As of today, mstdn.social, masto.ai, mastodon.coffee, gram.social, pixey.org, vido.social and ALL other platforms I host enforce the following rule WITHOUT exception:
You park like an arsehole, Dutch moped addiction. Mopeds are better than cars, but they shouldn't have to contend with pedestrians for pavement space. They could take out one car space and the mopeds would all fit there. And then ban parking them on the pavement.
Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings
https://aethermug.com/posts/culture-is-the-mass-synchronization-of-framings
Jana of Purl Together on YT is doing a knit along of the Hipsulaisen Karuselli socks. Looks like a fun (and free) pattern. You've got to love unusual sock constructions.
#knitting #socks
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/hipsulaisen-karuselli
Does anyone know of support organisations/community groups for autistic adults in #Munich that don't require an official diagnosis?
My friend is looking for a therapist (and maybe general help) that has experience with autistic adults. All she could find was organisations focused on autistic children. Unfortunately I don't live in Germany so I have no idea what help is available there. And hopefully autistic organisations could point her the right direction to such therapists.
Boosts encouraged, thanks 
È successo di nuovo.
- Ma che bella questa cartoleria, non l'avevo mai notata, da quanto siete qui?
- Quattordici anni
As promised, I'm tagging folx who have commented they want to listen ^^
If your, a systems, erm or ux #librarian, hate the way the AI/LLM Reading Assistant in #ScienceDirect does a dark pattern & pops up to cover the actual damn thing you are trying to read, you can email #Elsevier support & ask them to disable it for your institution. It may take a while, but given them they did it for me, they’ll probably do it for you. #LibraryLife #libraries
Remains deeply weird to me that people concern themselves with who other people wish to boink. It makes as much sense as being all up in someone's business about what they like to eat for breakfast. Just hanging about outside your house carrying placards decrying toast as a legitimate form of gods love.
@TheBreadmonkey You don’t want to incur the Wrath of Big Toast. They have soldiers, you know.
I proposed before Brexit, and have proposed again in the context of rejoin movements:
The UK moving Trident launch control under the EU umbrella and including (a large portion of) the cost of Trident upkeep in the contribution to the EU would allow a lot of face saving on all sides and make more sense than the UK having a independent deterrent.
@david_chisnall
LAUNCH CONTROL under an EU UMBRELLA? And who on earth decides a launch then?
commercial real estates also blaming fall in stock prices on AI
https://www.ft.com/content/90e8ed28-e44b-48da-b06c-a54bc71f053a
yes really. and not on, say, being greedy dickheads who overstretched badly. it woz the AI wot done it
@davidgerard as this crap ramps up, the queue of industries blaming AI is just going to grow. Greed is a disease.
@stefan We also saw how Mastodon's quote posts were incompatible with existing quote posting schemas. Mastodon could kinda afford to do this because it didn't have quote posting at all before. We can't break compatibility with existing fediverse replies like that.
So we're sitting on the problem that platforms with interaction controls need to be able to talk to platforms without.
The GTS spec has a section on this. It's very technical, but might show the difficulty: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/federation/interaction_controls/#optional-but-recommended-behaviors
@julian Thank you so much for the explanation! I will read up on this further.
But yeah, interesting approach, on GTS's end.
excited to attend FOI Fest 2026 next Thursday. Details here:
https://www.mysociety.org/transparency/foi-network/foi-fest-2026/
“The climate crisis could trigger a global financial crash as temperatures rise beyond 2C, but governments and investors are relying on economic models that fail to account for the scale and severity of the damage.”
@greenpeace What! A #story about a #model that's ignoring a #model?
Zwift - Big Flat 8 in Watopia
Head feels strange and heavy today and overall recovery could be better. I suppose headache tries to develop but I couldn't accept this holding me back - tried not to overdo it tho, so this suggested route was quite perfect for the situation.
🚴 29,49 km
⏱️ 48:48
⛰️ 103 m
🏆 2
TIL: “ai;dr”
We still don’t know what’s happening in El Paso.
It’s been reported that CBP used a laser weapon to shoot down what turned out to be balloons, and that the FAA had originally shut the airspace because they couldn’t be sure these weapons wouldn’t endanger commercial aviation.
But it was also reported that the FAA airspace order was rescinded at the direction of the White House, not because the FAA determined the weapons tests are safe. But it’s not clear if the tests are still continuing.
@mattblaze These days it could mean either from space, or from across the border (Yes, some people on corners of the internet absolutely believe they shot down a UAP rather than actually believe it was an unreported training exercise near civilian airways)
The US stopped supporting Ukraine, and is now working on a deal with Russia.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-12/russia-memo-sees-return-to-dollar-system-in-pitch-made-for-trump
@fj The U.S. administration says 'We detest you' to cover for the 'We betray you'.
Cognitive dissonance at work.
Takeshi Shina and Junya Ogawa, former members of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, have filed candidacies to lead the Centrist Reform Alliance, formed last month by the CDP and Komeito. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/12/japan/politics/cra-presser-leadership-election/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #cra #takeshishina #junyaogawa #komeito #cdp
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