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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
dinobrarian ("Charlie") wrote:

Another Quiltagon post (mostly talking about Saturday night's fight with the embroidery machine)

https://pocketsandpinafores.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/capturing-the-sun/

#Quiltagon

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
urlyman ("Jonathan Schofield") wrote:

…so when a story like this lands in my timeline, I’m like “AI is bullshit but there is a much *bigger* and longer running bullshit here. Let’s not ignore that.”

https://viewfromthewing.com/delta-will-use-ai-to-cut-jobs-and-set-a-different-ticket-price-for-every-passenger-ceo-says-profits-could-rise-50/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
factforce.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg") wrote:

#Russia has 3 war aims;

1: subjugate #Ukraine

2: disrupt #NATO and European cohesion

3: dismantle #US international domination

Putin is failing big time on goal no 1, but is succeeding with no 2 and 3.

@siliconcurtain.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Something BIG is Happening in ...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
francis@furry.engineer wrote:

i spent my ADHD power creating a brand new tool to replace boring old lorem ipsum with dog and cat noises.

i call it Barksum Ipsum. use it to add joy and whimsy to places wherever you need filler text.

dog-coded developers need dog-coded tools.

https://francisssssssss.gay/articles/barksumipsum.php

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
msbw@masto.ai ("Witchzilla") wrote:

Call me mean, I don’t give a shit. This is far from over and you are sitting around watching Trump burn everything down and just expecting people to treat this as “entertainment” like you do.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

RE: https://thecanadian.social/@Plumbert/117139910080360549

This sounds like Brexit, with Canada as the EU

From that experience I formed the view that 'the Adult in the room wins at Trade negotiations'

#Brexit #ElbowsUp #Trump #Politics

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

This was captured with a DSLR and a 19mm shifting lens. There's a bit of barrel distortion from the lens, but I decided this image looked better less corrected.

The Inquirer building, completed in 1924, to me evokes a cigar-chomping editor who calls everyone "kid" and who says things like "bring me back a scoop".

The building had been vacant for a few years when this photo was made, the paper having moved to cheaper and leaner facilities. It has since been repurposed as police headquarters.

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

with absolutely no comment, BBC America television presented two back-to-back news reports: one story on race cars burning fuels zooming around Washington DC, and the next story on world wide weather effects of the currently emerging (and huge beyond belief) El Niño.

no connections made nor even speculated upon. no consciousness of climate as expression of energy system? ugh.

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

they say god invented the natural numbers and the rest we did to ourselves.

well i have to tell you that nats can be fucking annoying too.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
d-max@pixelfed.netsi.xyz wrote:

Nobody Expected Wings

I was hunting something else entirely — camera ready, eyes trained on a completely different corner of the garden — when this one simply landed in front of me and ruined my plans. That's the thing about chasing subjects: the ones you're after know you're coming, and the ones you're not don't care. Richmond birdwing, sitting there with those impossible colours like it had nowhere better to be — velvet black, that green you only believe when you see it, a body dipped in yellow with a single drop of red at the throat. I had about three seconds to forget everything I'd been planning and just press the button. No setup, no patience, no strategy — just luck dressed as a butterfly. Sometimes the best photographs aren't the ones you hunt. They're the ones that hunt you back.

#birdwing #butterfly #macro #luck #naturephotography #serendipity

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ZhiZhu@newsie.social ("Zhi Zhu 🕸️") wrote:

"Trump is trying to take away the American Bar Association’s ability to accredit #law schools due to its being too woke...

The right has railed against both the #ABA and higher #education in general for some time now... Accreditation is just another tool in this #culture war—#Trump even called it his “secret weapon.” It’s also worth pondering why the most #corrupt president in #history would want to cripple the law school education apparatus."

#DonaldTrump #Corruption #Politics #News #US #USA

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz ("Anthropy") wrote:

yasss my 2013 nissan leaf AZE0 now has a 69kWh battery! the meter shows 450km+, but I just drove 70km on the highway and it only used 13% so that amounts to about 540km on the highway, absurd for a 13 year old electric car!

I also got a Chademo to CCS2 converter plug, so I'm now able to charge at absolutely any random fast charger, removed the TCU (Telematics), replaced steering joints, etc. This 13 year old car is ready to go for another decade!

#carmodding #ElectricVehicles #NissanLeaf

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
heliographe_studio ("Héliographe") wrote:

BitCam 2 is live!

A complete rewrite and upgrade of this classic 10 year old iPhone 1-bit camera app:

Greatly expanding the Camera mode,
adding a brand new Editor mode full of pixel-perfect surprises,
and full native support for iPad/macOS

Free download! https://bitcam.app

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
cliff@social.lol wrote:

https://www.democratsabroad.org/de-north%5Fcentral%5Fbavaria%5Fevents

Lookit all these cool events coming up in North & Central #Bayern!

I'm definitely working the voter assistance stand in #Regensburg and will try to attend many others.

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

don't be a chromophobe

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
n0madz@social.lol wrote:

Stumbled upon this project when rejoining the fediverse and am not ashamed to admit that setting it up, tinkering and making small modifications, while revisiting photos/images I’ve collected and taken over the years has been just a ton of fun.

I’m honestly surprised at how much I enjoy it (not to mention it lets me put a domain to use that had been collecting dust).

Here’s my small corner of the #ocular webring (so far the only webring I’m a member of):

https://photos.wzrds.fun/ @rostiger https://merveilles.town/@rostiger/117139463726903106

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
jmock@social.lol ("Jim Mock") wrote:

New post: And we’re baaack! https://jimbo.lol/posts/and-were-baaack

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
andycarolan@social.lol ("Andy Carolan") wrote:

Seriously, I should do an AMA about how AI has affected me, as an independent creator. I think there’s a lot that people just don’t realise!

But I will just be told that I’m wrong, or doing something incorrectly, so I won’t bother.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
colinstu@birdbutt.com ("Colin") wrote:

You ever write a note to your future-self and then later on have zero fucking clue what it means anymore?

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

For some reason I have to keep on reminding myself I can Just Do Things

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
iro_miya@mk.absturztau.be ("Ripperdoc. Miya Ironami") wrote:

​:boost_appreciated:​ Do you want free body mods, done by me, under professional supervision?

I'm looking for models to train as a body mod artist!

I have the opportunity to train under Arnulf, from Stigmata Inc, a well-known and highly experienced body mod artist in Cologne.

He would supervise me doing implants (silicon and chips) and scarification. Potentially tongue splits although I need to clarify that.

Procedures will be FREE. Depending on your financial situation, I may be able to finance travel to Cologne, accommodation, and implants (if applicable).

This will be happening over the course of a month and I haven't arranged the dates yet. Some details remain to be clarified, so I'm only asking for who's interested and you don't have to commit to anything yet.

Your participation would help me in my career and in fulfilling my dream of becoming a professional body mod artist.

Let me know if you're interested! I need a lot of models, so everyone's participation is welcome. You can make requests for specific mods.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

One horse there looks more curious than the rest #iceland #nature #horses

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
nwenny@app.wafrn.net ("how you footwork with no feet!!!! ") wrote:

there is a lot of technically impressive work out there that sucks ass, and a lot of technically incompetent work that fucking rules. do what you want forever and stop stressing out about what art "should" or "shouldn't" be

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
nwenny@app.wafrn.net ("how you footwork with no feet!!!! ") wrote:

sometimes i see a question or post somewhere about music theory and every single time it makes me think about how people focus so much on doing everything "correctly" in the arts that they forget art is about doing whatever the fuck you like

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
cyberquixote@infosec.exchange ("ꍌꋪꏂꌦ꒒ꄲꋪ꒯ :sm64_w: :sm64_i: :sm64_z: :sm64_z: :sm64_a:") wrote:

@brib capitalism dead when

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
dzwiedziu ("Dźwiedziu") wrote:

@brib
Try answering some of them and be taken for a ride multiple times \s

(Nope, I'm not bitter \s\s)

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

Yes. Likewise writing and publishing.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@gennifer.hutchison/post/DcVIx1IGxw8

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
admiralwonderboat ("Admiral Wonderboat") wrote:

time to worry

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
jk ("josef") wrote:

i think being powerful means you can change the physical state of the world and also change what people think about it. if you do something physically big, and tell a big story that purports to explain it, then any opposing story which seeks to undo that thing, however big, will eventually sound untrue, so long as the thing persists. the contradiction of "thing exists, but the story says it shouldn't exist" requires more mental energy to sustain than "thing exists, and the story says it should"

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

ai bubble bursting when