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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@luckytran/116863488282016628 That's the boat Pete and Toshi Seeger used in their successful campaign to clean up the Hudson River and organize people to work for environmental justice. Everybody out on that water is benefiting in immediate and quantifiable ways from the "left-wing" "politics" of the Seegers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_River_Sloop_Clearwater #PeteSeeger #Clearwater

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Dr. Lucky Tran

@luckytran@mastodon.social

A sailboat, the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, was removed from the Sail4th 250 Parade of Ships for displaying banners about climate justice and clean water. Source: ig/jackiemarieburton, ig/sloopclearwater

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Dr. Lucky Tran: "A sailboat, the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, wa…" - Mastodon

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@shanecelis@mastodon.gamedev.place @RickiTarr@beige.party A variation on that story from Richard Feyman's autobiography:

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@paninid I don't recall anybody asking for 'social permission'. They were always counting on social forgiveness.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@skinnylatte *waves hand wildly in air* Me, me, me!

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 1mo ago

Forgot that I had picked this up in a recent #BandcampFriday and was pleasantly surprised on re-listening. Good to hear that San Francisco still makes some good things. https://thetelephonenumbers.bandcamp.com/album/scarecrow-ii #TheTelephoneNumbers

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Angine De Poitrine is a polka-dot's way of making more polka-dots.

#AngineDePoitrine

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

The Scarlet Muffuletta

#HoagieABook
#HashTagGames

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@not2b @futurebird I've wanted to go there ever since reading John McPhee's book, "The Pine Barrens". That was written in the 1960s, but it seems like the kind of place that changes slowly (no supersonic jetport). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pine_Barrens

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@danirabbit@mastodon.online Gandalf: they delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they fled, Durin's Bane. GenAI: Moria is great source of mithril. Let's delve into that!

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@samlitzinger@journa.host LOL. "The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost." -- Bennett Cerf

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@navi @dcoderlt Gerontrification?

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@xyla@shitpost.trade That's a close runner up to the excessively literal (and ineffectually humorous) German joke in the Monty Python skit: "Der ver zwei peanuts, valking down der Straße, und von vas assaulted...peanut. Ohohohoho!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funniest_Joke_in_the_World

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@crimson_clouds23@normal.style We have John Mastodon, they have Wayland Jennings

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@jon Once and (sadly) once only, the flock of chestnut-backed chickadees that periodically visits our courtyard noticed that I was misting a tree and they all descended on the branches and danced in the mist.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@unaegeli @signalapp My guess: the reminder is a pop-up dialog. It's not a signal message, email, or text. I, too, would like to hear Signal's answer to this question.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@samlitzinger@journa.host My memory is that the verb "to sink" follows the same pattern as "to sing". Would the NYT say "Pavarotti sang Puccini" or "Pavarotti sung Puccini" (yikes)? Of course, the past participle is a different matter: "Pavarotti has sung Puccini". https://englishverbs.net/verb/sink/ https://www.oed.com/dictionary/sink_v

Sink: Past Tense, Past Participle & Conjugation

English Verbs Conjugation

Sink: Past Tense, Past Participle & Conjugation

Sink is an irregular verb. Past tense: sank. Past participle: sunk. Full conjugation in all 12 tenses with examples and chart.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@inquiline

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social As someone who did get a novice license at age 11 (KA6FDD) and did tinker with electronics, I agree completely. We need to regulate the exploitative systems and not the individuals. The everlasting shame of so-called "libertarians" is that they got this exactly wrong.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@jalefkowit@hachyderm.io I've never seen Tony Blair look so natural.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@n_dimension@infosec.exchange Very infrastcrucute!

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@lauerhahn @futurebird I remember these too! I think there was one for rocks and minerals, not just for species of living things. The form was like a species key, but when I search now, I'm finding mineral identification as a flow chart: https://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/geology/grocha/mineral/ident.html

academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu

Minerals - Identification

minerals, rocks, metamorphic, sedimentary, guillermo rocha, igneous, brooklyn college, geology, geology new york, geology ny

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

We knew. George Booth told us.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/08/japan/cats-meals-unfinished/

#Cat #Science #Cartoon

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

Steve Ballmer prancing around the stage yelling "Devslopelers! Devslopelers! Devslopelers! Devslopelers! Devslopelers!"

#Microsoft #Microslop #Devslopelers

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@jab01701mid@mastodon.social @samlitzinger@journa.host This is double plus ungood.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@dmnelson@mastodon.social Possibly a beaver lodge rather than a beaver dam?

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

The Bun Also Rises

#HoagieABook
#HashTagGames

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@lauerhahn @futurebird I have little Apatite for these puns,

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

A new documentary on the Manis Mastodon is now available to watch:

https://vimeo.com/1152386250

The discovery of the mastodon bones and an embedded spear point meant that humans were living and hunting in the Olympic Peninsula earlier than had been thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manis_Mastodon_site

#PNW #Archaeology #Mastodon #LiterallyMastodon

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@lumecolca@kolektiva.social @renardboy@mastodon.social @dpnash@c.im @middleclasstool@phire.place tyrannosauruses rex?

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@graste "Copilot in Viva Glint" sounds like a rock opera.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@Irenetherogue I'm trying to convince myself that #BandcampFriday (May 1) is OK because all of the purchase price goes to the artists. But bandcamp is owned by a big company and has been bad on labor issues. 🤷‍♂️

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@eclectech When I clicked the image, I was hoping to see a tiny Leia riding it.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@jab01701mid@mastodon.social @samlitzinger@journa.host I yield to your advanced learnings.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@Natasha_Jay Everything about this post is so wonderfully fediverse.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@Jeroen89@mastodon-belgium.be I remember that butterfly I saw in 2020.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@lexfeathers I've been following @1001OtherAlbums for a while and they seem to have a variety of interesting recommendations. https://linernotes.club/@1001OtherAlbums/116104558632539939

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1001 Other Albums: "Psst, do you need some cool music to listen to? …" - Liner Notes Club

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@jonn_blanchard actually it is for fans of the Gith https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Gith_(race)

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@Gina@fosstodon.org @aurisc4@floss.social @bontchev@infosec.exchange WW3.1 for Workgroups

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@crystalvisits "but her bossiness"

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@QueenOfTheCroneAge@beige.party @paninid@mastodon.world Same. Sorry, Mr Gore.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@funnymonkey What hurts children also hurts adults.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@samlitzinger@journa.host """ So far, the investment has produced an astonishingly small audience: just 182 YouTube subscribers, with many videos attracting only a few dozen views. “It does feel like this is just for an audience of one,” one former staffer told Status, alluding to Bezos. “That audience of one is happy to put down money for a studio and programming that doesn’t serve any of the existing audience.” """

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@joe I can't afford the clojure watch, so I'll settle for a bumper sticker that says My Other Car Is A Cdr.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

RE: @GiftArticles@tomkahe.com

Buckaroo Banzai eats a Pimento Mac and Cheese... across the 8th Dimension

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@redsad@ohai.social It me, but in binary.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

I don't get it -- is this a wrestling metaphor? When you squeeze somebody do they roll over? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/world/canada/trump-carney-trade-tariffs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zVA.vA3T.9qmkykQ78_Za&smid=url-share #MixedMetaphor

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@sarae @msbellows By "mechanism" do you mean the question about the origin of the spear point? ("Others are less certain about the human origin of the point as it is unusually thin and has not been smoothed.") Or the lack of a human encampment in the excavated area? All I know is from the sources I posted, which are a bit fluffy.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@adamgreenfield An album from 2023 that talks about ecological collapse as well as the pandemic and protests of 2020: https://kaceyjohansing.bandcamp.com/album/year-away It's also about our passivity ("Watch It Like A Show") in the face of disaster. The album is in the folk or soft rock genre, I guess, which can be as easy to dismiss as metal (for different reasons, maybe).

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@michael_w_busch @badastro Imagining "The Surfers of Titan", by Kurt Vonnegut.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@redsad@ohai.social the psweaty psalm

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