@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-05 09:33:26
Been updating my personal Mastodon tooling to download and convert my bookmarked toots. Here's how little code is needed to download a single message and convert its HTML content into Markdown, all using these #ThingUmbrella packages:
- https://thi.…
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2025-11-05 04:46:58
I thought I had found the one person on mastodon that wants to vote for #cuomo but now I wonder if they are a bot or just part of a misinformation campaign by a foreign power.
Telling people to vote 10:30PM many hours after the polls are closed. Definitely not someone in the US.
Surprise in their profile: supporter of 🇮🇱
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-01-02 23:06:02
The hard turn of the liberal established media (NYT, Guardian) against trans existence is puzzling.
The whole anti-trans obsession that has bubbled up in recent years is weird. It almost feels like a concerted project but it’s too big, right?
I mean, there just aren’t that many trans people to be upset about. It’s easy to go for years without knowing that you’ve interacted with a trans person, mostly because it’s a non-issue for most folks. @…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-25 07:26:43
It was ten years ago that the person in charge of protecting kids online in Europe was telling to me apologise to Lord whateverhisnameis from Facebook for saying they shouldn’t be in schools. (Spoiler alert: they were informed in no uncertain terms exactly where they could stuff their not-forthcoming apology.)
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@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2025-11-30 20:18:50
Top 3 of the most affected or overly dramatic series of 2025:
3. Stranger Things (S05)
2. Talamasca: The Secret Order (S01)
1. Robin Hood (S01)
Personally, I am enjoying Robin Hood. The meeting between Rob and the Queen made Robin Hood shine as a character.
#StrangerThings
@buercher@tooting.ch2026-01-04 22:41:25
The NY Times reports that Trump presented Maduro with an ultimatum in December, telling him to leave office and go into exile in Turkey. Maduro refused.
Then, Maduro went back onstage this week, dancing to an electronic song that said “no crazy war”.
Maduro’s “regular public dancing and other displays of nonchalance in recent weeks helped persuade some on the Trump team that the Venezuelan president was mocking them and trying to call what he believed to be a bluff”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/04/nicolas-maduro-jailed-us-attack-venezuela-donald-trump-reaction-latest-news-updates-live?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@samerfarha@mastodon.social2025-11-22 15:18:18
Speaking of old internet things, I was telling someone about my first ISP being ClarkNet, an ISP started by a deaf person and on a working farm… I discovered they’ve got a Wikipedia entry that mostly meshes with my memory of it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClarkNet
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-18 12:29:48
Indirect CW for teen pregnancy, rape, death.
Just finished "Girls Like Us" by Randi Pink. Pink has a knack for telling stories that capture the grim but also vibrant nuances of African-American history. I previously read "Under the Heron's Light" which has more elements of magical realism and connects more directly to the history of enslavement; "Girls Like Us" is more historical fiction, with a bridge at the end to contemporary times (circa 2019, when the book was published). It tells the story of a disparate group of mostly-Black teens who are pregnant in 1972, and shows a range of different outcomes as varied as the backstories of the different girls. Rather than just separate vignettes, the girls' stories are women together into a single plot, and Pink is a expert at pulling us in to deeply contemplate all the complexities of these girls' lives, showing rather than telling us truths about the politics of teen pregnancy and abortion, and how even though the choices involved don't have simple answers, taking those choices out of the hands of the people they most intimately affect is cruel and deadly.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2025-10-26 06:24:48
Blast from the past!
Writing firmware on my first laptop, for the PIC12F683 (the first microcontroller I ever used), on my first embedded project ever (robotic rubber band gun turret) freshman year of college, bodged together on perf board.
The UART and servo PWM were both bitbanged because the PIC12F683 didn't have any UARTs and I hadn't learned how to use the timer block yet.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-11-23 16:32:34
Imagine being the most despicable, immoral child rapist & telling someone that Trump is the worst, most indecent person you know.
Here's a link to Epstein's email: https://jmail.world/thread/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031659?email=5662
