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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cbctop_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net ("CBC Top Stories") wrote:

Sexual violence was 'deliberate tactic' and integral to Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks, report finds
Sexual violence was systematic, widespread and integral to the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks and their aftermath, a new report by an Israeli non-profit has found.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/sexual-violence-oct-7-attacks-hamas-report-9.7197456?cmp=rss

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

Shocking.

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

That's $400-thousand a gallon for those of you who snoozed during math class.

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

https://archive.ph/pEgF6

h/t https://eigenmagic.net/@stilgherrian/116564437263070544

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CStamp ("Carolyn") wrote:

@atomicpoet I still remember a school that forced girls into home-ec and boys into shop.

I also remember a girl who got mostly As getting a C in physics, but shrugging it off, "it's a boy's subject anyway."

I also remember boys telling me I got good marks on tests because I was "lucky," but when they did it, they were just smarter.

It's a complex thing. But dismantling means taking it back down to the beginning and having teachers who don't project onto students and watch out for this stuff

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Sankhavaram ®") wrote:

The Democratic Party as BlackBerry was not on my #LinkedIn bingo card.

Erynn Petersen Woke up annoyed about being a Democrat in 2026. I finally did the thing every frustrated Democrat eventually does: I went to the DNC website looking for some evidence that someone, somewhere, is actually driving the bus. A vision. A roadmap. A coherent theory of the next decade. What I found instead was the 2024 party platform, a document so frozen in amber it reads like it was authored on a BlackBerry. It is May 2026. Al is restructuring labor markets in real time, young voters are economically stranded, trust in institutions has collapsed, media has atomized into algorithmic warfare, and the official posture of the Democratic Party appears to be a 92-page PDF about "finishing the job." This is not leadership. This is legacy enterprise software maintenance mode. The party talks about democracy the way large companies talk about digital transformation: endless committee-generated language, zero product clarity, and absolutely no sense of urgency. Meanwhile the opposition ships daily. WTH.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fesshole ("Fesshole 🧻") wrote:

Taught my nephew about rickrolling. He loves it and takes every opportunity to troll his parents, aunts and uncles, teachers, and friends' parents. My siblings and in-laws are unhappy but the meme is older than he is and it is now safe in the hands of the next generation.

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jwz wrote:

@glyph Temporarily Embarrassed CEOs, the lot of them.

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jwz hmm. maybe.

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jwz wrote:

Is there something I should put in some markdown file in the XScreenSaver source that will make things hilariously explode if someone slopfondles it?

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jwz wrote:

@glyph Is it because the day job of most knitters is not "more knitting"?

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social wrote:

Spoiler alert for anyone who doesn't have a passing familiarity with literature, history, or religion, but any leader who erects a gold statue of himself is never the good guy.

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
me@jaehanley.social ("Jae") wrote:

No one ever had to yell “adapt or die” to get me to use any other bit of technology in my life.

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the knitters can see it. why can’t the open source maintainers
https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/116564199300065739

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

You know. After using it for a while, often in anger, I don't think I like javascript.

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

“Our community has spent so many years building something of genuine human value: a shared body of knowledge, cultural meaning and careful critique all of which lend considerable discursive depth and richness to what we do. But in the brave new world of Knitting Bullshit, all of that accumulated wisdom, all of the real history of knitting as labour, as resistance, as solidarity, as design intelligence, as craft, is now there simply to provide the powerful emotional currency that AI-generated podcasts and videos cynically mine for profit.”

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2026/04/29/knitting-bullshit/

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

TIL that `git` commands which allow you to apply `-` will ALWAYS do this filtering before `--reverse` or other ordering adjustements

so in order to query the commit details for "oldest known commit that touched this file" you have to do some harebrained thing like:

`git log -1 $(git rev-list --reverse HEAD -- some/file | head -1)`

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Boosted by jwz:
dragon@lesbian.solutions ("the swagon") wrote:

Careful everyone there's this scam going around where people buy up all the means of production and try to get you to work on them for less than the value of your labor. You're basically paying them to work

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Boosted by jwz:
dragon@lesbian.solutions ("the swagon") wrote:

It's actually so fucked that jobs exist

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
phelan@mastodon.ie ("Keith") wrote:

Subvert.

The Bandcamp alternative that is owned by its community is now live.

https://www.subvert.fm

#subvertfm

The homepage of subvert.fm, consisting of a grid of release covers.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
yrabbit@mastodon.sdf.org ("YRabbit") wrote:

So I'll stick to programming (no ai bs) - it's something I enjoy, but I know a shovel will never let me down🤣

Ageratum 'Blue Adriatic' in bloom
blooming pear tree
blooming bog rosemary
The rhubarb is growing between the posts

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
shoq ("Shoq 🌿") wrote:

RE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/116562179332588859

OK, AMERICAN MEDIA, YOU’VE GOT SOME EXPLAINING TO DO.

(Astonishing that no one charted this so clearly before. And don’t expect it to be a lead story anywhere. It’s an indictment of journalism in general.)

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
noelreports@mstdn.social ("NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦") wrote:

Dutch company FIDUCIAL Defense tested its computer vision software in Ukraine through Brave1’s Test in Ukraine program. The system is already integrated into Ukraine’s Vovkulaka interceptor drone and showed strong detection, tracking and automatic interception of aerial targets. #Ukraine

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

Applauding @admin for taking a strong, well-argued stand on this.

Can we get more admins onboard?

#fediverse #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins

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kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Spotted a coyote!

#wildlife

A coyote hanging out in the tall grass

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jwz wrote:

Speaking of robot bartenders.

... You're the first person to even mention Cocktail Robotics to me in I-can't-remember-how-long. So it's not as if people are banging on the door asking me "Hey, when's that coming back, I've got a cool idea..."

And, oh wow, can you imagine what an AI-slop shitshow it would be now? Half the entries would be "I made a vending machine that can talk like a sexy secretary, I think we might try to get VC funding for this"....
https://jwz.org/b/yk7G

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Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
sleepless@social.lol ("Courtney") wrote:

Good conversation between James and Adam about the Web, past, present, and future.

https://web-weaving.jamesg.blog/1/

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
iliana@tacobelllabs.net ("/etc witch") wrote:

my partner is currently referring to computers as "domesticated rocks"

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

I see that with springtime and being out doors, anti-homeless rhetoric is on the rise again.

Just remember who around you has been homeless will absolutely surprise you, and they will hear you when you say callous, stupid things

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

i am in fact completely normal about computers. the more i learn about them, the more normal i get about them.