Mastodawn

@ColesStreetPothole
Smokey Bear requests that you write your congress persons to support repeal of 16 U.S. Code § 580p-2 so that he need not go on public assistance.

Loquendum Feb 17

F-Droid Feb 17

The #FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and #Android will be locked-down in under 200 days.

If you care about the freedom to control your devices and care about the privacy of you data, please contact your representative and make your voice heard.

https://keepandroidopen.org/ (thanks @marcprux) has the resources to guide you.

We know users will rarely visit the site so the Client(s) will get a banner soon too.

Thank you for your support!

Keep Android Open

Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

Loquendum Feb 14

AJ Sadauskas Feb 14

Recently, there was a question by @taylorlorenz about how you explain the Fediverse to someone who doesn't use it.

And usually, what we tend to do is we talk about servers and decentralisation and federation and ActivityPub and all these highly technical concepts.

I've been thinking about it, and all that technical stuff is really impressive work by people far more clever than I'll ever be.

But for me, that technology is a facilitating thing. It's like trying to describe how a bicycle works, rather than why you ride it.

Instead, what the Fediverse is, is a place to have conversations online without algorithms, AI, and ads getting in the way.

Which is increasingly a rare thing online.

Almost the entirety of the internet, from SEO on the web to YouTube to TikTok to Spotify to Instagram and X and Facebook, has been turned into a race to game an algorithm designed to sell ads.

What makes the Fedi unique is that it's not that.

And I suspect if you're trying to persuade someone to try Mastodon (or Lemmy, or Pixelfed, or GtS, etc), you'll get a lot further explaining it as algorithm-free, ad-free, AI-free conversations, rather than trying to describe a decentralised protocol.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub

Loquendum Feb 12

Excerpt from Rhapsody in Blue featuring a virtuoso trumpet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh55p_zMxI4

Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue | Alexander Gavrylyuk (piano), David Elton (trumpet) | ACO

YouTube

Loquendum Jan 6

Happy Capitol Attack Day. Another date that will live in infamy, or at least until an attempt to prevent the peaceful transfer of power in the US is successful.
#government #Constitution

Loquendum Jan 6

Bison Jan 6

You can commission me ✌️

This is the kind of thing I do.

You can share that post to help me, if you want 🙏

#art

Loquendum Jan 5

Florida is the first state decluttering itself of excess children. If we lose herd immunity, we will bring back diseases that had formerly been eliminated, and some children who would otherwise have been protected will perish. This is war against decades of lifesaving science. Confusingly, this effort is being taken up at the same time that the same people are very concerned about dropping birth rates. https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/09/florida-vaccine-children-mandate/684110/?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ1KV5cFKtQASw6v7_TPkcvA
#satire

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.

The Atlantic

Loquendum Dec 8

Randahl Fink Dec 4

Neville Chamberlain has been ridiculed since 1938 for coming back to the UK and waving his peace agreement with Hitler, as if anyone has ever been able to get a trustworthy deal with a psychopathic killer.

But Chamberlain made the mistake of trusting Hitler only once. Trump has made that mistake throughout 2025.

It has been 319 days since Trump would end the Ukraine war in 24 hours. And Trump still thinks there is a deal to be made with the psychopathic killer in the Kremlin.

Loquendum Dec 8

Randahl Fink Dec 8

In my neighborhood, I often see parcel delivery trucks from 5 different transport companies wasting energy to drive to the same homes on the same day.

This is unregulated capitalism.

Then comes trash day, and 1 company arrives with 1 garbage truck and empties all the trash cans in 1 go.

This is regulated capitalism.

The municipality decided only 1 company could win the garbage truck service job. They offer up the job every couple of years, 1 company wins, and we all save CO2 emissions.

Loquendum Dec 8

Jester Dec 6

There once was a girl from Brunt
Standing in water up to her knees;
This poem doesn't rhyme yet,
but wait 'tin the tide comes in

#jokes #limerick #funny #poem #humour #joke