Another highlight of the trip - heading back towards the southern ferry port, by way of Barack Obama Plaza (they have fast EV chargers, so it’s a useful stop!)

🥳 Manyfold v0.124.0 is out, with the addition of avatar and background images for creator profiles! 🗞️ Full release notes: https://manyfold.app/news/2025/09/26/release-v0-124-0.html 🌍 Join a public server: https://3dprint.social ❤️ Support us on OpenCollective […]

A lovely day to visit the Cliffs of Mohr, albeit the sun setting to the west makes for challenging smartphone snaps #ireland

Currently enjoying a trip around the west of Ireland. In a week, I’ll theoretically be flying from Heathrow to Berlin. The news of ongoing checkin chaos is not bringing me joy.

1/x One of the things I liked about Web 2.0 was that you could build a following as a techno-optimist blogger. I mean in the sense that you could be passionate about a technology — the web, in my case — and people wanted to get behind that. Now yes, folks like me *should’ve* been a tad more […]

What a line up! https://social.firesidefedi.live/@firesidefedi/statuses/01K5QC544YKHRP8AD9HMP5J36C

A beautiful morning along the shore at Waterford harbour #ireland

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/113804079415782325 Free to a good home! If you'd like a magic mirror, with built-in infrared heater - it is yours for the taking. Lovely bit of kit, but doesn't fit our decor. Pick up in London only (on the Elizabeth Line).

Anyway so we left at 0530 and up until the ferry everything was basically on track. Due to ferry breakage, now at 2315 I am getting to bed. Long day! And tomorrow, Waterford awaits.

New level of content laziness encountered - why not *include the prompt you gave the AI* at the start of the article, as well as the slop generated content itself 🤦

Early start on a Sunday for the drive to the ferry in Wales 😴

Happy Software Freedom Day! https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd

*looks around for "out of office autotoot settings" option* Well then. That's me done for a bit. 🧳

We’re taking another step in building a sustainable financial base as a non-profit. Today, we’re announcing new hosting and support offerings, tailored for larger organisations and public institutions. These enable organisations to own their social identities, on their own infrastructure […]

Yeah. Well... I think there will be a bunch of us relearning how to "surf" the web again. Web rings are on the rise, and blog rolls, and 88*31 link buttons. The search engines suck, so we'll be curating and collecting and sharing with each other over here now, thanks for nothing, Google […]

It’s more important than ever to support independent media free from corporate caving to autocracy and wherever possible on the open social web and on direct open media. https://journa.host/@w7voa/115222129277589068

Now Silicon Valley's Dark Tech Broligarchie acquires the key to young people's data and mind. # SaveSocial […]

🥳 Manyfold v0.123.0 is out, with a big new feature for federated instances - opt-in cross-instance search! More details will follow in a detailed blog post later this week, but in the meantime, huge thanks to the https://www.fediscovery.org project for building the […] [Original post on 3dp.chat]

Sending a #gratefulforyou to @streamofron - the keeper of macaw.social!

I love that @_elena has started a #GratefulForYou hashtag! My #GratefulForYou is for @ozoned#gratefulforyou- for all that he's doing to uplift the #fediverse community, and particularly for the fascinating and diverse conversations he's been hosting on @firesidefedi

I’m usually an Ivory person, I’m going to give Ice Cubes a workout this week for the Liquid Glass redesign (I have a folder with most (if not all) of the client apps available!) I’ll admit that I’m not disliking the updated OS look and feel as much as I had expected to. The “chunkier” feel to […]

I have been Liquid Glass-ed and everything is large and rounded (on some of my Things). The Linux side of my life remains less rounded and padded out.

⚠️ Today is the last chance for you to shape the future of the Fediverse! If you’re a: ✅ Mod ✅Admin ✅Community organiser Do yourself a favour and take 5-10 minutes⏱️to anonymously fill in the IFTAS needs assessment today! https://about.iftas.org/moderator-needs-assessment/

Wait, so we get iOS 26 *and* GNOME 49 in the same week? Inconceivable!

I think this is the first entry on @openbenches in Morse Code! https://openbenches.org/bench/39537

Who wants tpo come and work with me and a brilliant group of polar scientists on the latest generation of #Climate models and #earthobservation data? We're running a hackathon in the @PolarRES and @esa PISCO projects in November... https://fediscience.org/@PolarRES/115191376209325795

Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5 […]

Restoring my spirits by watching Def Leppard in the BBC Radio 2 in the Park gig from this weekend. One of my absolute favourites.

Now that the @loops server code is available (great news!)... can I have my existing account on loops.video federated? 🙏

Weekends, eh.

Today: some decluttering; some messing with satellites, Lora, GPS, SDR etc; rescuing garden parasol after it was blown over a fence. Tomorrow: deliver clutter for recycling or disposal!

I'm having a virtual book event with the @fediforum folks next week! https://fediforum.org/news/2025-09-04-robert-gehl-move-slowly-and-build-gridges-special-event/ I will talk about my new book, Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social […]

FediForum special event next week! Join us for an hour with Robert W. Gehl, who wrote a great new book about the Fediverse: "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the struggle for democratic social media." Come and hear excerpts from the book, and ask questions! We read […]

This feels intentionally made to aggravate me.

The Borg assimilated the pumpkins!

Once again writing to my MP to ask that the UK Government show more (or any!) leadership on both Immigrant rights and trans rights.

It looks like my friend @stephtara was "permanently suspended" on Meta platforms. Sharing her post here for more awareness, although I'm reasonably certain this may not be the right audience with channels to help […]

It's likely that if you know what the EU's Digital Markets Act is about that you have comments on it. There is a consultation open to which you can contribute your experiences and views […]

Interesting morning of discussions in Brussels, I’m sure I’ll be back before too long.

in Belgium I saw that McDonalds have a pistachio McFlurry. Then, Ole&Steen sent me a marketing email about some pistachio special (good prompt to unsubscribe). It’s like the world in 2025 is a giant pistachio and we are just chipping bits off it.

Enjoyed the latest #linuxafterdark podcast, now waiting for the challenge where @garythewilliams is tasked with spending all of the budget on as many bootable machines as possible in a bulk job-lot sale, and also rescues as many bootable machines as possible from the tip... because you can never […]

Public Service Internet monthly newsletter (Sept 2025) We live in incredible times with such possibilities that is clear. Although its easily dismissed seeing how we are being watched, wishing people will stop sharing pictures with ChatGPT and people in the UK told to delete emails In order to […]

Trying out Manfred @manfred_app - an iOS app for Mastodon, that somehow I'd missed when it first launched earlier in the year. I love to see different takes on app experiences for Mastodon 👏🏻 https://techhub.social/@manfred_app/114466278277696200

This is cool! Gemini and Gopher app for #playdate! https://tkers.itch.io/hopper

“The idea that individual people, with their specificity and history, are less than an AI composite is a central dogma of generative AI.” Sherry Turkle https://mastodon.social/@timklapdor/115114330744576838

Are you a Fediverse developer? Do you work with ActivityPub? You should follow https://activitypub.space And here is the awesome thing — you can follow it from your existing Fediverse account! Follow these activitypub.space channels: • @general • @technical-discussion • @faq • @random • […]

Julian from NodeBB set up a new NodeBB instance for #ActivityPub technical discussions at https://activitypub.space in case you hadn't seen it. It's a Forum, but also federated, you can interact with it from elsewhere. I just followed @general#activitypubfrom my Mastodon account, for example

Electronics is fun, apart from the soldering, and the wire crimping, and...

“Where’s your autopilot?” “You’re looking at it” “All I see is a bunch of cogs and shafts. Where’s the computer?” “That’s the computer” “You have a *clockwork* jumpdrive. For the love of Eris, why?” “The best human takes forty seconds to recover from jumpshock. There isn’t a digital […]