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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
stargirl@hachyderm.io ("Stargirl") wrote:

Every day
I hear the incessant,
Annoying buzz
Of tiny engines
Rearranging the leaves

And yet
My gentle, quiet
Wildflowers
Have grown too tall
To be tolerated

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Boosted by jwz:
aperturememelabs ("Aperture Science Meme Labs") wrote:

We need this person as our new PR associate

Happy Pride to everyone profitable! :BlobhajPrideHeart:

#meme #memes #funny #pride #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #trans #transgender #gay #lesbian #bi #pan

A text post reading: "Aperture Science announcement voice: Congratulations Homosexual, your existance has been deemed profitable in the following regions: North America, Western Europe, and Australia. To celebrate the occasion, we have temporarily recolored all Aperture Science Appliances in these regions to your favourite flavor of gay. For Further Pandering in a wider area please continue fighting for basic human dignities, and Aperture Science will be right there to celebrate your victories with you. Afterwards. " Below is a rainbow-colored version of the Aperture Science logo

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Boosted by jwz:
TheViking@newsie.social ("Lillian") wrote:

Attachments:

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david@fouroclockfarms.club ("Salty") wrote:

Another one.

Imaginary Pantone color of the year 2026, American flag blue, shown as algae green.

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Boosted by jwz:
davidculley@hachyderm.io ("David Culley") wrote:

@EUCommission The ATproto protocol is a technically bad protocol, inferior to the protocol that Mastodon/Fediverse uses, and it's developed by shady cryptocurrency scammers with anti-government views.

Add to that the death of anonymity plus advertisements/tracking and the tolerance of literal neo-nazis, and you have W Social.

Why would any sane person join W?!?

Ursula von der Leyen joining W on launch day, but having no presence on Mastodon despite Mastodon existing for over a decade, sends a conflicting signal that is opposed to the EU Commission claiming to want to continue their presence on Mastodon.

#Wsocial

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

awawawa

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Boosted by jwz:
fasterandworse@hci.social ("Stephen Farrugia") wrote:

Whenever I open firefox and it says it was updated I have to check and make sure the AI kill switch is still on.

That's what opt-out means.

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

You can prevent ice cream headaches by never experiencing joy even once in your life.

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

She also advised that this meme would be educational

A nature valley granola bar ad with text reading "sorry about the Great depression our bad"

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SouthDakota/116783849658424904

Yup. But remember the follow ons from that.

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Check it out! The AI Con is onsale for just $1.99 for the ebook on bookshop.org:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-ai-con-how-to-fight-big-tech-s-hype-and-create-the-future-we-want-alex-hanna/914a89ac020fc825?ean=9780063418554&digital=t

w/ @alex

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Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

and no coding of value was lost

Ed Andersen @edandersen Since the GitHub Copilot token apocalypse this month I've had zero urge to code. Something I've done my entire adult life Just genuinely depressed. How can you be creative while watching money leave your bank account for thinking? And how can you get that dopamine hit knowing you wasted time when an Al could have done it faster? The only people left coding will be those with effectively unlimited token budgets. End of an era for regular developers.

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

Scraping, historically, has been pretty important to the open web. And *most* scraping hasn't been *spidering*, which is the stronger, less intentional version. And even that could be acceptable, if you were polite about it.

What we've seen with AI orgs DDOS'ing everyone has meant that self-hosting has become incredibly hard as a baseline in a way that used to resemble targeted attacks which were generally *frowned upon* doing to someone.

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

My first essay will almost certainly be about the tv show Succession, based on that thread I did a while back.

I'm go to through any media that speaks on the show so if you have a fav interview or analysis about succession please share!

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

Scraping is great! We have accepted scraping as part of the web for basically forever.

DDOS'ing is not great! We have agreed that DDOS'ing isn't acceptable on the web for basically forever.

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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
moth@lesbian.solutions ("moth, resident snugglebug") wrote:

🫵 give me your old electronics

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

Do you remember making a website? Hack & Craft participants remember

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org ("Open Rights Group") wrote:

The only way to create an ironclad age verification system in the UK is extreme digital authoritarianism.

Restrictions on VPNs are an attack on the open Internet and our ability to be secure online – the antithesis of online safety.

Read our briefing ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-vpns-and-the-online-safety-act/

#ProtectVPNs #vpn #vpns #cybersecurity #privacy #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #ageverification #StopKillingTheInternet #ukpolitics #ukpol

The only way to restrict VPNs is authoritarian. Trying to ban or age-gate VPNs because they might be used to bypass digital ID age checks would be as unworkable as banning web browsers because they allow access to adult content. Attempts to have a perfect age verification system that no-one can get around would involve an extreme level of digital authoritarianism. To comprehensively prevent circumvention of age checks, a State would need to remove the ability of users to install and use software on their computer and try to prevent the Internet from providing open connectivity. The government must not blow up our cybersecurity and the open Internet with technologically illiterate and authoritarian attacks on VPN use.

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

I've learned that using a massager on my neck can help when I feel a headache coming on.

I've also learned how these headaches are weirdly tied to sleep. Right after a headache, if I end up taking a nap, my chances of getting a second headache increases.

My body is tired and the anxiety of anticipating these headaches is difficult. But, overall, things are improving. Yesterday I went to the beach with friends with no headache! I brought my massager lol.

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

Hack & Craft happening now! https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/

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

formal haddock

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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
trending@live.acarsdrama.com ("Trending ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

NOW YOU'RE JUST SHOWING OFF. THIS IS THE CLOSET I HAVE TO A SMILEY FACE 8-D BUT MY FO SAYS IT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING ELSE AND I CAN'T UNSEE IT. LOL

Area: Zurich, Switzerland
A: #ab2fa58bb5c
F: #f5327949703

#acars #vdlm2

🔗 Original: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116783132649149996

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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
anubiarts@app.wafrn.net ("Anubi") wrote:

new fursona dropped

#PixelArt #Art #Furry #Fursona #OC #AnubiArts

A Pixel Art featuring an Anthropomorphic Rat (which we'll call Arati for now) Left: Arati is sitting on an invisible object, with one of her hands raised close to her face, with her looking to the side. She's wearing a red shirt, black pants and high heels. Middle: Arati is posing for the camera, walking by while doing a V-Sign with one hand, and resting the other on her hips. She's wearing a short red dress, blue and white stockings and some red boots. Right: Arati is looking behind her, where her tail and the back of this outfit can be seen. She's wearing overalls, a shirt, and some slippers These are all clothes that specific Anubi designs used over the years.

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

default generated coordinate mapping says trans rights

some buildings in Blender, with the default generated coordinate mapping previewed in the shader leading to trans flag colors

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

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116782299343169779

skill atrophy is a real thing in... endoscopists!

but sure, it's just programmers it makes worse!

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Living large. #grickledoodle #cat #pets #suit #cartoon #art #drawing #humor #funny

A cartoon illustration of a cat wearing a suit relaxing on a couch while the owner and dog watch her from the kitchen. Caption reads "She never had any intention of working in an actual office, she just really enjoyed the feel of a good suit."

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

Someone died because an insurance company denied his asthma medication. Under a video reporting the news is a bunch of people commenting that the family should just sue.

It upsets me to no end when people do this. It feels selfish. Like you're trying to make yourself feel better by falsely believing we have a system that holds insurance companies accountable.

Even if the family won, which is unlikely, the practice is still profitable for insurance companies. Let's just admit that.

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

right, that is enough out for this rather too hot week

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

If you're interested in how I made this, I went into more detail in this post: https://social.coop/@mlemweb/116584725339316909

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

Rubio now deporting legal immigrants based on who they support in their home country. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...

Memo by Rubio Approved Detenti...