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#seattle! don’t forget we’ve got a toot-up this weekend! sunday @ 330p in cal anderson park or rachel’s ginger beer depending on weather. boost the heck out of this. <3

Hot-takes on how "bad" fedi is by people who joined a week ago remind me of this seminal piece of deep insight:
mashable.com/article/mastodon-

> Six reasons Mastodon won't survive

It was published 5.5 years ago (and counting). :blobcat3c:

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

That's the exact opposite!

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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...

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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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

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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