@mylesw Great!

Happy tinkering. I look forward to hearing how you get on.

@mastodonmigration Oh it must be true, now that a Google app says so. Just remember, it only says that within the U.S. or from a U.S. IP. the rest of us, well it's still the good old Lake Ontario, and if Google should try to change that, well Google gets the heave ho not the lake.

Investigative journalism outlet @apache.be@bsky.brid.gy , who were the first to discuss the topic of race science in Ghent, have translated their main articles to English apache.be/2026/03/05/s... /1

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@kookie next week on Peripheral City, the gang are up in arms when an old PS/2 mouse returns looking to reconnect.

@janwlrvn @ptrbck.bsky.social oh great to find you on here too

You can, of course, find my guide here: https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/117159247921628565

@microniko C'était pas cité comme explication. La densité de personnes suffit à augmenter la saleté globale d'un endroit, même à nettoyage égal avec d'autres lieux.

something it took me a very long time to figure out, like, embarrassingly long, since the way they teach you about it at school avoids this uncomfortable part, is that 'peaceful protest' is fundamentally a threat of violence. people out in the streets holding objects, currently placards, imply later they might be holding something else. it is called a 'demonstration', in the same way that testing a nuclear weapon is a demonstration, it is deterrence through communication of capability and intent

🆕 blog! “ActivityBot is the recipient of an NLnet grant!”

Back in February, I applied for NLnet's Next Generation Zero grant. They were looking for Fediverse projects to help rewild the social media landscape. Or, as they describe it:

Reclaim the public nature of the internet

Small and medium-sized R&D grants between 5.000 and 50.000 euro,…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/activitybot-is-the-recipient-of-an-nlnet-grant/
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#ActivityBot #ActivityPub #fediverse #NLnet

part of the reason that old people will line up to get arrested at protests is they're retired so they don't fear a criminal record. but i think maybe another part of it is like, once you're old, authority is no longer a bunch of grownups who have power over you, most if not all of the people arresting you, trying you, sentencing you, and so on, are younger than you are. so, if you're old, you can look down your nose at them, perhaps rightly, as a bunch of stupid babies who don't know anything

Google has now renamed Lake Ontario for US users. They don’t even show the real name in brackets.

I used a VPN to compare: Apple hasn’t renamed it (at least not yet), nor has Dutch service Here WeGo or OpenStreetMap.

Yet another reason to ditch Google, and US tech more broadly.

#tech #lakeontario #canada #cdnpoli #tariffs #digitalsovereignty

Arriving to the International Aerosol Conference in Xi'an. Looking forward to the exciting talks that are planned and to fruitful discussions with my peers 🧑‍🔬
#IAC2026

#OtD 30 Aug 1917 striking horse driver Merv Flanagan was killed by a scab in Camperdown, Australia, during the general strike. When Flanagan saw the scab pointing a gun at his fellow strikers, he tackled the gunman, but was shot and killed https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10264/merv-flanagan-murdered

@kestral Will the community drama never end? 💔

You’re probably going to hear Democrats using the words “corrupt” and “corruption” a lot before the midterms.

It’s a powerful campaign strategy with a long history.
https://theconversation.com/why-democrats-are-amplifying-corruption-talk-a-historical-strategy-for-parties-out-of-power-289463

What's that old saying again, 'Write high, edit drunk?' 😜😂 Then again I've never written a sonnet 😁

@galacticwriters @bookstodon @joinin
@writingbooks @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#WritingMemes #Meme #Humor #Humour #Geek
#Author #IndieAuthor #Indie #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon

I have had an ill-advised idea for an adventure, but it will require planning. I recall someone here posting a tool for planning trips with a Deutschlandticket but, of course, I didn’t bookmark it.

Any recommendations for such a tool?

When you confront people who have on spy glasses with cameras in them to ask if they are recording you or your children it's incredibly effective at getting them to put them away.

It's mostly possible to tell if someone is using a phone or a camera to record something, even from a distance.

Wearables are trying to make a new permission structure where you might not know what is being recorded.

Spy cameras have existed for decades and they have always been creepy.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hrbrmstr/117184456977586455

it’s time to throw some coins to #OpenStreetMaps #CoMaps and #OrganicMaps