Inside of you are two wolves and now you're questioning the life choices that lead to you agreeing to shoot this Teen Wolf parody porn in the first place.

I laughed

"If you allow politicians to violate your rights in times of crisis, they will create crises to violate your rights".

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Une photo de pancarte de manif. La pancarte dit : " Si vous permettez aux politiciens de violer vos droits en temps de crise, ils créeront des crises pour violer vos droits".

#Meme #Humour

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A meme with the title "My bucket list:". Below the text is a numbered list from one to five. Next to each number is a picture of a different type of bucket, making a literal pun on the term "bucket list."

there's a high correlation between having gay sex and writing good software; so my number 1 tip to people aspiring to write good software would be: have more gay sex

This morning, someone launched into a technical explanation of a computer component for my benefit, without even bothering to check if I might know a thing or two. Initially, I just listened, but then I had to step in to correct a slight inaccuracy - one that could have actually caused problems.
I was promptly verbally assaulted and told that ignorant people should remain silent and listen instead of talking back. I politely retorted that, in principle, they were right, but that the specific thing they'd just said was incorrect and could mislead the others listening.
Nope. They doubled down, told me to be quiet or leave, since I was so determined to "remain in my ignorance".

In the end, I just fell silent and let it go. I now pretend to believe that SSD and NVMe drives have tiny, high-speed rotating platters inside - miniature ones, of course - that spin so fast that if the power is cut, their momentum keeps them going long enough to finish writing the data, preventing any loss. It all makes perfect sense now.

#IT

This was not on my bingo card for this year...QAnon Shaman sues Trump for $40 trillion and declares himself the rightful President of the United States https://boingboing.net/2025/10/03/qanon-shaman-sues-trump-for-40-trillion-and-declares-himself-the-rightful-president-of-the-united-states.html

The financial press is starting to ask fifth grade level questions. It’s a miracle!

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Nvidia's $roo billion OpenAl investment raises eyebrows and a key question: How much of the Al boom is just Nvidia's cash being recycled? Fortune magazine. By Jeremy Kahn / Sep 28, 2025 / 7:00 AM

Trump’s shutdown threatens healthcare for 22 million, his speech to military leaders raises alarms, and ICE’s massive Chicago raid sweeps up U.S. citizens, including children. This week in the news: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/october-3-weekly-news-roundup

Office 365 is finally catching up with the glassy icons Macs had a quarter century ago.

The canceling of ICEBlock is more evidence, were any needed, that the Web is the platform of the future, the only platform without a controlling vendor. Anything controversial should be available through a pure browser interface.

#USpolitics

Apple bends to Trump admin demand to remove ICE-tracking apps like ICEBlock
Apple nixes tracking apps after Trump admin claimed they put ICE agents at risk.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/apple-bends-to-trump-admin-demand-to-remove-ice-tracking-apps-like-iceblock/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#RFKJr fires top #NIH scientist weeks after she files #whistleblower complaint

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo’s complaint reportedly involved the Trump admin’s #hostility toward #vaccines

The US *#health* secretary, RFKJr, has fired a top scientist at the National Institutes of #Health (NIH) just 3 weeks after she had filed a whistleblower complaint against the Trump admin relating to its hostility towards vaccines, according to a report.

#science #medicine #OrchestratedShutdown
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/rfk-jr-jeanne-marrazzo-nih-fired

HBO Max subscribers lose access to CNN livestream on November 17
WBD is banking on people paying for a dedicated CNN streaming service.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/hbo-max-subscribers-lose-access-to-cnn-livestream-on-november-17/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Video Clip: Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) | Shutdown Comes Down To The Price Americans Have To Pay For Their Healthcare | 0:50

https://youtu.be/JfGOP63vLFs?si=BPcGpNqD3e4X5XgA

"In my state, premiums are going to go up by $475 a month. 109,000 people in the state of Arizona will potentially lose their health insurance. That's what all this is about."

@renewedresistance

Did he share a “wonderful secret” with Donald Trump as well?

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Photo of two X posts. The first post by Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski ) reads: "Trump’s former 'spiritual advisor.'" The second post by NBC News (@NBCNews ) states: "BREAKING: Former Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris pleads guilty to sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl in the 1980s and will serve 6 months in prison." The post includes a photo of Robert Morris and a link to nbcnews.com. Both posts feature profile pictures and verification badges.

That's nice. But how many coyotes did that mural kill?

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A woman paints in front of the wall she painted. It looks like an opening into a full street.

Hmm, apparently my brake system *was* sludgy, glad to have the local shop flush it (they said it might need more flushing, but they said I need to drive it around a bit more first to dislodge more of the crud). #sludge

What you think your brain is supposed to do versus what it actually does.

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A person is talking to their brain and saying “hello friend your job is to keep me happy“ the brain replies “nah, my job is to protect you from real and imagined threats.” that night the person lies in bed awake saying to themselves “I’m home it’s bedtime. I am totally safe” brain replies “OK but what if…”

So, this is what you meant, Arch Linux, right?

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An arch made of old CRT monitors.

Thinking of this classic* @smbccomics during Cybersecurity Awareness Month

*From 2012 (!?)

https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2526

#cybersecurity

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Top panel: Movie hacking... Man sitting at a PC says "If I can just overclock the unix django, I can basic the DDoS root. Damn. No Nice. But wait... if I disencrypt their kilobytes with a backdoor handshake then... jackpot" Bottom panel: Real hacking... Left: A man on the phone at a computer says "Hi, this is Robert Hackerman. I'm the county password inspector." Right: The man he's calling, who seems to be working in an office, responds "Hi bob! How can I help you today?"

Hmm, looking for the so-called war in Chicago and found measles at Aldi.

NBC: Shoppers at suburban Aldi warned of possible measles exposure

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/shoppers-at-suburban-aldi-warned-of-possible-measles-exposure/3832190/

#measles #Chicago

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 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.

@me_valentijn @ai6yr

so if cinnamon is full of lead, you can use it to shield the radioactive cloves... ;)

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

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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.

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

#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!