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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
zeux@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Arseny Kapoulkine") wrote:

https://godotengine.org/article/contribution-policy-2026/

This seems good.

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

This 4th July I highly recommend not copying what the British are doing, my dear friends in American government

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

"The University of Tennessee System Board of Trustees approved a settlement with former assistant professor Tamar Shirinian, agreeing to pay the fired faculty member $1.9 million...

The situation began Sept. 12, 2025, two days after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Shirinian made a crass Facebook comment on a friend's private post, saying in part that the 'world is better off without him in it.'

A social media provocateur spread Shirinian's comment online, sparking public outrage and urging the university to fire her."

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/education/2026/06/29/university-of-tennessee-to-pay-1-9m-to-professor-tamar-shirinian-fired-over-charlie-kirk-comment/90746518007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z11xx98p117550l115650c117550e003100v11xx98d--xx--b--xx--&gca-ft=229&gca-ds=sophi

#USPol

Boosted by jwz:
SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

Good. But the fact that 3 supreme court justices, who all swore to defend the Constitution really, really hate the 14th amendment shouldn't be ignored. They are not jurists. They are racist partisans in robes. https://apnews.com/live/birthright-citizenship-decision-supreme-court-updates-06-30-2026?taid=6a43d4b5c097b90001578efc&utm%5Fcampaign=TrueAnthem&utm%5Fmedium=AP&utm%5Fsource=Twitter

Boosted by jwz:
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

The inscription on this monument built by the Ancients was damaged, but we were still able to translate it. Looks like we will find many valuable relics and treasure if we dig here!

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

It’s sort of odd to say goodbye, on Slack, to coworkers you’ve been working with for over a year but never met once in person.

Boosted by jwz:
SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

And your periodic reminder that Congress has the power to fix this. We are designed as a check on the other branches. We can strip their ability to grant cert. We can cut their appropriation. We can curtail their appellate jurisdiction. I have or am working on legislation to do all of that.

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

also fascists really get upset when you say "i'm not giving fascists my money any more".

like it really seems to hurt them, even when they aren't the ones you're targeting.

from this, i conclude it's even better to stop giving money to fascists than i thought.

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

it's spelled "mullbad" btw

Boosted by jwz:
mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

Sending a kaiju to law school so it knows to only stomp on the Federalist Society when it invades DC.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Soatok’s Informal Guide to Threat Models

After a long day of exhausting conversations about Hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography, random jackasses trying to play gotcha with endpoint attacks against end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, and message board discussions in the wake of dumb politicians pushing more "age verification" bullshit on us all, it's become abundantly clear to me that the phrase "threat model" is a foreign…

http://soatok.blog/2026/06/30/soatoks-informal-guide-to-threat-models/

Boosted by jwz:
docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

I’m loving the return of alternative papers in #SanFrancisco. Definitely feels like a reaction to the rise of ai slop online. I hope these periodicals stick around for a while.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Looks like I get to reset the number of days since someone tried to pitch native advertising to the Soatok "team" to [0].

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

chocolate porridge. that's with real chocolate melted in.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
fight@fightforthefuture.org ("Fight for the Future") wrote:

🙌🏽 GOOD NEWS: Police around the country have been working to get access to people's precise location through data brokers & other means but the Supreme Court decided your geolocation data is protected by the Fourth Amendment! https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/29/supreme-court-location-data-ruling-00979929

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!") wrote:

#CountryLife

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

I made an error, thanks to @JessTheUnstill for correcting me. The quotes above do NOT come from the majority opinion, they come from Thomas' concurrence.

However, the majority opinion does say "biological males who identify as female" repeatedly, and basically says, being transgender and even taking HRT, having surgery, etc does not change your categorization from your gender assigned at birth per the court's opinion.

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

just off to the orange place for a break from the desert heat.

Boosted by Mastodon:
stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

@Mastodon I've made a bunch!

Live views: https://stefanbohacek.online/collections/116688638329681621

Space exploration: https://stefanbohacek.online/collections/116688675122889640

My most followed bots: https://stefanbohacek.online/collections/116688618583087767

You can find more on my profile under Featured -> Collections.

#collections #StarterPacks

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

Relatively speaking HN is an oasis compared to other platforms.

LOL, LMAO actually

Mastodon wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@poleguy/116840233192142775

This is a great idea!

Hey everybody, post a Collection you made or your favourite one that you've found in this thread.

And don't forget to #Collections :)

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

if pkgconf had a conference, would it have to be pkgconfconf?

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

@cwebber

JFC both religion and marital status are not immutable and they are recognized discrimination categories in the US

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

@cwebber they also appear to have ruled that intersex people don't, in fact can't, exist, which I expect might surprise, well, intersex people

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

I'm holding some emergency commissions to make rent (medical insurance and tax payment), though donations of any amount are appreciated (about 200 short)
https://ko-fi.com/c/2765a41363
#mutualaid

Attachments:

• gifv: gif of a brown bear with a trout in its mouth
• gifv: magic token for "blood" it's a chalice full of blood with fairies dancing around
• gifv: a backpack styled fake digimon, with little dino feet on the bottom and eyes in shadow

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
alina@girldick.gay ("alina🐾💖✨🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

found this screenshot in an old lost archive and. yeah,

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

Well the US Supreme Court decided that trans people aren't real today. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-43%5F2b35.pdf

From Thomas's concurrence (EDIT: previously I said this was the majority opinion, I got that wrong):

> Because “gender dysphoria” is a mutable mental state that is the object of psychiatric treatment, it does not resemble the immutable characteristics on the basis of which our precedents have applied heightened scrutiny—race, sex, or national origin.

And even worse:

> Second, as the Court recognizes, this case concerns “biological men” and “boys who identify as girls.” Ante, at 10, 27. Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immutable “biological” characteristic, see ante, at 10; it is binary; and “man” and “woman,” “boy” and “girl,” are the terms that correspond to adults and children of each sex.

I'm sorry, everyone.

Boosted by jwz:
rmi@cloudisland.nz ("Rob Isaac") wrote:

@jwz Earlier today I was watching an overview video for a new piece of hardware a distant acquaintance has just shipped. A good ten minutes of the video enthusiastically toured the various JTAG, I2C and secret USB headers all over the board, and halfway through that I was like, my brother, if you sell me this thing in a box for actual money, the first thing that’ll happen if I ever find myself needing any of those headers is it’ll get sent back to you in the very same box.

Boosted by jwz:
BlueDot@left-bank.net wrote:

@jwz

It would be a shame if this post that ICE tried to censor, were shared more widely than they dreamed possible. So please don't do it.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DTQ1FYDkyua/

#ICE #Fascism #StreisandEffect #Censorship

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

Had to coax the cats, who are not allowed into the basement, into the basement due to a tornado warning

And now they will NEVER FORGET about what the basement is like, and never stop begging to go down there