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@SeaFury
No, not this time. Last month you did, and hopefully next month 😃

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#Trump holding a torch, saying to his MAGAs: "She's a witch."
He's pointing at Lady Liberty, who is tied to a stake that is anchored in a slate labelled democracy.
Under her feet are some logs ready to be burned.

@SeaFury
Lilly and I stopped by to say Hello 👋, but you were busy, Lilly was stressed by the crowd and Mum was waiting in the car so we couldn't stay.

Hope you're afternoon was great 😄

#barista

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make a wish! 🎂

bonus panels in the thread ⬇

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✨ BONUS PANELS ✨
https://patreon.com/LoadingArtist

4-panel Loading Artist bonus comic. 1: A year later. The man and his daughter hold balloons spelling “EIGHTY TWO.” He says, “No confusion this year.” 2: Grandpa blows out the cake with a loud “PPPFTTTT.” 3: The balloons have twisted into “GOTHY TIME.” 4: Grandpa, now dressed in full goth attire, stares sadly at the cake: “life is pain.”

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Schneier quotes @simon at length on ChatGPT's new memory dossier feature, and ends with this sobering insight: “That’s an extraordinary amount of information, organized in human understandable ways. Yes, it will occasionally get things wrong, but LLMs are going to open a whole new world of intimate surveillance.”

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/what-llms-know-about-their-users.html

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In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"

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#hummingbirds #bird #Birds #birdsofmastodon

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Tell companies to stop tracking you by installing Privacy Badger today! https://privacybadger.org/

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Shh, it is time

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#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/787145256762261504
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are just about to get into the car as they hear a mysterious noise. Noise: A! Blue: Hey, can you hear that? Green: I can see it! It's a magpie, sitting on the pavement! Blue and Green rush to the bird's aid. Blue: Let's go see if it's okay. Green: I've never heard one make that sound before. Just as Blue and Green are about to reach the magpie, it flies off with perfect ease. Green: Oh, it flew off on its own. Blue and Green turn to look at the direction the magpie flew, Green with curiosity and Blue with alarm. There's a sound of a car engine starting. Green: Wait, where did it go? Blue: It hotwired my car!

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@ErikUden

If you ever feel heavy because you care deeply about injustice, suffering, and ecological destruction, remember that a trillion dollar propaganda machine was built to make you numb and it didn't work on you.

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Arrgh! For the second time I made the mistake of buying an eText (published by O’Reilly) from #Booktopia and finding it almost impossible to read. There is a distinction between eTexts and eBooks in Booktopia that isn’t made clear, but obviously affects how you can read them.

The only working option I found was to read it in a desktop browser tab from booktopia.vitalsource.com, which is ugly and difficult. The link for the iOS reader fails with a message that it is not available in my region. I think Booktopia used to have an iOS app but doesn’t any longer.

Has anybody worked out a solution (other than don’t buy these things)?

UPDATE: I have loaded the vitalsource reader into Safari on iPad, which is an improvement.

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I've discovered the sickest burn you can drop on someone who tries to engage you in grievance culture is simply "you're obviously very passionate about this".

They will scramble to tell you that they are NOT hyperfocused on [teenagers/being trans/immigration/recreational drug use]. It's NOT a personal interest of theirs. They just like to approach strangers and talk about it, that's all. Definitely not a life focus, hobby or personal passion.

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Perhaps you would like to see some adorable tiny superb fairywrens?

#birds #birding #wildoz #photography

A small fairyren bird standing on a brick garden edge. They are quite round. Their body is mostly white, their face brown and their tail bright blue

A small round fairywren bird. Their body and tail are white and brown with a red patch across their eyes

A small round superb fairywren bird. Their upper half and tail are light and dark blue, their underside light gray

A small round superb fairywren bird facing away from the camera. Their upper half and tail are light and dark blue, their underside gray

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"What they might call ‘loneliness’ is actually a different sort of crisis, one of depersonalisation."
https://aeon.co/essays/our-crisis-is-not-loneliness-but-human-beings-becoming-invisible

@PhilippHGerber
Angle in degrees and radians?

It once took me 2-3 days (on and off) to track down a "this doesn't look right" bug where I was passing degrees to trig functions that wanted radians.

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Seeing fellow Disabled people post about needing "safe" spaces to speak about "woke" ideology like gender is disappointing at best.

It is dehumanizing to label people like myself as 'ideology' just for existing. The current regime is using these bigoted claims about me not being a 'real person' and only an 'ideology' to rip away my rights.

What more do you all want? My community dead? That's the end result of this assault on my personhood no matter how y'all try to justify these 'beliefs.'

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What an amazing allegory!

https://blog.foxtrotluna.social/theyre-putting-blue-food-coloring-in-everything/

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Fedi computer and network-touchers:

I’m hiring!

Looking for a senior-level linux and network type person in the Melbourne, Australia area.

Hit me up if you or anyone you know are interested.

Boosts appreciated!

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