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@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-11-28 05:22:26

We don't allow cats on our dinner table, and they full well know that (their punishment when caught is corporal cuddling).
While I was out of the house just now and my wife asleep, the 13yo took this picture.
Oh yeah, my wife's laptop often seems to mysterious crash overnight..
#CatsOfMastodon

A dining room table with a bunch of random stuff on it; laptop, water bottles, a box of markers/art stuff, a kid's backpack, some plastic bags, etc. There are also 3 cats on there. Erie, a mostly black tuxedo cat sits comfortably on the keyboard of the laptop (which has its screen on and is unlocked, because she's obviously hard at work). Clove, a much whiter tuxedo cat (and Erie's mom) sits next to the backpack. Twig, a tabby, loafs on top of some plastic bags. All 3 cats are looking at the ca…
@bobmueller@mastodon.world
2025-10-27 00:50:01

Always, always, ALWAYS check out the "source" of any promotional offers you get. Don't click links in the message. Go to your favorite search engine, look up the organization, and verify from there.
And if they ask for money? Run. #writingcommunity #writers

Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams - Writer Beware
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a rising and extremely prolific marketing scam that I’ve been able to trace back to operators in Nigeria. Using highly personalized (AI-generated) email solicitations that make it seem the sender (always with a Gmail address, always presenting as a marketing or PR expert) has really read the book,Read More

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-10-24 17:16:15

Security at California Coast Guard base opens fire on U-Haul truck posing 'direct threat' (Fox News)
foxnews.com/us/security-califo
memeorandum.com/251024/p80#a25

@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-12-18 21:48:22

60 years ago tonight, the big beat acid test, on the grateful dead’s home turf in palo alto, at a soon-to-open go-go club on the outskirts of town. full chaos, with the dead & prankster band playing at the same time. local historian @… on the big beat:

poster for Acid Tests with note about Big Beat in bottom corner
the Big Beat building in later years
newspaper ad advertising the Big Beat, with teens dancing
sn SEE Big Beat Sets A Fast Pace For Palo Alto Crowds Glamorous proprietor Yvonne Modica, long assaciated with Peninsula bistros, presides over the Big Beat, the “in” spet of the go-go set. Dancing nightly featuring the exciting Tombstones, who are recording their original song “Tell It To a Tombstone" (with beatnik poetry lyrics), and gor- geous Go-Go-gal Linda Kordes, who leoks like a doll from Play- boy Magazine. Youngsters 18 to 21 do the wa- tusi in the Disco Pop Room. After-hours bre…
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2025-10-25 13:15:01

New Gist: No Contest
"There are, perhaps, alternative worlds where lots of things are different. Fianna Fšil maybe decide to run an MEP instead of a MIA. Or one where a fleet of no-hopers got nominated and we spent the whole campaign having to listen to the media asking candidates their opinions on the Latin mass and if cocaine bloat is a positive feature in a President. "
Also, I explain exactly what kind of idiot I have recently been.

Catherine Connolly: What do I know? Back at the start of these Gists I said that Catherine Connolly was having a mare of a campaign. This, of course, was because I am an idiot. And, in this case, I was a particularly shameful kind of idiot. Like the most flabby-minded middle aged golf bore at the end of the club bar, I mistook my media diet for reality. Shame on me.
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-17 09:53:24
Content warning: Politics, Rome and bycicles

So, the ruling neo-fascit party organized a protest in Rome against bycicle lanes, because of course they did; they though that a protest made of cars could do the trick. They planned for 100 cars (100 people) but 300 people (300 cars) showed up blocking the city completely. 300 people could fit in a single bus. Rome has metro, 300 people in a metro train probably feels empty. 300 cars paralized a city of more than 4 million people.
What a self own, such clowns.
In Italian:
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Rivoluzione mobilità urbana🚲 (@rivoluzioneurbanamobilita@poliversity.it)
Attached: 2 images [Ringrazio la delegazione romana di FdI per il supporto alla mobilità sostenibile](https://www.ilpost.it/2025/11/16/fratelli-ditalia-piste-ciclabili-protesta/) Infatti, nel voler protestare contro le pur timide politiche del sindaco di #Roma per migliorare la #mobilità, quelli di FdI sono riusciti in un solo colpo a: - raccogliere 300 automobili, *troppe* perché "paralizzarebbero la città", quindi niente corteo - avere poco sostegno: 300 automobili portano pochissime …

@theodric@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-23 11:34:44

For me, it was mostly just being the only non-religious extremist in the room, but I'm glad somebody found the cool people

Gretchen Felker-Martin @scumbelievable The experience of being homeschooled is completely encapsulated by the time I went to a book club for homeschooled teens and there was a girl there dressed in a crushed velvet revolutionary war uniform who introduced herself by saying "I fancy myself a bit of a libertine"
@gray17@mastodon.social
2025-10-07 08:28:38

Anarchy near the exit of a Fred Meyer supermarket in Portland

A concrete nook with a horde of cigarettes butts in a corner, near a sign that says "SMOKING PROHIBITED within 25 ft of an entrance, open window, or air intake". On the right there are stacks of propane canisters in a metal cage that also has "NO SMOKING" in prominent red letters. The propane brand is Blue Rhino. The propane founder Billy Rhim imagined the Blue Rhino to be the Pink Panther's roommate in an odd couple situation, but less Neil Simon and more Clive Barker. Billy himself wrote thou…
@niqdanger@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-01 02:13:58

Spent time today helping a VAR upgrade from one support appliance to another. Not my job but I get sucked into these things. While racking the new one I found an unknown box in the rack. "What is this?" "Oh, thats <vendor>'s box. We stopped using them years ago." Cue me finding a Ubuntu 16.04 box STILL ON OUR NETWORK FROM A VAR WE DON'T USE. Keep in mind, these are the same folks that run around screaming about security. Some days I really want to just wa…

Office space clip saying "Maybe I should just burn the building down."
@arXiv_mathAT_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-14 10:08:48

The Freed--Quinn line bundle from higher geometry
Daniel Berwick-Evans, Emily Cliff, Laura Murray
arxiv.org/abs/2510.10773 arxiv.org/pdf/25…

The Freed--Quinn line bundle from higher geometry
For a finite group $G$, and level $α\in Z^3(BG;{\rm U}(1))$, Freed and Quinn construct a line bundle over the moduli space of $G$-bundles on surfaces. Global sections determine the values of Chern--Simons theory at level $α$ on surfaces. In this paper, we provide an alternate construction using tools from higher geometry: the pair $(G,α)$ determines a 2-group group, and the Freed--Quinn line arises as a categorical truncation of the bicategory of 2-group bundles.