ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

This is Zoe. She’s a new mom ❤️
#dogsofmastodon #dogs

I’ve had “Take Grand Central Sunrise Photos” on my calendar for today for about 4 months. I chose today based on researching where the sun would line up and how high it would get at a specific time.

Today that planning ahead really paid off. These are straight out of my camera. I have about 600 more to go through. Can’t wait to get home and edit.

#sunrise #photography

A lot has been made of mastodon’s “anti-viral” design choices, and there certainly are some, but any system that has global notifications and boosting can still create viral posts that travel far outside your usual community.

Well friends and neighbors, it's official:

I've taken my General Class ticket. For now, I'm KI5SMN/AG.

Hello, SPECTRUM!

#amateurradio #radioamateur #radiooperator #radio #hamradio

I always hate asking for help, but It would mean an awful lot if you'd be willing to help out an author with no big marketing budget and limited opportunities to promote a very personal project
https://amzn.to/2P5Y5gL

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RO4gJLtR1z0&feature=share ⚡️🇬🇧Russian anti-war journalist reappears in Paris after fleeing house arrest in Russia (The Sun VIDEO) #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

Yay i'm all set up and follows and followers moved over. Thanks folks.

Some people haven’t yet figured out that Mastodon only needs to be big enough to support a community, not big enough to support a VC-funded rocket ride to an IPO.

Very very different success criteria

when you stare into the abyss and the abyss stares back at you because the abyss has to poop

“In my thinking, it was a little hypocritical …”

DeSantis wanted guns banned from his victory party, because … you know. Letting everyone carry guns around is unsafe.

But he wanted to make sure someone else took responsibility. Because …

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/10/desantis-campaign-emails-gun-free-event/

"Aye, the sirens," says the lighthouse keeper, picking a bit of tobacco from his beard. "Some nights, when the wind is just so, I swear I can hear 'em singing." "What do they sing?" I prod him. A faraway look in his eyes, he says in a voice barely above a whisper, "Tubthumping."

The rhetorical framework of the "anti-wokeness" (or anti-Cultural Marxism, if you're a pretentious right winger) campaign in which there is a supposed evil enemy other who is secretly trying to indoctrinate your children to turn them into anti-American atheist socialists is nearly identical to the old fascist discourse about "Judeo-Bolshevism." https://fair.org/home/cultural-marxism-the-mainstreaming-of-a-nazi-trope/

Processor flags indicate if values are zero, negative, overflowed, and so forth. Flags are critical for loops and conditional statements. But how are they implemented? I took a close look at the silicon of the Intel 8086 processor (1978) to find out.

Remember how we used to open our windows to clap at 7pm and said things like “we’re all in this together” and felt genuinely connected in our fear and isolation, and now everyone’s like “fuck your chronic health condition I’m bored wearing a mask in Krogers.”

If your white child isn't old enough to just read about the history of racism in America, but is old enough to have their rapist’s baby, you live in red state America.

#Music #Stravinsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzPsJ_ikpGE

Parents, please talk to your kids, especially the boys, about internet algorithms, and trolls like Andrew Tate, Peterson and Shapiro. And not once. Talk to them on a daily basis. Don't dismiss the harm these videos can do to them. Tell them they can come to you with any questions about what they 'learn' online. https://mstdn.social/@renwillis/109818326042254385

If you're reading this, please give a small donation to your #Mastodon instance admin for keeping the lights on and helping sustain such an awesome place to hang out.

[Boosts appreciated]

Ditto that