Hey folks! Remember I was asking what kind of merch you'd buy for #Mastodon's 10 years anniversary? It's here now! Hoodies and t-shirts made from organic, certified cotton, screen printed with a cute unique design in 5 vibrant colors. This is limited edition stuff, 100 units each, never happening again. Note: There are women's cut t-shirts this time.

https://shop.joinmastodon.org/collections/10th-anniversary-of-mastodon

#Merchtodon

Hat jemand Bedarf für einen (circa) 1,8m langen, 80 cm breiten Plüschelefanten? Der liebe Elefant ist circa 30 Jahre alt und hat eine kleine Verletzung an der linken Hinterpfote. Ansonsten geht es ihm aber noch sehr gut. Wir haben nur langfristig nicht genug Auslauf für ihn und würden ihn gerne in gute Hände abgeben, bevor schlimmeres mit ihm geschehen muss.

Er kommt gut mit Kindern und Haustieren zurecht.

Er wäre zu verschenken, sofern er selbst abgeholt wird (Großraum Berlin).

#FediGive

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf

I sometimes think about how if open source had never happened at scale, and all LLMs had to train on was proprietary code, how different things might look right now. Breaks my heart; sharing code openly has been a huge part of my life and belief system for so long, and I was so convinced that the good that it did outweighed the bad actors taking advantage. I never imagined that the bad actors would win by automating their behaviour

I put out a video that was critical of AI without AI being mentioned in title, thumbnail, or description. And it was dogpiled with pro-AI comments almost instantly.

This video has almost 2.5X as many comments per view as my most recent "controversial" video, and 4.5 the average.

I don't want to say that AI bots are being used to astrorturf videos after scraping scripts, but I have a hard time believing this is real based on experience.

Time well spent. #grickledoodle #cat #walkman #music #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

Soot lost Mr. Mouse, her previous favorite toy.

After a couple of weeks, she has selected this one, which I dub Ms. Cherry, to be her favorite toy.

I bought a half dozen of these because I knew she'd destroy/lose them. She only plays with her 'favorite', goodness knows how she decides. But once she does, she carries it around and demands I throw it.

#cats #catsofmastodon #cat #pets #sootandshine

I have a playlist with a few movie soundtracks from Francis Lai, Vladimir Cosma, Goran Bregović, and François De Roubaix. What does #Tidal think I should also put on the playlist? The Benny Hill theme, Inspector Gadget, and Mission: Impossible.

The RAPTCHA

Select all squares with
bicycles
to enter the kingdom of heaven

Prove you are not a robot

Click on all the squares which contain Buddha-nature

An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/08/an-open-letter/

#digitalsovereignty #libreoffice #odf

Invitation
#Saturday #caturday