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

how to say you are an authoritarian without saying…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/20/warner-bros-discovery-takeover-paramount-skydance-larry-ellison

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aram@aoir.social ("Aram Sinnreich") wrote:

Very cool research tool called Little Sis allows you to map the economic and institutional relationships between major power brokers and wealthy individuals. ht @emmalbriant

https://littlesis.org/database

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

I think this would have made C. Wright Mills smile

https://littlesis.org/database

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davidaugust@mastodon.online ("David August ❌👑") wrote:

#USpol #ice #iran #refuge #refugee

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

https://youtube.com/shorts/teUcza18RwE?si=9KdbB3tsJbw52r7X

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

Goddamn it now it is in my head too

RE: https://www.threads.com/@colbertlateshow/post/DRQ62KDjz6G

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/111443182757520317

Today is #TDoR (Trans Day of Remembrance) 🏳️‍⚧️🕯️
My thoughts published on this day in 2023 still stand strong in 2025:

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TheBreadmonkey@beige.party ("Ben") wrote:

I will be observing today's Trans Day of Remembrance. A day to commemorate our trans brothers and sisters lost to violence. People killed just for wanting to exist. To all my trans family, I want you to know you are not alone. Together we're stronger. ❤️

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vagina_museum@masto.ai ("Vagina Museum") wrote:

Today is #TransDayOfRemembrance. Trans people and their human rights are under attack around the globe. The Vagina Museum stands defiant against these attacks. We are a proudly trans inclusive space, even as discourse grows ever more toxic.

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chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Plant-based Babybel, first impressions food review

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/8Uz9A1D5wvqC3bhjdeFDaX

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catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

An artist and their helper

Attachments:

• gifv: Video of several scenes of an artist drawing and sketching while her orange cat watches from her lap the entire to and occasionally inpecting (rubbing) the tools of the trade. It's quite cute and video ends with the artist cuddling the cat like baby.

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ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

The Verge: Screw it, I’m installing Linux

https://www.theverge.com/tech/823337/switching-linux-gaming-desktop-cachyos

#win11 #linux

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

I feel like copy/paste text from Figma is worse than a Word document, so much random whitespace and invisible characters. Unless it can from Word to begin with? 🤔

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

I don't manage to get time to end writing the account management process of https://message.casa

It is not complicated, just registration with an invite code, and password change, but they must be secured processes.

I'd like to keep accounts anonymous, just a login and a password, without requiring an alternative email address. But this implies that it is not possible to get a link to reset the password.
Isn't it too dangerous to not have this possibility? If you lose your password, you definitively lose your account!

It's not a good idea to send the reset link to the message.casa address. If you want to reset your password, it could be because someone has stollen your device or your session.

Is there a good design pattern to reset a password without a "backup" alternative email address?

#smolweb #privacy #anonymity

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Cancel your Spotify subscription until the ICE ads stop. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: https://indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=mastodon

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

Even when they kneel down in my frying pan, I refuse to cook and eat spiders.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/19/that-was-a-weird-thing-to-find-in-a-frying-pan/

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

It is so absolutely perfect and perfectly out of place, 10/10

Attachments:

• video: Just listen to it, that's all that matters.

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

why is nobody talking about the fact that the Hollow Knight: Silksong true ending has a wilhelm scream in it?! I almost just died laughing because of it.

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

Wil does some great narratin', ask me how I know

Anyway absolutely check out this podcast, it's freakin' great

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noupside.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Renee DiResta") wrote:

New from me: an essay on the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, and its remarkable 30 year history of witch hunts & blacklists. It chronicles the progression of how industries & academia went from capitulation to defiance,& what we can take from that todaywww.lawfaremedia.org/article/proc...

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

hell yeah *fist pump*

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

RE: https://social.lol/@adam/115578336422718223

Put another way: it may seem counterintuitive, but sometimes the best way to maintain a genuinely *inclusive* space is to be intentional about whom you *exclude* (and why).

If this strikes you as wrong, there’s a pretty good chance that you’ve often found yourself in the majority demographic of any given community you’ve joined, and you’ve likely enjoyed a lot of privilege as a result of that. (And you have my condolences.)

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

Rebecca Watson is in the Epstein files (via Lawrence Krauss, who is revealed to be even slimier than I thought.)

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/19/guess-who-else-is-in-the-epstein-files/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNLdyWPAz18

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radleybalko.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Radley Balko") wrote:

It's hard out there for a lickspittle.

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

People who run online social spaces often make the mistake of saying things like “everyone is welcome here”. I think a more fair and honest framing might be something like “everyone is welcome to step inside, but not everyone will be welcome to stay here.” Doesn’t sound as warm and friendly, but at least it’s real.

The measure of a community is what it will do to keep its members safe and protected from harm (or even asshattery). No one scores points for good intentions here. Results matter.

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

The entire frontend industry needs to sit with these numbers. If this data is right, SPAs are only winning *one* soft-nav per session on average. So divide the up-front costs of SPA tech by total clicks on site...is it worth it? The @rumarchive suggests not.

https://rumarchive.com/insights/#:~:text=of%20interactive%20chart.-,Multi%20vs%20Single%20Page%20Apps,-The%20following%20graphs

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

Thinking back to the time that I had to ask someone to leave omg.lol because of their ongoing offensive remarks. One of the last things they (sarcastically) said to me was: “so much for being welcoming to everyone.”

The thing is, you can’t maintain a safe space for *anyone* if you try to be a home to *everyone*. The utopian ideal of wide-open online spaces where people with opposing beliefs happily co-exist quickly crumbles when one person is trans and the other is a TERF.

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EthicalProfessor@mstdn.social ("Dr G") wrote:

New Yorker Comic

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Jyoti@mas.to ("Jyoti Mishra") wrote:

jwz wrote:

Happy BitBLT Day to all who celebrate.

Crazy Eddie's Used Computers: I declare that today, Nov. 19, 2025 is the 50th anniversary of BitBLT, a routine so fundamental to computer graphics that we don't even think about it having an origin. A working...
https://jwz.org/b/ykxp