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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Mosqi@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Marcel Mosqi") wrote:

Ifrit for Legends of Terra Firma (to be announced game)

Ifrit watercolors illustration, red skin and glowing yellow marks on the body, black horns and hands in fire.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
dirkdierickx@mastodon-belgium.be ("dirk dierickx") wrote:

Inside Paula’s Floppy Controller, Part I is a free #book covering the workings of the #Commodore #Amiga floppy drive.

https://www.techtravels.org/2026/08/inside-paulas-floppy-controller-part-i/

#retrocomputing #hardware

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
erkhyan@yiff.life ("Erkhyan") wrote:

*points at the Grim Reaper*
Oi. Your aim really SUCKS this week.
Pull yourself together, man.

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bascule@mas.to ("Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀") wrote:

First Dolly Parton, now Tim Curry? All the wrong people are dying. So sad

https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/26/tim-curry-dead/

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

Dolly Parton dies at 80.

Several Internet users make a meme / joke, "wrong 80 year old". The next day, Tim Curry dies at 80.

https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/26/tim-curry-dead

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
i0null@infosec.exchange ("Hacker Memes") wrote:

compliance.jpg

Auditor: “It says here you have a firewall” Customer: “.. I think so” Auditor: “you’ve passed”

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
clive@saturation.social ("Clive Thompson") wrote:

here, @pluralistic perfectly distils the mechanics of why, to beat back enshittification ...

... we need true competition

which, as Cory has pointed out for years now, why we need antitrust enforcement

https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/25/gammamax/#felony-contempt-of-business-model

Text reading: "Disruptors" are best when they move value from existing companies to those companies' customers. The first TV remotes let people change the channel when an ad came on, making their TV better at broadcasters' expense. The broadcasters had to struggle to adapt, which is fine. They're not charities, after all: they're in business to make money for themselves, and they're only going to give you as much value as they have to. Competitors fight enshittification: any time a company that you do business with takes something away from you, a competitor can win your business by giving it back. If Youtube doubles the number of ads they expect you to watch – "charging" a higher attentional "price" – an ad-blocking competitor can bargain back on your behalf, allowing you to counteroffer with "how about if I just don't watch any ads?" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/adblocking-how-about-nah Inside every company, there are fair, honest people, and there are greedy, shitty people. Companies that face competitors are more likely to listen to the workers who want to give customers a fair shake. But if a company has no competitors, those good people can no longer say, "This is a losing strategy because it will open the door to competitors who will make us poorer." Without competitors, the argument against enshittification becomes, "I would feel bad about myself if we did that." This argument always loses to the bad guys, whose argument is, "We will all get richer ..."

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
OchotonidKnight@meemu.org ("Taz the pika") wrote:

@soatok Of course they can't. The message couldn't be decrypted.

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
rauschma@fosstodon.org ("Axel Rauschmayer") wrote:

#DollyParton: This interview from 1977 shows how smart Dolly Parton was: terrific answers to horrific questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If-oWqUYzlQ

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

RIP Tim Curry 😢

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
hellyeahbot ("HELL Yeah! Bot") wrote:

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
paulcolton ("Paul Colton") wrote:

@nikitonsky @siracusa Let me click on that translation button in Safari on the left... I mean right!

Attachments:

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

I keep thinking about this post I saw from someone saying they would rather that more people die from cancer than that computational approaches be used for cancer research

the splintering of reality is unbelievable around this.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr ("Ludovic Courtès") wrote:

🐑 #Shepherd, not robot. 🤖
https://shepherding.services/news/2026/08/shepherd-not-robot/

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Are you telling me that I failed to brainwash students after these decades of teaching?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/26/oh-no-im-an-ineffective-brainwasher/

man washing brains in an auditorium

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social ("Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD") wrote:

RE: https://ohai.social/@TarkabarkaHolgy/117134297730197472

I am sorry, I have to add an update based on a recent news article:

1. The memorial has been dismantled

2. It was supposed to depict a bird with a helmet, soaring into the sky

3. The design was - surprise, surprise - generated by #AI

4. The mayor claims he didn't see the finished product, because he was taking time off for pink eye

You can't make this stuff up

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

ugh, iris.well.com is refusing to connect

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
tomrittervg@infosec.exchange ("Tom Ritter") wrote:

Alibaba got caught doing some invasive fingerprinting that actually interrupted a user's workflow. (Normally they're more stealthy than that.) https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html

I did a quick write-up about Firefox's efforts (and success) neutering this fingerprinting vector https://ritter.vg/blog-webaudio%5Falibaba.html

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

my submission to https://storyseedlibrary.org

i hope i win

#unix_surrealism #art #solarpunk #mastoart #permacomputing #art #fediart

i love fixing my computo person fixes a t42, while a neutered matabot smiles giddily they live in some kind of a tree house with wires and leaves growing around the wooden structures

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

RE: https://social.coop/@spritely/117162247146113750

Come hang out and talk about Spritely tech with us! 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC)! https://community.spritely.institute/t/next-office-hours-on-8-26/845

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

Spritely office hours, today (Wednesday, August 26th) at 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC)! Come talk to us about what we're up to, tell us how you're using Spritely tech, and ask questions! https://community.spritely.institute/t/next-office-hours-on-8-26/845

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

A meal fit for a Texas/Florida Republican!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/26/eat-it-republicans/

bad meat

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
catsalad@mathstodon.xyz ("🧮CatSalad🐈🥗️〰️𝕄ᵃᵗʰ⁄𖾗𖾓៰𖾜៰៷") wrote:

It's only in everything bagel if it includes the set of all sets

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
wohali@timeloop.cafe wrote:

augh https://semicolon.trm.sh/

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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
liaizon@wake.st ("wakest ⁂") wrote:

"nine single skin and nine jointed 3D models in medium resolution"
via https://morphing.cloud/macwarehouse/1997/#page-56

18 Perfect People™ 1.0 This CD-ROM includes nine single skin and nine jointed 3D models in medium resolution - Clothed Casual Man/Woman, Ideal Man, Muscle Man, Fat Man, Model Woman, Stylized Man/Woman, and Newborn. Requires: System 7.0 or later; CD-ROM drive. GRA 2061 (Mac/Win CD-ROM) $259 Suggested Retail: $399. Perfect People LE 1.0 GRA 2063 (Mac/Win CD-ROM) $129

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

240 words as a pointless prelude to say maybe he will accuse me of something that he doesn't bother to state.

Jebus, but I hate this mealy-mouthed writing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/26/i-detest-bad-writing/

synonyms for mealy mouthed

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
beachbum1972@echoingdusk.social wrote:

Stole this from a DND subreddit.

Jesse and Walt from Breaking Bad, sitting in a booth at a diner while Jesse explains to Walt what his new DnD character will be. "I'm making a Bard. She grew up in a shack, became a famous singer, and uses her wealth to teach poor kids how to read. He also says, "and making her a high elf so she is blond and beautiful and will basically live forever." Walk responds, "It's okay Jesse, I'm going to miss her too"

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

Interview: Prairieland Protester's "Act of Solidarity” became a 50-year prison sentence

Autumn Hill is "serving a 50-year prison sentence for protesting outside the Prairieland ICE jail last July."

She is "one of nine protesters convicted of terrorism-related charges after federal prosecutors accused them of being members of an 'antifa terror cell'."

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/25/autumn%5Fhill%5Fprairieland%5Fnine%5F50%5Fyears

#USPol #EUPol #news #PrairielandProtest #Fascism #democracy #ICE .

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Boosted by chris@fedi.freebooters.uk ("Chris Were"):
i0null@infosec.exchange ("Hacker Memes") wrote:

The FAT32 Controller forbad Thomas for he was larger than 4GB

Thomas the tank engine at a station platform looking miffed at the charactor known as “the fat controller”.

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Boosted by chris@fedi.freebooters.uk ("Chris Were"):
Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social ("Tom") wrote:

I was always a big fan of Dolly Parton's little known coach service here in the UK. #DollyParton

The front of a white National Express coach on a road. The electronic destination and route is set as “Woking 925”