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

Look, I don't want to call UK policymakers "cowards", exactly, but the idea that this is the response, rather than creating public financing for the installation of batteries (e.g.) is *nuts*:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/14/uk-households-power-renewables-soar

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I've noticed this pattern on Mastodon recently:

1. See post I would like to interact with.
2. Click on post so I can see the thread before I respond.
3. See way too many responses/threads.
4. [meme: Homer Simpson backing into a shrub to hide]

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
avilewis@mstdn.ca ("Avi Lewis") wrote:

Striking that the Liberals and Conservatives offer the same response to pain at the pump: siphon money out of the public purse instead of Big Oil’s profits.

Oil companies are on track to make tens of billions in windfall profits from Trump’s illegal war in Iran.

It’s their profiteering that’s driving up prices. It’s them who should pay.

It’s time for price caps on gas to stop oil companies from price-gouging Canadians — and a windfall profits tax on war-time oil revenues, so the government can invest that money in the public interest.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-fuel-excise-tax-affordability-9.7162911

#cdnpoli #gas

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us ("Emeritus Prof Christopher May") wrote:

This story of a young wheelchair user being thrown out of Manchester's Club Tropicana because her wheelchair was a safety risk (???) suggests we haven't come nearly as far as the self-satisfied political class think we have on disable rights...

If I was loving in Manchester (and in all fairness still clubbing) I'd be arranging a boycott of Club Tropicana.

This really is extraordinary in this day & age!

#disability #hospitality #Manchester

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c04xx7wkg4xo

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

the brieman conjecture is false, as it turns out -- there is no brie man going from street to street selling his cheesy wares.

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

spoiler feature to hide distasteful aerodynamic car addons

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sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

To nobody's surprise, they will burn all their satellites up in the atmosphere, because that's what all the cool kids do. They don't actually say their operating lifetimes anywhere. But if they're 5 years like Starlink, then that's a bit more than one satellite burned up per hour.

And will they burn up completely? Well, they say they'll use the same NASA debris model to assess that said that the SpaceX Crew Dragon trunk would burn up. So I'm not worried at all!!

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

I guess I should get back to work on that damn key management blog post after all.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
MtKanjon@meow.social ("Mt Kanjon") wrote:

wearing a costume means learning about water

https://youtube.com/shorts/XAL5QPWf0nk

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

It looks like some Democrats are preparing to help the GOP reauthorize a little-known law that lets the government sidestep the Constitution and spy on US citizens.

Let’s be clear: Zero Democrats should vote to allow the regime to gobble up mass surveillance data to punish Trump’s enemies and round up immigrants. https://prospect.org/2026/04/13/congressional-black-caucus-support-spying-powers-blm-activists-fisa-702/

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a2_4am ("4am ❧") wrote:

I am so fucking tired of seeing this warning

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@botgov/116403728665224748

If you are wondering what the “Tech Prosperity Corps” might be, it is apparently a new Peace Corps program to send people into developing countries and tell them to use AI

https://www.peacecorps.gov/about-the-agency/media-center/news/peace-corps-launches-tech-prosperity-corps-initiative/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

I'm immune to LLM sycophancy because I'm terrible at taking a compliment.

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

right, where did i get to with my NaNboxing[1] before dinner?

[1] It's not quite NaNboxing, it's "exponent boxing""

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

i locally reduced entropy!

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

#SmolFedi has a new filter system for notifications

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw ("Joscelyn Transpiring") wrote:

Following up on the thought of finding women in uniforms hot, I wonder how much of fascism is just people sublimating their kinks into politics?

Tradwife - girl, you just want to be a sub and be dominated by your man with some extended play outside the bedroom. That’s great! Just don’t then make it everyone else’s problem by trying to take away the right to vote from women.

Bootlickers: seriously, you can just be a subby wubby little guy/gal that is stepped on and licks the boot. That kind of scene is hot. You don’t need to make it a form of government.

Chaste theocrats: chastity play is hot! The wait, the anticipation, the build-up! But um…maybe don’t nonconsensually use the law to criminalize sex for a bunch of other people.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

Passing along a question from a friend who was recently fired and is on the job market again. I would prefer *not* to receive "I ran a web search for you" replies instead of direct knowledge, thanks. Boosts welcome.

--

Are you familiar with any professional organizations catering to LGBTQ+ and (in particular) trans #software engineers?

#AskFedi

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

(this will be your cue to tell me how terrible your skin was at 26, go ahead, the floor is yours)

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

Thoughts on leaving YouTube, and moving away from big tech...again

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/g75gRtk2tmKyFGxa5fNPJT

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