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ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Great little blog post by ghosty on the original Doom games. Might have to fire them up again.

https://blog.thefrenchghosty.me/posts/doom/

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

You don't need Discord! 🙅 If you run a project or community that uses Discord, or just have a friend group who hangs out there, maybe consider IRC instead. For less than the cost of a single Nitro Boost (ugh), you can run your own IRC server, taking back your privacy and ensuring your autonomy and independence.

I’m writing a guide (live, right now) on how to do this (and building an IRC server in the process). Feel free to tune in if you want! https://www.twitch.tv/neatnik

jwz wrote:

'AI' is a dick move.

Baldur Bjarnason: I've stopped trying to debate software developers on LLMs. It's a fruitless debate. Even if the believers in agents and copilots could be budged on empirical grounds, and the past few years have given us plenty...
https://jwz.org/b/yk3I

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

Doing some manly things today.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
popcornreel@mas.to ("Omar Moore") wrote:

PROMOTE BLACK VOICES (on this platform and in general.)

Thank you.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
calvinball@mastodon-belgium.be ("Calvinball - Jolan") wrote:

All other social media platforms feel like I'm zapping through teleshopping channels.

Mastodon is like finding the button that turns on interdimensional cable.

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

RE: https://federate.social/@mattblaze/116025853458391912

I'm so tempted to declare that the left and right have been swapping roles since the election. It feels like a lazy analysis but geez, the election fraud conspiracies plus some other social behavior stuff makes it compelling. At least at first glance.

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

What I'm listening to today: "BASTL WAVE🐦‍⬛BARD｜#14 - DRONE", boop _e_

A couple days ago I posted this artist using the Citadel, a eurorack module reprogrammable as any of Bastl's "Kastle 2" devices. Here's the equivalent desktop/handheld device, this time programmed as a "Wavebard", with the eurorack cables replaced with little wires.

Track is a soulful, disorienting dream about being lost in fog while giant glowing blobs of color pass by you, paintsplotches in the mist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uVWrZffwEc

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Sex license

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
joyousjoyness ("Joy") wrote:

Timelapse of my painting, "Shrimp Cat," painted in Procreate!

#cat #art #orangecat #gingercat #painting #catart #caturday

Attachments:

• gifv: c4f2562c6dc1b1a1.mp4

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Sometimes I get a really good quote in.

“Pointing out that AI is prone to giving ICE bad information is missing the entire point of ICE,” EFF’s Eva Galperin told Rolling Stone. “They don’t care if the information they have is good.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/ice-ai-mistakes-1235507183/

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

Also, to be clear, I'm not anti-getting paid for your work. I'm very much in favor of that. I try to support at least 2 independent creators at all times. More if I'm having a good year.

I do think we've put ourselves in a corner where some of us are financially dependent on Mark Zuckerberg. And while I don't expect anyone to delete their IG or Substack
overnight, there should be initiatives to slowly move audiences outside corporate social media.

Ok I'm rambling. Might write a proper post.

Boosted by jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi"):
thisisgww@threads.net ("G. Willow Wilson") wrote:

"Bit of over-rotation on the landing there," I mutter critically as I sit on my couch with a toaster strudel, having never landed a quad-anything in my life

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

Y'all could I declare myself the king of Mastodon and start a grift where you give me money on my buymeacoffee and in exchange I'll write fan fic?

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000748348631

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Okay, listen up Oxide fam: on Monday, @ahl and I will be joined by Evan Ratliff and Maty Bohacek from the extraordinary Shell Game podcast -- which gives you the rest of the weekend to binge listen to it:

https://www.shellgame.co/

(Both seasons are terrific, but if you only have one to listen to between now, and then, check out Season 2.)

Join us for what promises to be a fun discussion: Monday, 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1469771648860426344

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

On this week's Oxide and Friends, @gradybooch joined @bcantrill and me to talk about the past, present, and future of software engineering. From hand-made computers and the software crisis of the late '60s to LLMs (of course) we covered a lot... with--as always--many dated references! https://youtu.be/McAL6jkRUO4

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

The Centralized Social Media Debacle:

"Opting out is not virtue.
It’s alignment.

And alignment, at this stage, feels like the most humane choice available." https://realityfragments.com/2026/02/07/the-centralized-social-media-debacle/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
matildalove@wetdry.world ("Matilda Love") wrote:

@fromjason "no kings" is more of an ad campaign than a movement. one run by a billionaire

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

For those of you still not in-the-know, I've got a little audio blog over at https://chriswere.wales/voicenotes/ where I share some ramblings with you folks, usually when I'm out and about.

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

I believe deep down, people who are going after Rudy for Blacksky-only posts know that Blacksky-only posts exist because of them.

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

"Annoying politics"

It's giving Portland roommate.

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

Won't someone think of the people who are always thought of?

This is a level of main character syndrome that rarely makes it to the feed these days because the web has shamed this behavior out of people. It's almost whimsical, like spotting a snow leopard.

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

I’m dying. What I think happened here is dude is using AI to make automated posts, and the AI grabbed an AI generated photo of an all-Asian cast of Friends to make a barely coherent business strategy analogy.

I refuse to believe that LinkedIn is a real place.

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

I've incurred a gifting debt. Now the competition begins.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/07/my-morning-present/

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

Every last advocacy group, political influencer, independent journalist, are financially dependent on the very systems causing the most harm.

Can you picture a world where Meta was bankrupt, Substack went under, and Google was too busy fixing search for its lost users to advance its war mongering efforts?

We'd all still have the open web to organize on. Maybe we have less professional political pundits, but that doesn't seem like something we'd miss.

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

I often get "okay if this doesn't work what does?" and the first thing is just to unlearn and relearn.

But from a tactical perspective, where the solution becomes more subjective, in my opinion, the answer is to slowly move away from the platforms own by the technocracy waiting in the wings.

The challenge is, no voices on these big platforms will ever recommend we leave because they've made advocacy a full-time job, and leaving means they can no long support themselves.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"As when they arrested Black journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort as well as Black protesters at a church while leaving white protesters free, Trump and his allies are hammering on racial fault lines. ...

Trump’s doubling down on racism reflects Americans’ growing disillusionment with him and his administration."

#Trump #Obamas #racism
/4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"On Air Force One, Trump said that he had posted it himself. When a reporter asked if he would apologize, he said, 'No, I didn’t make a mistake.'

While the post exhibited both the president’s vile racism and his failing impulse control, it also seems to have been an attempt to use racism to break the growing coalition against him."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Obamas #racism
/3

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-6-2026

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nova@lunar.place ("Nova :neocat_floof_cute:") wrote:

​:blobcatpnd_puripuri:​

Attachments:

• video: Nova is being a floofy hunter on the bed, fighting Luna's and Alice's hands. They put hands on the bed specifically so Nova lunges at them and move them away at the last second. Then pet Nova. Eventually Nova gets fed up and jumps off the bed

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"To Attorney General Pam Bondi: You testified in October 2025 that your department identified 'roughly 6 million' pages responsive to the Epstein Files Transparency Act. On January 30, you declared the mission 'complete' after releasing 3.5 million. Where is the 42% gap, the remaining 2.5 million pages, and which specific official signed the order to classify them as 'non-responsive' despite the Congressional mandate?"

~ Rick Wilson

#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi
/8

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/a-few-questions-for-trumps-doj-on