Made for reasons i'm not going into...

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A small stool, in a sample test tube, with a blue top, held in my hand.

Today is the day the Black Panthers were founded. As a disabled person, I'm going to remember how the coalition they built with Disabled people and their support during the 504 protests are the reason we even have the ADA today.

As a gay person, I'm going to remember how Huey Newton gave speeches to defend gay rights and how the Black Panther movement literally changed minds during the civil rights movement on how gay people were perceived.

And I'm going to think of the Black Panthers who NEVER CAME HOME to fight that fight for us and thank every power I know they made that sacrifice.

https://jacobin.com/2025/10/black-panthers-oneal-tanzania-legacy

#History #Disability #BlackHistory #BlackPanthers #Queer #Trans #LGBTQ

My spouse and I now have an interesting experiment going: which enhances your 5G reception more, getting a Covid shot and a flu shot in the same arm on the same day, or getting one in each arm? Confounding factors: we have different length arms, and I'm not sure which is a better match for 5G wavelengths. Also, I use a computer a lot more, which means that the extra microchips I've just been injected with will help me a lot more.

I’m looking through my Macintosh user guide (the booklet that accompanied my 1984 Macintosh) for the first time in a while, and I’m a little obsessed with this graphic explaining scrolling.

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A page from the “Learning Macintosh” chapter of the Macintosh user guide. It says “Most of the time, a window on the desktop can't show you the entire directory or document all at once, even when you've made the window very large. There's often more information than can fit in the window at one time.” With a MacPaint-generated papyrus scroll featuring a square demonstrating the visible content.

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*Assortment of configurations of a half-filled water glass* Optipolygrafixs) half-full Pessimist: (it’s) half-emply Realist: it’s a glass of water. Physicist: (water) liquid, (void) gas Surrealist: *the water is split vertically* Relativist: It's both half-empty & half-full Utopist: *the half-glass of water is split with the water on-top* Skepticist: It's not water Artist: *stir water with paintbrush* via: polygrafix

tupperware

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pie chart of time spent using Tupperware: there's a small blue slice labeled storing fresh food. 20% or so is green and says storing rotten food. and the rest is red and it says searching for the right fucking lid. 

We’re getting to the point where as a tech company all you have to do is not be fascist or actively sabotage your own product with AI bullshit. You don’t even have to be good, you just have to not actively be bad

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".

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 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

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

(Although it should be noted, the ICEBlock app is not quite the great equalizer it has been advertised as being. Further, that particular app has not been specifically shown to factor into the DHS claims of doxxing.

Also, we all knew this time was coming, so make sure that those of you who have the app don't delete it, because Apple is not removing it from your phones if you have it already installed.)

#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

Although, previously CNN used to be rather impartial and middle-of-the-road with their commentary, they are leaning more partisanly right. (Perhaps they are following the other mega-broadcaster playbook of bootlicking to secure favorable approval terms future mega-mergers.)

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

@ai6yr

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Mechanic - hourly rates. Call it flexible pricing.

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?"

@amberage @JellyTBeagle

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Screenshot of a tweet by @PPathole Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech wqorkers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.

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.

@stephanie The city government in Albequerque, New Mexico elected to make the city's bus system free after doing the math and realizing that they would actually *save* money by dropping all of the financial management they had to do to charge people for it.

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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"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

Unicorns just leveled up.

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."

BTW could point out that English-speaking Afroboricuas fought side-by-side with African Americans in their regiments during World War 2. or i could default to lauding the Air Force’s all-Black Tuskeegee Air Men.

why do so when i can talk about an AIR WOMAN who became one of the most successful spies for France, UK & USA whilst still working as, for all intents and purposes of burlesque and cabaret, the most famous stripper in the world?

this post is about the #antifa AF, Josephine Baker

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1920s burlesque goddess and fashion icon, Josephine Baker, posing in a silk strapless dress with a gold chain & pearls necklace, 5-string pearl wrist cuff and chandelier earrings. her hair is in the Eaton haircut style and she has deep kohl eyeliner and dark lips makeup typical of the vamp style (some call it the flapper style these days)

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

vi FTW

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