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  1. The #WSocial mess shows what happens when you strip the #openweb of its culture and replace it with PR, funding, and control. A fluff view of current tech we need to compost hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-vie

  2. Do you remember the surprise announcement of a new social network in Davos this past January? Something that promised to be the "first" European social network?

    Its name is #WSocial and it's a fork of #Bluesky. Its founders have ties with European politicians - but there is no official involvement by the EU.

    You wouldn't know any of this from media reports because they all rehashed their talking points. So I wrote a post about it, dispelling some myths:

    blog.elenarossini.com/w-social

    #OpenWashing

  3. DC region faces growing risk of water shortages as Potomac River hits near-record lows

    The D.C. region is heading into summer with rivers at near-record low levels and a growing risk of…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #dcwater #fairfaxwater #nealaugenstein #potomacriver #Science #u.s.droughtmap #Watershortage #watersupply #wsscwater
    newsbeep.com/us/590641/

  4. CW: crime-raid / tense confrontation themes

    WS Studio Store — “In the Den of the Beast”, a tight, high tension crime thriller following Officer Milana as she tracks a dangerous crew into their hidden warehouse and finds herself in a perilous standoff deep inside their territory.
    powershopz.com/WSstudiostore/2
    #CrimeThriller #UndercoverOps #WSStudioStore

  5. CW: crime-raid / tense confrontation themes

    WS Studio Store — “In the Den of the Beast”, a tight, high tension crime thriller following Officer Milana as she tracks a dangerous crew into their hidden warehouse and finds herself in a perilous standoff deep inside their territory.
    powershopz.com/WSstudiostore/2
    #CrimeThriller #UndercoverOps #WSStudioStore

  6. CW: crime-raid / tense confrontation themes

    WS Studio Store — “In the Den of the Beast”, a tight, high tension crime thriller following Officer Milana as she tracks a dangerous crew into their hidden warehouse and finds herself in a perilous standoff deep inside their territory.
    powershopz.com/WSstudiostore/2
    #CrimeThriller #UndercoverOps #WSStudioStore

  7. Follow up:   I've posted a draft of the rules!
    https://blog.k3can.us/posts/2026/apr/everyham2/

    I know the idea of trying to create a level field between big HF stations using #wsjtx and portable VHF stations on FM is probably an exercise in futility, but I think it sort of works (at least on paper).

    Feedback is welcome!

    #hamradio #amateurradio #contesting @unicycle @n8dmt @KD3BTG @n3vem @r1blh

  8. Absolutely cannot believe the number of people going ape-shit-bananas on Teh Tweeters right now over a #WSJ post that:

    "#Trump has reportedly begun telling aides that he is willing to end the war with Iran without forcing open the #StraitofHormuz and will encourage the #GulfArabStates and #Europe to launch an operation on their own later to do so.

    Ultimate rug pull if true..."

    Markets are closed; wait for Trump's follow-up shortly after markets open tomorrow

    Have these morons learned nothing?

    UPDATE: Mini Dow futures up sharply; Brent Crude Oil futures down sharply

    Good God, people, think...

    #Iran #IranWar #WorldWarIII #DonaldTrump #PeteHegseth #BenjaminNetanyahu

  9. CW: Adult content

    CW: Watersports WS New pinup with one of the main characters from my Visual Novel (getting a big update on patreon later tomorrow btw). You can get it with its exclusive alts plus a ton of other exclusive pieces for $3 on www.patreon.com/mikrogoat #fatfur #elephant #furry #nsfw #watersports #bukkake

  10. CW: Adult content

    CW: Watersports WS New pinup with one of the main characters from my Visual Novel (getting a big update on patreon later tomorrow btw). You can get it with its exclusive alts plus a ton of other exclusive pieces for $3 on www.patreon.com/mikrogoat #fatfur #elephant #furry #nsfw #watersports #bukkake

  11. CW: Adult content

    CW: Watersports WS New pinup with one of the main characters from my Visual Novel (getting a big update on patreon later tomorrow btw). You can get it with its exclusive alts plus a ton of other exclusive pieces for $3 on www.patreon.com/mikrogoat #fatfur #elephant #furry #nsfw #watersports #bukkake

  12. Silicon

    With Snazzy’s analysis of the cost of Apple Chips & Ram, this three day old WSJ video could use a follow up, at this point:
    #wsj #apple #tsmc #foxconn #MacMini
    youtu.be/ktFlaBhpMu8

  13. Confession of a Yandere

    #RegardingSaekiSayaka #BloomIntoYou #FanFiction

    #Wss366 #MastoPrompt

    “You’re pale as a ghost; what’s wrong?” Saeki asked. The others looked on with sympathy but respectfully remained silent.

    “That table… next to the counter. Do you see the girls?” Arisu asked.

    “The tanned, athletic-looking girl sitting across from the one with a #rumpled blouse and thick glasses?”

    “Yeah, you don’t recognize them?”

    “No, should I? They’re not the bullies who were giving you trouble, are they?” Saeki looked from Arisu to her friends. “We had problems with some of Arisu’s ex-friends giving her a hard time. Do you know Ariu Aki? I thought she had scared them off.”

    “No, they’re not the bullies. I am.” Arisu bit her lip, her eyes darting between her three companions.

    “I don’t understand. You’d never be a bully.” Saeki said.

    “There must have been a good reason,” Yuu added.

    Only Touko accepted Arisu’s statement at face value. She remembered being bullied when they first met. But that hadn’t gone beyond nasty snark, hardly something that justified Arisu’s current melodrama.

    “That’s Edamoto Haru and her girlfriend,” Arisu said, her voice #stiff, so low, that Saeki had to lean in to hear her.

    “Right, you said Haru was ‘supposed’ to be my girlfriend.” Touko and Yuu gave Saeki questioning looks. For the moment at least, Saeki didn’t seem to realize how odd she sounded.

    “You don’t understand,” Arisu said. “You only saw the time I told you she was cursed. There was more. Things you didn’t see.”

    Only Yuu noticed Arisu's knuckles turning white as she twisted her clenched fingers in anguish.

    Saeki resumed, “I told you it was all right. I love you and can’t imagine being in love with someone else. I’ve never even talked to Haru, and she isn’t my type. Athletic, she looks like she runs everywhere. So, I’m glad you disrupted this universe. I love only you.” It wasn’t the odd statement that brought a rose tint to Saeki’s face; it was the word “love.” It was so embarrassing to say, even in front of her two oldest friends.

    Arisu gave her a weak smile. “It’s not that—I… I… bullied Haru. She must hate me. I told her to stay away from you, slipped nasty letters into her locker, even made creepy phone calls to her house.” She closed her eyes and blurted out, “I spread rumors about her, hoping they’d reach you—dreadful things. I called her a yariman—a filthy slut, a whore—I—I even considered poisoning her.”

    “But you didn’t,” Saeki said gently. “I know you feel guilty about it. You’ve grown so much.”

    “No, I haven’t! I might do it again if you liked someone more than me.”

    “You wouldn’t.” Yuu quietly joined the discussion. “I know for two reasons. First, Saeki-san would hate that. Second, you’re beating yourself up about what you did. Not like someone who apologizes and then does it again, but like someone who has turned themselves around and hates how they once were. What do you think, Touko?”

    3 of 6

    #MicroFiction #TootFic #Serial #Yuri #Yandere

  14. Maidens of the Shinbutsu Bunri 神仏分離の乙女たち

    Side story for #Konbini Idol

    #Wss366 #MastoPrompt

    •───⋅☾Tomo POV☽⋅───•

    I looked up from my reading and looked across the kotatsu at Ume, a cigarette dangling from her mouth. She was staring off into space with the blanket pulled up under her chin. Despite all the work I had put in, the old house she'd inherited was still drafty. "My time would be better spent fixing this house rather than studying this. Whatever #glamour being a Shinto priest had had was long gone.”

    Ume paid no attention to my comment, so I kicked her under the table. "It bores you too, does it?" I read a random line to make my point:

    "While intended to clarify religious categories, the process often disrupted long-standing community traditions and produced lasting administrative complexities, #pitching formerly cooperative organizations into conflict."

    I continued, "Why do we need to learn about this?" and read the chapter's opening line. "The formal separation of Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan, known as shinbutsu bunri, was implemented during the early Meiji period as part of broader state reforms."

    “I don’t know, but it’s kind of interesting,” Ume said.

    Somewhere deeper in the house, I heard Shishi say, "Because Sensei assigned it to you."

    She had that right. If Mikito hadn’t assigned it to us, there's no way I would've read this stuff.

    I kicked Ume again and asked, "If it's so interesting, why are you staring into space?"

    “I was imagining a Buddhist nun and a shrine maiden separated by reformers. It would make a good yuri story, and I think my publishers would pick it up as a one-shot. I’ll call it The Maidens of Shinbutsu Bunri.”

    I was proud of myself. I didn't throw the book at her.

    #TootFic #MicroFiction #NMFic

  15. #wss366 06/25

    What do you make of this question?”

    Tomo looked over Kan-chan’s shoulder. The Fedi prompt read, “#ScribesAndMakers 6/26 What?”

    Whatever you want. Ume would love a question like this,” he answered.

    “You’re right, I would. So much room for wordplay, or I could write a little slice-of-life story. I would #mine it for all it’s worth.”

    Shiro joined them. “I want you to write a story featuring ‘What,’” she said to Ume.

    “Ume’s not your sub, Mistress,” Kan-chan said.

    Whatever. If she doesn’t, then you do it.” Shiro’s wicked smile revealed how much she was enjoying this.

    Ume looked at Kan-chan: “What one of us should do it?”

    “That is improper grammar,” Shiro pointed out.

    The author shrugged.

    #MicroFiction #NMPrompts #NMV366 #NMSAM #KonbiniIdol #MyGirlfriend #SliceOfLife

  16. V WSJ:
    WSJ Reporter #Evan #Gershkovich Is Free

    Release of 32-year-old American from #Russia secured as part of largest East-West prisoner swap since Cold War

    wsj.com/world/russia/evan-gers

  17. Join WSUV SJP and filmmaker Jan Haaken for a screening of film The Palestine Exception 🎥🎞️ on May 17 at 5 pm at the Columbia Room of the Vancouver Public Library at 901 C Street in Vancouver, WA.

    The documentary focuses on the rise of the student movement as they shatter academias taboo around criticism of the occupation—the titular Palestine exception. The event is sponsored by WSU Vancouver SJP

    #PalestineException
    #FilmScreening
    #SJP
    #VancouverWA

    www.palestineexceptionfilm.com/screenings

  18. Hey fellow Neopixel/WS2812 fans: know of any in-production versions of smaller LED rings using 3535- or 2020-sized WS2812/SK6812 LEDs? (as opposed to the standard 5050 sizes most rings use) Seems like it’d be a great solution for putting around pots/encoders. I can’t find any on Ali
    #ws2812 #sk6812 #rgbled #neopixel

  19. I posted my first new painting of 2023. This post is a huge thank you for the kind comments, likes, favorites, reblogs, reposts, and critiques. To a working artist, it’s encouraging to know I’m moving in the right direction. Thank you. Let me say that again because it’s important- Thank you.
    🔷
    #thankyou #art #newart #painting #fineart #madtoart #abstract #expressionism #fediart #artistsonmastodon #wscranmore

  20. "Pieces of seven! Pieces of seven!" he heard.
    He turned and saw a bird cage by the register with a colorful macaw. It looked at him first with one eye and then the other.
    "Pieces of seven! Pieces of seven!" it squawked, its #pupil contracting and expanding spasmodically. (2/4) #wss366