Detox Doodles!

These animals are from my 100-day journey to swap scrolling for sketching: https://www.joyousjoyness.com/pages/detox-doodles

This page is all about owls, who are surprisingly expressive!

#art #owls #sketch #DetoxDoodles #inkart #sciart

@TheBreadmonkey @JackTheCat @TheEddieShow @nixanadoo

I know what you mean, but when I see Pete Tong doing "Ibiza Classics" with an orchestra at the O2 I know that even an imagination as dark as mine could not have dreamt it up.

Looking with a huge side eye at the ableism in the idea that your activism only counts if you're physically taking the part all the time.

I'll be IRL when gatherings have a robust public health policy and consider masking as part of solidarity.

Activism by it's nature is performative. That's the point of it.

Community work is labour, regardless of how public or private it is.

But it does tell me who wants us to be quiet. Who doesn't wonder who disappeared and why.

#CovidIsNotOver

VENERDÌ 4 SETTEMBRE ORE 20:00 CDP (Teramo) - AUTODIFESA DIGITALE: CASI REALI E CONTROMISURE PRATICHE

Partendo da casi giudiziari reali e recenti (Operazione Diana, Sismi, Scintilla e altre), il talk mostra le tecniche di sorveglianza digitale effettivamente usate nelle indagini: estrazione forense degli smartphone, intercettazioni telematiche e spyware, tabulati e localizzazione tramite celle, richieste di dati a Google, Meta e ai provider, analisi dei metadati.

Per ogni tecnica vedremo le contromisure pratiche e accessibili a tutte e tutti: come proteggere il proprio telefono, quali app di messaggistica usare (e quali evitare), come navigare in modo anonimo con Tor e VPN, quali provider scelgono di non collaborare, e come comportarsi in caso di sequestro o "preview" del dispositivo.

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I have decided to shut down my #mastodon instance, and all my public facing web services.

This will happen in 3 months time, on November 29, 2026, to allow everyone to backup and migrate.

The reason for this is that I can no longer trust:

- the #Linux kernel
- #Debian
- rails
- most #Foss projects

Additionally, I'm basically out of storage, it is unaffordable to purchase more, and no one is interested in donating to help.

Our bastion of free computing has been poisoned by fascist gen ai slop, and basically NONE of it can be trusted anymore.

It's impossible to vet slop from an ecosystem that is welcoming of it.

This makes it nearly impossible to update my systems, which makes it harder to pretend it's even remotely secure.

I'm fucking devestated - gutted by what has happened to computing, and I just do not have the resources to keep fighting.

Fuck all you #LLM boosters into the sun. May you learn the folly of your way and DO SOMETHING TO FIX IT!

In modo assolutamente unilaterlare e giacobino smetterò di seguire chi usa mastondo.uno ed (ammesso che riesca) lo elminerò da chi mi segue. Il motivo è che la cricca degli admin che fa capo a Devol è composta da merde (cosa nota ma che da oggi per me è un discrimine) * perché il fediverso è pieno di servizi gestiti da soggetti migliori, migrare è una possibilità che mi dicono essere facile quindi chi usa un servizio gestito da merde non si merita un secondo della mia attenzione tanto meno dei miei rari bit.

Se credete fate un RT e magari optate anche voi per un passagio di ghigliottina, perché ricordate che la merda digitale è tale ovvero non fa nemmeno cresce i fiori!

Even newer blogpost:

# Automating local backups of UniFi OS Server on Linux with uos-backup

Fixing the gaps left by Ubiquiti with python and systemd.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/08/automating-local-backups-of-unifi-os-server-on-linux-with-uos-backup/

#unifi #selfhosting #Linux

Tamagotchi is back and it's subscription-based

@gedankenstuecke would be interesting to check the access logs for hits on

https://www.openstreetmap.org/llms.txt
https://www.openstreetmap.org/llms-full.txt

and see if that could be a place to teach the ai agents about these things? https://llmstxt.org

#silentsaturday

📍George H. Sparks Reservoir, GA

#dog #dogs #DogsOfMastodon #AdoptDontShop #rescuedog #photography #FujiFilm #park #lake #morning #fog #birds #ducks

i think linux as an entire whole is undergoing a hostile occupation

*Kolektiva Statement in Solidarity with Autistici / Inventati*

In the face of the US Treasury and State Department's recent designation of the Autistici / Inventati collective as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity, Kolektiva declares our full, unequivocal support to our Italian comrades, and to all those who seek to protect our movements from the clutches of states, surveillance capitalists, and other agents of social control.

Today, as we bear witness to the rise of authoritarian and fascist regimes all around the world, supporting independent and autonomous digital infrastructure has become more important than ever. Anarchist, anti-authoritarian and autonomous movements have centuries of experience fighting and resisting state repression, whatever scope, shape or tactic it has assumed. Today is just another of those moments.

Yet despite the many ways that the State's attacks have adapted and evolved over the years, one thing remains the same: the most effective resistance has always been rooted in collective and international solidarity! Our networks are deep and wide. We're always two or three people away from being in contact with any collective anywhere in the world. And that's where our strength lies.

This is a call for material and practical solidarity with the fantastic people from Autistici / Inventati, but it is also a broader call for political groups and collectives to redouble our efforts to build resilient networks of autonomous infrastructure, and to properly maintain and support them over time.

We need to be creative. Even if we don't all have the specific technical skills to code or maintain network infrastructure, the time to volunteer as a moderator, or the money to help cover operating costs, we probably have the skills to throw a party, a music festival, or a community BBQ to raise money and build support for an autonomous tech project that we rely on.

Each of us must take care to avoid the pitfalls of disillusionment and complacency. We must remember that even where there's a calm between storms, we remain at war with the life-destroying logic of capitalism and the states that uphold it. And as long as we resist exploitation, oppression, and the destruction of the world that gives us life, those states will seek to crush us. So we need to be prepared.

We strongly encourage all those who see the value in building and maintaining autonomous tech infrastructure to provide whatever material support you can to those collectives who find themselves in the State's crosshairs today - such as Autistici / Inventati - or those other tech collectives who may be in their crosshairs tomorrow.

As we wait to learn the best ways to help Austici / Inventati in their fight against the Trump regime's efforts to isolate them and cut them off from networks of financial and material support, we would hope that comrades around the world take this opportunity as a reminder to support the other tech collectives that exert so much (often voluntary) effort to help keep our movements safe.

AnarchyPlanet
https://anarchyplanet.org/donate.html

Disroot
https://disroot.org/donate

ESPIV.NET
https://espiv.net/

Kolektiva
https://kolektiva.info/donate

P.U.S.C.I.I
https://www.puscii.nl

Riseup
https://riseup.net/en/donate

Sindominio
https://sindominio.net/apoyo/

Systemli
https://www.systemli.org/en/support-us/

@david_chisnall I noteit happening, from time to time, but I think it's just our personal confirm bias.

At the same time, we find shocking (again for the same bias) that some project we love or depend upon has been founded or supported by people misbehaving somewhere else.

When the second case happens, I take distance from the project, if my support may collaterally affect the bad behavior (like providing money for a legal activity, that indirectly favors a criminal one).

One year ago today I posted this Invisible Man photo I created using real lighting, figures and miniature sets.

#theinvisibleman #creativephotography #photography #miniatures #miniaturephotography #actionfigurephotography #visualart #toyphotography #photographicart #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #movies #universalmonsters

Tonight at 6pm we're capping off a busy day with a mini zine workshop from Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett, creators of "Trans History, A Graphic Novel"! Participants will leave with a completed mini-zine ready for small press shows, portfolios, and trading with friends. Alex and Andrew will also be signing copies of their essential introduction to trans history, available today at a special price.

"Trans History, A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day" is deeply researched, highly readable, and features a broad range of voices. Moving, funny, heartbreaking, and empowering, this remarkable compendium is packed with research on every dynamic page. Learn more at https://firestorm.coop/events/3660-book-signing-and-mini-zine-workshop.html.

#ZineMaking #TransHistory #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

If you're wondering why a particular post is in your main timeline on Mastodon, here's a guide all about this topic:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/why-is-a-post-appearing-in-my-mastodon-timeline-i-dont-understand-how-it-got-there

I've tried to answer questions people have about this topic, let me know if I've missed your question.

#FediTips #Mastodon

Imagine being forced to stay at home, and not having anything to do.

It was either get back into coding, or learn to make music.

A decade and a half later, I miss Komplete and FL.

I don't miss Flash though, thank you Steve.