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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
meg@fediscience.org ("Megan ⚘") wrote:

New video of Florence and the Machine performing "One Of The Greats" live for World Cafe. I like the lyrics of this song and the arrangement on this version.

#Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfXsFODg6cc

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
rg9119@mathstodon.xyz ("Ron Garcia") wrote:

In case you too ever wondered why networks of nodes and edges are called "graphs":

[![Text From "The pioneering contributions of cayley and sylvester to the mathematical description of chemical structure" "Of the 342 papers written by Sylvester during his lifetime, only two relate directly to chemistry. Yet, these two papers, both of which appeared in 1878, have proved to be of great importance in the evolution of mathematical chemistry. The first was a short note [20] published in Nature under the title “Chemistry and Algebra”, and the second was a massive paper with three long appendices [ 281 which appeared in the inaugural issue of the American Journal of Mathematics. In both these communications, Sylvester’s purpose was to point out the many parallels that exist between chemistry and algebra. He felt that the two disciplines were not nearly as antithetical to each other as many had supposed, and that they could be harmonized by the use of an appropriate mathematical formalism. Sylvester proposed the introduction of a common graphic notation which derived from his earlier work on invariant theory. ... It is interesting to observe that in his papers 20,281 Sylvester made the first use of the terms “chemicograph” and its shorter cousin “graph” in his discussion of structural formulas. These terms clearly derive from the “graphic notation” of the chemists of his time, the expression then commonly used to denote the structural formula. The word graph is thus of chemical origin, a fact not widely appreciated by either chemists or mathematicians today. "]4

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

I've also been thinking and working on possible RSS based, and RSS-like social networks feeds.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:

#music
#WeirdAl

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

Done a lot of work on the back end for https://freebooters.uk and gemini://freebooters.uk

All FB podcast episodes are available on gemini and the web.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
waldo.net@bsky.brid.gy ("Waldo Jaquith") wrote:

There's legislation before the Virginia General Assembly that would create a paid family & medical leave program, but it will live or die on the fiscal impact statement. Will agency staff draw on states that have taken charge of their enabling software (Maryland), or those that have spent a fortune?

SB2: Paid family and medical l...

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

Thread about the family cat who was the subject of the graphic novel I published recently
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w27jf74rgozykuyl63ji7wbv/post/3m6s6nsgdq225

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

I've shared before my grandfather's attempts at capturing the family cats before the digital age. Well, now it's my turn! Here are the earliest attempts at photographing my old cat, Kisa Lísa, shortly after we adopted her in the 90s.#cats #caturday #catsofbluesky #catsky #vintage #filmphotography

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

Last rusty object for now. Have a nice weekend #Reykjavik #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #rust #grass #plants

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

21 years ago today at DNA Lounge: GWAR
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2004/11-29.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

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

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:

"The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as “Your Plastic Pal Who’s Fun to Be With. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing devision of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation as “a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes"

What a fantastic book.

jwz wrote:

There seem to be a lot of people here on Ye Olde Mastodonne who think that "The Hague" is "S.H.I.E.L.D." and boy do I have some bad news.

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Boosted by jwz:
neurobashing ("Vyvyan Basterd") wrote:

@davidgerard ok rockstars let me, right out of the box, right, go ahead and level-set here, right, we're gonna end the desecration of the human mind, right

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

our vision, right, is a Butlerian Jihad, right, as a service, right, with a bit of AI assistance, right,

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.world/@jeffowski/115630556942027240

I boosted this because, a few years ago, I was at MS when our lab decided to organise a collection for the Salvation Army in the lobby of the building. Every gay or trans employee had to walk into the building past an advert, endorsed by the organisation’s senior leadership team, for an organisation that had a documented (recent) history of leaving people like them to starve on the street.

At the time, I was chair of the Diversity and Inclusion committee. I flagged this with the leadership team and not one of them was aware of this reputation. I was, because I am not completely oblivious to the world around me (no more than 80%).

I tried (and failed) to get them to institute a policy that the organisation should do some basic due diligence before endorsing a charity. The bar I recommended was to open the charity’s page on Wikipedia and read the ‘controversies’ section. I was deeply disappointed that a leadership team that talked a lot about diversity and inclusion decided to keep endorsing the Salvation Army and refused to institute such a policy to avoid this kind of thing in the future.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
alice@lgbtqia.space ("🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)") wrote:

#PSA: remember this holiday season that you don't have to buy *new* shit for folx. Hell, you don't *have* to buy anything.

- hit up a thrift store
- make something for someone
- upcycle
- trade with someone
- skill swap
- join a local buy nothing group
- give something away
- just spend time with someone
- pirate something
- do that one thing your partner really likes
- message someone on Signal to tell them how much you appreciate them
- just be you—that's enough 💝

—Love, Alice 💕

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
elizabethjacobs.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD") wrote:

The attack on vaccines by the bad actors who are running amok in the U.S. government will result in the following: 1. Substantial reduction in vaccine access 2. Significantly increased vaccine-preventable disease 3. Significantly increased pediatric deaths 4. A witch hunt for a “cover up”.

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

he went golfing instead https://federate.social/@mattblaze/115631177638567650

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

A more minor thing, but one that still bugs me: Trump, for all his bluster about the shootings of the guard troops he sent to DC, has remained at Mar-a-Lago this whole time. He won't return to Washington until Sunday.

He never returned to visit the bedside of Specialist Beckstrom before she died. He hasn't visited Sergeant Wolfe. He hasn't personally offered comfort or gratitude to their families or performed any of the usual post-tragedy gestures of leadership.

Instead, today he went golfing.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
carrideen@c18.masto.host ("Carrie Shanafelt") wrote:

I realize not everyone has access to a perfect black cat at all times, so here is Camilla to brighten your #Caturday
#CatsOfMastodon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org ("Brewster Kahle") wrote:

Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot.

Useful to Journalists,
Useful to Students,
Useful to more than 2 million people a day.

Collections growing at 150TBytes/day

@internetarchive

https://archive.org/donate

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/business/video/internet-archive-wayback-machine-church-digvid

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Scary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!") wrote:

@Lazarou @blogdiva
BWAHAHAHA, that'll be justice. 😂 All the men who yell that women just want money (because these are the men who are dog shit at relationships) will wind up with AI girlfriends who actually do just want them for money.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
jeffowski@mastodon.world ("Church of Jeff") wrote:

#lgbtq #lgbtqia #salvationarmy #redbuckets #bigotry #addiction #recovery

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

No, the D.C. shooter was NOT an Afghani terrorist brought to the U.S. by Biden.

He was a CIA operative. This was blow back.

And increasing National Guards in our cities will not make us safer. It'll just put all of us at greater risk of violence.

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/27/nx-s1-5623041/national-guard-shooting-suspect-cia-unit-afghanistan

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
andyjennings@aus.social ("Andrew Jennings") wrote:

Often while watching Mick Herron inspired material I have the conversation “Surely management could not possibly be that stupid and incompetent?” to which I reply “this is understated” #SlowHorses #mickherron

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

When you name files and folders, do you include spaces?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
KrissyKat@hoosier.social wrote:

Someone donated $126K to our local public broadcast station in Merrillville, Indiana, anonymously. The donation is to support local news coverage.

https://www.lakeshorepublicmedia.org/local-news/2025-11-25/record-breaking-anonymous-gift-fuels-hope-for-public-media

#news #uspol #indiana #nwindiana #pbs

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jens@social.finkhaeuser.de ("Jens Finkhäuser") wrote:

A lot of Germans are posting in German about #Giessen today, and since many of our friends overseas may be confused, here's a summary:

The current iteration of the Nazi-Party, the AfD, is holding a summit in the town of Giessen today. They announced the formation of a youth org (Hitler-Jugend?). A ton of people came to protest. The police are busy protecting the Nazis, and politicians in the current government see fit to attack the protesters.

This needs international attention.

#depol