Why is there a hole in this communist pole?

RE: https://zpravobot.news/@TerribleMaps/117101261422553427 "greenwich bean time" would be a great name for a cafe

Terrible Maps :bot:@terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · yesterday

Nobody tell them.

Harry Potter And The Cold Hard Fact Of It Is That If You Were 10 When The First Book Came Out You’re Creeping Up On 40 Right Now And Maybe It’s Time To Stop Acting Like A Bigot’s Book About Magical Children Is Something That Matters.

Currently trying out live streaming at phpc.tv - testing out #Sculpin 4.0.x with PHP 8.6 Beta 1 https://phpc.tv/w/kK6YvNjjUXJxPA4djRK6N9

Sculpin Live Coding, Fri Aug 14, attempt 2

Videos uploaded by the PHP community.

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RE: https://thecanadian.social/@techfordemocracy/117094647505720452 Completely unrelated to removing bike lanes, I'm sure ...

A photo from the beach at Cadboro Bay, Victoria, BC. I think the striped shirt helps the scene look a smidge mediterranean. #photography #sailing #sailboats #flickr https://flic.kr/p/2sv4pjS

"I hate computers." "The feeling's mutual."

oh sure when _we_ depart from reality on some kind of psychotic break that's a "medical emergency" and "acute crisis" but when the entire tech field does it that's "just innovation" and "the future"

I wasn’t sure why it was a big deal the President sneaked off AF1 to fly on a C-32. It seemed like something that might be standard security protocol. This article by @vermontgmg explains why it’s important. https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-scandals-within-the-air-force-one-scandal

The Five Scandals Within the "Air Force One" Scandal

Donald Trump, a Catering Truck, and the Qatari "Air Force One" represent a Russian Nesting Doll of Scandal and Corruption

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Researchers have confirmed another member in the small but growing club of carnivorous plants, Saxifraga candelabrum! These little herbs live in mountains of Yunnan and Sichuan in China. Their genus was hypothesized by Darwin (a noted carnivorous plant stan) to […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz]

Carbon tax gone. Fuel excise tax, suspended. Oh and hey look, the corporate lobby wants it all gone for good. And yet gas is still bloody expensive at $2/L or more. It’s almost like we voted in a federal government hellbent on increasing the profit margins of the companies responsible for our […]

The core lesson voting conservative in Canada has been: cheap, fast, and good, pick none because you're getting costs three times as much, a decade late and bad. https://www.blogto.com/city/2026/08/ontario-line-subway-cost-34b/

I'm not a recreational partaker, I'm doing this for _sport_. Eating double stuff oreos, that is.

it makes it hard to talk about, particularly this fad in OSS of everyone being "responsible" or "accountable" for slop they submit, as a way of laundering responsibility for said slop. ultimately the root of the problem is that our whole system is predicated on the idea that all your […]

Watching the new gamechanger, "Earwigs", and looked away for a moment while still listening. And then I heard a voice. Now, it may be that this person only provided a voice for this episode, but believe me when I say it was very exciting to hear it.

I’m looking for a service that will take an RSS feed from my blog and crosspost it to this Mastodon account (so I don’t have to manually copy posts here). Any recommendations? MastoFeed looks interesting, but I’d love to hear from someone who’s familiar with it. Boosts appreciated. Thank you!

@anj I have some VERY bad news about trollies.

The whole "give a lot of monkeys a lot of typewriters" thing was supposed to be thought experiment.

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

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Beware the youTube channel with only one video with production values that are too slick, a script that sounds like glass. I think someone, or several someones, is starting new short video essay channels, sometimes ripping off existing content. Sometimes using more or less AI and just seeing […]

The "intrinsically safe wiring" sign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the sign. https://flic.kr/p/2suphrQ

hadn't seen this yet (though assuredly it's been done)

pixelframe.design@pixelframe.bsky.social · last wk.

NOW has been compiling the most irritating songs for decades, but now you can use the logo style to "call" anything! The NOW THAT"S WHAT I CALL MUSIC! Font & Logo Generator is live now!

RE: https://mastodon.xyz/@Xibanya/117066002131988564 Now this is a review!

It's #sailing time!

Currently having issues with a regular printer *and* a 3D printer. 5-dimensional friday can be over any time now.

I wonder if there's an apt metaphor of some kind that would fully express what today's world is doing to everyone. The news: "Why RFK Jr. just decertified Network for Hope, KY's organ donation nonprofit" Ah. There we go.

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@KarlHeinzHasliP/117041219346830164 Silicon Valley talks about innovation, but this is what it really looks like.

First talk at #FOSSY is Daniel Scherzer’s “From First PR to Release Manager: A Path into Open Source,” his own story about contributing to #PHP as a release manager.

The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! "On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]

TIL: "ham email" is the term for email that you actually do want to receive.