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Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% fatality rate. -- brazzy

Semi-professional API Tester.

Timestamps SHOULD be big-endian...

Denis Gilbert 1d ago

If you were far away from the Earth, on a line that goes through the centers of the Sun and the Earth, here's the sunlit half of the Earth you would be seeing during the June and December solstices. Two very different views of Earth!

Full story: https://denis-gilbert.ca/en/2025/04/22/side-by-side-comparison-of-the-june-and-december-solstices/

#solstice #animation #astronomy

Two of my holiday favorites! Firecrackers and Stinky Cheese

Two gallon ziplock bag with saltine crackers soaking in canola oil with ranch dressing powder and red pepper flakes.

Aluminum pan filled with a mixture of creamed cheese, old English cheese and heaps of minced garlic, topped with paprika. So stinky, but sooooo yummy!

nixCraft 🐧2d ago

i used to live on the edge. now i just want a desktop environment that doesn't explode when i need it the most 😅

It’s almost like MAGA’s bad for women 🤔
https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/115752084950941011

Aure Free Press :verified: (@Free_Press@mstdn.social)

Attached: 1 image "RATS JUMPING FROM A SINKING SHIP" MAGA women are fleeing D.C. in droves. New York congresswoman and MAGA darling Elise Stefanik shocked the political world on Friday when she announced that she's quitting politics. Less than 30 minutes earlier, Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis had done the same thing #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #MAGA https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-stars-elise-stefanik-and-cynthia-lummis-quit-within-minutes-of-each-other/

Mastodon 🐘

../kajer/.Jul 31, 2024

shitpost: I'm old enough to want to buy a lawn, a mower, and get excited about lawncare. I have had enough internet for the day.

not shitpost:
I think I got in to computers at a special time in the history of the things. First was PCs with games brought home from the local computer store. 12MB of ram was hot shit. Modems were opening a wide world of other computers via the BBS. Having a neighbor with university unix credentials to connect to the internet with lynx and then tcptrumpet / winsock.

Never again will computers be as awesome as that time in history. I am glad to have experienced the knockdown wall texture flat grey webpages with under construction barricades. I am glad to have been a part of geocities. I was so excited to buy something on ebay with a postal money order.

Witnessing the decay of the internet to it's current state... I can logoff now (forever) and not feel like I'm missing out on anything groundbreaking. I don't think there will be any new innovation in my lifetime that won't be #enshitification of once beloved products.

Pour one out for the internet.

As Kryptia is wont to say doomed:

https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=11524&post_id=181986493

IDK what is the correct economic model, but I absolutely know lat stage capitalism ain’t it.

How Wall Street Ruined the Roomba and Then Blamed Lina Khan

This week's bankruptcy of iRobot, the maker of the Roomba vacuum, is about more than a robot cleaner. It's about monopolies, Wall Street, and economists leading America on a path of destruction.

BIG by Matt Stoller

flere-imsaho 🇺🇦Dec 15

so many of the people who for years wrote about how the actual duty of a senior software developer is to remove code from the codebases and to mould the junior coworkers into fully-fledged professionals are now enthusiastically writing about inducing confabulation machines to extrude enormous amounts of code-like product, and how glorious it is that the infinite lies machine made junior developers obsolete.

tiddy roosevelt Dec 15

I have been asked what the fediverse is like and I like I'm both over and under-equipped to answer. I've done my best.

"It's full of people who are really opinionated about computers, has some of the funniest people I know and the platform itself is kind of janky in the same way major IRC networks were in 2000. If you want to know what happens when you carbonate cum or boof uranium it's a really good resource, and everyone really wants to French it up a bit on Elon Musk."

Joel Michael Dec 15

@gsuberland but sir, you ARE a big account!

Kim Scheinberg Dec 15

This from Wil Wheaton is lovely (and it opens with what is probably my favorite paragraph in all of literature)

Later in the piece he says this

https://wilwheaton.net/2025/12/this-is-such-a-painful-loss-my-heart-is-broken/

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Rod Mesa May 12

If US press wrote about the US the way they do the rest of the world

Kevin Russell May 12

This isnt funny.

This is how real newspapers would be covering the fall of america.

#coup #trump #musk #tesla

CoastalCoasting May 13

@kevinrns @Motorod

*should
This is how real newspapers *should be covering the fall of america. FTFY

Morgan ⚧️May 13

@CoastalCoasting @kevinrns @Motorod I think the argument was that the newspapers who aren't simply aren't real newspapers 🤷 journalism isn't dead but it's sure hard to find nowadays

CoastalCoasting May 13

@raphaelmorgan @kevinrns @Motorod

Definitely. I was just popping off some semantic despair, but you and kev are correct too. We're all correct, and on the same page, I was just relieving some angst. Sorry if that confused things.

@CoastalCoasting @raphaelmorgan @kevinrns @Motorod

Yeah, the "FY" didn't land right.

CoastalCoasting May 13

@skry @raphaelmorgan @kevinrns @Motorod

I see what you mean. My bad. The whole media situation upsets me and I handled that poorly, I'm sorry.

@CoastalCoasting @raphaelmorgan @kevinrns @Motorod We're all upset too. Solidarity. It's a lot of very bad news and mostly reported poorly.

CoastalCoasting May 13

@skry @raphaelmorgan @kevinrns @Motorod

Yeah, thanks. Sending hugs to everyone who struggles with that angst. I appreciate your compassion. I'm working on managing the stress but see I slipped and made a mess of things. Thanks for forgiving my momentary faceplant.

Kevin Russell May 13

@CoastalCoasting @skry @raphaelmorgan @Motorod

Your correction was more than enough, its fine. Fine. No bites, no blood. Its fine. Nothing burger.

Followed

@CoastalCoasting @raphaelmorgan @kevinrns @Motorod 🫂

CoastalCoasting May 13

@skry @raphaelmorgan @kevinrns @Motorod

Just to be clear, the FTFY was 'fixed that for you', and definitely not 'F you'. I worry that was confused. I was out of line but I wasn't going for THAT out of line, and want to clarify what I accidentally cluttered.

@Motorod @StillIRise1963 twitter used to have an account that would do this for all the big news. Quite good.

Just a Mr Bill May 13

@Motorod @StillIRise1963 These things used to make me laugh. Now I just sigh.

David 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️NB they/them May 13

@billd @Motorod @StillIRise1963 It caused me to break down today.

J_Peregrine May 13

@Motorod
brilliant !

Rusty Ring May 13

"Congress is weighing its alternatives in the matter of armed intervention."

CoastalCoasting May 13

Spot on.

grassfox86 May 13

@Motorod That's how anyone should write about what's happening in the US. But no, America is special and it isn't as bad as those other countries.

Dendan Setia (Nins)May 13

@Motorod there's a Kenyan journalist, Patrick Gathara iirc, who does this pretty consistently in the last few years lol

@Motorod Yep, it is b=very sad. And what would the almighty US do if there was a dictator in a country who was committing crimes against humanity (provided they were not serving US best interests of course)... they would go in and....uh hmmm, how to say this... remove them.... and claim to have saved the world.. again

This Account Jingles Yer Bells May 13

@Motorod 100% referring to my home state as "the coastal province of New Jersey" from now on.

Alex P Roe May 13

@Motorod How far away are “summary executions”? #authoritarianism #trumpcrash

Josje Toorop May 13

@Motorod That might be because the US is a failed state and a failed society and a failed culture. Even the most critical voices (podcasts) need Amazon and Shopify commercials as a business model.

Violet Madder May 13

@JosjeT @Motorod

And there you have it.

@JosjeT @Motorod the US has one of the most robust set of civic controls and safeguards to ensure democracy is maintained. And yet American society is joyfully stripping them away, just to "own the libs".

Robin Adams May 13

@Motorod Don't forget to call the US an "oil-rich former British colony"

Ross of Ottawa May 13

@Motorod bingo! Kenyan journalist who follows this approach:

https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2021/03/23/ethnic-massacres-in-us-as-mother-of-two-pm-faces-criminal-probe-in-norway/

Ethnic Massacres in US as Mother of Two PM Faces Criminal Probe in Norway - The Elephant

International concern is growing following yet another wave of ethnic killings in the troubled, banana-exporting US republic. On Monday, a gunman said to be of Midwestern appearance killed 10 people at a supermarket in the white tribal heartland of Colorado, where mass shootings have become part of the traditional culture. This happened less than a

The Elephant - African analysis, opinion and investigation

Mandy Mac May 13

@Motorod That was brilliant