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#Ukraine’s clandestine book club defies #Russia’s push to rewrite history - theguardian.com/world/2025/mar… "Risking discovery and even prison, teenage readers meet in secret to discuss texts that Putin’s troops are trying to erase" important stuff



Sanders, AOC Draw Biggest Crowd of Their Careers at Rally to Fight 'Oligarchy' in Denver

34,000 people attended the rally in Denver’s Civic Center Park

#uspol

commondreams.org/news/sanders-…

in reply to Tony Arcieri🌹🦀

It's America, ANGH.

GOP darling Ramasmarmy was right when he noted that Americans are all fat and lazy couch potatoes, like the orange filth.



Yet another #recall

“Nearly 30,000 pounds of ready-to-eat beef sticks were recalled on Thursday after consumers complained that they had found metal fragments in them, food safety and company officials said.”
🎁 nytimes.com/2025/03/22/us/chom…



Some FosseryWeb updates:
- card images got border to separate them visually from page background
- card images are added back on Games page
- username generator, password generator, and CSS code minifier are now listed on a separate Utilities page

fosseryweb.codeberg.page/

Also worth looking to the beta branch 😉

fosseryweb.codeberg.page/@beta…

Btw, when optimizing the newly added images, I just realized how convenient is using Switcheroo. It can change file format, image size and quality at once. Previously I used Curtail, but if the image size was too big, I had to resize it separately, otherwise the compression was pointless. Switcheroo is op lol

#Website #WebDev #WebDevelopment #FOSS #OpenSource #FosseryTech #FosseryWeb




For anyone that wants to know how to make good rips of DVDs and Blu-Rays, for either preservation and archiving purposes or for adding to your own streaming server, NAS, or whatnot, I wrote up a handy guide on how to work with Handbrake and MakeMKV to get those rips!

wiki.hackmanhattan.com/How_to_…

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Paging the Fediverse! I've been out of work since the middle of 2024 and would like to change that 😀

I'm a software engineer of more than 25 years' experience. Most recently, I have been doing back end work using TypeScript, Ruby, and Java. I've worked at an ISP, at a national broadcaster, a high-volume web SaaS provider, and a medtech startup; I've led teams, been a tech lead, and been an at-the-coalface coder.

Do you know of somewhere that could use my experience? I'm a British citizen living in Denmark, and I'd strongly prefer not to have to move. Yet.

rachelevans.org/cv

Can you help me get #FediHired? Boost please, etc. Thank you 😀

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in reply to G. Gibson

@mistergibson I would, but their contact page has git merge conflicts, and their careers page URL is apparently localhost:1313/careers/ , so ... yeah, there's that.

On the one hand: gosh, they could use some help. On the other: they're not making it easy!



!! BOOST THIS PLEASE !!

opening semi-emergency commissions for minimal-color headshots like in the examples

ive been having spending problems and while i now got a job, it will not get my finances back to a safe level and i'd like to earn more on the side

you can get a headshot of you, your character (or a gift for someone else) for just 10 EUR!! (PWYW available if you feel like i deserve extra; paid via ko-fi, but if i know you i can send a tikkie instead)

i do both furries and anthros, but i will not work with mecha/heavy armor or hypercomplex designs with a lot of details

head here to order: ko-fi.com/c/a5a5665fac or DM me if you are interested

donations are also welcome if you dont feel like getting a drawing

#art#digitalArt#furryArt#furry#fursona#fanart#cat#commissions#commissionsOpen#artCommissions



PS: If you happened to like this track, I found it flows very smoothly into this other, microtonal, more energetic track also in PureData¹ youtube.com/watch?v=d4t5B6nPQG…

( Re: mastodon.social/@mcc/114207632… )

¹ an earlier version of this post misidentified these two tracks as by the same artist. uh, the names are just similar. oops

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this is the dang truth

alt text written by @belehaa (thank you!)



Not sure at what point this becomes excessive but

m.youtube.com/watch?v=bD6sTDH9…

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtbiuq5K…



Recently Hood River’s #DoubleMountainBrewery announced its two newest releases in #beer and #cider, and I received a bottle of each: ClusterF#ck IPA, in the brewery’s From the Vault series, and Zora Hard Cider, a new addition to its seasonal ciders for 2025.

More: thebrewsite.com/received-doubl…

#CraftBeer #BeerReleases #BeerNews #CiderReleases #CiderNews



Is your weekend reading list feeling light? Team Big Picture can help. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/
in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

Our wins of the week, I would have preferred them to be somewhat more than just a couple of "legal smackdowns", which, as we understood a while ago already, the degenerates are completely free to ignore entirely.
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in reply to Emily Velasco

@MLE_online What I like about that one is it's gonna force my friend doing the printing to figure out some clever hack to print 7 colors on a 6 color press.




Canada Makes Washington 11th Province: theneedling.com/2025/01/23/can…


Fascism defined - Tommy Douglas

"Let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt - it may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege."
#fascism #USA #Canada #cdnpoli

in reply to Joe Carr 🇨🇦

Have you checked out Workers Strike Back? They are organizing a new Worker's Party with the slogan "No more sellouts!" I'm quite fond of them.


Le pillage de la création humaine

« Avons-nous appris des erreurs du passé qui ont permis aux géants de la technologie de dominer nos vies en devenant les plus riches du monde ? Allons-nous enfin comprendre ce que signifie leur philosophie prônant de « bouger vite et briser les choses » pour s’imposer, alors que nous subissons déjà leurs dégâts ? »

Chantal Guy — Arts
lapresse.ca/arts/chroniques/20…



Dear Lazyweb,

Our beloved Ribley has suffered some major head injuries over the years, and so I'd like to replace the skull. Where can I get one?

Home Depot sells a replacement "scary skull" but that one sucks, I want the original. eBay has plenty of people parting out their skeletons, and while you can get femurs and rib cages, I haven't been able to find a head. (I believe "servo skull" is not compatible.)

jwz.org/b/ykk0

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in reply to Low Quality Facts

True story: a family member was reading “Of Mice and Men” in southern France when someone approached them and said “Ah. I also love Steinbeck. Have you read ‘The Angry Raisins?’”
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Avant Musk, les idées de grandeur de son grand-père au Canada

« Bien avant la naissance d’Elon Musk, son grand-père maternel, Joshua Norman Haldeman, a milité dans l’Ouest canadien au sein d’une organisation accusée de vouloir remplacer le gouvernement fédéral – par la force – par un régime technocratique d’ingénieurs non élus. »

Actualités
lapresse.ca/actualites/2025-03…



GUERRE COMMERCIALE
Des importateurs se détournent des États-Unis

« Nombreux sont les consommateurs qui inspectent désormais les brocolis ou les oranges à la recherche de l’autocollant indiquant leur pays d’origine, pour finalement les remettre à leur place s’ils viennent des États-Unis. Face à ce boycottage, les détaillants demandent à leurs fournisseurs de trouver de nouvelles sources d’approvisionnement. Habitués à devoir trouver des s…

Nathaëlle Morissette — Affaires
lapresse.ca/affaires/economie/…





The enterprise formerly known as Twitter is now understood by all to be in the service of right-wing authoritarianism in the United States and around the globe.

There is an uprising against Tesla, which is just a car company. Where is the uprising against X? How can any nonmalicious nonprofit or state or city organization continue to use it for its messaging? Or anyone else.

Rise up!

politico.eu/article/musks-x-su…

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"Dissenting crowds in deep-red #Wyoming should be a warning signal to #Republicans"
newrepublic.com/post/192980/re…

Here begins the 12th Elon Musk thread.

List of links to previous threads:
newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/11398694…

#Resist #Resistance #ElonMusk #Musk #Doge #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #News #USNews #US #USA #Press

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Judge Rips Elon Musk’s DOGE for Seizing Americans’ Personal Data

A federal judge has blocked DOGE from getting even more access to #Americans’ sensitive personal #data.
newrepublic.com/post/193084/ju…

"Judge Deborah Boardman... ruled that Elon Musk’s #DOGE has no legal right to the personal #information of American citizens held at the Dept of #Education, the Office of Personnel Management, and the #Treasury Dept...

referred to the Privacy Act of 1974"

#Musk #Coup #Trump #GOP #USPol #News #USA #US

in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️

DOGE’s Supposed Savings Are About to Cost the US a Lot of Money

The IRS is bracing for a huge hit to its revenue thanks to Elon Musk’s cuts.
newrepublic.com/post/193093/ir…

" #DOGE directed staff cuts at the agency have sparked fears that #US tax revenue could plummet by 10%, or $500 billion...

Last year, the #IRS collected $5.1 trillion, w/ $825 billion going to the #Defense Dept. Such a massive loss would hobble #government services or increase the national deficit"

#Musk #Trump #USPol #News #USA



Taxpayer💰s: abused, as #DOGE makes the fed govt almost comically inefficient.

*IRS: WKRs spend Mondays queued up at shared computers to submit mandated “5 things I did last week” emails. Taxpayer customer service calls go unanswered

*BLM: fed surveyors -no longer permitted to buy replacement EQP -work stops as WKRs track down a mgr…

*FDA: l’ship CXL the sub to LexisNexis -insufficient parking & TP

Civil servants rotate thru panic, rage…
#Musk #Firings #Fascism #USPol
washingtonpost.com/opinions/20…

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in reply to wakest ⁂

first we will make some fediverse hand-made t-shirts for ourselves this summer in Murcia. If the community likes the designs maybe we can use them to promote this cool way of funding.
in reply to ⁂ Kyva

two of the shirts I have started out as hand made designs from vinyl cut, I have some ideas for some more…


Washington ("Hinckley") Hilton Hotel, Washington, DC, 2023.

All the pixels, none of the hard-to-get-a-ticket-for conferences, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53…

#photography

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This is a fairly conventional architectural composition, emphasizing the curved facade. To get a high resolution capture of the wide structure, this was made as a stitched composite of two captures with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens. The Phase One back was shifted left and right by about 12mm.

By using shift movements at a fixed perspective, the two captures can be stitched directly together into a panorama without needing to transform the frame geometry (as you would with panning).

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The result here is about 170MP in 16x9 format, which is sufficient for very large prints that retain a great deal of detail (I've printed this at 6 feet wide).

Mid-Century Modernist architecture, and Brutalism in particular, is easy to dismiss as being superficially lifeless and uninteresting, but at its best (and with the right eye) these buildings can be seen as sculptures in the landscape. I don't always appreciate them, but they're often more interesting than they first seem.

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The Washington Hilton, completed 1965, was designed by architect William Tabler. It's notable not only for its distinctive exterior, but also for the prominent events hosted there. The hotel is or has been home to the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, the National Prayer Breakfast, the Shmoocon conference, and the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, among many other things.

It has extensive back-of-house facilities and security features to accommodate high profile VIPs.

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do you have a service you recommend for the larger prints? I’ve had mixed success locally.
in reply to mhoye (temporarily spooky)

@mhoye I wish I did. Best suggestion is to find a local shop that will tolerate you wanting to proof things and that has a a decent selection of paper stocks.

I ended up buying a giganto Canon printer, which is not for the faint of heart.

in reply to Matt Blaze

yeah, that is not an option I can reasonably pursue. Thank you though.
in reply to mhoye (temporarily spooky)

@mhoye It's also much easier to find a good local shop if you're in a city with any kind of graphics/arts/publishing community.
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Matt Blaze
@CStamp I've not. I might at some point.


Well, it makes a nice change from "The Fediverse Chick", eh?
in reply to Terence Eden

Wait, one of them had A follower... That's not normal.

Did you block that follower too ?

in reply to Extreme Electronics

@Extelec I accidentally followed back on one of theee, reaching for the […] menu for report & block and my horror upon seeing "Mutuals" on there was indescribable.

(it wasn't this particular account though, so that one follower wasn't, however briefly, me)





My phlox, my phlox, my lovely little phlox.

Check it out.
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Anyone have any info about hacking/reusing the electronics in a Vozal Vape? Found on the ground and it has quite a nice display and USB-C charging
#hardwarehacking


Back on my bullshit
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Trump has already been enjoined by courts in his second term more than Biden was in his entire term. It’s not the courts. It’s the illegality.
in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

the question that would probably really showcase how crazy the Don is: how many did Bush get before Obama? 20? Maybe? I bet it wasn't that many, even though he was awful, he wasn't a mafia kingpin
in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

why isn't he smiling in his new picture? Should you trust a president who won't smile for his portrait? It's not normal, and weird.