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Alex Vranas

@rysiek Amazing that they thought that splitting the Fediverse into a bunch of independently run communities is "siloing".

That's the exact opposite!

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Greg Egan

I want David Cronenberg to design the new USB standard, so all the ports and plugs sigh and moan and writhe before finally accommodating each other’s anatomy in a blissful, disturbing union that allows charging and data transfer to occur effortlessly between all equipment.

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Alex Vranas

Getting in on the trend with some pics I took on my walk after work today at Frink Park & Leschi Park in .

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Squirrel Monkey

If #Mastodon existed in the 1980s! Please boost this one!

youtube.com/watch?v=zV8Q0WOYoa

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Daniel Schuman

Members of Congress on Mastodon 

Hi everyone,

As of right now, I've identified 18 members of Congress/ committees/ office on #mastodon, of which 8 are confirmed as authentic.

The list is here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d

#legislatures

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Alex Vranas

@halfcocked The best they can do is sporadic gsm text messaging at a speed best measured as a baud rate.

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lmao at the people who think that Elon Musk can just throw together a Starlink-enabled cell phone. Have they ever seen a Starlink antenna?

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I'm confused? This sounds like your average cop to me.

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Emma (IPG)

Remember What They Took From You.

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Tony 📊

One of my favorite images in the category 'Future of Work'. From 1930!! 😳

"The futuristic world as envisioned by Echte Wagner advertising cards, 1930. Wireless Private Phone and Television."

Source: rarehistoricalphotos.com/futur

#futureofwork #work #tech #innovation

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stux⚡

How much public space we've surrendered to cars (Swedish artist Karl Jilg)

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Musk is nuts 

@dradeguardia I don't think you need to worry too much about gun safety when you're armed with a plastic replica from Deus Ex, lmao.

Or a cap gun flintlock from the looks of it...

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GordonOfSeattle

Another urbanist holiday tradition I enjoy is pruning back vegetation that is blocking sidewalks and signs (something the property owners should be doing themselves seattle.gov/sdci/codes/common-) and using the cuttings for wreaths. I’ve never seen a hashtag for this — #SidewalkWreaths?

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MNNH News English :verified:

IN DEPTH: We previously reported that the GNU Image Manipulation Program would be renamed to LIGMA, as a result of long-standing controversy over its name. This article from our sister publication Fast Developer World covers the story in more detail. wpfastworld.com/11/23/open-sou

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Alex Vranas

Oops. By "post.social" I meant "post.news".

Gotta upgrade my instance and get access to that edit button someday.

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@CarlataOld @steveumstead @mollyjongfast Apparently... smh

I want to give them the benefit of a doubt and hope they are against classism, and just forgot to include gender identity, but I have no reason to offer a forgiving interpretation of this wording.

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Alex Vranas

@ai6yr I could watch this all day. Did a little reading and it's so common for people to flood their engines here that it's turned into a tourist attraction.

I'd spend a day in the splash zone!

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@kizaing for a single-user instance, I have looked into microblog.pub, which is extremely lightweight, but it lacks a lot of the features I want to have for social interactions.

I also don't know how I'd migrate my followers over if I switched.

Otherwise, it seems excellent as a tool for FOSS projects that want to share status updates via ActivityPub.

sr.ht/~tsileo/microblog.pub/

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@lori I also had this book! I probably have it buried in storage somewhere. I should dig it up.

An excellent intro to Linux. I also had an incompatible wifi card and dragged an extra long ethernet cable across my parents' house to get myself plugged in.

Before I knew it I was running a headless Linux server on the old family desktop PC and hosting a PHPBB server for my friends at school to use.

Learned Bash, LAMP, Asterisk, and tons of other fun FOSS stuff. Changed my life.

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moving to @ni.hil.ist

In the few weeks since I've returned to both Tumblr and Mastodon (following the slow death of the bird app), both of my timelines have been a veritable tapestry of what I tend to call the "weaponization of white weirdness"

specifically the fear of white folks who dominate specific subcultural spaces that the inclusion of more people who weren't already part of a subculture will somehow alter the cultural aesthetics, mores, etc

very "there goes the neighborhood" syndrome

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