Meat proxy (noun): “A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.” https://sfisms.org/meat-proxy

Goldfinches! In the Cosmos #BirdCallout

(Like, cosmos the flower. But technically all birds are in the cosmos I guess)

@autiomaa @niko Media on isoin. Meillä federoidaan noin 40k domainin kanssa, joten media vie noin 3TB (ja kasvussa). Tähän ei oikein ole muuta järkevää tapaa kuin S3, joka pyörii meillä Cloudflaren pilvessä (hinnat joitakin doltsuja per tera). Periaatteessa kun kaikki "painava tavara" on pilvessä, Mastodonia voi pyörittää vaikka muistitikulla, jos käyttäjämäärän pitää pienenä.

Tietokanta on toinen show stopper mikäli haluaa kasvaa, mutta sillekin saa SSD-levyä rahalla. Mastohostissa ja muissa managedeissa on käytännössä kiinni ylläpitäjän systeemeissä.

@Xibanya That's "Mission Accomplished" for the disinformationalists.

@pixelfed don @pablo para cuando pueda .)

@david_chisnall 100%, no comments. Also in Cambridge, and buddleias appear impossible to kill. We have one that was in our garden when we moved in nearly 30 years ago that we hack to the ground every 2-3 years, and it just keeps on growing! The insects love the flowers, so it definitely earns its place. And it doesn't seem prone to invading, so that's something, too.

@alda I've been going on the theory that it's because the business world hasn't yet evolved into an understanding of how I.T. works. (This includes nonprofits, in my observation -- I could do a smol story/rant.)

My latest FOSSAcademic post is another Goal 3 post about my "content creators" project. This time it's the year in content creators, 1997, which seems to me to be a pivotal year.

https://fossacademic.tech/2026/08/24/years-in-content-creators-1997.html

#FOSSAcademic #contentCreators

Either way I need to restock 7 carded Kumiai-Ki at the bookstore.

@farah

I looked at the other photos and I guessed that's what it meant 😄

@lowqualityfacts i was underwhelmed personally but i'm used to being on the outside

A few weeks ago a #wildfire broke out in Mincinglake Valley Park in #exeter #devon burning down large areas of dry grass. It seems fairly superficial and I think most larger trees that were affected will survive. The contrast between the charred ground and green trees makes it look quite spectacular, especially in places where the grass is starting to grow back. I look forward to witnessing the regreening process in real time on my way to work over the coming weeks.

But!

i put 12 carded Kumiai-Ki action figures at the bookstore this weekend.

When I went in today there were 5. I haven't checked sales numbers yet, and it's possible that my dad came and picked up some for one of our other retail locations.

But, if he did, he didn't take the pile marked "for dad, for [our other retail locations]" which ... would be completely in character if I'm being honest.

Regardless, he wouldn't have taken 7 figures. I could see him taking 1, 2 (because it's an even number), 4 (because it's an even number), or 5 (because it's a multiple of 5).

6 is probably too many for the space he has dedicated for them at Treasure Hunt, and 7 is an odd number, and he's got Number Things. And, again, I'm not positive he took any, but he probably did.

So we sold somewhere between 2 and 7 carded Kumiai-Ki at the bookstore this weekend, and I'll have to check the report to verify.

@woozle the worst is when internet leftists buy the capitalist propaganda that socialism means you don't own your toothbrush 😩

@AvSchroeder @stevE komme auch aus dem Rheinland (Düsseldorf) und habe noch nie "Bällchen" gehört.
➡️ für mich "Kugeln im Hörnchen"

@tante Well at least we have somewhere for all his fanboys to congregate.
They can take the oxygen away from each other.

It's a slim silver lining I grant you.

Meloni championed irregular migrant “returns” in a hardline push to externalise EU borders. Now, more member states are asking Italy to take back migrants under the first-arrival principle.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/24/meloni-made-migrant-returns-popular-in-the-eu-now-the-policy-is-backfiring-on-her