I have dealt with sadness before but this is a novel sadness sad
@curiousgawker we will fight for a world where you do not have to deal with any sadness ever again
Lisa Melton
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🎧 Mood.
Somber. Just received news that one my tight circle of gay friends in DC died last month. He survived AIDS, but dementia took him. At 68.
John loved gladiolas in a Baccarat vase, a dirty martini with 3 olives, his friends and Billie Holiday, especially this song.
"Lover Man" (1945)
I have dealt with sadness before but this is a novel sadness sad
Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Girls Just Want To Have Fun Pin. I think the dudes who are trying to strip women of their right to vote must have forgotten that women also have the right to bear arms.
https://collabs.shop/mfebxd
@lowqualityfacts same energy
In light of the UK government's recent advice to households to stock up on food and water in anticipation of potential interruption of supplies this winter, I thought I'd do a little thread on #DisasterPrep for people who aren't gun-obsessed misanthropes as someone who has managed water and sanitation for a few ecological fieldwork and bushcraft camps.
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@afewbugs Excellent thread that’s worth everyone’s time to read all the way through. Thank you for doing this.
Lisa Melton
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what the fuck is going on with every fucking group that seemed like they were "with us".
fuck you IA, and fuck you EFF.
Harris Lapiroff
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Huge congratulations to the US-based Wikimedia Foundation employees who voted with 92% support in favor of unionizing, and shoutout to the tireless work of the organizers.
@lispi314
> there are very deep roots and political positions involved in much of the infrastructure being the way it is
Agreed. Proprietary software was inevitable because of capitalism. Free Code software (and the fediverse) exists only because of the dogged efforts of social movements pushing against the dominant paradigm. With the software freedom movement as the cutting tip of the spear, and the much larger Open Source movement as the weight behind the thrust.
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@lispi314
> Open Source" got compromised and co-opted by corposcum very early
I think you're mistaking openwashing for Open Source. The Open Source definition is basically the Debian Free Software Guidelines, which it was based on. If you look at the decisions the OSI has made about which licenses to endorse, based on that definition, they pretty much always reject the same licenses that GNU/FSF reject as proprietary (eg Source Available licenses).
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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
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It's normal to want to make out with a lock this hot, right?
#Locksport? more like #Licksport, amirite?
Harris Lapiroff
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https://aarongustafson.github.io/table-sortable/ from @Aaron is a very good web component!
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
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5yo, sweetly, “mommy? Every day…when your proud of me…”
Me: “yea bud?”
5yo: “can you give me money?”
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@RunRichRun @MarcAbrahams He's a doctor, not a technologist. True self-driving cars will never (at least in the foreseeable future) be more than a very small percentage of total vehicles and will not significantly impact overall statistics, but will cause other classes of societal problems likely outside his areas of expertise.
@lauren @MarcAbrahams
I am not as sure about that — public health impact — as you are. No doubt there will be other societal problems; there has never been new technology that hasn't had problems, AFAIK.
5yo, sweetly, “mommy? Every day…when your proud of me…”
Me: “yea bud?”
5yo: “can you give me money?”
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@minmi Smart kiddo 😹
Hypercard : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Internet Archive
Lisa Melton
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Sending an email or a text is so stressful. Like what if someone reads this??
Lisa Melton
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It sure was nice to go to an event this afternoon where everyone was talking about trans rights and how to hack surveillance devices
Something I've never figured out about Mona. I have my mastodon account configured to let me generate HTML using markdown. It works great. I write a post and mark down. It appears on the website in lovely formatted HTML.
Why does Mona turn it back to plain text? I didn't even get the markdown back. I get some kind of abbreviated plain text version which doesn't match what I generated or typed.
I believe I have seen HTML posts in Mona. But this is like it's taking some weird converted version of the markdown.
Case in point: https://infosec.exchange/@nazgul/117220879273157941
Looks lovely on the website.
By in Mona...
Keeps the markdown formatting for bold and italic.
Converts the markdown formatting for a bullet list into little bullets, which is not at all what you want.
And strips out the markdown heading indicators, and in the process loses several carriage returns.
Either give it to me in the original markdown, or give it to me in HTML. Ideally the latter. Then when I go to edit it, show me the markdown again. I know that's possible, because that's what happens when I edit it on the website.
Lisa Melton
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“ The Fifth Circuit ruling comes as the #Trump admin moves to weaken clean-water-related protections.
Also on Friday, Trump’s #EPA released a supplemental rule to further dilute the Clean Water Act, quickly condemned by environmental watchdogs.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/drinking-water-mississippi-lawsuit/
Lisa Melton
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A very confused looking man walked into my shop today saying “google told me you guys take… food donations..???” I directed him to a nearby foodbank but its very cool to see that the entire world is now michael scott driving into a lake
