I said it years ago and nothing has changed my mind so far: Bluesky will wind up exactly like Twitter (right wing, billionaire controlled), because it is not meaningfully different from Twitter.

Democracy shouldn’t end at the login screen. Mastodon is the only major social network that answers to you. As a nonprofit, we’re building a digital commons where transparency, trust, and your participation shape the future. Help us keep the Fediverse […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A 🧵about a few clocks. My grand-uncle collected clocks and had a few dozen, many of which have percolated throughout the family over the years. My parent’s house is a cacophony of ticking.

It's just such very bad news. "It marks the biggest shift to the right since the end of Chile's military dictatorship in 1990. Kast has openly praised Chile's former right-wing dictator, Augusto Pinochet.” "He has pledged a border wall on Chile's porous frontier with Peru and Bolivia […]

Worst Christmas 🎄 Apple Music playlist] [https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/worst-christmas/pl.u-110oBtYJGlj

36 years ago today, I lived in Calgary. My daughter was 2, with every bit of potential to do whatever she wanted with her life. My partner was a woman working in a non-traditional job -- one which occasionally found her pissing off some misogynist wingnut […] [Original post on thecanadian.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@wearenew_public/115645917115143165 Six months ago, I joined New_ Public to help build a new social platform for local communities. Today, I could't be more excited and proud to share what our amazing little team has cooked up, and is launching in closed beta this […]

Smart timing. Congressmen can draw congressional retirement after five years in office. MTG is resigning after five years and two days. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-resigns.html #uspol

This #usmnt game is absolutely bananas. 🍌

Good grief, the Spirit look way better than the Thorns. We can’t even get it to the half line. #baonpdx

We should do this with so many Portland intersections, especially downtown. https://tldr.nettime.org/@festal/110748093663367650

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 […]

Excellent 🧵, this day in history… https://sometimesantisocial.media/@DetritusBooks/115531620158495031

This is absolutely plausible. If the price is 99 and you sell 2, 198 + 2 =200. Easy way to detect something off. If you sell 16, the subtotal better end in 84. https://mastodon.social/@wesdym/115486824206956196

Genuinely a great idea. We need more international media collaborations around progressive politics. https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/115492357336201198

Chinese battery giant CATL has announced a new Sodium Ion battery pack for EV that is game-changing. It features: ⦁ 10,000 charge cycle lifetime to 85% capacity ⦁ 90% power capability at -40℃ ⦁ 175 Wh/kg energy density, behind Li-Ion at 300 Wh/kg ⦁ no thermal runaway danger ⦁ cost $19/kWh […]

And wear a costume, make it fun! I'll be wearing my 🍌 suit. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/post/3m3fnxaxkcs2z

Do we all agree this is going to be a massive flop, like the Segway?

My insurance company (Travelers) is telling me to set up Google Authenticator, despite iOS supporting 2FA natively for many years now. Must be so confusing for average users...

Looks to me like bsky’s CEO has burnt out and is shifting into the troll mindset (“waffles”). I expect bsky will wind up ~same as Twitter. Mastodon still seems like the only viable long term social media.

This real world story of how the real time translation works in new AirPods is encouraging. I never thought it could work as good as the demos but it sounds solid https://pdx.social/@louie/115287075622058308

Bruce Schneier has a good high-level look at threat-modeling under an authoritarian government. Alas, it’s not amenable to a simple recipe approach, but involves carefully thinking through the tradeoffs […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Silly bikes falling into rivers will never not make me laugh. #BikeTooter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4tl9bD8tQI

There are several ways to catch a lion, but the KGB invented the most original one: you catch a poodle and beat it until it signs a paper that it’s actually a lion. Gennadiy Abramov was sentenced to 5 years of hard labor for this joke in 1946. He was 18 years old at the time.

Never forget that XOXOfest had the greatest drink menu of all time in 2019

Just heard a podcast ad promoting another podcast, recorded with a room mic. That's ... an interesting choice. 🎤

To me the Thorns front line looks lost. Moltrie can’t find a forward pass, no one making diagonal runs. #baonpdx

One recent fascinating discovery: Lumenate https://lumenategrowth.com It uses your phone's flashlight to induce a mild psychedelic experience. I've used it several times now. It definitely provides a short but noticeable shift in my mental state. Try it out and let me know what you think […]

Hawaiian sunset

This flip in emissions feels emblematic of something much larger: China has made a massive investment in the technology that will power the future and the U.S. has bet it all on AI privately owned by the very same people who ruined the internet […]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today released a new ICE recruiting poster, under the stilted and sexist tagline "which way, American man?" Why did they use that word language? Because it's a dog whistle, something ordinary humans won't notice but that those […] [Original post on c.im]

The fact that ESPN 8: The Ocho exists makes me so happy. From a gag in “Dodgeball” to reality.

Just as Minnesota doesn’t play home games in March, Dallas should not be able to play home games in August. It seems dangerous to play a pro soccer game in 95F heat. #rctid

Every Liga MX team got a red card today. LOL #leaguescup

I can’t remember an Apple app that was as terrible as the TV app is right now. Scrubbing, ff/rew, pausing, all have multi-second latency and queue up so the UI is just unresponsive.

Colonialist projection https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/114960910263931328

Me and the crew rolling up to the party. https://mastodon.online/@HayiWena/114960093312331127

This Thorns/Reign 0-0 friendly has been dreadful. Everyone lost. #baonpdx

This is all kinds of wonderful. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/pee-wee-herman-red-bike-the-alamo-1236323969/ #biketooter #bikes

Visiting Seattle T-Fri with wife. What should we do?

Trump’s Confederate Army. https://sciences.social/@alfiekohn/114790985069826642

Think of it as a giant jobs program for out-of-work Nazis

Loud and Lit ride - tonight 8:30 Irving Park! https://pdx.social/@shift2bikes/114762663094608884

It’s also been huge for Portland, we have a notably more liberal, more competent council now (with 4 DSA members)! https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/114746292947427234

Star Trek ride tonight, #portland #bikesummer loving fam. Steam those costumes, attach them ears, and RIDE. https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-21042