Are you a creative type? How stencils are used to create street art. Instructions in the alt text. #StreetArt #stencil #DYI #creative #activism #art #spreadart #resist #fyp

If you are cooler than your moist surroundings you may be entitled to condensation.

MIT student exposed to Dimethyl Mercury (rumoured to have synthesized it himself and took it to a lab meeting, whereupon there was a spill).

NB: DMM is pretty much the benchmark for nerve agent toxicity. See also Karen Wetterhahn's entry on wikipedia if you want to know more. (This is the organic chemistry equivalent of building your own "demon core".)

EDIT: recent update offers some hope: https://bsky.app/profile/brachinus.bsky.social/post/3muapa7rm6k2g

@johnlogic @faraiwe @cstross time for an update to the incidents section of the Wikipedia page for DMM?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylmercury

So... I was working on preparing forge.cloudsling.dev to open to the public, to start hosting #FLOSS projects for free, away from Github and other tech overlords...

Well, it will take some more time than I wanted. Our services have been down for around 1h because of a bots avalanche that have been scrapping all they could.

Now, the "attack" continues:
CPU usage above 80% of total capacity.
Outbound traffic at 3MiBps... when we only have 15 registered users, and only me is looser enough to be touching that on a weekend.

Shutting down the servers for the rest of this weekend... 💔

#FuckAI #Fuck_AI

@blogdiva Both Free Software and Open Source Software are rooted in Individual rights.

The dev put the code up with no guarantees and its freely available. The user can download it, study it and add to it, depending on the licence they must then make those changes available.

But that's the free speech part. Consent and that Freedom of Association in safety doesn't factor in. But that's unofficially covered by community norms and frankly some norms don't consider consent.

The idea of "falling behind" by not going all-in on a specific technology is a marketing ploy used to create artificial urgency. It's not a fact. If you don't walk down one path you walk down another path. Both have unknown outcomes.

The claim of "falling behind" is the wording that should deter you from that path. In essence it is trying to force a future on you that is beneficial to a specific agent, often out of commercial interest. The claim does not invite you to reflect on your own, or your community’s, needs and wishes.

Artificial urgency is an enemy to independent, thoughtful progress.

@Moepmoep @Erdrandbewohner das problem ist das die crawler an den leichteren tests easy vorbeikommen, daher ist aktuell diese challenge für alle drin. ich versuche es die tage noch anzupassen und hoffe das es nicht zu stressig wird… zumindest ich habe das bisher kaum getriggert

(was meinst du mit den 80%?)

Being fond of reading back through old Byte magazines (and running several period machines) I always wondered about Sphere Corp, who were prolific advertisers and offered a machine seemingly well ahead of its time. Lo and behold, Ben Zotto’s written a book about Sphere that answered many questions about this early microcomputer’s history and legacy. Highly recommended!

@Gargron Great track - love the guitar tone. It's made me dig out Blood Mountain - I'm going to give it a spin

@apps
If they do, I don't know where to find it. I'll poke around and see if any of their options might have it.

This #Summer has truly revealed the scale of the #ClimateCrisis. Right now we are in the small lull between the moment when the climate crisis starts destroying lives, and the moment that citizens realise that governments have chosen to "adapt to climate change", meaning this suffering will become the norm.

I suspect we are severely underestimating the anger people will feel when they find out their governments have abandoned them to this nightmare.

#ClimateChange

@blogdiva I suspect we're always going to have that consent issue when we consider individual rights (BDFL) over communal rights.

The code is free speech, but how our code impacts others will hit Human Rights (communal rights), which is what consent is our freedom of association in safety.

When you consider the bigger impact our code and corporations have, it hits the other human rights, shelter, etc.

@faraiwe @cstross

Link around paywall to Boston Globe:

"MIT student hospitalized after being exposed to dimethyl mercury, city of Cambridge says"

By Laura Crimaldi
Updated August 29, 2026

https://archive.ph/mVMIY

Hallo zusammen!
Kennt ihr jemanden, der jemanden kennt, der …. ein Zimmer in #Heidelberg zu vermieten hat??
Die Enkelin einer Freundin hat einen Studienplatz in #Heidelberg bekommen und sucht nun ab 1. Oktober (oder auch früher) ein Zimmer zur Miete bis max. 500€ warm.
Ich streu das jetzt mal ganz breit und hoffe auf positive Rückmeldungen!

#FediHelp #FediEltern #WohnungSuche

This event is for everyone! Whether you are a new or existing volunteer, come and learn more about the campaign, hear from your Green candidate Lan Pham MP, and have dinner with us. 

We look forward to seeing you there! 

RSVP:
https://www.greens.org.nz/ken_vr_260912

#forallofus #partyvotegreen

Aus dieser Runde lässt sich viel über den Erfolg der AfD lernen. "Der Migrant" wird von allen Teilnehmern inklusive den Moderatoren nur auf ihre Wirtschaftlichkeit beschränkt. Ist er Fachkraft oder Kostenfaktor. Zahlt er ein oder bezieht er. Die Frage, ob er ein Mensch ist, kommt nicht vor.

Das ist die eigentliche Kapitulation. Nicht die AfD gewinnt hier den Diskurs, die anderen bereiten ihr das Feld. Wenn ein Mensch nur noch als Bilanzposten verhandelt wird, hat die extreme Rechte die Sprache bereits erobert, lange bevor sie die Mehrheit erobert hat. Der öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk moderiert diese Verengung nicht neutral, er vollzieht sie. Jede Frage nach "was bringt uns das" ist eine Frage, die den Menschen zur Ressource macht. Und eine Ressource kann man rationieren, sortieren, abweisen. Genau dafür braucht die AfD am Ende gar keine eigene Mehrheit mehr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDKWnwYryb0

#depol #ÖRR #SachsenAnhalt #afd