I was reminded of this excellent talk today: "Git for ages 4 and up": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ffBJ4sVUb4

Someone wrote a browser extension that makes these following text replacements: * "Microsoft" with "Microslop" * "Satya Nadella" with "Slopya Nuttela" * "Artificial intelligence" with "Actually Indians" * "Copilot" with "Slopilot" * "OneDrive" with "CloudTumor" […]

This was way funnier than I expected it to be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72g978vRkpE

@pluralistic I'm very much on your side when it comes to abandoning DMCA-esque legislation to disenshittify everything, but I have one big concern I never hear you talk about: What happens when the Americans retaliate by locking out Google and Microsoft products in the offending country, or […]

Hooray! The latest #newpipe release fixes YouTube access!

These obscenities need to be banned. #BanBigTrucks #BanSUVs https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/27/us-style-pickup-trucks-uk-roads-up-data-shows #roadSafety #publicHealth #bancars

RE: https://mastodon.social/@warandpeas/115962202262697543 I love War and Peas.

Kelly is doing some great stuff with Toronto's public space: https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/arts-culture/toronto-strangers-meet-in-the-path-to-play-games-called-werewolf-11788080

It seems to me that there are only two options available to sane Americans: violence or secession (which may be the same thing). Everyone pretending that this can be beat with non-violent protests and legal challenges are ignoring the fact that the fascists already dominate what's left of the […]

Reminder: a significant number of mainstream UK politicians think what's happening in America is a) good and b) should be done to British people.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@emilylowan/115946412404034118 I'm only now catching up on @emilylowan's #fighttheoligarchs tour and it is *fantastic* to see the BC Greens running such an excellent media game with their clearly charismatic leader.

This was a rather good video essay on how #startrek will never be allowed to paint us a world without billionaires so long as billionaires are paying the writers. https://youtube.com/watch?v=fB5DroolqFU Also, his t-shirt is absolute fire 🔥

I hear they also have oil that needs some Freedom...

The Guardian just posted their report of our recent discovery that there's asbestos in children's play sand at Hobbycraft: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/24/childrens-play-sand-hobbycraft-asbestos-removed-recall

The fawning over Mark Carney from the left is really weird. You know he's basically just taking off the mask and going full-on capitalist hellscape, right? You cannot reconcile "values" with "pragmatism" when the latter requires the destruction of the former. He's just saying the quiet part out […]

DuckDuckGo is doing a poll: "Do you want AI?" They had to know that this would be the outcome. Cat your own vote if you like: https://voteyesornoai.com

If you belong to a group underrepresented in tech, live in Cambridge, and are looking to learn to code, you should come to Codebar on the 28th! It's fun and free! We generally have tutors on-staff to help you learn #python, #javascript, and often others: https://codebar.io/workshops/3600

zstd is just devastatingly impressive. I just compressed a 30GB file down to 661MB in about 10 seconds. Bananas.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@rationaldoge/115922064714067763 So despite massive coordinated opposition, ICE thugs are still kidnapping people from their homes. Perhaps it's time to admit the failure of nonviolent resistance?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/115912837965319504 TAKE THE DEAL. Hell, it's worth it for the pastries alone.

What's the best tactic when you find an awesome, small #foss project that you want to contribute to, but for which there's *a lot* that could be improved in terms of code quality? Do you just make minor PRs here and there and hope you manage to introduce things like tests and type hints a little […]

I don't have a news link for this because it's very new (we're ground zero) but I wanna get this out there as soon as I can. Throw out any "play sand" you might have in your house right away. It might be contaminated with asbestos. We recently threw a party […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/115903838544306598 It's just insane how tech workers have been convinced that they can't demand morality in their workplace. We're high-skilled, high-demand people. You can say: "I won't build it, go fuck yourself". Instead, too many in my field adopt the same […]

@nanorepublica I know you like to experiment with tooling for events etc. Have you looked into Framasoft? They seem pretty useful on a variety of fronts and have the right ideas when it comes to copyleft: https://framablog.org/2025/12/23/framasoft-in-numbers-2025-edition/

Someone charted the size of Adobe Acrobat Reader over the years. It's now just under **700MB**... for a PDF reader. Madness. https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/2025/08/25/zw6z4E.html

TIL I learnt about "JustTheBrowser", a quick and easy tool to remove the excess crap from your browser that you probably don't want anyway, like AI. Have a look if you're so inclined: https://justthebrowser.com/

I just finished "Dragon Age: The Veilguard". It consumed 93hours of my life if you can believe it and it was just... ok. Mass Effect it was not. It's hard for me to put my finger on it, but Bioware seems to be sorely lacking whatever the magic they once had. I hope they get it back soon.

This was surprisingly similar to my own experience... except for the fork thing. That's just weird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBTN2zO8sV0

RE: https://greennuclear.online/@collectifission/115878518912374377 And now we know how Denis Villeneuve gets his inspiration after all. 🪱

RE: https://mastodon.nu/@janhoglund/115874006419568535 Trump is a Rapist, this is how a Rapist views the World. #trump

TIL that there are channels on YouTube containing AI slop that's basically just poorly-written run-on sentences presented such that it looks like Rachel Madow talking on MSNBC: https://www.youtube.com/@Insightpolitics1 And there's no way to report it to Google 'cause they simply don't have a […]

I really don't understand why so many Free software and community groups choose to organise over Discord. Putting aside for the moment that the platform is proprietary and centralised, it's just... shit. Constantly trying to get me to "upgrade" to useless flashing emojis while it spontaneously […]

We're hosting a Great Big Birthday Party for my kid and we'll have to cut the cake, but don't want to have my big chef's knife lying around. So I fashioned a DIY garrote with some wire and pencil crayons and now it looks like a sort of rainbow accompanying the toadstool fairy theme.

Now that's iconic. (Via https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/115865363292467208) #iranprotests

I made "pasta a la what's left in the fridge" tonight, and it was surprisingly good: * Ham passed its sell-by date * Onion * Garlic * A couple sticks of celery * Olive oil * Basil & chili flakes * Chicken stock * Butter * Spaghetti * Linguini * 2 eggs * Parmeasean Chili flakes are the magic […]

The Santa Cruz River, once bone-dry, now flows again through Tucson after treated wastewater was redirected into its channel, reviving wetlands and native life. We can thank reconciliation ecology for this - the practice of environmental restoration in human-dominated landscapes. Endangered Gila […]

I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇

Sadly, there will be millions more Americans who finally care about the horrible actions of ICE now that they have killed a white woman. Yes, fascism will eventually come for everyone. Everyone.

I've been running some of my devices in low power / low battery mode even when they're not low battery. I've not really noticed much impact on myself. My only complaint on the mobile devices is that the screens will turn off within a couple of minutes, and there doesn't seem to be a way to […]

This explains so much. People with psychopathic traits and low cognitive ability are over-represented in online political activity. If someone is being cruel, obnoxious and ridiculous, don't try to reason with them. Chances are you won't get anywhere. Just block. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's fascinating to see #uklabour MPs attack their own party so strongly on a position of ethics and international law. Seriously you guys, Labour is dead. Come join the #greens! There's plenty of room in our ranks for people of conscience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyx-KG_uYME

Why I’m running to lead the NDP By Bianca Mugyenyi https://yvesforndpleader.ca/why-im-running-to-lead-the-ndp/ #cdnpoli

RE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/115849224529970548 ...and the NHS here in the UK.

The #RailSale here in the UK is running this week and hoooly shit the rates are amazing. Even by comparison to civilised countries with affordable rail service, this is good. If you're planning any trips in the UK, you'd do well to check the rates this week […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Oh hey! Turns out that #microslop is a thing now. 2026 is already looking up.