@NatureMC at least it will be human, with some kind of soul in it. Might not be high art but it will still beat the generic stolen slop that gets generated
'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_
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Found this new spray paint art and I LOVE it 😭💜
It’s giving Frida Kahlo meets Bart Simpson 😂🌺
I saw the name and immediately thought WAIT I KNOW THAT 👀
I studied visual art at TAFE when I was about 19 and remember learning about Duchamp and his urinal artwork, and how he really challenged what we even think of as art.
It’s funny what random things your brain holds onto 😅
And now I’m standing here looking at this Frida/Bart chaos and thinking about all the weird and wonderful ways people have found to express themselves through art. 💜
Nizar Kerkeni 🇹🇳 نزار القرقني
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The United States is taking aim at Canada once again, with a crushing new set of tariffs.
Ultimately, government will need to solve this. But in the same way Canadians are avoiding US alcohol, produce, and other goods, they should get off US tech products too.
Luckily, I have a guide for that.
https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/
#tech #cdnpoli #cdntech #politics #digitalsovereignty #tariffs
@parismarx Nextcloud could go into every category on your list, as a long time user I'm still surprised how much it does, hell there's a D&D plugin now.
Nextcloud is harder to set up than many users will admit. Pikapods(Malta) micro hosting company that will let you one click deploy Nextcloud for less than I paid for a latte near Rogers stadium.
Also, if you have a Google Pixel, GrapheneOS is a Canadian foss project. The only OS the US alphabet boys can't crack is from Ontario.
Elbows up
radio free fedi
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#NHAMFest26 a global distributed streaming festival in parade (raid) format celebrating creative humans and cool hangouts. It's on 26-28 August!
Free to attend in your browser or media player. The venues are community and artist run and chat moderated!
Full schedule is at https://fest.nham.co.uk
Each event will announce the next stop and this account will post each event at -10 minutes.
Bound to be something to discover, delight and surprise in this wildly talented and eclectic lineup:
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Dan(iel) Ritz(enthaler)
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One of the environments I drew for the incredible show #ScavengersReign
The main reason why I think Swift on the server will never be a happy path is:
*** Signal 11: Backtracing from 0xaaaae7c21704... done ***
*** Program crashed: Bad pointer dereference at 0x0000000000000050 ***
One wrong turn during a request and boom... there is no way around a full process crash. Or trying to layer some SIGTRAP magic but it's not something you can recover from (e.g. to wait for jobs / ongoing requests etc to finish).
Scientists May Have Figured Out Why Dead Brains Don't Always Rot https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/26/0626223/scientists-may-have-figured-out-why-dead-brains-dont-always-rot?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Beschwerde gegen Datenanalyse, die Polizei-Datenbanken zusammenführt: Kein «Minority Report» in Zürich! https://www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/2026/08/24/minority-report-in-zuerich-beschwerde-gegen-das-neue-polizeigesetz-beschwerde-bundesgericht/
Sudden cleaning stream with Cyan??? Our office is a mess!!!!!!!
#NHAMFest26 kicks off in hours! Are you amped?
Today is the watch party block with a debut custom long episode of Animation Array! Followed by movie night with RetroStrangeTV starting 1900 UTC.
All times, venues, presentation descriptions and artist info are on the fest site https://fest.nham.co.uk and in post for here https://musician.social/@radiofreefedi/117155818565241065
Plenty of chances to drop in, discover rad artists, enjoy some great music and media together quietly or in chat.
Support creative humans and have fun.
My "Artists of Mastodon" collection is finally ready to be shared. Please peruse if you want to fill your home feed with art.
@Gargron nice :)
Here are some more @kplx @grickle @ralphruthe @BenteliciousArt tbc
No, it's not. You do realize that statistics is a subject you can study, right?
"In July, research by Greenpeace UK found that 2.87bn litres of water, enough to fill 1,150 Olympic-sized swimming pools, are lost from leaky pipes in England and Wales every day. "
But sure, let's launch propaganda campaigns telling Muslims to use less water for _wudu_ and Asians to rinse their rice less.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-government-advises-muslims-use-less-water-perform-ablutions
There are 1800 golf courses in the uk which waste more than 1b litres of water annually for rich people entertainment.
Beardy Star Stuff 🌹🏴🇵🇸
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They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/25/gammamax/#felony-contempt-of-business-model
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U.S. President Donald Trump's fossil fuel agenda will result in the loss of $700 billion in clean energy investments over the next decade while doubling the power sector's climate footprint, according to an analysis. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2026/08/26/climate-change/trump-double-carbon-emissions-2035/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #us #donaldtrump #republicans #energy #carbon #emissions #fossilfuels #environment
A story in two pictures:
An article from Euractiv from July stating "Von der Leyen is expected to use her annual State of the Union speech to unveil plans for EU-wide age restrictions on social media". And then a pic of a W Social post announcing the live-stream of the EC state of the Union speech.
This is precisely why I keep speaking up about #WSocial:
We are at a dangerous turning point when it comes to online privacy and it seems that the European Commission has chosen this network because of its built-in age verification.
Truth is: even if their PDS hosts 28k accounts, only 2612 people (as of this morning) have ever published a single post or reply on W.
Their #WIdentity app is so broken, it has mostly one-star ratings on Google Play Store (yes, you read it right, the network of European digital sovereignty requires an app from Google or Apple to verify one's identity).
Most egregiously, W Social does NOT do any content moderation to rein in hate speech. I find daily examples of racist, transphobic and xenophobic posts that are simply allowed. Thankfully on the ATmosphere, people can subscribe to Bluesky, Blacksky or Northsky labelers to hide hate speech. W Social leaders believe in "free speech absolutism" and keep saying that everyone is welcome. Alice Weidel of AfD too, by the way.
I thought W Social would be in violation of the DSA for allowing these messages to stay up, but apparently they are too small of a platform for this rule to apply.
Lately W Social leaders and power users have defined fact-based criticism as "disinformation" and targeted harassment: https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01M0SDV98GRDWQNFF9VHVT9J18
I'm ok with being called a liar and a bully, if my screenshots and video captures of hate speech on the platform can help bring light to this problem.
So be warned, there may be bad news coming at the EC State of the Union in September.
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@elena I've never heard about this W Social before. Apart from these weak points that you highlighted, who is behind it? Another private company? Is it open source at least? Does it use the same protocol of the Fediverse (ActivityPub, AFAICR)?
@laubblaeser Fleischfutter im Wert von 4,3 Milliarden Euro jährlich ist kein Klacks, und flächendeckende Störungen von Wildtieren in der Landschaft auch nicht.
@christianschwaegerl Dafür braucht es kein Haustierverbot, sondern Kontrolle und Durchsetzung der bestehenden Gesetze. Das generelle Verbot wäre ein Hammer, den es hier nicht braucht.
Und bezüglich des Futters sehe ich keinen relevanten Zusammenhang der Futterkosten für Haustiere (= Luxusgut) mit den ökologischen Auswirkungen der Futtergewinnung. Signifikant fleischreduzierte Ernährung oder Umstellung auf andere Proteinquellen ist auch für Hunde möglich, aber kaum bekannt. Da geht noch mehr.
d@nny disc@
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Pokemon - Season 1 Episode 64 - Its Mr. Mimie Time
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