1/2 Very much enjoying the Bechdel Cast LIVE on the topic of the Star Wars prequels. Here is EVERY TIME WOMEN INTERACT in the Star Wars prequels (it’s 2.5 minutes long) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi-O0_OPQQ4 Live podcast recording […]

1/2 Very much enjoying the Bechdel Cast LIVE on the topic of the Star Wars prequels. Here is EVERY TIME WOMEN INTERACT in the Star Wars prequels (it’s 2.5 minutes long) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi-O0_OPQQ4 Live podcast recording […]

Jeff Geerling, the affable and adorkable raspberry pi guy, was a misogynistic forced-birth tradcath extremist from at least 2009 to 2013, and as far as I know, still is today. Do not link to him and do not support his work. This is a matter of record on his own website […]

We just celebrated Black Friday in memory of Rebecca Black who invented Friday back in 2011.

i hope this email finds you well

I see that one of the National Guard troops Trump stationed in DC has died after being shot yesterday. I was already feeling like the aftermath of the shootings was going to be very hard to bear, like the Charlie Kirk aftermath but worse. And now I feel real dread. But I know that we have to […]

Many of you might have already seen the ultra cute "sea sheep" (Costasiella kuroshimae), but yesterday I learned 2 mind-blowing facts about the family of sea slugs they belong to: 1. They incorporate chloroplasts (the organelles in plant cells that do the […] [Original post on berlin.social]

How to sing "Golden" by K-Pop Demon Hunters: 1. Realize immediately that the 3-octave range of the melody is beyond your own mere mortal singing ability. 2. ??? That’s . . . as far as I got. But if there's ever a need for a recording of a guy singing and playing piano who only dimly remembers […]

The year is 2025. Microsoft's default method of adding a teammate to a calendar event that you do not own is *forwarding it as an email* Below is actual footage of my multi-year battle to wrestle basic functionality out of the awful, awful software that is Outlook […] [Original post on todon.eu]

New, by me: Is your Android TV streaming box part of a botnet? "On the surface, the Superbox media streaming devices for sale at retailers like BestBuy and Walmart may seem like a steal: They offer unlimited access to more than 2,200 pay-per-view and […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

The year is 2025. Microsoft's default method of adding a teammate to a calendar event that you do not own is *forwarding it as an email* Below is actual footage of my multi-year battle to wrestle basic functionality out of the awful, awful software that is Outlook […] [Original post on todon.eu]

Me IRL today: "Through this pile of bureaucracy (I've thus far had to restate my original question 2x for no reason at all, and now receiving this generic copy-pasted email that does not reflect any of my correspondence thus far) I am no longer interested in my original request to adjust my FSA […]

what do you mean "minus eight commits since this release"

Own The Goal: NOT to be run over by a car! Believe The Goal: I will NOT be run over by a car! Write the Goal: dear diary: I was NOT run over by a car today!

Problem: You have your printer listed twice for some reason, only one of them works, and you can never remember which one Solution: Delete both and re-add the printer Results: You have three copies of your printer listed

Today, while flossing my 6-year-old's teeth, we spontaneously began playing a new game, "Siri". He would give me a deliberately nonsense command, like "Set a timer for Papa papa papa." And I would respond, as Siri does IRL for ~40% of my requests: "Sorry, could you say that again?" "I'm […]

Today, while flossing my 6-year-old's teeth, we spontaneously began playing a new game, "Siri". He would give me a deliberately nonsense command, like "Set a timer for Papa papa papa." And I would respond, as Siri does IRL for ~40% of my requests: "Sorry, could you say that again?" "I'm […]

This is pretty wild. Checkout.com got hacked by a group that claims to be Shiny Hunters again. Checkout said in blog post that it would not be extorted by criminals. "We will not pay this ransom. Instead, we are turning this attack into an investment in security for our entire industry. We […]

Fishcat vs. spear rat. Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390. Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 143, fol. 161v. #medieval #medievalart

Continuing their long tradition of being the most geometrically adventurous chocolate manufacturer, Toblerone have a range of enneahedral chocolates.

Every potter is a bit of a pyromaniac. As soon as the temperature drops below 60°F, it’s fire season. I have an entire body of work that I only make in the winter because I fire #pottery in my outdoor woodfire kiln. #Permaculture geeks will love this: I built […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I think about this guy sometimes. His name is Robert Smalls. He escaped from slavery, with his family and with his escaped-slave crew, stole a warship filled with weapons from under the confederate's noses, turned it over, with intelligence to the US Navy […] [Original post on mastodon.green]

last month, a friend of mine had a confrontation in #SomervilleMA with a violent driver who wanted to drive their vehicle into a protest. the driver ran over their bicycle and did their best to endanger the other people present who were standing in front of the vehicle. today, they've shared […]

Amazing 3D Art By Joe and Max (8 Photos) 👉 https://streetartutopia.com/2025/09/16/3d-art-by-joe-and-max/

Midtown, NYC, 2022. Unusually tall pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51893928686 #photography

This image plays with the boundaries between realism and more abstract schools like Precisionism and Cubism. While it's a realistic image in the strict sense that it's a straight, basically unaltered photograph of buildings, it deliberately omits elements that might distract from the abstract […]

This is an important, eloquent piece by @aphyr - worth a boost I’d say: https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago

Mud Maid — Sculpture by Sue Hill in Cornwall, UK: This moss-covered figure of a woman rests on the forest floor at The Lost Gardens of Heligan. Her face is sculpted from clay and softened by time, while her hair and body are formed from earth and living […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Do you wish you could Thanos Snap 🫰 half of the leaf blowers in the world out of existence? Me too! LEAVE THE LEAVES. 🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂 A silly thing just happened. Zoom just: 1. detected the sound of a neighbor's leaf blower 2. decided I was performing drone music 3. gave me a pop up, “Playing music? […]

@Nonilex Believe it or not, this pay package depends on Musk creating a robot army. No I’m not joking. ——- One of the pay package targets is for Tesla to sell a million robots. Tesla has been developing a humanoid robot called Optimus, designed to work in factories as well as homes. Musk […]

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973 Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum #retrocomputing

This was.. a brand new sentence. Also the most exciting thing to happen in Palo Alto #billionaires

Meta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥 "Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show" "Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates […]

[inside washing machine] duvet cover: climb in my brothers every single piece of clothing: we shall build a new life in the big sock Source: :birdsite: https://x.com/archiehench/status/1280095742774906881?lang=en #meme #humor #memes

Texas has harnessed its state police force to ICE, meaning Texas state troopers will now engage in racial profiling to stop and sesrch, arrest and detain. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-287g-ice-trump-abbott/ Stay away from Texas.

🚨 BABY ALERT 🚨 #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #puppy

Just attempted to make a purchase from AT&T with my VPN on by mistake. "For your security, we canceled your order. We couldn't confirm this order came from you." "We'll release any pending charges within 3 business days." MOTHERFUCKER CHECK YO SHIT BEFORE CHARGING MY CARD

Hey, do you remember that time when we lost the battle for net neutrality in the U.S.? WELP, the fuckfaces over at Spectrum, my ISP, just started throttling my instance. Unusable without a VPN; just comin’ in as a trickle Downloading example 8MB .mp4 from todon . eu via curl. With VPN: Speed […]

Yesterday, federal judge John McConnell of the district court of Rhode Island issued a an order requiring the Trump regime to fully fund November SNAP benefits by tomorrow or in the alternative, and assuming it can do so reasonably, to exercise its discretion to fund partially and do so by […]

Why we call it booting :blobcatgiggle:

👋 Hi @jesse ! My team at work is very excited and exploring your Claude Code Superpowers. Thanks for building them, and writing about 'em! https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/09/superpowers/ #claude #claudecode #dev

Reverse Trick Or Treating (aka the Greatest Halloween Costume Ever). https://docpop.org/2009/11/the-greatest-halloween-costume-ever/ #halloween

The goats would like you to know that they are not happy about their grass getting covered up by a bit of snow (even though it was getting kind of iffy from repeated frosts). The dogs, however, would like you to know that snow is the BEST and they are very happy.

A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com

Marques Brownlee has put up a video about a US$20,000 robot. The company behind it claims it can do a whole range of household tasks 'through the power of AI', and will be delivered next year. They even demonstrated a prototype to a journalist. And the entire demonstration was being remotely […]