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

when i first moved to the netherlands, one of the more terrifying food items was sausage of soup. that isn't a soup containing sausage, that's a soup packed into a plastic sausage shape for no apparent reason.

it's disappeared before i ever tried it. so long sausage of soup.

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

i forgot to buy breakfast cereal for midnight snacking :/

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IgorGrouper@mastodon.art ("Igor Grouper-Commissions Open") wrote:

Inks for a forest dragon commission.

I love drawing dragons and I love drawing trees so this was a real treat! Got to really indulge in those textures.

#art #mastoArt #illustration #ink #dragon #fantasy #commission

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

ewwwww:

‘“When I think about my career in uniform, in almost every instance where there has been poor leadership or people in positions they’re not qualified for, it was based on either the reality or the perception of a ‘diversity hire,’” Mr. Hegseth, a former major in the Army National Guard, wrote in his 2024 book “The War on Warriors.”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/us/politics/hegseth-navy-blocked-promotions-diversity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

Happy Juneteenth, y'all.

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mcc wrote:

Alright. Here is a request. If you, reading this, just happen to be on a Windows 10 or Windows 11 machine. Could you download this and run artist_windows.bat and tell me if it boots or fails to boot. IF it works, you should see this.

https://data.runhello.com/j/artist/3/ARTIST.zip

If it crashes or otherwise fails, please tell me what version of Windows (10 or 11) you are running. If it works, you don't need to tell me. It works on my machine. I'm trying to discover machines it doesn't work on (if any remain)

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clarigaricus@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Clarissa") wrote:

I think I've been browsing maker world too much

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binarydigit@social.lol ("Binary 💾") wrote:

Happy #Juneteenth :prami:

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lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

Verso is running a big sale on books that analyze and critique the modern tech environment: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/tech-sale

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justsoup@mstdn.social ("justsoup :asexual_flag:") wrote:

This Juneteenth, find the strength to tell your racist grandparents to get the stick out of their asses.

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tksst@fediscience.org ("TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨") wrote:

✊🏽🇺🇸 Narrated by #LeVarBurton, the #poem Lift Every Voice and Sing powers this #animation in celebration of the anniversary of Juneteenth.

#Juneteenth marks the day when enslaved Black people in #Galveston, #Texas finally received news of their liberation in 1865.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/juneteenth-animation-google-doodle-for-kids

#1800s #america #americanhistory #art #artist #civics #civilrights #community #drawing #equalrights #google #government #history #holidays #poetry #racism #slavery #tksst #video

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

Yeah, he's promoting his tour, but a person's got to make a living. Anyway, I enjoyed this interview with Weird Al about his career:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1kgDwRvI4o

(TIL Weird Al has a degree in architecture.)

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fesshole ("Fesshole 🧻") wrote:

My Grandad is convinced a seagull called Sally has been stalking him since the 70s because he destroyed her nest. Although it sounds mad I secretly believe him, especially after I took him for lunch & a seagull swooped at his head & he shouted back "when will this end Sally?"

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ThompsonArt@mastodon.art ("Aled Thompson") wrote:

Heron by the waterfall

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

in the year 3026, our great hero saved britain from chorleywood process bread.

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

crack

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Finally, a sensible take in mainstream media.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/19/uk-social-media-ban-under-16s-big-tech-age-verification

If we actually want to curb big tech’s power and make the internet safer for us all, including children, we must start by passing comprehensive data privacy regulation. Effectively, the exact opposite of what these “online safety” policies propose. We must rein in big tech the same way we have always effectively reined in corporate power: through antitrust litigation and targeting predatory, exploitative and anti-competitive business practices.

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

holy shit I just generated our up to date balances

omg I just filtered by year

omg this all works well and trivially so

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

(fold (lambda (trans prev)
(fold
(lambda (p prev)
(if (equal? (posting-account p) "Assets:Bank:Checking")
(amount-+ prev (posting-amount p))
prev))
prev
(transaction-postings trans)))
(make-amount 0 USD)
ledger)

this works now horray

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Aurin_the_classtraitor@climatejustice.social (":autism: Aurin (ki, ki, kis)") wrote:

I come across the attitude a lot that "we're all complicit" and "there's no ethical consumption under capitalism" and a lot of it is focused on individualised consumer choices of poor and lower middle class people. What brand food to buy, how long to shower, what setting AC to use, that kind of thing.

I wish instead we'd talk more about complying with unjust orders than consuming things that were made via exploitation (of humans and the environment).

The toxic individualism in these debates frustrates me to no end. So does the unspoken idea that what we should reduce is our consumption* and not our COMPLIANCE.

Eating whatever food is available and nourishing and tastes good is not the problem. Trying to be comfortable is not the problem. Saving spoons is not the problem.

The problem is bootlicker-ism and compliance to unjust rules. The problem is how many people SAY they are against capitalism/the kyriarchy but then make money by being its enforcers and middle-management. The problem is how we as activists often don't invite others to see themselves as one with the oppressed and instead tell them that they're part of the problem and that they need to give up their freedoms and comforts.

But we don't need to give up freedom or comfort, we seek those for everyone! We can support a revolution by being free and lazy and comfy!

Be free not to comply. Be free not to hand over information. Be free not to worry about whether or not others follow The Rules correctly. Be free not to waste your time licking boots or talking to cops. Be too lazy to report someone. Be too lazy to work if there's a strike on. Be so comfortable in your own humanity that you can see that of everyone who is oppressed.

*focusing on individuals' consumption is steeped in puritanical values, where doing what feels good is deemed a sin and abstaining from things that feel good is virtuous. This is a fundamentally anti-human and (self-)oppressive ideology but it has seeped into much of mainstream, including many counter-cultures, even explicitly anti-religious ones.

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

nearly half a million kilometers on the clock

even good cars struggle with that, how has this heap of shit made it this far?

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StewartLynch@iosdev.space ("Stewart Lynch 🇨🇦") wrote:

It would be great, in Xcode if I could set a theme in a single project for each branch. That way it would be easier for me to spot which branch I am working on.

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

No, I don't want to use hledger. I am aware of it, and it's too much of a tooling jump for me. I live in the land of parentheses, so this is what I'm using.

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

I don't know if I should really release this; so far it's just a bunch of tooling to operate on our Beancount data in a way that doesn't drive me up the wall. But maybe if other orgs or people are interested, maybe it's worth releasing.

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

Why am I doing this? Because I want to be able to operate on my accounting data for my org *as a program*.

It's very annoying to do this in Beancount, IME. Beancount's Python API is woefully undocumented, and subject to change.

Beancount provides an "SQL-like" query language, but sorry, I *don't want* an SQL-like query language, and it isn't nice to combine that with the code API either.

Here's the API I want: map, filter, fold.

So that's what I'm building.

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

Nobody else is ever going to want to use a plaintext accounting system written in Guile

*looks at Guix community*

okay maybe a few people would want to use this

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

This is how people die

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

It's just so absolutely annoying to work with this much data in a mutable language and no I don't want to use hledger, so I've written an exporter from Beancount that I am slurping into Guile and am now writing a bunch of tools to operate on and process that data

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

Lord help me I'm writing my own plaintext accounting tooling in Guile

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Hey, who remembers that time that the South lost the Civil War, so slavery was abolished? But racist Texans didn't want the slavery party to stop, so they kept slavery going for another 2 years after abolition? But then a bunch of Black Union soldiers from the United States Colored Troop under General Gordon Granger marched into South Texas with guns, and threatened to shoot anyone that wouldn't release their slaves? So then those Black soldiers finally forced those racist Texans to release their slaves? But then American people pretended that Juneteenth celebrates the news of slavery reaching the far reaches of Texas, when "the news" was really Black Union soldiers with guns? Because we lie to ourselves and talk about Texas like a distant space colony that was out of contact with the rest of humanity, but in reality people traveled to Texas every single day during that two years, and everyone knew what was going on? And no white people went to jail for keeping slaves for 2 years after abolition, because Lincoln was a self-admitted white supremacist and slavery sympathizer?

Happy Juneteenth!