"We control the meanings of words, not you. We went to the right schools...." #ukpol #ukpolitics #terrorism #resistance #zionism #freepalestine #PalestineAction

In any discussion of food and farming, unless your solution can be scaled to feed 8 billion people, you shouldn't be taken seriously. Unfortunately, cottagecore fantasies that would feed only the richest consumers, leaving billions to starve, are all too common. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

Whenever you see someone recommend Cloudflare or something else that decrypts and re-encrypts TLS for something, esp. for something related to open social media or media storage etc., reply with this picture from the Snowden leaks

Hokay, I've launched a webapp at https://discoverfedi.app What's it do? - Let's you browse the federated timeline of a selected instance (use the change instance button to switch to something else, with mastodon.social being the default) - Can switch to image-only view for a more "instagram" […]

Planet’s first catastrophic climate #tippingpoint reached, report says, with #coralreefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries […]

People think we’d need to cover half of Australia in solar panels — the truth is much different. Replacing all coal power with solar would use less than 0.016% of our land, smaller than Kangaroo Island. The challenge isn’t space, it’s political will, grid upgrades & storage. ☀️⚡ #Solar #Lithium #LFP

Use electricity to produce green hydrogen. Then mix it 5% into methane gas, to feed a gas powered electricity station. Please make it make sense. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/13/energy-firms-complete-uk-first-hydrogen-blending-trial-power-grid

There's gonna be a fucking wave of "scholarly" works where they interview #llm models of historical figures, isn't there. #ai

#windows XP, original wallpaper "Bliss" update.

Re-watched RoboCop. I'm sad to report it's more relevant than ever.

UI suggestion for makers of headphones studded with keys and contact points: a recessed button whose sole function is "ignore all key presses for 10 seconds" so can get the fucking things on and off my head without then having to hunt around for all the settings I fat fingered.

Spectacular reply suggestions from the algo.

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

A recent theatre anecdote 🧵

[Nobel prize] Confess I had to wiki the Nobel winner. What a pedigree.

"Many climate change deniers claim that scientists only study climate change for grant dollars. I never wanted to study climate change. It wasn’t until I started working on coral reefs in 2005 that I began to see, at an objectively scientific level, that climate change was always the primary […]

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 has been awarded to Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights and for her struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy. Machado has been forced to live in hiding. Despite […]

Life of Pie #pizzaabookorplay #hashtaggames

Speaking of which...

Anti #chatcontrol Petitionb collected 300k signatures in 2 days https://d-64.social/@D64eV/115344792303829461

The fossil fuel industry is raiding the infrastructure of the US government. Are we allowed to be opposed to fossil fuels yet, or is that not enough of a Pragmatic Realist Climate Reset Agenda www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...

Jesus fucking christ people, companies are not your fucking friends.

#doorsday #france

ht @MMantscheffAu

It finally happened. The weird UI choice of putting "delete all notifications" right next to "view notifications" on Tusky got me. I've tapped it but then hit cancel at least 20 times. Sigh.

After dropping the #chatcontrol proposals EU governors could next ask themselves why they have, in all of the EU's history, never provided such a pleasant and informative, adaptive and fast user interface to access democratic representatives and governments of EU member countries ... as the one […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mariafarrell/115333913079023817 Well this is admirably concise and direct by Germany's justice ministry. "Chat control without cause must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law. Private communication must never be under general suspicion." THANK YOU […]

Obsolete skill of the day: re-folding road maps along their original creases.

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There’s a beautiful world where tech companies all meticulously restricted their training corpus to the public domain and LLM-powered Ask Jeeves actually talks like Jeeves because he is powered entirely by pre-1930 texts

Corporate Outlook: anyone know how to search for "meetings I created"?

Today I saw someone toot, in dismay, people are posting their everyday life to Mastodon when they could simply buy a diary for $1.99. I can't stop thinking about this. What if this is all they have? What if they're isolated with or without people in their life? What if the only kind word they […]

Sounds like a normal way for the president of a country to be talking to the military about the opposition party. Europeans: stop thinking America will play ANY role in defending your democracy, you gullible fools! America may well need to be fought. Maybe militarily, maybe sooner than you think.

"This relationship [between Antarctic sea ice extent and future ocean warming] isn’t merely correlative: it is mechanistically explained through ocean-atmosphere feedback. Higher sea ice extent enhances cloud cover, which has a cooling effect overall by reducing incoming solar radiation. Greater […]

[Parenting whinge] It can be a _very_ fine line between "this is normal emotional labour involved in raising a teenager", and "this is some bullshit I don't have to put up with"

What's happening over on #twitter?

Macron is now openly calling out bigtech extractive practices and commidification of the user. Good. We need a lot more of this. We need universities to lead this pressure everywhere. #digitalsovereignty #eu #datasociety #academia #academicchatter https://news-pravda.com/eu/2025/10/04/1744416.html

President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

🇪🇺Germany's Interior Ministry is pushing a sham amendment to bully the 🇩🇪 coalition into approving #chatcontrol on Tuesday - securing a Council majority. Total trick: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#danishproposal Act NOW and ramp up the heat on YOUR government […]

Iluka AirBnB backyard looking across the Clarence.

Google photos prompted me to add names to the faces in the images on my phone

i feel like i'm going mad because i fundamentally know at every level how this shit cannot do what they claim and yet i'm constantly being spoken down to by dumb cunts who think they're a genius because of sycophantic autosuggest

Tove Jansson's estate still won't release the Moomins Downunder stories in which the characters visit Snork Cunt. Cowards.

The US conservative movement has organized & funded a massive anti-wind power campaign, based on lies & bullying. Researchers at Brown University have been investigating & revealing that campaign. Now cons are pressuring the university to shut the investigators down.

A pernicious thing about AI summaries at the top of search results is that through repetition they can make you need to check even obvious falsehoods

Breaking News! An agreement is reached.

The year is 2032. Printers can interrupt a started job on demand. Zeppelins cruise majestically between our major cities. AI has become self-aware and emigrated to virtualities running on the nuclear powered data centres we built for them. Humanity's slop-driven brain-rot meant no-one has […]