Garden joys: my ladybug is back, we chatted! She didn’t have a lot to say. The yellow flower is a real stunner! No idea what it’s called, let’s name it Yellow Flower.
The cardoon is once again 8 feet high and the bees are all over it like jam on toast (that means our hummingbird must be around here somewhere). I walk carefully around the bumblebarrons but they’re so busy rooting around in the big purple thistles that I’m not sure they even register my presence.
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*A* pedophile?
I'll bet half the GOP members of Congress are on that damn list. They're protecting themselves as much as him.
18 July 1925 | A Czech Jewish woman, Mariana Neumannová, was born in Prague.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.
The "EU Login Mobile App" is closed-source, which I refuse to install. No passwd or libre OTP option available.
It's a disgrace that the #EU forces their citizens to use propietary, closed source operating systems and applications.
Now we can not update news or releases of #GNUhealth in OSOR/JoinUP/Interoperable Europe until they change this rubbish portal. And we've been there since 2011.
@fsfe @victorhck
#OpenScience #PublicCode
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It's our right to have the EU login app source code.
I remain pretty #forum pilled tbh bring back individual websites ran by weirdos to make the internet diverse again. Glad Ars Technica made the list because theirs are great and I spend a decent amount of time there. If I could find a half way decent anime forum I'd be back in a heartbeat.
aftermath.site/best-active-for…
Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information - Aftermath
Internet forums are still alive and kicking and full of information. Here are the best niche communities I could find that are alive and well.aftermath.site
This probably me being toxic in some way, but…
Nothing screams “new money” like a woman on a cruise with obviously new boobs and no sense of propriety.
Bonus points if you spot her in the ship’s casino.
Chuck’s bladder flush is done and he’s doing well - waking up from sedation but will be ready to come home in about an hour or so.
He’s coming home with some pain meds and some antibiotics - we suspect an infection as well, though we’re still waiting on the urinalysis results.
After implementing partial support for Mastodon's FEP-044f quote post authorization in #Smithereen, I realized that this flow with sending a "*Request" activity and receiving a corresponding Accept{*Request} is nothing but an RPC mechanism.
So now Smithereen also uses TopicCreationRequest and TopicRenameRequest for discussion boards in groups, which are almost finished, btw.
Shout out to everyone who can still remember their childhood phone number but can't remember the password they created yesterday.
You are my people.
I remember the license plate number of the borrowed car my parents drove in 1979–80. Does that count?
927 GAC
Ukrainian Hackers Claim To Have Destroyed Major Russian Drone Maker's Entire Network - Slashdot
Ukrainian hacker group BO Team, with help from the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance and possibly Ukraine's military, claims to have wiped out one of Russia's largest military drone manufacturers, destroying 47TB of production data and even disabling the door…tech.slashdot.org
ALERT for Bluesky Bridge Users 🚨 🦋
If you are using a Bluesky bridge on Mastodon, DO NOT TAG Mastodon accounts in your posts without prior informed consent from this person.
This could end up showing a preview of this person's profile picture and bio on Bluesky without their consent.
Additionally, be careful about how the upcoming Quote Post feature could behave with Bluesky bridges.
Some of us don't want our information shared with commercial platforms like Bluesky, and have not consented to this bridge.
This practice can even endanger some Fediverse users.
If you have chosen to share your
own data with commercial platforms, make sure you leave the same choice to others.
This is important.
#Privacy #Mastodon #Bluesky #BlueskyBridge #Fediverse #Consent
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Thank you for posting this EM, I am seeing too many that are dismissive of our responsibility to protect the individuals in this community.
Yes, we can block bridges, yes we can add protective measures to our accounts, but I like to think we in the hive mind are also thoughtful and respectful enough to take care of our friends safety.
Por favor gente conocida del mundo mundial, tened medios de contacto accesibles a todo el mundo, no exclusivos si estás en tal red social, o si estás suscrito a tal newsletter de pago...
Gracias...
🎶 I'm called Little Fuckitup
Dear little Fuckitup
Though I could never tell why 🎶
Not now, brain, it's a week till your concert.
Folks, recommend some people for me to follow. I see my masto usage going down and I'd like to revive it. No specific theme, anyone you like or think is cool to follow.
Please repost for reach. 
my recommendations to populate your feed with inspiring stuff (in no particular order).
Creative people: @sylvia @jaredwhite @sturmsucht
Delightful peeps: @futurebird @NorcalGma2
Fedi champions, builders & community organizers: @stefano @andypiper @pfefferle @jannis @stux @stefan
Activists / speaking truth to power: @aral @randahl @dangillmor @timnitGebru @sundogplanets
Podcast: @firesidefedi by @ozoned
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This is the line of code that is failing.
uc = ( strlen($uc[0]) == 3 ) ? $uc[0]{0}.$uc[0]{0}.$uc[0]{1}.$uc[0]{1}.$uc[0]{2}.$uc[0]{2} : $uc[0];
This is from a fifteen-year-old wordpress theme. Honestly, I don't know what it means. Since I don't know what it means, I don't know why it's wrong, and that means I don't know how to fix it. I guess I'm going to have to learn enough PHP to make this compatible with PHP 8.
Dictionary.com 'Devastated' Paid Users By Abruptly Deleting Saved Word Lists - Slashdot
Dictionary.com abruptly deleted all user accounts and saved word lists from its premium apps without notice or refunds, leaving long-time logophiles "devastated." "The company deleted all accounts, as well as the only ways to use Dictionary.tech.slashdot.org
These notes are great! Pure insight, no filler
You can export all your Data from Mastodon in the settings "Export" function (it's *your* data after all). I was genuinely surprised, that my archive is already 597 MB and that I have have 3235 posts here already :)
I'm currently working on a desktop app, to display the contents of a Mastodon export (KDE-Frameworks based) to have a neat little viewer for it. Not sure ojn the name (yet)
I'll soon enable auto-delete for my data, so it's removed after 90 days.
#servicetweet #mastodon #fediverse #activitypub @tux #kde
Due to tariffs, Americans are likely to hear a lot about farm mental health as harvest approaches this year. Especially farmer suicide.
So let's get it on the record now. The "farmer suicide epidemic" of the last few years in the US is not real.
It's a lobbying tactic.
Martin Schröder hat dies geteilt.
Up next: a detailed overview of boring stats about something very sad.
I've lost family members to suicide, I've got colleagues in ag who've lost loved ones to suicide.
And we are not gonna fix this problem by lying about it!
So let's get our facts straight.
The first big debunk of a US farmer suicide epidemic was back in 2016.
thecounterorg.wpengine.com/far…
But a lot of folks are still out there pushing the story. Because "farmers are killing themselves!" is such a darn effective talking point.
How a simple CDC error inflated the farmer suicide crisis story—and led to a rash of inaccurate reporting
As farm bill negotiations continue, policymakers and the media don't have accurate numbers—with implications for the people who most need support.The Counter
Here's what it boils down to: the farmer suicide rate (44.8 - 59.4 per 100K) is over 3x the general population (14.12).
Very dramatic!
But farmers aren't the general population. They're mostly older rural white men. Whose suicide rate is 45.61 per 100K.
So, farmers are on par for their demo.
Gun ownership also pushes the likelihood up for an individual.
So if anything you'd actually expect farmers, who are more likely to have guns than average even for older rural white men, to be higher.
(Sources: farmer 2021 stat from this paper gaspsdata.dbhdd.ga.gov/data/su…
and general & older rural white men, both for 2021, from WISQARS wisqars.cdc.gov)
There's a very real public health situation going on in older rural white men in the US. And most of them are NOT farmers!
So let's have some context. Let's look at a whole range of professions with elevated suicide rates. A lot of them are male-dominated, trades, and/or rural, and NOT farming.
All occupations, men: 32
All occupations, women: 8
Electricians: 52.1 (men only. not enough data for women, that'll happen in a lot of these jobs)
Landscaping supervisor: 55.7
Carpenters: 60.4
Machinists: 62.5
Crane operators: 63.4
Manual freight movers: 68.7
Glaziers: 69.6
Millwrights: 73.2
Automotive repair techs: 80.6
Welders: 81.9
Structural iron & steel workers: 86.1
Construction workers: 91.0
Oil/gas drill & derrick operators: 116.8
"Other extraction workers": 128.7
Fishing & hunting workers: 130.6
Loggers: 161.1
Agricultural & food scientists: 173.1 🤠
Don't worry white-collar & creative jobs, we got you
Biz & finance: 13.5
Computer & math: 16.1(m), 4.9(w)
Legal: 20.5(m), 8(w)
Writers: 53.1(m), 22.8(w)
Postal clerks: 58.5
Artists & related workers: 93.3
Pro athletes & entertainers: 114.5
Surveyors & cartographers: 119.4
Musicians: 138.7
Shout-out to the service workers
Retail sales: 44.3(m), 15.1(w)
Bartenders: 47.0(m), 23.8(w)
Chefs & head cooks: 66.5(m), 32.9(w)
Computer, ATM, & office machine repair techs: 65.7 (!?)
"Personal care & service workers, all other": 95.4 (!!??)
And I can't get a clear view of farm worker stats, because this paper doesn't break "farm worker" out as its own category. There's a "misc farm worker" but no way to tell how many farm workers it includes?
This keeps happening. It's very rare to see farm worker suicide stats reported clearly.
To bring it back to how we make sense of this.
Farmers may be struggling in some ways, but are REALLY not at higher risk for suicide than non-farming peers.
In fact, if we break it out by job, farmers aren't even in the top 20 of rural or blue-collar jobs by suicide risk.
Let's talk about how finances play into that.
Most Americans think of farmers as poor. That's decades out of date.
US farmers' median wealth & take-home income (AFTER farm debts & expenses) are much higher than non-farmers!
In rural counties, that can put even small farmers in the upper crust.
It's absolutely buck-wild to watch the farm sector make themselves the mascots of rural despair.
You know how they did that? Having the money to buy PR agents & ads to talk about how sad & poor they are.
That's kinda messed up if you think about it!
And that's why it's so important to look at the facts!
If you use ~vibes~ to find out who's suffering in the world, you've made it really easy for people with money to advertise to you about how bad they have it.
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Made a video on this, just in time to find out Dems are co-sponsoring a Senate bill for farmer mental health funding.
That's why the farm lobby does this- so they can gut safety nets for everyone else & still get special carveouts for themselves.
House Passes Historic Crypto Bill Regulating Stablecoins - Slashdot
The House passed a bipartisan bill regulating stablecoins which now heads to President Trump's desk as part of his push to make the U.S. the "crypto capital of the world.yro.slashdot.org
Welp. I just found out my contract isn't being renewed for August, so i'm out of a job in ~2 weeks. If anyone needs a full-stack web developer with an emphasis on content management systems (particularly Craft CMS and ExpressionEngine, but i can work with just about anything), i would really like the work!
I'm legal to work in both the US and Canada; I prefer fully remote work. I'm open to contract or FTE, whichever.
The 34-year-old transgender woman came to the U.S. in 2021 to request asylum. Under Trump, she’s gone back home.
washingtonpost.com/world/inter…
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
I'm heading to Readercon (yay!) but next week I'll be at San Diego Comic Con.
On Saturday morning at 10:30 you can get a FREE copy of Lessons in Magic and Disaster signed at the Tor Books booth (#2701). Followed by a signing at the Mysterious Galaxy booth.
I'm also on *three* panels. See you soon!
No se por qué, pero no hay nada como hablando en español con mis amigos. Es una experiencia muy especial para mí.
Supongo es porque… nunca pensé que seria capaz de hablar un otro idioma. Siempre parecía imposible. Pero después de 5 años? Puedo tener conversaciones para horas y horas con gente de Latinoamérica.
Es estresante? Sí. Puedo entender todo? No. Pero en mi nivel, siento que un día en donde puedo comunicar y escucha bien es cerca! #spanish #languages
Sigue practicando y verás que en muy poco tiempo dominarás el idioma naturalmente y entrarás en conversación fluida sin siquiera pensar en ello
Today's backlist feature: Homecoming:
"This book clicks on just about every level. The heartbreak Aldiss feels at the loss of not only his home planet but his ex (even though he states there is nothing romantic between them anymore) is palpable... The two “Law & Order” type twists near the end of the book complete the upheaval. But the feeling of hope at the end of the book makes the ride worth taking." --Paul, Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words
otherworldsink.com/book/homeco…
18 July 1934 | A Belgian Jewish girl, Betsy Cohen, was born in Antwerp.
In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
8yo little girl. What part of state security did she pose a threat to?
We are repeating these atrocities across the modern world, and it has to be stopped. Once and for all!
The good thing about watching Strange New Worlds on Paramount+ instead of pirating it? There's an audio description track, and I really enjoy just _listening_ to the episodes.
The bad thing about watching it on Paramount+? They're streaming in 1920×1080, even though the content is in 21:9.
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Als Antwort auf Deborah Pickett • • •@futzle I just looked that up, yes that must be it! :) Sure looks the same?
Although…I’m not the best with plant ID.
See also: birds.
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