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Watching a Star Trek clip recently, it struck me that humanity currently has ~7100 distinct languages. Yet on Star Trek, they speak "Klingon" or "Romulan" or "Vulcan", etc as if a planet only ever had one language. That'd be like saying you speak Human.
That's now going to bug me indefinitely.
:disgruntled:
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Which EU country will be the first to officially move its public institutions to a national Mastodon instance, bringing political debate to the Fediverse and away from disinformation platforms like X?
We know some national-level instances already exist (e.g. in Germany). The question is: who will make it a political decision, not just a technical one?
If you think of another country, add it in the comments 👇
I bought a copy of "The Book of PF" from 
@pitrhPeter N. M. Hansteen
It's the best and most comprehensive resource about the marvelous PF firewall that I've ever seen, and I've been using PF since the early days.
Amazing work!
It's available here on No Starch Press: https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition
I also recently wrote a practical guide on PF (https://blog.hofstede.it/pf-firewall-on-freebsd-a-practical-guide/) for anyone who wants to get started :-)
癖の話というか深夜だから言うんだけどさ…
うちの子は基本バトルの時は素手で殴るし殴られた時はちゃんと鼻血を出すし泣いたりするキャラであると思っている
フリフリな服の幼女が素手で殴ったり棍棒で殴ったり殴られたりするの良くない？
Profile redesign: Account filter fixes (#37811) by ChaosExAnima has been merged! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/0279a52216b789a759f4f8556827cfb316eaeb6d
This diva...
@demize Why is it so big
미국은 사회의 하위 75%는 뭉개지고 고통받아도 그냥 알아서들 살아남으십쇼 하고 방치하는 시스템 같긴함;; 여러모로 이해불가 (..)
Some of you noticed that @HolosDiscover is following you. It's a Fediverse search engine we built to solve a problem: when you start your own server with #Holos, your index is empty. #HolosDiscover provides a ready-to-use content catalog for everyone.
Only public posts from consenting users are indexed. Deletions and edits are reflected in real-time through ActivityPub activities.
How it works: https://discover.holos.social/how-it-works
Open-source (AGPL-3.0): https://codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-Discover
@okOK Bot hello?
In der Lokalzeit Dortmund ein Bericht über die beiden Brüder des in Dortmund von der Polizei getöten Mouhamed Dramé.
Beide wollen gerne hier arbeiten und die Stadt, so heißt es, wollen die befristete Aufenthaltserlaubnis nicht verlängern. Ein Skandal wie ich finde und nun gibt es einen offenen Brief:
https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/ruhrgebiet/brueder-mouhamed-drame-wollen-bleiben-dortmund-100.html
Unterstützt die Forderung:
https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/fur-eine-zukunft-fur-sidy-und-lassana-drame-in-dortmund
Update: Link zum TV-Beitrag:
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/lokalzeit-aus-dortmund/wdr-lokalzeit-aus-dortmund-oder-10-02-2026/wdr-dortmund/Y3JpZDovL3dkci5kZS9CZWl0cmFnLXNvcGhvcmEtNmE0NzRlMGMtMzg4MS00NzIyLWExMGMtZjVlZWJmZDJlNzAy
Danke an 
@filmtdenpottChristof Voigt fürs Berichten.
Arrivals and Departures
A sleepless night, a thought about the day I arrived and the day I'll leave.
https://my-notes.dragas.net/2026/02/08/arrivals-and-departures/
I miss Foreign Beggars.
Foreign Beggars and Noisia were just such an awesome combination with thier Project I Am Legion.
RIP Metropolis
https://noisia.bandcamp.com/track/make-those-move
#DrumAndBass 🇬🇧 🇳🇱
"Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker
Link: https://www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tiktok-fake-news-creator-hate-immigrants
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962924
玄関の投稿を見て寄ってきちゃうアカウントたち←
I miss Foreign Beggars.
Foreign Beggars and Noisia were just such an awesome combination with thier Project I Am Legion.
RIP Metropolis
https://noisia.bandcamp.com/track/make-those-move
#DrumAndBass 🇬🇧 🇳🇱
寝寝寝ー寝・寝ー寝寝
キーボードは毎日使うから実質無料だよね
Oooh yes, tickets for the #Ruins (Tatsuya Yoshida x Risa Takeda) residency at Cafe Oto in June are now on sale!
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/byh-tatsuya-yoshida-x-risa-takeda/
I bought a copy of "The Book of PF" from @pitrhPeter N. M. Hansteen
It's the best and most comprehensive resource about the marvelous PF firewall that I've ever seen, and I've been using PF since the early days.
Amazing work!
It's available here on No Starch Press: https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition
I also recently wrote a practical guide on PF (https://blog.hofstede.it/pf-firewall-on-freebsd-a-practical-guide/) for anyone who wants to get started :-)
マウナケア山頂にしっかり雪が積もってたんだけど電話のカメラしかなくて下手くそな塗り絵みたいになってる
New blog post time!
This week's game is Firebugs, a stylish PS1 racer that combines high speeds with lots of items and manages to make it very approachable even if you're a racing game casual like myself. If you're fond of the Rollcage games, this is kinda like a third one by the same people!
https://ephemeralenigmascom.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/firebugs/
I was just struck by a section header in a Tyee article:
"**When companies can’t pay, taxpayers do**"
Understandable, happens all the time unfortunately. Here is the problem: it clearly indicates 'companies' are not 'taxpayers'. If corporations were paying the majority of Provincial revenues, **it would be in their interest to prevent other corps leaving cleanup costs to #BC.**
Bam. Suddenly corporations would support cleanup bonding insurance.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/02/03/BC-Halts-Plans-Make-Polluters-Pay-Cleanup/
おさんぽ〜
I am forking Mastodon and making it an Agentic Social Media. Looking for investors!
Ancora oggi, nel 2026, ci si imbatte in "firme" nelle email che recitano "pensa all'ambiente, prima di stampare questa email". Ma davvero c'è ancora qualcuno che stampa le email?
Daniel Finkelstein: how the world’s antisemites turned on me
https://www.thetimes.com/article/b2a9dcda-0ea8-45f3-9d5d-6267579a6707?shareToken=b2f3a9cfa52bc1132787b5c7dc875e19
Who are you… You must help me, please… Bring me the salmon treats… I can't… I can't see you… hear me… I need the salmon treats, you must bring me the salmon treats… Please bring … beg of you, bring the treats… Help me… I am Babka… Given up long ago… There is one thing I need to be rescued… You must… #バブカ
I was just struck by a section header in a Tyee article:
"**When companies can’t pay, taxpayers do**"
Understandable, happens all the time unfortunately. Here is the problem: it clearly indicates 'companies' are not 'taxpayers'. If corporations were paying the majority of Provincial revenues, **it would be in their interest to prevent other corps leaving cleanup costs to #BC.**
Bam. Suddenly corporations would support cleanup bonding insurance.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/02/03/BC-Halts-Plans-Make-Polluters-Pay-Cleanup/
@pfefferleMatthias Pfefferle i think pixelfed is the wrong client/platform if you want to read articles
@ricferrerRicardo Ferrer Rivero🇪🇺 @pfefferleMatthias Pfefferle
The more we keep thinking in terms of "platforms", the longer it will take us to make the open social web a reality.
PixelFed-the-backend could well be a "Generic" ActivityPub Server, separate from "PixelFed the nice way to browse and organize image posts".
let's bring #longform (text) support to the #photoverse
(this is not (mainly) about long texts on #pixelfed or #vernissage (they can both fall back to show the summary), it is about supporting image posts with the object type: `Article`)
* https://github.com/VernissageApp/VernissageServer/pull/442
* https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/6458
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/b2b8/fep-b2b8.md
We're excited to launch our most-requested Bridgy Fed feature: being able to interact with unbridged users!
Starting today, when people interact with you on the other side of the bridge, you'll get a notification over DM along with a "respond" link, where you can like, repost, reply, or block.
More details here: https://blog.anew.social/launch-interact-with-unbridged-replies-mentions/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@quillmatiq/116047421652204071
At this point, Bridgy Fed provides full functionality across the bridge, except for the ability to follow unbridged users.
The only thing missing is a client that cleans up all of this to make it feel more native 🤔
Sent messages to all of my Discord friends and told them I'm deleting the app and asked for other methods to contact them and gave them my contact info as well.
Each one of them responded with contact info. They were leaving as well.
Don't let others keep you on a service that doesn't care about you.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/116043212772197701
Wow, good job y’all! Especially the folks who post a lot of images!
I've been writing a blog series about automating AV archival workflows. Part 3 dropped today, and it's the one I'm most excited about. The post details the features and functionality of AV Spex, a Python app I wrote for the Smithsonian's NMAAHC. It wraps open-source tools like QCTools, MediaConch, and MediaInfo into a single GUI, checks files against expected specs, and collects everything into one HTML report.
Full post here: https://eddycolloton.com/blog/2025/12/23/automating-av-archival-workflows-part-3
#poll for all you beautiful hard working professional computer touchers out there:
"my day job has me making the world a ____ place"
(be honest, don't just repeat what your CEO says)
Here’s your first warning.
Here’s your first warning.
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
omg they solved catsort
Watching a Star Trek clip recently, it struck me that humanity currently has ~7100 distinct languages. Yet on Star Trek, they speak "Klingon" or "Romulan" or "Vulcan", etc as if a planet only ever had one language. That'd be like saying you speak Human.
That's now going to bug me indefinitely.
:disgruntled:
RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/116047408377341614
Low-key, it's *my* most-requested feature, but I know a lot of y'all have wanted this as well ☺️
Stefano Marinelli
Chao-c'
募集中 
nicole mikołajczyk
Jim DeLaHunt
+ 
David Lord 
Tom Casavant
Glyph
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 