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

Okay who does not like Dolly Parton and how unhappy would you have to be in life to be that person

https://consequence.net/2026/04/dolly-parton-is-the-most-popular-person-in-america-new-poll-finds/

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minterpunct@gamemaking.social ("Sleepius Raccoonus") wrote:

Stop denying the inevitable: AGI will be realized once we have quantum computers, quantum computers will be efficient as soon as we have the fusion reactors to power them, and fusion power will be economically viable as soon as AGI figures out how to do it. All these technologies are at most 10 years away, so just keep giving us money for the next 20 years, and 30 years from now you'll be reaping the rewards

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
lespreuh ("Lëspreüh") wrote:

Little nightmares

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

The funniest possible outcome is, of course, a three-way tie.

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

Wow! This set from YAGODY kicked butt!

https://www.kexp.org/podcasts/live-on-kexp/2026/3/10/yagody/

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

The Fediverse has the opportunity to do something hilarious here

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
miketheman@hachyderm.io ("Mike Fiedler, Code Gardener") wrote:

Any time I see something like this in a #Python REPL, I can't help but smile for two reasons:

1. Yes, yes I did forget.
2. I know some of the folks who worked so hard to make that message do exactly what I want it to do. Thanks to Pablo, @ambv, and so many others!

#OpenSource

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

"Hmm, I work in tech. I should answer this like I'm extremely neurotic to score high in Attention To Detail, because that's obviously important to leadership."

a few months pass

Management: "Hey, you thinking of taking any PTO? You've been working a lot and we don't want to burn you out"

Me: "Oops"

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

The funniest thing to me is when companies bring in these business psychologist types to give everyone personality tests that are unintentionally really obvious how to game to get a result that the company wants

And then they'te all surprised-pikachu.jpg when everyone does that

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Do you have impostor syndrome?

Spy vs Spy mofo

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mattedgar@social.coop ("Matt Edgar") wrote:

Fun new game for art gallery visits: find all the portraits that could be valid UK passport photos

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VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
yaah@hachyderm.io wrote:

Welp, I got laid off. RIP futurewei OSS rust team.

If you know anyone hiring systems engineers lmk.

Boosted by GuillaumeL@hachyderm.io ("BigSaur G"):
marick@mstdn.social ("Brian Marick") wrote:

“To be oriented toward the writings of intellectuals is to be conscious of the community itself, stretching both backwards and forwards in time” – Collins, /The Sociology of Philosophies/, p. 27

That’s something I realize we in software miss. I remember attending a retirement dinner for a vet school professor. It struck me how much he was knowingly part of a *lineage*.

In software, we have a lineage, but we’re not conscious of it. I’d say that’s, on balance, a problem.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Work Slack notification:

Company-wide shout-out for doing a great job

Me, filling out my self-assessments:

3 out of 5, dead middle of the road

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
nightdragon0@fursuits.online ("Hyshaji Nightdragon") wrote:

So dance comp photos are like photoshoot photos with a moving goalpost right? 😁
📸: direwalf
#fursuit #fursuiting #fursuitfriday

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

just remembered i can turn off the computer and go to bed. how freeing is that?

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aesthr@wandering.shop ("Æ.") wrote:

Molotov cocktails are just the technological reality now. You can adapt your workflows to them or get left behind.

At my company every employee has to use at least one per day. It’s a vibrant and competitive field full of potential.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openai-ceo-sam-altman-molotov-cocktail-house-headquarters-rcna273694

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ryanvis@a2mi.social ("Ryan Vis") wrote:

RE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/116377158110990138

Yeah, stay in your lane Microsoft. Sabotaging Firefox is Mozilla’s job

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Found a gif of what Artemis II re-entering will look like

Attachments:

• gifv: some meteors entering the atmosphere

jwz wrote:

Last year I wrote popup-video.js, a Google-surveillance-defeating YouTube player. You may have noticed it in action on the DNA Lounge calendar pages and galleries but I've made some improvements recently. The web page contains only a locally-hosted...
https://jwz.org/b/yk6C

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
WholeWashington@mstdn.social ("Whole Washington 🍎") wrote:

Hellooooo fediverse! Are you a #UniversalHealthcare supporter and wondering how to get involved with Whole Washington?

Check out our Take Action page!
https://wholewashington.org/actions

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
EufuriaCon@bark.lgbt wrote:

Here's the epic group photo from our furmeet last weekend! We had an absolute blast hosting our members as a precursor to #Eufuria2026 in July!

Check our Furtrack tag https://www.furtrack.com/index/event:eufuria%5Ffurmeet%5F2026 for attendee photos - more staff pics coming soon!

📷: wireframesrgl

#FursuitFriday

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
karb@bark.lgbt ("Clep Karb @ Home 🏡") wrote:

*Us, when we see the weather report for the next Suiting Event* 🙀

🦊: @Polarie_Fox
🐈‍⬛: @kianga

#FursuitFriday

jwz wrote:

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 258.

Because of the recent unpleasantness, here's a mixtape of songs about nuclear war!

This idea popped into my head while I was standing at the bar last night and I thought, "Yeah, I probably have enough videos for that" and started writing down song names... 10 minutes later I had more than 2 hours worth.
https://jwz.org/b/yk5-

Attachments:

• video: 3d182dd08c1d4cb0.mp4

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

watching an old nilered and lol when nilered's quick maths check before doing doesn't hold up you gotta really have fucked up.

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

the future is so bright I need to wear shades

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

We just walked our new collaborator through some HTML basics, and her reaction of seeing Hello World change to Hello World was PRICELESS.

The Web is magic. The Web will always be magic.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Almost a year ago, I was described in the FT as "a Cassandra with a wry grin and twinkling eye", and was entertained because Cassandra (famously) was right.

It's actually not fun, though, to watch the world do things you've been warning against:

https://www.newstatesman.com/technology/2026/04/the-silent-coup

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

and for now i'm done with glassblowing

(video that wasn't primarily about glassblowing)