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

Aaaaargh.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/05/all-the-regrets/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi9EE5v%5FE88

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

Brief performance from Ian McKellen acting a Shakespearean role he originated. It's a speech about a topic that is still relevant 400 years later.

https://youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?si=KKh1x025dkl5R4dh&t=1231

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

I wanna be Rebecca Watson when I grow up. She just blew up the whole atheist/skeptic movement from the last 15 years.

I have a signed copy of The God Delusion. Anyone want to buy it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoO9FZXUgv4

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Viss wrote:

so moltbook and clawedbot are having a meltdown because it only took ten days for someone to realize it was a pietri dish for malware and packed the skills store full of backdoored malicious bullshit and they had no plan to deal with that inevitability? because this was a guarantee. it was GOING to happen. if we go save them, we are letting them fuck around, but not find out. they NEED to find out.

do not help

you are OBLIGATED to watch it burn

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adam_chal@hachyderm.io ("Adam Chalmers") wrote:

You're absolutely right – this actually *isn't* a place of honor.
* I thought esteemed deeds were commemorated here, but that was wrong.
* The message wasn't about treasure, it was about danger. That's on me.
* I won't sugarcoat it – the danger is still present, and now it's in your body.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
alexwild@mastodon.online ("Alex Wild") wrote:

Life continues for the majority of the planet that did not invest in Bitcoin, including these Tetramorium lucayanum ants.

#Ants #Insects #Tetramorium

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
sakhavi@aoir.social ("Sasha Akhavi") wrote:

Wrote my rep: “As David French writes in The NY Times today, the MAGA establishment is threatening the use of ICE to disenfranchise Americans in the coming midterms. To head this possibility off, we must pass the Bevins bill making federal officials accountable in civil court if they infringe citizens’ civil rights. In order to pass that bill, we must require it as a precondition of any funding for DHS and ICE, immediately.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/opinion/trump-nationalize-elections-midterms.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.J1A.G0AQ.Ju10hUcH8WwK&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ragman@jawns.club wrote:

Wrote a new blog post about the history of "There is No Antimemetics Division" and my experience reading the new 2025 edition.

https://ragman.net/musings/antimemetics/

In it I go over how the book was born in the shared community world-building space, The SCP Foundation, and how Penguin forced the author to remove any references to that community in the new release.

All that makes me sad -- but I am still enjoying the book :)

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

Read of the day by @pluralistic.

It's worth mentioning that this entire essay would've been considered alarmist and radical by liberals just 18 months ago.

It's also worth mentioning that Cory did not, because he could not, name the opposition leader for the people because we don't have one.

Change is possible. Change causes power vacuums. We are ill equipped for that day, currently.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/05/contingency/

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assignedmale.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sophie Labelle ") wrote:

No particular reason.

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AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

It will never stop being funny to me that the whole "you can't trust Wikipedia because anyone can edit it" scare happened and now Wikipedia is the only trustworthy website because it turns out profit motive is the reason things turn to shit.

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virtualbri@mastodon.online ("Brian Tatosky") wrote:

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-trek-starfleet-academy-resolves-deep-space-nine-mystery/

Good stuff in here for *after* you watch the episode.

#StarTrek #StarFleetAcademy

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mcc wrote:

What I listened to today: "Secuencia Techno con Syntakt y Microfreak", RM1_music

Super satisfying techno set on two desktop devices. Hard driving thumps, surreal whooshing. At some point I have to face the fact I never actually learned the names of EDM subgenres I just like, listen to everything, and that makes writing these descriptions hard some days. Someone who did the research could probably identify the 3 microgenres here. All I can say is it's highly raveworthy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJSwNiQ4KPU

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
quietmarc@kolektiva.social ("Marc "ACAB" Godin") wrote:

The money they spend trying to make people like cops is more than enough to pay for your local elementary school's repair and equipment budget.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Cory Doctorow: "America is not great. It has been gutted by the Epstein class, who robbed us blind, raped our kids, and are now selling us shitcoins and chatbots and the spectacle of protesters being shot in the streets."

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/02/corprophagia/#that-makes-me-smart

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

the dwarf fortress soundtrack has no right to be this good

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
welshpixie@mastodon.art ("Calligrafae") wrote:

https://mastodon.social/@adhdjesse/116018855547348611

This is funny because I have the kind of AuDHD where I'm very organised and prepared and methodical and I will pack exactly what I need and nothing more, and Alex is the kind of AuDHD who will pack seventeen pairs of underwear and the Switch and the Chromecast and a bag of tools (no, not that kind, actual hand tools), for one night in a hotel

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

🤧 Feeling under the weather.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
harmonycorrupted@kinkycats.org ("Harmony") wrote:

Posting for a friend from Bsky!❤️

Miu is trans, intersex and homeless, just relocated to AZ due to the extreme cold in the Midwest.

She needs help with:
- filling her emergency safety fund (currently at $153/$1000)
- food ($20 a day)
- motel costs ($100/day)

Anything helps!

Cashapp/Paypal: $miusoph

OP:
https://bsky.app/profile/porneia.neocities.org/post/3mdvkp7df7c2o

#mutualaid #MutualAidRequest #mutualaidsaveslives #transmutualaid @mutualaid

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

Goat cheese and crackers: https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/02/05/goat-cheese-and-crackers.html

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

To everyone outside of the USA: do we really look this stupid?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/05/internationally-humiliated/

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
justinas@soc.dudenas.lt ("Justinas Dūdėnas") wrote:

ugh, I guess my #GotoSocial does not handle videos very well. But I'm not firing up Peertube for that, and can't upload to yt back :) Whats the solution?

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

Support your local movie theater, especially if it's a lovely old art deco building from the 1930s and is struggling to make ends meet.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/05/im-a-board-member-at-the-local-theater/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
theotherbrook@sunny.garden ("The Other Brook") wrote:

It's long past time for me to unsubscribe from automated job posting emails because I just misread "Shift Lead" as "Shit Lead" and it didn't phase me at all.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ashenwave@mastodon.art ("Ashenwave✨Commissions Open!") wrote:

I drew this for an art challenge and I think it’s one of the few times I could make fish look great in one of my illustrations😅

#ThrowbackThursday #MastoArt #FediArt #Illustration #Art #DigitalArt #FantasyArt #CreativeToots #SeaLife #ConceptArt

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

Grading is never any fun, but at least when all the students are doing well, it's satisfying.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/05/grading-day/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
patradio@beige.party ("pat radio") wrote:

You know, when you think about it, practically every symphony orchestra is a cover band, and nobody busts their chops about it.

#coverbands #music #musicsnob

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

I am not convinced this is comfortable for either the computer or the cat.

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

Hey, if the Lindell campaign bus shows up in my neighborhood, I'll be there to point and laugh.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/05/the-minnesota-governor-race-will-be-a-blend-of-boring-and-insane/

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

I built the smallest TUI ever.