Our world has truly gone Orwellian. Witkoff, along with Kushner, who goes around the world pretending to represent the US calls Putin a humanitarian.

And Trump and Netanyahu, according to themselves, are working for world peace.

Meanwhile, innocent civilians continue to be evicted of their home, slaughtered and their culture & history erased.

There's no democracy anymore. Don't even think there'll be normal elections in the US.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/us/politics/russia-american-prisoner-release-stephen-hubbard-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVE.bCKq.wQNspVw14ohn&smid=nytcore-ios-share

RIP Ryan McDonald

@TheBreadmonkey @PetraPhoenix

Don't worry, if anyone has taught me to be more playful it's the beige crewdem

@dentangle I have avoided FOSDEM for a number of years now. Even as a white man I don't really feel safe or welcome there anymore. I felt differently 20 years ago.

I kind of miss a place to meet my peers, though.

#FOSDEM

INSANE #NEVERSLOP MERCH DROP!

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/184910608

commissioned by @exa@mastodon.online

pls buy something, i asked her out and i need money for the date now.

Trump and Putin are aligning against Europe and Ukraine in an unprecedented way.

Samuel Dempsey at the European Correspondent enumerates how.

https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/how-to-win-and-lose-an-ally-in-10-days

Sonnet 023 - XXIII
As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put beside his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart;
So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
The perfect ceremony of love's rite,
And in mine own love's strength seem to decay,
O'ercharg'd with burthen of mine own love's might.
O! let my looks be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,
Who plead for love, and look for recompense,
More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.
O! learn to read what silent love hath writ:
To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.

bot by @davidaugust

#sonnet #poem #Shakespeare

If the private key had been 40, it would have been 10 times as strong.

All that security potential just wasted.

Every year the Values of #FOSDEM are put on display. The resistance to having a CoC. The complete lack of health policy or health precautions. The overcrowding and lack of disabled accommodations. The choice of corporate sponsors. The lack of financial transparency. The decision to platform Jack Dorsey etc.

It's not a safe space, and likely never will be for a whole bunch of reasons.

Yeah, it took me a while to see it too. Do you see it yet?

One of my very favourite cartoons, ever.

#CatsOfMastodon

My guess is they’re trying to take it one step further than the fediverse, still be centralized, still monetize content which they then get a slice of.

Sounds like a step backwards then.

@waag vertel s hoe je aan een invite komt voor de sign op van dat oso.social, please.

do y'all know slopfree lobsters alternatives?

i know of https://awful.systems and https://humancrafted.discourse.group (though this is not exactly the same)

but are there others?

@TechDesk That’s why it is imperative for anyone who is uncomfortable with this to be able to disengage it or even de-instal it but *easily*.