Mastodon is great and all, but if you want Fedi to be more than just one dominant server, I urge you to consider financially supporting GoToSocial, a lightweight ActivityPub software.

@gotosocial is halfway to their modest funding goal. Developing open source software is labor and deserves to be funded. Even if you don't use GoToSocial, I cannot overstate how important it is to fund projects like this which advance the protocol we all use. Even a buck a month is helpful.

https://opencollective.com/gotosocial#category-CONTRIBUTE

Michael Chabon's writing is beautiful. The Yiddish Policeman's Union, start of chapter 12.

#bookstodon #book

Thank goodness for Wimbledon radio, saving me from McEnroe's commentary. Bublik and Fritz are both playing great.

https://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/interactive/radio?channel=radioNo1

#tennis #Wimbledon

The life still there, upon her hair—the death upon her eyes.
Frederick Richard Pickersgill, from "The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe," New York: 1858 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/life-hair/

LaTeX is amazing and I wish more people knew about it, and how terrible Word is. It's like people not knowing cake exists, and insisting they would rather eat moldy stale bread. Hat tip @acollierastro

https://youtu.be/KhWwuQ7qf5A

#MicrosoftSucks #WordSucks #Latex

Football officials and fans still don't care. Cape Verde's captain is allowed to play, and Ronaldo is being celebrated.

"Football has been grappling with how to deal with allegations of sexual misconduct for some time, and when I ask myself what has actually changed — whether the sport is any closer to having a clear approach to such allegations — the only answer, to me, is that it has not tried hard enough"

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7396841/2026/06/27/world-cup-partey-allegations-women/

#football #fifa2026 #Sexualassault #ronaldo #CapeVerde

Firdose Moonda on the state of SA women's cricket:

"Once the dust settles, the women's set-up will have to look at some of the structural concerns and maybe even go back to West Indies' captain Hayley Matthews' words about the resource gap in the global game. South Africa are in a much better position than West Indies, both financially and from a depth of talent of perspective, but that doesn't mean they can match England, Australia or India."

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/women-s-t20-world-cup-2026-clinging-on-to-crashing-out-semi-final-exit-exposes-south-africa-s-problems-1544099

#cricket #southafrica #sa

So, for absolute clarity:

Yes, switching to decentralized, independent alternatives is important. Long-term. I'm not against it.

No, I'm not stupid, ignorant, or a sellout just because I haven't left yet. I simply have other priorities and real hurdles, for fuck's sake.

No, I won't let people who have never been in my situation tell me how to distribute my art.

And yes, I'm afraid of AI. But I'm even more afraid of a community that leaves me hanging while I'm fighting against the wall.

If you want to boycott Bandcamp – go ahead. That's your right. But please, please stop punishing us artists for still being there. Why not just ask us what we need? Offer help instead of accusations. Support us in other ways (buy directly from us, share our links, send us Faircamp tutorials, offer to help us with deployment). That would be real activism. Not this mindless shouting.

Here we go SA vs ENG in the Women's T20 world cup semi-final, going to be tough against the hosts.

#savseng #cricket #t20worldCup

What happened to SitComs? This feels like a good theory from @adamconover .

https://youtu.be/gpSghW4J3ws

#tv #sitcom

Let July Be July ~ Morgan Harper Nichols

#Poetry

This is the dark future Microslop is planning, if you can get off it now.

https://youtu.be/U1qF5PtXVKE

#microsoft #eviltech #gamersnexus #onedrive #microslop

Imagine living in a country where for 30 years you watch the people at the top; politicians, business elite, police and judiciary loot and steal using government contracts and procedural bias, all while the poor keep getting poorer and imagine being so stupid that instead of turning your rage against those people you instead look at a poor migrants and blame them for everything that is falling apart around you. Yesterday alone cost R600 mil.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-06-30-political-project-march-and-march-signals-long-term-anti-migrant-agenda-in-lead-up-to-elections

#southafrica #xenophobia

Humans will always blame The Other rather than self critique. It's tiresome and lets the Rich off from their part in it all.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/30/they-will-attack-me-if-i-stay-immigrants-in-south-africa-flee-for-safety-amid-violence-and-anti-foreigner-protests

#Immigration #Politics #SouthAfrica

Jacob Zuma and his family, the Trumps of South Africa, continue their disgraceful history of corruption, grift and scapegoating, manipulating desperate, ignorant and stupid people. Deeply shameful day.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/cartoon/2026-06-29-schism/

#southafrica #xenophobia #jacobzuma #anc

"France is currently glowing red with heat. Not metaphorically. Literally. Land surface temperatures in parts of the country have been recorded at levels more commonly associated with the Sahara Desert.

France. The country of vineyards, alpine villages, stone farmhouses, rivers, forests and temperate European summers. Looking like the Sahara. That should stop us in our tracks.

The real story isn’t that France is having a heatwave. It’s that climate change is making places behave like somewhere else. Places are beginning to lose the climate that shaped their buildings, their farms, their infrastructure, their ecosystems, their communities, cultures and expectations of normal life.

France isn’t built for the Sahara. Its schools, homes, hospitals, railways, power stations and aged-care facilities weren’t designed for repeated extreme heat. Its rivers weren’t meant to run so hot that nuclear power stations have to reduce output because cooling water is too warm. Its classrooms weren’t meant to become dangerous places for children to sit exams."

https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/france-is-hotter-than-the-sahara-this-is-everyone-s-warning

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #France #Europe

This and reducing consumption and waste. We need real solutions not the fake ones pushed on us by the corporations and their politicians over the last 30 years.

"Electrifying everything sounds like the obvious path off fossil fuels, but it requires critical minerals we can’t source quickly enough. Alternative technologies and interventions can cut emissions faster, cheaper, and without mineral bottlenecks."

https://jacobin.com/2026/06/climate-electrification-homes-cars-decarbonization-tech

#climatechange #ClimateCrisis

Kurt Vonnegut once wrote we are addicted to fossil fuels, monkey's high on the supply. He thought we would run out and have to go cold turkey, instead we have more than enough to destroy ourselves, maybe hit bottom and have a come to Jesus moment.
I'm not sure what it'll take for Europeans to start taking this seriously but if not this week, then what exactly?

#Europeheatwave #ClimateCrisis #climatechange

A libellous sham or a monstrous truth that the worst of humanity rush to deny. A cartoon... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jun/26/the-state-of-israel-vs-the-children-of-gaza

We hear a lot about carbon capture from the supporters of fossil fuel exploitation, so here's Ben Jennings (Guardian) with a suggestion many of us here would endorse....

Let's do some real carbon capture....

#CarbonCapture #environment #politics #humour #inequality