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

Seeing a post about how a 26-year-old movie star gets their notably great skin, and aside from any other way, I think being 26 probably is a great foundation for that

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein our long pizza delivery nightmare has finally reached a middle
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/04/14.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

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

FET (Field Effect Transperson)

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

church (dim sum)

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

Announcer: Now back to 'Jawin' with Jawas' Tattooine's top talk radio podcast

Jawa1: *incomprehensible gibberish*

Jawa2: *incomprehensible gibberish*

Jawa1: *questioning gibberish*

Jawa2: *angry gibberish*

*silence*

Jawa1: utini?

Jawas: UTINI!

*laughing gibberish*

*coffee sipping sounds*

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mntmn ("Lucie / minute") wrote:

MNT Station prelaunch page is finally online at @crowdsupply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt-research/mnt-station

Subscribe by leaving your email there if you're interested in updates about our universal open hardware computer for your desktop, homelab, or wall-mounted edge device/router!

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

@indutny what resource(s) would you recommend for someone who's a bit rusty with 日本語 for someone who's probably between A1 and A2?

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

resistors are an ohmage to entropy

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116404215577421255

Time to #TalkAboutHumanities -- Linguistics is the study of how language works and how we work with language, and linguists end up very sensitized to language use and how it shapes our social world.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It's #PortfolioDay, and for once I'm also going to partake by sharing a few of my photos. I am a photographer and I shoot predominantly on film. I enjoy the slow and tactile process, and I love the grain. I try to take pictures of things I find beautiful or meaningful. You can see more of my work on my website:

https://eugenrochko.com

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
lislis@toot.cat wrote:

I'm looking for a beginner/noob pcb design tool. Bonus if I can order low quantities right after the design process. Any recommendations? :boost_ok:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mathias@rhizospherelabs.com wrote:

Folks that do software and analog electronics: (and please boost for visibility)

Is there an OSS tool that simulates analog circuits for signals? In particular, I want something that I can script and write expectations of the output signals for given inputs. And ideally that scripting would include programmatically adding/removing/changing components in the simulated circuit and then testing the outputs.

Thanks!

#electronics #analogElectronics #simulations #programming

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Nikita Lisitsa") wrote:

New blog post! I really hope I'll get a decent amount of people mad with this one 😈😈😈

It's OK to compare floating-points for equality:

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/its-ok-to-compare-floating-points-for-equality.html

#programming #computing #floatingpoint #geometry

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

Today, EFF sent complaints to the attorneys general of California and New York urging them to investigate Google for deceptive trade practices over Google's broken promises to users targeted by the government 🧵(1/4) https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-state-ags-investigate-googles-broken-promise-users-targeted-government

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

It is early in the morning on Sunday, and I am opening the back door to see if there are any ripe lemons on the tree.

Instead I almost tread on a fox. Curled up and asleep.

Now, you have to understand that ever since Europeans settled here, we have had Japanese immigrants as well. Some by choice, some ... less so.

This is why I am not too surprised to see that the fox has three tails. My opening the door has not awakened it, so I step over and continue on to the lemon tree. There are two ripe lemons this morning, which suits me just fine.

I have another look at the fox on the way back, just to make sure, but there is no sign of any injury. I step over again, and leave the screen door ajar.

Charlie is still asleep upstairs as I start putting breakfast together. I am cooking pancakes, and I know the smell of them will wake her up. Eventually.

I'm on the fourth one when I feel a nose in the back of my knee. I look down at the fox, and nod towards the crockery cabinet. "Can you get some plates out please? The medium ones." I ask.

The fox looks at the cabinet, back at me, back to the cabinet, and sneezes. The young woman standing in its place sticks her tongue out at me "You're no fun" she says in a broad accent.

"I'm Toby, Charlie's husband. A kitsune is fairly normal by my standards. Now, do you want bacon on your pancakes?"

"Sally. Your wife, Charlie? She's the witch?"

"Yep. What's the problem?" As I speak, I put some bacon on as well.

"Um, I need some help finding Mum."

"She's missing?"

"Yes? No? Sort of? I was adopted. And, well, I had no idea what I was until a year ago."

"Are you in trouble?"

"No, but I don't know what I should do. I um, I like this guy back home, but there's also my best friend, and they don't know about me and I don't know what to do."

The last came out with a bit of a whine, and she blushed, clearly embarrassed by it all.

I smiled a sympathetic smile "OK, I'll get Charlie, and let's get you sorted. If I know how these things go, it will not be too bad. But first, breakfast. Tea or coffee?"

"Um, do you have hot chocolate?"

"Of course." Plus the smell of chocolate will get Charlie down here even quicker than the coffee and pancakes.

#CharlieAndToby #SF #SFF #UrbanFantasy #microfiction #tootfic #microfic #IAmWriting

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

"Postal Service union launches ad campaign promoting mail voting as Trump assails the method"

https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/116404027611130106

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

You ever need to pull over immediately because there's a rainbow?

You ever need to pull over a second time (but somewhere more picturesque) because it only intensified while you drove?

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

you know i think all those consumer brands that were shutting down are about to start right back up.

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

wahey, RAM prices are starting to crash

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

alright here we go https://codeberg.org/keepasschi

(linked post)

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

I might agree in part and in principle with Dawkins here, but I have to agree with Hasan in practice.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/14/whats-an-atheist-to-think/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/prSoI46EkBg

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
aesthr@wandering.shop ("Æ.") wrote:

Every single time I try posting a little more on here again, stuff like this happens and I remember why I spend my time elsewhere (namely bluesky). I really with it wasn't like this but it is.

Sure, I can mute, block, and report but there's always more. It never ends.

The Fediverse has a massive toxic-masculinity problem and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

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

you know how c requires pointers to be adequately aligned or else UB? what performance benefits does being able to do that bring to the table?

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

Thanks to everyone who joined us on the #Owncast today with me and Drew. Really enjoying streaming there, and we get a good number of viewers and chat. Ten-times better than YT or Twitch.

Follow on @fblive

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
twipped@twipped.social ("Jocelynephiliac :reclaimer:") wrote:

This is a very interesting perspective on the tech collapse. Yes, high interest rates and the loss of tax writeoffs for R&D have contributed a lot, but the biggest abandon may just be because there's not a large need. Thats why tech pivoted so hard into trying to find applications for LLMs and machine learning, there wasn't anything else to show growth in.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759588

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
d_stepanovic ("Dragan Stepanović") wrote:

The risk with removing parts of your delivery process that you think you don't need anymore because "AI can do it" - such as teasing out the mental model of how the system works from the heads of people who own the system - is that you get to discover, often way too late, what some of the purposes of that practice were and the benefits you didn't recognize you were getting.

Assumptions you don't know you're making. Unknown unknowns.

1/2

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
scroeser@kolektiva.social ("sky") wrote:

Actually I think it's agonisingly embarrassing that there are so many small moments when it's difficult to do the right thing in front of kids.

"Sorry, we don't have time to stop and pick up that litter someone else dropped."

"That person is sleeping there because they don't have a home, and there's not much we can do to help"

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
scroeser@kolektiva.social ("sky") wrote:

My four-year-old and I stopped to check on someone who was getting arrested today.

She had made it clear that she did want help, and I checked on with my kid as well before approaching.

The police officer tried to tell me off. "Do you think this is the kind of thing you want your kid to see? Do you think this is good parenting?"

Yeah, actually! If we see something happening that seems wrong, I want my kid to see me doing something about it!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Gustodon@mas.to ("Ω 🌍 Gus Posey") wrote:

Donald understands blockades in the same way that he understands crowd sizes.

#USPol

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

this suxs

https://www.masslive.com/education/2026/04/hampshire-college-to-close-after-years-of-financial-struggles.html

h/t @StillIRise1963