Hat tip to the lad that, early this morning, left one front door on Hotwells Road wearing only PJ bottoms and sliders then vanished into another a few doors down.

#Bristol #HatTip #Students

OK, wait. Ich grabe weiter.

git blame liegt falsch, denn ich habe nur den Source code umformatiert. Habe mir jetzt die gesamte Historie dieser Figure gezogen und sie stammt tatsächlich von @frederic_horn !!

Er hat im November 2019 den Commit "Grafik mit 'F' zu 'Determinanten und Orientierung" verfasst und \pgftransformcm aus https://tikz.dev/base-transformations gefunden!

#hattip

Coordinate, Canvas, and Nonlinear Transformations - PGF/TikZ Manual

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"This leads to three possible outcomes:

* no government dares to take action, and they keep to calling things “completely unacceptable” ...

* One government takes action against X, and the US regime retaliates so hard that no other government will dare ...

* One government takes enforcement action against X, creating a permission structure for other governments to also take actions."

@laurenshof, 2026

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/a-power-problem-not-a-platform-problem/

#HatTip to @wedistribute for the link to this article.

X Is a Power Problem, Not a Platform Problem

Fediverse Report #148: X is not a just platform problem anymore, it's a power problem, and why you cannot compete as platforms with power.

connectedplaces.online

#HatTip to @blocsonic for releasing music by Louis Lingg and the Bombs. Also, to Donnie Ozone and the crew at Tha Bloc Report podcast. Who introduced me to the band by playing a whole bunch of their tracks - including Freaky Deaky and Nowhereland from that 2021 album - on an April 2024 edition of the show;

https://blocsonic.com/bloccasts/episode/the-april-2024-episode/

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#CCMusic

Episode 68: The April 2024 Episode

Here we go folks! Donnie Ozone and Timezone Lafontaine return with another fantastic episode of Tha Bloc Report! A couple weeks ago Parisian Punk band Louis Lingg and The Bombs dropped their fantastic new EP “Can You Hear The Uproar?” right here at blocSonic! So, for this month’s New Music and Arch…

#Listening to Straightlining by hardcase #Otautahi rockers AVON DADS, released in 2025;

https://avondads.bandcamp.com/album/straightlining

#HatTip to Freak the Sheep, who played this funny and rather catchy track on the March 12 edition of their show on 95bFM. Which I catch up with from The Tron via their podcast feed;

https://feeds.95bfm.com/link/16767/16982213/freak-the-sheep-w-chris-cudby-march-12-2025

They've been playing a lot of hardcase tunes on the show of late. Long may this continue!

#music #rock #comedy #NerdRock #AvonDads #Aotearoa #NZ

Straightlining, by AVON DADS

2 track album

AVON DADS

@ChrisMayLA6 Obviously, the previous control for prices was competition but given the regulators everywhere appear to have turned a blind eye to the myriad of mergers, acquisitions and mega-mergers ...

We have a system of monopolies everywhere, hiding in plain sight through sub-brands and partnerships etc.

Once monopolies are in place, there path is clear.

#hattip to @pluralistic and his book Enshittification.

While adding @endurain to the ActivityPub watchlist for fediverse.party, I noticed that @forgejo has added code enabling me to add a fediverse address to a wiki page on @Codeberg, and have it automatically become a link to the profile for that address. Great stuff!

#HatTip to whoever had that idea and coded it, and also to @smallcircles for tipping me off about Endurain, and supplying the info about on the Delightful list that I was able to draw from for our listing.

#FediverseParty #CodeBerg

I just started reading the blog of @gilles. #HatTip to @mayel for the link to Gilles' homepage.

Anyway, I read this blog post;
https://blog.gillesdutilh.com/2025/03/the-pain-in-mansplaining/

... and saw "fediverse reactions" at the bottom. So I tried putting that URL into the @Mastodon search bar. No dice.

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#UX #FediverseUX

#Listening to Skip That Shit by Raiden Freeman, from the 2023 album DF2;

https://bankruptworldwide.bandcamp.com/album/df2

This is some funny shit. I dare you to listen to it. I double dog dare ya!

#HatTip to Chris Cudby of the Freak the Sheep kiwi music shop on 95bFM, for introducing me to this crackup track.

#music #comedy #electronica #RaidenFreeman #95bFM #FreakTheSheep

DF2, by Raiden Freeman

14 track album

Bankrupt Records

#HatTip to the @fdroid threadiverse community, and others, for offering such rapid and thorough clarifications. Many thanks to @lnxw37a2 @hildegarde @alienghic @plm00 @Axolotl_cpp.

Thanks also to @tootbrute @kurikai for offering suggestions for other soft keyboard apps, and to @snek_boi for reminding me to format the first sentence of my Mastodon post so it becomes a good title in the threadiverse post.