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The Oatmeal mastodon (AP)
“In 150 characters or less” by Nikita Gill
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#AltText For this poignant and beautiful work.
"Everything is on fire"

An illustration of two homes next door to each on fire at night. "and I know I don't have to believe in everything"

An illustration of a tree dotted hillside on fire at night.
"but everyone I love is doing beautiful things and trying to make life worth living"

An illustration of a child's hand grasped carefully by an adult hand. "but I believe in that."

An illustration of a woman holding and comforting a child.

in 150 characters or less
written by Nikita Gill

The Oatmeal
cobalt mastodon (AP)
@mike @Madmonkey Oh dear. It’s suddenly “dated”…

Clara Lobedan (1840-1918, German)

Stilleben mit Nelken


Still Life Painting of Carnations
Gemälde, Öl auf Leinwand, 37 x 50 cm, 1896

#ClaraLobedan #stilleben #blumen #kunst #art #paintings #gemälde #peinture #flowers #natur #nature #StillLife

I'm trying experiments in photogrammetry, where you take a zillion overlapping pictures and spend three weeks with a fancy graphics card trying to get the hacked experimental drivers to run the fancy meshing algorithms working without wrecking the standard OS video drivers and then you give up and send it all to a cloud service and an hour later they send you a solid object model that you can then modify in a CAD program.
Here you can see the radiator and fans, front left tire, air cleaner, and some of the fast idle and coasting dashpots on the carb. From above, the scan is good enough to see the Datsun logo on the valve cover, and the clearance between the engine and radiator and the distributor/engine clearance on the other side of the engine are pretty good. The area around the carb is messy IRL so I'm not surprised it's messy here. Just no way to get a camera into all the crannies.
I have a friend who works at caltech and has access to a free robot arm, as in they're trying to give it away, and it sure would do a great job of automated scanning of objects.
Unfortunately it weighs about 3200 kilograms...
it does live video, so if you could capture and process that

I was looking at self-contained handhelds when I fell into that one. Since it works through the phone, just screenshot whatever you want to keep for reference. A handheld with a smaller screen and the ability to save to an SD card was over 4x the cost.

Trump administration canceling flights for nearly 1,660 Afghan refugees, say U.S official, advocate
Jonathan Landay

Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S.,
-- including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel,
are having their #flights #canceled under Donald Trump's order
💥suspending U.S. refugee programs,
a U.S. official and a leading refugee resettlement advocate said on Monday.

The group includes ⭐️unaccompanied minors awaiting reunification with their families in the U.S.

as well as
⭐️Afghans at risk of Taliban retribution because they fought for the former U.S.-backed Afghan government,

said Shawn VanDiver, head of the #AfghanEvac coalition of U.S. veterans and advocacy groups and the U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The U.S. decision also leaves in limbo thousands of other Afghans who have been approved for resettlement as refugees in the U.S. but have not yet been assigned flights from Afghanistan or from neighboring Pakistan, they said.

"Afghans and advocates are panicking," said VanDiver.
"I've had to recharge my phone four times already today because so many are calling me.

"We warned them that this was going to happen, but they did it anyway.
We hope they will reconsider," he said of contacts with Trump's transition team

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-canceling-flights-nearly-1660-afghan-refugees-say-us-2025-01-20/
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Chris Trottier pleroma (AP)
Here’s a list of ActivityPub services that are not Twitter-like, along with a description of what each service does:There’s a lot more stuff, so let me know what I may have missed.
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you spelled loops.video link wrong

Chris Trottier pleroma (AP)
“Why do we need #Pixelfed when #Mastodon already hosts images?”

Something to learn about the Fediverse is that it’s not about “need” it’s about desire. No one needs to make anything but if devs desire to make it, then it will be made—simple as that.

Mastodon may have some elements of image-sharing but that’s a secondary feature. Even then, its image-sharing abilities are limits and will always be subservient to being a Twitter-like microblog.

Pixelfed’s primary purpose is image-sharing, and text is secondary. In fact, you can’t just share text in Pixelfed—text-only posts are filtered out.

Many people also prefer the UI/UX of Pixelfed over Mastodon, and their preference is simply their preference. They won’t use Mastodon just because Mastodon can share images.

Nevertheless, Mastodon is made better when it can communicate with different ActivityPub-enabled platforms.
RE: https://mastodon.nz/users/SimonCHulse/statuses/113869121347611766

can someone explain to me why we need a separate image sharing site when mastodon already has this feature? I am confused, as I always have been about why insta needed to exist in the first place.


Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
Trump Used H-1B Visas To Hire ‘Wine Experts’ and ‘High Quality Waiters’

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-boasts-he-used-visas-to-hire-wine-experts-and-high-quality-waiters/

Chris Trottier pleroma (AP)
When I first heard of #Solid, I thought is was a pipe dream.

But this looking more and more real as time goes on, and if so, it will solve one of my biggest complaints about the Internet: how to manage digital identity.

https://solidproject.org/about
doesn't solid use crypto bs
Chris Trottier pleroma (AP)
@julia Don’t think so. Actually, the project is being lead by @timbl himself, the man who founded the World Wide Web.

And there’s a project to integrate #Solid with #ActivityPub known as @activitypods.
Ben Ramsey mastodon (AP)
timbl's dream of the web has always been a pipe dream, but it's a pipe dream we can aspire to.

TIL We're all women at conception.
Matthew Chapman 
@fawfulfan 
Under Trump's executive order, every single person in America is now legally classified as female. 

All embryos begin by developing female sex organs, with male sex organs only replacing them at around 6 weeks of gestation. 

                          THE WHITE HOUSE
 ...
 (d)  “Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.

 (e)  “Male” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.
 ...

16:56 - 21 Jan 25 - 229K Views
this is an old myth, and a sexist one, stemming from the idea that female genitals are undeveloped male ones and that "female" is defined by an absence of a penis. It's not true, genitals develop from the same precursor structures, but it's not like "female" genitals are a transitory state before you get "male" ones, the development goes in different directions for everyone.
I read the Executive Order in disbelief--not only for thinking that fetuses are male or female from conception* but for failing to use a better, if imperfect, definition of male/female binary: the XY v. XX chromosomes. Anatomy and hormones can differ from the expected in this, but it is a mostly reliable predictor of physiology that exists from conception. And they got it wrong!

* A blastula, a spherical clump of cells, precedes the embryo/fetus, neither male nor female in form.

Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
AOC Hammers Elon Musk: 'In This Country, We Hate Nazis'

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/aoc-hammers-elon-musk-over-salute-in-this-country-we-hate-nazis/

Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
ah...it's only -2 F/ -19 C instead of -24 F right now, like it was this time of night. And it's snowing instead of clear skies...so glad Auntie Arctica has finished her visit. Tomorrow we may even make double digit above freezing, for the first time in days...

Ah, the joys of northern Minnesota winters.


Nonilex mastodon (AP)
“…missing from the revamped White House website…: pages explaining the #Constitution & #BillOfRights, …tourism, #equity, internships & info about fmr American presidents of both political parties.

“…Visitors to a Spanish-language version of the WH site also received a 404-error that told them the page could not be found.

“…When Trump entered the WH in 2017, his team took down pages about #LGBTQ+ rights & #ClimateChange, as it proverbially cleaned house.”

#USpol
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/21/trump-white-house-website-removes-presidential-webpages/77851785007/
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Smallpox once killed over 500 million people.

Thanks to efforts by the WHO that was strongly backed by the US, smallpox was eradicated by 1980.

The US recoups their investment every 26 days in money not spent on administering further vaccinations and treating new cases.

Withdrawing from the WHO will cost the US dearly in terms of money and lives.

The best way to make America healthy is by working together with the world on our shared goal of eliminating diseases that affect us all.
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RussianDeepStateSock mastodon (AP)
this isnt the same US.

This US state and its enforcement systems have been infiltrated by eugenicist nazis, who see WHO as a barrier to killing off billions of black and brown people so that a few 1000 ultra-rich white oligarchs dont have to change their dysfunctional behaviors.

This is all so that Rich White Men dont have to be accountable for what they have done. They will murder BILLIONS of non americans via climate change if allowed to continue.
We are all one Race
Except for those that are somehow inhumanely #Racist ?
Or are they just insanely stupid

Jonathan mastodon (AP)
We couldn't even get through day one.
Elon Musk giving the Nazi salute with a nasty (Nazi?) looking face. He'd better watch out, it'll freeze like that if he's not careful.
oh look, Trump and first lady muskolini
If it wasn't a Nazi salute why did ELON CENSOR IT OUT WHEN HE POSTED THE CLIP TO TWITTER.
It is a shot of two videos. 

The top is what Elon posted to Twitter and shows a crowd. 

The bottom is video from C-SPAN which shows Elon throwing the Nazi salute. 

If it's not a Nazi salute, one wonders why he censored it out. 🤔🤔
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Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1786394/ Matemática da MEO: 2.4% em 3€ são 50cent, se não concordas o procedimento é escrever no livro de reclamações #portugal
Matemática da MEO: 2.4% em 3€ são 50cent, se não concordas o procedimento é escrever no livro de reclamações

Who are you that walks across the graves of giants at this late hour?

Here's a cover version I did a few years ago of Brian Eno's The Prophecy. This silly video is some slop I cobbled together for The Facebook.

My Twin Peaks cover will be shit compared to this I'm sorry to say.
2015.

A few years ago, a decade, it's all much of a muchness.

С новым добрым утром!

昨天打完拳后背酸,肱三酸,前天硬拉完臀和后背酸,我今天还能练啥……
很少动作只用腿不用臀,除非那种专门练腿的固定器械

Your friends are right
when they tell you
that laws
and institutions
and politicians
and media outlets
are not going to save us,
but your friends are wrong
when they tell you
that nobody
is going to save us,
for each of us is somebody
and so it falls to us
to save each other.

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1786392/ ‘Werknemer neemt vaker ontslag om verstoorde balans werk en privé’ #netherlands
'Werknemer neemt vaker ontslag om verstoorde balans werk en privé'

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Timothy Andrew mastodon (AP)
Curl Up & Dye Hair Salon

#BadAdvertisements
#HashTagGames

🇺🇸US: "17 states around the U.S. reported "very high" wastewater levels of SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—during the week between January 5 and January 11."

"This is a drop from the week before, where 20 U.S. states had very high levels."

Source: https://www.newsweek.com/covid-19-wastewater-map-united-states-very-high-levels-2018270

@auscovid19
KanaMauna mastodon (AP)
I suspect that the drop in COVID is largely due to people already being sick with influenza and therefore staying home. Too many people just love pain.

In 1950, smallpox killed over two million a year.

In 1959, the WHO launched the Smallpox Eradication Programme.

To eliminate smallpox, 80% of the world’s population would need to be vaccinated.

Epidemiologists from the Soviet Union and the United States of America worked side by side in the middle of a cold war.

In 1980, the WHO declared smallpox officially eradicated.

Look at what we can achieve when we all work together.
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Mu mastodon (AP)
and now, sixty years later, in an epidemic that has killed six times as many people, there is nothing close to the push to get rid of Covid.
we defeated the nazis together, as well, USSR and US. 30 million Russian citizens and soldiers died in this war, and then immediately afterward the US turned on its ally, demanded Stalin end communism or face our wrath, and began a "cold war" that has lasted 70+ years and counting.

We added Stalin's 30 million dead to the "11 billion people killed by communism" propaganda that has been repeated endlessly since, adding insult to injury.

Jeff Jarvis mastodon (AP)
A Hitler salute is a Hitler salute is a Hitler salute, says Zeit
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Hank G ☑️ friendica (via ActivityPub)
Popehat quote that reads, "Someone who fucks goats and says they are doing it ironically is still a goatfucker."

The more things change, the more they stay the same.
George Takei
@georgetakei.bsky.social 
Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens. 

Don't think it won't happen again when they come for the “undocumented.” 

Mike Madrid @madrid_mike-8h 
Doing some research for an upcoming article on the last “mass deportation” of Mexicans during the 1930’s. 

Over half of those deported were US citizens. 

November 17, 2024, 2:23 AM Everybody can reply

Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
""In that familiar old incompetence I haven't missed, Trump's executive order defines sex as what a person is at CONCEPTION. Fetal sex doesn't begin to differentiate until about 7 weeks into gestation. Which means Donald used the highest office in the land to declare all Americans legally female."

"Just realized that this EO outlaws men. At conception, all embryos are female. Which, to be honest, might not be such a bad thing," said legal analyst Jay Reding. "

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-transgender-2670902521/
Elf-elyn mastodon (AP)
"Okay, guys, GUYS, listen--
It's not *me* who wants to force all 165 million of you to undergo transition & sexual reassignment surgery. I like men, in all sorts of different ways.
But what can I do? It's the Law of the Land."
SaftyKuma mastodon (AP)
She / her by executive order.

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1786388/ Reservväelasele kogunemise ajal palga maksmine võib saada kohustuseks #estonia
Reservväelasele kogunemise ajal palga maksmine võib saada kohustuseks

unusual_whales mastodon (AP)
Let's take a look at Nancy Pelosi's $VST option buys.

She disclosed her buy in a $500,000-$1,000,000 range.

But using Unusual Whales, we can get her exact price paid and how much.

She bought at 3:39PM EST, and paid $608,964 total.

She was the entire volume of the day.

No… https://t.co/M6YtjHgMMd

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options
unusual_whales mastodon (AP)
Unusual Whales is the only place to watch Pelosi’s trades as they happen.

Take her call options.

Watch them live: https://t.co/r3g3CTpShP

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

sezduck mastodon (AP)
X, the everything app. Yes, the 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 app. Everything… but mostly Nazism.

#BadAdvertisements
#HashtagGames

Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
Trump administration sued over order making it easier to fire federal workers | US unions | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/21/labor-union-lawsuit-trump-administration
DB mastodon (AP)
This Schedule F is one of the most dangerous of Project 2025 changes. Return to the “spoils” system of Andrew Jackson where there are only loyalist political hacks in Government
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Nonilex mastodon (AP)
#Trump admin announces an #AI infrastructure deal that could total $500 billion….

The deal is to build computing infrastructure for AI technology to be called #Stargate.…

#OpenAI CEO #SamAltman, #Oracle Chairman #LarryEllison & #SoftBank CEO #MasayoshiSon appeared at the WhiteHouse w/ Trump as he unveiled the plans for the Stargate data centers to power AI technology.

“That’s a massive group of talent & money,” Trump said as he introduced the executives.

#broligarchy #tech #USpol
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ClipHead mastodon (AP)
Read a lot of (dystopian) sci-fi and history and I think it's pretty clear what capitalism and fascism are trying to achieve (again) in the coming years.

Can't read sci-fi or fantasy anymore at the moment. I think my escapism is broken.

And now I probably have to physically fight Nazis to get my escapism back. Or, for a society, where you can escape into other worlds without worrying about coming back to a place that's not safe anymore for you and your friends.
@WizardBear
dennisaurus mastodon (AP)
...this is the grift that never ends, it just grifts on and on my friends....

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1786386/ Replacing/renewing lost EU driver licence with Finnish one #finland
Replacing/renewing lost EU driver licence with Finnish one

Universal Hub mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Violent Boston crime


While everyone is now busy analyzing Trump's executive orders and Musk's "awkward gesture" (i.e. Nazi salute), #Israel is transferring its #Genocide and #EthnicCleansing into the #WestBank. They're literally hunting down unarmed people in the streets of #Jenin.

#FreePalestine
#FuckIsrael
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Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
Why do I do what I do

Because that's what I do

Hugz & xXx

Charles Harper mastodon (AP)
“The New River is an artificial waterway in England, opened in 1613 to supply London with fresh drinking water taken from Chadwell and Amwell Springs near Ware in Hertfordshire, and later the River Lea and other sources.”

The New River is still in use today, transferring around 220 million litres of water per day — 8% of London's total use. I went for a walk along a section of it. This is an Eurasian Coot.

#NewRiverWalkN1 #reflections #coot #feet #bald #scary
Coots are medium-sized water birds that are members of the rail family, Rallidae. They constitute the genus Fulica, the name being the Latin term for "coot". Coots have predominantly black plumage, and—unlike many rails—they are usually easy to see, often swimming in open water. Coots have prominent frontal shields or other decoration on the forehead, with red to dark red eyes and coloured bills. Many have white on the under tail. The featherless shield gave rise to the expression "as bald as a coot", which the Oxford English Dictionary cites in use as early as 1430.
Like other rails, they have long, lobed toes that are well adapted to soft, uneven surfaces. Coots have strong legs and can walk and run vigorously. They tend to have short, rounded wings and are weak fliers, though northern species nevertheless can cover long distances. They typically congregate in large rafts in open water. They are socially gregarious and messy aquatic feeders. Their feet are rather frightening to look in my opinion but that is a very subjective view.
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Greg Johnston mastodon (AP)
Coots have the weirdest feet. An odd bird, like a duck but not a duck. Preyed on heavily by eagles here. An important part of the ecosystem in which they live.
jendefer mastodon (AP)
Coot feet! I never get tired of seeing these marvels of nature.

Cats of Yore mastodon (AP)
I don’t know the story here but my best guess is “tripped over the cat going down stairs in the dark but still love him anyway”. Photo from my collection, 1958.
Black and white photo of a smiling white woman sitting outside on a sunny house stoop, wearing a cast and sling on her right arm and cervical collar. A happy little shorthaired black cat rubs up beside her.
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Marv Clowder mastodon (AP)
@InsurgoFormica

Yeah, that's a hard look.

I think he's just being protective, though.

@CatsOfYore

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1786384/ En lagändring som underlättar byte av bank skulle avsevärt förbättra konkurrensen #sweden
En lagändring som underlättar byte av bank skulle avsevärt förbättra konkurrensen
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