RE: https://kolektiva.social/@LeftistLawyer/116202888309076038 How much do you trust your own, democratically-elected govt? 2026 edition.

Since I'm on Mastodon pro tips: Your timeline is your own. Filter words you don't want to see. Block/mute whomever you want for any reason or even no reason. I just blocked someone today because "the vibes were wrong". Idk looking at their posts and profile and the vibes were bad so block […]

It’s Bandcamp Friday and one of my favorite nerdcore bands, the Cybertronic Spree, is raising money to replace the catalytic converter on their touring van! If you love soaring 80s power rock, consider adding one of their albums to your haul! And if you’re already a fan, they’ve got a special […]

And that's the story of why I'm not allowed into Toy 'R' Us any more.

Die Welt ist schlecht, aber im Garten findet man immer etwas Hoffnung. #bloomscolling #gardening #photography #flower 🌱 #garten #welt

Some say that the leader of the Wild Hunt is a king of Denmark who killed his own brother. #phantomsfriday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/King_Abel%27s_Hunt

First bloom of the year. In a week my whole house will be surrounded by mounds of pink. #bloomscrolling

Does anyone know about growing loofah (luffa)? Wikipedia says that it's a sub-tropical plant, but I'm wondering if it will grow where I am in zone 8b. I'd love to grow these and make loofah sponges for our own use and to give as gifts. We grow squash really well here in the summer, and I'm […]

I think I've found our killer use case for the ash from our wood stove: as a moisture absorbent in the barn. We have one of those Tuff Shed barns and the first year I was heartbroken to see so much mold growing on leather and other fabric because it was too damp. (We live in the PNW and it's […]

It's probably about time to dispense a little rural investment advice: Go long on the garden, goats (milk) and chickens (eggs). #uspol #Iran #nuclearwar

The only things I post that seem to get traction are about just how bad the "AI" bubble has made it for research computing. Honestly? I'm good with that, because I feel it's important that it's not just consumer hardware costs getting fucked, it's impacting real-world research.

The question is not whether you can create software using LLMs - you can - most software is just boring CRUD shit. But you do pay a hefty price: In lowering quality (security issues, less maintainable), in skill decay in the people "guiding" the stochastic parrots, etc. It's not "can 'AI's […]

Please keep posting your art; drawings, paintings, poems, photos, comics, doodles, music, whatever. Culture is one of the few things that make us remarkable as a species, and paramount it properly aids the preservation of humankind's emotional expression. And do remember, a computer *cannot* […]

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Sometimes your friend is also your blanket.🤔 #cats #catsofmastodon

WHY EXPLOSION #Monsterdon #hercules1983

This is Jeff. Some folks don’t like Bluejays because they’re common in these parts and kind of bossy , but I love they because they’re friendly and noisy.

Full Moon Insomnia has been an issue for me since I was a child, but the older I get, the harder it is to deal with just not sleeping for three days. It's more than just the light (though that is part of it - where I live, when it's dark outside, it's usually *really, really* dark, because we're […]

As a member of @cos.io effort to build a more resilient ecosystem (see link below if you missed it), we want to draw attention to the call for feedback. Be sure to share your thoughts with us by March 2, ahead of our next planning meeting, using the survey on the post! www.cos.io/blog/buildin...

I stop in this park on my cycle to work every morning and feed the squirrels I bought a massive bag of shelled peanuts online to keep them happy The squirrels know me now, and often chase alongside my bike as I ride into the park I will miss them when I […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Writers Beware: Marketing Scammers Targeting You #bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #author #writing #amwriting #amediting #writer #booksky #writerslife #indieauthor #shortstory www.authorstalkingbookish.com...

My partner’s kitten doing A Silly. #catsofmastodon

Yes, it’s planned out as a trilogy. Does that mean that it takes until the end of the third book to get to the Happily Ever After? No, of course not, you absolute fool.

We are so excited to see the interpretive panels in #Philly restored! We CAN take action to protect our history. Congratulations to the community that fought so hard to bring them back. Hope is resistance. #SaveOurSigns whyy.org/articles/phi...

Sometimes I'm struck by similarities and differences between the Self Driving Car industry and the AI industry (granted there's almost 1:1 overlap in the companies, so it makes sense). They're both trying to throw compute to answer messy real world problems. And in well constrained problem […]

Today is the scariest, most distressing day for kitties: It’s Vacuuming Day.

Sometimes when the brain weasels get bad a reminder that nature can be really, really fucking cool is a great thing to have.

It sure would be cool if Hasbro would remaster their old library and maybe properly release Inhumanoids and Visionaries! Tubi has Challenge of the GoBots and OG Transformers right next to each other and *you would not believe* which one looks really good and which one looks meh.

There’s a character who’s introduced with a scene where he wakes up and he’s got to pee but it’s cold and he feels like shit and it’s the realest thing I’ve ever written.

A while back, I wrote a novel. I got pretty far with it, I was on something like the sixth draft and I had a few pages of feedback from a prospective agent, but then my life got derailed and I was too busy struggling with my mental health to focus on it and when I came back to it, it didn’t […]

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The kind of plants I like 😆p

While I'm posting songs that came along at just the right time in my life, this hit right as I was going through my old Transformers fanzines to help with James Roberts' book on 90s TF fanzine culture, and it both perfectly captured how it felt to be obsessed with Transformers during the G2 era […]

"The typewriter, from its birth, has been tied to a set of assumptions about gender and skill. These assumptions persist to the present and color our cultural understanding of typists’ labor. [...] “It looks complicated, but the men who designed it made it simple enough for a woman to use.” […]

Perfect. THIS ought to get her adopted! 😂 #CatsOfMastodon #fostercat

Putting aside my reaction this “2026 author trends” article as a middle-aged writer who never got the hang of marketing in the first place (in a word: deflating)… …I found it discouraging as a *reader*. “Readers don’t just fall in love with stories—they fall in love with worlds, characters […]

It's so fun that a law invented to address one white guy getting embarrassed by his video rental history is now a major pillar of consumer privacy protection in America.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@scalzi/115968523162612908 Oh, eek. That includes Izotope as well now, right? 😬

I just wanna reup this: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discourse-is-a-distributed-denial-of-service-attack/ And add to it. We're all struggling here. I come here to scream into the void. But for friends, family, and neighbors who are already onside, sharing more information or discussing […]

[chronic illness w/ vague uspol] Today was a good reminder for me why it’s so important to manage stress, especially as someone with an autoimmune disease. I crashed hard today. I spent the whole week hearing about how terrible this storm was going to be, and I’m a new homeowner with an […]

RE: https://wetdry.world/@michi/115887267764246728 You’re going to hurt its feelings, which is something some of these people genuinely seem to think it has!