in the background is every bisexual on the planet exploding with glee

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hollywoodreporter/post/DQpkmd1Eg-V

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

Oh, for fuck's sake. Learn how to take a (very likely) goddamned win, Democrats

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/mamdani-nears-victory-democrats-worry-national-fallout-rcna241713

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:

ATTN omglolers: If you’re writing this November and want a web-based editor, check out my app, https://write.omg.lol