@davidgerard You have to ask...
Why don't the bluesky refugees just admit that Mastodon is better, freer? No muss, no fuss. Period.

A point excerpted from a talk I gave earlier this week at Microsoft's internal performance symposium (alt talk title: "CSS-in-JS: Frontend's Worst Idea"):

Browsers are virtual machines tuned to efficiently turn *markup* into *pixels*.

If your system tries to generate pixels from not-markup, you'll be working against the grain of the system, and should expect to suffer massive performance penalties -- both in CPU and memory use -- as a result.

For deep reasons, this is not going to change.

People need to start to understand what happens when you fire the inspectors.

@jpm yeah, badly need a cut here

We're producing a whole generation of ignoramuses.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-cheating-education-college-students-school.html

The parliament in ex-Soviet Moldova, controlled by pro-European President Maia Sandu's party, curbed the use of the Russian language in ​the chamber on Thursday, prompting a walkout by pro-Russian and ‌right-wing opposition parties.

https://www.reuters.com/world/moldovan-parliament-restricts-use-russian-prompts-opposition-walkout-2026-05-07/

#Ukraine #Russia #Moldova

@WizardOfDocs Every scented thing I own is lavender, to be fair.

@gsuberland what bothers me so much about so many web apps is that it’s super easy to implement something that saves a copy client-side so it doesn’t get lost

it’s such lazy software design

Right now
#photography #nature

@lina I have, on many occasions, used Cheat Engine to extract lost posts from my browser's heap.

This photo is going to be in the history books eventually.
#USpol

“The Sergeant at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

A white officer with a badge, blocking a black congressional member, from joining meeting that specifically targets the black district meant to give representation to people of color.

The segregation is alive and well in the south.” - James Garrick

@shuro that is strange.

A Russian lawmaker has introduced a bill that would limit prosecutions of old social media posts by tying the statute of limitations to publication dates, not discovery dates. A doomed initiative and apparent campaign posturing by Duma deputy speaker Vladislav Davankov. https://t.me/obrazbuduschego2/24922

@czarbucks

Heartbreaking and enraging 💔

@OfKittensAndRavens

So amazing to see your community forming here.

I started an iNaturalist project about #Barrambin / Victoria park:

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/barrambin-victoria-park

Would be great to have others in #Meanjin / #Magandjin / #Brisbane get out to the park and record more of the biodiversity that can be found there!

#BNE

@jrossstocholm points taken.