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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
jeypawlik@comicscamp.club ("Jey Pawlik 🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Hey I'm Jey, a nonbinary comic artist! My specialty is autobio and character-focused short stories.

I've got two completed webcomics under my belt (Dead City & Gender Slices), I'm posting comics every Tuesday at https://topazcomics.com plus bonus content at https://patreon.com/jpawlik

I also make monthly comics for @OhJoySexToy

My portfolio: https://jpawlik.com
My art blog: https://jpawlik.com/blog

Since I moved servers, you find my old posts at @jeypawlik@mastodon.art
#MastoArt #Comic #Webcomic

Comic page done in thick black ink and one solid 50% grey tone. Panel one, Mikael is walking over to the couch and JP asks "Are you okay?" and Mikael responds "Yeah?". Panel two, Mikael has sat down on the couch, wine glass in hand. JP asks "Are you drunk?", and Mikael replies "YESS!" Panel three shows a medium close up of JP saying "Isn't that a bad idea with all the zombies around?" Panel four is a close up of Mikael's drunk but smiling face, he says "You didn't mind last time" a bit seductively. Panel five is a similar shot but a close up of JP's face saying "But-- we should still be careful." Panel six pulls out and shows both boys on the couch together. Mikael saying "It's been ages since we saw one and they're all slow and clumsy now." JP says "Now?" Panel seven shows just Mikael from the waist up holding his wine glass saying "Right, you weren't out at the beginning."
Alola Darumaka webcomic page done in black lines and deep pink tones. The comic is titled "Daven's First Day of School Part 1" Daven has his backpack on at the front door and he calls out into the house "I'm heading to class now, Maka." Darumaka replies from off-screen "One second please!" Daven kneels down to see Darumaka packing her own little backpack. He says "Remember, we talked about this? I can't take you with me." Cut to Daven leaving the house clutching his backpack straps while Darumaka presses herself up against the window crying as he walks away without her.
A car chase, showing Lupin's fiat coming up quickly towards a construction site. He jumps the site as Zenigata and the police are right behind him. The fiat makes the jump and a loud crash is heard as an older Lupin smiles while turning the fiat around dramatically with a "screeeeeeeeee"
Comic page done in thin black lines and coloured with shades of teal. First panel, I'm splashing into the water wearing swim trunks and my top surgery scars visible and healed. The word "Splash" is big behind me. Panel two is a thin panel of the surface of the water. Panel three shows my head breaking through the surface of the water going "PAH!" still smiling. Panel four shows me happily floating in the water with my partner and a friend in the background asking "How is it, Jey?" and I reply "It feels so great!"

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

The Gimme Some More music video by Busta Rhymes is an avant garde masterpiece. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=un3NkWnHl9Q&ra=m

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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
timixretroplays@digipres.club ("Tim 🎮") wrote:

My bread is a cube, your argument is invalid.

Turns out a 300g flour recipe will make a perfectly adequate 12cm cube of bread if you actually let it rise for long enough - this thing sat in the cube tin for about 90 minutes in the early spring sun.

I got one unnervingly perfect square of bread out of it before it started to bend under the force of being cut. Having solved the shape question, I now need to upgrade my bread knife to one that actually cuts.

A photo of a cubic loaf of bread sitting on a kitchen cutting board, near a cooling rack. It is an oddly perfect cube with light golden sides and darker brown edges and corners.
A photo of an unsettlingly perfectly square slice of bread on a cutting board. There's no curvy edges or obvious top side to it.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Legacy thinking: An iron fist in a velvet glove.
Modern solutions: An invisible hand in a surgical glove.

Survey: Health benefit costs expected to jump 8.2% in 2027, the biggest increase since 2003 We field the National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans over the summer, and each year in mid-August we take an early look at the responses so we can release the projected health benefit cost increase for the upcoming year as soon as possible. While it’s usually exciting to see this important data point for the first time, this year it was almost hard to look — and yes, it was as bad as we feared, if not worse. Total health benefit cost per employee is expected to rise 8.2% on average in 2027 — the highest increase since 2003 — even after accounting for planned cost-reduction measures. Employers said that the cost of their current plans would increase by 11%, on average, if they took no action to lower it.
A stock market guide in which analysts predict that the UnitedHealth Group's stock prices are going to go up 20%, citing greater demand and reduced costs, and recommending a strong buy.

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

Yes, it's good, and important when feasible, to participate in de-radicalizing people by approaching them with empathy and helping them understand that the path they are on is dangerous

But publicly *excusing* someone powerful and famous who's deep down that rabbit hole isn't that.

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

Sorry but DHH calling people wolves that need to be shot does not come "from a place of caring" https://lobste.rs/s/ipy9xw/normalized%5Ffascism%5Fopen%5Fsource%5F12#c%5Fgzsbdi

You can defend any horrible genocidist this way: oh they were a good family member, a nice neighbor, they're worried about their kids. But what you're doing with that is enabling genocide https://lobste.rs/s/ipy9xw/normalized%5Ffascism%5Fopen%5Fsource%5F12#c%5Fgzsbdi

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

In honor of Uber shutting down in Nigeria this week, here’s my favorite story about Uber in Nigeria.

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Anybody else ever wonder if we have a notation that can describe that breathy portion of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus"? 🤔

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ploum@mamot.fr wrote:

I don’t have a smartphone…
…or, at least, I wish I didn’t.

https://ploum.net/2026-09-02-i%5Fdont%5Fhave%5Fa%5Fsmartphone.html

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Boosted by krig@goto.liten.app:
benno@eigenmagic.net ("Benno") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nextdayvideo/117206296975095466

This was both fun and depressing. The content was hard for both of us to write. The structure and delivery was delightfully chaotic.

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

TFW your pop culture references are all older than the people you regularly interact with.

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

As a person trying hard to be a decent human being, I want software projects that reject fascism so that we can build a better world.

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

RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/117207304402292070

ugh

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

NEW BATTLEGROUND POLLING: A strong majority of voters – across 2026 and 2028 battleground states, and among voters of color in the South – are most persuaded by messages that pair affordability and accountability together, instead of either affordability or accountability on their own.

NEW BATTLEGROUND POLLING: The new findings from Indivisible and Lake Research Partners show that: 1. Affordability and accountability messaging paired together outperforms either message alone. 2. Voters see a rigged system and want their elected leaders to fix it. 3. Anti-establishment outsiders who take on corruption are viewed more favorably than either party because they have that credibility Voters want concrete action against powerful interests
90% of battleground voters agree that politicians need a concrete plan to make life more affordable.
88% say these plans must focus on both lowering costs and addressing corruption.
73% of voters are more likely to support a candidate who fights for both lower costs and accountability.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bert_hubert@eupolicy.social ("bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦") wrote:

If you care about intelligence agency / SIGINT law & have access to a translator, you might find this overview of the just released proposed new Dutch and Intelligence law interesting. Might be enacted in 2027. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/de-wiv-202x/

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

The Unit42 report about ransomware being run by AI is false, it was marketing fluff. The report contained no actionable info and no evidence, and after the media ran it, they removed the ransomware claim entirely.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wonkette_bot@wonkodon.com ("Wonkette Headline Bot") wrote:

What Do You Call 13 Justices On The Supreme Court? A Good Start! https://www.wonkette.com/p/what-do-you-call-13-justices-on-the

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kr1st@mastodon.radio ("Alex KR1ST/PA1ST") wrote:

1966 video by the United States army on sending the International #Morse code using a hand key (straight key). It was mentioned in a book I just finished about covert radio agents.

Pretty cool that YT's closed captioning interprets the morse code sent as music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-petiNdCIY

#hamradio #AmateurRadio

Hand on a strait key tapping out Morse code. The closed captioning reads: [music]

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

well

the yak’s start coming and they don’t stop coming grab the sharp shears and ya hit the ground running

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

The genius of RFC6919 is that every proposed new term cites an earlier RFC as an example in use.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6919/

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
AnachronistJohn@zia.io ("Bitslingers-R-Us") wrote:

@traumweh I’ve been running #NetBSD servers since the ‘90s, having settled on NetBSD after Linux started becoming less and less what could be used from O’Reilly books, further away than even AmigaDOS.

I run several colocated servers that host a good number of dynamic sites (WordPress, Drupal), DNS for hundreds of domains, hundreds of email users, services like SearXNG, Akkoma, various virtual machines, plus shell accounts for many users for all kinds of programming languages.

There are plenty of things others want to run that I don’t want to, but I haven’t found anything I’ve wanted to run that it can’t run.

Since not all the world’s an amd64 system, I only run binaries I compile myself, plus several of my servers are non-x86.

As others have pointed out, NetBSD can be quite boring in good ways, which is really wonderful once you realize how much time that leaves for other things.

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

this would be very bad

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/business/economy/trump-irs-college-nonprofits.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.-VA.eEDv.ONi5Zhyh7S0p&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117207049150500920

woah

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@paulmurphy%5Ftd/117206338979769041

If you’re on local Facebook/WhatsApp groups in #ireland, please spread this. (I’ve neither so I can’t.) Let’s make a showing they can’t ignore.

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

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/117207042492264681

both

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
smallcircles@social.coop ("🫧 Social coding commons") wrote:

#MapQuest does not change the name of Lake Ontario.

#Google and #Apple did.

https://mapquest.com

#LakeOntario

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
aburtch@shakedown.social wrote:

RE: https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/books-odnvsuh8z/-/a-BLMrDeNMS2qpJhxPNdOiLw%3Aa%3A3195393-%2F0

Gift link to the article below, no paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/books/review/gloria-steinem-writing-appraisal.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.-VA.O6AL.MCgpHPnPrE%5FJ&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
mars@squirrel.pub ("Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com") wrote:

If you are an EU citizen, please consider signing this citizen initiative:

Stop Killing The Internet: No Digital ID & No Age Verification
https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2026/000011%5Fen

This is no stupid change(.)org petition.

Screenshot of my confirmed signature for this ECI

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Always a good day when a new #PsychedelicPornCrumpets track comes out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpsvNv6a4CY

#NP #NowPlaying

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EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Guess who lives in “never”. No rain in the forecast either.

*dies in literal hell*

Map of Illinois showing when the current 90+ heatwave is supposed to end for each region. Ranges from 9/5 at the top to “never” at the bottom, because the heatwave continues through the entire 10-day forecast for southern IL.