The robin came to say hello when I was gardening too, although it refused to pause in a convenient spot where Friend could give it a boop so extraordinary measures were required.
You know the only way to tell if I've really been gardening or not is whether a new feather folk appears on the timeline.
Tada!
RE: https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116186829550751203
A great read!
"I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. I never expected a lot of things. But there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage. Just someone who spent twenty years studying Arctic policy posting a thread at 2 AM because they think you should understand what's happening. It's the internet I was promised in 1996. It only took thirty years and the complete collapse of American journalism to get here."
The creepy system that serves you targeted ads has been used by the government to track peoples' locations, new reporting confirms. https://eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/targeted-advertising-gives-your-location-government-just-ask-cbp
RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116178635828161083
This is why blocking ads and trackers is not just a suggestion. It should be a baseline of your online existence.
@rstevens you are aware that those plant-mister squirty things can also be filled with white spirits?
;)
@ai6yr the heatsource could be the expensive gpu array running the internal llm...
Sounds like we're about to get a lot more Linux users!
UPDATE: This is false. See below
@stavvers truly an Evergreen tweet
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.