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zkat@toot.cat wrote:

actual bumper sticker I just saw:

If you're gonna ride my ass, at least pull my hair

and you know what, that's legit

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Companies react to SF possibly reviving the Overpaid Executive Tax:

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

House Rep. Rosa DeLauro (from CT) says:

❝I understand that many of my Democratic colleagues may be dissatisfied with any bill that funds ICE. …[But]… The Homeland Security funding bill is more than just ICE. If we allow a lapse in funding, TSA agents will be forced to work without pay, FEMA assistance could be delayed, and the US Coast Guard will be adversely affected….❞

And I am saying stop ICE if you have to ••shut down every airport in the country•• to do it.

That is the message I want Congress to hear. That serious. This is Trump starting a civil war.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/democrats-ice-funding-bill

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

RXKNephew got banned from DistroKid:

A John Fetterman diss track song has been banned from all streaming accounts, and now DistroKid.

"RXKNephew received a message from DistroKid explaining that he’d been banned from the platform without the ability to appeal the ruling. The automated message cited “editorial discretion.”" https://theneedledrop.com/news/rxknephew-got-banned-from-distrokid/

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

re: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/115939583202357863

from "The Hacker's Dictionary":

"HCF /H-C-F/ n.

Mnemonic for `Halt and Catch Fire', any of several... machine instructions with destructive side-effects, supposedly included for test purposes... The MC6800 microprocessor was the first for which an HCF opcode became widely known. This instruction caused the processor to toggle a subset of the bus lines as rapidly as it could; in some configurations this could actually cause lines to burn up."

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

“If I tell you my favorite hobby is lighting puppies on fire, you have every reason to be perplexed and ask follow-up questions. But why would you assume, based merely on that, that I enjoy being cruel to animals?”

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
TheBreadmonkey@beige.party ("New Ben trailer drops tomorrow") wrote:

Please do not tell people to 'just think more positive'. That is not a sound strategy.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

Anyone know any PoC pixel artists looking for work?

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
FinalGirl@blackqueer.life ("Tyla (Combat Waifu Yuri Arc)") wrote:

Men will create a secret police force that kidnaps toddlers and destroys a functioning democracy that threats to desrabilize the entire Western world rather than go to therapy.

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Just you, your terminal and your passwords... 🔐

🗝️ **veiled** — A local-first TUI password manager

⚡ Encrypted local vault, zero cloud, modern encryption & more!

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/shibu0x/veiled

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #security #passwords #cryptography #privacy #cli

Attachments:

• gifv: b74b5ca886857b4f.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kateiacy@planetearth.social ("Flying Donny for Democracy") wrote:

ICE Out for Good has an easy way to write to 5 corporations demanding that they take action to rein in ICE. It's just below the paragraph on attending or organizing an event.
https://iceoutforgood.org/?link%5Fid=1&can%5Fid=36ab80cafcad5afe2dcb5a32097271a0#nationwide

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I don’t mind LLM-powered coding assistance, but the more Visual Studio Code rebrands itself as The Copilot Editor™ the happier I am to have switched to Emacs.

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

I always thought the saying was “don’t look a *gimp* horse in the mouth,” meaning you shouldn’t stand in front of a horse with a leg injury because he’s probably grumpy and will kick you. Lmao. I’m 44 years old.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
gabrielesvelto@mas.to ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

In the early days of personal computing CPU bugs were so rare as to be newsworthy. The infamous Pentium FDIV bug is remembered by many, and even earlier CPUs had their own issues (the 6502 comes to mind). Nowadays they've become so common that I encounter them routinely while triaging crash reports sent from Firefox users. Given the nature of CPUs you might wonder how these bugs arise, how they manifest and what can and can't be done about them. 🧵 1/31

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

Regulators can take many lessons from the Grok/Twitter undressing scandal, but one of the most important is that Apple and Google are gaslighting when they claim store monopolies are necessary to protect us. Nothing could be further from the truth:

https://infrequently.org/2026/01/naked-power/

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

This song from Yvette Young was a soothing find this morning. "Good Morning":

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

She's on bandcamp too:

https://yvetteyoung.bandcamp.com/music

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rust 1.93.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀✨

This release includes a new musl version for the *-linux-musl targets, adds support for #​[cfg] inside asm!(), and adds [T]::as_array, VecDeque::{pop_front_if, pop_back_if}, Vec/String::into_raw_parts, fmt::form_fn, and more! ✨

Check out the blog post and release notes for all the details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/01/22/Rust-1.93.0/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
vmaderna@mastodon.art ("Victoria Maderna") wrote:

Perrito vinagre.
Made another little dude. With a worse attitude.

#MastoArt #BushDog #NeedleFelting #sculpture

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

@baldur Here’s the “well actually” in question: https://micro.blog/jkratz/82397830

And here’s that "high five": https://www.manton.org/2026/01/21/manu-moreale-as-usual-being.html

Note that in that post, Manton also calls Manu's post "thoughtful". A post about not being able to make a logical inference about Mein Kampf as a favorite book — "thoughtful".

I literally cannot *even*.

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

@baldur Between Manu Moreale arguing that a strong interest in Mein Kampf isn’t a bad sign and Manton Reece high-fiving people on Micro.blog who waste bandwidth on claims like “ICE isn’t as bad as the Gestapo”, it’s clear that there are people who are so high on the smell of their own blog-farts that they have lost touch with what actually matters in the world.

I’m sick of all of them. And of course they’re all buddies (and in the case of Manu and Manton, business partners through a sponsorship deal). Their behavior is disgusting. I’m tired of it.

These guys would rather dwell in the nuance of grammar than make a clear statement about the evil taking hold around us. When someone else points at that evil and calls it what it is, they'd rather show up to say "well, actually" when simply agreeing (or even shutting up) is an equally simple option.

What the ever-loving fuck is wrong with these people?

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

Memo tells ICE officers they can enter homes without a warrant:

"New ICE hires and those still in training are being told to follow the memo’s guidance instead of written training materials that actually contradict the memo, according to the whistleblower disclosure."

Jesus fucking Christ. https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-trump-00d0ab0338e82341fd91b160758aeb2d

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
thestopbutton@social.lol ("Andrew Wickliffe") wrote:

How many fedi-brios are on here arguing about Mein Kampf being good, actually, today?

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

I'm still getting comments along the lines of "why are you being so mean to somebody just because they're rhetorically defending Mein Kampf?" (Paraphrased, obviously.)

Being cast as the bad guy online just because I think Mein Kampf is beyond the pale and that people defending it know full-well what they're doing was not on my my bingo card for 2026, but I guess it fits right in with how everything else is going at the moment.

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

I can't use this argument because I disagree with it. Science is just testing observations to get the best hypothesis.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/22/an-interesting-argument/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
dandean@indieweb.social ("Dan Dean") wrote:

@baldur I struggle when trying to talk with people who treat everything like an intellectual exercise like Manu appears to be doing. They seem to exist in a world without consequences – they are not subject to the harms less privileged folks must grapple with. In their experience, the ramblings of a racist mass murderer are “intriguing” rather than evidence of potential future intent against them.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

@xlthlx It's funny.

He effectively argued that we should allow Naziism into our public discourse and is now surprised that this caused many to back away from him and not want to talk to him directly.

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

American Poutine is basically hot dish

RE: https://www.threads.com/@comixgail/post/DT0OApuFJsP

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

❌: Tumblr
✅: https://wafrn.net

Spread the word.

We have a federated Tumblr alternative with mobile apps that isn't controlled by a US oligarch or techbro ❤️

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

Just look at WAFRN for example, they built a kickass Tumblr alternative with both ActivityPub and AtProto/Bluesky support.

And they have a fast growing community, because they focused on building a better Tumblr, and have a vibrant ecosystem with many contributors.

Rockstar project, and devs, they are a shining example of how to get this right and shatter expectations with constant evolution.

Kudos @gabboman and team

Learn more about WAFRN: https://wafrn.net/

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

The flies are such slave-drivers.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/22/iyetlivesorta/