My mastodon instance is being abandoned. Anybody know of any other active SF-only mastodon instances that are more progressive/activism focused?

Amazing photo by Cheney Orr from today. Black woman sitting alone on the DC Metro with a crowd of masked white supremacists on their way to the capital to march with confederate flags.

There is also a deeper analogy for what I keep hearing over and over from Black people: finding themselves surrounded by white people who either do not know, or do not care, about how America looks from the Black person's perspective.

#Photography #PoliticalPhotography #July4th

happy whatever, motherfuckers.

(shirt by @effinbirds )

"The year is twenty-twenty-six. A fascist government controls the United States, as corporations powered by vast artificial intelligence data centers pollute the skies and millions struggle to survive" feels like a bad sci-fi movie from the 1980s. All it's missing are motorcycle punks and lasers.

Rolled credits on Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo!

If you like Link to the Past, Metroidvanias, and Earthbound, you will love this game. Fantastic world designs, fun movement and combat, excellent pixel art and chiptune-esque music.

Big recommend.

Unless you were largely cognisant during the late 90s, it's very hard to get across to you just _how_ bristling with positive energy computing was back then, just **look** at this opening screen, it screams "ARE YOU READY TO LEARN MOTHERF*CKER?!".

It has dolphins, in the clouds. How many smartphone apps welcome you with dolphins in clouds?

#encarta #90s #retrocomputing

"Star Trek: Borg" is a 1996 FMV game that takes place simultaneously at First Contact and also Wolf 359 due to Q interference.
The plot is that Q appears to a cadet during the First Contact incident. This cadet lost his father at Wolf 359 and Q gives him a chance to go back and save his dad.
The sets, the acting by John De Lancie, the plot. It's all good.
It's worth it for any #StarTrek fan.
It's like an extra episode that exists and no one talks about.

https://youtu.be/EzvL2XaJUno?is=53a3YJcHpzgJCGsd

#retrogaming

There are two races, white and political.

There are two genders, male or political.

There are two sexual orientations, straight or political.

-Emma Vossen

I like this cartoon.

Credit: Jesse Duquette (https://www.jesseduquette.com)

#humor

For extremely stupid reasons I am going to need to change the Family Organizer in my Apple Family. This involves disbanding and re-creating the Family, which I suspect may have destructive effects.

Have you experienced this process? What was it like?

(Please do not speculate; I want replies from people who have actually done this. If nobody has, and I get zero replies, that's OK.)

RE: https://toot.community/@openculture/116857458497628845

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I am tired of the lack of humanity in tech.

I am also tired of the lack of humanity in humans.

Inside the Luddite festival harnessing Gen Z’s rage against Big Tech

New York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline.
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/07/inside-the-luddite-festival-harnessing-gen-zs-rage-against-big-tech/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the Democratic Socialists of America and why people should be afraid of them ...

DC airshow rehearsal in progress until 1pm. DCA closed to all traffic until then, as the combined strength of US military aviation comes together for the vital mission of scaring the bejesus out of the dogs of the nation's capital.

@fasterandworse
The leopards are inevitable! Get your face eaten or get left behind!

For more on the situation, read this:

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https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

The new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation worked at J.P. Morgan and Lehman Brothers. The Foundation has now fired a longtime lead developer and disbanded the team whose job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike. To stand in solidarity with them, sign the petition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity

For more, read on!

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The Onion's takeover of Infowars has launched and it rules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnz6PTSXiI0

@nest

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