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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Abandoned since 1959, Flekkuvík now belongs to the Icelandic State. Apparently, there were plans to build an aluminium plant there, but thankfully, nothing came of it.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #concrete

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Welcome to Flekkuvík. #Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #concrete

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

choose your gender

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

okay i have tried very had to get through the 3.5h GN documentary, but i'm throwing in the towel at a little under 2.5h

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

This whole process deserves a write up I think. I changed my phone numbers and email addresses in an attempt to take back some control of my online identity.

And just remedy the fact that my number and emails have lived through dozens of data breaches throughout the platform era.

This feels like a new start. Working on how to describe it; articulate it.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

you ever just sit and think about the skill auction portion of the 1991 Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game

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

I'm kind of sad to see this one go, even though I haven't updated it in a decade lol.

On Hipster or History, I'd post an image and you had to guess if was a historical photo from many years ago, or just some Brooklyn hipster cosplaying.

What a sign of the times. This is the most 2016 thing ever. lol

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

I realized that I had a handful of novelty accounts on Instagram that I would like deleted so I went through the process.

Meta throws every dark pattern it can to prevent you from deleting your account. It's incredible.

My favorite is them sending a 2-step auth, and when I go get the code from my email and come back to the IG app, it cancels the session and I'm back on the main feed lmao. Amazing.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray 🇨🇦") wrote:

Most of the fossil fuel consumed in North America is produced in North America. The cost of production hasn’t gone up, but the price has, because of Trump’s foolish war. Thus an avalanche of pure profit for the oil&gas sector. This is not remotely reasonable. What to do about it? Impose a lower price by government fiat? Price controls are hard.

Here’s a Canadian petition drive with another pretty simple idea: A windfall tax on unearned profits: https://act.stand.earth/page/97584/petition/1
Doesn’t sound crazy.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

what's cool in the world of browser extensions

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

Los Angelenos, it appears this Spencer Pratt person is a real piece of shit, maybe don't vote for him for your mayor.

jwz wrote:

Today in "Butlerian Jihad" news.

US Law Enforcement Warns of 'Anti-Tech Extremism' as AI Hatred Grows: This new effort follows President Donald Trump's National Security Presidential Memo 7, which instructs the Department of Justice to target anyone...
https://jwz.org/b/yk7o

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

@aluhrs The answer in many cases is simply *"we didn't think of that."* In other cases, it's *"we didn't want to be prescriptive about which compiler to use"* — which is generally cover for not OSSing something and/or failing to produce a tight spec. These are not *good* answers. Make of that what you will.

Boosted by jwz:
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

ITTIFICATION

Boosted by jwz:
PhineasX@mastodon.art wrote:

The immutable Rule of Star Wars is this: Anything you like about Star Wars you liked the most you ever will when you knew the least about it. Any detail or backstory added to a character, race, planet, object, or concept makes it harder to like.

Boosted by jwz:
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

Did you know that ICE pepper sprayed a sitting US Senator yesterday?

Not if you get your news from the New York Times, you don't.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/andy-kim-ice-immigration-pepper-spray-delaney-hall-b2983455.html

Boosted by jwz:
cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

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ricci@discuss.systems ("Rob Ricci") wrote:

Going to start calling all my blog posts "encyclicals" so that people take them more seriously

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@JMarkOckerbloom/116642253074554430

No, not you too 😭

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
hyperpape@hachyderm.io wrote:

There’s a new encyclical out. Don’t like AI? You’re a tradcath.

I don’t make the rules. The pope does.

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

I suspect that roasted chestnuts would make a great vegetarian protein for various kinds of meals, but I haven't tried this yet.

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

In my childhood, my main experience with chestnuts was water chestnuts in stir fry, which I didn't like much. Weird texture.

But I have now discovered the joy of roasted chestnuts. They are delicious: shockingly "meaty" in flavor; in texture, they are soft.

You can sometimes find them sold in foil packs in asian grocery stores, and these are worth getting, but the best roasted chestnuts I ever had were roasted by an old woman on the side of the beach we paid two euros for a huge bagful from while in Portugal.

The "chestnuts roasting by an open fire" song makes a lot more sense now.

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

oi

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
fanf@mendeddrum.org ("Tony Finch") wrote:

from my link log —

antcc: a little C compiler.

https://codeberg.org/lsof/antcc

saved 2026-05-25 https://dotat.at/:/C9DRG.html

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

@aluhrs At some point I stopped making the obvious points about JS toolchains and the point of compilers (vs. runtimes), but maybe we need to bring it back:

If your NPM-vended chonker.js library comes with its own microsyntaxes and toolchains, then it's fair to ask *"why is this runtime JS not elided by a compiler pass?"*

This is just as true of React, e.g., as Framer.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
mikehendley@vis.social ("Mike Hendley") wrote:

Found this American toad on a trail at Taughannock Falls in Ithaca NY, just sitting there watching us hike by. Drew it in graphite over a few coffee shop sessions. Somewhere in the middle it stopped feeling like a drawing and started feeling like sculpture. The skin, the shadows. Knew it was done when it felt like it was holding still for me.

typst ("Typst") wrote:

Get paid to work on #Typst by joining our new limited project PDF Forms. It's a great opportunity to get professional experience for Rust through open source contributions this summer. More information on how to apply at https://typst.app/jobs/.

#fossjobs

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

I am, once again, asking web developers to please stop. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show%5Fbug.cgi?id=2020644#c4

my poor brain can't handle this anymore

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

You should absolutely read Josh Comeau's article on animations:

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/css-vs-javascript/

But be forewarned that his take on JS library sizes is *wildly* out of step with network vs. content bandwidth reality in 2026; very few sites have anything left in their JS budgets, and another ~50K+ of JS on the wire is not OK, actually:

https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-2026/

/via @aluhrs

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

Update on my mission to rid my life of spam and such: I ported my second number from Number Barn to my phone account. Giving myself 29 days to move over to the new number before I cancel my old number.

I also opted out of arbitration with T-Mobile because apparently, when you get a new number T-Mobile uses that as an opportunity to force you into arbitration. So when the rep said I had 30 days, I searched for instructions and opted out while chatting with the rep lol.