@memeorandum@universeodon.comDisgraced GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales sent lewd texts to staffer years before affair with ex-aide who burned herself to death (Ryan King/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/04/06/us-news/disgraced-gop-rep-tony-gonzales-sent-lewd-texts-to-staffer-years-before-affair-with-ex-aide-who-burned-herself-to-death/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260406/p56#a260406p56
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialGreat article, "America’s Throwaway Spies
How the CIA failed Iranian informants in its secret war with Tehran"
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spies-iran/
@jake4480@c.imOne more purchase for Bandcamp Friday, last minute - this ridiculously good new LP 'Until Every Flag is Burned' by Brighton And Hove's HEMPITERA. Crust punk and cello. Unreal. What a record. Contender.
https://hemiptera.bandcamp.com/album/until-every-flag-is-burne…
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialYep, yep. That's what I was. I had a chance for a wordle in 3 (had all the known letters in the right place). Just couldn't get the last one. Finally burned a guess to confirm and then I found it. #Wordle
Wordle 1 753 4/6
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
@benb@osintua.eu10,000 RUSSIAN DRONES burned in less than 10 MINUTES #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/26/russian-drones-burned-in-less.html
@mlawton@mstdn.socialDunkin’ execs were sure it was an act of sabotage. They had been ever so close to cracking Krispy Kreme’s “hot & fresh” ™️ advantage.
@trochee@dair-community.socialhave been in a conversation about colleague rudenesses, and decided that we should use levels derived from Office Space
class I: borrowed my red swingline without asking
class II: destroyed the fax machine with a hammer
class III: burned down the building
it's important to thread the needle and stick with the Class II level rudeness.
@Jyoti@mas.to
@hex@kolektiva.socialtl;dr: A retired general payed as (an imaginary country that represented) Iran and kicked the shit out of the US military so badly that they changed the rules mid-game to make sure the US would win.
This was the most expensive war game ever, and they basically burned the results.
@primonatura@mstdn.social
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.iowonder if he would even burn https://www.themonastery.org/blog/why-some-catholics-want-peter-thiel-burned-at-the-stake
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
@fgraver@hcommons.socialHas anyone here given Inkwell (https://inkwell.social/) a try? Seems like a preferable newsletter platform to Substack and the like, but we’ve been burned so may times I’ve become wary…
@wraithe@mastodon.socialI have now, about 8 (about halfway) minutes in, realized I had the heat too high on my home fries and they are the worst kind of burned;
Not QUITE burned.
Thats the worst kind of burned. Where, if I was cooking for someone else, I would just start again.
Since it’s just me? Soldiering on.
😂
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaanti-free will activist posters
@markhburton@mstdn.social“Some politicians are trying to sell us a dangerous fantasy of endless gas reserves, when the truth is – after 50 years of drilling – we have already burned most of it.
“A month’s worth of gas from 14 years of licensing by the last government shows the complete folly of pursuing this policy. It’s barely enough gas to last from now until May Day.”
Hundreds of North Sea licences granted by Tories ‘produce only 36 days of gas’ | Oil and gas companies | The Guardian
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialOkay I know everyone hates this article but there's a nugget of truth in it. One of the possible futures we can gun for is this.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/
Make things. Make _personal scale_ things. The tools help bridge the truly high barriers we've managed to put in in the tech industry.
This will have a lot of problems! We don't have collective knowledge for this yet / again. The people with Sysadmin Mindset have been burned out or subsumed into the Cloud Computing machine.
But there's a chance here to take the web better places. We should take it.
(If you're worried about everything turning into paying to rent access to a digital landlord, I have bad news about where we've been since 2012.)
@cdarwin@c.im87 homes had been destroyed as of Thursday by wildfires sweeping across parts of Georgia.
The two largest wildfires in southern Georgia have burned tens of thousands of acres combined.
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/georgi…
@j_honegger@swiss.socialFrom #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
PUTIN’S SUPPORT DOWN: BURNED #REFINERIES, NO #INTERNET, DEFEATS Vlog 1361: War in
@crell@phpc.socialWhy is it every time I try to take the simple approach and not over-engineer things, I end up regretting it and needing to change it to the "I thought this would be over-engineered" approach?
Like, seriously, this happens all the time.
This is why I tend to "over-engineer" early, because I have been burned by this *so many times*.
#Programming
@UP8@mastodon.social☃️ How fire-loving fungi learned to eat charcoal
#fungus
@mikejolley@social.linux.pizzaThis week I've recapped a Fergusson 10" Consumer CRT TV and a Microvitec CUB.
No one was unalived by the anode cap. And I only burned myself once!
CUB has one minor wobble on a few games but that might be the one capacitor I didn't have a replacement for (coming soon!).
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WH3Pd5C…
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgJust finished "Caught Stealing" and it was great. Wondering who was responsible for such a delightful romp and it was none other than Darren Aronofsky!
#Film #Movies #CrimeDrama
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itSo.. I have a theory that burned-out coders prefer AI coding agents. Because at the point of burn-out (and beyond), you just stop giving a fuck. You might still like and enjoy your craft, but when it comes to your job (whether that's proprietary or free software), you just want to get through the day and get it done. And if an LLM helps you accomplish that, regardless of ethics or maintainability or boring button-mashing, so be it.
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgToday I peeled away the already wrecked metal casing of the Samsung BAR USB drive, noticed that the actual USB thing really is just the µSD-card sized blue insert inside the metal case, plugged it into a USB port, wondered why it didn't show up, took it out and burned the hell out of my fingers, because it was HOT 😂, destroyed the little sucker with pliers and tossed it. 🗑️
I wonder if it was broken before or if they actually used the metal casing for some electrical connection? 🤔
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026 NFL free agency winners and losers: Raiders burned by Maxx Crosby saga, Trey Hendrickson stuck in limbo
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-free-agency-winners-losers-day-2/…
@wraithe@mastodon.socialI have now, about 8 (about halfway) minutes in, realized I had the heat too high on my home fries and they are the worst kind of burned;
Not QUITE burned.
Thats the worst kind of burned. Where, if I was cooking for someone else, I would just start again.
Since it’s just me? Soldiering on.
😂
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Heatmiser:
🎵 Burned Out, Still Glowing
#Heatmiser
https://open.spotify.com/track/0z3napzWJ6q1d4GOQMepQG
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaGetting more and more burned out and tired of school. I'm way too far in to give up now, but man sometimes I just really hate spending so much of my free time on this. I really hate that so many of my CS courses seem to be geared around exactly the type of dictate development that I have zero interest in - using some bloated web framework that's basically a black box to implement a list of features for a commercial oriented app I'd have zero interest in using or working on in the…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot#WritersCoffeeClub 17 Apr
Can plots which hinge on a misunderstanding be done well?
Oh, don't go there!
Especially romance plots. Romance plots based on misunderstandings are such an old, done, burned, cliche.
Unless you're a much better writer than Jane Austen, don't do it.
Just say NO!
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange28.9 kWh generation today, another new record by quite a significant margin. The days are getting longer and the sun is getting higher. Generation peaked at 6.3 kW instantaneous output.
Still nowhere near meeting my entire daily power demand (the day isn't over so I don't have full figures for today but I burned 176.7 kWh yesterday). But it's definitely putting a decent dent in.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsNew on #blog: "Money isn’t going to solve the #burnout problem"
"""
The xz-utils backdoor situation brought the problem of FLOSS maintained burnout into the daylight. This in turn lead to numerous discussion on how to solve the problem, and the recurring theme was funding maintenance work.
While I’m definitely not opposed to giving people money for their FLOSS work, if you think that throwing some bucks will actually solve the problem, and especially if you think that you can just throw them once and then forget, I have bad news for you: it won’t. Surely, money is a big part of the problem, but it’s not the only reason people are getting burned out. It’s a systemic problem, and it’s in need of systemic solution, and that’s involves a lot of hard work undo everything that’s happened in the last, say, 20 years.
But let’s start at the beginning and ask the important question: why do people make free software?
"""
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #AI #NoAI #LLM #NoLLM #Gentoo
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaWeird how food can give you gas or make you need to pee or poop but nothing you can eat gives you plasma. Probably for the best, or I'd have burned through a bunch of chairs by now.
@hex@kolektiva.socialPropaganda of the deed generally does the opposite of what it's supposed to do: it alienates rather than activates, destroying the movement it comes from. Until it doesn't. Until it actually sparks a revolution.
But there is a prerequisite for a successful revolution. That is an alternative system to pivot into as the old one collapses. That alternative is *far more dangerous* than any one-off action, up to and including literally killing a king or an emperor.
People will eventually rise up. That's just a matter of time. The question is what's left after everything gets burned down. That's a far more important question than, "is it happening?" It's happening (sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly), what's next?
Hierarchy manifests complexity beyond its ability to manage. We're seeing that now, we will see it more. Distributed authority is more stable. Build a distributed society within the burned out warehouse of the hierarchical one.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHow Muslim women writers in Nigeria bypass religious censorship by posting erotic novel installments in WhatsApp groups and placing cliffhangers behind paywalls (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/africa/nigeria-erotica-writers-censo…
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net@… everyday there is a new model, benchmarks just tell half the truth, so at the end you have to test yourself, this has been a nice test and it showed very clear, why Claude is ahead of the others. This was not a simple linting job, it was a simple refactoring job and I was really surprised how bad the outcome was. Many tokens burned, but now I know what the…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Devastating wildfires in Argentina and Chile made three times more likely by climate change"
#Argentina #Chile #Climate
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration has burned through🔥 “years” of critical munitions since the start of the war with Iran,
said three people familiar with the matter,
fuelling concerns about the rising cost of the conflict and the US’s ability to replenish its stockpiles.
The rapid depletion of weaponry included advanced long-range Tomahawk missiles, the people said.
It is a “massive expenditure of Tomahawks”, said one person familiar with the US military’s use of munitions. …
@life_is@no-pony.farm@geist@troet.cafe Die heilige Behörde der Inquisition hat verkündet, dass es theologisch voll ok ist, Peter Thiel aufzuspiessen und auf kleiner Flamme zu rösten: https://www.notion.so/American-heresy-should-Peter-Thiel-be-burned-at-the-stake-3274ac94ca0580d7b499c5eb546bdaee Muss dringend wieder in die römischkatholische kirche eintreten und beichten.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUS has burned through 'years' of munitions since start of Iran war (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/14713f6f-a1a6-4477-bd10-d3780fbc8ab5
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p133#a260312p133
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itRE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/116381374851061111
I don't know what makes this look like more of a hellscape... the burned-down warehouse, the stroads, or the fucking cul-de-sac developments.
@hex@kolektiva.socialSo the collective trauma reaction against the Church, so deep for those of us coming from the tradition of the European Left, alienates us from those indigenous comrades of ours who refused to let their identities be erased. It alienates us from Black and Latin American comrades who, in some cases, have subverted that same religion from a tool of oppression to a tool of resistance.
It also alienates us from our pagan, Jewish, and even Christian ancestors. Rather than a rejection of the genocides, crusades, and pogroms carried out to solidify the hegemony of the Church, a chauvinistic atheism affirms it under another name. Likewise it affirms the patriarchs who burned witches and destroyed midwifery to shift power over to male doctors.
The "Enlightenment" paradigm of "Reason," that led through secularism to the anti-religious antagonism of Bill Maher and the New Atheists, is laced with an Islamophobia and anti-Semitism rooted in the same church they claim to reject. And anyone who has been paying attention can see that it opens the door to the far right anti-Semitism and Islamophobia that also grows from that same root...
@cdarwin@c.imThe Defense Department burned through $93 billion in September alone, signing checks left and right
-- in order to dry up its congressionally allocated budget, according to a recent analysis by the government watchdog Open the Books.
There is pressure to spend:
If federal agencies don’t use the entirety of their budgets by the end of the fiscal year,
then they lose access to that cash forever,
potentially putting themselves in a situation where they have to requ…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comBurned Before, Democrats Abruptly Revive the Idea of Impeaching Trump (Annie Karni/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/us/politics/trump-impeachment-democrats.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260410/p107#a260410p107
@wraithe@mastodon.socialFrom: https://bsky.app/profile/sirfox.bsky.social/post/3mizs47icos2p
「"All you had to do was pay us enough to live"
Forces of capitalism, these are the Canaries in your coal mine.
Pay attention to them.
Might be important.
Just migh…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Spain’s donkey brigade has kept Doñana fire-free for nine years"
#Spain #Donkeys #Animals #Environment
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioI can't tell you where the bananas went but I can show you where the banana peels ended up. 🍌
(Nov. 12, 2025. Shirooru Matha #Udupi #India. Fully-dried peels are burned to make "akshathe" for use in temple services.)
#photography #amateur #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #food #fruit #bananas #Hindu
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
The Byrds:
🎵 Everybody's Been Burned
#TheByrds
https://open.spotify.com/track/2sKXj3gEdILnKDMV3D0htZ
@pre@boing.world @samvarma@fosstodon.orgFun gig! Yours truly on guitar, video and audio post 😁
#music #80s #PopMusic #DebbieGibson
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caA little dated, (2019) but still an excellent article/study here of global oil supply flows and uses. Informative for perspective on events during the #IranUSAIsraelWar
Charts show flows of crude oil, flows of natural gas, and use by industry of the same.
12-17% of crude oil and natural gas is used for “non-energy” process. (ie. not for burning directly). The other 88-83% is burned. #CO2
#oil #crudeoil #naturalgas #energy #globalenergy #climatechange #war #climateaction
