To all Ukrainians, happy Independence Day! Slava #Ukraine!

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NASA decides astronauts stuck at International Space Station will have to wait until February for return to Earth. Read more from AP: https://flip.it/szNefo
#Science #NASA #ISS #Starliner #SpaceX #Boeing

Kayaking on the Huron River

Oiy vey.
#FucktRump
#FuckMAGA

In big news, the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist presidential candidate who dumped a bear cub carcass in Central Park and had part of his brain eaten by a worm has endorsed a convicted felon fraudster who incited a violent mob in a failed attempt to steal an election.

Hey @jerry I am thinking of moving my sock puppet travel/life/art/music/cocktail identity over to your server. Does that work for you?

@StillIRise1963 @APBBlue@zirk.us @APBBlue@thepit.social

How RFK Jr. betrayed his followers and flushed whatever legacy he had left as an "environmental warrior" down the toilet to kiss the ass of the former president most hostile to protecting the environment in history. https://wapo.st/3yZIO8g

I just want to give some props to the #Mastodon block button. Normally I don’t block, but some people really do deserve it. And when I do, it’s like they vanished from my existence. Huge thanks to the block button!

⁂ New symbol version!

It is a crazy coincidence that a new Fediverse symbol proposal was advanced exactly one week after I published the first version of the Anti-Fascist Fediverse sticker with the “old” logo on it! No problem, if not that I just printed a thousand 5x5cm version 1 stickers… 🤯

Despite the terrible timing for the stickers printing, I am very happy about this new symbol proposal, I love it! 😍

Even though I am currently boarding a flight to Tallinn, where I will be moving for 5 months (😱). I quickly created with great pleasure a second version with the asterism symbol! 🚀

#AntiFascism #AntiFa #AntiFascist #Fediverse #AntiFascistFediverse #Antifaschismus #AntifaschistischeAktion #Fediverse #sticker #Asterism #FediverseSymbol #FediverseLogo

Thanks a lot to @FediverseSymbol, @liaizon, @raphael, and @nclm for this proposal!

Happy Independence Day
#Ukraine 🇺🇦💙💛

“In many ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man, but the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious to consider. This election is not only the most important of our lives. It is one of the most important in the life of our nation.”

HARRIS

Kamala Harris’ Speech Boosts DNC to 26.2 Million Viewers on Final Night

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/kamala-harris-dnc-speech-ratings-viewers-1236117090/

Now how have they kept the shillbilly quiet for two whole days?

This article on the demise of the magstripe https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/farewell-magnetic-stripe/ brought some memories to me.

When I was working at a local computer shop, we'd still use a zip zap machine (a credit card imprinter). We did not have a magstripe reader.

In order to check whether a card was still valid, I had to call the acquirer and recite the card number to them over the phone. Sometimes we did that.

I would take a pile of those imprinted slips into the bank weekly and I assume they'd type the card numbers in. A customer that'd used a debit card once called in to complain that I'd taken the slip to the bank only after a couple of weeks. Their account ended up overdrawn as they had already spent the money on something else. I thought this was totally weird: how would anyone not notice that we'd not yet debited the (expensive) computer? Myself, I would not have had money to buy anything like that until years later.

Much later, I saw a sign at a local grocery store saying they don't accept Diner's Club. Of course, nobody usually accepted it anyway, but this sign said that Diners cards "break the card terminals".

Being in IT, I thought this is just some crappy (exploitable?) POS device coding, but being a Diners Club cardholder then (it was our company card) I realized Diners had recently sent me a cool new card with a silver-coloured magstripe. So I asked around.

Turns out, the silver magstripe was conductive. And the supermarket cashiers were wearing trousers made of plastic fibres, sitting on plastic chairs, on a non-conductive flooring.

They were grounding themselves to the poor POS terminal via the magstripe.

Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius died in 1744 aged 43, although his great rival Fahrenheit was convinced he was 109

Draft beer on the plane. Beer tapped fresh from a wooden barrel was part of Lufthansa's Senator service until the 1970s.

In surveillance capitalism, web browses you.

It’s been a year…
…and my crazy project is complete
100% merino wool
One line per day of half double crochet stitch for a king size bed spread.
It ended up costing about $150 more than planned, and took about 215 hours.
I started it the day we moved in so it is August to August, hence the cold in the middle. I used the high temp of the day since that was easy to track.

#crochet #yarn #wool #fiber #craft #art #makers #rainbow #temperature