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

Today in "why yes, writers do procrastinate"

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2026-05-25/erewhon-trail-los-angeles-walk

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djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

Make art not heroes

jwz wrote:

Every year, I find the San Francisco Pissed Off Voter Guide to be the best and most useful one. I especially like that they show their work.

The Governor primary is particularly vexing this year because, as an open primary, the top two vote-getters advance to the general, so it's possible for the mediocre batch of Democrats to split the vote and we end up picking between two Republican ghouls in the general. So this year's primary is more game-theoretic than I'd prefer.
https://jwz.org/b/yk7q

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scattapilla@jorts.horse ("vampire hors d'oeuvre") wrote:

The open source age verification exception is nuts like wdyM the government has decreed that 2026 is the year of linux on the desktop

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Contaminated food, rancid water, and no access to health care — these are the horrifying conditions at the Delaney Hall detention facility, where ICE agents pepper sprayed Senator Andy Kim for trying to do his job.

Attachments:

• video: 9f2f266011e218da.mp4

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niki@mouse.photos ("squeaks at u :ace:") wrote:

you are the target audience for this picture 🫵

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celesteh@hachyderm.io ("Charles ☭ :trans: is a Green") wrote:

The Fuck Off AI Music Movement's FAQ is 👌

https://fuckoffaimusic.com/

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TodePond@mas.to ("Lu wilson") wrote:

@cwebber @theresnotime

thank you! and yes

🌍🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

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

You do not, in fact, fire your organization's Brooke Vibber

You especially do not fire a Brooke Vibber because of bullshit union busting reasons

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brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net ("Brooke Vibber :neocat_cofe:") wrote:

I just posted this announcement to wikitech-l mailing list.

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geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

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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

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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.

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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.

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

ITTIFICATION

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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.

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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

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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 😭