Building Loops from scratch last fall has given me a lot of insight into how I can refactor Pixelfed to be less complex, more stable and how to implement a much more powerful ActivityPub/federation layer.

Pixelfed was my first laravel project. I've written hundreds more since then (mostly for work), and am much more skilled across the stack.

I can't wait to make Pixelfed easier to install, maintain and update, with better federation and APIs using much less resources!

🚀

Trump has already put 26 percent tariffs on European steel and aluminum, and he is now adding a 25 percent tariff on European cars and car parts.

I believe, this will continue until Canada, the UK, and the EU introduces a musketeer oath (one for all), so when Trump hits one of us with tariffs, we all hit back with the exact same tariffs.

If Trump knew, that his 25 percent car tariffs would immediately result in the same tariffs on US car exports to Canada, UK, and EU, he would not even try.

🍳 Free Range Eggxaggeration — By WOSKerski in London, England 🇬🇧

This Feels Very British (14 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2026/05/02/street-art-and-murals-in-britain/

@infobeautiful excepts it's wrong. Check Portugal for example.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@paco/116504499864795870

Richard Dawkins, looking at a high-definition large-screen TV:

"If this is not a window, what more could it possibly take to convince you it is a window?"

@hipsterelectron @ctrl @hazel I like your point tho.
We shouldn't let AI take more away from us.

Mrs B doesn't go out, out very often and may never again after last night 😂.

Her and the Eldest went to a small day/night festival in a club in London. Everyone in there was about 30 years younger than her. It was largely quite dark and so she didn't really feel self conscious.

There were only two cubicles for the ladies toilets so there was a queue, naturally. Mrs B queued up behind a gaggle of young ladies and noted one got a hairbrush out of her bag and started using it, her friends were all touching up their make up (Mrs B is not a girly girl, she's never worn make up and would never take a hairbrush on a night out, so was amused by this a bit, the contrast between them).

It was hot and sweaty so she went to tie her hair up and accidentally nudged the girl with the hairbrush, very lightly. "I'm so sorry" she said and 3 girls all swung round to face her. The following conversation ensued;

Girl 1: Oh that's quite alright.
Mrs B: Thanks.
Girl 2: We've been watching you.
Mrs B: Err, OK.
Girl 1: You're iconic!
Girl 2: You're effortlessly stylish, you look amazing.
Mrs B: Err, thanks?

They were not taking the piss and were genuinely excited to get to talk to her. "You're never 54, we thought you were like 40" and this gem "what's your skincare routine?". Reader, she has never had a skincare routine.

They were very sweet young ladies but Mrs B said it was the longest 10 minutes of her life 😂

@greenpeace I signed and sent 😊

@NanoRaptor There are probably a lot of them. How would I know?

„BND und Verfassungsschutz verdienen eine bessere Ausrüstung – technisch, finanziell, personell. Sie brauchen auch mehr Befugnisse.“

Der 'linke' Grüne Parteivorsitzende Banaszak. Crazy Shit.

Sicherheit in Deutschland: Grüne fordern Polizei und Nachrichtendienst-Stärkung
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/sicherheit-demokratie-deutschland-gruene-herausforderungen-li.3469022

Big Day in #Baltimore! Kinetic Sculpture race from 9-7 pm AND Flower Mart!

Favorite Kinetic Sculpture Race prize categories:

"Worst Honorable Mention:
Lowest Award known to Humankind. This is given to the Sculpture whose half-baked theoretical 'engineering' did not deter its Pilot(s) from the challenge of the race."

Also one for "most memorable breakdown," "most interesting water entry," and the Grand Mediocre Champion is the top prize

https://www.kineticbaltimore.com/

#art #bikes #sculpture

Caturday 😽🩷.
#Cats #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

@hipsterelectron wait what????!

@ctrl @meluzzy @hazel not concerned about that but i belatedly realized i was not invited to this convo and i will now exit i'm sorry to bother

Any sufficiently advanced project management platform is indistinguishable from chaos

It's ironic to see those same global elites who love partying with the likes of known & convicted child sex-trafficker Jeffrey #Epstein now urging worldwide restrictions on E2E / #VPN & promoting age, biometric, and identity verification online - all in the name of protecting children

It’s also highly suspicious that so many of the world’s biggest countries
are trying to implement this wider #internet control at the same time.

Feels like a major push toward #authoritarianism to me.

#Privacy

"We are not getting richer. We are spending down a natural inheritance accumulated over geological time, entering the draw-down in the growth column, and refusing to note the corresponding reduction in assets. The net position is deteriorating, and the growth figure is a fiction. Selling one's mother's saris and calling the proceeds a salary is a known indicator of household ruin; we are doing it at planetary scale and printing the receipts as quarterly results."

https://dailypioneer.com/news/the-bill-the-planet-has-been-paying-for-you-the-bill-the-planet-has-been-paying-for-you

Remember, it's rich and powerful child molesters who want your every keystroke on your computer logged and monitored.

the previous pope died yea!!! not the only thing that could’ve fit in trans person using their full name and how great their trains are than actually showing useful information