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This is Molly
This is how she sleeps in the front garden when it's sunny
There is absolutely nothing she likes more than being warm and asleep
Wo der Digitale Omnibus der EU gerade hinrollt. KI-Omnibus und Daten-Omnibus: Vorschläge wie eine erleichterte Nutzbarkeit von Daten für KI, Einschränkungen von Betroffenenrechten oder eine Änderung der Definition personenbezogener Daten rütteln an Grundpfeilern des Datenschutzes https://netzpolitik.org/2026/ki-und-datenschutz-wo-der-digitale-omnibus-der-eu-gerade-hinrollt/
Mandelbratwurst set
RE: https://piefed.zip/c/test/p/1103940/testing-piefed-polls
Pass the pie so we all get fed! Also curious how well QP'd polls work across the fediverse.
Today’s #BatsInBlankets cutie is this Evening Bat (Nycticeius humeralis) who passed his flight testing last night with flying colours. He will officially join the group that’s being released in the coming days! #BatsInMyBelfry
Floof detector
finished noodling (for now) on a tiny browser tool to dither images in two colours, forked from 
@eli_oat :] I added a few features like colour picking to make it extra cute.
try it out at https://orf.place/tools ~
this has been my first time writing javascript in a year, in a very ad-hoc way. I tried optimising it a bit but idk if it’s ‘good code’ so I’m open to feedback from anyone who cares about that sort of thing!
The #FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and #Android will be locked-down in under 200 days.
If you care about the freedom to control your devices and care about the privacy of you data, please contact your representative and make your voice heard.
https://keepandroidopen.org/ (thanks 
@marcpruxMarc Prud'hommeaux) has the resources to guide you.
We know users will rarely visit the site so the Client(s) will get a banner soon too.
Thank you for your support!
On this day in 1965, James Baldwin participated in a nationally televised debate against archconservative William Buckley on the topic of segregation.
The debate is considered a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights movement.
Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail // 
@stefanoStefano Marinelli
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/01/28/time-machine-freebsd-jail/
Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail // @stefanoStefano Marinelli
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/01/28/time-machine-freebsd-jail/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fuckitofc/116047334212483576
I just got a targeted Instagram ad for a @fuck.it email address and was surprised to see they had a Mastodon account listed on the bottom of their website
中国のIPアドレスから弊ぼっちのデータベースに攻撃が来てます。中国なら放っておくしかないね。
Testing PieFed Polls
It’s the last slice of your aunt bessie’s award winning pie on the plate. She passed away a week ago, so you’ll never have the chance to taste this again. You and your siblings look at it for a moment and then…
Well, today is the day. I'm finally "sorta happy enough to pull the trigger" on publishing the book I've been working on for a very long time. It's a technical history book: by a techie, for techies (although I think that between all the code samples, there is plenty of meat for "tech-adjacent" and "tech-interested" people). It tells the story of the Lisp programming language, invented by a genius called John McCarthy in 1958 and today still going strong (to the extent that many people see it as the most powerful programming language in existence).
And this is a time for shameless self promotion, even if you don't plan on buying the book, please repost :-). Self-publishing is self-marketing, so there we go.
If you do buy and read it, please let me know how you liked it!
The book landing page, https://berksoft.ca/gol, has links to all outlets where you can buy the book,
Me: A ⋀ B
Person on social media: How dare you say A ⇒ B
Me: *Tears at hair*
Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to X, plans to target creators with new features
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/mastodon-a-decentralized-alternative-to-x-plans-to-target-creators-with-new-features/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Fediverse & the Social Web 
@fediverse-the-social-web-andypiperFediverse & the Social Web
Overproduction
a fork of GNU coreutils called cawutils where the only changes are renaming the binaries:
- cat -> bird
- touch -> peck
- who -> hoohoooooo
Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund
Link: https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/discussions/7287
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062561
a shred of morning light on a shady schoolyard
I’m having to do frontend dev for the first time in like 10 years and it is rougghhhh. It feels like everything involving browsers is some kind of deep lore. I’m currently trying to make it so a dropdown doesn’t close when you click its scrollbar and answers on how to do it online are all over the place.
new pain scale dropped
Mastodon has announced plans to make its app more approachable for newcomers, and developed new features for creators. Here's 
@SarahpSarah Perez 💙's story for 
@Techcrunch. Find the full blogpost by 
@renchapRenaud Chaput and 
@imanijoyImani at the second link.
Typo of the day: ache-control
#TypoOfTheDay
ぷえ 
3df8fb8fe9 (upstream/main) Fix visibility of video overlay controls in light mode (#37906)
66052e3ddd Use validation matchers for `StatusLengthValidator` spec (#37905)
e8ecf1719c Use validation matchers for `StatusPinValidator` spec (#37904)
a411b7eccb Use validation matchers for `PollOptionsValidator` spec (#37901)
9e40d3ef37 Use validation matchers for `ReactionValidator` spec (#37900)
488e0b2617 Add collection detail page (#37897)
bd64ca2583 Add new profile settings (#37890)
079f8615fe Profile redesign: Design fixes (#37892)
b62ba9e29e New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#37896)
f95cd68667 Use validation matchers for `NoteLengthValidator` spec (#37891)
61b9bc4fac Update dependency rspec-rails to v8.0.3 (#37888)
Fedi Planck Constant
Häftiga isformationer ute på Vättern idag 🧊
時報bot多すぎやな
そんなに時間知りたいんか？
おきた
This week, CC's Brigitte Vézina, 
@dharrisDee, and Beverley Francis are at UNESCO in Paris attending a meeting of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions to raise awareness about the Open Heritage Statement, a global call to action to ensure equitable access to heritage in the digital environment.
Learn more and add your voice: openheritagestatement.org
If you have not registered / submitted yet for our online un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web on March 2, you are still welcome to do so until the day before it starts. Any submission might not get seen by as many people, but certainly we'd love to have you attend.
https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/#papers
설에 여행도 다녀오고 간만에 짬을 내다 재미있다 자컾낙서~~ #oc
도치기 딸기 농장 직영 카페에서 1일 1개 한정으로 판매하는 일본에서 제일 큰 딸기 파르페. 9800엔. 7kg. カフェアンジェフレーゼ 농장 이름이 아예 딸기 마을인가 그래서 기억하고 있음.. www.itigo.co.jp/restaurant/a...
The kind of character portraits that write their own stories.
A motley crew of NPCs you'll run into in 'Beast City', one of the last cities remaining on Earth after WWIII, where 'screamers' descend into the depths of the bio-monster infested BIAS zone to hunt them for credits and score.
One of the earlier sci-fi/cyberpunk dungeon crawlers I've played.
📺: The Screamer, MagicalZoo, 1985 (PC-88/98)
#PC88 #PC98 #scifi #rpg #retrogaming #retrcomputing #pixelart
unangenehm
OH: "Wenn die Blase platzt"
... und woran denke ich zuerst? An Tycho Brahe.
もっかい寝よ
また変な時間に目が覚めてしまったわ
Do you run a #Pleroma server where people post publicly and want to help out with an SWF project? I'd love to talk to you. DM me!
Holy shit, the iOS update 26.4 wants me download 11GB of data, a mobile OS
I remember iOS being a few gigs in total years and years ago
I need a color system
I need a color sponsor
I need a 1-year color chip
Missed today's OTel in Practice with Aviv Zohari? No problem! You can catch the recording on our YouTube channel. Special thanks also to Nikola Grcevski from the OBI SIG for joining us for the Q&A.
https://www.youtube.com/live/_p6fMoxjwIY?si=X0E6z-Zm9vSX5HYh
PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history.
Now, the moment you look at a repo, you can immediately adjust your expectations.
You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked_users
It also stops claude from making issues or PRs on any of your repos.
I consider this a bonus.
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Ael Yokan
Stefan Bohacek
Jim DeLaHunt
Andy Piper
Quincy ⁂
依頼募集中！ 
No Boilerplate 
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