I was entertained today by watching a hawk try unsuccessfully to hunt a squirrel. With all the bad crap happening around the world, it gave some relief to see the little guy escape from the clutches of a predator. I shared some roasted unsalted nuts and dried bananas with him.

@mastodonmigration — public popularity and internal organizational power are not necessarily related. Entirely different skill sets. Speaker of the House and Majority Leader of the Senate are extraordinarily powerful roles. Perhaps more suited to assassins than celebrities.

The people who win these roles are utterly ruthless and maintain powerful whip
operations. They pay zero attention to popularity.

It’s healthy and proper that the organization test that strength periodically through open challenge. Don’t be disappointed if that fails this time. Dominance is much harder than it looks.

🍂 Stray Kitten Report 9 (1/2)

Charlotte, the little female, is now less terrified of being indoors. At first, she wouldn't put a single paw inside. Getting her in has taken long sessions of nudging her with food and play. By the end of the week, she was grooming herself on a chair and even slept for a little while. Well, 1h max. We still can't pet her, but it's a lot of progress for this little wild one.

#CatsOfMastodon #caturday

@startrekgifs @Nmyownworld

You can tell this one from the set & furniture alone.

Pixelfed has 5 microservices that power the ecosystem (autospam, discovery, push, recovery, versions)

Loops has 4 (beacon, push, relay, versions)

Sup has 7 (tba)

All 3 depend on FediDB APIs in some way

There are a lot of details that users do not see, and may take for granted, but I legit thrive on overthinking, overplanning and building them

Marketing, Design, DevRel, Community Support, Admin, Moderation, SysOps, Funding, Conferences, Docs, R&D

I wear a lot of hats beside the coding one 😎

You know how when you're a kid, birthday presents are a much bigger deal than when you're an adult?

This year, my mother gave me a birthday present that even 10-year-old me would have agreed was the most. awesome. birthday. present. EVER.

A 1:12 scale model of Terry Pratchett's study.

(it's a "compound study" based on multiple pictures she'd found of what his study or home office looked in the various homes he'd had over the years)

Manchmal bleibt man im Wald einfach an den kleinsten Dingen hängen. Ein moosiger Ast, ein kleiner Pilz obendrauf und das Licht passt - mehr braucht es gar nicht für ein gutes Makro.



Wie sieht es bei euch aus: Schaut ihr beim Wandern und Spazieren gehen auch ständig nach unten und fidnet kleine Schätze und versteckte Miniaturwelten oder zieht ihr lieber zügig durch?



#Natur #Herbst #Herbstliebe #Wald #Waldboden #Pilze #Moos #mft #omsystemde #om1 #Mushrooms #macro

Lego kitty bath

Beautiful moonrise before the sunrise this morning while walking the dog.

🍂 Stray Kitten Report 9 (2/2)

Also, big news: we always thought the black cat who came with the kitten was the mother, until I finally could pet her, she raised her tail and... obviously a male.
Once Blacky (named for his coat, obviously) trusted me, the real mother, Grisouille ("little greyish one" in Fr) came out of the forest and joined. She had been hiding. Both are now very friendly.
I've contacted the vet, and we'll soon sterilize them all. A bit pricey, but we saved since Sept for that.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/117576084419067065

This is legit my dream job, building awesome things that other people like.

Thank you for making this possible ❤️

When covid started I didn’t know anything about it. I wasn’t on Twitter or reddit or Facebook. I was in college, doing that and had a baby. We watched cartoons and when they slept I’d read and write. I had no idea until no one was on the road or at Walmart with me. I had no idea how to even get information about what was happening, so I went to the county website and found nothing. my professors stopped livestreaming and sent helpful information about it the same week so I got it.

Turned out the city had a Facebook page that people were getting their information from. And there was also a Twitter.

Then my kid gets to be school aged. The fucking school used Facebook and twitter to communicate with parents. I missed so many programs, and lacked information about everything that happened there.

Fucking hate it.

We shouldn’t be forced to use toxic platforms that track and profile us in order to get public information.

Platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube track and profile their users so that they can target advertising towards them.

Their business models fuel online harms by pushing more and more extreme content to users. Despite this, these platforms are one of the primary ways that government departments share public information.

Tell your MP to support the EDM calling on the UK Government to ensure that all public sector social media content is published on open, decentralised and federated platforms!

Act now: …openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-government-must…

#socialMedia #UK #politics #UKpolitics #fediverse #initiative

Cruz's alarmist report that he is surrounded by newly elected Democrats in Texas. 😆 The most comedic bit. He looked to be in tears. Time to head to Cancun.

The real story of gen AI is the story of widespread, uncoordinated, unreported resistance.

When you see a CEO firing people who don’t use enough AI, the real story is that many of their employees refuse to do so unless their livelihood is held hostage.

When you see AI added to an application, present on every page, impossible to remove, the real story is that customers won’t use it unless it’s forced down their throats.

AI rejection is everywhere if you read between the lines.

#noAI #antiAI

Apobangpo.space is a Mastodon server for BTS ARMY and KPop Fans. All welcome! Share your favourite music, scream for your Idol(s), learn together. All fun and no drama. Bangtan Forever, ARMY forever. KPop Forever. (NOTE: You must be over 18 to join.)

https://apobangpo.space

You can find out more at https://apobangpo.space/about or contact the admin account @pixelcats

#FeaturedServer #KPop #BTSArmy #BTS #Bangtan #Korea #Korean #KoreanPop #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Used to work on medium secure psychiatric wards; once you got through reception it was amazing how far 2-4-6-8 would get you on keypads for any internal doors and safes cos doctors could never remember anything else

@MargaretSefton
Could not happen to a more deserving individual.

Investigating crimes isn’t getting even. Passing laws to fuck over AI companies, defunding things that benefit red districts, moving federal infrastructure out of red states, and making it illegal to be an Elon Musk character — that’s getting even. Folks can walk and chew gum.