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krig@goto.liten.app wrote:

Bandcamp friday today. Got these:

• Marrow Deep by Mastodon
• Onward by Lammoth
• Enchantment of the Ring by Secret Stairways
• Absolute Elsewhere by Blood Incantation

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

CJ Cherryh humble bundle!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/04/are-you-a-fan-of-space-opera-and-alien-cat-people/

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
a@pdx.social ("Anthony Sorace") wrote:

@cwebber @wwahammy You Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, "Gotta Hand It To Them"

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
cassolotl@eldritch.cafe ("Cassian [main]") wrote:

RE: https://toot.wales/@alexisbushnell/117211807220016337

Go go go go go! This launched today. A couple of hours ago it was only at 200, and it just topped 1,000, which is a LOT for a Welsh petition! It only needs 10,000 for a debate in the Senedd (Welsh parliament).

Edit: Just got a reply from the petition site confirming that there are no geographical or citizenship restrictions on who can sign this petition, but more weight will be given to signatures from people living in Wales.

#petition #ddeiseb #wales #cymru #trans #traws #transgender #trawsryweddol #NHS #GIG #NHSWales #GIGCymru #NHSWalesJointCommissioningCommittee #NWJCC #TransRights #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #LHDTC #pride #balchder #nonbinary #anneuaidd

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
krypt3ia@infosec.exchange ("Krypt3ia") wrote:

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

prior art seems to focus around putting group by and select with each table as you join to it. i guess i see the benefit of that in general, but it also problably is easier to do in the strongly typed world.

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

right, let's get back to code.

i don't think sql is anybody's ideal interface to a database. nonetheless, it'st the one that people use.

i only have to generate sql, however, so what would your ideal query interface look like?

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

say what you will about the UK NHS, the problems i had with it were all at least one level above "repeat prescription did not"

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

it has been 8 days since i ordered my prescription, but apparently today i should be able to pick it up.

which is good because i'm on day 3 without a dose thanks to the dutch healthcare system being what it is.

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

Decided on a whim the other day to buy "gourmet" feed for the balcony bird feeder. Wasn't expecting much, but it was a hit with the "customers". What I hadn't accounted for was the rowan tree having a bumper crop of berries at the same time

So now my balcony is absolutely caked with multicoloured bird poop

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

i hate to rattle the donations tin, but we've got a fuckton of bills stacking up and still no work. please be generous cause we're pretty fucked :blobfoxheart:

https://ko-fi.com/dysfun

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

Fuck 'em both.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/04/oh-no-a-schism/

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

That's enough Internet for now, cya

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
hydropsyche@ecoevo.social ("Elizabeth Sudduth") wrote:

@newsthump I recognized his name because he was part of the Peter Thiel funded campaign to destroy Jason Arday
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/the-peter-thiel-linked-race-science-network-that-penetrated-cambridge-university-and-targeted-jason-arday/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
newsthump@mastodon.online ("NewsThump") wrote:

So one of the Reform officials who stepped down is a Cambridge academic pretending to be someone he most clearly is not? This will no doubt be the focus of the right-wing press for weeks to come - right?

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
photovince ("Vincent 🌻🇪🇺 en 🌹☘️") wrote:

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117212202682545825

Just a reminder how shitty Amazon actually is…

“Let me remind you: payola is Amazon's single largest source of profits. When I was researching Enshittification, Amazon's take from payola was in the mid-$30 billion. A year later, when I did tour stops with Tim Wu (who was promoting his excellent book The Age of Extraction), I learned that this number had climbed to more than $50 billion. This year, it's on track to top $80 billion.”

More at Doctorow’s linked piece

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Garwboy@ohai.social ("Dean Burnett (that brains guy)") wrote:

Tonight!

If you're looking for critiques/comebacks to those dismissing #ADHD because they watched this infernal doc, I'll do my professional best to provide them

Or I'll end up burbling nonsensically, but that'll be amusing too

https://www.instagram.com/drdeanburnett?igsi=ZnIwODZic24wNTNm

https://www.youtube.com/live/IBJPU55Iw24?is=eZijhw5IrUOGbLRF

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

I will live in the land of milk and fecal slurry.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/04/the-attack-of-the-mega-farm/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
yassie_j@labyrinth.zone ("Yaseeniko :baba_yaseen: :agenderFlag: :transgenderFlag: ") wrote:

At my organisation, Copilot for MS Teams transcription (or whatever it’s called) is now disabled org-wide because there was a scare based on the fact that Copilot “hallucinated” something that was not said at this meeting, which was then actioned by a non-attendee as a real point.

Thankfully, whatever this was, was caught before it was fulfilled/implemented by someone who does governance checks, but hahah it’s really darkly comic to think that we could have done something that nobody asked for and nobody wanted because Microsoft’s shitbot inserted it in a transcript

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Inside the house, there's grass.

#Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #countryside #rural #abandoned #decay #trees

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

https://github.com/coder/coder/security/advisories/GHSA-vx42-ghc9-gw65

Pretty bad, if they had implemented TUF, maybe not so bad?

https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/24/signing-is-for-the-bad-days.html

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

“UK AI medical transcription is dangerous and doesn’t work – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/03/uk-ai-medical-transcription-is-dangerous-and-doesnt-work/

> The vendors always claim that patients trying to get an appointment out of the AI can totally speak to a human any time. This turns out not to be true.

Generative models have no place in healthcare.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

heh, yep, good, we were able to get that trap inserted properly at the start of every Forth word under the transform. now we just need to write the actual logic for the trap to do.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
stellarskylark@solarpunk.moe ("φ-52 "Skylark"") wrote:

"Oh look my toothbrush. We need to brush our teeth."

"Ugh fuck that feels impossible right now, too hard, brain says no, we're not doing it."

"Okay okay compromise, stick the thing in your mouth. Just put it in there."

"Okay fine that feels doable. Actually now I'm imagining doing that and it feels really fucking weird. Brushing our teeth is now the lowest-energy option available and we are going to do it."

this happened in the span of about 5 seconds. it's like this with everything. ADHD is fun.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

blogged: Abattoirs of taste

https://dbushell.com/2026/09/04/abattoirs-of-taste/

— I had this draft in the bin but I was feeling daring today and it's good Friday bait

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

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Sep 4th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 10 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

building up momentum on a coding task right before leaving for a concert is just like us tbh. ADHD 4 lyfe.

but happily, we managed to capture our mental state in the form of comments, which should make it feasible to resume now. at the very least, the comments will substantially improve the finished code by their presence

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
wwu@social.wikiworkersunited.org ("Wiki Workers United") wrote:

WE DID IT. WE WON. 💜✊

Wikimedia Foundation workers voted 158 YES to 14 NO: 91.9% of ballots cast, with 81% turnout.

[1] https://www.nlrb.gov/case/20-RC-391740

We’re so proud of everyone who built this union, and this win belongs to our whole community. We could not have done it without the solidarity of Wikimedia volunteers.

This is just the beginning. We stand with our UK siblings in their recognition process now, and with future organizing efforts across WMF’s global workforce. 🌍
[union needed]

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
kurasiu@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Łukasz Mikołajczyk 🦖") wrote:

More dinosaurs? Sure, you got it!

#indiedev #indiegame #dinosaurs

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jwz Our much more serious and boring policy is also done, which is a relief, because there's enough words for people to understand the "no" without continuing to bother us (at least I hope): https://docs.twisted.org/en/latest/development/ai-policy.html