I bought my first fountain pen today! #fountainpen #fountainpens #vampires

Want something not hideously depressing? This documentary about Indigenous teens paddling the Klamath River for the first time after dam removal is beautiful! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FuGuWeAra4

The CEO of The Onion set the publication's goal for 2026 to have more subscribers than The Washington Post. At the rate the latter is going, that won't take long. "For reasons we don't like or understand, our work has become increasingly important." "Look, we're an independent company, we […]

this older @bcmerchant.bsky.social post is also really good at exploring just how broken and error-prone these AI tools are that Politico management tried to foist upon the newsroom

AI Warning: Google has been caught A/B testing replacing real article headlines with AI-generated substitutes, which are of course sometimes wildly misleading/against journalistic ethics. If you see a blatantly horrible headline in a news aggregator, check whether the site's own page matches […]

Maybe you think "I can't cut out X just yet" and there are practical reasons that make it hard. That's fine, but keep thinking about it. You can find a way to wiggle free. It's OK if it takes some time and planning.

Amazon might not notice that you stopped shopping with them* but if you take that same modest bit of disposable income and spend it on art bought directly from artists, the small electronics projects of your friends, helping people in dire financial situations and the the local theater all of […]

I was going to make another cup of tea before my next meeting starts, but I am now trapped at my desk under 2 cats.

Thanks, customer support #ai chatbot. So f**king helpful. Bot: “Contact our support team” Me: “How do I do that?” Bot: “I can’t help you.” (I want to scream so badly) #chatbot #tech #customersupportnightmare #CustomerSupport

Cool Ranch may be young, but he has discovered the optimal approach for the gloomy days of winter. #fosterkittens #CatsOfMastodon

As a teacher I do not say the line "there are no stupid questions" in part because I try to avoid using the word "stupid" but also because it's a lie and everyone knows it. Some questions are better than others. But here is something I didn't understand until far too late in life: People ask […]

My mother is incredible. We like to joke that she is a model #immigrant: - She came to the #us fleeing from the war in #ukraine, with no further plan besides getting to me and my husband in at least temporary safety. - We had to run a crowdfunding campaign to help her and the kids sustain […]

Thank you all for 3,000 followers on here! Here’s a photo of Danny to celebrate the occasion ☺️ 3 years into being part of Mastodon, I continue to be impressed with how wonderful the people here are and how much this social network actually FEELS social. People […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

I have MANY issues with the #youtube algorithm, but every now and then it just recommends me a #video of some random person with 9 views and 92 subscribers looking absolutely delighted as they review the #books they’re reading. And I can’t stop smiling watching these videos every now and then […]

- Copilot was forced to nearly every MS user without their consent - Gemini starts each time an Android user touch his smartphone main button - Whatsapp users suddenly interact with an AI they can’t disable - Firefox will soon have its own AI - Even myself, as a @protonprivacy and @kagihq user […]

Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I […]

Weekly #forestpark #pdx update: Kinda miserable for trail running, tbh. The leaves were pasted to the trail with mud and the canopy above was just letting all the rain through. Plenty of solitude and foggy views. Very #silentsunday themed. I just wanted a hot shower and warm house afterwards.

You’re allowed to like things even if they are “cringe”, “lame”, “awkward”, “boring”, or “geeky”. - Sincerely, someone who judges herself way too much for enjoying things (and is working on doing that less).

Mostly posting here so I will have a place to link it to a friend...

#silentsunday submission from second dad 💜

Pica wants to know if you are ready for #caturday

So I grew up next to #Chernobyl and this is, well, TERRIFYING. A story for y’all: I’m from a city called Zhytomyr, 2 hours west of Kyiv in the North of #ukraine. We were downwind of the Chernobyl #nuclear power plant when the 1986 disaster happened. I wasn’t born for another 12 years, but my […]

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #ai and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved. So far it’s been working! Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow […]

Healthcare In America: Doctor - I see that your gscsttigom isn't working as well as I'd like. I'd like to start you on pjehhdntpf instead. Patient - Okay, do you know how much that's going to cost? Doctor - Sorry I've got no idea. Patient - What do you mean? Like give me a ballpark. Is this […]

Curious that whenever someone shows me “the cool #ai flow” they built that’s supposed to be impressive, the conversation goes the same way: Stage 1: “But you don’t understand. You don’t like AI because you haven’t used it right. Let me show you how much you can do it with.” Stage 2: “Here are […]

It’s strange to watch the world ignore that it’s not just the medium that matters, but the message does too. And by “the message” I mean both the ideas and the precise language or visuals used to communicate them. Subtle differences in linguistic execution of the same idea in the same format […]

Okay, but hear me out, what if we produce an entire generation of students who are *all* the ones who did nothing in the group project?

Holy Shit, #valve did a product launch in 2025 and did not mention AI a single fucking time. So refreshing.

A uniquely #nyc type of public kindness: when a stranger tells off the person who nearly ran you over on a bike. Thanks, nice man in Times Square. Appreciate you.

This thing that 404 is writing about in the US—the dehumanizing fake content created purely because Facebook pays people to make it? https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-videos-of-ice-raids-are-wildly-viral-on-facebook/ It has a direct precedent in the Myanmar genocide and has been widely […]

Some really nice Northern Lights out there tonight. #minnesota #northernlights #biketooter

#aurora ribbons from cockpit of a flight heading to Fort MacMurray #alberta as major solar storm hits earth.

Mila really, really wants my pancakes #cats #catsofmastodon #torties

Semi-periodic reminder that the DM feature here is utterly broken and should not be regarded as "private" in any meaningful sense. And its semantics seem designed to violate the principle of least surprise. Example: ANYONE mentioned in a message, not just tagged at the start, is a recipient. So […]

Heard at dinner: “I’m of the mindset that you should keep a loaded revolver next to your smart speaker, in case it comes alive.”

Gotta love The Guardian for those quotes from Europeans on #mamdani's win in NYC: "Verbeek backed this with a comment he had overheard in an Oslo cafe, in which Mamdani was described as an American politician who “finally” sounded normal." “Normal. That’s the word,” Verbeek wrote in his […]

LLMs are a fundamentally useless technology because their applications (supposedly) boil down to humans not having to think for themselves or do their own writing / drawing / filming. But if you can do it on your own - why would you need a robot to do it? It’s, at best, a novelty. That’s why […]

Meta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥 "Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show" "Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates […]

I don’t remember the last time political news have sounded so hopeful and positive - let alone for two days now!

The Fediverse feels more vibrant when conversations are buzzing! Mastodon 4.5 fetches replies from other servers to show you more complete conversation threads - another much-anticipated feature.

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

First time I’ve been allowed to #vote in any #election - and I got to vote for #zohranmamdani 🥳 So glad my #us citizenship came through on time to register! If y’all can vote today please do!!! #nyc #newyork #mamdani

getting ready to go out and vote for #zohranmamdani. can’t remember when was the last time i was this excited to vote. today #newyorkcity is making history. #gotv #nyc #newyork #antifa

It's my fediversary! Three years ago today I said goodbye to several hundred thousand followers at the nazi bar and joined this community. No regrets! Thanks for making me want to stick around :)

Whenever I see a piece of AI-generated art on LinkedIn or a corporate site, 1% of my joy for that day flies away and disappears, looking for greener and more artistically-fulfilling pastures. Whoosh. There it goes again.

Three @theguardian.com books cartoons from previous halloweens: 1. Haunted Bookshop

is everyone pumped for No-AI November

PSA: Harp covers look like giant oven mitts. 🪉

This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true. _This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/