Okay so, in all sincerity - I know a number of organizations have basically depended on stuff like Nitter/XCancel as an excuse to continue posting important information on X. Now that people without accounts are really locked out I hope we can actually put serious pressure on organizations to post information publicly.

@farah

this is Guild Park and Gardens in Scarborough

i chose it because it's a canadian view, the direction you're looking in is towards rochester near where i live over the curvature of the earth, and...

yes, it's beautiful

😁

@markwyner
Seems to do it to me every time...it hits so hard I won't be able to make it to the bathroom even using a walker...have to crawl or I fall.

@demofox and will make things up rather than ever say, I don't know.

How is that better than someone who will make you feel silly for not knowing?

Maybe I'm lucky, but I never had either. Whenever I have asked for help in my career I always got help.

@3psboyd

@misty @brhfl yes, he resumed work on it as far as I know, sorry wasn't clear

RE: https://mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot/117158392176632314

Unicorn Riot is too kind. Alternative headline:

Minneapolis Police Admit to Collaborating with Nazis

Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird

https://sebsite.pw/w/20260801-pythonconstants.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441033

#HackerNews #Python #Predeclared #Constants #Programming #Weirdness #Tech #News

In lieu of flowers, Dolly Parton’s family is asking for donations to her Imagination Library, which has distributed over 330 million books to kids. https://imaginationlibrary.com

The face of someone who randomly ganked his own mother while her back was turned, and then remorselessly pinned her down seconds after this photo was taken to lick her face

DollyParton, RIP 🕯️ 🎶 🎤

"A Life of Many Colours"

Cartoon/tribute from Michael de Adder

https://deadder.substack.com/p/a-life-of-many-colours?r=28ocg2&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#MusicLegends #CountryLegends #passings #DollyParton #RIP

@20000lbs_of_Cheese @brhfl It also seems like "Holos Discover" may actually be its own project and its gotten a release in the last month, so it may still be in active development?

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.

When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.

The short answer: page by page, by hand.

You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.

Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: https://blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/meet-eliza-zhang-book-scanner-and-viral-video-star/

basically

I'm using facebook extensively for the first time since like 2009 because that's where the neighborhood parenting groups are and this might be the most broken website of all time. The UI is incomprehensible, everything takes three refreshes to load properly, and I just now clicked to edit a post and somehow tagged the US Department of Labor

@Arleka @lufertec @santiago tuvimos un problema con nuestro servidor DNS, pero ya está solucionado, los adjuntos ya deberían cargar bien.

Feds: Super sophisticated computer hacking hackers hacked all the utilities!

The actual attackers:

looking thru an old folder on my hard drive
New York Collages > shania's scanner > utopia.tiff

@adamgreenfield was just thinking this. she’s younger than my grandparents