President #Zelenskyy posted a selfie of himself in a town #Putin is claiming to have captured. :awesome:
#Dunking
Snowy & Winter Enjoying some Snowflake Cookies together along with a glass of milk for each of them.
Art Commission by Rogeykun
Snowy Bunny belongs to ME
Winter Husky belongs to @baby_kittysierra1
#Snowy #Bunny #Rabbit #Winter #Husky #Puppy #Dog #Girls #Baby #Cute #Diaper #Nappy #Babyfur #Diaperfur #Dress #Cape #Eating #Snowflake #Cookies #Plate #Dunking #Glass #Milk
#Mastodon is rolling out #quoteposts with safety controls to prevent #dunking. Users can #control who can #quote their posts, the visibility of quote posts, and even remove their original post from a quote. Quote posts will be available on larger servers first and later in the 4.5 software update. https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/12/mastodon-rolls-out-quote-posts-with-protections-to-prevent-dunking/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
Good move - Mastodon to begin rolling out Quote Posts next week with safety controls to help counter dunking. https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/12/mastodon-rolls-out-quote-posts-with-protections-to-prevent-dunking/ #Mastodon #QuotePost #Dunking #Fediverse #SocialMedia #SocialPosts
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on February 12, 2025
"If the old man would give us fresh bread instead of stale, there would be no need to dunk it."
Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: https://www.rsok.com/~jrm/2025Feb28_birds_and_cats/2025feb12_crow_IMG_2798c.html
#crow #dunking #birdbath #birds #Corvus #wildlife #suburbanWildlife #wildlifephotography #Oklahoma #photography
BREAKING: By Executive Order Donald Trump has declared himself the 2025 NBA All-Star Slam Dunk Champion. This strips Mac McClung of his rigged "fake news" threepeat, and is Vice President Trump's first dunking title. #NBA #dunkcontest #basletball #dunking #dunkingcontest #WNBA #macmcclung #allstar
Nachtrag von Hobbes der ausrichten lässt:
„*So*¹ sieht ein ordentlicher #Dunk im #Basketball aus!“
Da muss der Ball nämlich von oben in den Korb *gestopft* werden. Und dann hat er den #Duden zitiert, der #Dunking als „Korbwurf, bei dem der Werfer so hoch springt, dass er den Ball *kraftvoll* direkt von oben in den Korb werfen kann“ definiert.
Ich glaub, wenn er angeben kann, nimmt Hobbes sogar den #Turnverein in Kauf.² 😘
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¹ also wie er es zeigt.
² Er mag Vereine ja nicht so.
Elfi fängt an zu drängeln, dass ich endlich zeigen soll, dass auch sie #Basketball im #Turnverein gemacht hat. 🏀
Bei Elfi ist unserem Sportfotografy sogar ein Bewegungsablauf gelungen, den wir euch in Zeitlupe zeigen.
Ich war ja froh, dass ich hoch genug springen konnte, um den Ball mit den Fingerspitzen über den Rand zu bugsieren, aber die Elfi schafft natürlich einen #Dunk. #Dunking.
Ja, ich bin stolz auf die Elfi. :mastolove:
If you play it right (which nobody does these days) bobbing for apples is a refreshingly kinky game:
https://www.erosblog.com/2010/11/17/bobbing-for-apples-depression-style/
#Apples #BobbingForApples #HandsTied #Bondage #Dunking #Dunked #GetWet #GettingWet #PartyGames #Game #Vintage #Kinky #Kink
“Dunking” & “Revenge Porn” vs: the Open Web
https://alecmuffett.com/article/109288
#FreeSpeech #OpenWeb #censorship #dunking #interception #ncii
“Dunking” & “Revenge Porn” vs: the Open Web
Word of the week on les platforms appears to be “dunking” or “dunk”; this appears to be a confused synonym for “quote-tweeting”, where one quote-tweets a second party without adding value other than to mock them. This is apparently meant to be a surreptitious act, where the second-party does not see that you quoted them… even though (at least on Twitter) you actually get notifications about that sort of thing.
The weird thing to me is seeing people compare platforms on the basis that they “do not support” — or perhaps “do not encourage” — dunking, by lacking a “Quote-Response” button.
And I am like: “WTF? Are people confusing ‘user-interface friction’ with a lack of capability?”
Back in the days before I invented the Twitter Reply button (cough, kinda) to merely reply to someone required typing out their username in full; and to quote them required… quoting them, and pasting-in a URL which (later, when the technology was invented) would be rendered as a “card” object in the browser.
It turns out that this still works, and has never not-worked.
So here’s a hot tip: if you want to quote or dunk on someone in Mastodon or Bluesky, just copy the URL to their content (see the Share dialogue, or your browser bar) and paste it into your content; it’ll do what you intend, it’s even cross-platform (important in this increasingly diverse world of platforms) and it’s neither the open web’s nor the platform’s fault if you’re going to be a dick… not least because being a dick is subjective.
The bigger challenge of the internet remains the dual myths — supported by misplaced legislation — that:
- information and commentary which is about you, is your information
- that you should be enabled with — beyond the access-controls and threat models which a platform offers to fulfil for you — any degree of digital rights management and capability to suppress communications that are about you, rather than with you
Of course this latter sounds understandably wonderful from a “safety” perspective — because if a person is being abused by an abuser, who would not want to gag that abuser from communicating about the abused person? e.g. suppression of NCII or so-misnamed “revenge porn” — but the problem is that such a general capability of suppression cannot exist without being itself appropriated by the state to do Orwellian things.
Go look at China for infinitely varied examples.
The cure is worse than the disease, and there are other ways to combat NCII and other abusive content — including but not limited to: teaching people how to avoid creating such content in the first place — and therefore we should pursue those options, rather than the big-brother ones.
https://alecmuffett.com/article/109288
#censorship #dunking #freeSpeech #interception #ncii #openWeb
@peter has anybody written about dunk culture? I think it's interesting, with pros and cons and probably an ethical taxonomy that can be developed around when it's appropriate or warranted. #Dunkculture #dunking #qt #quotetweet #quotetooting #quoteReply #quotetoot
OMG, did I just QT by sharing a post in 2 clicks? Why yes I did. Somebody call CBS. <rollseyes>
https://infosec.exchange/@elforesto/109570850407397416
elforesto@infosec.exchange - As much as I see the value in #QuoteToots and #QuoteTweets, they are inevitably used mostly for #dunking. There are entire accounts who have built their personality around being a #MainCharacter inviting people to dunk on them for massive reach or actively seek out targets for dunking (usually to send their following after them to do the same)...
As much as I see the value in #QuoteToots and #QuoteTweets, they are inevitably used mostly for #dunking. There are entire accounts who have built their personality around being a #MainCharacter inviting people to dunk on them for massive reach or actively seek out targets for dunking (usually to send their following after them to do the same). This happens at small and large scale. This hostile use crowds out valuable uses by wide enough margins that I consider it to be a failed feature.
It's not that someone can't dunk or be dunked on, but putting up barriers (copy/paste the URL which requires an extra click, screenshots which require extra steps, etc) greatly limits it. Until I see some ideas on how to contain the hostile and malicious uses, it should be considered unviable here.
Hmm.
#people #dunking on public #personas #failures in glee seems to be a running theme throughout #humanities course...
i love coffee. coffee is a constant and has been for too many years to count. but sometimes I just need a break. so sorry, coffee, it's me and tea for a while. I still love you, I just need some space.
in other news, I forgot that Earl Grey is a terrible medium in which to dunk a biscuit. dolt.
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