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@troublewithwords I tried Calibre for awhile, but it had issues; much prefer Foliate.

This is cool.

The CIRA - the Canadian Internet Registry Authority, which manages .CA domains has offered up free Canadian stock images.

Their Canadian Stock Photo library is full of original, maple syrup-infused photography that is free to use and share! All they ask is that you credit CIRA/.CA domains whenever you use their photos and you are free to build as many websites, memes, and annual reports as you like. It also includes Indigeneous themed photos.

#Canada #ElbowsUp

https://www.cira.ca/en/stock-gallery/

Tennessee Plans to Rename Nashville Airport After Dolly Parton
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/tennessee-plans-rename-nashville-airport-dolly-parton-1235617767/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All News @all-news-RollingStone

Does anyone else frame feathers? A quick feelgood project: Preening feather found in the garden, leftover fabric and padding from a long-ago project, and a $5 5x7" IKEA frame. It'll go on one of my gallery walls when I find the right spot.

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!

I know this is a bit tmi, but I have a complicated relationship with clothes, and pants in particular. I found a pair of pants I get on with and literally don't buy any other kind. They are reasonably priced and comfortable. Everything fits in and doesn't move around too much (sorry for being sexy on the internet, but we've all got a bum - deal with it). However they do have a tendency to fall apart after a while. I will charitably say this is because I clean them fastidiously and not that my balls excrete acid somehow, like someone in my marriage who will remain anonymous has theorised. I therefore have to occasionally sadly say goodbye to my old friends, with whom I have shared many adventures. But I went through some Very Hard Times not that long ago and took to mending my pants (which for the interested, are exclusively black - that's just how I roll). And then I discovered I got a kick out of mending them with gold thread. And now I can't stop. And I imagine it's not terribly appealing to Mrs Bread to have a husband who refuses to throw away his old pants, but instead spends hours badly sewing them with the wrong colour thread. But the thing is.....a) she's not interested in me at the moment anyway, and b) my brain has decided it's like kintsugi. Whatever the pants version of kintsugi is. Pantsugi. And it means I rescue my old friends and we go on even more adventures, and they get a chance to live the second half of their life a little snazzier. Just me and my pants with their lil gold sparkle. Going running around town and getting into mischief. Anyway I've just done a bunch of sewing and it's made me strangely happy. And it's not like I never buy new pants. I did recently. And I got them from somewhere else. A trusted premium brand. And do you know how much they were? THIRTY POUNDS!!!!!!!!!! FOR PANTS!!!!!!!!!!! It should be a crime. The worst crime. Charging £30 for pants. And when they inevitably die, I will need to decide whether they deserve to be inducted into the Gold Club. Honestly I think they may not deserve it. I think they might be one and done. The audacity. Sometimes I read what I've written and genuinely wonder if I'm ok.

#FrancescaBria to #FattoQuotidiano:

"Designating #AutisticiInventati ( @cavallette ) [...] is part of the technological war that the United States is waging against anyone who asserts autonomy over digital networks and infrastructure"

[English, free]
https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/08/29/autistici-inventati-trump-terrorists-news/8491452/

Mataron a Juanín, pero no pudieron borrar su memoria: 70 años después aún hay flores donde cayó uno de los últimos maquis | Público

https://www.publico.es/politica/memoria-publica/mataron-juanin-pero-pudieron-borrar-memoria-70-anos-despues-aun-hay-flores-cayo-ultimos-maquis.html

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https://loops.video/starter-kits

#StarterKits #Loops #LoopsDev

There is a new documentary about Mary Oliver on PBS.

https://www.pbs.org/video/mary-oliver-saved-by-the-beauty-of-the-world-ljjirm/

#Film #Nature #Poetry #LGBTQ+

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/117177967045303503

And they claim the ice stone sport has no victims.

The cat is addicted to being curl'd

Ted Lasso is amazing, it's sweet and optimistic without being obnoxious, the main character's superpower is bringing out the best in other people, it has an emotional range that is exceedingly refreshing and wait a second you just made Steven Universe for adults didn't you

Did you know that you don't need to start #emacs in daemon mode before being able to use emacsclient?

That's what the -a / --alternate-editor option or the ALTERNATE_EDITOR environment variable are for. If set to the empty string, the client will start Emacs in daemon mode and then connect to it.

@pixelfed @frequency @gotosocial @admin @vernissage I remember monnett mentioning pixelfed in, one of their Instagram post

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@marcoarment @martimw Cadova produces 3D models from code, a bit like OpenSCAD, but Cadova uses Swift. It might be of interest. https://github.com/tomasf/Cadova

OH @piko: "Calvin Klein underwear"