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PSA: in the northern hemisphere, there's currently a massive oversupply of potatoes, to the point where mutual aid groups are diverting literal truckloads from going to landfills, and giving them away to anyone who wants them. The one in Denver is tomorrow morning (July 27th) and they have 21 tons to give away. Other cities have similar arrangements.

https://denverite.com/2026/07/24/denver-potato-palooza-giveaway-we-dont-waste/

#Denver #Colorado #MutualAid #FoodAid

@eff @CoinDesk

parents and other advocates of keeping kids off of social media: monkey see/monkey do is how kids learn to be appropriately human

"Oh, you're really cute, aren't you..."
*head tilt angle increases*
"Oh my GOD"

#Cats #TripleCat

Look at him. The littlest sir! He's just like this!

#Cats

"Water autonomously found faults in the dam structure and successfully exploited them to break containment!"

"Why does everything feel so joyless?"

*bzzt*

Nazis and fascism ruin everything. Literally everything. Next question.

@csolisr I was convinced they were buttons as well, then noticed that some had 5 or 6 "holes" and did a double take. I still can't unsee the buttons, though.

🇧🇷 Brazil recalls ambassador after Argentina's President Milei insults officials | AP News

"Milei accused Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of being a “thief” and a “delinquent,” among other things. Milei also accused Supreme Federal Court Minister Alexandre de Moraes of being “trash” after he denied the Argentine president a visit to Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest serving a 27-year sentence over a coup attempt"

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-ambassador-milei-argentina-bolsonaro-43f2f81a3f51ccb35d5b143ae59ba756

#brazil #milei #bolsonaro

There's a big push in Dem circles demanding records of communications between the #TrumpCrimeFamily and family friend (and groomer rapist) Andrew Tate. Wish they had that energy to prosecute traffickers and rapists in the #EpsteinFiles.

@lowqualityfacts quantum wave function collapse: It isn't what it is until you measure it

Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this "It Is What It Is & It's Not Great" T-shirt. I wish that just once it was what it wasn't. I'm so sick of it being what it is. Why can't it be what it ain't?
https://collabs.shop/lfq0d9

Will Bunch:

"I elected to write about this, because it is alarming how numb the U.S. body politic has become to violence, especially the kind perpetrated by our warrior cops, in the years since the last echoes of the Floyd protests faded out."

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/corey-ruiz-police-killing-madison-20260726.html
https://bsky.app/profile/willbunch.bsky.social/post/3mrkyzzgswc24
#UsPol
1/n

@nileane @biros ces violences existent, sisi vraiment, on insiste!

Stop trying to build for "the algorithm."

Stop trying to scale to a million faceless users.

If you want to make something people actually give a shit about, shrink your target audience to a single person you know.

5 rules for creating work that leaves a mark:
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-make-something-people-actually

The suspect in Saturday's deadly van attack on Berlin's LGBTQ pride event has been shot dead during a police operation in the German capital. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/27/world/crime-legal/berlin-pride-attack-manhunt/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #berlin #germany #lgbtq #murder #terrorism

Why in the world would the White House's mobile app need permissions or any kind of interaction with (or even reference to) the Chinese tech giant Huawei, whose products are banned from the United States for concerns about national security, espionage and intellectual property theft? Here's a scan at Virustotal.com of what's bundled in the latest White House app:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/a98f49eb467bdbe4c32c55cc155a85eadc2b7806fad72cd6e06de25d51a0eac7/details

It's here! The first new full-length Criminally Shy album in over a decade!

it's definitely the most diverse sounding CS album i've done so far. a few tracks are heavily influenced by darkwave and early EBM. others are more chaotic with an influence from drill'n'bass/IDM/breakcore. there's a downtempo acid chillout song. there's ironic and funny samples. and more!

From the Bandcamp description:
"It's kind of a concept album, but also not really. A lot of the songs are a reflection of the current times in both the United States and the world (as in "morally corrupt"). Other songs have parts that were intentionally treated in a way to reflect the concept of the sound literally being corrupted. While overall the album is darker than previous releases, there's also a lot of tongue cheek humor here."

https://anidealforliving.bandcamp.com/album/songs-from-a-corrupted-reality

#NewMusic #ElectronicMusic

The fire in France is a couple miles from Bordeaux. It's not under control even with a bit lower temps and a little water from the sky... not enough.
This is getting really concerning.

@1996ny

A regular feature on our Instagram. PK the Spirit mascot was playing with her at our table earlier