Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/automattic-has-a-new-board-after-failed-attempt-to-put-ceo-on-leave/

Heather Marsh is brilliant. She has a plan to rid the world of pedophile billionaires and steps to protect our children. Find her work and read it!!!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:545j3jvhcoa26c4433kfitaj/post/3mjcdwezmdk2v

I just need to get this out of my brain

For the past several days, “COVID conscious lesbian bar in western Massachusetts” has been playing on a loop in my head to the tune of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Maybe it’s like The Ring where I can pass the curse on to someone else and free myself

@ProPublica as son of the ##MostcorruptUSpresidentever nothing surprising here.

Reframing of the day:

💠 Wasting time - not a thing.

💠 Wasting attention - a big bad thing.

Wasting time is capitalist mindset, or rather mind game. As if we are human doings rather than human beings.

It’s been 7 months running my own #fedify powered #ActivityPub server
There are tons of improvements to make, if not an entire refactoring of the current codebase.

It works but there is quite a few quirks that make it unfit for general usage, unless you want to experiment :)

🔗 https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/09/26/a2fb7

@tante's article (below) argues that #LLM tech is #fascist.

I've long opposed LLM tech based on what it does (widespread harm) and come to see use as fascist based on those effects and the tendencies of those creating and benefiting from it, among several other factors. There are so many reasons to oppose it and to realise its direction.

From there I identify LLM use with silent genocide, and oppose it for that too obvs. You?

But it's worse than that as @tante shows:

https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

Here is how MAGA will steal the midterms:

1. Mike Johnson fires the current congressional clerk and replaces him with a Trump loyalist

2. Democrats elect, say, 220 certified representatives, and Republicans elect 215

3. This Trump loyalist clerk claims that 6 of those 220 Democrat elections are invalid due to suspected fraud

4. Mike Johnson refuses to seat 6 of the 220, until the suspected "fraud" can be investigated

5. This leaves the initial roll count 215 Republican to 214 Democrat, and only the members currently seated on the initial roll are allowed to vote for Speaker

6. Mike Johnson is re-elected elected as Speaker by those 215 Republicans

7. Now that they have the majority and the Speaker again, they have constitutional authority to judge those 6 disputed claims

8. They invalidate those 6 elections and seat Republicans instead by special appointment

9. MAGA keeps control of all levers of government

Notice that they don't need "proof" to make this happen. Only suspicion. Which they already have.

@cantences are you, a man, fr tryna explain mansplaining to a woman💔

@thomasfuchs Those angles tho!

I think there's a pretty annoying habit of mansplaining on the #OpenStreetMap forum. I've hadn't noticed it until now 'cause I'd never engaged in a long thread before, but damn. Men are explaining basic OSM principles to me like I haven't been a part of this project for over 4 years, linking to them multiple times too. Telling me I should read previous comments again "slowly", and insinuating that I just don't understand the topic at hand.

#OSM

Fridays for Israel? Warum nicht Tuesdays for Tel Aviv?

„Mark Rackles, SPD-Senator in Bremen und ehemals Staatssekretär in Berlin, ist deswegen die Hutschnur geplatzt.

In einem Wut-Posting auf Facebook bezeichnet er am Freitag die altgedienten Genossen, die sich gegen ein Linksbündnis in Berlin aussprechen, als

„Ahnengalerie des Abstiegs der Berliner SPD“.

Sie stünden für den „Ausverkauf der Stadt in den 90er-Jahren“ und die „vergeigte Wohnungsbaupolitik der 2000er“.“

https://taz.de/Trend-zum-Linksbuendnis-in-Berlin/!6215993/

I am discovering #Vernissage and I just created my account there.
I was surprised by the News section, which gives full transparency about donations and how the money was spent: https://vernissage.photos/news/7681636639113743034

Their discovery timeline is just beautiful! I was amazed.

A question for artists: why isn't Vernissage better known? Are there barriers I haven't noticed?

Catching up around the house today.
Taking a casserole dinner to the grandkids along with dessert later.
I have missed baking treats for family.
I hope they are in the mood for pumpkin pie.
#Baking

@catsalad Handy!

@thomasfuchs I think you're discovering a conflict among your principles, and those always suck.