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Developers are turning to a large range of materials to store renewable electricity when it is available and use it to power everything from wearable technology to heating networks, factories and missiles.
Here are some of the energy storage innovations raising eyebrows.
🔸Liquid air
Late last year, on the site of a former coal plant in Trafford, the former mayor of Greater Manchester marked the start of construction on a long-awaited energy storage project that could usher …

@cdamian@rls.social
2026-06-19 17:43:15

Friday Links 26-20
This week was weird. Something happened to my RSS reader.
Anyway ... still some good stuff — the interview with Kelsey Hightower, and the piece on how Meta is messing up its culture.
christof.damian.net/2026/06/fr

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-06-18 17:14:45

Weird #waves in #clouds over Bochum, Germany, at noon today - not sure how high and caused by what physics. There are #GravityWaves in the atmosphere, caused by air flowing over topography but usually invisible ... hmm.

@aardrian@toot.cafe
2026-05-18 14:59:31

Surfing Ability Summit page at 200% with my keyboard (as one does) and came across this weird control.
Turns out it’s a roled-up button that launches Microsoft Immersive reader. Which is crap at 200%, it turns out.
Anyway, use native HTML buttons and let users rely on their browser’s reader mode.

A book / speaker icon overflowing its container with dev tools showing it’s a div with a button role, an icon from a CSS glyph in an I element that has presentation role, and the button has both aria-label and title of “10:15 AM–11:15 AM | BRK010 - Building NeuroInclusive Employee Experiences | Room: McKinley Immersive Reader”.
The new view where the bottom half of the “Immersive Reader” is clipped, the lines of text run out of the viewport to the right with no scrollbar, the Play and Voice Settings buttons overlap one another, and the circle defining the bounds of Voice Settings is itself offset above the icon and mostly over the Play button.
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe
2026-06-18 22:49:47

Seeing Emi with The beavers feel weird but I guess I will get used to it :)

@sean@scoat.es
2026-07-18 18:46:39

Weird question for a Saturday, but:
Anyone else seeing an elevated number of *authenticated* (logged in) users abusing URLs like `requestUri=/..%2f.env.local` ?
Over the past couple weeks it's ramped up. Different users. Can't tell if this is browser compromise, cookie stealing… or some other local-to-user failure.
Thoughts?

@wraithe@mastodon.social
2026-06-19 13:42:54

Me (to myself): I’m not that weird
🧠: ofc not
🧠: bee tee dubs, whatcha doin?
Me: …recomposing the MST3K theme song to the tune of Cheap Tricks’ “Surrender”, why?
🧠: as do we all, from time to time, no reason for asking.

@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-05-20 06:33:18

How We Got Here
David Thom talks with some of the smartest minds in Australia to figure out how we got to this weird moment in history...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/how-we

How We Got Here   
Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
2026-06-19 07:53:51

RE: mastodon.social/@pid_eins/1167
Love those drop-in dirs!
It makes things so much easier than those weird templating approaches and whatever shenanigans we had earlier.

@joannalaine@hachyderm.io
2026-05-19 05:02:37

Widow’s Bay is fantastically weird and funny, so smartly done

A giant mirror to create
“sunlight on demand”
was just approved by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC),
despite opposition from astronomers and the public, and real safety concerns.
The FCC approved the company
Reflect Orbital
to test one satellite, named Earendil-1,
as a means of reflecting the sun’s rays back to Earth for extra solar energy
and wide-area lighting.
The light is expected to cover an area about five ki…

@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2026-07-19 01:36:32

Hmm I'm not sure what #strawberry 's 'dynamic playlist' is supposed to do - I'd been using that for a few months since switching from Rhythmbox and felt I hadn't heard some tracks for ages; so I switched to using 'all tracks' in 'shuffle all' - and it is playing tracks that I hadn't heard in the last few months. Weird.

@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk
2026-06-19 07:25:26

#freefall Sam has a dream of wealth.
freefall.purrsia.com/ff4400/fc

Helix: Morning, Sam. Sleep well? 
Sam: I had a weird dream. I was swimming in a pile of compact disks like Scrooge McDuck. 
Sam: There I was, surrounded by more informational wealth than my people could dream of, and I looked up and saw I was in a dump. Humans were throwing them away by the millions. 
Sam: It's either a sign that I should buy landfills or that I should skip eating pizza before going to bed, I'm not sure which.
@trezzer@social.linux.pizza
2026-06-18 13:34:11

The new #PocketCasts #LiquidGlass design has made it more annoying to use. The weird little pill shape to show what is playing is so slim that it is easy to miss with a thumb. This is the same in other apps that have adopted this awful Apple design. I’m tempted to see if I can just swi…

@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-05-18 20:39:30

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Weird Nightmare:
🎵 Might See You There
#NowPlaying #WeirdNightmare
open.spotify.com/track/5MO0qJZ

@fathermcgruder@jorts.horse
2026-06-19 19:01:51

Sometimes it's good to let people be weird in the replies.

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-05-14 02:11:15

hmm, discussing the discrepancy between traditional printers points, 72.27 per inch, and computer points, a round 72 per inch lobste.rs/s/xsifwf/points_are_
it occurs to me to wonder how much influence older low-fi computer printing tec…

@bourgwick@heads.social
2026-05-18 03:34:47

the timeless weird american peter stampfel leads the atomic meta-pagans through banger after banger at piano's. mostly new in the past few years, including my faves "mission statement" & "this body's just meat," some even newer topical tunes, a lost/found antonia song from '66, "euphoria" & more. #nyc

Peter Stampfel & Atomic Meta Pagans perform
@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social
2026-06-20 06:13:40

"Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black" by actress and writer Cookie Mueller is an interesting and sometimes weird collection of stories spanning a large part of her colourful life.
#book #goodread

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2026-07-18 02:23:58

I hesitate to post this. The voice of the presenter is obviously generated artificially, but if you can watch and tune out the voice, and read the subtitles, then you can listen to the chickens. In other clips he speaks with an accent similar to what’s on this one, but this one just sounds weird. Never mind, just watch, and be amused.

@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2026-07-15 07:16:01
Content warning:  

Shared post - The Lunduke Linux Distro - No Age Verification, No AI, No Weird Politics
<lunduke.locals.com/post/806289>
Reactions …

@ncoca@social.coop
2026-05-17 08:15:52

The amount of times someone said "#google #maps works great in #Japan" and then I learn it took them on some weird route that was longer, more expensive, or required excessive walking then the optimal route.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-06-16 15:19:38

Long shot, does anyone have the extension cable for this camera, the Minolta Dimâge EX? I'm looking for it for my collection/making weird photos!
The camera has a detachable lens/sensor section and there exists an extension cable to connect the two (the sections can also snap together directly).
The full product name for the cable is: "Minolta Lens Extension Cable LC-EX1".

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-07-14 14:08:06

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Radiohead:
🎵 Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
#Radiohead
ghostdata.bandcamp.com/track/r
open.spotify.com/track/4wajJ1o

@tschfflr@fediscience.org
2026-07-17 16:51:28

"Do you know of any unexpected pattern of emoji usage? For example I'd expect younger folks to use emoji more than older folks and private communication to use it more than business... But maybe my assumptions are wrong or there is something else interesting?" - Yes generally our studies show that younger ppl use emojis more than older (and women a bit more than men). But in class with my undergraduates, they recently often tell me "I don't use emojis at all". I must say I don't fully believe them (maybe they don't even notice all the little hearts anymore?) and I haven't been able to show this in studies, but it's an interesting anecdotal data point I'd like to know more about!
Also, a student of mine recently asked teenagers (13 and 16yos) about their emoji interpretations. And surprisingly to us, these almost entirely match the data we already have for adults. Even for some like 🙃 and 😉 that I thought were changing (and just told you that younger people see them differently 😬). So that was a bit weird to me 😅 #emojis #WorldEmojiDay #linguistics

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-07-17 22:12:05

So, mastodon.social/@JenniferSmith is an odd bot. I don’t think it’s even a LLM behind it, the replies are just too weird.
Profile looks like it was taken from someone real…

@wraithe@mastodon.social
2026-06-19 14:44:44

This. So much this.
Heinlein wrote to pay off his mortgage…and then he did it cos he enjoyed it.
I mean, c’mon:
“Starship Troopers” (Heinlein’s a fascist!!) - 1959
“Stranger In A Strange Land” (Heinlein’s a Hippie free sex freak!) - 1961
@… Knows of which he speaks.

@mia@hcommons.social
2026-06-16 18:58:17

Isn't it weird how viaducts look so cool from a distance, but it's hard to see how cool it is when you're on top of one? Something something metaphor for life.
(This post brought to you by a train journey up the east coast of Scotland)

@ruari@velocipederider.com
2026-05-14 13:21:22

RE: pagan.plus/@Writch/11657308425
Not weird to me but then perhaps I am weird. 🤷

@gray17@mastodon.social
2026-05-20 01:37:08

@… I think this image is probably AI generated. I can't find a photographer credit, it only appears on random social media accounts. The poster in the back that says "Jimmy Show" is weird. The guys are all wearing their typical on-screen clothes, which is odd for a casual photo. The lettering on the sign feels like AI, not organically written: look …

@AdamCoffman@mathstodon.xyz
2026-07-17 13:00:28

The orange #climate disaster is even worse today. 🔥
#Indiana #AirQuality

There's a weird smell, too
@jae@mastodon.me.uk
2026-06-17 02:12:21

It’s weird, each time I see photos of my former self I don’t recognize them anymore.

@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-05-18 20:34:30

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Weird Nightmare:
🎵 Little Strange
#NowPlaying #WeirdNightmare
open.spotify.com/track/5xVZCJW

@theodric@social.linux.pizza
2026-07-17 19:45:48

Got tired of having to disassemble my entire-ass computer to get to the second SSD (it's a Streacom DB4 passive cube; everything is an ordeal), so I implemented an external PCIe disk attachment point around the open rear of the case. Now any SSD on a standard PCIe carrier can be swapped out easily!
Many years ago, I discovered that one of my ASUS 2nd-gen Core i motherboards would let me hotswap PCIe devices, under Linux anyway. I don't think I'm brave/dumb enough to try tha…

An Apple PCIe AHCI SSD in a carrier hanging off a PCIe x4 port bolted to the back of a weird cube-shaped computer
@drgeraint@glasgow.social
2026-05-16 12:27:29

Weird saddles.
#biketoot

@deepthoughts10@infosec.exchange
2026-06-16 23:52:08

TIL that Apple Motion Dots exist and apparently help alleviate motion sickness! #Apple #ios

@shriramk@mastodon.social
2026-07-16 02:11:11

Providence from the East Bay Bike Path today. The funny/weird part of the Canadian wildfire-induced smog is that even though we had a heat-alert, it was actually quite…cool, both yesterday and today.

@jake4480@c.im
2026-06-11 12:06:12

Stayed at a nearby hotel last night with the cats (insanity) since the A/C at the place we rent is still out and it's been getting up to like 105F (41C) during the day. Hotels are weird, man. Great TV though. And check that wall "art" 😂

A weird old bearded guy with a Felix the cat shirt in front of a mirror
Strange TV station
Crappy wall "art" probably made by algorithms
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-14 20:35:54

Anthropic faces ridicule and criticism for an ad titled "There's hope in hard questions" that unsettled viewers with weird graveyard imagery and doomer-ist tone (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/anth

@compfu@mograph.social
2026-06-16 19:43:21

Today an intern stopped by my desk and said "ah, you're the programmer who doesn't use AI". And I don't know if his tone was more "oh that weird dinosaur" or more "OMG he's one of the ancient ones who can still write without AI".
I really don't know. That makes me uneasy.
I said my task isn't so much pumping out lines of code. It's more about finding a solution to problems that requires the least amount of changes to the e…

@bogo@hapyyr.com
2026-05-15 08:57:53

Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does. True story, plus the moment Sofia copied us a year later:
imagenotfound.writeas.com/the-

@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2026-07-14 00:55:56

If I had a nickel every time I posted an image of a cursed clock and someone made it into a real thing, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice...
glammr.us/@fskornia/1164155972
@…

@dariaphoebe@mindly.social
2026-07-15 21:38:51

World’s on fire but we started the day with Marie’s biscuits, bacon egg tea and coffee. Weird Al was fun; tonight, a Fringe PVD show and also a Providence 48 Hour Film Project showing! #TogetherBreakfast photos.app.goo.gl/ZrvtmxV9BfcS

@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
2026-05-17 17:08:45

Microsoft''s "focused" inbox view is the most confusing crap ever. It keeps me from seeing the email I need to see - the one purpose that the inbox is for.
Since my hosting provider had decided to move their stuff into Microsoft's cloud thing, I started having to deal with weird shit like that.
So luckily, there is an option to turn it off:

@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
2026-06-15 09:45:28

Artificial Gravity is weird
youtube.com/shorts/pZEHCl0r-jI

@samvarma@fosstodon.org
2026-07-01 19:55:45

Goddamn it. I guess I'll be canceling my TopazAI sub... if I can
petapixel.com/2026/07/01/godox

@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
2026-05-16 02:41:25

Shiny new intro post:
Hello! I'm Furbland (or Nebula, if you prefer). I like VOTV (Voices of the Void), weird bootleg products, and other Very Autistic Things (/pos)
If you follow my account here I also suggest following @… so you can see my video content.
For more about me, check my about page on my prof…

@davej@dice.camp
2026-07-15 22:24:55

RE: #AltText.

A post by Mille (threads.com/@millesini) on Threads:

‘A MAGA literally just messaged me:

‘“ICE is not coming after white people so why do you weird white people have a problem? Be quiet about shit that has nothing to do with you.”

‘And there it is: the absolute definition of white supremacy and zero empathy, spelled out in a single text.’
@fennek@cyberplace.social
2026-05-16 09:57:43

Have I ever recommended "Hacks"? Magnificent series. 8/10
The changed dynamic in season 5 is a bit weird, but I am now through episode 4 and I think it works.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-06-05 08:20:51

How Marco Beat JD with One Weird Trick (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
thebulwark.com/p/how-marco-bea
memeorandum.com/260605/p8#a260

@wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
2026-06-15 20:00:02

This is so weird. I'm actually writing documentation *first*.
(well all right, I did already code the really stupid version of what I wanted, but now I'm having to write the less-stupid version, but there's also the small matter of deciding how insane we want the less-stupid version to be...
...guessing I've probably summarized All Software Development right there)
#LambdaMOO

@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com
2026-07-14 14:19:58

RE: hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/1169
You are absolutely required to tell me about your cat‘s weird nice interests

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2026-07-14 01:51:14

Feels weird shopping for a bike with 24in wheels because the 9yo has outgrown the 20in wheel bike.. Meanwhile my wife rides a Brompton.

@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza
2026-07-15 17:20:49

I’m not sharing this to indicate I know any famous people - because that’s entirely boring and literally makes no difference to anything anyway - but it’s psychologically interesting to me that those I’ve known who *became* famous all disappeared / became largely unresponsive after the change from then on, whereas those befriended already in that condition remain in contact and friends to this day.
Weird.

@ToneMilazzo@mastodon.cloud
2026-07-15 18:14:24

I've been plotting a weird west comic with the pitch; Michael Moorcock's Gunsmoke.
I already feel unsafe levels of investment in the property and I can’t afford to finance another passion project.
So I might test the waters with a one-shot featuring Six Gun Gorilla.
pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Six-Gun_G

@gwire@mastodon.social
2026-06-15 16:39:58

I secretly like it when AI generated YouTubers suffer weird speech glitches, because I grew up on Max Headroom and that's what's *supposed* to happen.

@vyskocilm@witter.cz
2026-06-15 07:59:33

TIL GOWORK=off is another option when go behaves "weird" wrt dependencies.
#golang

@bourgwick@heads.social
2026-06-17 00:59:48

spending this stunning summer evening sending new #music & sweet weird sounds aloft on the frow show, from now 'til midnight on @….

a blimp over a skyline reads: the frow show, wfmu.org / 91.1 fm, tuesday 9pm-12am
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot
2026-05-14 11:26:30

RE: mastodon.scot/@thecommongreen/
@ottaross This looks very tasty! Weird to have both yeast and baking powder, but it seems to give a good result

@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social
2026-06-14 15:27:07

RE: assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/1
Why is this practice so prevalent in so many different cultures all over the world? It's very weird to me.
I know, I know, patriarchy. Still...

@theodric@social.linux.pizza
2026-06-17 17:51:52

1. modern "traditional" desktop environments waste WAY too much screen space by default
2. tiling desktops are absolutely fucking bizarre and I don't like how much control I'm expected to hand over to the system
3. fish is weird

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-06-11 22:47:56

This is weird.
bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2026-06-17 07:08:22

@… you're not weird.
Some rude people never learn.
Some do learn, but take pleasure in pressing buttons. The worst of these people are so stupid that they can not imagine consequences from a series of presses.
@… true.…

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-06-16 15:07:40

Experimental Demonstration of Gravitational Impact on the Speed of Light / Exploring the gravito-optic effect for gravity sensing applications: #Gravitation

@jacobgudiol@mastodonsweden.se
2026-04-22 06:57:42

En fin summering av funktionsmedicinen tillsammans med en väldigt snygg och totalt sågande genomgång av en av få studier som har utförts på konceptet
cremieux.xyz/p/one-weird-trick

@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social
2026-05-12 18:22:55

Folks, I'm curious.
Over on Bluesky I was bragging about the warm and welcoming attitude to trans people that I have noticed on the Fediverse, and was attacked by a couple of people with obvious mental health problems, but also one polite and rational person who sent me this link, to a 3 year old blog.
It's loooooooog. But skim-reading it, it is detailing some weird bunch who purportedly were/are(?) taking over moderation in the Fedi.
Anyone even heard of this?

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-06-15 15:22:37

Jackson Powers-Johnson Gets Concerning News Coming out of Raiders OTAs heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-06-11 10:11:02

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Lianne La Havas:
🎵 Weird Fishes
#LianneLaHavas
farfromnorth.bandcamp.com/trac
open.spotify.com/track/5ygk8Hk

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-05-16 18:09:31

RE: toad.social/@grumpybozo/116579
Not going well...
I’ve had to reboot twice and re-login once to break weird hang states. Safari has forgotten the URLs but not the placement of windows twice. Everything seems to need new special …

@hynek@mastodon.social
2026-07-11 13:23:08

who's got two thumbs and learned last night, with a drink in his hand, that he needs to start practicing again 👍👍
If you didn't get in last time around, this is your chance! Content is obviously adapted for 2026 and there might be stray cowboy references because it was the PyTexas keynote.
#parachuteUnderstudy

@luca@social.luca.run
2026-07-10 20:17:32

Hello threejs. I don't know what I am doing, but I like that things appear on the screen.

Screenrecording of a firefox window: localhost:5173. A small blue cube rotates in the center. Two blue lines rotate in a weird way around it. Suddenly a blue half disc appears and rotates away. It re-appears even bigger and rotates away.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2026-06-09 12:19:37

It’s weird watching videos from 2020 when the person alludes to the pandemic but never mentions it… I wonder if this will completely confuse people in the future.

@sherold@mastodon.online
2026-05-13 16:16:45

RE: indieweb.social/@dealingwith/1
This is beautiful and weird. I love it.

@seav@en.osm.town
2026-06-12 09:59:23

It’s been over two years since I last submitted a #Wikimedia #Phabricator ticket, so I guess I should submit a new one for a weird bug on #WikimediaCommons involving structured data via

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-05-08 13:46:55

Colleges and universities are a weird mixture of “nobody can tell me what to do” free-for-all and unlistening top-down mandates. The mix varies a •lot• (my institution leans pretty hard to the first) — but neither one is amenable to creating the kind of environment I describe in the previous post.
And as commenters note…this isn’t just higher ed. I mean, higher ed institutional culture •is• quite distinct from corporate culture — I’ve experienced plenty of both! — but what I’m describing is also the reason your online banking probably sucks.
5/

@lanefu@social.linux.pizza
2026-06-14 16:06:39

Amusingly @… inspired to me to try IPv6 one-more time with Verizon FiOS on my Debian router (something that has never worked for me)..and I got it going. Verizon's IPv6 documentation is basically only available through hear-say and rumors.. Their situation is so weird. Anyway I shared some tips and sloppy reflection in a quick blog post.

@shriramk@mastodon.social
2026-05-26 13:18:15

Absolutely fascinating piece by David Oks connecting language model oddities to human cultural development. Picked this up courtesy of Deena Mousa's "Under Development" newsletter.
davidoks.blog/p/language-model

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-04-24 06:01:04

RE: weird.autos/@rootwyrm/11645405
Well, IBM did name it after their founder, Thomas J. Watson, who was decorated by Hitler for services to the Third Reich, so maybe killing 50% of patients was a feature, not a bug?
🤷‍♂️

@jkmartindale@mastodon.social
2026-05-13 20:34:28

I love the weird little notes I leave for myself in Telegram at oddball times like "agency is a prerequisite to the act of creation" or "nothing you hear in the bathroom is real"

@jake4480@c.im
2026-06-13 15:24:50

Around June or July is that weird part of the year where there aren't really many new albums coming out that I'm into (same thing happened last year, and the year before, I think?) and I just gotta groove on what's already out. Super odd, but to be expected at this point.

@theodric@social.linux.pizza
2026-06-14 20:10:27

I went to the cinema (I almost never do that). I watched the film. The weird one, with the aliens. Spoiler: it's weird, and there are aliens.

@dariaphoebe@mindly.social
2026-07-14 12:57:14

Cheddar corn pancakes, egg and bacon, tea and coffee. Hot sauce we brought home from Columbus. Tonight we get to see Weird Al! Locally, even! #TogetherBreakfast photos.app.goo.gl/UqZPA2Mtf1Vg

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-06-09 13:43:46

These use-cases are so weird.
Like do you really need a $3,500 face computer to figure this out?
But more importantly why doesn’t Siri AI tell you to just wear the shoes on your feet instead of carrying them in a backpack while hiking?

Donald Trump has a hang-up about Pluto.
As far back as 2019, his appointed NASA administrator was making noise about reclassifying it as a planet,
a status it lost when in 2006 the International Astronomical Union created a new system of nomenclature for all those weird and wacky bodies hurtling around the sun.
Pluto, long a staple of the Big Nine and a famous childhood acrostic, was now a "mere" dwarf planet.
Trump's back on his weird horse again, makin…

@fathermcgruder@jorts.horse
2026-06-14 02:04:53

The glowing orb demands sacrifice.
chaos.social/@weirdunits/11674

@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
2026-06-15 05:33:34

I just had a weird and wild dream:
A jerk installed OpenBSD over the existing system on my laptop, telling me how it would be so great, completely dismissing the huge loss of data he caused.
I held him, asked people for help and to call the police, and some people did help to keep him, but no police ever showed up, and I waited for a long, long while.
He stuttered some non-sense, asked whether I had set up five nines.
At somepoint, I finally woke up.
Woah, what a …

@compfu@mograph.social
2026-06-14 09:07:24

Behind-the-scenes clip from Eyeline (ex Scanline) about filling a soccer stadium with a crowd:
youtube.com/watch?v=8W6rpbY4GLc
I find the self-marketing of it so weird. They use phrases like "hybrid pipeline" that can perfect how they meet the director's vision…

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-05-14 17:04:42

Weird phone #spam today: call to my cell phone from an 'unknown' AC 202 (D.C.) number. That in itself is strange, I get very few calls at all. Caller asks for <SWBMO's legal first name> without identifying itself. I just keep asking "who is this" (as I do with all unknown callers...) until he gives an already-forgotten name (Edward something) calling "for the Internati…

@wraithe@mastodon.social
2026-06-14 19:05:11

It’s so weird, one of largest demonstrations ever to to take place in the US, supporting multiculturalism, urban living, & community happened last night in NYC with what appears to be hundreds of thousands of people & I can’t find anything about it on any news sites
Just stuff about the Nicks win
😁

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2026-06-12 06:10:43

Looks like you can't even buy a non-electric Yuba Kombi any more (at least not from Yuba directly). Such a bummer that every cargo bike manufacturer is removing the option of much cheaper non-electric (and forcing weird bike frames that will only ever work with one mid-drive motor type..)

@shriramk@mastodon.social
2026-05-12 02:14:52

Weird that our simplest, textual interfaces are bringing the most amount of whimsy back into computing.
Good night, sleep Claude. Hope you catch some winks once you're done running my `/loop`. (Alt text for context.)

After I tell Claude Code I'm going to sleep, when I return to my terminal to check on something, it says: "go to sleep, see you in the morning" in grey text behind the cursor.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-05-14 16:10:27

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Weird Nightmare:
🎵 Headful of Rain
#WeirdNightmare
open.spotify.com/track/1293lDx

@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
2026-05-15 05:56:34

Search suggestions on Google be like:
Why is Eurov...
Why is Eurovision so weird?
Why is Eurovision so #gay?
kekw

@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2026-05-12 19:21:28

Weird, I just got the r/freebsd page from three months ago (3rd February) at <old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/new/>.
It's not an entirely cached copy. The single maroon rectangle contains text that was updated two days ago (Sunday 10th May):
"temporarily blocked 2025-08-07―2…

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-06-08 18:17:51

wow that post-keynote rap is weird youtube.com/watch?v=KB6M0dxWDOo

Anthropic has been trying to understand how large language models (LLMs) work for a few years now.
Anthropic isn’t the only one looking at this, but I think the company has made it part of its core mission more than most.
Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, has said we won’t be able to control LLMs fully unless we learn more about how they work. 
So this new research is very much in that context.
It goes deeper into the weird mechanisms inside LLMs than ever before.

@jake4480@c.im
2026-06-10 01:15:52

It's so weird when cities have big 'coming soon' signs for apartments with phone numbers on them, when the buildings aren't even built yet. Just a crazy vacant lot. And I'm like, what, am I supposed to call you and chat? About this nonexistent building? Do I get on a waiting list? For a future imaginary, apartment? Go fuck yourselves 😂

@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2026-05-07 08:58:52

@… I found one abandoned outside a local church this week. Useless, flat; maybe stolen, then abandoned because the thieves didn't have the weird power connector.
I plan to borrow the weird thing from someone, then charge it to discover whether the owner's identity is stored. That's the plan, although I don't know anyone who uses Kindle.

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-07-19 04:26:18

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Weird Nightmare:
🎵 Might See You There
#WeirdNightmare
weirdnightmare.bandcamp.com/tr
open.spotify.com/track/5MO0qJZ

@wraithe@mastodon.social
2026-07-11 13:47:09

You know, I didn’t have Francesca Ramsey becoming the “Editorial Weird Al” of our times on my bingo cards, but I’m here for it!
bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xlmru