Mastodon Feed: Posts

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

this video is a tour de force

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW0XUsyBBuY

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

tipsy moth

Boosted by jwz:
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

(Sharing the credit for this one with @quixoticgeek ):

Tom Bombadil is the Jar-Jar Binks of Middle Earth.

Boosted by jwz:
RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"Sick of it all"
Sticker spotted in Seattle

Boosted by jwz:
SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

A good reminder that “originalism” means believing that America was better when only white male property holding Christians could vote and even they couldn’t be trusted to vote for Presidents and Senators. https://www.pennlive.com/news/2026/06/scott-perry-joins-push-to-revoke-17th-amendment-strip-voters-of-electing-senators.html

Boosted by jwz:
cmconseils ("Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

I Hate My Job, by Mashz Art

#Art #illustration

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

timecube is not valued

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
corbet@social.kernel.org ("Jonathan Corbet") wrote:

The @lwn web site is currently under the most intense scraper attack I have seen yet. 1.3M unique IP addresses within the last couple of hours, and it's not done yet. The work we have done on defenses appears to be paying off, though; the server is holding up reasonably well — so far.

...just in case anybody wonders why I have a rather dim view of the whole AI industry...

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

meow

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

The anticipatory-based anxiety really did a number on my body, me thinks. Sleep deprivation led to poor eating which led to feeling worse. It's a snowball.

So, I'm going to reward myself by eating nutrient rich foods and drinking lots of water.

Ugh, I hate that I'm at the age where I must think twice before getting a bacon egg and cheese biscuit. 😭

But I'm grateful to have the resources too eat better, and so happy this shit is almost behind me.

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

I've been in a remarkably good mood today lol.

I'm starting to get what's called "shadow" headaches which is a very mild, almost neutral feeling where the cluster headaches normally occur. Also, tightness around the neck and a bit of "first bite syndrome."

These are good signs that this cycle is coming to an end and my cluster headaches will go back to hell.

jwz wrote:

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 259.
https://jwz.org/b/yk83

Attachments:

• video: 014b8d6cba3d0121.mp4

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

The fact that my Mastodon feed is so utterly devoid of any mentions of the World Cup is telling me that keeping this thing popular really hinges on all of the media pumping the hype all of the time.

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

My yard is full of voracious predators.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/28/predators-at-work/

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i feel like eating my beret

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de ("Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK") wrote:

@alice @lrhodes I remember GNUsocial - was even told about it in about 2010/2011

A lot of it seemed to be "absolute free speech" which mostly consisted of anarchists and rightwing edgelords bitterly arguing at each other in English, German and Swedish all at the same time and it was quite frankly a hostile environment (even though I can understand German quite well) and no better than anything else available at the time, compared to modern Fedi the LGBT+ folk and furries built over the years (and wrestled away large parts of control from centrist techbros)

I know which kind of network I prefer...

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bascule@mas.to ("Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀") wrote:

Bill Maher is MAGA-curious. I'm so unsurprised I forgot to leave my mouth agape.

Anyone still referring to that guy as being liberal/leftist is incredibly out of touch.

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/bill-maher-played-by-jd-vance-real-time-hbo-may-vote-republican-2028-1236795870/

#uspol

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

ginkgochujang

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you could forever wander the cold dark reaches of space. Or more likely, since it's actually hard to escape earth's gravity unless you are very deliberate about it, you could end up in a slowly decaying orbit around earth and eventually burn up in the atmosphere during an uncontrolled reentry. Or perhaps you'll just blowup on the launchpad. It's all good. Go for it!

#MetaphorGoWoosh #TooLiteralAgain

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
MissConstrue@mefi.social wrote:

Did y'all know that 70% of the funding for the Swedish Neo-nazi party Örebro, the funding that allowed them to go national, is all coming from the CEO of of #Mullvad VPN?

Here's a sample of the politician you're supporting by using Mullvad products:

Allard asked: "why won't the Liberals push for deporting 100 000 social welfare-Somalis?" and in the same debate said that "Sweden belongs to the Swedes. We have to make sure that we take care of our own damn people and we must deport these damn parasites who sit and live at our expense. [...] In a podcast segment about immigration and deportations Allard stated his opinion and said that "They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish."'

There's a few ways to stop racists and fascists. The easiest one is to stop giving them money.

https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Defamation is when you when you make a false and harmful statement about someone. If the statement is true, that ain't defamation. It's not defamation if it's inconvenient or a bad look. It's not defamation if it's an uncomfortable truth. It's not defamation if it's aligned with a different perspective. It's only defamation if it's false.

It's OK to have different opinions about AI and its role in art and photography. It's OK to disagree on those topics. But don't waste our time with bogus reports. If you're gonna take other people's work and use AI to spruce it up and call it your own, you need to own that choice and its repercussions. People are going to strongly dislike it. They're going to call it out. And you need to take your lumps.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Today our moderation team received a report about one of our social.lol members. The report simply said "defamation" and offered no referenced posts or additional context.

So we did what we always do when we get a report — we investigate it carefully. We reviewed all of the recent posts (and even some older ones!) by the member in question. And all we found was that they called someone out for passing off "AI slop" as their own photography.

That is not "defamation". That's a public service. 🙌

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ana@starlite.rodeo ("ana «model a7m2» :neobot_cat_headphones_pink:🎶") wrote:

people say the fediverse runs on activitypub, but actually the fediverse runs on the tenuous web of mutual trust created between all of its participants, and activitypub is but the clumsy messenger

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
samir@functional.computer ("samir, computer wielder") wrote:

When you imagine an “invading horde”, what do you see?

If you’re like me, educated in Europe, or one of its cultural equivalents or ex-colonies, you probably think of a caricature of Genghis Khan and his army.

We have to replace this image with a British arsehole in a shit wig.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
pixelpaperyarn@masto.hackers.town wrote:

I restarted my newsletter! I wrote a bit about the challenges of being invisible & having authenticity on the web. I have no posting schedule. Stuff's just gonna come out when I write something. No more than once a week, hopefully no less than once a month.

https://buttondown.com/commonplace/archive/on-invisibility-and-being-authentic-on-the-web/

#amwriting

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
celesteh@hachyderm.io ("Charles ☭ :trans: is a Green") wrote:

This week:
Two donated Linux laptops have found new homes with people who would not otherwise had laptops.

In the queue:

I've got three thinkpads awaiting new power adaptors, one of which needs a new battery, and another of which _NEEDS_ a new battery.

And two macbooks, one of which is having (broadcom) WiFi problems. And the other is waiting.

You:
Are you a carer, a migrant, unemployed or otherwise could use an Ubuntu laptop? (Or do you know someone who would benefit?)

Do you have old laptops* cluttering your space that you want to pass on? I will collect from anywhere in London.

* If your laptop turns on, I'm interested. If its already ewaste, sorry.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
camille@praxis.nyc ("Camille Winds Down") wrote:

A Conversation With Anarchists in Sudan

https://www.blackrosefed.org/conversation-sudan-anarchists/

> Hear directly from anarchist comrades in Sudan in this presentation plus Q&A hosted by Black Anarchist Resistance: Sudanese Solidarity (BARSS), a new coalition centering support for Sudan while raising the banner of Black liberation globally. William C. Anderson, author of Nation On No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition, will share a political grounding linking the […]

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
soulsource@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Andreas Grois") wrote:

I just got reminded of the Grug Brained Developer.

It is essential reading for everyone who wants to write code.

https://grugbrain.dev/

#Programming #GameDev #SoftwareDevelopment

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
zenkat@sfba.social wrote:

The funniest thing about the #goose presentation is how completely it misses the whole point of the fable.

In the original story, the goose has been providing a steady stream of golden eggs. But the farmer gets greedy, and decides that if he cuts open the goose, he can get ALL the golden eggs inside the goose at once. But after killing the goose, he finds no eggs inside, and is left with nothing.

This is a story about the financial class, #AI, and the #Internet economy.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
FoxbrushTailwag ("Foxbrush Tailwag") wrote:

Einzig vernünftiger Umgang mit sowas.