When you're able, take a few moments and rest.

@alex Here's a post about preventing your RPG from harming people that stuck with me: https://jamesmendezhodes.com/blog/2018/10/28/the-giant-robot-of-offense

It's not easy, and is probably impossible to prevent 100% of the time, but thinking through how your work could be used to harm people is vital.

Bonfire Social 1.0.5 is out! 🔥

Archipelago mode means instead of open federation (connect to everyone, then play whack-a-mole blocking bad actors), you can now choose to federate *only* with a hand-picked allow-list of trusted people or servers. Communities can link up into an "archipelago" of like-minded "islands" with shared rules, ideal for tight-knit groups, neighbourhoods, assemblies, co-ops, or orgs that want to connect with each other but not necessarily the whole internet.

We also added new admin throughput controls as our latest take on "calm empowerment": simple defaults first, curated overrides next, and full advanced control behind an explicit gesture. In practice, you can keep a busy instance responsive by picking a speed preset, prioritising certain kinds of activity, or fine-tuning each background task queue, no config files or restarts needed.

Also new in 1.0.5:

• Faster search, now powered by Sonic
• Broadcast announcements to everyone on your instance
• Embeddable widgets: put your pinned posts on any website
• PGP-encrypted system emails
• Plus lots of improvements and fixes (federation, polls, media, accessibility, mobile)

Blog post and changelog: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...

Just as urgent as imagining the peaceful, just livable world we want so badly, it seems to me, is letting go of the habits, thought patterns, ambitions, and internalized illusions that block movement towards those visions

Happy Disability Pride Month.

#DisabilityPrideMonth

Last weekend, I went looking for this structure. It's a replica of a section of the 'Sweet Track' - a Neolithic walkway in the Avalon Marshes. The original was 2 km long, and built in the spring of 3806 BCE. It's named after the peat cutter who first discovered it, in 1970.

#History #Photography #Archaeology #Somerset

i’ve been far too industrious lately & thus have decreed today to be a day of doing nothing. please join me in this pursuit, if you can.

I do sometimes wonder whether the tendency (at least in Western culture) to applaud saving things from crisis but not the work needed to prevent the crisis in the first place is something innate in human nature or something about the stories we choose to tell. Superman saving someone from a burning building makes a much better blockbuster than Superman diligently lobbying for better fire building safety codes and ensuring unscrupulous landlords don't cut costs by dodging them.

Coco: "I’ve unlocked a new response to the ‘are you sick’ question. I’ve been trying out “nah, I just don’t catch or spread”. And you can almost see the gears grinding to a halt as they process it."

Source: https://x.com/cocomarvgrows/status/2072366596543095173

I wish there was a specific appliance review site for people with sensory sensitivities, like everyone leaving reviews would focus on sounds, lights, etc that might be a problem.

Interesting insight from social scientist Stephanie Coontz (paraphrased in a review of her new book): A stereotypical and often toxic version of masculinity assumes that men and women must be opposites, but "manhood was once counterposed more against childhood than womanhood. Maturity was what turned a boy into a man - the development of self-control and judgment, not aggressiveness."

My wife took a three-day course where everyone embroidered family photographs onto heirloom textiles. She's been working on her piece for two years and now there's an exhibition. About 40 pieces. ❤️

https://www.jojis-collective.com/2026/01/19/261204-06/

#art #textile #embroidery #craft

The platform roofs at the new #cambridgesouth railway station are made of #solar panels. The panels aren't on the roof, they *are* the roof.

Survey for admins about AI crawlers affecting services:
https://umfrage.uibk.ac.at/limesurvey/allgemein/898996?lang=en

Data Centres coming to a venue near you ?

This is *very* worth reading 👇

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/29/were-up-against-forces-that-have-all-the-money-in-the-world-erin-brockovich-on-her-battle-against-ai-datacentres

Want to test your accessibility knowledge? Dave Davies built this free accessibility quiz to help you. You get 128 hand written questions across WCAG 2.2, ARIA, semantic HTML and contrast. And for each, an explanation for each answer

https://a11y.quest/

"Today, Capital B is launching its biggest project ever.

For the Record: A Black Oral History Archive is a collection of over 100 firsthand stories from Black Americans across regions, generations, and identities."

https://fortherecordarchive.org/

"If you begin from need, you invest directly in the things that make lives livable:
• social housing,
• reliable public transport,
• well-funded schools,
• accessible healthcare, and
• genuine social security.

"If you begin from growth, you wait for the market to deliver those things as a byproduct of expansion, and the evidence of the past four decades is that the wait is indefinite."

"Power without resource is not empowerment. It is the appearance of empowerment, with the frustration and eventual disillusion that follows when the promises cannot be kept. This is where we are already."

- Richard Murphy on Andy Burnham's plans, "We cannot trickle our way to a fairer Britain":
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/06/29/we-cannot-trickle-our-way-to-a-fairer-britain/

#AndyBurnham #LabourParty #economics #UKPol

Each broom agent can spawn additional, autonomous broom agents, each with their own pails. This allows apprentices to accelerate monotonous water-fetching tasks and save their time and energy for more interesting and useful work

@StingrayBadger Add in cycle parking areas. Cyclists need shade even more than drivers do. #CycleParkingAudit #Solar #UK