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ilovecomputers ℹ️❤️🖥 @ilove.computer · 6h

Yoooo I vaguely remember this movie from my childhood. It was one of those cartoons you, a 90s minded kid, thought was cool as shit.

Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 12h

The dance floor sequence from Blood: The Last Vampire (2000), dir. Hiroyuki Kitakubo, Production I.G

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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 1d

Witchy crows 🐦‍⬛

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 1d

3+ years until federal dollars will support mass transit & green energy, or investment in new tech

but cities have the power to build bike lanes now

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Daz @beepbeepster.bsky.social · 1d

There was something inspirational growing up in this era, so much hope through science and cooperation

Which is why is feels so awful becoming an adult when anti-intellectualism and pride in lacking empathy have taken root

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

the wave of weaponized nostalgia for 90s-style multiculturalism and political correctness is gonna hit different

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Ari "actually likes modern C++" Express @ari.express · 2d

Imagine walking into a Code Review session for your job and there's just Nostalgia Critic sitting there

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Neocities @neocities.org · Aug 14

Seriously can't believe how cool the stuff y'all make is, just mind blowing.

Two-reeler

two-reeler.neocities.org

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

really if we were all about our business we'd every one of us be over on neocities being cool

neocities.org/browse

Neocities

Create and surf awesome websites for free.

neocities.org

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 2d

Trump 2.0 has really exposed how brittle and broken the West Coast states' tax systems are. WA, OR, and CA all have a 1% property tax cap. WA has a sales tax but no income tax; OR has an income tax but no sales tax. It is not possible to effectively resist Trump without fixing these tax systems.

CalMatters @calmatters.org · 2d

The news has sent counties throughout California into a panic. The state is bracing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars for permanent housing, which is the one thing experts agree on as the most effective way to solve homelessness. https://cal.news/4nBKuZI

📷 Fred Greaves

A person walks past a homeless encampment along X Street under State Route 99 in Sacramento on Oct. 25, 2024. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters

HED: California braces for ‘devastating’ expected cuts to federal homeless housing funds

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨🚨⬇️⬇️⬇️ Tell Newsom to sign SB79, to allow housing along transit.

Literally took me 10 seconds.

If you don't like telephones, you can leave a digital comment in the link below.

Active Bill -> SB79 -> Please sign SB79.

#sandiego #safestreets #bikesky

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

Reminder that @governor.ca.gov is reportedly considering vetoing SB79, the best housing bill to clear the CA legislature in decades.

It would be a *disaster*, substantively & for Newsom's political future. Really hope he doesn't self-immolate.

Tell him!

Contact the Governor | Governor of California

You can contact the Governor a few different ways. The best way is through his online form.

www.gov.ca.gov

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves

AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

www.governing.com

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 2d

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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ilovecomputers ℹ️❤️🖥 @ilove.computer · 2d

I might be an old head from the phpBB days, but it was assumed you made acquaintance with or at least gained some awareness of the admin who ran your forum/board/whatever. You could judge if you were in good company by how the other posters acted, but especially the admin.

damien 🥖🐈‍⬛🧣 @damien.zone · 2d

Twitter, Mastodon and now Bluesky are a constant reminder that you can’t just add layers of abstractions to avoid dealing with the fact that someone is running the thing you use. Layers are only pushing the can down the road.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

NEW: Judge Immergut issues her written second TRO, blocking the Trump admin from deploying ANY federalized National Guard troops from ANY state in Oregon. (Full hearing thread below) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Based on this Court's prior Opinion and Order Granting Plaintiffs' First Motion for
Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 56; the hearing on Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order; and the newly submitted declarations, ECF 60, 63, 65, this Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 59, and ORDERS as follows:
1. Defendants are temporarily enjoined from deploying federalized members of the
National Guard in Oregon.

2. This Second Temporary Restraining Order expires by its own terms in fourteen
days on October 19, 2025.
3. Plaintiffs are ORDERED to post a nominal bond of $100 within 48 hours. The
bond shall be filed in the Clerk's Office and be deposited into the registry of the Court.
4. Defendants' Request to Stay or Administratively Stay this Second Temporary
Restraining Order, which was raised in the hearing on Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary
Restraining Order, is DENIED.
The Court Clerk will contact the parties to schedule a telephone hearing on
October 17, 2025, to address whether this Second Temporary Restraining Order should be extended for another 14 days.
6. Any motion for a Preliminary Injunction shall be filed no later than October 17,
2025; Defendants' opposition shall be due no later than October 23, 2025, and Plaintiffs' reply shall be due on October 27, 2025.
A combined hearing on the preliminary injunction motion and a trial on the merits
under Rule 65(a)(2) is set for October 29, 2025, before the Honorable Judge Karin J. Immergut, in Courtroom 13A, beginning at 9:00 a.m.
IT IS SO ORDERED
DATED this 5th day of October.
/s/ Karin J. Immergut
Karin J. Immergut
United States District Judge

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mcc @dryad.technology · 3d

And here's what's weird about Bluesky's multijointed, dozens-of-interacting-microservices approach to "federation": *It's really hard to tell why the hell any one thing is happening*.

So I *think* the reason I can't see Link is because blacksky.community uses *both* bluesky and blacksky moderation.

Screenshot of blacksky showing "Bluesky Moderation Service" and "Blacksky Moderation".

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ilovecomputers ℹ️❤️🖥 @ilove.computer · 3d

The Fedi model of having all the data and software on one server is a lot easier to grapple as an end user than this cacophony of separate software pieces on different servers that Bluesky/ATProto runs on.

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Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera @seanelorivera.bsky.social · 3d

Our streets should work for everyone — whether you walk, bike, or drive.

Thank you to Bike SD for organizing and all the neighbors who came together at the El Cajon Boulevard Hackathon to design safer, more vibrant spaces for our community.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4d

A better world is possible

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4d

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.

Just the start.

Common sense.

Paris before and after street transformation

New urban forest planted in front of Paris City Hall

A Paris “School Street” where cars are removed and people space/tree planting are added

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Mac Themes Garden @macthemes.garden · 4d

Octopus Garden - Sin Kubota
https://macthemes.garden/themes/ece8f9f402a2-Octopus-Garden

A preview of the Mac theme "Octopus Garden" by "Sin Kubota"

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ilovecomputers ℹ️❤️🖥 @ilove.computer · 4d

Going through the helix tutor myself as well. It's so peak.

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ilovecomputers ℹ️❤️🖥 @ilove.computer · 4d

If you're reading this, then my account is no longer at Jay's stupid waffle house, but instead has migrated to where the rad witches hang out @witchcraft.systems

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ilovecomputers ℹ️❤️🖥 @ilove.computer · 4d

a cartoon of a chicken nugget and a cup with a straw in it

Alt: A snippet of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Shake is talking to Meatwad. Their names represent the sentient objects that they are. The caption reads: “I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this.”

media.tenor.com

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Felix Colgrave @felixcolgrave.bsky.social · 4d

Wily Wyvern

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Witchcraft Systems @witchcraft.systems · 5d

this is your reminder that pds.witchcraft.systems is a thing and is still accepting new members!

DM this account to get the invite, then follow our starter guide to either sign up for a new account or migrate your existing one to our PDS

(the DM requirement is just to prevent spam)

pds-starter-pack

All you need to know about pds.witchcraft.systems

git.witchcraft.systems

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