Monday foolishness for you
I don't know why people say we look alike.

“When you create a law, you have to think about what a future government could do with those powers."

Ministers would have unilateral powers to lock what they see as 'harmful' behind digital ID checks.

This could end up being used on LGBTQ+ and reproductive health content.

🗣️ ORG's James Baker.

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-eyes-sweeping-powers-to-regulate-tech-without-parliamentary-scrutiny/

#onlinesafety #digitalid #privacy #freedomofexpression #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol

Pabu promises that the belly isn't a trap; do you trust him?

#Cats
#CatsOfMastodon

We now have two t-shirt designs on our merch shop! Both are unisex, high quality 100% organic cotton, with screen prints of @dopatwo's awesome illustrations. You voted for these slogans! "I write alt text" and "My friends are not for sale". We offer free shipping over a certain threshold, shipping from Germany.

https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/mastodon-i-write-alt-text-unisex-t-shirt-copy

#Merchtodon #Mastodon

Teaser:
This #Plushtodon, a recent immigrant to Canada, is checking out our Mastodon feed. How did they get my password?
They are excitedly looking for updates on how our community is convincing politicians to dump U.S. based social media and join the #Fediverse. It's almost like they have a vested interest in your activities and efforts. Hmm....

#MastodonCanada #MastoCanadaGOV #DigitalSovereignty #Technology

Stuff like this is infinitely more impressive to me than any AI music, no matter how advanced and complicated the model. Human brainpower is vastly underrated.

https://youtube.com/shorts/jjRbLpnA_0w

My best friend called me and said, 'An evil wizard turned me into a tiny harp! I don't know what to do!' I went to his house to find out he's a big lyre.

Thanks to international time zones, it’s still #Caturday in Mexico. Here’s Parsley the cat, looking at me disapprovingly for trying to take a photo of him being cute, he’s got a reputation to keep.

#CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats #FediCats

bruno mars is called bruno ares in greece

You all should read this fantastic post by @onepict about how, largely, AI people just can't leave us the fuck alone. But I'm noticing more and more and more that they get super mad when they wanna shove their #AI creation at you and you simply say, no thanks. That's it. No extra bashing, just, no thanks, and they get super offended. https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ai-and-that-guy-at-the-bar #AIHype #LLM

#lordpercival sunbathing in the kitchen. He's as happy as the #houseplants getting much needed light as we come through the other side of winter. #cats #catsofMastodon #catsofFediverse #caturday #tuxedocat

@matdevdug: "...there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage. Just someone who spent twenty years studying Arctic policy posting a thread at 2 AM because they think you should understand what's happening. It's the internet I was promised in 1996. It only took thirty years and the complete collapse of American journalism to get here."

https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

Matt, a >15 year old feral had never seen a mirror before. She's annoyed that she can't go into the room she can see.
#caturday

​:neocat_floof_cute:​🍌

Luna says Happy #Baturday.

Also, she heard that you said you love her and she says “mutual I’m sure” as if she were a background dancer in the White Christmas movie.
#BatsInBlankets #BatsInMyBelfry

I'm poking through an old blog where something has gone wrong with the CSS and emoji images are being loaded not at text size but as unstyled SVGs which expand to the size of the container, and it REALLY adds something to the good ol' passive-aggressive friendly smile