@randahl not enough yet.

The Costco theory of the internet https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-costco-theory-of-the-internet/

I thought I’d become accommodated to the fact that part of middle age is seeing your personal landmarks sloughed off and leaving the world, but I find the news that the Shibuya Tokyu Hands is closing deeply upsetting. Little things I bought there over the years still constitute so much of the texture of my life, even now. https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2026052500901/

#USA #Chantage #ListeNoire #Gaza #ONU

Malgré la décision des juges nordaméricains de retirer Mme #Albanese de la liste noire qui gèlait ses avoirs et lui interdisait, entre autre, l'utilisation d'une carte de paiement, la dictature de Trump a décidé de passer outre et de la remettre sur cette "liste noire" des ennemis de l'Amérique du Nord.

Obligé d'aller chercher l'info sur un média étranger, visiblement, les journaux français sont moyennement intéressés par ce scandal.

https://www.lapresse.ca/international/2026-05-27/la-rapporteure-de-l-onu-sur-gaza-de-nouveau-visee-par-des-sanctions-americaines.php

@madeindex Thanks for the undeserved praise, but it just grows on its own. I just give it some water.
Yeah, right? Baby birds can be pretty ... ugly sometimes.😉

Japanese government officials visiting Russia said their visit was aimed at protecting the assets of Japanese companies doing business in Russia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/28/japan/japan-officials-russia-visit/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #russiajapanrelations #russiaukrainewar #meti #foreignministry

Deze Pinksteren haalden we op ons kampeerterrein spullen op voor de mensen die in op het grasveld voor het aanmeldcentrum in Ter Apel moeten wachten op een plek. En dat was een succes! Er werden meerdere kruiwagens tenten, matjes en slaapzakken ingezameld. En naar kameraden gebracht die al geruime tijd hulp organiseren in Ter Apel. Die actie riep hier op Facebook veel boze en blije reacties op. Met bijvoorbeeld de vraag, waarom doen jullie dat niet voor daklozen? We hebben de comments onder ons bericht gelezen. We hebben ook zoveel mogelijk de ergste comments weggehaald. Hier ons antwoord.

We zijn anarchisten. We zijn altijd solidair met iedereen die een veilig thuis zoekt. Of je familie hier al generaties woont, dakloos bent of dat je net uit een oorlogsgebied gevlucht bent. En we geloven in onderlinge hulp. De rijken en politici gaan je niet helpen. We helpen elkaar. Soms door spullen in te zamelen, soms door een leeg pand te kraken voor wie een huis zoekt. We geloven niet in grenzen. Die grenzen zijn verzonnen om ons tegen elkaar te zetten. Net als de oorlogen waar mensen voor vluchten. We leven in een extreem rijk land. Als we het geld terug pakken van de rijken dan leeft iedereen in overvloed.

Good morning Fedi friends!

After spending 3 weeks working on a deep dive about #WSocial, I am delighted that the article is now out and I can move on.

I already had so much admiration for people like @molly0xfff who speak truth to power. My appreciation for her work has grown 20x since attempting to write an exposé myself.

It’s surreal to know you have irritated many powerful, well-connected people.

Going back to my roots now: articles boosting the Fediverse 🤗🚀

Have a great day everyone!

Je cherche une affiche surper belle de la pride d'il y a 1-3 ans, où il avait de mémoire des grandes statues avec marteau et enclume, des figures statuesques, des "cascades" du drapeau lgbt, c'était une ville du Sud je crois. Point bonus si vous savez le nom de la personne qui l'avait fait ! Je cherche à lui en acheter une hihi.

Have you ever really looked at the blooms of horse chestnuts? Yeah me either. Until a month ago I nicked this one, and now I am confused why they are not a staple for florists at this time of the year. I mean look! It even kept quite decently in that makeshift vase. And it wasn't the most beautiful I'd seen, that was on another tree, with even darker red stems, and entirely out of reach for me...

#photography #bloomScrolling #horseChestnut

Fangs out for another ride around the sun #originalart #mastoart

@_elena @saskia

Mostly agreed, but I’d be wary of the ‘non-commercial’ framing, for a couple of reasons:

First, it immediately raises the question of ‘what is it if it isn’t commercial?’ And ‘where does the money come from?’ These are both important conversations to have later. They aren’t the first conversations you want. The thing you probably do want is some framing (as you said) about it not being an advertising / data-mining platform. I think getting the media to refer to data-mining platforms as ‘social media’ is one of most impressive piece of marketing of the last couple of decades, there’s a lot of work needed to undo that.

Second, the Fediverse (sorry!) isn’t intrinsically non-commercial. A few news organisations run their own instances, for example. These exist as a commercial channel for them. If they provided a mechanism to pay to follow some of their accounts, that would be completely fine! If a company wants to create its own instance to better engage with its customers, that’s wonderful but also 100% commercial.

I think the messaging needs to focus a lot more on agency: you are in control of what you see. But for that to be a strong message, there need to be better discovery mechanisms. It was easy for me to find people here interested in (at least some of) the same things as me, but my partner wanted to find content about music, linguistics, education, and assessment, and gave up. I occasionally see posts that are relevant to these interests but I have no idea how to find them. The tradeoff for the data-mining platforms is that you see a bunch of things you want to see, in exchange for seeing things other people pay for you to see. The Fediverse needs to capture the advantage part of that without the down side. I’d love to see an onboarding flow that gave you a big list of things you might be interested in and made you follow the hashtags, as long as much more overt ‘you are seeing this because you follow this hashtag / person’ above every message so people understand how they are in control.

AI Don't Wanna Go Anymore, Picturesidrawn, Digital, 2026

#Art #DigitalArt

tinytapeout logo crisp in the corner of their wafer.space silicon 😍

@saskia One of the worst things you can do with technology is to get too excited about it.

@gubi quello, purtroppo, mi tornava, e ti ringrazio per avermi risposto. Non capisco, però, come si possa essere sia conservatori che liberali (per quando liberale non voglia dire di certo progressista, ma nemmeno conservatore)

@davidgerard That is… not what you’d call a composed, business-like piece of writing.

On the upside, it’s very likely not LLM generated.

Okay, I _think_ I have come up with a concept for adding random banners to the "Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles" wiki, using the "WikidataPageBanner" and "RandomSelection" extensions for #MediaWiki - although I need to test it to make sure (hopefully I will find time for this next week). The downside is that I will have to add the markup for the banner to each and every page - tedious, but at least I will only have to do it once. The resulting banners should have the same size and placement as the banners on Wikivoyage (see the link for examples).

Obviously, one thing I want to do is flog my book and my Patreon (if I want to maintain a full-time lifestyle as an adventurer-folklorist, I will have to hustle for it). But I could also create banners for:

- Interesting themes on my wiki (mountain legends, tales of Venetians, and so on and so forth)
- Link to people who have been using my translations in their own projects (looking at you, @rorystarr )
- Link to other interesting #folklore projects in general

Any other suggestions on what I could create banners for?

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Banners