Trump and Netanyahu are both deeply problematic and dangerous but the truth is I still hope Israel and the US win the war, and the Iranian theocracy is destroyed or disarmed and marginalized forever. I hope to see peace, freedom and democracy return to Iran and vassal states like Yemen soon.

Hear me out on this one: maybe having supreme leaders is not the best idea?

Is [[british maoism]] related to [[jihad]]? The Agora's very simple initial semantic search thinks so :)

Time to update [[Gemini CLI]] I guess!

Trump on #Iran: offering "immunity" to fighters and > We also urge Iranian diplomats around the world to request asylum and to help us shape a new and better Iran with great potential. It’s a country with great potential. There’s much better future for Iran […] [Original post on social.coop]

From the Guardian :) May #hezbollah and the Houthis both collapse soon

[[Ali Khamenei obituary]] | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/01/ayatollah-ali-khameini-obituary

Hope the [[Iranian regime]] falls soon and bombs don't hit many civilians and non-oppressors!

Woke up to the news that #khamenei is confirmed dead! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/28/khamenei-likely-killed-us-israel-iran-strikes This is good news in the middle of bad news. I know many Iranians who will rejoice at the development, even while dreading the wider consequences […]

I don't like bombing but if you're going to bomb anyone you might as well bomb the Ayatollah. So there's that relative bright side to today's news. I hope the Iranian regime falls and so do the Houthis and all their other agents, with minimal suffering for all.

It's 11PM by the time you're troubleshooting a Sway issue using a different computer because you need the first computer to VNC to yet another to do #yoga #microfiction

One of the best things about #ai is that it was trained on pirated data. I'm not joking -- this really is a positive IMHO, digital piracy is a good thing.

Opting out of the [[meme pool]]

I felt fear today, about the future, but then felt better

I think I just figured out a way to do [[time travel]]

Every time I write a post over 500 characters here I both enjoy it and regret that most people on Mastodon can't do it, instead having to do an impromptu character golfing side quest because someone shot from the hip ten years ago and decided [[500 characters should be enough for everyone]].

People are pissed off about this article it seems, but it seems at least interesting and often spot on to me. It starts with a good quote I tend to agree with: > “Somehow all of the interesting energy for discussions about the long-range future of humanity is concentrated on the right,” wrote […]

In case you're having a tough day and you're not above condoning a bit of antifascist violence, here's smug neonazi [[Richard Spencer]] being punched in the face: https://youtu.be/aFh08JEKDYk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spencer

"Ayatollah, #ayatollah, Does whatever a tyrant can. Jails a poet, any size, Shoots the girls who won't wear hijabs. Look out! Here comes Ayatollah"

Yikes. Leftists obviously don't like #Milei, but to call his controversial labour reform "Esclavitud laboral" (labour slavery) seems disrespectful/tone deaf. (This is from one of the historical major Argentinian newspapers.)

[[Social media bans]] sound like a bad idea honestly. I don't like the idea of governments getting their grubby, incompetent, corrupt hands on the internet in pretty much any way.

I just read a bunch of people reacting negatively to a torrenting tool that automates what you seed (with some specific criteria -- think helping an archiving project) because of the possibility of it downloading CSAM. I find it amazing and sad how CSAM has been used by governments worldwide to […]

I've reviewed the [[transgender people in sports]] question and settled on thinking the Female/Open proposal is "most right". In case you haven't heard it, this proposal which is backed or already implemented by several sports governing bodies is about keeping the Female competition category […]

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Right wing people are also people. Fascists though... Just kidding, fascists are also people and thus can be redeemed/reformed, even if it's sometimes easier to think otherwise.

I've been thinking about it and I'm sorry to say I sort of agree with Elon Musk w.r.t. AI alignment in general, in the sense that providers should be able to determine the alignment of their own models or (better, maybe ideal) let users do this without government intervention.

Periodic reminder that #mastodon doesn't support migrating your posts when you move servers, because (checks notes) old words can hurt people

If you are a #theist and you're not praying for the death of tyrants and totalitarians tonight, how are you even using your powers?

What's something that sounds bad but you think might be not so bad, or might even be good? I'll start: [[population decline]]. > Today, declining fertility is a near-universal phenomenon. Albania, El Salvador, and Nepal, none of them affluent, are now below replacement levels. Iran’s fertility […]

@Gargron @andypiper FYI Social.coop just patched Mastodon using a pretty hacky approach (docker-compose.yaml-based source code patching) to avoid having to move to a fork of Mastodon and/or build our own images; this, it seems, is what many instances around the Fediverse have had to do due to […]

IMO Lexicon is the unsung hero of AtProto; The meaty part, the thing that really sets it apart from ActivityPub. Lexicons themselves can be written and published to AtProto, creating a sort of self-documenting referential data system. Why IMO it's so cool is difficult to summarize in a skeet.

Excited about [[A New Social]]! https://anew.social/ @snarfed.org and @kissane are part of the core team and that counts as multiple votes of confidence. Best of luck!

You know how there are people who complain about satellites ruining the night sky? I'm not like that, I think satellites are awesome.

An extra bonus for Vivaldi users on iOS: today's new Vivaldi 7.8 lets you install alternate app stores, such as @altstore where you don't have to pay tribute to Apple. (Note, only in EU; other jurisdictions don't have Digital Markets Act, so Apple won't let you have nice things.)

Testing threading and other posting capabilities using [[Openvibe]] on Android.

#socialcoop the instance will momentarily go down as we try to bump the character limit to 1k :) Thank you for your patience!

holy run on sentences batman it's like you come from a society where people don't really make pauses when speaking

Imagine if #mastodon decided to make customizing [[character limits]] "subscription-only". I hope and think this won't happen, but they *could* do this. Anubis for example charges companies to customize their loading screen, which is fair enough. And this would be absolutely consistent with […]

Old but good: [h264 is magic]] [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40681306

Woke up with a pretty bad headache that progressively got worse at which point nausea joined the party -- after experiencing something similar just last week. Unsure what's up but I guess you can call this a [[migraine]]. It lasted for hours and it left me completely drained after departing […]

@flancian yes

Great panel in the (packed) EU Policy dev room on Fediverse and the DSA focusing on how the Fediverse is stepping up to decentralise and democratise social media - and bringing it out of the shadow of US tech behemoths. #fosdem

This is what they stole from you

Very early this #caturday with [[Lady Burup]]

RE: https://social.coop/@flancian/115946971010630367 Poll closing tomorrow :)

Yep, makes sense to me: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/29/eu-formally-designates-iran-irgc-revolutionary-guards-terrorist-organisation

RE: https://syzito.xyz/@OccuWorld/115978644575372932 [[oligarchy]]

Go Jews!

The Muslim brotherhood is terrible, I'm hoping for a [[Muslim sisterhood]] to arise and do a *lot* better.

An update on the main #flancia mood/planning board