I like my autism and my Tylenol. One makes life interesting, the other makes it tolerable
@fediverse_user
Sequi ipsum voluptatem soluta eos dolorem iste excepturi et sequi eum porro eligendi eius aut omnis porro vero magni et et incidunt.
Apple TV+ Postpones Jessica Chastain Series ‘The Savant’ in Wake of Charlie Kirk Assassination
#TV #TVNews #CharlieKirk #JessicaChastain #Thesavant
Bonjour bonjour !
Vous connaissez Snana ? c'est @maiadeva ici (elle est en privé mais elle est adorable)
Elle a besoin d'un petit coup de pouce, j'ai donc fait ce pot commun pour qu'on puisse l'aider !☺️
Tout est expliqué dans le lien, mais pour résumer, elle a appris y a peu qu'un de ses proche est malade, ils vivent très loin l'un de l'autre et elle souhaiterait le voir une dernière fois.
Il ne pouvaient pas se voir souvent avant la maladie non plus, donc ce voyage est d'autant plus important.
Merci à celleux qui partageront, qui donneront !
boosts appréciés, merci beaucoup !
Les conseils et bons plans sont les bienvenus !
“We did not stop the Holocaust. We did not stop the genocide in Rwanda. We did not stop the genocide in Srebrenica. We must stop the genocide in Gaza.”
Slovenia’s Deputy Prime Minister speaking from New York says Gaza has become a clear example of the international community’s failure.
Another photo of sweet Elfie in Cologne
#borderterrier #borderterriersofmastodon #borderterriers #dogs #dogsofpixelfed #dogsofmastodon #photography #hunde #hunderunde #nikon #fotografie #nikonphotography #hundefotografie #cologne #colognephotography
Donald Trump v the science: Debunking the US president's claims linking vaccines and autism
https://www.itv.com/news/2025-09-23/debunking-donald-trumps-claim-of-paracetamol-and-autism-link?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World @world-ITVNews
A blep AND a side-eye for Bleptember!
Voici la courbe des températures depuis 1850. Qui est un "idiot" ? Qui est une arnaque ? Le temps vous le dira.
Discours lunaire à l'ONU de M. Trump. Les scientifiques travaillant sur le climat sont des "idiots". "Le changement climatique est la plus grande arnaque jamais menée contre le monde". [1/2]
I don't "have autism".
I'm Autistic.
This is something I consider important.
GABRIELLE MOVING EAST-NORTHEASTWARD IN THE CENTRAL SUBTROPICAL ATLANTIC.
EXPECTED TO MOVE NEAR THE AZORES AS A HURRICANE IN A COUPLE OF DAYS.
As of 2:00 PM AST Tue Sep 23 the center of Gabrielle was located near 34.3, -57.5 with movement ENE at 20 mph. The minimum central pressure was 952 mb with maximum sustained winds of about 130 mph.
Track: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/173847.shtml?cone
Advisory 27a: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT2+shtml/231737.shtml
the ruby ecosystem is in the process of becoming Shopify's toy
mastodon being based on ruby is now becoming really really ass
@benroyce Hi,I'm Asad khokhar.I'm a digital marketing speciallst helping businesses grow their online presence.I'm here to connect with like-minded professionals and explore potential collaborations.
Tyke? Tyke. Datz me. #dogsOfMastodon #dogsOfPixelfed #dogs
Dernier jour du Centre Pompidou avant travaux : “Si ça se trouve, on sera trop vieux quand ça va rouvrir”
https://www.telerama.fr/arts-expositions/dernier-jour-du-centre-pompidou-avant-travaux-si-ca-se-trouve-on-sera-trop-vieux-quand-ca-va-rouvrir-7027512.php?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Publié dans Arts @arts-Telerama
Cent ans après sa mort, “le plus français des peintres américains”, John Singer Sargent, célébré à Orsay
https://www.telerama.fr/arts-expositions/les-peintures-sensuelles-et-etranges-de-john-singer-sargent-eblouissent-le-musee-d-orsay_cri-7040702.php?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Publié dans Arts @arts-Telerama
I've filled out many expense reports in my work life.
It took me a while to fully understand that every item on those reports represented an interest free loan to the company that I worked for.
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The "higher ups" generally had a business credit card to use for business related expenses.
The average workers were forced to provide interest free loans.
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The employees that can least afford to "put the $$ up in advance" -- are pushed into Expense Reports.
replying to all posts today with "sorry you got left behind"
Fediverse Report – #135
Last week I wrote an article about Bluesky, political violence and how language is actively being shaped in a way that sets up for a potential future crackdown on Bluesky by the authoritarian regime. The article is on the surface about Bluesky, but I think it is relevant to the fediverse as well. The main idea is that the open social networks are actively being framed as a place for ‘left’ people and democrats, while at the same time there are louder calls for the US government to crack down on all left and democratic spaces. Furthermore, an article by the Federalist lays out what strategy might likely be used: leverage the control over the app stores.
The News
Mastodon is launching paid services to make money beyond donations and grants. The company will now offer hosting, moderation, and support services for organisations that want their own servers on the fediverse. The new services target organisations that want their own presence on the fediverse, but lack the operational capacity to manage a Mastodon server. Mastodon will handle server setup and maintenance, and optionally provide moderation services as well. The organisation says this will create steady income while keeping their donation-based model.
This new service is mainly targeted at institutions, and so far, Mastodon has onboarded three government agencies. The most high profile is the European Commission’s Mastodon server, as well as a German state and a French city. In the announcement post, the organisation is clearly aware of the potential criticism of how this might interfere with goals of decentralisation. But with the number of fediverse servers in the tens of thousands, the fediverse is in a state where onboarding a additional institutions via managed servers will likely increase, not decrease, the resilience of the network. My personal observation working with the onboarding of governmental organisations in the past is that one of the main barriers is that of institutional capacity. Even when a government organisation has decided they want to have a presence on the fediverse, a significant amount of the challenge in getting there is figuring out internal responsibilities and capabilities. Virtually no (government) organisation has experience with handling these new types of questions, like how to handle moderation for example. As the fediverse grows and it becomes normalised for organisations to run their own fediverse server to handle their social networking presence, organisations can build up institutional capacity to easily run their own server. In the meantime, Mastodon’s new service can bridge the gap for organisations who want to build their own independent social networking presence, but does not have the capacity to manage everything that this entails.
Gaza Verified is a grassroots initiative in the fediverse to verify the accounts of Palestinians in Gaza. The ongoing genocide in Gaza has lead to Palestinians to internet platform for fundraising and donations. This in turn has also caused scammers to take advantage of the situation by creating fake accounts pretending to be Palestinians and create scam fundraisers. This creates a challenge for moderation teams, for whom it is challenging to figure out how to know if you are dealing with a real or scam fundraiser. Gaza Verified aims to help by having people known within the fediverse community have Signal video calls with the accounts of Palestinians on the fediverse, as well as keeping regularly in touch with them. In turn they use the Mastodon verification system to provide credibility. The Gaza Verified project also held a general fundraiser for all the Gaza Verified people, raising more than 22k USD.
PieFed 1.2 update includes a variety of new features, including support for events and the ability to be reminded about a post in the future. It also allows admins to restrict NSFW content in certain countries. This helps with compliance for age verification laws, such as the UK’s OSA.
Best-o-Masto is an alternative Mastodon client with a limited and specific purpose: “When you open the app, it shows you the 20 most popular posts from accounts you follow in the last few hours. You can favourite those posts, boost them, or open them in a real Mastodon client, and that’s about it.” Best-o-Masto is available for iOS and iPadOS for free.
Flare is a new open source client that combines all open social networks into a single client. Flare supports Mastodon, Bluesky, Misskey, and RSS. It cannot yet combine all those post into a single unified timeline, a feature that is still on the roadmap. This compares to a similar app like Openvibe, which also supports Nostr and Threads. Flare also has a local history, where it saves posts from your feeds locally, which can then be searched by you later. This feature, of saving posts locally for search, caused a great amount of in early 2023 in the fediverse with Searchtodon. How this feature in Flare will be perceived now, 2,5 years later, might be a good indication if values have shifted on the fediverse.
The Links
- The German minister of Digitalisation addresses the Mastodon community in a short video.
- The Catodon project is shutting down. Catodon was a fork-of-a-fork of Misskey, and the announcement post has more details on the background of the project as well.
- PeerTube latest app update allows you to download videos.
- This week’s fediverse software updates.
- How to Build a Simple ActivityPub Reminder Bot in Python.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-135/
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Introducing Best-o-Masto
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Best-o-Masto is an alternative Mastodon client that does very little, but on purpose. When you open the app, it shows you the 20 most popular posts in the last few hours. You can favorite those posts, boost them, or open them in a real Mastodon client, and that's about
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