RE: https://beige.party/@markandthewoofcrew/116858120882625140

Genius.

RE: https://esq.social/@annmlipton/116688815306639528

The thing with clouds is they will always rain on your parade. A lesson I relearn over and over.

Yesterday was my 67th birthday and I must admit I took this one hard. Feeling old for the first time. Spent the afternoon at the bar drinking old fashioneds and talking about how the world is going to hell in a handbasket.

Something we don't talk about enough is that #billionaires are deeply mentally unwell people. You cannot amass that kind of wealth without having a pretty serious mental disorder. You can google the name of any billionaire and see the receipts.

#UncontroversialTakes

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/02/us/peter-thiel-aspen-pope-china-ai-cec

Was thinking about how nearly all my trans friends use signal for communications, but how convincing my cis friends (save a couple who are pretty aware of the world, and one who is a journalist) to do so has been an exhausting effort to the point that I don't even bother anymore. The biggest argument is "but why????" from the safety bubble of a group of people who have never even glimpsed a thought of being persecuted for their own existence.

I've slightly adapted/expanded @liberty's LLM statement for my own website 🔨

https://tzovar.as/llms/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Joshuakevins12/116617488591022175

We recently started this project (sweet potatoes growing ) bug am looking for someone who can help us out by teaching us how to grow these potatoes effectively. The potatoes grew well and healthy looking but they didn't put on any potatoe over there down when we reached the day of harvesting , the we couldn't get anything.
YOUR IDEAS MATTER
BOOSTS WELCOME
#mastodon #solarpunk #solarpunksunday #today #fridaysforfuture #gardening #growyourown #fediverse #home #permaculture #garten #environment

Just Eat Cereal

digbysblog.net/2026/07/03/just-eat-cereal

I feel as if the cost of holiday meals was a major story throughout the Biden administration. I guess it’s old news because I haven’t seen much about this one. That reminds me of this, which has received remarkably little press: On Dec. 19, 2022,…

Note to folks in high heat areas: we have our lawn tool batteries charge in the garage. Usually the garage doesn't get hot enough to make a difference, but it did this week, and I'm having to replace some expensive batteries. Don't be like me. Bring the batteries in somewhere cooler if possible. They don't just drain in the heat, it can ruin them.

RE: https://techhub.social/@abbas_dp/116850818231544177

Wow. Just -- wow.

Free Software, Free Society

This slogan was always the last sentence of my presentations introducing free software.

Presentations whose topics were coordinated to be held at the global #LibrePlanet conference (https://libreplanet.com/) at Shiraz University (https://shirazu.ir/).

But destiny turned out this way, and this conference was planned and executed in Shiraz Prison instead of Shiraz University.

Of course, at that time, Shiraz Prison served as a university for us; a space full of artists, engineers, doctors, and educated people, each of whom was imprisoned on charges of acting against national security or political activity.

It was a joke we always made. We used to say that with this many restrictions and warnings from regulatory and governmental bodies, we would eventually be forced to hold the conferences in prison.

I have signed undertakings regarding the margins of events many times, and on several occasions we were prohibited from attending relevant centers by judicial orders.

It was the accumulation of these very incidents that moved our venue from universities and innovation centers to coffee shops and parks.

But in the end, that same bitter joke of ours became reality, and this time it was prison's turn to host free software events and conferences.

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@IsMitchMcConnellDeadYet/116857943304178719

Fuck.

Do you know your home phone number?

What we thought was one distraught bumble bee was in fact an entire enormous colony of bumble bees making a nest/hive out of Gus' fur under the deck, so we won't be staining it until the end of summer in solidarity with our buzzing brethren. Go forth and be fluffy little ones. We can work on the front stairs instead.

Will you be celebrating tomorrow?

#USPol #4thOfJuly

Me: Goddamn that guy deserves to die

Gandalf: Many who die, deserve life. Can you give it to them?

Me: Actually yeah, we can probably prevent a lot of innocent deaths if we can just kill that guy who I was just saying, deserves to die

Gandalf: Yeah that's fair, fuck him

Hey, Evan, this shit isn't okay. You and your bots don't have permission to share my communities outside of Fedi (or at all).

Again, I didn't even know you were doing this, because you *didn't ask*—you just assumed you had the right.

I know I blocked you and defederated all your projects already, so maybe one of your friends or bots can let you know you should delete these (and any other @alice, @AltAfterDark, @alice_watson@infosec.exchange, @alice@masto.thefword.club, and @alice_watson@mastodon.social posts).

#ConsentMatters #NoBots #NoTagsPub

I've only recently learned that ACAB means "all cops are bastards". I thought it meant "assigned 'cunt' at birth".

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/116840120508755510

Reminder that Bezos is, and the morbidly wealthy very often are, dull witted and incurious.

They think, and they want us to think, that good character and high intelligence underlie their material accumulations, whereas it's mostly luck and the absence of empathy.

We are smarter than them and we are better than them. They are hoarders, sociopaths, and criminals who have become rich by being willing to do things that decent people wouldn't.