Dear Fediverse: In light of recent events, is there a good alternative to Square for small merchants doing point-of-sale? Looking for US, EU, UK, CA answers as that's where I know folks who will need this... #POS #payments #uspol #fuckai #fuck_ai #eurostack

I wanted the blue checkmark on LinkedIn. The one that says “this person is real.” In a sea of fake recruiters, bot accounts, and AI-generated headshots, it seemed like a smart thing to do. So I tapped “verify.” I scanned my passport. I took a selfie. Three minutes later — done. Badge acquired […]

What’s the dewey decimal code for this

I really love my new shirt from The Birdhive https://birdhivedesigns.com/

"That sounds like a grieving process" - such a deeply compassionate thing to say. Changing political party because you no longer see your (unchanged) principles represented there IS painful & often follows denial & defensiveness. Can we meet with kindness those coming towards us? We can & must!🌱

In case you're looking for Canadian right now, we're not available. #HNOM #olympics #gocanadago

A member of my extended family is working on an Android app designed to provide good audio access to Project Gutenberg. To submit it to the Google Play store, he needs at least 20 testers to use the app regularly for 14 days. Testers can be blind or sighted, and both are wanted so their […]

Did you know that the company that wants to find your lost dog is owned by Jeff Bezos? Amazon acquired Ring in 2018 for $1 billion. So fuck Search Party, fuck Ring, and—most of all—fuck Amazon. #jeffbezos #noring #noamazon #nowholefoods #TaxBillionaires #USpol

People need to look at what Massachusetts did back in 2023, they raised taxes by 2 percent on people making 1 million dollars or more. And the residents of the state voted on it. They have been reaping 3 billion dollars a year ever since just from this alone. And guess what? There wasn't this […]

Well, this is just DUCKY. Block, the company in question, is formerly known as Square... which a lot of *small* merchants depend upon for point-of-sale transactions... I don't mind so much when fat cats go down with their ships, but taking reasonably-innocents with them... 😠 […]

Once you couldn’t tell the difference between the political parties YOU CAN NOW #VoteGreen in #Gorton&Denton #VoteHannahSpencer #JoinGreenParty> join.greenparty.org.uk gorton-denton.greenparty.org.uk

Mistake.

#nowplaying #U2 #music #protest #protestsongs #irpol #worldpol (Hashtags up front, there's nothing graphic here, it's what's being _referred to_ that's... niet goed.) U2 have come out with a new protest song, in the vein of "Pride" or "Sunday Bloody Sunday"... it's called Song of the Future […]

[uspol: what the us "president" is doing to Liberty...] RE: https://norden.social/@coastgnu/116099735307622844 This is... figuratively accurate. It doesn't actually *show* anything, but there is more than enough for any decently creative mind to fill in something shocking. Thus the CW. #uspol […]

hey uhhh. I got fired yesterday. if anyone has rust positions in the Netherlands let me know!

Yes, the #eu has a lot of regulations. But remember that thanks to those regulations you can use a single USB-C cable that can charge anything, rather than 10 different connectors and adapters as it was common until 10-15 years ago. Remember that it’s thanks to those regulations if you no […]

🎵 For we will be wicked and we will be fair And they'll call us such names, and we really won't care, So go, tell your Wendys, your Susans, your Janes, There's a place they can go if they're tired of chains, And our roads may be golden, or broken, or lost, But we'll walk on them willingly […]

What a real democracy does to a president who leads a seditious insurrection. https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/19/asia/south-korea-yoon-suk-yeol-verdict-insurrection-intl-hnk

[AI / LLM / England managing to cause a diplomatic incident with Amsterdam] You may have heard that, after England blocked certain Israeli tourists from attending a soccer match, it was found that the intelligence report used as the basis of this decision had LLM hallucinations in it […]

QOTD: "Sometimes you just gotta let the brain squirrels run free." -- Garrett Jolly, captain/co-builder-owner, S/V Rediviva #adhd #neurospicy https://youtu.be/ugUsqz5rn4g?t=1405

Be ungovernable.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eunews/116091584536456041 #uspol #epstein_files Now is the time for all civilised governments to do this.

general reminder prompted by my last (CW’d) post but applicable to everyone: if you’re not part of a research organization with psychology training, a legal department and an ethics board who needs to approve the plan, you’re not “conducting a social experiment”, you’re conducting harassment

I’d appreciate it if you didn’t send me Goodreads links for book recommendations. I stopped using it years ago, and I’m trying to reduce - ideally stop - using American tech platforms. Goodreads is Amazon, Amazon is Bezos, and Bezos has spent the last few years getting ‘cozy’ with Trump. Need […]

I don’t understand why so many sites have an “x minutes to read” datum in their article headers. Everyone reads at different rates, and every plugin for it makes different assumptions; the result is pure noise. I’ve seen “45 minute reads” that take me like three minutes to read carefully in full […]

Bwahahahaha! Go #germany

How have I lived to the Year of our Lord 2026 without having seen this meme before now? #StarWars #memes #ReneMagritte

So, I started to volunteer in our local community centre to help (mostly) elder people with their computer and smartphone problems. It's fascinating. We have people there up to their 90s and they are all every open for change. We remove ad ID's from phones, change default browsers, switch from […]

When did we collectively decide to abandon "don't feed the troll"? Who thought it was a good idea to treat every incoherent cry of random drunkards echoing through a train station as if they were noteworthy contributions to a discussion or conversation?