Zohran Mamdani: "If you are a Mario Kart fan, government is Yoshi and philanthropy is the Golden Mushroom, that edge we need to beat Bowser on the Rainbow Road. To belabor this metaphor even further, Bowser is corporate greed in this scenario."

"Age verification is is inherently a right-wing effort. While these laws are being supported globally by those on the political right and left, they are very much a right wing effort to suppress disliked speech."
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/16/the-right-wing-origins-age-verification-laws-dont-disappear-just-because-theyre-going-bipartisan/

My pink LP of #TheDearHunter’s new album Sunya finally arrived!

#vinyl #NowPlaying

Megan decided that sleepy Pabu needed a nose massage. Sleepy Pabu agreed!

#Cats
#CatsOfMastodon

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Sarahp/116415333742451453

"We'll just 'AI' spam books, movies, and music" always conveniently ignores how much of everything there already is and how little of it gets any traction.

The Parliament of Estonia is orders of magnitude smarter than whoever is in the Parliament of Canada (including Mark Carney).

"Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says"

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-should-stand-up-to-big-tech-instead-of-imposing-social-media-bans-estonia-says/

#CanPoli #CanadianPolitics #CanadaPolitics

@Mastodon I’m a big badge collector, so this made my day. My official Mastodon enamel pin badges arrived today, and seeing all three laid out on their backing cards just makes them even better.

The classic logo pin, the glittery Live Laugh Federate design, and the Mastodon Elephant pin all look brilliant. Really happy to support Mastodon at the same time.

If anyone else wants to support it too: https://shop.joinmastodon.org/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #BadgeCollector #EnamelPins

The Oslo office is looking extra pretty today! 🌈

Hey all. Hope your week goes as well as it can. Bit busy here. All fine, but, you know, STUFF. Anyhow, still sorting through the last batch of photos, so thought I'd post a soothing interlude, as sometimes a week needs more than just a silent Sunday. Maybe a tranquil Thursday.

#bloomScrolling #daffodils

Was rearranging some furniture and had to temporarily move my server setup. He's there to make sure nothing happens.

#plushtodon

That blows my mind.

Another reason to hate #Apple We're seeing more 2018+ MacBook Pro/Air donations — but Apple's T2 chip means even after iCloud sign-out and reset, the firmware stays locked to the original account.

Without donor contact, these machines are useless. :(

I've upcycled ~1,000 older Macs, but T2 era machines will end that. It's controlling, creates e-waste, and will only get worse. #righttorepair matters — Apple couldn't care less.

Piper is so sweet that sometimes I think my heart will break. #CatsOfMastodon #catsoftheforkiverse

Secret Panel HERE 🧁 https://patreon.com/posts/118291163

"formally affine combinations of soups and hyper-salad"

https://saladtheory.github.io

Cozy Selina timeline cleanse for your enjoyment.💜 #allcatsarebeautiful #photography

Theo hard at work in the biscuit factory. Have a peaceful evening, everyone.