Mastodawn

MAGA 2024: "You can't trust anything the government says! They're all corrupt commies who hate America!"
MAGA 2025: "Who needs due process? If the government says they're criminals, that's good enough for me!"

Elrond Hubbard 22h ago

God

22h ago

Hey cable news, keep it in your pants -- it's an increasingly global war, not Shark Week.

Elrond Hubbard 1d ago

Seen today next to the bay in Ocean City, MD, I saw a half-dozen of these birds. I suspect they were juvenile Red-winged Blackbirds. Can you confirm or deny this ID, please? They were about the right size and tho it's hard to see, they had some streaking on their breast/belly.
#WhatsThisBird #birding

Elrond Hubbard 1d ago

The mini golf course here has fountains of what can best be described as Ty D Bowl blue water.

Elrond Hubbard 1d ago

David Ho 1d ago

Look people, no matter how much we destroy the Earth by polluting it with CO₂, microplastics, PFAS, etc. everywhere, and even if AMOC shuts down and both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melt, the Earth will still be infinitely more habitable than Mars. Mars is a shithole and we're not going.

Elrond Hubbard 2d ago

Pusher of Pixels 3d ago

Me: Are those brownies?
Wife: No, it's double choc banana bread.
Me: Ok.
Wife: Really can't taste the banana there's so much chocolate
Me: You don't have to keep selling it

Elrond Hubbard 2d ago

Stefan 2d ago

SpaceX - it’s not rocket science

Elrond Hubbard 2d ago

Google Maps is better than most businesses' own website. For example, I'm at the beach and I can see a store that's part of a small chain across the street from our condo and I want to know if it's open. I can't tell by looking at it. It's early and there's no traffic. Duck Duck Go finds the website. Website has online shopping options and wants my email address. It does not have store hours OR a link to locations (WTF?) but the search results did, and when I find the location it does not have the hours-- just the address and a phone number. I open Google Maps, tap the link across the street and it instantly tells me it's open now.

Elrond Hubbard 2d ago

James Gleick 2d ago

You wish more of your friends and family would join the fediverse, and you’re worn out trying to persuade them, and you’re more than a bit frustrated. Because if they’re still away on Bluesky or Instagram or whatever, they’re not in this part of your life.

Here is Tim Chambers facing the problem head on. I don’t know who needs to read this, but everyone needs to read this.

https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html

#mastodon #fediverse

The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix)

So, confession time: I was recently helping a new client get set up on the Fediverse—guiding them through their first steps into our glorious decentralized galaxy. And seeing it all again through fresh eyes? Reader, it was brutal. So much of what should be table stakes for any social media UX in the year of our Lord 2025 still is missing or deeply broken still. I know progress has been made and a good fight, fought.

Elrond Hubbard 2d ago

I never thought SCOTUS would be described as results-oriented, but that seems to fit the Roberts court. And to think Roberts is worried about the court's loss of respect!