There are so many cases of this. Instance A's owner doesn't like Instance B's owner? Now you can't see your friends over there. Instance C decides they want to block all of mastadon.social cuz fuckit? You accidentally joined the instance run by a legit creep? Good luck figuring that out!

Here are some old VHS tape pieces

This is a scandal from our national broadcaster. De platforming a party surging in membership and council seats while uncritically staging long interviews with a absentee fascist bum Complain about this outrageous editorialising here: www.ofcom.org.uk/make-a-compl...

building a whole town is a lot of work!! we’re excited for you to discover it in december :^) ➡️ in the meantime, find out how our team is creating the map in this now public Patreon post: www.patreon.com/posts/131411...

Feels like the whole world is crashing out rn... I just wanna draw man. I just wanna draw my little drawings and make enough money off of them to live a humble life and chat to the people who like my little drawings sometimes. Why is that so harddddddddd

every night there are plucky adventurers on a VTT near you not doing any of this

Thought we should do one of our own for #MosaicMonday this week. Our favourite: the Box and Crosses mosaic, along with a drawing so you can see what you could have won.

it remains really funny that this site was spun up to be a crypto/rationalist platform and then old time weird twitter people and others started moving over here in spring 2023 and ever since management has been mad they're successful but not in the way they wanted

We should be proud the way we corrupted the business nonsense phrase "bluesky thinking"

strange how vocal critics of the thin skinned and bumbling developers who've been having a rolling meltdown this weekend keep getting banned

Just realised I haven't posted a cat forever #cat #tux

your Sunday needs this reskeet

Whole bluesky team is right now looking up Ayahuasca retreats and comparing prices of different shamans offering to let them cry in their arms behind waterfalls

I love my country. I just happen to love most of the bits racists hate, and I hate what they’re doing to it. I want better for it and for us.

I'm serious email your representatives and link this article RIGHT NOW tell them this shit sucks and is going to put everyone's ID/data at risk to hackers online. the proof is right here US- www.congress.gov/members/find... EU- www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home CA- www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

Zombies, they're making themselves zombies

Yup. Federation is an awesome idea, but simply not practical at scale for social media as we typically think of it. I dipped from mastodon bc I would routinely wake up and discover I could no longer locate 10-15 people I followed bc my instance blocked theirs. No warning, no explanation.

@jay.bsky.team fuck you and fuck your waffles

Pyaari is so decent 🥺

if your response to this - a basic statement of sympathy about an attack on a synagogue - is to bring up Israel, please delete your account

And the ONE time that Jay breaks silence, it's to mock transgender concerns. It's particularly frustrating given how NOT off-topic the reply is - I can offer theories about why there's so much bad-faith discussion on Bluesky, possibly because people like Singal are professional bad-faith engagers.

I saw a weetabix ad earlier that looked like it was distinctly designed to appeal to reform voters…

Happy birthday to Henry the vacuum cleaner x

I suspect stuff like this is why you don’t need your conspiracy theories to be elaborate. There’s usually a very simple one going on - money and arseholes - that explains most things.

🔴 'The Most Powerful Individual in Britain' Peter Oborne’s exclusive @bylinetimes.bsky.social reporting exposes how Keir Starmer's chief strategist is driving a Labour Government towards defeat by the far-right www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-most-p...

Get vaccinated. The life you save might not be your own. That poor wee mite. An awful time for the family.

This is Cruiser. He's trained as a Community Resource Dog in Wrentham, Massachusetts. Last week he helped locate a missing elderly resident with dementia who had wandered away from home. For a job well done, Cruiser was rewarded with a hamburger. 14/10 (IG: officer_cruiser)

“Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'. - Terry Pratchett, The Truth

Peter Oborne’s exclusive Byline Times reporting exposes how Keir Starmer's chief strategist is driving a Labour Government towards defeat by the far-right

I can’t explain it but I am sure that sometime during COVID we entered a black hole and we’re living in the worst parallel universe. I have no proof, but no doubts either.

And also don’t take you frustration out on The Sims team. It’s likely they’re just as disappointed by the ethics of the sale and the impact private equity may have on their roles going forward! 😊

It’s official: EA is going private. The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

Hey. Don’t forget that the kickstarter for volume 2 of Rigsby WI is COMING SOON. Follow the project to be alerted right away when it launches!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

Got distracted by life stuff but really need to push this again. Help me raise at least £1000 for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust‬ by to draw 1000+ bumblebees in as short of time as I can (around 3 hours) If more is raised, I'll draw #bees to match the amount. www.justgiving.com/page/1000bum...

having to complete a captcha to access the NHS app before it fails for a *third* time to complete the request for a doctor's appointment is giving me more thoughts about this Normal Island's abilities to safely implement any kind of blanket digital ID

Soo, apparently EA is getting a leveraged buy out by vulture capitalists including Jared Kushner funded by Saudi Arabia. RIP EA I guess www.ft.com/content/b845...

This is why I switched to medical. The Games Industry is an abusive relationship.

Dessin d'il y a quelques années mais que j'aime toujours bien. Noir&Blanc / Couleurs On m'a demandé plusieurs fois si je pouvais mettre en ligne une HD en noir et blanc pour pouvoir s'entraîner aux couleurs, je vous fais ça bientôt ! (En attendant, QRT avec un avant/après la couleur !)

Pro-tip for running armies: If people have to ask about comparisons to "the space marines from warhammer", you're doing it wrong and *something* you're doing is probably a war crime (tho possibly not the same thing that prompts the space marine comparison)

Newcastle says no to fascism. The far right brought a hundred or so with them, bussed from far and wide. This city turned out 1000s, from local communities, estates and streets. Geordies of all backgrounds coming together and outnumbering the purveyors of hate by some distance. Newcastle united.

Girl Genius Vol 21 finally arrived!

Really interesting project that just needs a final puch to get ot over the finish line Echoes - A One Shot Horror Comic on @BackerKit! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w...

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

I remember how in the mid 2010s, Government Digital Services (GDS) in London had become a hub of tech talent. So many great folks from the London tech scene ended up there. They built some pretty solid stuff that often went uncelebrated because public service is just not as glamorous as a startup.

when people read a post about fascism in tech and treat it as a personal attack on their tech choices, that's a tell that saves a lot of time going forward

www.bbc.com/news/article... (From Mastodon): You know your plan is garbage when Alliance, DUP, UUP, SDLP, and Sinn Féin are all on the same side. With one fell swoop, Keir Starmer unified Northern Ireland (against his BritCard).

It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator

Compare that to the opening scene of Spectre. Daniel Craig here is wearing Tom Ford, adjusted for him, no doubt, but still made according to the designer's vision, not Craig's body. Despite Craig doing less expressive movements, Craig's suit is fighting against him the entire time.