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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I get a thrill out of the cardinals in my bushes. IT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU TOO

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
cassolotl@eldritch.cafe ("Cassian [main]") wrote:

My top tip for getting into Mastodon is:

1. Make a post that says "hi, I'm interested in..." followed by like 10 hashtags about your interests.

2. Click and follow all the hashtags in your post.

3. People will boost your post and it'll go further because of the hashtags, due to the nature of the fediverse. Follow all the people who boost you; you can unfollow later if it's too many people.

Diagram source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mastodon%5Ftimelines.png

#Mastodon #MastoMeta #forkiverse #introduction #introductions

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

The Jolla Phone Proved We’ve Been Using Smartphones Wrong All Along:

"You flip it. Click. You’re off the grid. Done. No app can override it. No sneaky software update can turn it back on while you sleep. No three letter government agency can backdoor their way around it. It’s like unplugging a lamp. When the circuit breaks, the power stops. Period."

What a clever way to take advantage of the button fad. I’m ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/01/19/the-jolla-phone-proved-weve.html

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
blackfinalboi@blackqueer.life ("tj (i make it to the end) 😷") wrote:

#Introductions

im tj. (they/them). black autistic nonbinary person. i love all kinds of media (esp. theatre/musicals, cartoons, BOOKS) and im trying to always vacation in fictional universes.

im unemployed atm bc my job fired me for being disabled. if you wanna help me while i get my degree and general support while im job searching, im $wenotfreeyet on cashapp or you can find my kofi linked.

im just trying to do good and do gay and i am so tired all the time.

when you request, please message with your stance on palestine, your stance on anti-blackness, and why you wanna follow.

i dont consent to any posts from this account being collected, screen captured and/or scraped.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Firesphere@cloudisland.nz ("Simon 🐮:spot:") wrote:

#Jolla has a new phone, and it's magnificient it seems. I'm intrigued. It runs #Linux.
And I want it!
https://techglimmer.io/jolla-phone-2026-review-kill-switch-privacy-review/#Jolla
(via @pluralistic )

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

“The water is the scariest part. They’re asking for 2.5 million gallons per day." https://www.404media.co/project-matador-datacenter-amarillo-texas/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Binder@petrous.vislae.town ("Shannon Prickett") wrote:

Any estimate on when it might arrive?

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Built between 1943 and 1945, this was used, among other things, as a potato storage. #Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #abandoned #decay #door #windows #concrete

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Stop electing fascists, yes, but also, stop electing fucking cowards

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
rooniecomics@comics.town ("Roonie the Rabbit") wrote:

I wish my work would accept this reason. | More comics: https://rooniecomics.com/comics/cozy

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

Narrator: but he did, in fact, do it.

Maybe I'll use it to to post resources and stuff.

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

"Do not buy a domain for a project that's not even on your radar of projects waiting to be on your radar. Don't do it."

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Texting with a friend in the Twin Cities and they just went "Have to go, I hear helicopters," which reminds me that now is an excellent time to say fuck ICE and fuck this fascist administration

cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

I can't wait till this replaces us... we are fucked 😂

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
benschwarz@front-end.social wrote:

I find this to be the most common paradox of React “engineering”.

People say React is easy and DX focused, but then continue to add layer upon layer, brick by brick, to fix the structural issues beneath.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
virile_beard ("CD") wrote:

Nobody sucks a sad cigarette quite like Ben Affleck

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

I'm not saying I would or even could do this anytime soon, but I would one day love to manage my own instance here. Maybe for freelancers.

I've been freelancing for almost 11 years now, and I wish I had resources and support groups in my early days.

I leaned so many lessons the hard way.

Anyway, a freelancer-focused community, if done right and thoughtful, could be amazing. Maybe even do a coop.

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

Author of ‘Don’t Say Abolish ICE’ Memo Is a Corporate Consultant:

"Nuñez-Neto’s statement that he has consulted on immigration issues suggests that WestExec is squarely involved at the nexus of militarization and surveillance-state activities by U.S. immigration enforcement agencies."

Abolish ICE, Abolish ICE, Abolish ICE, Abolish ICE. https://prospect.org/2026/01/19/author-dont-say-abolish-ice-memo-corporate-consultant-westexec/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
celesteh@hachyderm.io ("Charles ☭ :trans: is a Green") wrote:

A hero's obituary: https://archive.is/TZ2Hs

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Back alley. Some designers decided to make a boring short alley a little more interesting. Nobody actually runs there (from what I saw), but it's funny :-)

#darktable

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org ("LÆMEUR") wrote:

Whoops! I told myself I'd worry about app pricing later when I set-up SKRIBBLOR on the Play store, and now it's in production and you can't change free apps into paid apps, so... I guess SKRIBBLOR is just a free app, now!

(I was considering doing that anyway, and setting-up a Patreon that people can join, or sticking a one-time donation link in the app, or whatever.)

THANK YOU to those of you who joined the closed testing program and gave feedback!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.alph.skribblor

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
benschwarz@front-end.social wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sir%5Fpepe/115923413113414435

This article provides the perfect view into React brain worms:

Instead of a native HTML input radio element

It’s somehow easier to import hundreds of lines of code, and implement a faux radio button (that’s actually a button with svg to LOOK LIKE A RADIO), and ARIA rules (to WORK LIKE A RADIO)

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

I want to say I wrote The Computational Web... almost a year ago, though the final draft is different than the original.

I was *really* into learning the history of the web. I realized that each iteration of the web starts with a promise and ends with a power grab.

The idea that big tech's end game is to kill local compute has been rattling in my brain for years. The Computational Web is just an attempt to contextualize it.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-computational-web-and-the-old-ai-switcharoo/

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

I wrote Slop Is Everywhere... about six months ago while eating sushi with my sister. We had a long talk about why wasabi is secretly just horseradish and why so many foods we love are actually fillers.

That night while scrolling YouTube shorts I saw an AI generated video, it hit me: oh no this is fake wasabi. lol we're over consuming our FYPs!

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/slop-is-everywhere-for-those-with-eyes-to-see/

Boosted by jwz:
exocomics@mastodon.world ("Li Chen") wrote:

pigeon

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mcc wrote:

Sometimes people on the Internet are talking about a politics thing and are like "this isn't my first rodeo!" and inwardly I am thinking "you have never been to a rodeo"

jwz wrote:

WP remember me.

Dear Lazyweb, as of recently the "remember me" checkbox on my /wp-admin/ login page is not clickable on iOS. It un-checks itself as soon as you click it. This does not happen on desktop. Any ideas?
https://jwz.org/b/yk2J

Boosted by jwz:
Viss wrote:

cool, so there's a whole new github dork people can do: claude chatlogs.

they live in .claude/logs/ and are full text records of peoples entire conversations with claude

and they're ending up in public on github because i guess people arent adding them to .gitignore

happy monday! ai is going great!

jwz wrote:

RE: https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/115922995190919975

Mozilla wants your input. Here's mine:

Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

1: Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2: Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
3: There is no 3.

Mozilla should have NOTHING to do with AI. Nobody wants it. Stop forcing AI into every corner of every project because your VC-brained management have completely lost the plot.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

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

It has to be obvious to everyone by now that Trump is a mentally ill child, and it is well past time to evict him from office.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/19/trump-doesnt-get-a-consolation-prize/