@CuriousMagpie @ai6yr I don’t think any of the shootings were connected to discos. Mostly young women or young couples walking or in parked cars.

Scary times.

These are only being added straight after PyLova does it. And considering Rimu’s hostile history it’s clearly an attempt to try to ensure PyLova cannot gain traction with its own unique feature sets.

And the way they are being added ensures they are not compatible with PyLova’s methods. Which breaks Fediverse compatibility, and if any future software such as Lemmy were to implement it in the future they would most likely ensure compatibility with the larger userbase PieFed model.

This is the similar to Microsoft’s “Embrace, extend, and extinguish” philosophy to kill off the competition.

www.biorxiv.org/content/…/2026.11.06.764567v1

(Found with Aftergleam, a private reader for new research papers.)

Decentralized social media for environmental research

A. Chai-allah, A. Ghermandi, N. Fox, D. Van Berkel bioRxiv · 10.64898/2026.11.06.764567v1 · ecology · submitted 2026-11-12

Abstract

Social media data are reshaping environmental research. However, recent ownership and policy changes on centralized platforms like Twitter/X have motivated many users to seek new alternatives while simultaneously accelerating data restrictions for scientists. Decentralized social media, particularly Bluesky and Mastodon, are emerging as alternatives for users seeking greater control over their data and as a more stable and sustainable source of data for researchers. This rise may be instrumental in revitalizing the role of social media in environmental research. This study aims to provide a first-of-its-kind analysis of the potential of these new sources for environmental research, demonstrating their potential usefulness through the examples of climate change discourses and people’s appreciation of wildlife. We find an increased adoption of Mastodon and Bluesky, with high linguistic diversity, even if dominated by English. Wildlife image content reveals broad taxonomic diversity, with plants, birds, and insects dominating the records. We find this pattern broadly consistent with that observed on the popular citizen science platform iNaturalist. Climate change discourse is found to broadly reflect the scientific consensus on both platforms, with contrarian claims remaining uncommon. This suggests that researchers may benefit from less polarized opinions and misinformation, arising from interactions that are less driven by engagement maximizing algorithms implemented in other platforms. Our study illustrates the promise of decentralized social media as a new data source for environmental scientists and paves the way for their broader use in environmental research.

Is Schumer trying to ace out the newly elected Senators?

So, this is real inside baseball, but it should be mentioned.

About this prospective plan reference in The Hill for Schumer to move up the Majority Leader vote to next week.

If it is possible to do at all, it would take a vote of the caucus to change the rules, right?

But... and here is the rub... what caucus?

Who would vote on the rule change? Would it be just the sitting Senators? Would the newly elected Senators get a vote?

for every TEN THOUSAND games you look through there's approximately one game that was made on purpose

and it's a coin flip whether it's something someone has been working on for ten years or for ten minutes

@anjune
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Same principle as one-way glass. If 99.9% of the light goes through you, you'll be effectively invisible and in "darkness", but your eyes have a log response and will work fine at the low light level.

I migrated from Campaign Monitor to @buttondown today, and I'm pretty happy about it.

I feel like I may have been the last person on CM. Buttondown didn't even have an option for it to pick from in the list of ESPs to choose from 😆

Now all of my email newsletters and welcome emails for my apps like https://recollect.fyi and https://get.essential.support send from Buttondown. 🙌

#WebDev #indieDev #Email

I'm not cherry-picking these

itch.io is just 99.99% genAI slop

BREAKING: $PTSD (PeerTube of South Dakota Inc.) disappoints investors in accelerated deal with $ELON (Elon's REAL Jet) #BreakingNews

oh hey maybe this is a parody of--

nope

@nomdeb @ai6yr I remember a sales bro making some comment about a waitress so gross that we called his boss & demanded a new rep in the early 2000s. He’d seemed amazed that a group of dudes had turned down lunch at a strip club so this was not a complete surprise.

@Alice *runs*

I’m in a dark, smoke-machiney record label cafe full of young people, drinking a $12 can of IPA.

@tvaziri
I haven't seen it yet, but I really liked "minus one".

pet peeve: if you're gonna write something not in english WHY ARE YOU TITLING IT IN ENGLISH

is it because your genAI couldn't generate a title in chinese?

NEW: Over the past year, ProPublica has photographed some of the more than 500 U.S. citizens who have been held against their will by immigration agents and learned of the lingering impact the experience has had on their lives.

These are their stories.
https://projects.propublica.org/us-citizens-detained-immigration-photo-essay/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Photography #Photos #Immigration #Immigrants #ICE #Journalism

@bigzaphod
Oh we have the technology, but it'll probably give you cancer

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