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Nice timeline you’ve got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.

Empire Games, 2017 by @cstross

"The bathroom turned out to be right behind her. It was a typical hospital unit with grab rails everywhere and a smart toilet primed to snitch on her eating habits every time she pooped.”

And Nov/Dec 2025,

https://uk.pcmag.com/health-fitness/161829/kohlers-poop-analyzing-toilet-cam-might-also-flush-your-privacy-down-the-drain

PCMag UK

Kohler's Poop-Analyzing Toilet Cam Might Also Flush Your Privacy Down the Drain

Kohler Health admits it can decrypt data collected from its $599 Dekoda toilet camera, which it advertises as 'end-to-end encrypted.'

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Victoria Maderna

@vmaderna@mastodon.art · 3 hours ago

More #goblinweek! This little wandering goblinette is still one of my favorites.
Gouache.

Prints: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/vmaderna/forest-wanderer-goblin/

#MastoArt #goblin #gouache

Illustration in gouache of a goblin girl in the forest with a walking staff looking at a magpie on a tree.

INPRNT

Forest Wanderer Goblin, an art print by Victoria Maderna

Gallery Quality Prints

Open Future Foundation

@openfuture@eupolicy.social · 30 seconds ago

Join us at FOSDEM 2026 to discuss Europe's digital sovereignty & the DC-EDIC's role in supporting open source public infrastructure.
2 Feb, 9:35 CET | Room UA2.118 | Details and live streaming: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/EZB7MP-power_to_the_public_stack_governing_europes_digital_commons/

FOSDEM 2026 - Power to the Public Stack: Governing Europe’s Digital Commons

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 hours ago

I get email.

An email whose subject line is "enshittification" and whose body reads "Why did you choose such a fucking dumb word to describe such a brutally important concept? "

Anchinya

@anchinya@aus.social replied · 36 seconds ago

@pluralistic enshittification works well

everton137

@everton137@social.vivaldi.net · 37 seconds ago

Saudade do português! Algum brasileiro no #Fediverso indo para #FOSDEM esse ano?

Seria legal tomar algo por lá! A comunidade brasileira aqui me parece pequena, mas não custa tentar.

#Brasil #Europa

peertube

@peertube@tv.undersco.re · 41 seconds ago

d@nny disc@ mc²

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run · 2 minutes ago

@Lunaphied i'm not sure yet how the ratcheting crypto i would like to perform at each hop would intersect with the label mechanism but this would definitely be the answer to OP in a nutshell. or at least one answer but it's good

d@nny disc@ mc²

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run replied · 43 seconds ago

@Lunaphied i'm very suspicious of every protocol provided to users of the internet but the ones used between different packet switching networks seem markedly higher quality

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Undelaterreta

@undelaterreta@xarxa.cloud · 4 days ago

Mastodon!
Hace un tiempo se hizo un hilo hablando de una marca de paraguas buenos. Estoy cansado de comprar paraguas de tanto en tanto, más malos que se rompen a la minima bufada de viento.
Si tenéis recomendaciones decidme, y gracias de antemano.

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feliks

@feliks@chaos.social · 15 hours ago

A two-panel cartoon: a person writes “∞ + ∞ =” on a chalkboard, then writes a sideways “16” as the answer, so it visually matches two infinity symbols (∞∞).

d@nny disc@ mc²

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run · 4 minutes ago

@Lunaphied oh. looked it up. yes i think MPLS would likely be more efficient than what i was doing

d@nny disc@ mc²

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run replied · 2 minutes ago

Jcrabapple

@jcrabapple@dmv.community · 12 minutes ago

Good morning. ☕

Rob Fahrni

@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe replied · 2 minutes ago

@jcrabapple Good morning. ☕️

ink

@ink@merveilles.town · 2 minutes ago

RIP Uncle Floyd

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/nyregion/floyd-vivino-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.H1A.HcQR.ny0KEfMHE4Gg&smid=nytcore-android-share

https://www.nytimes.com

Floyd Vivino, Throwback Comedian Known as Uncle Floyd, Dies at 74

Taylor Lorenz

@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social · 8 hours ago

With all the tiktok drama I have been telling people Mastodon is still here and kicking!! I love this app and I really think the decentralized model is the best for social media.

Still, people don’t want to join! What do you think Mastodon’s biggest barriers are to courting new users? What could be done to improve the product and grow the user base in a positive way?

allison

@aparrish@friend.camp replied · 2 minutes ago

@taylorlorenz something i remember vividly is an influential account that i followed on twitter back in 2018 or so openly mocking mastodon users as ugly dorks, and discounting mastodon out of hand for that reason. and i really do think that many people who still avoid the fediverse because they don't want to be seen associating with "those people"

Radio Onda D'Urto

@radiondadurto@mastodon.bida.im · 2 minutes ago

ROJAVA: LA RESISTENZA CONTINUA. LA “CAROVANA DEI POPOLI” BLOCCATA AL CONFINE TRA GRECIA E TURCHIA https://www.radiondadurto.org/2026/01/28/rojava-la-resistenza-continua-la-carovana-dei-popoli-bloccata-al-confine-tra-grecia-e-turchia/ #confederalismodemocratico #INTERNAZIONALI #MedioOriente #INEVIDENZA #resistenza #kurdistan #daanes #KOBANE #rojava #Siria #News

Radio Onda d`Urto

ROJAVA: LA RESISTENZA CONTINUA. LA “CAROVANA DEI POPOLI” BLOCCATA AL CONFINE TRA GRECIA E TURCHIA

Le milizie di Damasco continuano a violare il cessate il fuoco ma la resistenza di Sdf, Ypg e Ypj sembra aver fermato - per ora - i tentativi di avanzata. La Carovana dei popoli in difesa dell'umanità, intanto, è arrivata al confine tra Grecia e Turchia, dov'è stata bloccata dalla polizia di frontiera turca. Su Radio Onda d'Urto gli aggiornamenti con Tiziano Saccucci di Uiki Onlus

Ben

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party · 4 minutes ago

Many people are asking me where I get my very great ideas from. And the answer is always the same. Aliens.

JackTheRebelCat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦

@JackTheCat@mastodon.scot (and 1 other) recently replied · 2 minutes ago

@TheBreadmonkey Do they beam messages from the microwave? That's how I get mine.

Clive Thompson

@clive@saturation.social · 9 hours ago

Super piece by Adam Serwer, who reported on the everyday Minnesotans who are observing and protesting ICE's actions, while delivering food to their neighbors who are afraid to leave their houses

His key, bang-on point, is this: All assumptions the White House makes -- about how society works, how culture works, the nature of bravery and identity --- are completely wrong

it's why Trump's attack on Minnesota is foundering

The piece: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/the-neighbors-defending-minnesota-from-ice/685769/

Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/TRsdI

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The federal surge into Minneapolis reflects a series of mistaken MAGA assumptions. The first is the belief that diverse communities aren’t possible: “Social bonds form among people who have something in common,” Vance said in a speech last July. “If you stop importing millions of foreigners into the country, you allow social cohesion to form naturally.” Vance’s remarks are the antithesis to the neighborism of the Twin Cities, whose people do not share the narcissism of being capable of loving only those who are exactly like them. — Screenshot reading: The federal surge into Minneapolis reflects a series of mistaken MAGA assumptions. The first is the belief that diverse communities aren’t possible: “Social bonds form among people who have something in common,” Vance said in a speech last July. “If you stop importing millions of foreigners into the country, you allow social cohesion to form naturally.” Vance’s remarks are the antithesis to the neighborism of the Twin Cities, whose people do not share the narcissism of being capable of loving only those who are exactly like them.

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A second MAGA assumption is that the left is insincere in its values, and that principles of inclusion and unity are superficial forms of virtue signaling. White liberals might put a sign in their front yard saying IMMIGRANTS WELCOME, but they will abandon those immigrants at the first sensation of sustained pressure.
And in Trump’s defense, this has turned out to be true of many liberals in positions of power—university administrators, attorneys at white-shoe law firms, political leaders. But it is not true of millions of ordinary Americans, who have poured into the streets in protest, spoken out against the administration, and, in Minnesota, resisted armed men in masks at the cost of their own life. — Screenshot reading: A second MAGA assumption is that the left is insincere in its values, and that principles of inclusion and unity are superficial forms of virtue signaling. White liberals might put a sign in their front yard saying IMMIGRANTS WELCOME, but they will abandon those immigrants at the first sensation of sustained pressure. And in Trump’s defense, this has turned out to be true of many liberals in positions of power—university administrators, attorneys at white-shoe law firms, political leaders. But it is not true of millions of ordinary Americans, who have poured into the streets in protest, spoken out against the administration, and, in Minnesota, resisted armed men in masks at the cost of their own life.

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The MAGA faith in liberal weakness has been paired with the conviction that real men—Trump’s men—are conversely strong. Consider Miller’s bizarre meltdown while addressing Memphis police in October. “The gangbangers that you deal with—they think that they’re ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they’re tough? They have no idea how tough we are,” Miller said. “They think they’re hard-core? We are so much more hard-core than they are.” Around this time, Miller moved his family onto a military base—for safety reasons.

The federal agents sent to Minnesota wear body armor and masks, and bear long guns and sidearms. But their skittishness and brutality are qualities associated with fear, not resolve. It takes far more courage to stare down the barrel of a gun while you’re armed with only a whistle and a phone than it does to point a gun at an unarmed protester. — Screenshot reading: The MAGA faith in liberal weakness has been paired with the conviction that real men—Trump’s men—are conversely strong. Consider Miller’s bizarre meltdown while addressing Memphis police in October. “The gangbangers that you deal with—they think that they’re ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they’re tough? They have no idea how tough we are,” Miller said. “They think they’re hard-core? We are so much more hard-core than they are.” Around this time, Miller moved his family onto a military base—for safety reasons. The federal agents sent to Minnesota wear body armor and masks, and bear long guns and sidearms. But their skittishness and brutality are qualities associated with fear, not resolve. It takes far more courage to stare down the barrel of a gun while you’re armed with only a whistle and a phone than it does to point a gun at an unarmed protester.

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Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force. — Screenshot reading: Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

The Atlantic

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong

The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

Sabrina Web :privacypride: 📎

@sabrinaweb71@sociale.network replied · 3 minutes ago

@clive "social bonds form among people who have something in common" - well, maybe Minnesotans just realized that they have more in common with an immigrant than with a billionaire (or with an ICE thug)

Osservatorio Repressione

@ossrepressione@sociale.network · 3 minutes ago

Volantini sotto tutela: quando la scuola diventa zona controllata

Questura, presidenza e organizzazioni studentesche filogovernative: un volantinaggio “sensibile” rivela doppi standard, pressioni indebite e un clima sempre più pesante nelle scuole pubbliche

https://www.osservatoriorepressione.info/volantini-sotto-tutela-quando-la-scuola-diventa-zona-controllata/

Osservatorio Repressione

Volantini sotto tutela: quando la scuola diventa zona controllata

di Federico Giusti Questura, presidenza e organizzazioni studentesche di governo: un volantinaggio “sensibile” rivela doppi standard, pressioni indebite e un clima sempre più pesante nelle scuole pubbliche. I fatti La …

George Conway

@gtconway3@threads.net · 3 minutes ago

Thank you, Mr. President.

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May be a Twitter screenshot of text that says 'Joe Biden @JoeBiden What has unfolded in Minneapolis this past month betrays our most basic values as Americans. We are not a nation that guns down our citizens in the street. We are not a nation that allows our citizens to be brutalized for exercising their constitutional rights. We are not a nation that tramples the 4th Amendment and tolerates our neighbors being terrorized. The people of Minnesota have stood strong 一 helping community members in unimaginable circumstances. speaking out against injustice when they see it, and holding our government accountable to the people.'

May be an image of text that says 'Minnesotans have reminded us all what it is to be American, and they have suffered enough at the hands of this Administration. Violence and terror have no place in the United States of America, especially when it's our own government targeting American citizens. a No single person can destroy what America stands for and believes in, not even President, if we we- -all all of America stand up and speak out. We know who we are. It's time to show the world. More importantly, it's time to show ourselves.'

May be a Twitter screenshot of text that says 'Now, justice requires full, fair, and transparent investigations into into the deaths of the two Americans who lost their lives in the city they called home. Jill and I are sending strength to the families and communities who love Alex Pretti and Renee Good as we all mourn their senseless deaths. 8:52 M 27 Jan 26 3.1M Views'

peertube

@peertube@tv.undersco.re · 3 minutes ago

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