Very happy to know that my Abandoned America trademark has been coopted by not one but two different AI slop "creators", both based out of Europe to circumvent my legal protections. I love this new world we live in.

If someone asks you why they should join the Fediverse..

If any local politician, library, park, or museum asks you why they should be on the Fediverse..

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/meta-x-no-kings-elections-protests-midterms-free-speech-us-brazil/

The big platforms have their places, but we can’t depend on them to link us when it matters most.

Half a moon.

#Photography #Moon

t-shirt that says "I SOMETIMES ❤️ NUANCE DEPENDING ON THE SITUATION AND ITS CONTEXT"

Every time I see cw "latex" it's a gamble: will the toot be NSFW or simply not screen reader friendly

cowardly UI designers are keeping sharpened corners from us

My husband and I got together with my father and nephew the other day and carved these glorious jack-o-lanterns. 🎃

#Mastodon is getting a new look in our upcoming 5.0 release.

We wrote a bit more about our design process and how we approach community input. If you’re on mastodon.social you will see the new design tomorrow, on Tuesday. We rely on your feedback!

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/10/5.0-a-closer-look/

Every time I see a vibe coder say something along the lines of "if you haven't used these tools over the past five minutes, you don't know what they're capable of, because everything's different now!" I get a little bit perplexed.

You do know that we can see the output without using it ourselves, right? Some of us are still reviewing pull requests and reading through code repositories, y’know?