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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
kel@mastodon.online wrote:

Oh my heart 😭

Look at this little baby 😍

I can't believe I got this 😭

Waaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!! 😭

#Birds #Photography

jwz wrote:

Great moments in the internet service industry.

Nobody will sell fiber internet to DNA Lounge. But it turns out that the condo building next-door-plus-one has Google Fiber. So I got our neighbor who lives there to put us in touch with their service...
https://jwz.org/b/yktW

jwz wrote:

We live in a fascist nation, what now?

Chris Armitage: The statistics are brutal. Fascist takeovers prevented after winning power democratically: zero. Average length of fascist rule once established: 31 years. Fascist regimes removed by voting: zero....
https://jwz.org/b/yktU

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
lianna@micro.webgarden.click wrote:

Dumb question that I was always too afraid to ask:

I know how the #Fediverse and its federation works. It's intuitive and familiar to me; I mean, I even host my own instance.

But I never understood how interaction cross-software is supposed to work. In theory, I can use whatever #ActivityPub software I want and still interact with everyone else. But in practice that just... isn't the case, right?

I mean, for text it's quite simple: I write a short post on #Mastodon and people on #GoToSocial or #Misskey or whatever can see and read that same post and interact with it. They can see my profile and it appears on their instance in their style and with their features.

Even outside of microblogging I still get it. A super-long post on #Friendica or #Diaspora appears on my timeline, too. Their profiles might have more fields than I can see here, but that's fine.

But what's up beyond that?

I can see #Pixelfed posts here, converted into image galleries. But what about the other way 'round? If someone on Pixelfed follows my Mastodon account, they can't see any of my non-image posts, right?

What about #PeerTube and such niche software? I guess I could follow a PeerTube account as a microblogger and see their videos and descriptions in my timeline. Video comments are replies.

But the other way 'round? How are they supposed to interact with Friendica or Pixelfed users? PeerTube doesn't even have a "timeline".

Doesn't that feature disparity undermine the whole idea of the #Fediverse or am I missing something?

#AskFedi #FediAdmin

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële") wrote:

I've tried to explain the difference between #smolweb and #smallweb in this blog post:

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/smolweb%5Fvs%5Fsmallweb.md

So, how do you see things?

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

31 years ago today at DNA Lounge: MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE, SURGERY, BLOOD OF ABRAHAM
https://www.dnalounge.com/flyers/1985-1999/1994-08-15.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

Boosted by jwz:
spaf@mstdn.social wrote:

I really wish the news media would stop editing their coverage to keep us from getting a more complete view.

For instance, they keep cutting the end of every news briefing by Noem, Hegseth, Homan, Leavitt, and others, when they stare blankly into the camera and shout "Hail, Hydra!"

Boosted by jwz:
estherschindler@hachyderm.io ("Esther Schindler") wrote:

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QueenOfTheCroneAge@beige.party ("Kim") wrote:

Oh my god 😂

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
richpuchalsky ("Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝") wrote:

The reasons to oppose #AI are not really personal preference reasons. #LLM s actively destroy human knowledge. They drown out human texts in a wave of very similar but statistically generated texts, making finding and categorizing texts (a basic activity of librarianship) much more difficult. They make getting accurate answers (another basic activity of librarianship) impossible.

They are against civilization.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
OwainConnors@toot.wales ("Dr Owain Connors") wrote:

That bread giant won’t last very long when the seagulls find it….

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
izjustpixels@mastodon.art ("izzy :: izjustpixels ✨") wrote:

aaaand it's official: as of today, I am #fediverse exclusive!! 🎉💜

the last account to go was #instagram. I am so done with #meta.

so if you enjoy artisanal, hand-made, free-range, AI- and NFT-free #pixelArt - maybe give this account a follow and share it with all your fedi friends 💜

here, have this remaster of a #demake from years ago as a treat:
"Plumber Kart 8 Demake" (2025)

#pixelartist #retroart #retrogames #yegArts #demake #demaster

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me ("Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:") wrote:

@cwebber kussy (KDE 🅱️ussy)

Boosted by jwz:
SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

This is the cost of the Senate filibuster: the last time the House, Senate and POTUS were all under D control (2020 - 2022) the House passed bills to eliminate gerrymandering and give DC statehood. The Senate did nothing on either in spite of having majority support. And so here we are.

Boosted by jwz:
MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

80's AI girlfriend

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

I wish I had had more time to photograph this delightfully weird building, but I only had an hour or so before I had to leave for the airport that day. The hard morning light only illuminated this one angle reasonably acceptably.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/5.6), Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50), Cambo 1200 camera (shifted vertically -8mm).

Opened as the London headquarters for the Michelin Tyre Co in 1911, and now a mixed commercial building, the Art Nouveau Michelin House features whimsical tire-themed ornaments and stained glass windows with the original Michelin Man "Bibendum" character in various, generally terrifying, poses.

Boosted by jwz:
saschameinrath ("Sascha Meinrath") wrote:

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

81 Fulham Road ("Michelin House"), London, UK, 2024.

All the pixels, none of the traction or puncture resistance, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54196628571

#photography

Boosted by jwz:
nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
cyberduck@fosstodon.org ("Cyberduck 🐣") wrote:

The latest update includes a dock tile plugin to make our application icon escape the squircle dogma on upcoming macOS Tahoe. Unfortunately the plugin is not allowed in the distribution on the Mac App Store.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
secretgeek@mastodon.cloud ("Leon Bambrick") wrote:

Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
m2m@sonomu.club ("Simone S") wrote:

Steve Wozniak interviewed for CBS:

"I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups [...] I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out."

He turned 75 4 days ago.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Someone said they’d like a shirt version of my DEI sticker. So, that exists now!

https://cottonbureau.com/p/K26M6B/shirt/dei-shirt

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

totally not even making this up for internet points - @mconley can vouch for both of these events.

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

earlier today, I said that it has been super quiet at work incident-wise in recent months, and I predicted an incident would happen next week, because the rest of my team will be on vacation.

turns out I was wrong. an incident happened just now. friday, 5:30pm my time.

well played, universe. well played.

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
Sergeir@ecoevo.social ("Marcus Brandel") wrote:

Happy #FossilFriday - The Pleistocene cat Petra, found in Virginia's Burja Cave, is now on display at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. Identified as an early puma, it could not be radiocarbon dated, indicating the cat is over 50,000 years old.

Dr. Alex Hastings of the Science Museum of Minnesota, pictured, was part of the recovery team after training to enter the cave's slick vertical passages.

Photo credit: http://www.virginiaplaces.org

See more: @tarplifeadventures https://www.instagram.com/p/DNTSTdcRIE5/

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Breakfast of champions.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/15/imagine-finding-a-10-foot-long-sausage/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Half hour before the poll closes!

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
susurros@kolektiva.social ("Scott Campbell") wrote:

"More than 120 education scholars have condemned the cancellation of an entire issue of an academic journal dedicated to Palestine by a Harvard University publisher as 'censorship'".

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/aug/14/harvard-journal-israel-gaza-cancellation

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #academia #education #Harvard