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While I wait for grocery delivery, I decided to do laundry. One of the items I washed was Hops, Phee’s kangaroo friend who is coming on vacation with us because both Sebastians are currently hospitalized and awaiting surgery. So I moved the clean laundry from washer to dryer and at some point, Callisto swooped in and stole Hops from the dryer. I know this because she proudly showed him to me once I’d started the dryer. Oy vey DOG! Needless to say Hops is in the dryer and it has been restarted.

—@Pawpower

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oh, here’s some JUICY rumored details about meta’s plans for the fediverse

tl;dr “Meta will only federate with select larger instances from the beginning. There will be contracts which also provide for financial compensation for the instance owners.”

can’t entirely verify their validity but it’s still worth posting just in case

#FediPact #barcelona #project92 #p92 #meta #facebook #fediverse #fediblockmeta #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #threads

—@vantablack

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So I posted earlier about how I was flabbergasted the oceangate guy didn’t just ask resident rich guy deep sea diving enthusiast James Cameron for sub advice or to borrow some of his tech or something. Cameron was just on the news with another prominent oceanographer saying “yeah i heard about the sub and warned some of the people involved in the construction that this was a really bad idea and this was completely preventable” hadffdhfdgsdf

—@photophoregirl

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Derek Powazek 🐐 (@fraying@xoxo.zone) (XOXO Zone)
Watching the schism between the “make fun of liquified billionaires” people and the “everyone deserves empathy” people has really made me appreciate growing up as the first American born son of Jewish Holocaust survivors, because I’ve always known that there’s evil in the world, not everyone deserves empathy, and it’s fucking great when you get to laugh at the bad people getting what they deserve. If you haven’t experienced enough tragedy to know these things too, I hope you never do.
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Hệ AJ (@avajarvis@universeodon.com) (Universeodon Social Media)
Oh. Apparently as part of what #Reddit is doing with the API, while they allowed some specific #accessibility apps an exemption, they didn't offer it to any apps that provided #blind users with full moderator functionality. Which means in July, Reddit is going to start removing blind moderators for not being able to moderate, due to Reddit not planning on built-in accessibility to their site or their app, and not allowing exemptions for third party apps that support blind moderators. Indeed, Reddit admins seem somewhat unaware they have blind users and blind moderators. .... I don't think #AaronSwartz would approve. But it seems clear to me that Huffman has no respect for what that man stood for and died for in the first place, and perhaps he never did. If he did, we the tech community would never have forgotten Swartz. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/23/23771396/reddit-subreddit-community-transcribers-accessibility
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Ryan Singel (@ryansingel@writing.exchange) (Writing Exchange)
Thoughts and prayers tonight for all the tankies and their fellow travellers, including Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Medea Benjamin, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Max Blumenthal, Grey Zone, Code Pink, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr, David Sacks and more Watching their autocratic wet dreams and love of butchers fall apart thanks to the unwavering resolve of the freedom loving people of Ukraine is beautiful Almost sad I gave up on Twitter. Can't hear their tears, silence and pathetic bleeps Slava #ukraine