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

There’s a somewhat popular view in the indie blogging scene about social media being toxic. Today I had an email exchange with someone about this topic, and I tried to convey my view about why this is a harmful perspective that’s held from a position of privilege. Sharing my response here. https://paste.lol/adam/social-media-email-reply

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

They're just ordinary Americans, which is the scariest thing I can think of.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/06/i-sometimes-wonder-how-ice-agents-live-with-themselves/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Apparently you can make me watch and share a 12 minute product advert if you hire Matt Berry and Jemaine Clement for it and let them loose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbO1z13WP8o

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TheAtlantic@flipboard.com ("The Atlantic") wrote:

The Everything Recession
https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/10/everything-recession/684450/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All Stories @all-stories-TheAtlantic

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

yup

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/10/everything-recession/684450/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kittylyst ("Ben Evans") wrote:

For the next time some racist / #climate change denier claims that "there's no point doing anything b/c China and India won't & they're much bigger than us" - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/indian-railways-to-achieve-net-zero-targets-in-2025-itself-5-years-ahead-of-2030-goal/articleshow/121481828.cms

Indian Railways hits net zero 5 years early, and will be 95% electrified by 2029-30. Given the size and scope of the Indian rail network and the challenges involved in upgrading it, this is no mean feat at all. FWIW the UK is *nowhere near* 95%. #climatechange

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:

Slightly ranty post of Discord's data leak, the online safety act, and compulsory IDs in the UK.
https://chriswere.wales/posts/discord-users-are-first-victims-of-uks-online-safety-act.html

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“All but one of the respondents rated Trump’s second term as a greater or much greater threat to the rule of law than his first term. They consistently characterized the president’s abuses of power — wielding the law to justify his wishes — as being far worse than they imagined before his re-election.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/magazine/legal-experts-trump-justice-department.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

Fucking hell, the glimpses I’m getting in my feed reader, of how people enveloped in the current tech and “AI” orthodoxy think, are stupendously annoying

These people all used to be less annoying, interesting even, but something shifted when COVID hit and accelerated with the “AI” bubble. Now half my feed is just outright annoying

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:

Blog post: Discord users are first victims of UK's Online Safety Act
https://chriswere.wales/posts/discord-users-are-first-victims-of-uks-online-safety-act.html

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The colors of autumn.

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

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

jwz wrote:

Also greatly enjoyed fielding the multiple questions: yes that is in fact the official Warner Bros Entertainment-approved music video for Cry Little Sister, I am *not* pranking you on this -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az-zvXNxfu4

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fingolas@journa.host ("Martin Holland") wrote:

Macron: "We were incredibly naive to entrust our democratic space to #SocialNetworks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

🤔

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art_codesmith@toot.cafe ("Artemis") wrote:

@davidgerard I don't know what the third social network will be like, but the fourth social network will be sticks and stones.

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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

while researching the rubygems takeover situation, I ended up on the blog of someone who insists on using AI header images, and now instead of engaging with the actual post I’m stuck on “why is there a puppy on the table? WHY do the evil corporate overlords holding a sinister meeting have a PUPPY on the TABLE?”

but of course, there is no “why”; it wasn’t an artistic choice meant to convey anything deep or clever. This is much worse than no image or a boring image: it’s a nonsensical assault on the senses preventing any possible connection to meaning; it’s the bitwise inverse of art. It doesn’t decorate your writing, it casts a shadow of profound doubt upon it.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

Have your personal data been exposed in a company's personal data breach?

jwz wrote:

In these fascist times, sometimes all you can do is fill a room full of people singing and screaming along with a dumb movie about ambiguously gay vampires.

https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/10-05.html

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TheOldGuy@qoto.org wrote:

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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Last month Judge Diane Goodstein ruled against the Trump regime, and blocked the State of South Carolina from giving millions of voter data files to the DOJ.

Last week Harmeet Dhillon of Trump's DOJ openly condemned Judge Goodstein's ruling in a tweet.

Yesterday Trump lackey Stephen Miller called "left wing judges & lawyers" as "terrorists" requiring force to rebuke.

Now this is Judge Goodstein's home, on fire, and being investigated for arson.

Probably just a coincidence.

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evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

I don't want to be alarmist, but "troops occupying major cities" seems like the kind of milestone that we'll look back on and regret that we didn't stop.

Boosted by jwz:
spocko@mastodon.online ("Spocko") wrote:

How we fight in #Portland.
Ridicule is working! #ICE & #CBP backed up!

The frog finally jumped out of the slow heating pot!

Thank you #AntiFascistFrog on TikTok
https://www.tiktok.com/@theantifascistfrog/video/7557153362249026846 @lolgop

@emptywheel @GottaLaff @jimstewartson @nicolesandler

Attachments:

• video: #AntiFascistFrog going up against ICE in Portland on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@theantifascistfrog/video/7557153362249026846

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LAGilman@raggedfeathers.com ("Laura Anne Gilman") wrote:

Trump tried to circumvent a judge’s ruling this weekend by calling up the California NG to go to Oregon. California and Oregon both went “oh fuck no” and tonight the judge, in an emergency hearing, ALSO went “oh fuck no” and issued a second, broader ruling saying Trump can’t send ANY state NG into Oregon w/o real cause.

DOJ lawyer requested a stay, stay was denied.

Judge 2x reminded the DOJ lawyer that he was an officer of the court. That… you do NOT want a judge to have to say that to you.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
FediGarden@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Garden 🌱") wrote:

Toot.wales is a Mastodon social network for Wales and the Welsh, at home and abroad! Y rhwydwaith cymdeithasol annibynnol i Gymru, wedi’i bweru gan Mastodon!

This server has been online since 2018.

:Fediverse: https://toot.wales

You can find out more at https://toot.wales/about or contact the admin account @teamtoot

#FeaturedServer #Wales #Welsh #Cymru #Cymry #Cymraeg #Cymreig #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

@adam It would have been nice if I had not been given reasons to reconsider my line about "I don't have the same feeling of ill will" in the following months quite so regularly!

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

This remains a great post, and is especially relevant today. https://coyotetracks.org/blog/pressure-to-stay-genteel/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
literalgrill@sakurajima.moe ("LiteralGrill") wrote:

Ya know, right now would be an AMAZING time for Mastodon's leadership to break bread with the Black programmers that really wanted to help make this place less racist.

Bluesky just banned a prominent Black user from basically being seen by anyone. Because Bluesky's CEO is mad about their posts. ATProto is clearly showing serious signs of weakness.

Do the people who love the Fediverse have the guts to admit we have poorly served the Black community and need to apologize? To take radical steps to show this place will be worth investing in for Black users who may want to leave Bluesky?

Now is the time to act and do so. If ever there was a time to put a massive amount of momentum behind the Fediverse, it'd be now. We should do it.

#Mastodon #Bluesky #ATProto #Fediverse

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
irene@discuss.systems ("Irene Zhang") wrote:

Our resident front yard hummingbird having a bath. Sometimes, I can’t believe that I live here. #seattle #pnw #birds #birdsofmastodon

Attachments:

• video: A bright pink throated green hummingbird enjoying a bath in a natural stone fountain.

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

Another interesting thing this about this piece is the timing:

1. Manton gets super upset about me daring to call him out for his awful, insensitive take on the Bluesky situation.

2. He announces that he’s disconnecting from Mastodon because it’s “broken” and “divisive”.

3. Not long after, Manu posts about how social media is awful.

4. Manton promptly boosts Manu's post.

Manu’s blogroll.org site is sponsored by Micro.blog, but I’m sure this is all coincidence. 😎

https://social.lol/@adam/115324443935427207

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danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

This has been said a million times a million different ways but it’s worth repeating: the goal of a good developer isn’t to write code that compiles and tests that pass. The goal of a good developer is to solve a problem and hopefully in the process write code that can be understood by the next person maintaining it 10 years from now. The challenge is not in creation itself, it is in decided what to create and how and why

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

In the past, when I’ve chosen to call people out like Vincent Ritter and Manton Reece for their harmful statements and actions, the “calling out” was a crucial choice. Both Vincent and Manton had (separately) implored me to keep my comments private and send an email instead. But private channels are where accountability never sees the light of day.

There are times when calling in is more appropriate than calling out, but never when you’re seeking genuine accountability in the face of harm.