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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
SkylerBold@meow.social wrote:

@soatok I wish my job mostly consisted of me telling people things were broken.

Mind you, I had a hearty laugh yesterday when our website was (and you will find this quite humorous yourself, I think) hacked and there was absolutely NOTHING I could do to help even slightly. Spent the whole day chuckling quietly.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange ("Rue Mohr") wrote:

@soatok

hey securefur, this for you.

:]

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
levelbot wrote:

we've never seen absurdity levels like this

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

None of this goes away just because you're not thinking about it or choosing to ignore it. It's real regardless of how you feel about it. Elon Musk is objectively a terrible human being. You can participate in his platform and support him, or not. But there is no in-between. You have to choose.

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

When you post on X, you are directly supporting the man who:

- Fired 80% of Twitter's workforce
- Dismantled Twitter's trust-and-safety infrastructure
- Turned the blue check into a for-profit impersonation circus
- Reinstated previously banned extremists, serial harassers, and spreaders of misinformation
- Suspended journalists for reporting on his jet
- Amplified misinformation repeatedly, especially 2024 election misinformation
- Endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory
- Told advertisers who objected to hate speech to “go fuck yourself.”
- Sued CCDH, Media Matters and other critics/researchers after they reported on the rise in hate speech on X
- Used X as part of a strategy to provide major political support of Trump
- Architected DOGE's mass federal layoffs
- Gained personal access to sensitive federal employee information
- Dismantled USAID
- Fired thousands of government employees in error
- Encouraged the creation of sexualized deepfakes with Grok
- Laughed at people expressing concern for his Gigafactory's water consumption, despite global record low water levels

Every post supports this. Every post endorses this. Every post sustains this.

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

Elon Musk owns X. Solely. There is no board of directors; there is no higher governance structure. X *is* Elon Musk.

When you "return to X", you're supporting Elon Musk, full stop. There's no way around it. When you post there, you're contributing to him. Directly.

So if you're not going into this with your eyes open, you're fooling yourself. But if you *are* going into it with your eyes open, you are the problem.

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

I guess this should be a sticker, too.

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

I think I'm *checks notes* serving cunt you guys

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
defcon@defcon.social ("DEF CON") wrote:

#DEFCON34 in the news: @CNET edition:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/inside-defcon-the-conference-that-made-cybersecurity-noob-friendly/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
neweinstein@meow.social ("neweinstein 🇺🇦 🏳‍🌈") wrote:

Sad news from Clockwork Creature:

"Hey, so our workshop got broken into over the weekend. Most of what was stolen was just replaceable stuff, but one very precious mask was taken.

Tierney's head has been stolen. If anyone sees this head anywhere, let us know immediately. Hoping against hope that we can bring her home."

Any boosts are appreciated to spread the word!

[https://bsky.app/profile/clockworkcreature.bsky.social/post/3mtcvfaqmck2e]

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
michael_w_busch@mastodon.online ("Michael Busch") wrote:

Please post about your books, authors.

That way I can know about them and find myself copies.

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

the government doesn't want you to know this but making lichtenberg figures with janky homemade electrics is not only dangerous, it's cool. try not to die.

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

is it the voltage or the current that kills you?

if they're both high enough, then "yes" is an acceptable answer.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/117118750064883850

I hate to shit on the work of people giving stuff away for free, but, this sucks. I am exhausted by every product I use being infested by this aesthetics-only design, design that is purely about how it looks and not how it works, even the open source ones, even the ones I support with donations or patronage. I agree with all of mcc’s critique but I don’t know how and don’t have the energy to channel this somewhere useful. maybe the thing that gets me to pick another instance will be this UI.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

I hate when interfaces that previously had nice, clear lines, *literal lines*, between interface elements of different semantic type, get redesigned to instead have vague, fuzzy, screen-eating¹ whitespace dividers. I have hated this since 2009. I stopped using the iPhone because it adopted this philosophy. I feel it massively increases cognitive load because instead of functional areas the screen is just various floating text

¹ I use apps at a relatively high zoom level and my screen is not big

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

I hate the anxiety of feeling like the window I'm typing into is a soap bubble that will disappear if I try to interact with anything

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

This is it; I don't like anything about it and will be considering alternate frontends when it ships. I have no feedback. My advice is "identify everything different between Mastodon 4 and 5, and do the opposite of that". The worst thing about this is the cursed "floating" compose window. I hate this in gmail, I hate it in every app that has it. I like how in current Mastodon Advanced I can work on a post on the left side while looking at something else on the right side

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/5.0-laying-the-foundation/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

Ah! Also I hate this. I recognize why private messages within a thread can be confusing, but I really like how private messages on Mastodon are "hallway track" side discussions from regular threads instead of there being a shitty IM app crammed into every social network which everyone just uses to set up IM conversations on better IM apps. It's very good that Mastodon DMs are *pinned to discussions*, and odd that Mastodon is killing virtually the only feature distinguishment they have with bsky.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
3psboyd ("Matt Boyd") wrote:

I feel like what's happening at work right now is a lot of senior engineers have internalized the idea that Rails saves you from having to model your data and reality is getting the last vote on that.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
aleemshaun@social.lol ("Aleem Shaun") wrote:

"I pledge to recognize^ the dignity and worth of all people."

^Even if they use questionable English 🤣
Jokes!

Seriously, though, if the reason you left a platform is that it actively devalued people, profited from hate speech and fundamentally rejected the concept of inherent dignity, and that platform has continued to double down on this position - you have no business returning.

Unless you’ve walked back your principles, decided not to be part of the solution and instead profit from being part of the problem.

Thank you, @neatnik, for holding the line and continuing to create and curate a space where human rights are centred*.

*This is the correct spelling.

https://people.pledge.party/

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

RE: https://social.panic.com/@cabel/117118379420957080

Perhaps if your new people are on X, your new people *are* grifters.

jwz wrote:

Relatable Patent Art.

US12711711-B1: The illustrations in this patent are great, they read like a silent children's book about a smirking creeper.
https://jwz.org/b/yk-x

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

Here's a close-up! This power station is from 1931.

#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #river #history

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w27jf74rgozykuyl63ji7wbv/post/3mtcp7p36ns2m

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

For those who enjoy the sound of a river flowing, here's a video of the power station.

#Iceland #video #landscape #nature #abandoned #decay #trees #river #rain

Attachments:

• video: 38d18c4c627d4910.mp4

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
KekunPlazas@mamot.fr ("Adrien Plazas") wrote:

@aredridel One of the very first things I did when I bought my appartement: paint it, add color and proper wood! When renting, I don't feel at home, I feel like I'm living in someone else's place, and It's because I am. Also I was so broke I couldn't afford to paint someone else's walls only to paint them back white later. And why bother when you know you'll have to undo everything to make the space bland again some time in the future?

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jik@federate.social ("Jonathan Kamens 86 47") wrote:

This is the most damning and horrifying text in this article:
>Bonica found that out of some $670 million in donations, just $11 million wound up in the coffers of campaigns, national party committees, and individual candidates. The other $659 million stayed with the fundraising groups themselves. That works out, Bonica wrote, to “a fundraising efficiency rate of just 1.6 percent.”
Hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from Democratic donors.
#politics #USPol #DCCC #DSCC
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-fundraising-scam-pac-report/

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
cabel@panic.com ("Cabel Sasser") wrote:

spent too much time today being sad about gruber calling an app that un-junks AI text "interesting and useful" (dude, you're a writer) and federico returning to X because that's where his new people are (so much for "grifters"). but, you know what, everybody's different. i can't control others. YET.

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

768 bits per second

gosh, speeds beyond imagination.

although admittedly they're trying to read magnetic signals with a garnet laser

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
daveycraney@social.lol ("Davey Craney") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/117118532559951812

A reminder that I stopped paying money to host my blog with Manton when his racist transphobe contractor was exposed and Manton didn’t think there was anything wrong with just sweeping that under the rug and keeping him on the books.

As a paying customer told him I was outraged.

He asked “How would you have liked me to have dealt with this differently” (I think he thought he had some point and was being clever with this, or maybe he was just genuinely utterly ignorant. I’ve no idea.)

When I detailed a plan where I would have cut him loose, apologise, donate to a suitable charity and forcefully project my community values and what you want to stand for moving forwards…. He just ignored me and continued to chat to the people who agreed with him instead. Easier innit?

I cancelled my account and never looked back.

Do not listen to this man about anything to do with web communities or values.

He is a bad actor for both.

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

“People are failing to understand why I’m OK with supporting the alt-right nazi-adjacent platform run by the guy who tried to ruin our country, so let me try to clarify.” https://www.manton.org/2026/08/18/coalitions.html