Anonymous
I've begun to heavily invest in stocks..
beef, chicken, and vegetable.
One day, I hope to be a bouillonaire.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@shimon1024/115253040804945989
"AFAIK, Mastodon is the first global social networking service that displays Mongolian script posts vertically" https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/36405#issuecomment-3871161138
Quoting this post for testing, and screenshot for reference.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/116044581946862131
And of course, I'm already taking the first steps.
#PhanpySocialDev (local dev)
How important is gerrymandering? Very very important.
Spoze your state has 5 congressfolk. Spoze there are 16 million orange voters and 9 million purple voters. You might expect to return 3 orange & 2 purple congressfolk.
But if the districts are drawn carefully, gerrymandering can return *1* orange and *4* purple congressfolk.
And, so you're clear on this, it can go the other way, too. With careful drawing of the map, you can return *5* orange and *0* purple congressfolk. That's *also* gerrymandering.
Remember good old days, when news was only at 8 pm and 10 pm?
Trying to get back into it after being wrecked by the plague (I got covid and Im still coughing my lungs up :') )
Nane (they/them)
#MastoArt #artistsonmastodon #artist #CommissionsOpen #DigitalArt #queerartist #illustration #art #artists #ClipStudioPaint #OriginalCharacter #sketch #wip #furry #furryart #anthro #anthroart
Alberta is the Donbas.
@evan no me gusta, but it’s not far off
@decryption hmmm, that’s going to be difficult. I just checked the PDUs in our server room, and not including heat generated by the UPS, we’re pulling just shy of 10kW here. We have two of these chonky commercial aircons cooling it.
Problem you’ll have with that shed is it doesn’t look insulated at all. Walls are concrete, but that roof doesn’t look sealed.
@piepants yep, no insulation whatsoever. Concrete walls and a tin roof with a thin layer of reflective sarking. Even if I just duct the air outside with a big fan or something, it won't work on days where the outdoor temp is above 30
@grissallia hmm, it's not a bad idea - I'll chew on this. I wonder how you get power to it?
@decryption Know any sparkies who can fit off a 15A circuit?
this is the problem leading me to looking at a datacentre instead to keep computers in - i dont know how to manage the heat a bunch of computers will spit out when the temp outside is above 30, which happened 50 times in 2025 and 40 times in 2024, so it's not exactly an uncommon occurance
@decryption also a good chance that the 50 times in 2025 is going to be the lowest number of days for the next 10+ years.
Just saw my first ad for the #MastersOfTheUniverse movie and I'm going to be really disappointed if @skeletor@mas.to doesn't make an appearance.
Dey be cawed Ray cauz dey fight fahs (do re mi fa...). 🎵 🪕 
@gcobbum Oy
I’ve been asked on TV hits and interviews lately to explain why decentralized social media is better, especially re: Mastodon.
How would you explain the benefits of a platform like Mastodon and the fediverse to someone in just a few sentences? How would you make the argument that platforms like Mastodon allow for more free expression than big tech controlled apps?
Would love to hear people’s thoughts! Trying to make my arguments most effective
@taylorlorenz to echo probably lots of folks, I find the email metaphor to work well — I can send anyone email and not just folks on Gmail or whatever — what if social media were more like that?
"There's nothing humans can do. Only a dictator would use science and medicine to save lives."
#abpoli #COVID #COVID19 #covisIsNotOver #publichealth #healthcare #health
@ned Omg who are these f-ing people??
“I just hope […] this doesn’t scar him for the rest of his life”, says wife of an Irishman being detained by ICE and submitted to what he describes as "torture" in an ICE camp for five months and counting.
His crime? Having a work permit and paying taxes in Boston for twenty years.
This is what Trump calls focusing on "the worst of the worst".
hypothetically, if i wanted to keep this area below 30 (ideally 25) during summer, I go about it? theoretically there could be 50kw+ of computer in here (which is all turned into heat)
2-5kw would be pretty easy, but once it gets into 10kw territory I worry that in summer it would become a furnace
@decryption hmmm, that’s going to be difficult. I just checked the PDUs in our server room, and not including heat generated by the UPS, we’re pulling just shy of 10kW here. We have two of these chonky commercial aircons cooling it.
Problem you’ll have with that shed is it doesn’t look insulated at all. Walls are concrete, but that roof doesn’t look sealed.
Imported LNG?
Why, oh why, are we under the thumb of absolute #FossilFools?
We could have energy independence with cheap offshore wind and solar power. We could phase out fossil fuels and transition to a carbon free economy.
But not with these crapitalist bootlickers in charge.
This is tying us to expensive imports of dirty fossils, subsidising war and sacrificing independence.
😩
(not to mention media stenography of this nonsense decision... LNG will not save you money. It will cost you for generations)
@pezmico They have taken a giant leap backwards. Imagine how many home soler systems could be installed for the $1 billion cost of the LNG set up.
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
“I am a former NASA engineer/scientist with a PhD in space electronics. I also worked at Google for 10 years, in various parts of the company including YouTube and the bit of Cloud responsible for deploying AI capacity, so I'm quite well placed to have an opinion here.
The short version: this is an absolutely terrible idea, and really makes zero sense whatsoever.” @sundogplanets
https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
Maybe a geek post.
American states have representatives in the US Congress and they have state legislatures, and both of these are based on "districts", where each district contains approximately the same number of people, based on the census.
Seems legit, I spoze. But here's the thing: who actually gets elected depends on how those districts are drawn on the map.
Manipulating those maps in order to favor a particular party is called "gerrymandering".
Wait. It's geekery, I promise.
How important is gerrymandering? Very very important.
Spoze your state has 5 congressfolk. Spoze there are 16 million orange voters and 9 million purple voters. You might expect to return 3 orange & 2 purple congressfolk.
But if the districts are drawn carefully, gerrymandering can return *1* orange and *4* purple congressfolk.
