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

The literal translations of those place names are "hot spring town", "warm river", and "steamy mountain" respectively.

We are, as a nation, a bit literal-minded when it comes to naming things.

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

A flock of starlings decided it was absolutely vital that they all immediately move 100 metres to the west #iceland #nature

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

And if you want this amazing exclusive sticker, now is your chance. These are only available through the fundraiser! https://stjude.omg.lol

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

This is arguably one of the most "Hveragerði" photos I've taken. The river Varmá flowing past Reykjafjall mountain. #iceland #nature

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

We’re super close to $50K lifetime raised, and we’d love to hit $60K if we can.

You can see all of our past fundraising campaigns at https://omg.lol/stjude.

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

Bad science & medicine, pro-life edition.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/27/nothing-is-correct-in-this-illustration/

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

September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and every year @robb and I team up to support the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. It’s close enough to September, so we just kicked off our 2026 fundraiser!

As usual, there’s lots of fun stuff: new stickers, Robb’s drawings, and friendship bracelets! And as always, I’m donating 50% of all omg.lol income to St. Jude, every day between now and September 30.

🙏 Give at https://stjude.omg.lol. :prami_happy:

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

St Jude 2026 https://rknight.me/blog/st-jude-2026/

Our fourth year fundraising for St Jude and we have some _excellent_ stickers, drawings, and bracelets(!) up for grabs in exchange for your money

👉 http://stjude.omg.lol/

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

I think this site here in Hveragerði is scheduled to be demolished, cleared, and replaced with high end flats next year. They've all been empty for months now and the house has been damaged by recurring leaks in the heating #iceland #hveragerði

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Bazel has a very interesting versioning schema, definitely not causing me headaches today.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
coral@kind.social ("Coral 😷") wrote:

Periodic reminder: There are real people with fewer than 4 or more than 6 fingers.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
bascule@mas.to ("Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀") wrote:

Scientists blame climate change for Nepal's flash flood – and warn similar events will become 'increasingly common as our climate changes'

https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16083745/climate-change-blame-Nepal-flash-flood.html

#climatecrisis

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

If you're in Berlin or willing and independently able to move & work there, we just opened an incredibly important role for prioritizing public investments in critical open source infrastructure -- and for making the case for these investments to reach the scale they truly need to.

This is a key time as we are preparing for a pilot of an EU Sovereign Tech Fund.

https://www.sovereign.tech/jobs/director-of-technology

#GetFediHired

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

The US has declared Autistici/Inventati, an Italian anarchist hacker (in the classic sense of the term) collective, a terrorist organization. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616/

But what you really ought to read is this article about A/I's history, and what this means https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10083

I'm concerned that the US government is starting to identify decentralized media infrastructure as a threat to its survival. Repost information about this broadly, and if you have media contacts, inform them of counter-narratives; there could come a time where the fediverse, or any decentralized network infrastructure, is a target as well if we don't sound the alarms now.

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

11. We've had treasury secretaries of varying talent / competence in the past. But I am hard pressed to name any with a higher ratio of self confidence to talent. His resume does not suggest a man who will get smarter. But he would be wise to get more humble. /fin

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
CrimethInc@todon.eu ("CrimethInc. Ex-Workers") wrote:

The US government has designated the Italian collective Autistici/Inventati, which produces the infrastructure of NoBlogs.org, a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist," freezing their assets and prohibiting all transactions with them——citing their "far-left" politics and the fact that they have provided services to "anti-fascist" groups for justification.

Autistici/Inventati is an activist-oriented tech project that offers encrypted communications tools, email, web hosting, secure chat, and video conferencing platforms for users who prefer to stay off corporate grids.

This is what the US government is shutting down as "terrorism."

Screenshot from the press release.

https://cryptobriefing.com/us-sanctions-autistici-inventati-terrorism/

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

“Five Things: August 27, 2026 | As in guillotine...”

https://loudpoet.com/2026/08/27/five-things-august-27-2026/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

starting to seriously consider a 15 minute video call consultation as a prerequisite to opening a PR on any of my projects

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
owashe@meow.social ("Owashii :corgi:🐾:therian:") wrote:

thirst trap

it's just a bottle of water

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
twipped@twipped.social ("Jocelynephiliac :reclaimer:") wrote:

> There are material incentives for us to curtail “vibe coded” projects on SourceHut. They tend to, as a class, be outliers in terms of resource usage, as the practice tends to invent complex CI configurations that waste build minutes, produce larger codebases, and push commits often, all of which causes excessive resource usage and can lead to outages. Often these codebases are abandoned after burning through all of these resources for naught

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2026-08-27-tos-changes-and-llms/

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

It's pretty simple, I used geometry nodes to distort the geometry with a noise texture instead.

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

There are not many upsides to AI but seeing the backlash to high-profile slop makes me realise that putting all of those hours into getting hands correct is worth it

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

Grease pencil autolines kept distorting whenever I moved the camera if I wanted to use the noise modifier. Here's a version that behaves correctly, with a boiling effect set for every 5 frames (rather than every frame if the camera moved, which was disorienting)

Attachments:

• gifv: Grease pencil lines on the Suzanne 3d model that don't distort as the camera moves around

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

in the 90s, I set up and maintained a site about the wars against Bosnia-Herzegovina

[ https://web.archive.org/web/20010515101533/http://ariadne.iz.net/~jeffs/BosniaHerzegovina/ ]

I have no tears for Ratko Mladić. he was a stain upon the soul of humanity.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
rollykolyofthepollies@sunny.garden wrote:

I just turned from a path because there was a spiderweb and I didn’t want to destroy someone’s home. I love whatever is wrong with me

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

“I used to love elementary OS but now all they care about is safety and accessibility”

YES these are the kind of hate comments I’ve been working for. Love it

Attachments:

• gifv: south park gif “Yes! Yeah! Oh let me taste your tears Scott!”

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

@aparrish Have you seen this delightful video of switching the GBA into GBC mode via software and rotating the GBC screen output as it runs?

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

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

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@protowlf/117164963745882709

Any games I make will have no AI. Not even in ideation.

(Also, why use a plagiarism machine to do ideation? Don't they output the statistical mean of human communication, and therefore trend towards same-y results?)

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
jdp23@neuromatch.social ("Jon") wrote:

@cwebber remember how Bluesky talked so much about their design goal of avoiding the confusing situation in fedi where you see different parts of the conversation and different like and follower accounts depending on what instance you're on?

hahahahaha ...

https://blacksky.community/profile/jdp23.thenexus.today/post/3mtzhlfafec22

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

huh, archive.org seems to have gone down