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skry

@skry@mastodon.social

Antifascist, antiracist, a11y, feminist.
Trans rights are human rights.
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Gardener, artist, photographer.

30 years in tech so far - Left Coast USA
Ranting in #ux as needed.

Posting/boosting news about tech, ethics, science, US politics, climate emergency, public health 🦠. Visuals on art, crafts, weird stuff, living things, archaeology, landscapes.

Following behind you adding ALT text so I can boost your images.

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skry, to random
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“The forest made of a single tree known as Pando ("I spread" in Latin) has 47,000 stems (all with the same DNA) sprouting from a shared root system over 100 acres (40 hectares) [0.4 sq km] of Utah.

Here, this lone male quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) gradually grew into a massive 6,000 metric tons of life, making it the largest living organism in the world in terms of mass. (1/2)

skry,
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After possibly 12,000 years of life on Earth, this massive plant, whose tree-like stems tower up to 24 meters (80 feet), surely has plenty to say. And recordings released this year let us 'hear' it like never before.”

https://www.sciencealert.com/haunting-sounds-made-from-the-worlds-largest-living-thing-recorded

(2/2)

skry, to apple
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OFFS. Please wipe and donate old phones to domestic violence shelters or sell them to https://www.gazelle.com/iphone

Buy used phones when you can. Gazelle takes trade-ins too.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/18/100000-iphones-stolen-instead-of-scrapped/ #apple #iphone #ewaste #dv

skry, to random
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RIP Om Fahad and the millions of other women who have been killed by theocracy and patriarchy.

Women’s rights will not be a won battle until women on the front lines are no longer martyred for self-expression or for controlling their own bodies.

https://wapo.st/4drQnUS

skry, to random
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Yeet this guy and everybody who rode in with him. Sociopathic thug ravings. Textbook-caliber fascism.

‘“Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I’ve ever met,” wrote Marc Andreessen’ (1/6)

skry,
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'Balaji then revealed his shocking ideas for a tech-governed city where citizens loyal to tech companies would form a new political tribe clad in gray t-shirts…. feature “Bitcoin or Elon or other kinds of logos…Y Combinator is a good one for the city of San Francisco…” (2/6)

skry,
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'Grays would also receive special ID cards providing access to exclusive, Gray-controlled sectors of the city. In addition, the Grays would make an alliance with the police department, funding weekly “policeman’s banquets” to win them over. (3/6)

skry,
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“Grays should embrace the police, okay? All-in on the police,” said Srinivasan. “What does that mean? That’s, as I said, banquets. That means every policeman’s son, daughter, wife, cousin, you know, sibling, whatever, should get a job at a tech company in security.” (4/6)

skry,
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'In exchange for extra food and jobs, cops would pledge loyalty to the Grays. Srinivasan recommends asking officers a series of questions to ascertain their political leanings. For example: “Did you want to take the sign off of Elon’s building?”
… (5/6)

skry,
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'Corporate logos and signs will fill the skyline to signify Gray dominance of the city. “Ethnically cleanse,” he said at one point, summing up his idea for a city purged of Blues (this, he says, will prevent Blues from ethnically cleansing the Grays first). The idea, he said, is to do to San Francisco what Musk did to Twitter.’

https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat

(6/6)

TodayInTwitter, to random
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I'm so tired of this company. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/26/24141761/x-now-wants-to-compete-with-google-meet

skry,
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@TodayInTwitter Let me ask my IT dept if they want to move to a platform that fired most of its trust and safety folks, where Elon makes the security decisions.

absolutspacegrl, (edited ) to space
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I can finally talk about it! My newest project! 🚀🌖🚐

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-japan-advance-space-cooperation-sign-agreement-for-lunar-rover/

skry,
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@absolutspacegrl Congratulations!

skry, to random
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It’s okay to work for a big tech company, they said, we can change it from the inside. https://wapo.st/3WdPCIG

skry, to Europe
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“ is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average, two top monitoring organizations reported Monday, warning of the consequences for human health, glacier melt and economic activity.“

https://apnews.com/article/copernicus-heat-climate-europe-world-meteorological-organization-d08b3bd028bc461f281f39828bd73056

ngons, to random
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A flower for

This time made of 1176 rhombuses and equilateral triangles.

skry,
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@ngons I like the dynamic pinwheel motion in this one. It also reminds me of spirograph designs.

csilverman, to random
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Curious to see how people interpret this pattern. Is the switch on or off?

(I would have done a poll, but apparently you can't have an image and a poll in the same post.)

skry,
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@csilverman This is why we don’t make toggle switches like that anymore.

skry, to Funny
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Classic and hilarious

A TV news reporter is doing an on-location video surrounded by small, brown elephants. As he explains how important wildlife conservation is, the elephant behind him reaches over his head and tweaks his nose with its trunk. He tries to continue, but It’s just too funny and the scene dissolves in laughter.

skry, to random
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“For decades, Finland has been investing in the construction, maintenance and purchase of welfare housing. In recent years, more than 8,000 apartments have been created for the , with the end of homelessness being a shared goal of all governments on both the left and the right. In the capital city alone, the number of people living without a roof over their heads fell by 40 percent from 2019 to 2022.”
https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/a-paradigm-shift-in-social-policy-how-finland-conquered-homelessness-a-ba1a531e-8129-4c71-94fc-7268c5b109d9

skry, to random
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@mekkaokereke This sounds like it could be a great opportunity for one of your mentees.

https://d4bl.org/movement-scientist-fellowship-open-call

hotdogsladies, to random
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I find it relaxing to read about him being sad.

It soothes and rejuvenates me.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-trial-mad-haberman-sketch-artist-1235007794/

skry,
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@hotdogsladies Screenshot: “being on trial this week "re- minded me that not only in the White House, but every facet of his life — be it at Mar- a-Lago or Trump Tower or Bedminster — he has a group of people that cater to his every whim. At Mar-a-Lago, people literally stand and applaud him just for walking into the room, and in court, he has to sit there quietly while some people talk about how much they don't like him. (1/2)

dansup, to threads
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Wow, Taylor Swift joined Threads and has 9M+ followers already!

Her account has not enabled fediverse sharing yet, but if/when they do, I'm eager to see how the fediverse handles it.

https://www.threads.net/@taylorswift

skry,
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@dansup What a splash landing. And she released an album too. Brilliant moves as always.

skry, to infosec
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Firefox won’t let me connect to the BLM dot GOV.

“The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.”

User can’t override it because the website requires https but the cert isn’t secure, apparently.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/secure-connection-failed-firefox-did-not-connect (find on page “authenticity”)

IDK how I can “contact the website owners to inform them of this problem” if I can’t reach the website, but that’s the only remedy offered.

https://progressivecafe.social/@TonyStark/112294618972973714

sundogplanets, to random
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Well today was a lot of frustrating stupidity.

You know what's not stupid? Baby chicks. They are incredibly cute, especially since many of them are "top hat" crosses and are starting to get adorable little feathers in their wee little poof-heads

A black chick being held by a gloved hand in front of a white wall. The chick is facing one side (but looks like its giving the camera some side-eye), with an impressive poof of fluff on its head.
A mostly yellow chick with some small black areas on its head being held by a gloved hand in front of a white wall. The chick is facing one side, with an impressive poof of fluff on its head.

skry,
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@sundogplanets So punk

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skry,
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@stevenray They are pretty cool. The rest of the year they have cute round (heart) leaves.

Edit: probably this variety, which is more heat tolerant: https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=CECAT

AnarchistArt, to random
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skry,
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@AnarchistArt Description: Black and red poster with white and black hand lettering: “A GOVERNMENT DOESN'T ANNOUNCE
THAT THEY HAVE BECOME
FASCIST
THEY ANNOUNCE ANTI-FASCISTS
ARE ENEMIES OF THE STATE.”

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