how to read articles in 2026:

1. click a link, article loads
2. scroll to the bottom of the page
3. if there is a popup prompting you to pay/register/sell-your-soul to continue - go to 3a, if there is no such popup go to 3b

3a. close the page
4a. done

3b. read the article
4b. done

Very few things are more perverted than making me think your article is not paywalled. You know who you are - making me read 3/4ths of your exposé, convincing me that's way too much text for you to crop it off now and ask me to pay - WRONG! PAY UP! YOU ALREADY READ THIS MUCH, SURELY YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW IT ENDS!

I'm not falling for it again, and neither should any of you.

#serpico #tutorial

@gert @ChrisMayLA6 I hope that you don't. It sucks to be an American right now, especially am American who doesn't like the current regime. 🙄

Das nenne ich mal Resozialisierung.
"Sascha Gläser tritt als Direktkandidat für die AfD bei der Landtagswahl in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern an. Der Rostocker wurde 2013 wegen schwerer räuberischer Erpressung zu zwei Jahren und sechs Monaten Haft verurteilt."

https://www.katapult-magazin.de/de/artikel/afd-kandidat-wegen-schwerer-raeuberischer-erpressung-verurteilt

@catsalad ❤️

Hace unos años la diputación sacó a concurso el servicio de cuidado a personas mayores dependientes de mi zona y lo ganó una de las muchas empresas que tiene el mafioso ese que preside el Real Madrid (Florentino Pérez), pujando muy a la baja. Hasta entonces lo llevaba una cooperativa que tenía personal cualificado y con sueldos dignos. La cooperativa se tuvo que disolver a cambio de que la nueva empresa absorbiera gran parte de la plantilla. En estos años tanto las condiciones de trabajo como el servicio a los usuarios han caído en picado. Es una vergüenza que se juegue así con este tipo de servicios en los que entra en juego el bienestar de personas que no se pueden valer por si mismas.

Empresa: Serveo o como se llame ahora

I’ve got the perfect bag with me for Dobrindt’s illegal border controls

In regards to this, I must confess how often I forget how complicated screen readers are to maintain and set up and learn. I know how to get speech synthesizers that suit my needs, but you need to be in the community in order to know this information. I can hear other blind people saying, well, just use a screen reader, but in truth, screen readers are not easy to use nor easy to configure. AI ruined some of my most precious accessibility tools. – Strayblog https://straybun.bearblog.dev/blog/2026/ai-ruined-accessibility/ #Accessibility #Disability #AI #LLM

Manuel Moreno Maya el Pele con Niño Seve. Es el #FlamencoOnFire en el balcón del ayuntamiento de Pamplona.

@chris I'm based in the UK, not the EU.

@davidgerard there is no bad weather, only bad clothing (;

But yes, winters are hard because of the neuropathy in my hands. Hello lasting side effects from CapOx-B: thanks to it and I'm still there and glad to be.

Just saying.

@Edent
Sidenote for anyone in the US: Curve is EU-only

Happy birthday @jon 🎈 May your day contain at least one piece of cake 🍰 and / or positive vibes ✌️

#Birthday #Birthdays

@TheBreadmonkey Christopher Lee released his first metal album at 88 and it was a banger.

#Uganda's King Oyo: World's youngest reigning traditional monarch dies aged 34
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j38d9v40po

@davidgerard @cstross

FFS. Reading you 2 in the context of my tiny heart scare 18mth ago makes me even more grateful to teenaged Liam going vegetarian 45 years so. The docs described me as "very active" (!!) and told me my circulatory system was in very good health for my age and weight.

I nearly passed out just from the shock.

@catsalad@infosec.exchange