CartyBoston

Daojoan , 2 days ago to random

The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore. It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that isn't remotely relevant...

Geri , 3 days ago to random

There are 11 million ppl who live on Cuba.

Currently, Trump has decided they should not receive any oil

Their entire country's economy is being shut down because it can not produce sufficient electricity

No one is talking about this on this on the Internet, but you can if you copy this message xx

🇨🇺

https://www.dw.com/en/cuba-oil-fuel-embargo-economy-crisis-united-states-trump-venezuela/a-75849429

aral , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

Countries for which genocide is a deal breaker:

Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Slovenia, and Spain

Countries for which genocide is not a deal breaker:

Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany (2nd largest arms dealer of the genocide behind the US; historic fan of genocides), Greece, Israel (our good friends who are carrying out the genocide), Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, and United Kingdom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2026

#EurovisionSongContest #EurovisionSongContest2026 #Eurovision #Eurovision2026 #GenocideSongContest #UnitedByGenocide #Europe #EU #israel #EuropeanValues #genocide #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #BDS #FreePalestine

CartyBoston , 28 days ago to random

"... and we have 401K match and you can work wherever you choose."

Are your leaders a bunch of fucking fascist-bros? Ask it early in the process.

"... and we have a foosball table."

CartyBoston , 1 month ago to random

Damariscotta, Maine just now.

ALT

CartyBoston , 2 months ago to random

There was never any reason to trust #Bluesky , you just move from one shitty trend to another.

I am honest with you because I love you.

randahl , 2 months ago to random

Various illnesses can lead to a person losing touch with what is socially acceptable behavior.

I wonder what is going on here.

Trump calling a reporter stupid for asking a perfectly normal question.

randahl , 2 months ago to random

Trump announces "reverse migration" to "cure" America by deporting anyone the administration deems "disruptive" or "incapable of loving our Country".

As it says on the statue of liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"

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ChrisMayLA6 , 2 months ago to random

As both China & Brazil adopted a more belligerent attitude to the Tangerine Tyrant, and have been rewarded for such intransigence with (eventual) reductions in tariffs into the US market, demonstrating the salience of the TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) meme, might other global leaders increasingly adopt this more combative way of dealing with a bully (at least on economic matters)?

The second half of Trump's second term may look quite different to the first...

#USPol
h/t Gillian Tett/FT

randahl , 2 months ago to random

I looked it up: It was around April 1 when Senator Lindsey Graham toured the TV networks with his whole tough on Russia agena and wanting to introduce scorching sanctions.

But nothing happened, and so 8 months have passed with Trump saying “in two weeks” we will have peace, then another two weeks, and another two weeks.

This will never work.

The world restored peace when Hitler shot himself in his bunker. This happened because we defeated the Nazis militarily.

It is the only way.

dangillmor , 2 months ago to random

When journalists carry water for the Trump regime by calling its Ukraine-surrender-or-else order a peace plan they are committing pure malpractice.

But they're all doing it.

At least put "peace" in quotes, ok?

randahl , 2 months ago to random

Here is my Ukraine peace proposal:

1. Putin is sent to The Hague.
2. Russian soldiers leave Ukraine including Crimea.
3. Russia returns all kidnapped Ukrainian children.
4. Russia releases all Ukrainian prisoners.
5. Russia pays damages for everything their war has destroyed.
6. Russia pays damages to Ukrainian families who have lost family members.
7. Russia pays damages to every person who has been tortured, abducted or otherwise criminally mistreated.
8. Ukraine becomes a member of the EU.

CartyBoston , 3 months ago to random

I don't care if Michelle Obama runs your instance, if you don't have sufficient upstream bandwidth no one can see the media you post.

#Mastodon #Activitypub

CartyBoston , 3 months ago to random

Sorry for the 23,492 #activitypub messages but it turns out "Chadds Ford" has no apostrophe.

randahl , 3 months ago to random

Do we want to work for Google for free?

I feared this day was coming — this is the first site I see closing down, because Google has stolen their content.

The owners of this cycling inspiration site asks: What is the reason to continue creating content, when Google just steals it and serves it as AI answers to keep all the traffic to itself?

It seems our EU politicians are soundly asleep at the bike handlebar.

https://www.holland-cycling.com/blog/321-holland-cycling-com-stops-in-2026

Via @saarmuller .

CartyBoston , 3 months ago to random

He's at 37%.

Tired: "Trump takes down the Republican Party."

Wired: "Trump takes down capitalism, worldwide."

CartyBoston , 3 months ago to random

"#ActivityPub is just routing at the application layer" works because it's so fucking difficult to actually do.

TheBreadmonkey , 3 months ago to random

I wonder who the shady people really are who call the shots. Like deciding to keep society structured as it is and enabling poverty classes. Because it must be a decision and not a huge coincidence that the people who control capitalism haven't just all got together and thought - let's give it a go at not having people struggling all the time with health and food and shelter. Who's making that decision 'for the good of humanity'. You know Musk and Bezos are in there somewhere. I suspect even our PM isn't part of the inner circle. Like he knows there's some shit going down, but leader of a small country is entry-level. You really need to be at war-crime levels before people start mentioning the Grand Plan. Like Tony Blair had to graduate - anointed through blood - and is now 'quite' high up, but still not really a shot-caller. Mandelson is definitely part of it. The scary thing is we almost certainly don't know the people with real power. They probably live underground or in space or in a militarised compound in Paraguay. What the hell am I talking about I sound like I've lost my goddamn mind. This is how they get you.

Daojoan , 3 months ago to random

I don’t like asking for money and I never expect financial help from anyone but due to circumstances outside of my control I’m about €230,000,000 short this month to pay for this yacht any assistance would be amazing and I will absolutely pay it forward (I won’t)

ALT

Daojoan , 3 months ago to random

The Venn diagram of people who shout “THIS IS JUST LIKE 1984” and people who have actually read 1984 is two circles so distinct and so far apart they might as well exist in different and incompatible multiverses

CartyBoston , 3 months ago to random

No, am not particularly worried about my government reading my posts. Not if it requires Kristi Noem to understand #activitypub.

arstechnica , 4 months ago to random

Texas lawmakers double down on Discovery, call for DOJ investigation into Smithsonian
"This is the dumbest plan I've ever heard in nearly five years in the United States Senate."
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/texas-lawmakers-double-down-on-discovery-call-for-doj-investigation-into-smithsonian/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

CartyBoston , 4 months ago to random

Wait until the American working class figures out that striking is actually quite a bit of fun.

aral , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

It takes privilege to remain neutral in situations of injustice. Your neutrality is nothing more than a declaration that said injustice doesn’t harm you personally and that you couldn’t care less if it harms others.

homegrown , 4 months ago to random

Most public Fediverse servers are running on professional hosting services using business-grade data centres. They are owned and controlled by grassroots admins, but they are on the same kind of hardware as commercial online services.

For some reason there's a misconception floating around that all Fediverse servers run on home machines in a corner of someone's living room. This usually isn't the case. It is possible to do, but most admins don't do this, especially not for public servers.

Daojoan , 4 months ago to random

I have officially given up on future-proofing my life.

A thread 🧵

1/22

CartyBoston , 5 months ago to random

I carry two doses in my bike bag (purse) which I take everywhere. You need training, there are videos. My trainer got me with “Imagine you were in a position to save a life and you failed.”

ALT

CartyBoston , 5 months ago to random

Half serious question: what did the resisters in Germany and e.g. occupied France during WW2 do for fun? This is all wearing on me a bit.

aral , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Imagine for a moment being the news anchor who completes the segment by saying “of course, it’s not about the politics, it’s all about the film.”

Imagine what it must be like to be such a deplorable, spineless, genocide-denying corporate toady.

Then thank fuck you don’t have to stare at that person in the mirror every day for the rest of your life. https://todon.eu/@marcohackney/115146008941176673

CartyBoston , 5 months ago to random

People don’t understand managers and management and it’s trivially simple.

A manager’s job, for which she is paid, is to take a pile of money and turn it into an incrementally larger pile of money.

Anything else, you simply made up to explain your world.

aral , 5 months ago to random

Automatically save every document to Microsoft’s cloud. (Yes, this is the same Microsoft that’s helping Israel carry out the genocide of the Palestinian people.)

There is ZERO reason to use a Microsoft product today unless you are forced to by work.

#BDS #Microsoft #surverillance #BigTech #technofascism https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/115132426182084126

pzmyers , 5 months ago to random

Let him be gone. Let the healing begin.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/31/a-historical-perspective-and-the-long-view/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0Trm8k1lgc

CartyBoston , 5 months ago to random

Long story short I shared with my lovely wife, who knows to almost never take me seriously, that the Reaper will take me when I hit 1000 followers.

I have been hovering around 900 ever since, disappointing followers at the same rate I impress them.

I'm going to live forever.

randahl , 5 months ago to random

The US no longer donates weapons to Ukraine, but still delivers satellite based target information.

This is the only time you will hear me say, we need Trump for the intelligence.

tante , 6 months ago to random

As much as I try to be an optimist, I don't see the "AI" bubble popping soon. Too many people's wealth/stock valuation rests on its continuation.

arstechnica , 6 months ago to random

Nissan announces 2026 Leaf pricing, starting at $29,990
The new Leaf will be the cheapest EV you can buy when it goes on sale this fall.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/08/nissan-announces-2026-leaf-pricing-starting-at-29990/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

CartyBoston , 6 months ago to random

You cannot call someone a "cunt" here, it doesn't matter if you agree.

You can call them a "twat" but then everyone will just crack up.

aral , 6 months ago to random

Get this right: people in Gaza aren’t starving. People in Gaza are being starved by Israel in the genocide Israel is committing against the Palestinian people.

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #famine #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FuckIsrael #FreePalestine

tante , 8 months ago to random

Reporting on Sam Altman blog posts without the addendum that he needs to keep the narrative of "AGI soon" going for his house of cards to hold is irresponsible. (Acknowledging that most of the things he said about AI were just false would also help.)

mcc , 8 months ago to random

I have been trying to edit a simple .xlsx and send it back to my tax professional but I have been having odd problems with both LibreOffice and OpenOffice. I am mildly tempted to reconnect my ancient MacBook which I normally pull out once a year for this task so I can use Numbers, but I figure I can't keep using that forever

aral , 8 months ago to random

Sorry to hear you’re having trouble feeding the people visiting your sites to the surveillance capitalism adtech machine. https://mastodon.africa/@roblaing/114630175202421053

AnarchoNinaWrites , 8 months ago to random

Brey, the problem isn't that Musk is a drug abuser; the problem is that we live in a society where money is power and nobody is gonna tell a rich white nazi that he can't fuck up an entire country because "you're too high bro."

It's the same shit with the Kayne nazi stuff. At some point we have to stop saying "well it MUST be fine, he's stinking rich; would he really have all that money if his brain was fried on Kat/Nirtrous?"

Rich folks are just as odious as your heart is telling you they are

CartyBoston , 8 months ago to random

I am grilling for one today, my lovely wife is too enlightened to eat meat.

Hot dogs (Kayem beef and pork) and local pork sausages.

They are served on a bun made of awful squishy bread bought at the supermarket. They include - only yellow onions and yellow mustard.

My dad served in WW2, it - among other things - formed him.

I wonder now, what the fuck formed us?

aral , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

Admin of todon.nl suggests, and rightly so, that the default/flagship Mastodon instance (isn’t decentralisation great?) be moved to a more neutral jurisdiction than Germany:

“Herewith the urgent request to move the Mastodon server presented to new users as the default (mastodon.social) to a more neutral jurisdiction (e.g. Switzerland). An alternative is to set up a new Mastodon server in a more neutral jurisdiction, which can then serve as a new flagship server.

The trigger for this is the regular negative moderation of people who speak out against the largest and bloodiest genocide of our time, the one in Palestine. In particular they use (or abuse, how you want to look at it) of a German law that seeks to counter so-called Holocaust reversal. With hiding behind this law, the moderators of mastodon.social (and especially its owner) are also unwittingly sitting in the chair of the (German) judge.

Apart from the fact that one local law should not affect the entire Mastodon project, the question is whether this law and the concept of Holocaust reversal are legally tenable in an international context.”

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/34747

Mastodon mod closes the ticket after stating “There is no current plan to make changes to the Mastodon instances operated by Mastodon gGmbH. People are free to choose any Mastodon server when signing up for the platform.”

And this (see screenshot) is what that “choice” looks like.

This decentralisation anti-pattern – along with the fact that they didn’t close registrations after hitting a certain size to create a social precedent and allow distribution to other servers (as I advised Eugen to do back in the day) – is why there is a flagship instance to begin with when it’s an absolute contradiction of terms in a system that purports to be decentralised.

#fediverse #mastoson #mastodonSocial #todonNL #Germany #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza

ALT

Daojoan , 9 months ago to random

Email is the cockroach of the internet - it outlives every wave trying to kill it. Forget Slack, forget Discord, forget chat apps. Email is universal, decentralized, and asynchronous. It's not sexy, but it's the ultimate survivor.

dbat , 9 months ago to random

#GodotCon
Straight talk.

Has anyone experienced trouble with the USA and #ICE and all that crap?

Honestly, from my pov, the very idea of going to Chicago from outside America seemed like the very worst plan in the world.

How embubbled am I? Is USA safe or not?

What do you Godot peeps say?