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kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

It's so worth it to peel the ends of asparagus #food

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

A generative AI app is running ads on YouTube depicting an ICE agent arresting a baby still in the hospital. Like, as a joke. Forget it being tasteless, it's objectively unfunny.

It's like that one guy in every level one improv class who thinks he's an edgy comic but really just makes an ass of himself.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
juliette@mastodon.green wrote:

RE: https://flipboard.com/@npr/sports-i9fjknotz/-/a-u5Dc98I4SHWcAFNmEVaC7Q%3Aa%3A3195441-%2F0

You will learn so much about a successful woman’s personal life before you learn her name.
As a “mom in her forties” type of woman, if I ever do something as cool as winning an Olympic medal, please share my name first.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
Treppenwitz@sfba.social ("Good grief, it's you") wrote:

A reminder: Don't waste your political beliefs by putting them only on Facebook/Instagram. https://www.accessnow.org/publication/how-meta-censors-palestinian-voices/
#facebook #instagram #meta #censorship

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

Streisand!

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hollywoodreporter/post/DU6d-eqDj1e

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

Dear everyone who posted or reposted images or video of RFK, Jr and Kid Rock shirtless where I would come across them: Hell is coming for you and I will be drinking a tall frosty beverage when it does

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

scroll fade: the final boss!
https://www.terrygodier.com/current

is there any more unappetising way to present content?
https://dbushell.com/2026/01/09/death-to-scroll-fade/

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

some of these are amazing

https://www.radiodiaries.org/

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

Dirt roads and vintage cars. It truly is Reykjavik in the 1950s.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #filmphotography #slide #streetphotography #vintage #history #fire #classiccars #cars

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

On July 7th, 1957, the carpentry workshop and furniture store Víðir caught fire. My grandfather, who was on his way to visit his brother, managed to take some photos.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #filmphotography #slide #streetphotography #vintage #history #fire #classiccars

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

This week, we have a vintage theme! Why, you may ask. Well, because it's cold outside and I ran out of photos. So it's my grandfather's old slides to the rescue. Here we have Húsavík. Most likely taken sometime around 1960.#Iceland #photography #filmphotography #slide #streetphotography #vintage

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gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

Seriously, I don't think most Americans have put together that natalism, "naturalism," anti-science, anti-medicine, anti-vax, pedophilia, misogyny, queerphobia, eugenics, racism, anti-immigrant xenophobia, anti-woke, anti-DEI, and disempowering labor through automation and "AI" are all interlocking parts of modern fascist ideology.

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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Being Left Behind Enjoyer") wrote:

“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?!?”

- Solar energy
- Libraries
- Trains
- Vibrators
- Guillotines

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

Huge thanks to the generous sponsors who help to make this possible, including several recent contributors! https://home.omg.lol/sponsors

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

@simonzerafa @davidgerard @jwz TESCREAL as a whole is *definitely* a religion—a very familiar looking one to those of us who weren't raised in any variety of Christianity but in another religion, and therefore get to observe Christian behaviour from outside. And I'm telling you the singularitarian/AI bros are just speedrunning the emergence of pre-Nicean Xtianity as a syncretistic evangelical faith (this time without Jesus/God but with the usual salvationist/AI uploading heaven bullshit).

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

@jwz memetic prion disease

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

I thought my home-cooked RSS reader had a bug, but no, @zachleat published in the future
https://www.zachleat.com/web/state-of-the-browser/

you can't just publish in the future, Zach

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noboilerplate@namtao.com (":youtube_logo: No Boilerplate") wrote:

It also stops claude from making issues or PRs on any of your repos.

I consider this a bonus.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
noboilerplate@namtao.com (":youtube_logo: No Boilerplate") wrote:

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history.

Now, the moment you look at a repo, you can immediately adjust your expectations.

You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked%5Fusers

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@fromjason 4 things in one day? I'd be back in bed too.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
darwinwoodka ("Darwin Woodka") wrote:

@fromjason

Working Families was big in the Mamdani campaign and are getting some payback now

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/mamdani-rewards-working-families-party-leader-with-international-affairs-appointment/ar-AA1Ww9y8

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Side note: I wrote the above blog post in Nov of 2024. Today, I'm a little less inclined to give the Bluesky team the same level of grace. They're turning out to be everything a venture capital-funded platform becomes, unfortunately.

It was wild, though. To see every big liberal political influencer declare Bluesky to be a liberal safehaven for no other reason than it wasn't X.

We on the left love a good vs evil dichotomy.

Anyway, how did this turn into a Bluesky thread? Lmao

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

Exploring blockchain RPCs from the terminal 🔥

🌌 **stellar-tui** — Discover & execute Stellar RPC methods.

💯 Structured forms, response pagination, regex search & endpoint management.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/padparadscho/stellar-tui

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #stellar #soroban #blockchain #cli #devtools

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Have you enclosed your horse today?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The Good vs Evil dichotomy at play:

Liberals left TwitterX for Bluesky. Musk was the "bad guy" so, new users assumed that BS were the "good guys." People literally referred to the respective platforms as the "good place" and "bad place."

Is BS better than X? Sure. But that wasn't the narrative.

New users projected liberalism onto BS when, in fact, BS was built on a libertarian manifesto. It's only now, 40m users in, that we're seeing what that means in practice.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/bluesky-may-have-the-juice-but-we-don-t-have-to-drink-the-kool-aid/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Caddy: a great alternative for Nginx

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/gupkDA1SRLdCcY9PKcg1KX

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
jonathanhogg ("Jonathan Hogg") wrote:

You know what? HyperCard was a glorious moment in time that I dearly miss: an army of non-experts were bashing together and sharing weird and wonderful stacks that were part 'zine, part adventure game and part database. Instead of laughing at vibe-coders, maybe we should ask ourselves why the current state-of-the-art in beginner-friendly programming tools is a planet-boiling roulette wheel.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

In conclusion...lol. Here's my overarching point:

We need more people on the left unified in progressive ideals *and* who understand that just because republicans are the bad guys, it doesn't make democrats the good guys.

We Americans are constantly conditioned to view the world in terms of Good vs. Evil. It's in our media, our art, our politics. If Group A is Evil, then Group B *must* be Good.

That line of thinking fucks us every time, because the world isn't Avengers Endgame.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
akamran@indieweb.social ("Annelies Kamran, Ph.D.") wrote:

RE: https://toot.community/@newsyc750/116086184834829227

What I really love about this is that he used cheap, commonly available materials in his living room and designed a really elegant experiment. Lots of these "science fair/competition" winners have access to actual labs and working scientists as mentors, which is really discouraging for kids who don't.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Politics, Governments, and Elections | TikTok Advertising Policies:

"we do not allow paid political advertising because the nature of political ads is not something we believe fits the TikTok experience."

Does this change in time for the midterms, or do they wait for the presidential election? https://ads.tiktok.com/help/article/tiktok-ads-policy-politics-government-and-elections