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Alex Glow (merlin) @alexglow.bsky.social · 2d

I'm on in ~2.5 hours (2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern)!

Excited to check out some other talks, hang out with #OpenHardware nerds in the chat, and dig into details on the new #ArchimedesBot – plus Halloween!

Also publishing Archie's v3 tutorial on @hacksterio.bsky.social & will add that here afterwards~

OSH Park @oshpark.bsky.social · 2d

Live now!
Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) is doing a Show and Tell 12 hour Membership Drive with creators from all over joining us to show off their work! @oshwassociation.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn0e...

Show and Tell 12 hour Membership Drive

YouTube video by The Open Source Hardware Association

www.youtube.com

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 3d

Arguing online is a waste of time. I would rather do something productive, like procrastinate for weeks at a time.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 13d

It is painful enough that one of the most awesome people I know, a member of Cult of the Dead Cow, lost his youngest son. But the medical bills from the trauma center coming will cause very deep hardship. If you loved the best textfiles, send some monetary love to this family.

gofund.me/7c09530e9

Donate to Supporting the Shea Family in Loving Memory of Caspian, organized by Debra Kavaler Wysopal

On behalf of the Shea family, we have created this page of su… Debra Kavaler Wysopal needs your support for Supporting the Shea Family in Loving Memory of Caspian

gofund.me

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 13d

Did you know I have a @backloggd.com? Well, now you do. backloggd.com/u/expzine/

expzine's profile | Backloggd

Keep a virtual backlog of your video game collection, then rate and review the ones you've played to share with your friends!

backloggd.com

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 13d

further update about the specific mechanisms they want to use to attack anti-fascists (not just "antifa" but anti-fascists more broadly)

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13d

Trump just signed an illegal executive order designed to target his political opposition by designating them terrorists and using the DOJ, IRS, FBI, and the JTTF to investigate and charge liberal organizations, funders, members, and protesters.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence

NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

www.whitehouse.gov

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 12d

🎧 lo-fi microfiche digitization (to study/relax/preserve gov docs to)
Back online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxUj...

lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to

YouTube video by Internet Archive

www.youtube.com

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Moheeb Zara @virgilvox.bsky.social · 12d

Shariah bans charging interest and requires charity (zakat). Project 2025 supports deregulation and protecting the wealthy.

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 13d

Fascists fight immigration, asylum seekers, black or indigenous people of color, Jewish people, Muslim people, the lgbtqia+ community, visa holders, higher education, and non-English speakers.

Anti-fascists fight fascists.

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Moheeb Zara @virgilvox.bsky.social · 13d

The Tylenol in my brain is screaming we’re moments away from a flashpoint event.

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 14d

stty

wizardzines.com/comics/stty/

(from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, out now! wizardzines.com/zines/termin...)

your TTY driver has configuration

you can see how it’s configured by running:

stty -a

for example it print out the current window size!
Ctrl+S

by default, pressing Ctrl+S wi(( freeze your terminal (and Ctrl+Q wi(( unfreeze) I have never wanted this in my life, you can turn it off with stty -ixon (fish turns it off by default)

###fun fact: changing Ctrl+C technically you can use stty to set a different keyboard shortcut for Ctrl+C, (ike “u”

stty intr u

this is extremely chaotic and I can’t imagine a reason that I would ever do this though
programs have to configure the TTY driver to get friendly features

developer: I want arrow keys to work in my program!

other person: better tell the TTY driver to turn off canonical mode! (more on the next page)
the TTY driver’s settings are called “termios settings”

for the gnarly details:

man termios

but if you’re writing a terminal program libraries like readline or ncurses will handle setting up the TTY driver
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smiling stick figure with short curly hair: I’ve only needed to use stty once in the last 20 years and I mostly don’t understand its output but I think it’s a fun view into terminal internals!

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 14d

Resistance! Kes’s quick guide to anti-trans oppression and resistance in the UK is a new zine up on the store for sliding scale down to £0.

penfightdistro.com/shop/resista... #DIYzines

the copy of Resistance! Kes’s quick guide to anti-trans oppression and resistance in the UK. There is a drawing of a person protesting and many protest banners in the background

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 14d

Wrote for @thenation.com about the complicity of some liberal politicians and pundits in the conservative campaign to exterminate trans people www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Right Wants to Exterminate Trans People. Liberals Are Helping.

After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative movement has accelerated its war against trans people. And too many centrist Democrats have kept up their trans bashing.

www.thenation.com

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RiseUp @riseup.wiki · 13d

Spain to join Italy in deploying naval ship to escort Gaza Flotilla.

www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

Spain to join Italy in deploying naval ship to escort Gaza flotilla

A Spanish naval vessel will join the Global Sumud Flotilla for Gaza to provide assistance and conduct rescues if needed.

www.aljazeera.com

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Moheeb Zara @virgilvox.bsky.social · 13d

Italy and Spain showing up to protect the fleet.

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Evil Ernest Luckman @ernieluckman.bsky.social · 15d

I assume this happened to all of you.

Jessica given the water of life "its tylenol" with the reverend mother saying "you should have told us youre pregnant!"

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Moheeb Zara @virgilvox.bsky.social · 13d

They are going to stage a mass test killing in the concentration camps at some point soon.

At this point it’s the next stage. This will be used to normalize routine lethal suppression.

They’ll say it was a “riot” and they had no choice.

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Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · 13d

My hope is that more voices rise up now, because silence only deepens the harm. A community is only as strong as the way it treats its most vulnerable, and right now this country is failing that test.

#ice #chicago #socialjustice #immigration #photography

The Cost of Looking Away.

The walls are being put up around all of our freedom.

adrianokalin.substack.com

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Moheeb Zara @virgilvox.bsky.social · 14d

Lock down your digital security. Find people in your community with varied skills. Everything becomes important more than you know.

It’s the little things that add up. The fight is against fascism here and abroad. Capitalism puts strain on everyone. Help lessen the burden on your neighbor

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Moheeb Zara @virgilvox.bsky.social · 14d

When boats enter the picture in rising global conflicts, always assume war is on the horizon.

Prepare accordingly. Assume your communities will need to fend for themselves.

Have decentralized communication fallbacks. Have systems of mutual aide ready. Build networks of trust.

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Moheeb Zara @virgilvox.bsky.social · 16d

Khayree?

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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 16d

Only weeks after Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted, his first big public appearance was at AmericaFest 1 where he came out to a custom song and thousands of screaming fans after the screens displayed graphic footage of his victims.

🎥 Throwback:

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Moheeb Zara @virgilvox.bsky.social · 16d

I finally watched mulholland drive. It has the same plot and ending as The Room. In this essay…

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Chris Love @legallylove.bsky.social · 20d

Many of us are censored everyday. Every. Single. Day. Black women especially. We’ve been sounding alarms forever. We’ve been doxxed. We’ve been deplatformed. We’ve been fired, canceled, ousted. All for courageously speaking the truth (not lil jokey jokes).

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Chris Love @legallylove.bsky.social · 18d

When you create another account just to try and troll Black women, but you’re definitely “not racist.” Yall swear up and down this place is better than Twitter, though.

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Moheeb Zara @virgilvox.bsky.social · 20d

The Antifa movement began in 1932 in Germany as Antifaschistische Aktion, specifically to oppose nazism.

ANTIFA in the US started in response to neo-Nazis in the 1980s

It specifically is anti Nazi.

So what would you call someone who is opposed to antifa ideology?

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