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

Not even a parody, 100% accurate

https://youtube.com/shorts/ZseOJeYmitE

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZseOJeYmitE

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dx@social.ridetrans.it ("🚲") wrote:

It’s equal parts invigorating and depressing to watch Mamdani’s progress. It’s like, all those things they claimed “can’t be done” or “are too hard/impossible” actually are doable. Which means that all the other politicians are not doing them as a *choice*. Which I kind of knew already but Mamdani draws a line under it.

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paultk ("Paul Tichonczuk") wrote:

For pride month, you can no longer use the phrase "let me get this straight".
You have to use "just so we're queer".

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larsbrinkhoff@mastodon.sdf.org ("Lars Brinkhoff") wrote:

Hot take? Every editable text field should be an Emacs buffer. I don't want your semi-arsed Emacs keybindings, I want the full thing.

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kaye@cathode.church ("Kaye") wrote:

So tailoring ads to a broad audience obviously does work. You run ads for gamepads on videogame websites. You run ads for expensive wine in Yacht Owners Monthly.

But the massive surveillance-/ad-tech scheme, which collects ten thousand data points about every device and tries to match them to the perfect product, that basically doesn't do anything. It shows you ads for toilet seats because you've bought a toilet seat. It shows me ads for learning German because my device language is set to English and my IP geolocates to Germany. Neither of these campaigns will result in a sale.

Like. Contrast that with the FurAffinity model. "You pay the people who run this website to display ads. You know what sorts of people will see them because of what our website is like." That's far cheaper, far easier, and far less intrusive than the modern ad-tech approach. And the results it yields are probably *better.*

However, a third of the First World's economy is based on the assumption that this Rube Goldberg machine of espionage and real-time bidding actually does do something, so nobody wants to run the numbers.

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

It's usually fine for me. I make them sign it to me (if they have not already) and then usually ask the bookstore I'm at to mail it to my house at media mail rates. That said, if I'm somewhere other than a bookstore and my luggage is tight (as it often is), I'll ask the author to mail to me instead because I have no space to take it with me. They're usually happy to do that.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@tarakimberlybooks/post/DZIyN7Hlcrp

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

CROWS

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attoparsec@clacks.link ("Matthew Dockrey") wrote:

Biblically accurate surveillance state

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jimmunroe ("Jim Munroe") wrote:

You can only pick one.

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

I got my new microphone y'all

Attachments:

• video: Me talking into a small comically white microphone with a small dead cat on it.

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

Github Archons

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
surf@flipboard.social ("Surf") wrote:

What is the Forkiverse, how did it get started, and where's it going? For #DotSocial, @pj, host of the Search Engine podcast, talked to @mike about how conversations with @evan and @cwebber led to collaboration with Hard Fork's @Casey and @kevin and eventually, a fediverse instance, a community, and a feeling of hope. ""It's immensely, immensely rewarding to try to build the internet that you want to find."

https://dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/pj-vogt

#Fediverse #Technology

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

🎶 🎵 posting lyrics
on your timeline
it feels so meaningful
as you post them

feels like everyone
could know what
this means to you

it's a deeply internal experience
it's a deeply internal experience
oh
it's such an internal experience
yeah
it's such an internal experience
oh

but I'm gonna keep posting
these lyrics of mine
I'm gonna keep posting
these lyrics so hard

in my instant messager away message
(uh oh)
on my fedi feed
(bloop bloop)
to you in my DMs
(ding ding)

you say it's outta context
you say it's outta nowhere
but baby they're my lyrics
babe they mean so much to me

I'm gonna keep posting
just gonna keep posting
I'm gonna keep posting
these lyrics so hard

it's a deeply internal experience
it's a deeply internal experience
oh
it's such an internal experience
oh oh
it's such an internal experience
yeah 🎵 🎶

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
ogeer@social.coop ("Oliver Geer") wrote:

@cwebber Here's a deeply unpolished version of my take on the song. I cannot work on it more now since I need to do work, but it really helped improve my morale (and doing it in breaks probably made me more productive)! Thanks!

I welcome advice and literal part contributions from others — this is free, libre, and open-source music — and would be interested in polishing a version with those contributions, sound effects, and all, to put on https://ogeer.org/music/ , this July or August.

Just make sure you add the attribution under a CC-BY-SA-4.0 compatible license. Here's mine for this version:

© 2026 Oliver Geer and Christine Lemmer-Webber, Licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Attachments:

• audio: Christine's lyrics sung together with the same melody and chords on synthesisers. In some parts a very basic drum machine joins in. The track is unedited, with no instrument dynamics or panning, and the current vocals have a tinny, clipped sound (phone microphone).

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

apropos of something

Attachments:

• gifv: blinkenlights

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Oops! All Externalities

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
yaelwrites ("Yael Grauer‪") wrote:

Have you vibe coded an app and then run it through an AI security review and found it had tons of issues? Or have you actually found a security issue on your own? I would love to talk to you for a story I'm writing!

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

Having now spent a lot of time writing in Emacs’ Org-mode, I’ve confirmed my suspicion that anyone who thinks Org’s markup is more logical and/or intuitive than Markdown is just being an Emacs partisan. Org’s strength is the mode part, not the markup part.

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

i am all for not censoring people but actually maybe it was a mistake to let people who think shitting all over open source is good actually have an account on treehouse.

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

oh hell no, i don't think so.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
duckalini@cloudisland.nz wrote:

@aredridel back when I worked in a video rental store, we had $1 Tuesday’s. Any weekly rental for $1. We had to stay two hours after close every week to process all the returns and had to have so many staff running around trying to put stock back on the shelves. It was HECTIC.

Eventually we upped the price to $1.50 and had a little celebration every time someone said they weren’t going to bother anymore. We needed less demand.

I think about it a lot now that my job is reliability and resilience.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space ("Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:") wrote:

for the roughly 8% of uni students still generating their essays by hand: i regret to inform you that the word grammar checker (assigned green squiggle underline at birth, transitioned to double stroke blue underline. happy pride month everyone) has wisened up to several of my standard "word count reacher" tricks. it now suggests the following """fixes""":

• "the aforementioned widgets" -> "the widgets"
• "a number of gizmos" -> "many gizmos"
• and, worst of all, my most reliable and enduring friend: "due to the fact that" -> "because"

horrifyingly enough, it's even beginning to discover and suggest the removal of redundant adjectives. it occasionally suggests replacements like "a reliable bedrock" -> "a bedrock".

we can argue about the more existentially/cosmically disturbing erosion of writer's voice into a homogeneous Microsoft Approved Standard Voice, but of far more concern is this blatant attempt on our god-given right to bloviate on assignments. if the only difference in the rubric for a distinction vs a high distinction is the word "remarkably" becoming "exceptionally", you better believe i'm expanding "john (20xx) shows" into "the study by john (20xx) reveals that a group of researchers were able to demonstrate that".

stay safe out there folks.

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coderanger@cloudisland.nz ("Noah K") wrote:

The game I help with just launched on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/2287550/Farm%5FRPG/ completely free (it's really just a wrapper for the normal farmrpg.com website) but if you like cozy RPGs check it out :)

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
bridget@beige.party ("Bridget") wrote:

I’m probably not good enough to have imposter syndrome

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Willow@chaosfem.tw ("Vivian, Venus Pirate 🏳️‍⚧️🧋") wrote:

Dear cis men: the coolest thing you can do this #Pride Month is submit a public comment in support of #trans people on this proposed rule change that would gag any entity receiving federal money and prevent them from supporting trans folks.

This is what genocide looks like on paper. Please stand up and oppose it.

News item: https://theneedlenews.com/2026/05/trump-administration-proposes-barring-federal-agencies-federally-funded-organizations-from-promoting-gender-ideology/

Link to leave a public comment: https://www.regulations.gov/document/OMB-2026-0034-0001

#Boost #CallToAction #UsPol

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Willow@chaosfem.tw ("Vivian, Venus Pirate 🏳️‍⚧️🧋") wrote:

Oh right it’s pride month! Hey, cis people: go frustrate nazis, please.

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

‘The CGI would have cost millions. I spent $2,000.

it's a miracle people are calling it slop

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

must not answer that toot with what came to mind

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

Learning about how early Chinese immigrants in California and Oregon were viciously attacked up and down the west coast, massacred, had their things taken, prevented from walking on the streets after sunset in nearby Antioch, prevented from buying property in many parts of the north and east bay, told they were diseased people who didn’t deserve the same rights as Europeans, even in death, helped me see that we think we live in a better, more enlightened time but we don’t.

It’s also taught me that I deserve to be here, and that I have more in common with a new immigrant family from Fuzhou or Taishan who still lives in a 8-to-one-room-in-Chinatown environment today, even if I have had many other privileges in comparison.

Without Wong Kim Ark, there would have been no birthright citizenship.