Ever since I read Wild of Brain, I've been thinking about the concept of "situational mutism". Anissa's preferred term for what's often called "selective mutism", and definitely mine now I'm aware of it. (1/?) #ActuallyAutistic #SituationalMutism #SelectiveMutism @autistics

#Listening to the Clonk! EP by @axwax, a collaboration with @socool#listeningand others, released last year under a noncommercial #cc-license; https://bandwagon.fm/68f36ce3fc876fd86a8f5fd6 This is a slapping mess of breakbeats, in the best possible way. Earcandy for the ADHD brain. I was only going to […]

Like a lot over the last few years, I've been getting really into the idea of regressing to a simpler phone that's just a phone, and demoting my touchscreen to being a pocket tablet. I've posted a few times on the #dumbphone tag (#hattip to @Mastodon for the feature that allows me to filter […]

For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, a great #lastweektonight segment; "AI slop is basically the newest iteration of spam. As the CEO of one AI content detection platform put it, 'not all AI content is spam, but right now ... all spam is AI content'.'" […]

One of the things I really like about The White Lotus is the way it makes the sea kind of a character, in all sorts of ways. It struck me right from the first season, with the establishing shots of the beach. The eerie sounds of waves sucking at the rocks around the hotel, setting the tone for […]

Was it really 15 years about that the majority of the OpenOffice community voted with their feet against Oracle? Forking the software as LibreOffice, and forming the Document Foundation as a vendor-neutral stewardship body for this office software commons […]

(1/2) @benpate Another random feature suggestion for BandWagon (and @mirlo and @funkwhale and any other music-hosting services); A hit me! button that chooses an album at random, navigates the browser there, and starts playing it. With the button still present in the interface, so I can tap it […]

Just caught up with the latest enshittification of Red Hat since its assimilation by IBM, loyal supplier of computer systems to fascists since 1933; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust "... only paying customers will be able to obtain the source code to [RHEL]… And under the […]

A reminder for anyone else living in a temperate climate in the southern hemisphere, autumn is harvest season. When there's more fresh produce available, usually at cheaper prices, than at any other time of year. Now is the time to eat as much fresh food as you possibly can, preparing your body […]

As I mentioned in a post a week or 2 back, the vanilla Mastodon web app is now better for most purposes than the third-party ones I've tried (@enafore, @elk, @phanpy, happy to go into detail on why if this helps). Plus, now that I'm home I use my laptop a lot more (on mobile I tend to use native […]

I don't find DDG nearly as good for web search as I used to. But one cool thing about it, is that I can use it to conveniently search using other services, using "bangs". For example if I type "!w" in my search query, it's redirects to Wikipedia and their internal search. "!fsd" similarly […]

Konichiwa @ureterocele.bsky.social, always good to see more musicians in the fediverse. I don't think we have anyone from Japan on this forum yet, where we're plotting how to liberate online music distribution from corporate DataFarming platforms. Come join the musical rebel alliance! […]

Willie Jackson reckons Māori ought to give Labour 2 ticks this November; https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mata-with-mihingarangi-forbes?share=97b48f58-4a0d-4bba-809e-03a09b19a239 This is a Labour still not ruling out forming a forming a government with Winston First FFS! Even as they double-down […]

#listening to 'may u be free', from the 2002 epsilon-blue album 'we have a responsibility to our shareholders'; https://epsilon-blue.bandcamp.com/album/we-have-a-responsibility-to-our-shareholders This track takes a Buddhist style chat imploring the listener to be happy, peaceful and free from […]

#listening to One Million Pines, from from the 6 track mock rock mini-album Measure Twice, Cut Once. Released in 2022 by Ōtepoti band by Night Lunch; https://nightlunch666.bandcamp.com/album/measure-twice-cut-once Bogans rock on steroids, making Deja Voodoo look sedate and sensible by […]

Just went a bit crazy for the last few hours, and started mapping out the Aotearoa music infrastructure; https://the.socialmusic.network/t/mapping-the-music-infrastructure-in-aotearoa/ Obviously I’m just getting started here. This is just my crack at it, mostly off the top of my head, and […]

"... for all the various campaigns I did for the Holy Fuck tour, I kept detailed analytics. I phased in different elements around New Zealand and Australia at varying stages so I could monitor how various radio, print, street poster, and online banner campaigns in both countries worked in […]

"In a move to secure 'the integrity of the global town square', the social media platform X last Friday began posting user location data. As a result, it emerged that dozens of influential Maga accounts are run out of foreign countries, including Russia, India and Nigeria." #johnthornhill, 2025 […]

To ensure that the potentially toxic chemicals in batteries are contained at end-of-life - and ideally recovered and re-used retail outlets that sells them ought to be legally obliged to provide a collection point in-store for dead batteries. Similarly with the wholesalers who sell them to […]

Just for shits and gigs, I've been doing some reading about the origins of Huawei's mobile platform #HarmonyOS; https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/harmonyos-hands-on-huaweis-android-killer-is-just-android (1/?) #HatTip to @billbennett#harmonyos#hattipor the Ars link, which I found here; /https://www […]

e09 is another satisfying episode of Starfleet Academy. Great to see Tatiana Maslany in another role worth of her considerable acting skills, after the woeful drek that was the She-Hulk TV series. I was introduced to Maslaney as the star of Orphan Black, where she played a whole clutch of clones […]

#listening to The Election Year Waltz by The Dunedin Electric Company, from their 2017 album Pictures of Everyday; https://thedunedinelectricco.bandcamp.com/album/pictures-of-everyday This is another one that's really hard to nail down genre-wise. Kind of Blur-like. KiwiPop? Nah. I found this […]

AFAIK the terms 'soft fork' and 'hard fork' entered the lexicon from the crypto world, where they refer to software changes that split a blockchain into sub-chains. With a soft fork, the sub-chains remain interoperable. A hard fork makes them incompatible; what IRC greyhairs might call a […]

"You are more than what the pain has put you through." #ardenleigh, from the song When You Come Undone by Arden and the Wolves; https://ardenandthewolves.bandcamp.com/track/when-you-come-undone This song was released on the 2016 album It Looks Like Trouble. There's some real lived experience […]

Hi @ireneista Irenes, I noticed the (many) in your display name, and after checking your profile, I see you are indeed a plural personality system. Lovely to meet you all! Have you come across the podcast of the #repatterningproject? The first episode, with Grant Morrison, included a […]

Another great episode of the Repatterning Project podcast. This one a fascinating discussion with Katie Plus, founder of the The Refractory, about understanding plural identity as a legitimate form of neurodivergence, like being autistic or ADHD, not a "disorder" to be demonised (I choose this […]

First new #disintermedia blog post for 2026! https://disintermedia.net.nz/in-defence-of-servers/ Well ... kind of new. This is the first of 3 posts I wrote for the Bridge Seat co-op blog, which I'm reposting so I can stop sharing links to SS. This one is about why geeks need to stop questing […]

Does anyone think it's worth doing a source code archiving project for fediverse software? A lot of projects been started and abandoned over the years. Some of it just itch-scratching, abandoned before it really got started. But in some cases, longstanding and widely used projects by fediverse […]

Why is Bomber still giving this scammer a platform in 2026? https://thedailyblog.co.nz/guest-blog-talk-liberation-panquake-founder-suzie-dawson-speaks/ Suzie Dawson has been collecting money from people and promising a groundbreaking social network for years now, and all Panquake has presented […]

According to their own #FigJam intro text; "Inside Edition is television's longest-running, top-rated, and most-honored syndicated newsmagazine. #1 in News and Politics on YouTube." https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9k-yiEpRHMNVOnOi_aQK8w OK, fair enough. So ... why on god's green earth are […]

"He squandered a massive landslide from an electorate hungry for change, poured billions of public pounds into private pockets and accelerated the growing gap between rich and poor" #bobcrow Crow was speaking about Tony Blair, but he could have been talking about Sir Stammer, Albanese in […]

Just watched Starfleet Academy s01e08. Such a contrast with the fluff that was ep07! In one sense it was a similar episode; no grand space adventure, just a collection of character developments. But whereas 07 felt gimmicky and trite, almost self-parody, 08 hit me right in the feels […]

"I have seen several environments that have been upgraded after support has expired — this is a red flag and should be avoided — do not under any circumstances upgrade unless you have an active support contract or are utilising the open-source community edition." #johnnycree, 2024 […]

Carved about some time for fediverse.party work tonight. To get started, I commented on some PRs and issue discussions, to make sure both ongoing and drive-by contributors understand the current state of play. As I said in my last post asking Ben about Emissary's MondoDB dependency, I've […]

Hi @benpate, just rebuilding the AP watchlist on the fediverse.party wiki; https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/wiki/ActivityPub-server-watchlist While adding entries for BandWagon and Emissary, I noticed that Emissary (and therefore BW) depends on MongoDB, which is under a nonfree Source […]

Is there another big outage going on right now? A whole lot of unrelated sites seems to be down, or partially broken. #outages

"... roughly one in 1,000 to one in 10,000 conversations with their LLM, Claude, fundamentally compromises the user’s beliefs, values, or actions. They note that the prevalence of moderate to severe 'disempowerment' is increasing over time, and conclude that the problem of LLMs distorting a […]

#kieranmcanulty loyally towing the Starmerist party line for Hipkins' ; "If you're talking about the top end of town, then choose the other lot. If you're talking about everyday working NZers, then don't look at them, look at us. And if you give Labour the most votes then we'll have the most […]

Make thorough Things to Do lists, but don't beat yourself up about whether or not any particular item gets done. The main benefit of TTD lists is that they relieve us from juggling huge numbers of tasks in our heads, relying on a working memory that is - let's be honest - not usually our […]

Just started a discussion about HDA (Hypermedia-driven Architecture) in the Open App Ecosystem group on Loomio; https://www.loomio.com/d/VYPyO17M/building-interactive-websites-in-a-post-framework-web The OAE group has often been a good place for long term, blue skies discussions about […]

Just catch up with last Sunday's edition of MediaWatch, which surfaced some pretty disgraceful comments about our homeless whānau, in defence of "move-on orders"; https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=12ce8006-34c4-490e-b8be-1defeb93f740 As @norightturnnz's excellent piece on this […]

Well this one certainly sneaked past me back in June; "Statistics Minister Shane Reti announced ... that the Census - which has existed in a similar format for more than 70 years - will be replaced with a combination of administrative data from other government agencies and smaller annual […]

When all else fails, microwave a sweet potato. Due to problems with interoception, people with ADHD can go for long periods without noticing we haven't eaten, especially when lost in hyperfocus. By the time we notice, we may not have the spoons to prepare a meal. Microwaving a sweet potato […]

Hi @benpate, I just tried to search for; https://bandwagon.fm/688bd4100544b84a7ea7a4ef ... in the Mastodon web app. No results. This usually works with links to posts, PeerTube videos, etc. Is your WebFinger implementation working properly? BTW hope it's not annoying to get all this UX […]

Another corporatised medical record platform widely used in our public health system, another data breach and resulting outage; "Health NZ is aware that MediMap, a privately owned and operated medication management platform, has taken its platform offline after identifying unauthorised activity […]

For a range of reasons, people with ADHD are more likely to wake up dehydrated, feeling groggy and yuck. To mitigate this, I keep a reusable water bottle by my bed, and make sure to fill it up every night before I go to bed. When I wake up, the very first thing I do it slug the whole thing back […]

Urrgh. Ok, I desperately need sleep, and I can't sleep until I get this off my chest. So here goes. A couple of weeks back I posted a reply about what's effective in dealing with the problem of bigotry IMHO, based on nearly half a century of lived experience […]

#listening to Strangers by Sockpuppet, from the 2015 album Refactor; https://bandwagon.fm/67860bf921d989ca7730a881 This is a fun little track, but it explores a serious theme; the nature of memory, and how crucial it is in the way we order our social worlds. Beautiful composition and […]

"I am sure there are some [ethical music hosts] I’ve not yet discovered." @ethicalrevolution, 2024 https://nham.co.uk/2024/05/what-is-a-fair-music-platform/ Check out; * https://catalyticsound.com/ * https://www.jamendo.com/ * https://rainfall.dev/ * https://sonica.music/ * […]

[death] RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@Floppy/116142784352323983 Red Dwarf was one of a big favourite of mine as a teenager. Scfi and comedy, two of my favourite things, and there was a TV show and novels. Sadly never a feature film, that could have been awesome. Rest in peace Rob Grant, you […]