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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
russss@chaos.social ("Russ Garrett") wrote:

@slightlyoff it's just the Guardian badly reporting on NESO's summer outlook. Exposing low electricity prices to consumers is good.

https://www.neso.energy/document/380251/download

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

A very good fresh raspberry margarita: muddle five raspberries in a shaker. Add 2 oz blanco tequila, 3/4 oz agave nectar or rich simple syrup, 3/4 oz fresh lime juice, and ice. Shake. Double-strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.

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

Bring back dollar theaters.

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

weird how 'tech bro' is almost an anagram of 'tech bore'

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

"Have you even CONSIDERED the productivity benefits of applying frontier models to agentic workflows," the Peace Corps guy says to a local who just keeps repeating "clean water"

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
vozercozer@vozer.cafe ("vozer :vozerBow:") wrote:

i’m fucking crying 😭 this guy installed a malware that keeps redirecting his queries through Yahoo, and vibe coded an extension that redirects Yahoo to Google, probably not understanding that he has malware 😭 😭

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

"expected to be a season of record renewable energy, and [...] could be the first summer the [UK] grid runs entirely on zero-carbon electricity"

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

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

Oh, honey. He never cared about any of them, ever. Everybody knew it but them.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/14/politics/republicans-2026-trump-problem

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dyckron@cosocial.ca ("Ron Dyck") wrote:

But is that pragmatic?

Pope Leo XIV Warns: Democracy Risks Collapse Without Moral Foundations
https://www.gaudiumpress.ca/pope-leo-xiv-warns-democracy-risks-collapse-without-moral-foundations/

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

With #SmolFedi 1.2.0 it is possible to use OOB copy/paste login mode for old browsers.

compatibility with #dillo

Dillo blocks cookies by default, which prevents sessions from persisting. Allow cookies for your SmolFedi domain:

echo "yourdomain.example ACCEPT" >> ~/.dillo/cookiesrc

Replace yourdomain.example with the hostname of your SmolFedi instance. Restart Dillo after editing the file.

For instances that cannot be reached directly from the Dillo machine (e.g. when the old computer has no modern TLS support), use the copy/paste mode on the login page: check the box, copy the authorization URL shown, open it in a capable browser to get a code, then paste the code back in Dillo.

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

Boosted by jwz:
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

Boosted by jwz:
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/

Boosted by jwz:
a2_4am ("4am ❧") wrote:

I am so fucking tired of seeing this warning

Boosted by jwz:
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