@zachleat@zachleat.comSaw some wild messaging from Apple in the Software Update app on an old MacBook — in fact the system was *not* up-to-date. Surfaced via a Google Chrome EOL message.
Got them switched over to the latest version of Firefox just fine 👀
The web should be for everyone (and not just on new hardware)
@bourgwick@heads.socialtoday, at last, the good ol’ #GratefulDead cast takes up residence at ace’s to begin going song by song through “blues for allah” (& more loosely, month by month through 1975) with session tapes, multitracks, lyric drafts, & a 3-ring circus of guests, starting with “help on the way”!
@ruari@velocipederider.comBlack sand is weird
@publicvoit@graz.social#Fox News host on mentally ill people who commit crimes: “Just kill them”
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/fox-news-host-mentally-ill-p…
@paul@social.van.buu.re
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialWork in progress
It's almost time! We can't wait to welcome you to Berlin Buzzwords tomorrow for our 16th edition!
Grab your Last Minute Tickets now: https://tickets.plainschwarz.com/bbuzz25/c/7bjWaoGyO/
@rachel@norfolk.social
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.comOnly late in the development cycle did NASA realize they could use giant cats to transport the shuttle instead of a 747
@kerstinsailer@sciences.social
@ben@a11y.info
@georgiamuseum@glammr.usThe #UniversityOfGeorgia fall semester started yesterday (yes, we know, it's VERY early), and that means it's time to swap out the works on view in our study gallery. This fall, we're working with professors in art history, history (museum studies) and women's studies to pull works from the collection that their classes can use all semester long: Goya, Ronnie Goodman, a 19t…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
AVON: [Restrains Blake] Blake.
BLAKE: Renounce!
AVON: Easy, easy!
BLAKE: Renounce!
AVON: [To Cally] Tranquilizer pack!
BLAKE: Renounce! [Cally administers the tranquilizer pack. Blake subsides]
@seav@en.osm.town
@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." - Maya Angelou
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/fox-news-host-mentally-ill-people-who-commit-crimes-just-kill-them
@audiodump@podcasts.socialad208 Konzepte gegen Kinder
https://audiodump.de/2025/08/14/ad208-konzepte-gegen-kinder/
Ihr seid heute Teil der dümmstmöglichen Parallelwelt: @…
@Billybobbell@twit.social
@pbloem@sigmoid.socialTwo official heatwaves per year is rare, according to the Dutch news. It's only happened before in 1941, 2006, 2018 and 2019.
Call me pessimistic, but looking at that sequence, I'd say it _used to_ be rare.
@alexanderadam@ruby.socialI really like the ideas. So far this is my set of 🤓 nerdy cards (although Agile Poker is not really a game).
Especially the "Exploding Git Commits" is nice, since I'm an Exploding Kittens fan. 💥🐱
Cash you recommend other games?
#programming #programmers
@davej@dice.campThis week's #ThursdayFiveList is @…'s #MusicOfTheMountains:
1. Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, “Man on the Silver Mountain”—
@padraig@mastodon.ie♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: SUI UZI (8) Luanmer (5) Strawberry Station (4) Tanuki (4) サクラSakura-Lee (4). #myweekcounted 97 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…
@cdamian@rls.social
@andi1984@social.saarlandZwischen Homburg und Zweibrücken hängt ein heftiger Pilz mit Eisschirm. Aufpassen! #unwetter
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ieNew Gist: A Balancing Act
The Minister for Justice wants to break the EU’s encrypted messaging security. This is the Gist.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-a-balancing-act/
@hakonseth@snabelen.noTo voksne og tre barn har fanga 1,9 kg blåbær
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu/ˈmɔːɹeɪz/ (audio file from Wiktionary)
mores - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mores
@denmanrooke@mastodon.iePeople Before Profit Galway support Catherine Connolly for President.
"Catherine’s candidature is a crucial opportunity for the left in Ireland to engage in an transformative and inspirational campaign"
https://pbpgalway.ie/2025/09/15/people
@wandklex@mastodon.art @paul@social.van.buu.re @bourgwick@heads.socialoh feelies my feelies, just what i needed after this week, at music hall of williamsburg. acoustic comfort covers & full electric set of blissed feelie-beat, with proper "raised eyebrows"/"crazy rhythms" closer & more covers, including (i think) the debut of the MC5's rather timely "amercian ruse" #nyc
@ruari@velocipederider.comEven a little 24″ wheeled unicycle is all you really need. Maybe not "fast", fast but "fast enough". I just cruised into work today at the same kinds of speeds as a casual bicyclist (my average speed was 16.2 km/h [10mph], with traffic crossings and lights and stuff).
#UnicycleLife
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialWe kick off Berlin Buzzwords 2025 in a few hours with our Barcamp hosted by Nick Burch! Come around and join us!
📅 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm CEST, Registration: from 2:30 pm CEST
📍 Palais Atelier, 2nd floor in Palais at Kulturbrauerei Berlin, Schönhauser Allee 36, 10435 Berlin
More information: https://2025.berl…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 03 - Weapon
COSER: Now, even if Security trace us to this planet, they'll assume the ship crashed and we died in the explosion. Did you hear what I said?
RASHEL: Yes.
COSER: Well?
RASHEL: It's a very clever plan, sir.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/2
@seav@en.osm.townHere's an attempt at making a somewhat artistic photo of a mundane object by making it black and white and upping the contrast and only using the phone's built-in editing tools. #photography #BlackAndWhite
@rachel@norfolk.socialTrying to decide if this article is real or not…
https://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/44-year-old-caught-with-class-a-drug-doesn-t-do-it-on-a-reg-9433510/
@audiodump@podcasts.social @padraig@mastodon.ie#AEWAllInTexas is being shown for free on ITV4 this Thursday at 9:00pm. All 5 hours of it.
#AEW #ProfessionalWrestling
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euGoldenDict's pop-up window doesn't work in KDE/Wayland when you are selecting a word in any app & pressing [Ctrl C, Ctrl C]?
Put "goldendict $(wl-paste)" in a proper .sh script. Add it in your Application Launcher. Set [Ctrl C, Ctrl C] (or whatever) in System Settings->Keyboard->Shortcuts
@wandklex@mastodon.artStartklares #Kundenglücklichmachungsposteinlieferungsgeräusch.
@bourgwick@heads.socialat public records in #brooklyn, chicago underground duo playing from their new "hyperglyph." amazing unexpected melds between rob mazurek's chaotic beats/loops & chad taylor's wild intricate drums, which i knew from the album but didn't quite grasp 'til i saw it, plus an utterly gorgeous mbira/electronics duet.
@ruari@velocipederider.comYes, GMX, I am sure you and your TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY SEVEN "partners" care a lot about my privacy.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
SOOLIN: Not very, by the look of it.
DAYNA: It was like a tomb up there.
AVON: Orac is wired up and ready in the resuscitation room. Hurry it up.
[Vena and Avon in the mess room.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/326 B7B2
@paul@social.van.buu.reVoor als je ansichtkaarten zoekt die meer zeggen dan ‘sterkte’.
https://www.verlieskunst.nl/webwinkel/
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euPTSD
@bourgwick@heads.socialidyllic saturday o-bliteration by/with oneida, at forest park in queens. #nyc
@wandklex@mastodon.artHeurollerjagd mit Frau #Atelierhütehund in der Abendsonne in der #wattpampa.
@ruari@velocipederider.comI got up this morning to make coffee. On my return I found this hairy gentleman had taken my place in bed with my wife!
#Caturday
@bourgwick@heads.social50 years ago today, the #GratefulDead in #SanFrancisco, an all-time classic. perhaps the tightest, most well-rehearsed show in the band’s history, played to a room full of #radio execs/programmers sittin…
@ruari@velocipederider.comIceland says hi. 👋
#Eldfell #Vestmannaeyjar #Heimaey
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euThe more I listen to The Prodigy's The Day Is My Enemy, the more I like this album. It makes me feel sad and despondent with a pinch of angry.
https://album.link/i/1170133863
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 05 - The Web
[They move back into the adjoining room.]
BLAKE: What was the original purpose of the project?
NOVARA: Genetic engineering. The main aims were to halt the ageing process in humans. To find a way to maintain continuous life.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/398…
@wandklex@mastodon.art[LieferungsPackgeräusch]
@bourgwick@heads.social40 years ago this afternoon, the #GratefulDead on the beach in ventura, closing out the 1st half of their summer shows, a glorious day on the ocean. early summer ’85, show #14. BASTILLE YOUR FACE.
soundboard (some more clipping bass):
@ruari@velocipederider.comI made a little video for any Nazis who might be following me.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
GINKA: It's a pathogen introduced by the aliens during the War. Treatment is linked to the patient's individual tissue pattern.
FRANTON: Individual?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/278 B7B3
@wandklex@mastodon.artVor meinem geistigen Auge verschließt er übrigen Roséwein, aber ich glaub er kann auch Apfelsaft.
Handgemalter 30mm #wandklexschmuck auf Flaschenverschluss, ich möchte jemanden grüßen. 😁
(ein oder zwei weitere sind noch mit verschiedenen wählbaren Motiven im Shop auf
https://www.wandklex.art/product/7-12-flaschenverschluss-mit-mehreren-waehlbaren-handgemalten-motiven-174435 zu finden)
@bourgwick@heads.socialsteamy sunday on the lower east side with garcia peoples, the 2nd installment of their weekly july gig at piano's. new tunes, twin guitar zaps, & a few dips into the inner oceans (plus "holy mountain" screening behind them for extra zoneiness). #nyc
@ruari@velocipederider.comI came to Iceland to check out the volcanoes 🌋
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
ORAC: The difference is barely measurable.
AVON: But it is greater.
ORAC: By a marginal degree, yes.
AVON: There. [Smiles] Now isn't that something?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/149 B7B2
@bourgwick@heads.social40 years ago today, the #GratefulDead open a weekend on the beach in ventura, the same day as live aid, playing on the PA between afternoon sets. early summer ’85, show #13.
soundboard (sometimes with distorted bass): h…
@wandklex@mastodon.art @ruari@velocipederider.comI changed my mind. I 🖤 black sand.
@bourgwick@heads.social40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead begin their summer, opening 3 anniversary gigs in #berkeley under a “20 years so far...” banner. action packed & fun all around.
soundboard:
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
JENNA: He's not my type.
VILA: You can't afford to be choosy now!
JENNA: Why else would I be talking to you?
VILA: Thanks!
JENNA: Pleasure.
JENNA: [To Avon] What've you got there?
@ruari@velocipederider.comGoodbye 👋 #Vestmannaeyjar
@wandklex@mastodon.art @ruari@velocipederider.comElectric ferry ⛴️ ⚡ for the win.
#Vestmannaeyjar #Heimaey
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 03 - Traitor
FORBUS: I am compelled to work for Sleer. That inhuman devil is the cause of it - Sleer is responsible for what you see - and now only Sleer keeps me alive.
TARRANT: What happened, what do you mean?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/390 B7B6
@wandklex@mastodon.artDie gibt's ja immer noch und sind noch genauso wie vor mehr als 50 Jahren in meiner Kindheit - inklusive aufweichendem Pappstiel.
(Es war nicht alles schlecht, besonders die nicht.)
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
VILA: What? I don't ...
GOLA: [To henchman] and Master of the Duel - you!
TARA: It is written he will kill you.
GOLA: You called him back, didn't you?
TARA: Yes I did.
GOLA: Why?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/479 B7B…
@wandklex@mastodon.art#bloomscrolling am #klexenhaus, noch mehr Hortensienfarben (frisch geduscht)
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 12 - Warlord
AVON: All right, come along and hold her hand if you must, but in the meantime you can make yourself useful, there's a fault on the inner door alignment. [Soolin heads toward the door.]
[Comm room]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/171 B7B4
@bourgwick@heads.socialpeace to viv savage/david kaff. have a good time all the time. https://www.jambase.com/article/david-kaffinetti-viv-savage-spinal-tap-obituary
@wandklex@mastodon.artDas #Kundenglücklichmachungsposteinlieferungsgeräusch. (braucht im Grunde heute ein Regenmäntelchen. ☔)
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 04 - Horizon
KOMMISSAR: [O.O.V.] Your companions are still alive.
CALLY: I feel it. You killed him. You killed him because he would not obey you.
KOMMISSAR: What is she talking about?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/416 B7B3
@wandklex@mastodon.art#bloomscrolling am #klexenhaus, Shades of Hortensia (ich hätte sogar noch in weiteren Farben...)
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
C.A. ONE: Are you all right? No symptoms?
ZELDA: [On screen] The plant is fully sterile, sir.
C.A. ONE: Zelda, prepare a full range of genetic stock. Get them packed immediately, ready for evacuation.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/136…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
SERVALAN: Every time you see him, you're going to hate him.
DAYNA: No!
SERVALAN: In the end you'll tell me you'll hate him and when I believe you I'll stop.
DAYNA: I'll never hate him.
SERVALAN: You will.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 13 - Star One
VILA: [On communicator] Avon.
AVON: Well?
VILA: [On communicator] There's no response. What's going on, where are they?
AVON: Inside. It must be shielded.
VILA: [On communicator] Do you want to come up?
AVON: No.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/285
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: Then stay with us.
CALLY: Thank you.
JENNA: What are we going to do about the projectile.
BLAKE: Dump it in deep space.
JENNA: Thanks a lot.
GAN: I don't like the sound of that. It's murder.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/490
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
BLAKE: [V.O.]Have you done it, Avon?
AVON: Soon.
BLAKE: [V.O.]How soon?
AVON: I can talk or I can work, but I can't do both.
BLAKE: [V.O.]We're running out of time, Avon.
[Flight deck]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/225…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net @blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
VILA: Blake, I've just been checking on Del Ten. It's an ultra planet, fantastic mountain scenery, and the gravity's so low you can practically fly.
BLAKE: Switch to manual.
ZEN: Confirmed
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/0 B7…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 06 - Trial
ZEN: Fourteen minutes. Attack run will commence in nine minutes and thirty seconds.
BLAKE: How long before they see us?
AVON: Nine minutes and twenty-five seconds.
[Hearing room]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/206/490 B7B5
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 01 - Rescue
AVON: But not without a gun.
DORIAN: That's right, Soolin.
[Soolin examines her gun.]
SOOLIN: You're right. I did underestimate you, my dear.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/484 B7B4
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 11 - Bounty
BLAKE: I just want you to listen.
SARKOFF: I've wasted my life listening, listening to people who are arrogant, or vacuous, or just plain vicious. I smiled and acquiesced in the face of prejudice and stupidity. I've tolerated mediocrity and accepted the tyranny of second-class minds. But now all that is over. I am ready to die, here among the things I value. I am ready to let you kill me but I am not ready to listen to you justify the act. […
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
TARRANT: NO!
ZEN: Twenty seconds.
CALLY: I think I can bring them out with me, otherwise they'll both die.
DAYNA: This way you'll all die.
ZEN: Fifteen seconds.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/309/141 B7B2
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
AVON: Cally is dead.
TARRANT: Are you sure?
AVON: [Pause] Yes, I'm sure.
DAYNA: He went back in.
TARRANT: You wanted to be a hero too?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
RENOR: Sorry, professor. [to Cally] Hello! This place is full of pretty girls.
KAYN: Prepare for immediate surgery, please.
RENOR: Right.
JENNA: I'll get out of your way.
KAYN: Won't need you either, Cally.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/456
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
JENNA: We're below horizon now.
GAN: Then she's lost!
AVON: Only us. She got what she really wanted.
VILA: I thought that was us.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/510…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 03 - Volcano
[Mori and a trooper enter flight deck, holding guns on Avon.]
MORI: Wrong. If they did that they would destroy the ship, and we don't want that, do we Avon. That battle command is coming in to corner you and if you don't let him I'm gonna kill you.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/427…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 13 - Star One
ZEN: Confirmed, battle computers are online.
JENNA: Give me maximum available range on the detectors.
[Scene - inside Star One]
CALLY: What do you think is going on?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/357 B7B4
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 11 - Moloch
AVON: No; she doesn't know we're here. No probe activity at all.
DAYNA: Why don't we just blast her out of existence once and for all?
AVON: Well, then, we would never know, would we?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/18 B7B3
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
ZEN: There is no activity on the main detectors.
AVON: What about the extra-range detector?
CALLY: You know that puts a heavy drain on the energy banks.
ZEN: Negative on the extra-range detector.
CALLY: Satisfied?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/239
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
SERVALAN: Yes, of course. But why so formal, Rai? What can be so important that we can't discuss it in a more relaxed way? Oh, Rai, come here. [She beckons him to join her on a couch. Stroking his shoulder] Rai, I thought we were old friends.
[Servalan continues stroking his shoulder.]
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
BLAKE: I wish to make a statement.
ARBITER: There can be no more said regarding this case. The matter has been assessed and judgment made.
BLAKE: But the evidence is false. These charges are lies.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/215 B7B4
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
ZEN: Confirmed. Scanners in operation. [It displays a blurry visual of the alien spaceship.]
TARRANT: Doesn't maintain your usual standards, Zen. [The focus sharpens.] Some kind of alien.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/309/32 B7B3
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
JENNA: You're suggesting that we go into the Forbidden Zone and attack Control?
BLAKE: Yes, that is what I am suggesting.
CALLY: Do we know where this computer complex is?
JENNA: Most Earth people have heard of it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/49
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 02 - Shadow
AVON: The explosion in the planet's atmosphere would have provided the rest.
BLAKE: Yes, I hadn't thought of that.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/602 B7B5
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 09 - Sand
TARRANT: There seems to be something out there. Shall I see if it wants to come in? [The room darkens as the sand rises outside, obscuring the windows. The interior lights come on.] Interesting. [He holsters his gun and opens the door. Sand pours into the room.] Now we know why it went dark. This building's been covered by a sand drift higher than the windows. [Suddenly an alarm sounds.]
SERVALAN: [Startled] Aah! [She grabs Tarrant's arm and l…
