Welcome to 2026. Your average morning headlines:
- That TV show you love is cancelled
- That celebrity you like is, unfortunately, a transphobe
- Record storm and/or heatwave somewhere in the world
- Computers are worse & more costly than even one day before
- Cat photos tho
@vampiress and „they“ tell „us“ that there is no algorithm

@vampiress

Computers are only worse if you run software that's worse. 🐧

@argv_minus_one “more expensive” also adds to “worse”

@vampiress

Yeah that's true.

@argv_minus_one (I actually was going to write hardware costs but you gotta trim somewhere or your shitpost is a novel)

@vampiress @argv_minus_one

They're also worse overall tho. They're all adding AI and tracking software that can't be removed and such.

@argv_minus_one @vampiress If you can change the computer's software. if it was not banned by Starmer, Carney, Cali Dems or Friedrich Merz.

@canleaf

Merz changed his mind recently and said he's against a social media ban. https://netzpolitik.org/2026/katholikentag-merz-sagt-nein-zu-social-media-verbot/ Not sure how he feels about operating systems, but I'm taking that as a good sign.

Cali Dems are amending their law to exempt open source operating systems. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1856 This bill still has serious issues, though…

Starmer's gone, so his opinion is irrelevant.

Carney, I worry about.

@vampiress

Merz sagt „Nein“ zu Social-Media-Verbot

Vor laufender Kamera wird der Bundeskanzler auf dem Katholikentag gefragt: „Verbot, Social Media, sind Sie dafür?“ Und Friedrich Merz sagt: „Nein.“ Was heißt das für die Debatte?

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@argv_minus_one @vampiress Merz is a domestic Schmerz. i want hime gone from office. "Sie arbeiten nicht so viel, 73 Stunden Woche"

@vampiress You forgot:
- Insects jeopardize your life

A few days ago in the US, it was an outbreak of screwworms. Yesterday it was lone star ticks. Today, 24 million bees were accidentally released into a neighborhood. That is a lot of bees.

@_the_cloud @vampiress

Not the bees!

@tezoatlipoca @_the_cloud @vampiress
Well, Mr. President, it's the bees and spiders again... they stole my food stamps and sold 'em to the rats! I try to go down to my car fo' to honk the horn fo' hep but the snakes has gotten it for the cockaroaches. I go back upstairs but the spiders has jammed the police lock! I ain't been inside fo' a week, and I know dat my wife is sleepin' with the bees!
– Firesign Theatre, _I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus_
@_the_cloud @vampiress
We can probably just roll that up under "Your government hates you and wants you to die" - but is that news? ;)
@vampiress An expanded version of the famous “The world is broken and kittens patch it up"
世界破破烂烂,小猫咪缝缝补补
@vampiress - That software you love is now AI

@vampiress it’s all over when they come for the cat photos though.

🤨

@vampiress I have the solution for the first point. I watch anime in crunchyroll. My expectation is one season (it's not unusual for animes to end with a thanks for watching screen). If there are more seasons, it's bonus :3
List of Andromeda characters - Wikipedia

@vampiress nice.. Now we have more time to live our life with our family and friends & neighbors 😂😊
@vampiress I am not celebrity, not a TV show, but I am nota transphobe.