(2/2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfuykoLwzII

Niki doesn’t have to be fooled–these are likely just words.

She doesn’t have citizenship, her borther is in jail(?) for something like sexual assault, and I think her husband is a pedo.

Like so many surrounding Trump she is likely just waiting to get something out if the arrangement.

Not to say that she will…

@xgranade try submitting the --dont-emit-garbage flag. Hope this helps.

(1/2) Whenever I hear Ryoko Shinohara's "Itoshisa to Setsunasa to Kokoro Zuyosa to" (from the 1994 Street Fighter animated movie), my brain keeps mashing it up with the chorus from TRF's "survival dAnce ～no no cry more～". I guess both having been released in 1994 and written/produced by Tetsuya Komuro could have a lot to do with it lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGYfX8z4goE

#RyokoShinohara #篠原涼子 #恋しさとせつなさと心強さと #trf #survivaldance

(1/2) Whenever I hear Ryoko Shinohara's "Itoshisa to Setsunasa to Kokoro Zuyosa to" (from the 1994 Street Fighter animated movie), my brain keeps mashing it up with the chorus from TRF's "survival dAnce ～no no cry more～". I guess both having been released in 1994 and written/produced by Tetsuya Komuro could have a lot to do with it lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGYfX8z4goE

#RyokoShinohara #篠原涼子 #恋しさとせつなさと心強さと#trf #survivaldance

@aesthr because you say so without any evidence? Indeed.

If you think your day is bad: my wife accidentally stepped in shit inside of a Walmart today.

Who cares, pal? An all-embracing universe of love and compassion, that’s who

HAH. I did it! It compiles, builds into a Python wheel, and imports into the REPL and.... doesn't work.

Which I expected. And is progress. That I am happy for.

```
>>> import unrawr
>>> ur = unrawr.Unrar()
>>> ur._open_archive_simple(...)
# full screen of garbage
```

In this episode Ensign Tilly is convicted of mutiny although also starts another war!

Thanks to @arcturus for sharing his photo of autumn maple leaves. I used it as inspiration for this painting.

#watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #autumn #autumnleaves #leaves #fall #maple #painting

(1/2) Whenever I hear Ryoko Shinohara's "Itoshisa to Setsunasa to Kokoro Zuyosa to" (from the 1994 Street Fighter animated movie), my brain keeps mashing it up with the chorus from TRF's "survival dAnce ～no no cry more～". I guess both having been released in 1994 and written/produced by Tetsuya Komuro could have a lot to do with it lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGYfX8z4goE

#RyokoShinohara #篠原涼子 #恋しさと せつなさと心強さと#trf #survivaldance

@PhoenixSerenity Werewolf. I’d be a leaner, fitter version of me but much more hirsute and nobody would be surprised by my mood swings. 🤔

@mattsheffield @CStamp I've never felt a need for a thought through philosophy, but also wasn't brought up with religion - other than seeing it around the world and it being cultural to me - no different than the way people eat different foods. I mean I try to be a decent human usually, I research issues with which I may be grappling and I try to leave the world a better place, but I don't spend a lot of time "thinking" re MY philosophy and don't feel a need for it.

[...] Vimes's grin was as funny as the one that moves very fast towards drowning men. And has a fin on top.

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

The Ultrawealthy Produce More Carbon Pollution Than Nearly Half of Humanity
https://time.com/article/2026/10/27/carbon-emissions-ultra-rich-oxfam-report/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-time

Institutionally at least, anything goes - including the worst CSAM.

Perhaps this is an exceedingly poor way to describe it - I just meant that federation (like with ML, hexbear, lemmygrad, and any new instance) happens by default. Instances that host CSAM - like extremist far-right content - are quickly defederated from by the rest of the Threadiverse, but such requires effort on behalf of the instance admin. I thought, though perhaps I am wrong.

Anyway it could still be misleading even if correct, bc this is at the instance level, whereas someone still has to subscribe at the community level in order for content to begin coming in. So the potential for content - good, bad, or whatever - to spread is baked right into the ActivityPub Protocol from the start, by design. Just like what people keep saying about 4chan (though admittedly I never went there personally).

And people must have subscribed to hexbear and lemmygrad and ML communities on all of the major instances, therefore all of that content was already there for me to stumble upon as a new joiner myself, fresh from KBin where it had been severely curtailed. I - like all other new joiners - then bad a decision whether to flee this place permanently (which I almost did, and continue to revisit that thought every year or so as expectations keep not being met, making it all the harder to hold out much hope for the future) or to begin blocking people, one by one, and even making a (successful) petition to defederate discuss.online from hexbear.net.

All of which is a lot of effort, especially since it must continue to happen with each fresh new alt made to subvert bans. Each new joiner must then be subjected this again and again, like a hazing ritual that we who have been through such already now offer little to no help to new joiners to avoid. Except for your codeberg request that will help to change that - hooray!

Ultimately, it’s arguably fine for places like 4chan and nostr to exist (unless you take the position that the echo chamber then breeds toxic trolls that when they leave it, act to harm others, though keep in mind that in this analogy, the Threadiverse itself is 4chan and nostr, in that we allow anything and everything, especially on ML that we then host on all of our machines too - e.g. if ML were to ever go down, that content would continue to remain, foreve, just like happened with Lemm.ee), but what’s far less fine is to allow people to stumble upon it unawares, particularly when it is labeled oppositely from what it truly is. A place’s reputation should proceed it, not be entirely ignored and force each new joiner to discover it all over again on their own, as what happens with ML.

Today's reminder to Tech companies a #NoAI pledge is a really fast way to show people you are serious about being something different.