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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

@Unampho @thekernelinyellow

One of the funniest interactions I see online, is when Americans think it's inspirational that a young white US child is raising money not to buy themselves something, but to pay off their less privileged classmates' "school lunch debt."

US readers are like 🤗"Oh that's so precious! That sweet kid has a good heart!"

And EU readers are like 😮"Wait a minute... Go back a few steps... WTF is school lunch debt?! That's a real thing?! What is wrong with your country?!"

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SuffolkLITLab@esq.social wrote:

TL;DR: Dave Farber, a pivotal figure in internet history and longtime EFF Board member, has passed away at 91. His contributions to technology, civil liberties, and education have left a lasting impact on the digital world. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/rip-dave-farber-eff-board-member-and-friend #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum

Boosted by jwz:
andymcmillan@xoxo.zone ("Andy McMillan") wrote:

Really glad we traded support tickets and documentation and knowledgebases for instead joining a Discord where the one extremely stressed out libertarian developer with the anime avatar who’s been maintaining the project single-handedly can ignore my question and tell me to fuck off

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

“In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.”

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3meh26dlgms2a

// https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tfi2ptjvgjf5xvkbykujtyz7 tracks these concentration camps.

#Maryland Washington County Commission votes tomorrow https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/washington-county-commissioners-to #uspol https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/116042496057260606

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
stoneymonster@stoney.monster ("Chris White finds this vexing") wrote:

🧵I took some photos this weekend. This is the best of them. It's not a remarkable photo, though the dog is cute, but there's a story behind it (with more photos in the thread) that I think is interesting.

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

Remember, kids, if you must respond to someone still complaining about Bad Bunny's halftime show, the magic phrase is "Shut the fuck up, you racist pile of shit"! Try it! It works!

(and then block them, because you don't need to see racist piles of shit in your timeline!)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Someone at #FOSDEM asked us to put some promotional materials on our website that they could print for an event. There is now a section for that on the Branding page with our first poster:

https://joinmastodon.org/branding

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

yes, doing it on a monday is deliberate - my mood can't possibly be any lower, so

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

like a proper adult, I did my tax filing paperwork today. AMA.

#taxTheRich

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

Something about being middle-aged and having your own tastes in music is having no idea who Bad Bunny is, nor that he's apparently the biggest music act on the planet, and ultimately giving absolutely no shit about it :-)

Right now on my player: two-saxophone rendition of Gershwin's Summertime from a silly Russian movie Hipsters https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1239426

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

It's safe to say what was revealed really makes it hard for liberals to demand reform, or to vote for change. Epstein operated outside our system, quite effectively it seems.

So, I think liberals simply do not have the tools to respond. You can't vote-blue-no-matter-who your way out of this one.

Could that mean that we get a bunch of liberals in search of a new ideology? That would be interesting to watch.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
AndyHat@anti-social.online wrote:

@blogdiva @fromjason @gbargoud @clive @rejinl And then American Samoans just don't get to vote even after moving to the 50 states which makes no sense at all: https://boltsmag.org/prosecuted-for-voting-american-samoans-alaska/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

It's interesting to see the reactions to the Epstein Files. Up until very recently, it's been trickling photos that felt more like a soap opera than news. But many liberals were all over it.

Now, that we've received overwhelming evidence of a systematic... I don't even know what to call it, the reaction isn't meeting expectations. Maybe it's just me. But if feels like liberal influencers have taken a step back.

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

If there’s any interest, I could write guides on how to set up Discourse or Jitsi on your own server, similar to the IRC guide. https://www.neatnik.net/setting-up-an-irc-server/

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

IRC is just one alternative to Discord, focusing more on the live chat side of things. Discourse is another solid alternative, especially for communities that lean more heavily toward threaded messaging and slow-motion discussions. And Discourse’s live chat is super nice, too!

For voice and video, Jitsi is great. I think IRC
+ Jitsi or Discourse + Jitsi could replace Discord in many cases. It wouldn’t be perfect, but at least you don’t have to show your papers.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out

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

K-Pop Superbowl Halftime next year. Let's keep the assholes angry.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I'm selling a MacBook Pro 16in Intel with Touch Bar if you all know anyone who is interested.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116024044250405595

This is today!!

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

US government: hey Puerto Rico do you want statehood *points to pizza party* or do you want independence *points to snake pit*?

PR: statehood we guess?

Americans: wow Puerto Rico really loves us 😍 I'm gonna reference this vote under every Puerto Rico post for all eternity

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

TL;DRH we never wanted to be a state, the gringos who stole our land never wanted us to be a state, and Spain back-stabbed us.

by us, i mean the working classes, not the landowning managers of La Corona & gringolarchy.

so we’ve been in a limbo, sometimes bombing you gringos with guerrillas or musicians.

as it stands: way before owing us independece, USians owe us reparations; ie: Puerto Rico is taíno land denied to millions of us gaslighted about not surviving genocide

@clive

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
zicklepop@nyan.lol ("🌸 melanie kat 👻") wrote:

Hosting an IRC Server with Traefik and Coolify

★ https://melkat.blog/p/hosting-an-irc-server-with-traefik-and-coolify/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
FinalGirl@blackqueer.life ("Tyla (Combat Waifu Yuri Arc)") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116041139579763403

Again, nothing will piss you off about the US quite like learning by about Puerto Rican history. It’s a well of European and US racism.

And in perfect Colonialist racism, US people STILL weigh in on what Puerto Rico “should be” or “should have” without knowing anything about the country or history, or caring to learn. It’s like the perfect example of how shitty US Colonialism is.

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

I just released the new version of Mousefood 🐭✨

🧀 Mousefood — A no_std/embedded-graphics backend for @ratatui_rs

💯 Render TUIs on microcontrollers
🌀 Supports ESP32 / RP2040 / STM32, even e-ink & more!
🦀 Powered by Rust!

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/ratatui/mousefood

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #embedded #nostd #microcontrollers #esp32 #rp2040 #display

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

Discord is where content and conversation goes to die.

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

Time to teach my students how to read a pedigree.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/09/today-in-genetics-class/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116041069446538092

We’ve moved our internal communications from Discord to Zulip at Mastodon, and I think there are plans to do the same for our Patreon community. The harder part will be untangling my gaming communities from this…

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lapcatsoftware ("Jeff Johnson") wrote:

New blog post:

Why is DuckDuckGo so much worse than Bing?

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/2/3.html

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

If you feel the urge to weigh in on Puerto Rican statehood, even if it's just to comment that Puerto Rican's "voted" to become a state, you should first learn Puerto Rican history.

You should understand the flavor of racism your grandparents used against Puerto Ricans, and why that racism still exists today regardless of your political party affiliation.

Then, you can undo the conditioned belief that Puerto Ricans cannot govern themselves.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
binbun3d ("Binbun") wrote:

My Godot transition, sky and toon shader are available in godotshaders now!

Link: https://godotshaders.com/author/binbun/

#godot #GodotEngine #shaders #gamedev #indiedev #gameart

Attachments:

• gifv: Transition, toon and sky shaders being showcased

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Colarusso ("David Colarusso") wrote:

1/ There has never been a more concentrated distillation of my teaching than this lesson: Algos, Bias, Due Process, & You. It is the apotheosis of what I do. I very much hope you enjoy it, share it, and make bits of it your own. https://suffolklitlab.org/algos-bias-due-process-you/