We truly live in the stupidest timeline. 🫠

“Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Milton Conspiracy Theories Thrive”

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/hurricane-milton-misinformation-meteorlogist-death-threats-1235130352/

@mcc turn the tables on sick. make sick feel you

And then the aurora gods went berserk. Here's a picture taken at 21:23. The sky was nuts! #aurora #auroraaustralis #NewZealand

Looks like the flare has peaked. Peak GOES-16 0.1-0.8 nm X-ray flux was X2.19 on 07.10.2024 at 19:13:00 UTC

Space Weather

Solar Flare Alert

Tonight's X2.1 flare appears to be a long-duration flare which is still ongoing.

It's coming from active region AR3842 which gave us the X7 and X9 flares last week. It's now rotated close to the west limb so is unlikely to throw any CMEs (coronal mass ejections) in our direction. The solar flares will, though, still cause radio blackouts on the HF radio bands (and noise on higher frequencies due to radio bursts) on earth's dayside as long as they're on this side of the sun.

#spaceweather
#amateurradio

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A good analysis of the republican lie machine by Dr. Richardson.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-6-2024

#HeatherCoxRichardson #RebublicanLies

"Is there anybody here who's going to vote for lyin' Kamala?" Trump asked his rally attendees. "Actually, I should say don't raise your hand, it would be very dangerous. We don't want to see anybody get hurt. Please don't raise your hand."

🙋‍♂️

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-violence-harris-voter-get-hurt-rally/

I’m, ‘you needed two different keys to drive your car; one to unlock it and one to start it’, years old.

12 Hangry Men

#MakeAMovieSilly
#HashTagGames

@JoParkerBear Just getting caught up. What the heck was this?!? 😂😭

JoWordle 966 with 4/6 attempts in 3:16 😮minutes.

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https://word.rodeo/JoWordle/

Trump's plan would add $4 trillion more to U.S. debt compared to Harris', analysis says

Neither former President Donald Trump nor Vice President Harris have plans to fix the national debt, risking "an eventual fiscal crisis," a budget nonprofit group found in its analysis. #press

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/06/nx-s1-5142408/trump-harris-fiscal-federal-budget-national-debt?utm_source=press.coop

The most reasonable definition of full stack engineer that I've ever heard: nothing in a system is somebody else's problem. #unKonf

My pretty crop of decorative corn this year. 🌽

#gardening #harvest #autumn #Colorado

Following is not friending, unfollowing not de-friending.

I will often start following accounts, keep them a while on my feed, see how they make me feel and remove them if I don't like the feeling.

It's not a negative judgement - some of these folks (and you may be one of them!) I'll keep visiting and interacting with, but things they say or boost may, for various reasons, not be something I want on my list when scrolling.

#SilentSunday

#SilentSunday #Defaidodon #defaid #sheep #SheepOfMastodon #SheepOfFediverse #SheepFarming #photo #photography #Cymru #Wales

#fossangel's favorite brand

#unix_surrealism #perl

Market & Spear, 1938
2 ways to the west side: Muni's C-Geary took you to 33rd & Geary, Market Street Railway's 17-line went out to the Zoo (via Lincoln, 20th, & Sloat) And yes, that's Muni's Car #1 running on the C-line ( & still running today) #sfhistory

The rise of Mastodon has made me so much more aware of government services requiring us to use private companies’ systems to communicate with them and access services.

Sitting on a Dutch train just now I was shown on a screen “feeling unsafe in the train? Contact us via WhatsApp”.

What if I don’t use WhatsApp? (I do, but I wish I didn’t have to) I’m forced to share my data with Meta to use it.

Public systems should not require use of private services.

#NS #Netherlands #FOSS #privacy

DZ: US politics

Man, this is so disheartening. The level to which Team 🍊🤡 are just making things up has jumped the shark. If anything is ruining the US my money is on the depth and nature of the lies and downstream ignorance (willful or innocent).

https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-helene-trump-musk-conspiracy-theories-misinformation-fe81869765d778ac2ff3dc5f9ac18e10

It would be good to spread this message: Using X as a status log for a website or service is a bad idea. You need an account to see profiles or posts. Which negates the purpose of posting there. Use a blog, or any other service to let your customers know of issues. Delete your X account. (That last part is just me wishing you all would just delete your X account already. What are you doing? You have followers there? Good for you. They are bots. Delete your account.)

I shipped off five rolls of film to Photo-60 (like 3,300 mi / 5,400 km away as the raven flies) on Monday and the scans came back Friday. It was a mix of Portra 400 and Pro Image 100, with one roll of LomoChrome Purple. Sifting through them now.

I'll be doling out images like one a day, because I'm like that. This one is Portra 400, Nikon FE, 105/2.5 at like f/5.6, my kid the drum major conducting.

I haven’t looked at the explain xkcd for https://xkcd.com/2994/ yet but I suspect it needs two entirely separate explanations for two distinct sets of people :D

That Little Noticed Third State

There’s Open, there’s Closed, and then there’s that little noticed third state. Hasselblad 500cm, CineStill 400D, ECN-2 development.

#BelieveInFilm

DZ: new honknet tos