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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

I couldn't choose which of these two photos I prefer of a blackbird on a path ahead of me in the nearby reforestation area. Both are wonky in their own way. #photography #birds #blackandwhite

A blackbird stands near a path. There's a small bridge ahead. It looks like the blackbird is watching the photographer
That same blackbird on that same path but it seems to be looking elsewhere this time.

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Lately, I've felt that photographing with a very wonky thirty-year-old Jupiter-9 85mm lens more accurately reflected my mood than anything taken with a sharp modern lens. #photography

People walk in Hveragerði.
We see an abandoned tarp in the middle of a broken commercial greenhouse
You can barely see the blackbird on a branch in the distance for all the other branches.
A hiker cuts across a field in Hveragerði. You can see the local health resort in the background.

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
jon@gruene.social ("Jon Worth") wrote:

🆕 EU Longest Train Journey 🆕

Kemijärvi 🇫🇮 - Lagos 🇵🇹

🦅 Geodesic: 4088.33km
🛤️ Route-km: 6251.5km

⏱️Trip time: 87 hours 29 minutes
🚆Trains: 16
💶 Cost: around €400, with Interrail

All mapped and explained here 👇
https://eulongesttrainjourney.jonworth.eu

Map of the longest train journey in the EU

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Forgot to post these last #caturday. Skotta out enjoying the spring. #cat

Skotta, a calico-patterned cat on a fence.
That same cat but now sitting on a tree branch.

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

@rosie_108 spotted one of the worst mugs I've ever seen on a store shelf. One finger action and so wide and shallow that the centre of gravity is just ridiculous. 1/5

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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org wrote:

The web is disappearing 🕳️
According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible.

But that’s not the whole story.
In a new study published in VANISHING CULTURE, data scientists have found:
16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine.
56% are preserved before they disappear.

Preservation is the remedy for cultural loss.

VANISHING CULTURE 🕳️
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new

Infographic titled “URLs Preserved in the Wayback Machine” based on a dataset of 5.4 million URLs. It shows 26% of web pages are dead and 74% are still alive. Of the total, 10% have vanished completely, 18% are endangered (not yet preserved), 16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine, and 56% are preserved. The visual uses a flow-style diagram to show how preservation reduces permanent loss.

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

on the human mistakes though, i think it's safe to say the controller done fucked up. they should not have given the truck clearance to cross with the plane so close. they did notice what was happening and try to avert it though. but then probably the best mitigation would have been for the plane to go around, cause the heavy diesel truck can't do that.

the pilot did jam on the rudder hard to try and swerve out of the way but it looks like they noticed too late. will be interesting to see the flight recorder analysis

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
oppen@merveilles.town ("Görllewin") wrote:

Portals! https://youtube.com/shorts/KnWxM89oHNA

#theWorkshop

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aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Seriously it's bad enough that bad arguments about coding productivity with AI have made me unfollow people because I realized that everything they posted was exactly the same amount of thought: unchecked memes, not actual thinking. Come one people. Notice you're not thinking and stop posting.

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aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

So tired of everyone making anti-AI claims about productivity on here like they haven't even read the abstract of https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

Come on make a real argument I know it's harder but come on

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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/116430573551428386

31 new CVEs on openclaw this morning, I'm going to need to update my slides again: https://days-since-openclaw-cve.com/

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

the preliminary report on the LaGuardia crash is out.

  • some technology failed mysteriously (the lights saying "get the fuck off me now")
  • some technology failed entirely predictably (analogue radio users stepping on each other because we still use analogue radio with this obvious failure mode for some reason in 2026.
  • some technology was cheaped out on (they didn't buy the truck transponders for LGA even though they had the software for monitoring them, so it fell back to much less reliable ground radar which only spotted 2 of the 7 trucks)
  • human confusion and mistakes, though yet to be fully determined
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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Currently making myself sad by listening to Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “For Jóhann”

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db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

@baldur the hand stopped feeding them so they started to bite

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

RE: https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/116460915588898067

What happened to The Verge? They never used to state the obvious or speak from common sense unless it sold a phone or gadget.

I thought I saw a shift in their attitude toward their tech lords and masters around the time they first seemed to realise that “Google is sacrificing web media on the altar ‘AI’” included them, but I kind of expected them to figure out a path toward supporting what tech is doing by now.

I wonder how long it’ll last

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

If you have friends that are only on Bluesky, please tell them to take this seriously. Bluesky is speedrunning the whole path into becoming another right-wing hell chamber.

Like, don't have to leave per se, but invest some time in independent social media and have a backup plan.

https://mas.to/@jf%5F718/116461732601156180

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
fasterandworse@hci.social ("Stephen Farrugia") wrote:

"Potential" is the fastest growing product category in tech.

This is what happens when design is reduced to being a treatment applied for improving adoption.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

As far as i can tell, openclaw cves make up over 1% of all CVEs published so far this year.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
SaraSoueidan@front-end.social ("Sara Soueidan") wrote:

Friends in Europe,

Like many around the globe, one of my course students recently has lost his job and is now looking for a new opportunity. ✨

Do you know any good companies in Belgium that are looking for a Frontend developer with a passion for UI/UI and Accessibility to connect him with?

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman") wrote:

“Do I belong in tech anymore?” from Ky Decker (not on Masto) https://ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout

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db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

reading: "Do I belong in tech anymore?
On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal."

https://ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
PsySal wrote:

Something I haven't really ever gotten with tech industry is that certain senior engineers are /revered/ -- it is cool and normal to /respect/ good work and extra cool to tell people (senior or junior to you) when something is impressive to you and you learned something but reverance, per se, is super weird. Just always realize people are people, sometimes we all have dumb ideas, and that applies to yourself, it's such an easier way to be.

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
veronica@explains.social ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

GoToSocial has been really impressive so far, the community is kind, and I'm really happy with my first few days here.

I've become a donor, and if you have the resources and want to see the ecosystem diversify beyond "just Mastodon", I encourage you to do the same.

https://opencollective.com/gotosocial

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
pycon@fosstodon.org ("PyCon US") wrote:

⏰ Last call for the Courtyard and Marriott hotels: Both PyCon US hotel options will disappear at **11:59pm EDT TODAY Friday April 24th** - Less than 24 hours left!

Thanks to all your support & amplification, the Marriott is 90% full & the Courtyard is at 94%, so book now to grab a spot! #PyConUS

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
gabrielesvelto@mas.to ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

A Geordi aye nay meme Geordi rejects "banning teenagers from using social media" Geordi approves "banning billionaires from owning social media"

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

on cross-country runs when we were transferred, my Dad used to sing this while driving

Summertime by Doc Watson & Richard Watson

https://pandora.app.link/3G6BzdQYB2b

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

It's great having a brain that, when you're trying to get actual important work done, says stuff like "there are way more unicode characters that don't display any glyphs than there are brainfuck primitives so in theory you'd only need a handful of #defines to reimplement brainfuck entirely in whitespace.

Useful and productive.

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

I Got Mine by Mississippi John Hurt

https://pandora.app.link/BoMd2JGYB2b

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
bumpus@mas.to ("Nora, purple afficionado") wrote:

The are the 2 paragraphs from https://genderdysphoria.fyi/ that changed my life. These words were the final straws that broke the wall of denial I had built over a lifetime, when I could no longer deny I was #trans

You are given a magical button that will permanently swap your gender, giving you an “opposite-gendered” body that is equivalent to your own in age, fitness, and attractiveness. If you press the button, everybody in your life will have always known you as a girl. They will accept you immediately. You will not lose your partner, your job, or your family. Do you press it? Cis people would not even consider pressing this button, by the way. If you know deep down that you’d press it but are still afraid to self-accept as trans, then your sticking point probably has more to do with your fear of transitioning than it does with your true identity.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

I'm going to say this in the most diplomatic possible way that doesn't actively hide the truth. We are being ruled by the dumbest fucking inbred morons who ever ate a raccoon penis.

RFK, a fascist with brain worms, who once ate a raccoon penis he found on the side of the road says the pedophile fucking fascist we decided to let run the country has a "different way of calculating percentages" and gives the examples "if you have a $600 drug and reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction". Welp he's correct about one thing, that's certainly a 'different' way of doing math. The wrong way.