so for context, my mom is scary and runs the family, and my dad was pretty scary in his day, but yeah lol

so I know that my mom would've convinced my dad to accept me, or she would leave him.

and it also doesn't hurt that I'm her favourite.

but yeah, having good parents is amazing. My partner's parents are amazing too, but they are way different lol.

@KeyJ Yes but compared to now...

Data Centers Now Consume 6% of US Electricity

"An estimated 13 percent of US cloud consumption, totaling more than 3 gigawatts, comes from so-called "zombie" workloads—abandoned test environments and unused applications that continue to draw power without doing any useful work."

https://singularityhub.com/2026/05/22/data-centers-now-consume-6-of-electricity-in-the-us-and-the-backlash-has-begun/

compete with instagram? crazy.
open source and federated, no vc? crazier.
let you migrate your whole account out? wild.
open api so anyone can build a better app? insane.

1 million+ people say crazy works.

there's room for you too ⬇️

https://pixelfed.org

@randahl

Marshmallow roasting, anyone?

@podfeet TBH my host Rocket.net does it for me on most of my sites.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116624298205781250

"Having good parents is just like the lottery You’re just like, “Oh my god, I won the lottery! What the -- I didn’t do anything!”"

So true, I was so worried about coming out to them, reached out to my high school bestie, and she even offered to stand beside me, despite like 10 years of distance.

She wasn't needed though, my parents and especially my mom, love me unconditionally, and the pressure they put on me, asking when I was giving them grandchildren suddenly disappeared.

Kitty!!!

#Caturday

@meljoann thank you! ❤️👾

'It's not a secret': Inside the town where people don't exist https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-22/ghost-communities-of-robinvale-where-people-dont-exist-in-census/106572538

@jaredwhite I don't want to be limited by the asahi thing, as cool as it is. Boring old Intel or AMD makes more sense when I want to distro-hop and mess around.

🔥🌞🔥

other than Eminem, i abhor white guy rap

A cartoon by Kevin Maher and Joe Dator for New Yorker Magazine.

@randahl I haven't seen anything like that (other than the loyalty cards mentioned by others), but have bookmarked the link to the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (formerly Department of Consumer Affairs) in case I do see it.

As to loyalty cards, I have them for two grocery stores near me and refuse to have any others, for reasons of data mining and excessive e-mail, texting, and long (couple-loaded) receipts.

@andrewnez Andrew, could you maybe take a look at https://depfu.com/blog/reasonably-up-to-date and tell me if you would consider that feature, which we shipped in 2019, to be reasonably similar to cooldowns?

And maybe that warrants at least a hint in the blog post?

@foss_events

Nette Leute beim #Maispace, habe mich über den Vortrag zum Robotron 1715 sehr gefreut.

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@cccp