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@semitones@tiny.tilde.website avatar semitones , to random

Out here watching the State of the Union like https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dX7ZzJ6ehVM

@sexybenfranklin@smores.town avatar sexybenfranklin , to random

Do people like Tuta for email? I am once again considering ditching gmail.

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@jaykass @sexybenfranklin

Hi 👋 random reply here. I've used both proton and Tuta at this point. I think you're spot on that Proton has more features and Tuta is catching up. However, it feels like Proton is also further along on the enshittification curve. They really want you to pay for their all-inclusive membership and keep nudging you in that direction by making other things slightly incomplete. You really can't have the services you want a la carte, because they don't let you do that.

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@jaykass @sexybenfranklin i've also realized that both Proton and Tuta are too private and secure for what I really need and that gets in the way. It's too difficult to use third-party email clients with either of them, even though Proton has their proprietary bridge thing. If I were doing it again, I would look at the other options too, like fastmail and I don't really know what other options exist.

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I am too tired

@meganmariehart@mastodon.social avatar meganmariehart , to random

BOOST OR QUOTE THIS!

Trying to find out how many people see a post without hashtags. Thank you!

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@futurebird

As someone with a large™ following, do you have any recommendations for dealing with notifications?

@meganmariehart

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@futurebird

Also, probably very few people will find this interesting, but the latest campaign in not another D&D podcast lampoons this kind of social media influencer with a Social Media Warlock (derives her power from her social media following.)

@meganmariehart

@welshpixie@mastodon.art avatar welshpixie , to random

I participated in disrupting the superbowl hashtag last week by posting an owl colouring page with the hashtag 'superb owl'. In my ignorance and whiteness I didn't consider the greater picture or what I was actually disrupting and whose voices that disruption was silencing; on Sunday, the Superbowl halftime show had Puerto Rican Bad Bunny performing, who sang entirely in Spanish, and talked about love and unity. It was an important event that should be talked about and celebrated -

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@_elena @welshpixie Had not even considered that the Superb Owls would disrupt Big Bunny! For anyone who didn't see it, here is an ok play by play (unfortunately it leaves out Lady Gaga) https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:jvzdtfvzuqdgk36wncgl2dnp/post/3meffq52d4k2h

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@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar HeyThisIsntTheYMCA morto coming to you, live, from the God Star at Car Talk Plaza.

@semitones@tiny.tilde.website avatar semitones , to random

What do you do to feel organized?

@nocontexttrek@mastodon.social avatar nocontexttrek , to random

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. We're in a home on a planet that's earth like, we see a couch and some windows looking out on greenery and sunlight and trees. And then there's Picard. He's much older now and a bit more festively plump and he's wearing non Starfleet clothing, all tan. He's sitting and grimacing and holding onto his belly, like that thing you do after you eat too big a meal and then grunt and groan as you sit down because you think you might split your pants. There's also another person but we can't really see em. No caption, just v full.
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@nocontexttrek you are doing god's work

@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

They are still essential heroes in my eyes. Thank you to our healthcare workers!

Screenshot of a tweet from the user “MC Squared (@mcsquared34)” on X.com. The tweet says: “Pretty wild watching health workers going from ‘essential’ and ‘heroes’ in 2020 to ‘unprofessional’ in 2025.”
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@georgetakei what is the context here? Who is calling them unprofessional?

@TechConnectify@mas.to avatar TechConnectify , to random

happy thanksgiving

i made this for you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INZybkX8tLI

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@TechConnectify yessssss!

@alice@lgbtqia.space avatar alice , to random

+ folx! I'd like to update the signup question for our instance, and I want your thoughts.

The goal: to make it easier for moderators to detect when trolls, spammers, and AI try to sign up, while also making it as simple as possible for actual queer folx to get in.

Answer one or both of the following:

  1. Tell us something that made you feel seen recently.

  2. What’s a queer stereotype you relate to a little too much?

Please select all that you feel apply (and feel free to answer the questions in the replies).

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@JessTheUnstill @alice I can relate -- I remember feeling uncomfortably "seen" recently, but I can't remember the context... I definitely talked with my therapist about it though, whatever it was! I could probably think of something to write in that box, but I wouldn't want it shared publicly.

"If you could change / relax one gender norm in our society, what would you change?"

Is that a good vibe check? I'm not really queer though (or I don't think I am) so not really the target audience...

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    @JessTheUnstill Is there a way to buy a D20 that's really a D21 and goes from 0-20? I'm imagining an artificer with bad luck lol

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    @JessTheUnstill How would that work? I'm imagining all the other characters rolling 1-20, but this character can critically fail two times out of 21 because they zero indexed in a 1-indexed system lol

    @pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar pluralistic , to random

    Corporations aren't people, but people and corporations do share some characteristics. Whether you're a human being or an immortal sinister colony organism that uses humans as gut flora (e.g. a corporation), most of us need to pay the rent and cover our other expenses.

    --

    If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

    https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/10/zero-sum-zero-hours/#that-sounds-like-a-you-problem

    1/

    Blind justice holding a set of scales aloft. Her head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' On the scales stand a worker and a millionaire, in belligerent postures. The millionaire's head has been replaced with the enshittification poop emoji, with angry eyes and a black, grawlix-scrawled bar over its mouth. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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    @pluralistic testing unroll https://mastodon.social/@mastoreaderio

    and seeing how it compares to simply awitching apps to a browser and typing in https://pluralistic.net

    @BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social avatar BrodieOnLinux , to random

    If anyone is causing issues in your repo I want you to ban them. It doesn't matter which project that is in, please ban them immediately.

    I don't want people to go and disrupt your repo, but I don't have the power to ban them from your project, I also don't have the ability to mind control people to stop them from going and bothering you either.

    I am going to continue covering FOSS because I think it's incredibly important that people know what is happening in the projects they use.

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    @BrodieOnLinux @osslate but I would like to vent about a software that I will not name, but it purports to do a lot of very useful things, but instead of doing that, it gives me a gray screen and hangs a lot of the time. It makes me angry, especially because it is a very popular and well-regarded software.

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    @JessTheUnstill people do experience this, but it doesn't seem to bother me. I had a ceramic lined mug with vent holes for the aroma, and that was cool and all, but it couldn't close completely. Which was more of a concern than the aroma for me.

    @404mediaco@mastodon.social avatar 404mediaco , to random

    The Trump administration used a picture of Halo’s Master Chief to call for the destruction of immigrants. Something about seeing the stalwart hero of a beloved video game twisted into an anti-immigrant super soldier hit people pretty hard.

    🔗 https://www.404media.co/trump-admins-racist-halo-memes-are-a-new-level-of-dehumanization-of-immigrants/

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    @404mediaco i wish I could boost this but I don't want to amplify the ad.

    @semitones@tiny.tilde.website avatar semitones , to random

    If I unboost and reboost something, it goes out again. Neat!

    @w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

    Tesla’s 2026 entry-level Model Y Standard and Model 3 Standard trims will not come with either an AM or FM radio. https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/tesla-tunes-out-am-fm-in-2026-standard-models

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    @w7voa oh hell no

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    @JessTheUnstill two hours was my limit. I'm so psyched that I brought a chair this time -- I could sit and chill and wave a flag and shake a tambourine and mostly not interact with people... Where I was wasn't too crowded, unlike DC. It is hard. Someone near me had a sign, " you know it's bad when even the introverts are showing up."

    @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io avatar thomasfuchs , to random

    What’s it with Dutch people trying to explain to me that they never hit their skulls on the pavement while riding a bicycle because they’re somehow superior at riding them and therefore don’t need a helmet.

    Occam’s razor:

    Option 1. An entire nation is magically superior in bicycle riding than anyone else on Earth and never has potholes, train track or slippery roads.

    Option 2. The government tried to get more people to bike (a good thing) and for decades downplayed the inherent risks (not a good thing), and now people actually believe that “good infrastructure is just as good as helmets”.

    🤔

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    @dragonfrog @thomasfuchs I've been blocked as well. I guess he wants to post without anyone commenting something he doesn't agree with. Weird.

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    @dragonfrog @thomasfuchs Yeah, I wear a helmet, but it is crazy how people are so unwilling to consider any research about how helmets may increase your risk for cars driving closer to you and hitting you...

    Like don't we have the same goals -- fewer injuries and deaths? Why block someone?

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    @wbpeckham@techhub.social avatar wbpeckham @ohtheurbanity@video.canadiancivil.com avatar ohtheurbanity it would get rid of the counter intuitive bike left turns too

    @semitones@tiny.tilde.website avatar semitones , to random

    @FediTips Hey 👋
    Have you ever done a follows recommends on the topic of Poetry or Writing? I searched your website but didn't find one yet.

    Also, could you share your process for putting together one of your famous themed-follows-recommends threads? I'm a big fan!

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    @FediTips @FediFollows thanks! That's it! I found some good follows :)

    @BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social avatar BrodieOnLinux , to random

    Would You Use A KDE Linux Distro? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTFxWY10umY

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    @BrodieOnLinux Did you mention why it is bananas? I didn't get it.

    @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar gamingonlinux , to random
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    @gamingonlinux seems weird. The aleph one total conversion had Linux support from the beginning.

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    @JessTheUnstill I'm listening to "Not Another DnD Podcast" for the first time, so I've been thinking about this! I think I'd be a barbarian half-Orc who was a war-orphan and raised by Orc druids, and is making his way towards somewhere he might belong. What does isekai'd mean?

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    @JessTheUnstill I was helping a friend make a costume with pages ripped from a book once, but then I realized it was a newish copy of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and I suffered psychic damage. :(

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    @JessTheUnstill Someone would love to read those! There is surely a used bookstore near you!

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    @JessTheUnstill I wasn't thinking they'd give you any money! There is a friends of the library near me where I've taken my old books to give them a second life.

    @pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar pluralistic , to random

    2119 words (44401 total) on The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to AI (a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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    @pluralistic what's the centaur reference?

    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

    If Macintosh is so good why didn't they make a Macintosh II

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    @mcc they made Mac Plus? Maybe I don't get it.

    @404mediaco@mastodon.social avatar 404mediaco , to random

    A New Discovery Might Have Just Rewritten Human History

    🔗 https://www.404media.co/a-new-discovery-might-have-just-rewritten-human-history/

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    @404mediaco ugh click bait headline... which editor wrote it, come on fess up.

    @stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

    Mafia meetings used to be much more discreet

    US welcoming committee for an internationally wanted war criminal
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    @stux

    🎵🎶.🎵🎶.🎵🎶.
    Generals gathered in their masses, 🎵🎶
    Just like witches at black masses, 🎵🎶

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    @JessTheUnstill That's the problem with GMO too... it's mostly Monsanto and capitalism, suing farmers for saving seeds, breeding plants to be used with carpet bombing herbicides and pesticides, etc.

    The biotechnology itself is really helpful.

    @BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social avatar BrodieOnLinux , to random

    Since we did one for X11 lets do one for Wayland,

    For all the Wayland users out there, what is it that made you finally swap to Wayland? Or did some of you not even realize you've swapped to Wayland.

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    @BrodieOnLinux I remember my raspberry pi 4 being unbearably slow and stuttery back in the X11 days. These days raspios comes with Wayland, and it's actually responsive and usable.

    @FediTips@social.growyourown.services avatar FediTips , (edited ) to random

    If you see a reply shared out of context, you can view the thread it comes from by just clicking on the reply.

    Clicking on a reply or post takes you to an enlarged view of it, with the rest of the thread visible by scrolling up or down.

    (I know this is obvious to some people but not to everyone. How to view a reply's context regularly comes up as a question.)

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    @FediTips they should make a feature that reminds you to read the thread before you reply :p

    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

    I have just learned that the Canadian Senate has an age maximum of 75

    How do

    How did

    The Canadian Senate is a really bad idea. How did they get one up on the US here

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    @mcc why is the senate a bad idea? Does it work like the US Senate?

    @TechConnectify@mas.to avatar TechConnectify , to random

    It's time for another electric vehicle charging video.

    Too many people believe EV charging solutions require expensive, huge electric circuits (or worse: service upgrades).

    The really high-power ones people tend to go with can be a headache, but there are many other options!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W96a8svXo14

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    @TechConnectify highlight of the video for me:

    > I don't have to deal with a business that interacts with the public, I just make YouTube videos.

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    @JessTheUnstill Stalker + Fan = Stan.

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    @JessTheUnstill I have mixed feelings about this one, because as a youth I absolutely did lock my bike everywhere and anywhere with a 3ft chain before realizing how annoying I was. As an older adult, I absolutely loved the bikes and scooters that you could rent from anywhere and park anywhere. They were really convenient.

    I think the corpos failed to solve the problem of people leaving them in annoying places. But I still think they're easier to use and implement than bikeshare-style kiosks.

    @tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

    This essay by @baldur on why individual experiments on the usefulness of "AI" (or similar stuff) don't teach us anything useful and might actually harm us is brilliant.

    Go read it. Too many insights to pull a quote TBH: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trusting-your-own-judgement-on-ai/

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    @tante @baldur I wish it had more examples of the types of cognitive distortions or the reasons the two types of people disagreed about software development. As it is, everyone I know in real life that does programming uses these tools, and I am not sure how this blog post isn't confirmation bias for my own anxiety about LLMs?

    @_elena@mastodon.social avatar _elena , to random

    -90 minutes till day 2 🥳

    I'll be premiering the Fediverse promo video right after @cwebber 's keynote!

    And just in: subtitles in German thanks to @grosser_mensch and in Spanish thanks to @danielcasanueva ❤️

    See you later!

    a frame from the fedi promo video showing subtitles in Spanish. A pull up menu to select subtitles shows there are options in Czech, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish
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    @_elena @cwebber @grosser_mensch @danielcasanueva is there a way to watch it with all the subtitles active at the same time? That would be cool.

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    @JessTheUnstill yeah I guess they're harder to get now :p