20 years ago, normal people avoided technology and techies would jump on the newest gadgets as soon as they could

now, normal people buy smart toasters & coffee mugs while every techie I know is on the verge of retreating to the forest

If you want to go down a rabbit hole, here is a list of houses built purely out of spite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spite_house

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Alameda spite house at Broadway & Crist St, Alameda, California. It is on the corner of a lot and is long and very narrow, and looks like it's blocking the view from the side of the house next to it which is extremely close to it. It's light green and has 2 stories with many sizes of different windows.

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"The Skinny House in Boston, Massachusetts, was reputedly built by a man who inherited only a small patch of land, to spite his neighbor by blocking his view." It is an extremely narrow 4 story dwelling crammed in between 2 larger buildings

I don’t care how bad you think you are at HTML (and CSS). A website that you wrote the HTML yourself is infinitely better than any template-based website you pulled from somewhere else.

If you think it’s going to be too much work, I promise you, fiddling with a template-based solution is going to—somehow—be more work, especially to maintain as the framework, template, or font changes without you knowing.

Write it yourself. One of my all-time favorite websites is this: https://vitalesbakery.com

I still think it’s backwards that every mass shooter owning an AR-15 is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.

Lolsob

After massive shrimp recalls, the FDA finds radioactive contamination in spices too - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/after-massive-shrimp-recalls-fda-finds-radioactive-contamination-125977394

#radioactivity #spices

Government services are necessary services offered to citizens. They shouldn't have to be profitable to survive.

(Can be applied to multiple organisations)

Mount Rushmore ... as(s) seen from Canada

#lego #netzfund

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as Bild zeigt eine Lego-Darstellung von Mount Rushmore, mit einer humorvollen Variation. Im Vordergrund befindet sich eine grüne, steinige Landschaft mit mehreren Lego-Figuren, die als Hüften und Beine dargestellt sind, anstatt der tatsächlichen Porträts der Präsidenten. Diese Figuren sind in einer Reihe angeordnet und sitzen auf einem felsigen Hügel. Kleine grüne Bäume sind um die Figur gruppiert. Vor der Darstellung steht ein Schild mit der Aufschrift "MOUNT RUSHMORE (CANADIAN SIDE)". Die Hintergrundumgebung ist einigermaßen unscharf, mit einem professionellen Umfeld, das auf eine Ausstellung oder einen Workshop hinweist.

😆😆😆

#archaeohistories

Ditch DocuSign! Use DocuSeal. It is a free, open source secure, and efficient tool to handle all your documents. Simply create PDF forms that anyone can fill and sign online using easy, mobile optimized tool and much more. Give it a try https://github.com/docusealco/docuseal

City sends cease-and-desist after Flock reinstalls license plate cameras

The city sent a cease-and-desist to the company Tuesday and said ‘Flock reinstalled the cameras without the city’s permission’

September 24th, 2025

https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/09/24/flock-safety-reinstalls-evanston-cameras/

#privacy #surveillance #bigbrother #fascism #alpr #flock

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I just learned what a Billabong is! (oxbow lake in Australia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billabong

#billabong

"Back to work today, forgot my pass so locked bike outside Cannon Street station. Left work at 6pm to find just the cut lock and no bike, resigned to never seeing my trusty stead again asked the station if they have cameras. A guy appeared waving at me, asked me to put the code into my cut lock. He replied ‘I have your bike’ with a smile I will never forget!! His name is Abdul Muneeb and he works for South Eastern Railways, he was on a break and saw a guy bolt cut the lock and challenged him to give it back, he then took it inside and waited 4 hours after his shift finished to personally make sure I got my bike back. The world needs more Abdul’s, he is a legend of a man and a credit to his employer."
Story Credit: Steve Farmer

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The picture is of a middle Eastern looking man smiling and holding a bike. In the foreground is a cut bike lock.

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI

😁 ✨

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"Be sure to bring up politics at Thanksgiving dinner. It's going to save you money on Christmas gifts. Follow me for more holiday tips."

Unicorns just leveled up.

HelloWorld salad:

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Photo of a food package branded Amazon Kitchen LOREM IPSUM DOLOR & CHEDDAR With lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, sed diam ek 3 nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt. PERISHABLE, KEEP REFRIGERATED

This has got to be one of the best. In Wales, UK, there is a legal requirement for road signs to be in both English and Welsh. So, in this case, the official of the Highways department emailed the English wording to the translator and, after receiving a reply, proceeded to have the sign made and installed.

Unfortunately, a few weeks later, Welsh-speaking drivers began to call up to point out that the Welsh reads..... "I am currently out of the office. Please submit any work to the translation team."

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The picture is of a road sign. The top part is in English and the bottom part in Welsh. The English part says, "No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only."

If you think that turning on Reduce Transparency will fix all the problems with Liquid Glass, you're wrong.

Here's a standard bar button item drawn with reduced transparency. It goes from being dark (the system setting) to light the first time you use it.

adding to the #antifa trend, this is a reminder that #PuertoRicans go hard when we bash the fash: it’s estimated 72,000 boricuas ―from La Isla and the states― joined the effort during #WWII.

sources:

The Puerto Rican Philly Experience · 1940-45:
72,000 Puerto Ricans Serve During WWII
https://omeka.hsp.org/s/puertoricanphillyexperience/page/puertoricansinww2

Puerto Ricans in World War II: The #Borinqueneers | Smithsonian
https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/puerto-ricans-in-world-war-ii-the-borinqueneers/bBdUXA2ZGpYgF05u

65th Infantry - Suggested Readings
https://history.army.mil/Research/Reference-Topics/Hispanic-Americans-in-the-US-Army/65th-Infantry-Suggested-Readings/

🧵…

#antifascism #PuertoRico

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meme i created with an image of a group of men in WW2 USA Army fatigues, posing for the camera. they are members of the all Puerto Rican, Spanish-speaking 65th Infantry Regiment. Puerto Ricans who knew English usually fought in English speaking regiments, usually segregated by race. the text of the meme: BORIQUENEERS The 65th Infantry Regiment was the famed all-Puerto Rican antifa brown block; that fought nazis and sundry fascists during World War II. more than 65,000 boricuas, from La Isla and the states, appear in the USMil personnel database; but some estimates say close to 72,000 Puerto Ricans hated fascism so much, they went to war to bash the fash.

Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls
to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man,
in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting”.

The man noticed that posts encouraging him to “get Threads”,
Mark Zuckerberg’s rival to Elon Musk’s X,
were being dropped into his Instagram feed
❌ featuring embedded posts of uniformed girls as young as 13 with their faces visible and, in most cases, their names.

The children’s images were used by Meta after their parents had posted them on Instagram to mark their return to school.
⚠️The parents were unaware that Meta’s settings permitted it to do this.
🔥One mother said her account was set to private -- but the posts were automatically cross-posting to Threads where they were visible.
Another said she posted the picture to a public Instagram account.
💥The posts of their children were highlighted to the stranger as “suggested threads"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20/parents-outraged-meta-uses-photos-schoolgirls-ads-man?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Hello fediverse! We are Cambridge Community Kitchen, a mutual aid project based in a squatted pub in central Cambridge, UK.

We cook around 300 hot vegan meals every Thursday and every Sunday, 52 weeks of the year, and we deliver to literally anybody who asks, for free, across the city.

Nobody owns CCK. We have no managers. Nobody has a job title, or decision making power over any part of the operation. And it Works™.

#introduction #introductionpost #Cambridge #mutualaid #solidaritynotcharity

I don't understand how vscode, a program whose entire job is "efficiently edit text", can get copy-paste so horribly wrong.

However, if the accessibility option to "Reduce Transparency" is not enabled, the text remains white when scrolling.

Tomorrow is iPhone day and @atpfm did not go through it this time. For the sake of me, @caseyliss (who always seems to choose the "wrong" method), and all of ATP listeners, what's the current recommendation for setting up the new phone? iCloud, phone-to-phone, local backup, new device with icloud sync? Help me @siracusa and @marcoarment

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

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Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue) West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)

#Jokes #Humour #Humor

A lost dog wanders into the jungle. A lion spots him from a distance and thinks, “Huh… never seen one of these before. Looks edible.

The lion starts charging. The dog freaks out until he notices some bones nearby. Thinking fast, he blurts out:
“Mmm… that was some tasty lion meat!”

The lion slams the brakes: “Wait… this little dude eats lions?! Nope, I’m out.”

But high up in a tree, a monkey saw the whole thing. He scampers over to the lion and spills the truth, hoping to score points. The lion growls: “Hop on my back. We’ll get him together.”

They storm back toward the dog. The dog sees them coming, panics harder… then yells:
“Where the hell is that monkey? I told him to bring me another lion an hour ago!

Australia is a slightly less alarming mash of imperial and metric measurements (how is height in one and weight in the other???) but despite converting between the two systems my entire life I am still not sure what unit to order food at the grocery counter in, or how much is a reasonable amount.

#Guns #Choice #Women #alt #Opinions #2ndammendment

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“If you don’t own a gun, you can’t have an opinion on the Second Amendment.” Cool take! Now do uteruses.

Something BDSM also taught me is that religious experiences aren’t about Sky Daddies, they’re about ritual and people unified in the ritual. So like the whole singing hymns and shit is just How Concerts Be When You’re Into Them and not the Divine Breeze cupping your balls or whatever.

How to prevent your bag from being stolen.

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A human with what looks like their belly sticky out. A selection of fanny packs that look like bellies.

Bill Whitehead

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Cartoon of two dinosaurs laying happily on their backs on a grassy hillside, with clouds in the background. One points at the sky and says, "That one looks like a giant asteroid." A shadow over them suggests that it actually is a giant asteroid.

Little known fact, but all phones have a little speaker at the top that you can hold to your ear. It means you can have a private conversation without the whole world listening to it

The igniter for the broiler in our Samsung range has apparently just died. I replaced the oven igniter a few years ago.

At least Defense is no longer spelled incorrectly

(But if you want lightweight, Sumatra on Windows, and Zathura/MuPDF for *nix, and I think the latter can do Mac, too.)

(Looking for Zathura on macOS brought out Skim, which I had completely forgotten about: https://sourceforge.net/projects/skim-app/ )

#3138 - Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure

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Single-panel comic titled “Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure.” Top left text: “Dimensional lumber sizes are tricky. A ‘2x4’ is actually 1½" by 3½", and a ‘1x8’ is ¾" by 7⅞".” To the right, a lumber labeled “2x4” with dimension arrows: vertical '1½"' and horizontal '3½"'. Below left, two yellow tape measures: the first labeled “12'”; the second labeled “12'*”. To the right of them, text: “If you know someone into carpentry or woodworking, get them our dimensional lumber tape measure.” Middle: a long yellow tape labeled “Normal tape measure” showing inches 1 through 9 with tick marks. Below it, another long yellow tape labeled “Dimensional lumber tape measure” showing inches 1 through 10 with tick marks that are slight more narrow than those of the “normal tape measure”. Bottom caption: “Don’t tell them you got it — just leave it in their toolbox. They’ll appreciate the surprise when all their measurements work out!” Hidden text: "A person with two watches is never sure what time it is, especially if I got them one of the watches."

19 Episodes of Fractured Fairy Tales, From the Moose and Squirrel Show

https://youtu.be/pEHUMV0HjBM

#fandom #cartoon #tv #amusing

"A man on the streets in the UK is asked about "the problem of inmigration" and dismantled talking points with ease"
I'm in love 😍✊️
#uklabourgovernmentimmigration #UKElitesucks

What's the least offensive VPN provider that will let me connect via standard wireguard and provides exit IPs in Ireland?

“VA hospitals are clamoring for some way of preventing any gun violence, which is a very real concern,” and to “just throw technology at it is a shame” that has little to do with actual science, EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told Military Times.
https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2025/09/04/va-hospitals-pay-for-ai-weapons-scanners-testers-say-are-error-prone/

Autopsies are rare when the goal is general medical insight about the causes of stillbirth and pregnancy loss more generally, but they are seemingly routine when criminal consequences are possible, according to legal scholar.

https://buff.ly/llFGzJK.

Got three jabs today. Latest COVID, Flu and Hep B.

We also seem to have a Bed Pug problem

Do people actually go to the pharmacy drive thru to wait for them to fill the Rx? Why is there always someone who takes 15 mins

Red crosses on street furniture converted to resemble battenburg cakes (sweet sponge cakes popular in the UK, made with two yellow and two pink quarters, all covered in marzipan).

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Street furniture on British roads which had been adorned with "patriotic" red crosses, since refined with yellow and pink additions.

Need.

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FB post from a page called 'Français avec Bend'. A picture of a stone gatepost. On it, a sign with a mousetrap glued to it. Written on the sign: "Nous n'avons pas de sonnette, mais appuyez ici [arrow pointing to the mousetrap]. Nous vous entendrons." ["We don't have a doorbell, but press here. We will hear you."]

👀

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent charged with terroristic threatening in Kapolei

"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Honolulu police responded to a report of a woman allegedly being threatened by a man on Monday morning in Kapolei.

At around 10 a.m., officers responded to the residence where the 33-year-old woman reported being threatened.

According to the Honolulu Police Department, the 42-year-old suspect allegedly brandished the butt of a firearm during the incident.

When officers arrived on scene, he reportedly identified himself and presented his credentials as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent...."

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/09/02/us-customs-border-protection-agent-arrested-terroristic-threatening-kapolei/

#fascism #ice #cbp #crime