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EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

What’s it like to live with #adhd ? Well I just opened the air fryer to make lunch, only to find yesterday’s lunch sitting there in the tray.

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Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
theleftistlawyer ("Sheryl Weikal") wrote:

"Trans children have such awful lives, isn't it better for them to not suffer?"

Transness is actually really awesome. It's the transphobia that sucks. If everyone responded to trans kids coming out with "thanks for telling me, I love you" and being affirming, trans kids would have GREAT childhoods.

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

competitive pooing where contestants superdose fibrous vegetables to get ever higher bristol stool scale scores

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

The Dungeon of Dark Patterns

Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/049.html

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

Panel 1. The adventurer and his fairy are in front of the door of a nightmarish dungeon, it's dark, foggy, and the inside the door we can't see anything except a deep red light.   > Dungeon: "Welcome adventurers, to the Dungeon of Dark Patterns!"
Panel 2. In one room of the dungeon, a giant beautiful and inviting door with a red carpet, and on the side, in the shadow a too little door. Writing on big door: Go to the trap, on small door: Go to the treasure. The adventurer crouch and do a little sign to the fairy to follow him to the little door.   > Dungeon: "Ha ha, you're good!"
Panel 3. The aventurer is now putting some effort climbing on an old rope in the middle of a room with a beautiful luxuous stairway with a red carpet on the side. A sign tells "GO TO THE TREASURE but pass by the trap" in direction of the beautiful stairs; and "(other options)" in small and in the shadow in direction of the rope.   > Dungeon: "Impressive!"
Panel 4. Top down view on the adventurers shrugging in front of the fairy, they reached a dead end. A short path on the right has on the ground the word "Now", and a longer path "Later". Both lead to a giant pool of green acid where bones and skulls are floating.    > Dungeon: "So, when do you want to jump to the trap?"

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EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

It was always going to be absolute morons burning the world down, because if it were anyone smarter in charge they wouldn’t be doing it.

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Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
jascha@ohai.social ("tomate 🍅") wrote:

People with #adhd have three types of workday:

* Get absolutely nothing done
* Get 4 hours of work done at a random point in time
* Get 40 hours of work done in 4 hours

All types are sprinkled with work unrelated sidequests

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

I want this NOW https://blast-o-rama.com/2026/04/22/finally-the-coyote-vs-acme-trailer-is-here/

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116449054416701024

f*ck yeah

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

finally broke down and installed full "mactex" on one of my machines so I can do decent file conversions and printings. it is HUGE, but I've the room. the benefits to having a fully-powered pandoc installation, for example, are enormous.

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

does anyone have a recommended service for just paying someone to run a gotosocial instance for you?

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neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

irc.social.lol folks: I’ve just implemented a custom IRCv3 draft/FILEHOST endpoint, and it’s now possible to share files in channels directly from compatible clients. The new version of Halloy released earlier today supports this, as does Goguma. Have fun sharing pics and stuff!

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
why@mastodon.ocert.at ("Why?") wrote:

because I want to give you freedom, and have you work in gladness instead of fear?

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seesawsally ("Sal") wrote:

Saw this cutie on our front door jamb when I took the pups out this morning! #moth #bug #entomology #insect #outdoors #nature

A small moth with a fuzzy yellow body, pink legs, and pink and white striped wings on an off-white door jamb

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lespreuh ("Lëspreüh") wrote:

Je sors un nouvel EP - Nostos Algos
Disponible à l'écoute et pour téléchargement gratuit/prix libre

My new album, Nostos Algos, is out!
Available to stream and download for free/pay what you want

https://lespreuh.bandcamp.com/album/nostos-algos

Pochette de mon album Nostos Algos, On peut lire "Lëspreuh" au dessus d'un corbeau de profil, aux ailes mécaniques et devant un cercle formé d'os, de plumes et d'engrenages. "Nostos" apparait verticalement à gauche et "Algos" à droite

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Yining Karl Li") wrote:

Disney Animation remade three songs for ASL. For these, we resurrected the original data and pipeline version (which took a ton of work), reanimated (from near scratch in some places), relit where needed, and re-rendered. Probably the hardest way to do this, but definitely the right way to do it, so that's what we did!

No AI shortcuts or anything, just doing it properly all the way.

Attachments:

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
leah@chaos.social ("Leah") wrote:

If you read only one article about "AI" this month, than read this long, but very very good article by @tante

https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

But there is another aspect of “Al” usage that fuels the right’s enjoyment of using “Al”: It hurts the people they want to hurt. “Al” is cur- rently mostly used to generate media (think images, illustrations, music or text). But tra- ditionally people in those creative industries are more left leaning, more inclusive. Fascists just can’t create good and interesting art. Using “Al” to take that groups’ jobs, their livelihood, their creative expression away is exactly why using “Al” to create an image is so enjoyable by right wingers: It’s a vulgar display of power.
That does not mean that every user of “Al” products is therefore a fascist. Some “Al”- users might even consider themselves an- tifascists. But by using these systems you are integrating inherently fascist logic into your thinking, into your mental apparatus. These systems force you to at least accept the fas- cist tendencies within “Al” systems as “nor- mal” or “okay”.
Screenshot with some Text that is marked red: This framing implies that you should not unionize and connect with your fellow workers but that you should see them as your enemies, as the people who will take your job and your ability to provide for your family.
This implicitly cuts my ability to form connections of solidarity with de- signers whose work and livelihood I have im- plicitly declared irrelevant. It makes me put myself over my fellow workers, workers who are facing the same struggles as me, who are my comrades. But no more.

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

I’m begging mastodon to implement a feature where only people you follow (or nobody) can reply to your thread

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denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

of course, 99% of mail servers just ignore DANE completely, so I didn't even notice that at all until now where someone asked me off-channel why I didn't respond to an email. WONDERFUL.

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denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

at some point, stalwart decided to get a new cert from letsencrypt instead of just renewing it (no idea why, or when), and that broke DANE and caused me missed email.

I already only use 3 1 1 pinning, but of course, that isn't helping if the entire cert changes.

lovely. wonderful. great. awesome.

I hate technology.

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

VCs, I am waiting for your call

“Business Plan” chart reading: Phase 1: Spend more money on OpenAI/Claude tokens than employees Phase 2: ? Phase 3: Profit

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

Me and Drew are hanging out on OwnCast: https://live.freebooters.uk/

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

When the devil pulled out his contract and said "okay, you can be a billionaire, but you will have to be a creepy sociopathic asshole who will drive away anyone who could truly ever love or even like you" he clearly was not expecting such a rush

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

I think my blog has been invaded by artificial stupidity.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/22/something-has-happened-to-my-blog/

![Al agents are your fastest-growing audience. Automated traffic is growing 8x faster than human traffic, Al-driven sessions nearly tripled in 2025 alone, and agentic browser traffic is up roughly 8,000% year over year] But unlike human customers, agents don't browse, scroll, or respond to advertising. They evaluate, select, and act. And if the data isn't trusted by them, they move on. The sale is lost.]3

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

Who knew that professional lolcow was such a lucrative occupation?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/22/failing-upward/

Devin Nunes cow

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brian_greenberg@infosec.exchange ("Brian Greenberg :verified:") wrote:

Quick thought experiment. Pull out your phone, look at your lock screen, and ask yourself who else is reading those notification previews. The answer is stranger than you think.

EFF just laid out what most people don't realize: push notifications usually route through Apple or Google servers before they hit your device, often with content visible in the clear. Then they get written to a local notification database that doesn't always get wiped when you swipe the alert away or even when you uninstall the app. 404 Media reported the FBI has pulled deleted Signal message text out of that database using standard forensic tools. Signal. The app you installed specifically because you didn't want this.

🔐 Apple and Google now require a court order for push notification data, but Apple's transparency report still shows hundreds of users handed over
📱 Lock screen previews are a free read for anyone who picks up your phone, including at a border crossing or traffic stop
🧹 Uninstalling an app does not guarantee its notification history goes with it, and we don't know what gets backed up to iCloud or Google
🛠️ Signal's notification setting "No Name or Content" is a 30-second fix that closes the easiest leak

For the security folks, this is a useful reminder that end-to-end encryption ends at the endpoint, and the endpoint includes a SQLite file most users have never heard of. For the executives, this is the reason your travel security policy for high-risk regions should say more than "use Signal." The default settings on a stock iPhone leak more than the app you chose to protect you.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/how-push-notifications-can-betray-your-privacy-and-what-do-about-it
#Privacy #Cybersecurity #MobileSecurity #security #cloud #infosec

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

Every pollen forecast in Florida: “Is there a plant nearby? It’s trying to kill you.”

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EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Meme image Label on top says “me on earth day” Image is a scene from the movie titled The Martian where the main character Mark Warner is leaving and says “Fuck you, Mars.”

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

We boomers can't fade away fast enough.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/22/boomers-ugh/

baby boomers

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

“US turns to Ukrainian counter-drone tech after Iran attacks” - https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-turns-ukrainian-counter-drone-tech-after-iran-attacks-sources-say-2026-04-22/

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Screwtapello@teh.entar.net wrote:

Matt Colville has recently been thinking about the division between people who think of tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons as a hobby (like model railroads, or stamp collecting) and people who think of them as a folk tradition (like hopscotch, or singing). For Matt Colville, who owns a company that makes and sells TTRPGs, the difference is money: hobbyists *love* to spend money on cool new accessories for their hobby, but folk-traditionalists think it's morally abhorrent to pay money to participate in their community-building tradition.

I'm beginning to suspect there's a similar divide in computing, but more so. You've got the people who see computers as a force-multiplier for their business interests, who are happy to spend any amount of money as long as it generates more than it costs. You've got the hobbyists who just like playing with the dang things and love to buy new accessories but only within their budget. Lastly, you've got the folk-traditionalists, who value that feeling of connection and collaboration with others in the present, and learning from and building on the lessons of the past.