@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI do wish more folks opted into being searchable on here.
The other day I accidentally clicked on a CW and uncovered a Pluribus spoiler, so I quickly scrolled away before reading it. Now that I've caught up on it, I'm curious what the post said.. but I can't find it. In retrospect I should bookmarked it or something, but I wasn't thinking that far ahead - just wanted to make sure I didn't read it at the time.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "It's Lonely at the Center of the Earth" by Zoe Thorogood.
CW: Frank/graphic discussion of suicide and depression (not in this post but in the book).
It feels a bit wrong to simply give it my review here as I would another graphic memoir, because it's much more personal and less consensual than the usual. It feels less like Thorogood has invited us into her life than like she was forced to put her life on display in order to survive, and while I selfishly like to read into the book that she benefited in some way from the process, she's honest about how tenuous and sometimes false that claim can be. Knowing what I've learned from this book about Thorogood's life and demons, I don't want her to feel the mortification of being perceived by me, and so perhaps the best thing I could do is to simply unread the book and pull it back out of my memories.
I did not find Thorogood's life relatable, nor pitiable (although my instinct bends in that direction), but instead sacred and unknowable. I suspect that her writing and drawing has helped others in similar circumstances, but she leaves me with no illusion that this fact brings her any form of peace or joy. I wonder what she would feel reading "Lab Girl" or "The Deep Dark," but she has been honest enough to convey that such speculation on my part is a bit intrusive.
I guess the one other thing I have to say: Zoe Thorogood has through artistic perseverance developed an awe-inspiring mastery of the comic medium, from panel composition, through to page layout and writing. This book wields both Truth and Beauty.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@groupnebula563@mastodon.socialRE: https://social.seattle.wa.us/@tamarasellman/115980640849173934
@GroupNebula563@mastodon.socialRE: https://social.seattle.wa.us/@tamarasellman/115980640849173934
@davej@dice.campI shouldn’t hear #Yeats’ “The Second Coming” in my head when I read opinion polls.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-…
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoWorking WFD CW today. Didn't yesterday due to doing storm preparations. Not a serious contester here, just pulled up not1mm, and am using it to send code so that I don't slow down more serious folks with my bad keying, just using the key when I need to send something that I didn't have a macro for, or to send slowly. Just now, I was delighted that I copied a 2x3 call on first hearing at 35WPM and then was deflated to hear "TEST" afterwards. I didn't know what contests are currently active, b…
@davej@dice.campFour years after jamming his party into a tree-chipper at the polls, #Australia's worst ever PM still feels a need to babble public policy from the refuge of distant shores.
@davej@dice.campVery good news, indeed.
Also: “The agreement has sidelined Sussan Ley’s Coalition, who criticised the ‘dirty deal’ after Labor refused to accept its laundry list of business-friendly demands.”
This, of course, is a natural consequence of the #LNP doubling and tripling down on policies that handed them their arses at the polls, and then publicly throwing a tanty when they don’t get their way.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioICE assaulting a pregnant woman.
Covering their license plates with fake spray-on snow to hide the numbers.
Getting pelted with snowballs by the crowd and responding with pepper spray — which only increased the snowballs.
Just this afternoon’s local news.
Video of the snowballs (CW: person being assaulted, dragged)
(UPDATE: video attached in case FB blocks; source URL is https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1ZaUBtkGCZ/)
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialJust boosting this from @… with a CW:
https://zeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto/115896155340855388
@hex@kolektiva.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/115545493685336699
Boosting with cw
@doktrock@toad.social🚨Job Alert!🚨Faculty position in #Geochemistry at University of Delaware. Stable isotopes, environmental, critical #minerals, carbon sequestration. #geosciences ⚒️🧪
@cdarwin@c.imFive years ago today,
Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol in a last-ditch effort to cling to power
after losing a free and fair election.
January 6 was not a protest that got out of hand
— it was an attempted coup, carried out in plain sight.
Marking this anniversary is not just about remembering the past.
It’s about confronting the dangerous reality of the present.
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoMy #HamRadio #POTA fun today was activating US-1904 Myakka River State Park on 20m and 17m, with 5W CW, on my new edition o…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialUK Friends, you gotta CW your GBBO toots it's not Friday here in the US yet!
@jae@mastodon.me.ukI know @… will love this.
https://iconfactory.world/@Iconfactory/115702261621012226
@davej@dice.campI’ll just park this right here. #ukpol #brexit https://mastodon.scot/@tompearce49/115610229708051906…
@mlippert@vmst.io#Wordle 1,609 4/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 <1% of 226,291 (16)
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 5% of 58 (5)
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 25% of 4 (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 8% of 24
WordleBot
Skill 70/99
Luck 54/99
I've had a bunch of 4's recently and I've been enjoying them because each step is a clue in the puzzle as I narrow down the answer. 2's & 3's feel like more luck and 5's and 6's are getting nerve racking.
4's are par, but also the sweet spot for fun!
And as it turns out, I was a little lucky today to get it on my 4th guess.
Bot was unintentionally funny on guess 2. I'll put that in my reply to this w/ the starting word under the CW.
@bilbo_le_hobbit@mamot.frC'est curieux, j'ai plein deflitres CW trump ce soir dans mon fil mastodon... Il s'est passé un truc? Ça vaut le coup que j'ouvre les messages filtrés ?
@der_raddler@dresden.networkHier ein sehr anschauliches Beispiel, weshalb die Maßnahmen an der #Laubestraße auf der #RadrouteOst so dringend nötig waren.
CW: #MotorisierteGewalt
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoI have colorized my dual-operator CW #POTA script and turned it into a cheat sheet with an example on the reverse side, centered so you can print it duplex and cut it out if you like.
![Screen shot of colorized script for dual-operator CW pota, same as the PDF and ODT linked from the main post. Text is:
Dual-Operator CW POTA Cheat Sheet
CQ POTA DE CALL1 ES CALL2
THEIRCALL
THEIRCALL DE CALL1 [TU/GREETING] UR RST STATE BK
BK [GREETING] RST STATE BK
BK THEIRCALL DE CALL2 [TU/GREETING] UR RST STATE BK
BK [GREETING] RST STATE BK
BK TU STATE 73/72 DE CALL1 ES CALL2 EE
EE](https://social.makerforums.info/system/media_attachments/files/115/522/029/140/310/943/original/612f9784b942acb4.png)
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioCW: gun violence, image moments before a murder https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/115855749513703798
@davej@dice.campEverything is cool and normal in the Land of the Free.
http://archive.today/2025.11.23-133655/https://theintercept.com/2025/11/23/prairieland-ice-antifa-zines-criminalize-protest-journalism/
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterWe had some spuds left over so decided to turn them into more roasties. Unlike Christmas day, when the oven was on anyway, this time I decided to air fry them. The first time I've tried this.
Turned out lovely.
CW for image: picture of food.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Libertad" by Bessie Flores Zaldívar. An #OwnVoices novel about being queer in Honduras, both personally and politically, that grapples aptly with complicated questions of politics and belonging at a personal scale.
CW for domestic violence and lethal state repression.
It wasn't everything I'd hoped for from the cover, but my hopes weren't exactly reasonable and it *is* very good.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@davej@dice.campIn case you were curious how the #SocialMediaBan is progressing: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/article/australia-social-media-ba…
@luana@wetdry.worldGalera nova do Fediverso brasileiro, lembrem de botar CW em seus toots sobre política!!
(e outros assuntos que podem ser sensíveis ou induzir sensações ruins em algumas peddoas)
@hex@kolektiva.social#BurnDownTheDatacenters
CW: Video references non-specific AI generated CSAM and fash propaganda
https://youtu.be/YJGv6jkPZGY
@davej@dice.camp @tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Fitting Indian" by Jyoti Chand and Tara Anand.
Indirect CW: alcohol, self-harm, and suicide.
A graphic novel about mental health issues, being a second-generation Indian immigrant in America, international trauma, and both peer and family bullying. Beautifully illustrated and of course gripping given the subjects.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoDoing a dual operator CW #POTA activation QRP now from US-6888 with Brantley K4CBW — hunt us now for double credit on 15m 21.030.5 🤞
"CQ POTA DE KZ4LY ES K4CBW" and we'll both give you an RST and a park!
@davej@dice.campTake it from me, as an Australian who’s worked in politics: strongly reconsider following Australia’s lead in *any* sort of policy. Learn from our egregious mistakes. Please. #ukpol #SocialMediaBan
@davej@dice.campCW: Trump.
@davej@dice.campLemme get this straight: the man who led the Liberals—#Australia's more conservative major party, natch—to the worst defeat in its 60 year history wants to legally suppress the internal inquiry into its risible electoral performance because… it may suggest he was in some part responsible?
And not, say, the mythical Communist fifth column the snowflake Right routinely blames for its poor s…
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoI decided to try to participate just a little in this weekend's #HamRadio ARRL sweepstakes CW contest to stretch my tyro skills. In a busy contest, I decided to set up not1mm and configure my radio for sending from a contest logger to try to reduce wasting time with nervous keying failures. Took three really broken exchanges (the first ones hand-sent) that made me feel bad for the other…
@davej@dice.campThe House Oversight Committee investigated #Ring’s data-sharing arrangements with #LawEnforcement back in 2020. Ring’s practice of #surveillance on behalf of
@davej@dice.campBanana Shire’s recent history’s tied heavily to #coal, but they’ve pivoted towards #solar generation in the last couple of years. It’s great to see they’re following that up with environmentally responsible policy to mitigate landfill from solar generation, too.
@davej@dice.campGood news, but the #Nazis will still be out in force on #AustraliaDay, marching with the rest of the delusional bigots.
@davej@dice.campI'm surprised Linda Reynolds hasn't sued herself for defamation; she's done more to impugn her own character than either Higgins or Sharaz have. https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/115704374580265884
@davej@dice.camp @davej@dice.campToday, #Australian LGBTIQ youth, abuse victims, and other vulnerable young folk lose their social media access, including vital sources of information and support.
#NotPeterDutton’s response?
“Read that book that's been sitting there on your shelf for some time.”
As a survivor of…
@davej@dice.campOur PM, NotPeterDutton, responds to #Trump’s invasion of #Venezuela. Or maybe he doesn’t. Who knows?
He was hoping for a quiet Sunday. Who are you people, and why won’t you let him roll over and go back to sleep?
This is all terribly inconvenient.
@davej@dice.campAt least until the owner tries to sue the car for defamation, then all bets are off. 🤨
#auspol #BruceLehrmann https://aus.social/@Qldaah…
@davej@dice.campIf anyone needs me, I’ll be right here rereading Butler’s “War is a Racket”(https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket/) with Creedence’s “Fortunate Son” (https://
@davej@dice.camp
