Chuckles

Casually deciphering posts in languages I don't know is enjoyable and is good mental exercise. I'm glad it doesn't automatically translate everything. That having been said, sometimes I'd like to publish multilingual posts where I control the translation, the same way you can publish different subtitles for a video (or use automated translation). Same for alt text. This may be the thing that motivates me to learn something about #ActivityPub

@bagder@mastodon.social "lobbying" is how we say "corruption" in the 21st century

No worries, just a regional nuclear power piling up shipping containers like a zombie film to keep protestors out of the cities. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/25/pakistan-lockdown-islamabad-imran-khan-party-march

@thisislieven@c.im I'm always suspicious of government censorship. archive.today threatens the whole advertising media economy, but I'm pointing at Grupo PRISA (El País) because it is the centrist paper of record since the transition, but also because it carries a billion in debt and capital never relinquishes control. I could also point to Grupo Planeta (La Razón) but they have less pull with the gov.

@FluentInFinance@mastodon.social the real innovation here is that bribes can be pre-paid and come with permanent receipts

@rbreich "The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild. They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found. — Pope Leo XIV" #AltText

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt wow who got to them?

@NormanDunbar@mastodon.scot @AbramKedge@beige.party having exhausted all of the fuckery they could using copyright and patent law, now they're digging into trademarks as their last enshittification bazooka

@AbramKedge@beige.party @NormanDunbar@mastodon.scot also was an i3 driver, great little car, the dealers screwed us on a minor repair and I look forward to BMW being a retired sub-brand of BYD in ten years.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run people are spending too much time talking to chatbots and it shows in their written interpersonal communication

@mayintoronto @grimalkina so, so, so, so much worse than anyone is prepared to admit aloud.

@adef187@jorts.horse @catsalad@infosec.exchange toe the cord on your way out the door for bonus points

@ombialik@mastodon.world it's a whole lot of baggage, a great deal of it the business end of christianity.

@faraiwe @scottgal @pluralistic Cecilia Giménez Zueco. She died recently. She's quite well-known in Spain, and widely admired for her dedication to her community.

@toriver@mas.to @bodil@social.treehouse.systems there were some already being flogged in ragequit email chains (which I gotta say were absolutely delicious and made the last year of chewing through the mailing list worth it).

@madargon@is-a.cat @peter_mcmahan@mas.to @davidgerard@circumstances.run Limitation of liability is the driver here. The operators seek to deny their human reviewers grounds for negligence by putting "don't be mean" policies in front of the users.

@EUCommission awesome! Now do home appliances. Refrigerators, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers and televisions need the same treatment.

@dansup@mastodon.social patience! You're doing good, important work.

@jerrej @yetzt @dangillmor "If anyone is in the way, mow them down"

@theklan @faraiwe @scottgal @pluralistic Yes. She attempted - and failed - to restore a piece of forgettable, forgotten religious decoration without asking for anything in return. She overcame the humiliation subsequently heaped upon her, swallowed her pride, and put her town on the cultural map, all while going through dementia. Cecilia Giménez Zueco was a hero, god damn it.

@MartinGuay@mstdn.ca @quietmarc@kolektiva.social *what*? Are we on the same page on the definition of the word "sustainable"?

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io not only did I run out of popcorn while reading your missive, I am concerned that it could cause an overheated popcorn market.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run "infosec mall ninjas" 😂

@ScottishGreens ole Chuck shares with him a fetish for golden ornaments and Georgian curlicues, so they probably get along famously.

@theklan @faraiwe @scottgal @pluralistic me too, which is probably for the best.

@The_Sun@solarcene.community @notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com negative prices for "overproductive" periods should be passed on to consumers, but somehow aren't. Markets are imperfect mechanisms, and they are really bad at correcting what is fundamentally a misallocation of resources.

@rbreich@masto.ai "Well, it’s not as if we’re heading into a depression."

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca @DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social see, the Nazi bar has these great cocktails

@globalc I meant this phone I'm holding

@Geri @NicelyManifest it sounds horrible, part and parcel of the entire culture of physical intimidation and punishment. It's medieval.

@Geri @NicelyManifest #NotAllMen or #NotAllMPs ? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/27/green-mp-hannah-spencer-attacks-parliament-drinking-culture

@NicelyManifest @Geri the MPs are also largely inebriated, so there's that

@noelreports@mstdn.social I never expected the end of Peak Oil to be so... fiery

@globalc nice, I'm excited to see what comes after this 2000€ shit-stuffed glass brick that won't ever fully belong to me.

Looks like Grupo Prisa noticed archive.today and directed its flying monkeys keep the propaganda and surveillance economy rolling. https://reclaimthenet.org/spain-blocks-archive-today-and-mirrors

@tribactam@social.vivaldi.net @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu fines aren't working, we need confiscatory taxes

@wdenton@cosocial.ca @oantolin@mathstodon.xyz Canada applies the same presumption of intention to immigrate as the US, and especially firmly to 16-25 YOs, and most especially to young men from poor nations. And so they are called upon to prove a negative, supplying evidence of a very, very highly paid job in their current country of residence, a spouse and children, an apartment or house... or just evidence of a large fortune. The interviews are humiliation rituals to which you carry all of your most sensitive documents.

@faraiwe you seem nice

@necromanticnomad so where *do* occultists and clergy hang out?

@The_Sun@solarcene.community @notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com free is a good *start* but production is curtailed by operators as prices drop below zero. This means equipment that could otherwise be producing energy goes idle *because* it is centralized, and I can't store it in my battery or use it because it isn't available.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run a great tie-in with the "smash cameras with a hammer" campaign

@dansup or just wallow in the slop like a boomer in yesterday's diaper

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st we need to federalize rail transport at the EU level. I've had it with these national fiefdoms.

@redsad@ohai.social The Oracle is IN

@bruces is he really trying to ruin Charlie Brown, too?