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

I've identified spiders posting on the internet from obvious textual cues.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/05/i-have-evidence-that-spiders-are-posting-on-the-internet/

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
astraea@kolektiva.social wrote:

"I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn’t live up to my mother’s hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude.

My life didn’t quite take shape until my forties. I had worked steadily — on provincial stages, in radio plays, in West End productions — but I often felt adrift, as though I was searching for a home within myself that I hadn’t quite found.

At 50, I accepted a television role that many would later associate me with — Hyacinth Bucket, of Keeping Up Appearances. I thought it would be a small part in a little series. I never imagined that it would take me into people’s living rooms and hearts around the world. And truthfully, that role taught me to accept my own quirks. It healed something in me.

At 60, I began learning Italian — not for work, but so I could sing opera in its native language. I also learned how to live alone without feeling lonely. I read poetry aloud each evening, not to perfect my diction, but to quiet my soul.

At 70, I returned to the Shakespearean stage — something I once believed I had aged out of. But this time, I had nothing to prove. I stood on those boards with stillness, and audiences felt that. I was no longer performing. I was simply being.

At 80, I took up watercolour painting. I painted flowers from my garden, old hats from my youth, and faces I remembered from the London Underground. Each painting was a quiet memory made visible.

Now, at 95, I write letters by hand. I’m learning to bake rye bread. I still breathe deeply every morning. I still adore laughter — though I no longer try to make anyone laugh. I love the quiet more than ever.

I’m writing this to tell you something simple:

Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter — if you let yourself bloom again.

Let these years ahead be your TREASURE YEARS.

You don’t need to be famous. You don’t need to be flawless.

You only need to show up — fully — for the life that is still yours.

With love and gentleness,

Patricia Routledge

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
carson@social.lol ("Carson Brown") wrote:

When your voice travels far, and many people can hear it, it’s responsible to vet the people you praise. Consciously or not, at least some of the folks listening to you want your advice. It’s responsible to give good advice. https://social.lol/@adam/115311770185871681

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

5. Deer

∞ https://rknight.me/notes/202510050626/

#Inktober #Inktober2025

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
andyn@social.lol ("Andy") wrote:

What sort of cockroach sees the disgusting things happening in the US and says “ooh, yeah, lovely, I want a bit of that”?! https://youtu.be/6G0N4uTRQmM?si=M5tTKlokmG-w9U4S

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
otaviocc@social.lol ("Otávio :prami:") wrote:

Created a ticket for #Mastodon: Posts with followed hashtags not appearing in home timeline (v4.4.5) https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/36355

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
nova@social.lol ("cmdr ░ nova ⸸ :~$") wrote:

I hope people aren’t surprised that Google, the company that threw its “don’t be evil” slogan in the trash, bent the knee to the US admin

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A view of Elterwater.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
itsrob@social.lol wrote:

📝 Guy yells to a stranger across the river, "I need to get to the other side!" Stranger yells back, "you are on the other side!"

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
amerpie@social.lol ("Lou Plummer 💖") wrote:

Early autumn Sunday morning on the east coast - cold enough for a jacket, but you can still go barefoot. Always worth it to see the sun pop out of the Atlantic.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 👻") wrote:

the problem with open world games like Ghost of Yōtei is that I've played 20 hours and seen 2 story cut scenes

including the intro, which I've forgotten

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“inessential: Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App”

https://inessential.com/2025/10/04/why-netnewswire-is-not-web-app.html

On some of the limitations of web apps

Boosted by jwz:
_holger ("Holger Krupp") wrote:

Apple to Europe: „Your laws are bad for us, therefore we are withholding unrelated features from your citizens and do everything possible to lobby against your laws.“

Apple in the USA: „We only follow the laws and orders of our authoritarian government, there is nothing we can do against it.“

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 👻") wrote:

catching up on SvelteKit remote functions
https://svelte.dev/docs/kit/remote-functions

API sugar? sign me up

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 👻") wrote:

reading about `useEffectEvent` 🤨

I look forward to blog posts in 2035 debating how to use it

https://react.dev/blog/2025/10/01/react-19-2

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Everyone who works on a browser (particularly folks who *don't* work on the platform parts) should ask themselves every day *"am I making the web a more sustainable place for users and publishers?"*

Boosted by jwz:
audubonballroon ("Audubon Ballroon (he/him)") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

Brent Simmons: “Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App”:
https://inessential.com/2025/10/04/why-netnewswire-is-not-web-app.html

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
kalikambo@social.lol wrote:

Subte Life: https://kalikambo.com/2025/10/04/subte-life.html

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
jasonm@social.lol ("Jason :neobread_this_is_fine:") wrote:

📸

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
eigenwijs@social.lol ("Ernesto Rico Schmidt") wrote:

I wrote a very short TIL entry about protecting my #forgejo instance with #anubis : https://eigenwijsje.dev/til/protect-forgejo-with-anubis/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
vkc@linuxmom.net ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

I don't think that the solution to getting folks to adopt the Fediverse is to change the Fediverse.

I think the solution is to show folks how great it is to have to curate your life. How wonderful it is to have to *work* for discovering new information. How challenging your mindset and stretching your grey matter is a positive.

To start with, when I talk about the Fediverse, I always say "the jank is a feature".

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Ask your vet if cat extensions are right for you.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
lobsters ("Lobsters") wrote:

Achieving period-correct graphics in personal computer emulators - Part 1: The Amiga via @deejayy https://lobste.rs/s/bkmwe4 #graphics #retrocomputing
https://blog.johnnovak.net/2022/04/15/achieving-period-correct-graphics-in-personal-computer-emulators-part-1-the-amiga/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
aeryn@social.lol wrote:

💭🖍️ I'm going in hiatus on Bluesky for a little while. I’m finding the Waffles thing is just bizarre and smacks of mockery and disrespect. https://aeryn.me/wafflegate

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
tristy@social.lol wrote:

Got up close with this little one yesterday. Absolutely no fear. I probably could have gotten closer but my level of comfort was lower than its.

Attachments:

• video: A fluffy, chunky kookaburra sits on a beam of a washing line. You can see it breathijg. The background is a hill covered in trees and a single tree much closer.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
phillip@social.lol ("Phillip :usa_distress:") wrote:

I love how everyone always says “the entity haunting this location may be a sinister demon!”, but the sinister activity in question is opening doors and loitering in photos. That’s not a sinister demon, that’s just a forgetful roommate

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
jinx@social.lol ("Jinx :verified_paw:") wrote:

😌 ran with the small dogs, ran with big dogs, rode out to the coast, smelled a new beach, ate some french fries

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
luigirenna@infosec.exchange ("Luigi :donor:") wrote:

Shrinking is the best show I have watched in ages. Writing is top notch and there are so many human things (emotions, relatable life events, etc.) that draw you in.

I believe it was written by (some of) the authors of Scrubs and Ted Lasso.

This random person on the Internet recommends it strongly to anyone that would listen

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
delta@chaos.social ("Delta Chat") wrote:

Forget warn apps and mobiles: when it comes to neighborhoods there are many non-digital ways to help each other. Without needing permission from billionaires.

Whistles!

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/17/in-little-village-residents-are-blowing-actual-whistles-to-warn-neighbors-about-ice/