today is the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, one of the largest iron ore freighters to ever operate on the great lakes, which was lost with all hands (29 sailors) during an unexpected storm on Lake Superior around 7:10 PM on 10 Nov 1975.

Here's why we still talk about it today:

please everyone me and my family really need donations to start coming in ASAP because we only have until 11 AM tomorrow to either pay again or leave.

and the latter cannot happen.

so please i am begging help us.

(we need something big too. please.)

https://www.paypal.me/hazelnutflavorcoffee

#helpfolkslive2025 #emergencymutualaid #mutualaid #begpost #urgentmutualaid #MutualAid

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@mutualaid@fedigroups.social

Are you an Australian author of SFF with a book published this year? You have until the end of the month to enter it for the Aurealis Awards.

https://aurealisawards.org/entry-forms/

#sff #books #amwriting

My youngest has informed me that until you cut into it and release the liquid chocolate, a lava cake is improperly named and ought to be called magma cake.

Hey! Remember when y'all funded the first versions of heckimp and PIKA? That was awesome and now we're back with part 2!

Fundraise the project! https://chuffed.org/project/157315

Once funded, we'll be updating heckimp and PIKA with the gnuIMP 3.0 update, as well as making Linux and Windows packages so PIKApp will be easy for everyone to install!

#gnuimp #photoediting #floss #foss #transSoftware #imageediting #collective #fundraising #kickstarter #PIKApp #heckImp #mutualAid

Hey fedi, anyone know where to find aftermarket DDR5 *desktop module* heatsinks? (Edit: Ideally copper, because heat transfer properties.) All the corpo search engines think I want laptop module heatsinks and shims and so on.

Edit 2: This seems to be an optimal choice, just gotta get my mitts on the RAM I'm planning on using to find out if it's single or double sided. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805112754843.html

Avec 1,4 million d’habitants, la Métropole devient le territoire le plus peuplé d’Europe à obtenir cette plus haute distinction européenne 🩷.

Une distinction qui confirme la place de Lyon parmi les capitales européennes les plus avancées dans la transition écologique.
https://www.lyoncapitale.fr/actualite/la-metropole-et-la-ville-de-lyon-recompensees-pour-leur-politique-energetique

Il y a plusieurs façons de traiter une même information

The continued growth of mastodon.social is putting the #Fediverse in danger (here's why: https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server/).

The quickest, easiest and most effective way to solve this would be if the official apps & website stopped promoting mastodon.social, and instead promoted a rotating selection from a pool of reliable servers with solid track records.

If you're comfortable using Github, please give thumbs up to all these:
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android/issues/568
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/issues/1023
- https://github.com/mastodon/joinmastodon/issues/1052

"a sun ultra 5 workstation running netbsd would fix me"

BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.

The power balance between the state and private companies is changing - because of technology, and because of war. I gave this talk a while ago but only just now realised it was filmed. Maybe of interest 👇 Full talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMia...

A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF! Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!

Talking Oglaf with Trudy Coope...

Tiefgarage in Innenstadt von Oldenburg akut einsturzgefährdet

Die Stadt Oldenburg befürchtet, dass eine Tiefgarage unter einer vierspurigen Hauptverkehrsstraße einstürzt. Es bestehe akute Gefahr. Das geht aus internen Unterlagen hervor, die der NDR Niedersachsen einsehen konnte.
Städtische Tiefgarage akut einsturzgefährdet - darüber verläuft eine vierspurige Hauptverkehrsstraße