Our 10 favorite scenes from "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", or as I like to call it, the Best Damn Sequel of All Time. James Cameron’s 1991 sci-fi blockbuster returns to theaters this weekend for its 35th anniversary. https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/08/our-10-favorite-scenes-from-t2-judgment-day/
Hopefully that incredibly beautiful naked-eye astronomy time last night will keep me from losing it and crying during any of the many stressful, depressing meetings that I have today. (Unless I think too hard about all the satellites that I saw... which is the topic of at least one of the meetings so far...) I'll be on campus most of the day so I can't even take a hayfield-rage-screaming break...
Nothing like a surprise in-person national news interview to make the day even more fun... but hey, it was about the eclipse and the beautiful night sky (must be a slow news day), not terrible things happening in orbit, so I'll take it. (Of course I did talk about freaking many satellites I saw while watching the eclipse... but the eclipse was still cool. Will be at least a little bit longer before Reflect Orbital and copycats drown that out as well.)
Okay so announcing a new project -- maybe! A couple of months ago I started turning over the idea of doing something revolving around interviews with people, in particular because the market for feature pieces isn't impossible right now, but the straits are direr than they have been, and of course that kind of work is not my full-time job. But I DID think, "Well hey, wait, I've been working with and editing a podcast for over seven years, it's not like you can't do this on your own." So for my new weekly #music thoughts, this is an actually a first for the Patreon, namely a full audio interview. In this case, it's with Adam Offitzer, who has founded a really interesting new site earlier this year called Encore. The quick and dirty summary is 'Letterboxd for concerts,' but I wanted to delve into that and a lot more besides. It's available at the link in both audio and transcript form. All initial feedback welcomed for sure and we'll see where my project goes. https://www.patreon.com/nedraggett/posts/some-weekly-201-167934566
Call and response.
#science
@BillSaysThis ZZzzzZZZzzzzz zzzz...
@vruz yeah I’m buying a whole kit of each variety right now, as I’m typing this toot
@petitevieille Il a l'air cool! 😊 @maelmorin @lienrag
Just your regular reminder that #WellsFargo is a garbage institution. Our one-branch credit union doesn't have a SWIFT number and my daughter needed one to receive the funds from her (UK) educational savings account, so she opened a Wells account. Dealing with them has been incredibly frustrating, and the manager of her branch just refused to produce a letter with her account info and wire instructions for the UK bank and slammed the phone down on me.
@pluralistic I am a Wells Fargo account holder of decades. The wire transfer instructions (both domestic for me in the US, and international through SWIFT) are on the Wells Fargo web site, although it may take a Google search to navigate to them.
My brother in Switzerland has found a Wise bank account (I do not know the exact name) more useful for international wire transfers, than local banks in either country.
Whoops, I somehow managed to miss that blacksky.app was only meant for Black folks (I signed up directly on there and don't recall seeing anything about requirements, just a list of domains). They sent me a warning and I followed the migration procedure, but now I can't log in with my new identity (@freakazoid.myatproto.social). So I guess I'm no longer a blacksky.community user.
I'll try again later in case there's some kind of delay. Otherwise, I guess I'll give it another shot in a few months if there's evidence they've improved their reliability.
There is a recovery mechanism and I did save my recovery key just in case, but honestly I'm not feeling super enthused about going through the recovery flow just to save an account with a few followers in a place that doesn't yet have their shit together. I might feel differently if they hadn't announced to the world that they're using slopcoding.
🎫 PALRGB | palestina libera a colori
Se non ti piacciono questi adesivi, semplicemente ignorali come fai con i genocidi!
#gsnag #guerrillastickersKit #noadesivigrazie #no_adesivigrazie #adesivi #stickers #sticker #palestine #freepalestine #palestinalibera #stopgenocide #freegaza
This is gonna be me
Since Vikings discovered America in 1021 which makes the US Danish territory, this morning I signed an executive order renaming Lake Okeechobee in Florida.
Enjoy! 😘
@randahl I was going to make a reply which mocked trump by renaming somewhere near to his golf course in Scotland, then I noticed that it's listed as "LGTBQ+ friendly"...and that there's a nearby pub called "The Cock & Bull" which is just too perfect.
✦ MEGA DROP ! ✦
Les plus assidu·es à la typothèque auront peut-être déjà remarqué l'ajout de 10 nouvelles fontes cet été. C'est avec joie qu'on accueille donc, sur https://typotheque.genderfluid.space/fr :
✦ Euskalibur de @lazydog
✦ Tremplin de Benjamin Dott
✦ stellæ, fork collectif ( @jeannesaliou @sophie_vela @maxlilllo @solennemadi @flo_parmentier & more)
✦ Redaction inclusive, fork de Marie Godefroy
✦ LetHerGo de l'atelier Corbin
✦ fixelPont de @transduck
✦ Kryptique de Lucie Tessier
✦ OUESTd'Eliott Thomas
✦ Coxinel·le de Mathis Van Hecke
✦ Beast de la fonderie.download
✦ LS-VG5000 de Justin Bihan
On ne peut pas toutes vous les présenter en un post, alors allez les découvrir sur la typothèque! On a hâte de les voir en usage.
Merci à toutes les personnes qui nous envoient des fontes et font vivre la typographie post-binaire! Prochaine session de mise en ligne en novembre ✉❤
RE: https://example.viii.fi/posts/6a8ec2be-567d-23d9-a555-676b88d3d369.json
I need to work out what format HTML Mastodon needs to render profile fields properly.
Specifically hashtags and mentions.
Anyone know?
#MastodonAPI
@Edent these aren't actually standard features like in posts. But many clients support them anyway, yeah. For mentions, it's enough to just make a link (<a>) to the target actor, and hashtags work like this:
<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/smithereen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>smithereen</span></a>, the other server will rewrite the URL to its own domain
L'an dernier le RN avait déjà proposé un programme drastique d'austérité. M. Le Pen réitère sa proposition avec ses coupes de 125 Mds. Comme cce serait un choc dépressif fort, il faut un pouvoir fort pour l'imposer, un libéralisme autoritaire qui séduit une partie du patronat et des libéraux.
@darren yes
@heidilifeldman @darren And who's going to pay fedex?
FediForum Talk: Atproto: A Technical Introduction
@petitevieille @maelmorin @lienrag Tes enfants vont t'expliquer 😄