@leah Yes and I know some more here, depending on the question. @Lux

- I'm not a medical specialist, want me operate you?
- Hell nah.
- I'm not a construction professional, want to live in a house I built?
- Hell nah.
- I'm not a programmer, want my code in your kernel?
- Fuck yeah, keep it coming my dude!

Kinder vermissten im Zeltlager nicht ihr Handy. Auf 150 Feedback-Zetteln kam dieses Wort nie vor.

Unruhig wurden die Eltern: zu wenig Fotos auf Instagram, die zeigen, wie es den Kleinen geht.

Wie die Kinder das erleben, hat Bent Freiwald herausgefunden:
https://krautreporter.de/kinder-und-bildung/6513-es-ist-gut-wenn-eltern-nicht-immer-wissen-wie-es-ihren-kindern-geht?shared=82577b48-1765-4dea-928b-a497250a89dd&utm_campaign=share-url&utm_medium=social-media&utm_source=mastodon.social

Salamina, Greece
A firefighter walks towards a house engulfed by flames during a wildfire on the island. Wildfires are projected to burn 39% more of Europe by the end of the century even in the best-case scenario for stopping the planet from heating, a study has found, unless action is taken to manage them better.

Photograph: Michael Varaklas/AP

#photography
#wildfires
#Greece

“The El Nino has blossomed. It is off the charts. Usual measures of El Nino have blown past prior record levels in the period with good data, even though maximum effects are still several months in the future”

https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2026/The.Bigger.Problem.2026.08.21.pdf

You’ve heard of slowly boiling frogs? We’re doing the boiling. And we’re the frogs.

sponsor list from hell

https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/

@_elena the ups and downs of a busy evangelist 😁

I wish more magicians were politically engaged, because pranking Flock cameras with alarming illusions that waste police resources to investigate and generate viral media headlines - thus revealing the growing extent of state and corporate surveillance - sounds like good trouble, to me.

@jpm awkward

@Lux vielleicht @fuzzyleapfrog ?

@randahl there is absolutely no reason to use a humanoid robot in a battlefield. There are more versatile form factors, such as drones.
And they are already in use in the battlefield.

@CCC

Lese gerade einen Bericht über Menschen in den USA, die Flock-Kameras zerstören weil es in der Bevölkerung wohl angekommen ist, daß Überwachung die Freiheit einschränkt ohne die Sicherheit zu verbessern. Selbst die Polizei hat den Denkfehler erkannt.
Mal sehen wie lange es bei uns dauert.

I also forgot to post a photo of the magnificent view of a walk I did a few weeks ago next to #Balquhidder, the "Creag-an-tuirc" viewpoint
https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/lochlomond/creag-an-tuirc.shtml

#HikingScotland #Scotland
(Taken with the wide angle camera of my Fairphone)

@benjamineskola @benlockwood I think free pass might be a strong wording, but I'm sure that misogyny and sexism will play into it. Certainly enough for her to point to evidence to support her claim.

I'd love it if she (or her LLM) made a list of former writers for me to ignore

Beep Boop: Alien hates doing #selfPromo so made a bot to do it instead!

I sell all sorts of neat digital items like #knitting & #crossStitch patterns, #coloring books, & more over on Ko-fi:
https://ko-fi.com/alien_sunset/shop

check out https://alien-sunset.neocities.org for all the cool things I do!

Prompted by the MacStories Nazi pub crawl I’ve gone and verified that another prominent iOS creator was still active on Twitter, and unfollowed. Pretty obvious in hindsight, because all their posts here were promotional. They’re actually pretty easy to spot by their marketing crossposts.

There are reasons for not adding image descriptions. A lack of time is not one of them.

I accept people who are honest about their reasons. But not bullshit