Saw this on Tumblr & thought it deserved a wider audience 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 🏳️‍⚧️ #trans

Merry Christmas! And if you don't celebrate Christmas... Happy birthday, Jimmy Buffett!

the ten pillars of fascism The mythic past: Fascists draw on a mythical past to justify a glorious future. Propaganda: Propaganda in fascist politics often operates through inflammatory speech, stirring hostility and manipulating emotions, and displacing reasoned public debate with fear and […]

I offer Cassandra's Complete Class Theorem¹. All "good use cases for AI" break down into one of four categories: I. Bad use case. II. Good use case, but not something AI can do. III Good use case, but it's already been done without AI. IV. Not AI in the LLMs and GANs sense, but in the machine […]

The distance between #Dublin and #London is 464 miles, #asthecrowflies. But as #GretaThunberg learnt today, it's about a million miles in politics. In Dublin, #PresidentConnolly regards the #genocide in #Gaza as a horror. But in London, the #CityOfLondonPolice […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

For the benefit of the non-USian followers: Y'know, I really plan to start putting content warnings on alla my political re-toots. I know it gets tiresome...

Question for the maybe five other people in the world who can answer this kind of question about platform accessibility APIs: Is it worth it to include an alpha channel in a color struct for a cross-platform accessibility API? Does any platform accessibility API actually support this, and does […]

Here's a reminder about one of the most important results of the past twelve years of ancient DNA research. Northern Europe was overrun by plague-spreading steppe nomads less than 5000 years ago, causing an almost complete population replacement. It's a 1492 event. Everybody knows that us […]

This is how we should all file our taxes this year.

@waldenwilde Is this a legal change, or professional?

SF’s is having a massive power outage. We ended up having to drive across SF to find a laundromat to dry our soaking wet laundry. Here’s my two observations: every third block is a traffic jam caused by a confused Waymo that doesn’t know how to handle these intersections with no power. Why are […]

Can any catgirl confirm or deny these allegations

Trump, Musk, Rubio, and their henchmen destroyed USAID -- directly causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, mostly children. The apparatchiks celebrated while bosses lied about what they'd done. I can't overstate my incandescent rage at these monstrous people […]

RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115748996723412849 This. This is entirely the purpose of LLMs. Commercial spam. Spam to find marks for scams. Spam to influence political outcomes. Spam to drive investor behavior. Etm. Etm. Etm. These are the things all the people behind the LLM shitshow […]

Had we but known, we would've joined in https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/santa-claus-montreal-police-grocery-store-theft-9.7020673

For those of you who care, I think I've decided to go with @librewolf , because Waterfox requires manual updates, and software that requires manual updates + me having ADHD = potential disaster

We Investigated The Criminals Who Bought Trump: What We Found Will Shock You. Felon Trump's pardons of criminals. Many of them are #crypto criminals. They are now funding the right. #MorePerfectUnion reporting. (MPU is excellent!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFhx...

For my birthday today, I'm ditching Firefox. @Vivaldi on the phone, either @librewolf or @Waterfox on the laptop. Maybe I'll flip a coin

"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/113642963558607018 just found out the first 5 years after cancer therapy are the most critical for my longevity. been so busy catching up with living after 2 years of battling cancer, i forgot it’s my first year #cancerfree one year and 4 days ago, i […]

A good rule of life. #riprobreiner

Less "ew why do you use windows" more offering to help with the transition to Linux when the person mentions switching (and not bugging them)

“I have always been convinced that abuse of Words, has been the great instrument of Sophistry and Chicanery — of party, faction and Division in Society.” - John Adams

https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/collateral-damage/against-the-grain-archiving-anarcho-punk “The anarcho-punk archive offers a working hypothesis: when music detaches from commodity logic and reattaches to social purpose, it becomes infrastructure, the connective tissue through which […]

Just to be clear: should I have the terrible misfortune to be killed in a mass shooting, please feel free to politicize the hell out of it. And go ahead and do so immediately. No time will be “too soon”.

"I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. “They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness [and] empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer." ~ Robin Ince #bbcbastards

Timelinefund + BBesch

Kind of a real-life SCP-1471 https://boingboing.net/2025/12/13/the-ai-generated-creature-that-wont-go-away.html

this. my dad's dad was in Spain under Franco, imprisoned. my wife's mom's dad landed on the second day in Normandy. They'd both no doubt be disgusted with what is happening in our country and especially in the USA. #fascism #wwii #canada #canpoli #cdnpoli

My "Who Goes MAGA?" updating of Dorothy Thompson's 1941 piece about Nazis seems to go viral again every few weeks as new people discover it. Understanding the psychology of who goes fascist turns out to be important. www.techdirt.com/2025/07/08/w...

Cause of fire? Guess we’ll have to ask BP, one of the worlds largest fossil fuel companies what may have caused a fire in their solar panels. Deceive, delay, deny… https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-09/wellington-solar-farm-fire/106113846 #solar #endfossilfuels

Bluesky: "We've upgraded our Age Assurance system to comply with upcoming laws in Australia" which means: We're forcing every Australian to hand over their biometric data to overseas based companies whose business model is about monetising personal data and linking online accounts to real world […]

i think this is a pretty good video and also a good summary of how i feel aboit "AI water use problem" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6MWk7PQc

RE: https://toot.community/@mick_collins/115681964195498693 Re-post for the daytime people

At last, the Winter Collection is HERE: https://www.imagenetz.de/FwT78

Welp, I got up an hour late, so nope

Okay, 2:20am and I finally got the Winter Collection sequenced, but now I have to get cover art. Here's the thing: if it isn't posted by 11am, it won't drop until sunday night

Also, my DJ night this month is this saturday at the Great Georgiana in Brooklyn.

Gonna take advantage of peak North American social media time here to let you all know the Winter Collection is almost done: I'm cramming some extra tracks in bc why not. I gotta sequence it and find some cover art, so tomorrow night. Late tonight if we're all really lucky.

[PLEASE Stop using Spotify. Use literally anything but Spotify.] Why? • They don't pay musicians https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/confirmed-next-year-tracks-on-spotify-1000-plays/ • They fund right wing extremist podcasters […]

Racism, conservative ideologies and endorsements of authoritarianism have been linked to low intelligence. Just posting this reminder today for no reason at all.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@globalmuseum/115651509600693866 Folks, this is *incredible*

"Imagine paying upwards of $8,000 for peace of mind during a grid outage, only to find out Tesla remotely drained your backup battery to 0% because it might otherwise catch fire." I would not even buy a pencil from Tesla at this point […]

Pop star Sabrina Carpenter responded to the Trump White House using one of her songs in a pro-mass-deportation video. She described the video as "evil and disgusting" and wrote: "Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda." The White House made an official response […]