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

I'm not sure if this is Chicago like the previous pictures. All I know is that my grandfather numbered all the slides from America. This one is number three.#photography #filmphotography #slide #streetphotography #history #usa #america #vintage

A city street in the States with cars parked along the road. Most likely taken in the 50s.

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

A Chicago city street in 1958. This photo was most likely taken by someone my grandfather knew working at the Naval Air Station in Iceland. I really like the vintage signs.#photography #filmphotography #slide #streetphotography #history #usa #america #chicago #vintage

A photo of a Chicago city street in 1958, taken in front of McVickers theatre.

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

some encouraging words

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/21/us-activism-protests-boycotts-mutual-aid

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

so very weird

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/nyregion/congressional-aide-new-jersey-hoax.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

Mice are a common issue here in Hveragerði, old housing stock plus an abundance of commercial greenhouses make for a mouse-friendly environment.

Probably the reason why the town also has a lot of cats.

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

Technically it's 6.5 cats as one of the cats got so annoyed at all of the new cats that she moved to the garden centre across the street where the staff take good care of her. She returns to her old home for the worst storms, so her heading back is a reliable indicator that bad weather is on its way

According to the inhabitant who has been here the longest, the older portions of the house used to have a massive mouse problem but that hasn't been an issue since the cats arrived

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

So, I discovered that the new(ish) inhabitant in one of the flats in this house has two indoor cats.

That brings the cat population of this seven-apartment house up to... seven. Roughly one per flat, unevenly distributed, mind you. (I'm allergic, for example, so no cat here).

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

Same redwing bird, but in its supermodel era. #birds #iceland

Redwing bird perched in a tree with its head arched upwards
Redwing bird in a tree looking at something below.

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

"Yeah, I pooped on your balcony, what of it?"

Redwing bird, called "skógarþröstur" or "forest thrush" in Icelandic, perching on a balcony railing covered in bird droppings and looking defiant

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

If I was an employer of software developers, I'd be hiring now while I can have my pick.

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Boosted by jwz:
parental_guidance ("Parental Guidance") wrote:

Sex & Nudity:
The ample nudity is presented casually. No intense or prolonged boinking.

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Boosted by jwz:
BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:

I’m glad to see MTG is leaving but I’m gonna hold off on shit tons of excitement about it.

“AOC - ‘MTG is carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office. She is saying a lot but her ACTIONS have not backed up the rhetoric. For all her talk, she's STILL voting with them to gut healthcare and advance self-dealing corruption schemes." - Rachel Hurley

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Boosted by jwz:
felix@wandering.shop ("Felix") wrote:

Oh look, there's a cool new app that runs in the terminal! Let's check out the feature list:

"Written in Rust!"

That's not a feature. No-one cares.

"Uses Vi-like bindings!"

Sure, keep thinking that makes you more productive.

"Opinionated!"

Listen here, you little shit.

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Make. Fail. Repeat.

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

This video brings me a lot of joy.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=69fgnoyBczs

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("Joe Groff") wrote:

well if double-u is so great, how come there's no double-doubl—

U+02AC, latin letter bilabial percussive

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
jnl@hcommons.social ("JNL") wrote:

I really appreciated this one

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-professor-ai-cheating-students%5Fn%5F69178150e4b0781acfd62540

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

My top albums this year according to last.fm. I decided to limit this to one album per artist to fit a few more artists in.

1. Devin Townsend, Ché Aimee Dorval - Casualties of Cool 2. Sabrina Carpenter - Man’s Best Friend 3. Caligula's Horse - The Tide, the Thief & River's End (Re-issue 2017) 4. Ihlo - Legacy 5. The Dear Hunter - North American EP 6. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Carpe Diem, Moonman 7. The Mars Volta - Lucro sucio; los ojos del vacio 8. Leprous - Melodies of Atonement 9. Hozier - Unreal Unearth: Unending 10. Mew - Visuals 11. Klone - Meanwhile 12. Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She 13. TesseracT - Altered State 14. A.A. Williams - As The Moon Rests 15. Haken - The Mountain 16. Hexvessel - Dawnbearer

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
sugar@goblin.camp ("Davey :sugar_approved:") wrote:

roses are red
cats have 9 lives

the headline: sales of AI teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bastianallgeier ("Bastian Allgeier") wrote:

OMG this is so good: https://colorpalette.pro/ Almost as if Teenage Engineering builds a color palette builder. 🥰

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

Oh sure, the president gives Mamdani permission to call him a fascist but when I do it I'm apparently woke or something

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

How's the mobile CPU landscape evolving? Thanks to process node improvements, a mid-range Android from 2025 is (finally!) as fast as 2017's iPhone 8, but a low-end (~$100) smartphone isn't yet as speedy as a decade-old iPhone 6s.

Geekbench 6 single-core scores over time at 4 price points:  - fastest iOS  - fastest Android  - mid-tier Android  - low-end Android

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ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

gemini://freebooters.uk/chris

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
sifaseven ("Sifaseven") wrote:

#WritersCoffeeClub Day 21: What are some preconceptions about writers you'd like to see challenged?

  1. Writers have to suffer in life.

  2. Writers have to be mentally and/or spiritually tortured.

  3. All you need is one best seller to be famous.

  4. You're self published because you couldn't be successful in traditional publishing.

  5. Only printed books can be considered 'real' literature.

  6. Only literary fiction/history/memoir/whatever is "real" fiction.

#writing #writingcommunity

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Boosted by jwz:
loosenut@genart.social ("sɹɐʎA xɘlA 💻➡🗑") wrote:

All Modern Infrastructure meme

concept art for the long-term nuclear waste storage facility. this is not a place of honor

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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

^ that was my first Quote post by the way :-)

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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@sanityinc/115572035161132843

OMG, this is so non-obviously brilliant! Happy to learn something new.

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schwa ("Jonathan Wight") wrote:

iPhones don't sell themselves!

Caption of the Trump/Saudi Crown Prince/Tim Cook dinner. With labels over the attendees: Literally chops up journalists. Tortures dissadents. Tried to overthrow election Rapes women. Orders murder of accused smugglers without due process. Calls for elected officials to be hung. All round total cunt Just like, doesn't want to have to charge more for the phones he sells, you know?

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

The subtext to the whole AI Doomerist cult going mainstream is that white guys created God.

And all the white guys who first hear of the gospel of God AI immediately believe it. Because of course they do.

Everyone else in the AI space, women, brown and Black people are shouting "not so fast. There are actual harms we can prevent right now"

But those voices have been completely expelled from the discourse.

#AI #OpenAI #HankGreen

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

Mozilla vs. their core audience

Phoebe/Joey Meme; Be the Stewards of The Open Web Phoebe: Be the stewards of the open web Joey: Put AI Shit in Everything