Today's @pluralistic essay hits a little close to home https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/06/champerty-loves-company/

"Conservative strongmen like Trump and Musk exalt the value of self-determination – for themselves, at everyone else's expense. Trump's ability to stiff the contractors that built his hotels and Musk's ability to rain flaming rocket debris down on the people who live near his company town require that everyone else be stripped of protections."

Rain cold private astronaut debris down on Canadian farmland. That too.

#WritersCoffeeClub 6: Talk about something you've written which you expected would divide readers.

If we are talking readers in general, just about everything I write. Almost all of my stories contain some combination of queerness, polyamory, kink, and neurodivergence.

If we're talking my readers specifically, The Price of Survival is pretty far outside even my usual wheelhouse and hits very different emotional notes than readers familiar with my work would expect. No happy ending here.

@faraiwe Of course! Spread the ridiculousness

@grumpasaurus sometimes i like riding in the rain when the alternative is the heat of summer

@farah late, late dinner!

Today in Apple history: First colorful iMac destroys the ‘beige box’ status quo https://www.cultofmac.com/apple-history/original-imac-g3-unveiling?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

every now and then i have to search for "fuck $THING_I_HATE" to see if there are other haters out there with me, too. this time i found https://fuckvibecoding.com and i am not disappointed. it's a damn near perfect encapsulation of my rage in almost literally the same words i would choose. i would pilot a Jäger with the author to kill some interdimensional kaiju.

It was already a sordid tale of online drama, blurry photographs, and erratic TikToks. Then his mom started posting.

https://www.404media.co/man-finds-1-million-worth-of-yu-gi-oh-cards-in-a-dumpster/

@freyablekman What nice plots! This sounds interesting! How should I imagine this process? You are accelerating lead ions, but what is really colliding in the end? Is the entire nucleus squeezed together and turns into plasma? Or should I think of it as a cloud of nucleons far apart, some of which do hard collisions and the others do nothing?

I still don't understand why pasting without formatting isn't the default on computers. I never want to carry over the font, the color, and the size of text. Why do they do this to us?

Mahjong is cool

@thelinuxcast Oh yikes! Would you be able to report this in the app so we can figure out why you are seeing this?

Our @fediforum@mastodon.social demo is up! 🔥

We showed off Bonfire Mosaic and our ongoing work on federated groups and new publisher tools we’ve been co-designing with jacobin.de, including federated discussion threads that can be embedded on their existing website.

Built on our modular framework for community-governed digital spaces.

Watch 👉 spectra.video/w/hV9wzGzsXvNj...

Having read the rest of the terms, in particular the warranties (or lack thereof), and the broad language around suspension and termination, my personal opinion is that I'd only use this as a means of making a donation to MZLA.

Personally, I wouldn't feel comfortable using it to actually host my email, calendaring, etc.

@joachim
C'est probablement dû au financement par don via patreon qui dit ensuite que les gens peuvent causer sur discord. Imagine si #liberapay avait le même genre de truc vers une gestion d'espace #movim

Ya toujours ce prob de où être présent en ligne quand on veut des outils éthiques, on peut en utiliser mais si on veut toucher des gens * emprisonnés * il faut aller vers eux pour avoir la moindre chance d'en sortir, en complément d'un outil meilleur.

Effectivement c'est relou quand le seul truc dispo c'est la version la pire pour les gens

If you are in the UK/EU and tempted by Thunderbird Pro, it seems that:

* the contract does not include a data processing agreement. It is unclear how any professional user in the UK/EU might use the service in a manner consistent with the UK or EU GDPR.

* the servers are in Germany but the agreement (and presumably MZLA) are subject to US law:

> this Agreement between you and MZLA and any access to or use of the Website or the Services are governed by the federal laws of the United States of America and the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict of law provisions. You and MZLA agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the courts located in the City and County of San Francisco, California.

https://www.tb.pro/en-GB/terms/

Iran launches ‘Persian Gulf Strait Authority’ to collect vessel tolls.

https://www.tradewindsnews.com/tankers/iran-launches-persian-gulf-strait-authority-to-collect-vessel-tolls/2-1-1985843

#iranwar #iran #worldnews