Mastodawn

✨Dancing with Apollo✨

This stunning Roman fresco comes from the Villa Moregine which is located just outside Pompeii. The figure wears gorgeous diaphanous robes in blues and seems to float against the red background while strumming a lyre.

#FrescoFriday

thomkennon 3h ago

Michael 3h ago

Today, governments from over 50 countries are gathering in Colombia to talk about how to ditch fossil fuels for good.

While nations push to phase out coal, oil and gas, Starmer pumps billions into schemes that keep fossil fuel companies alive. Instead of leading the transition the UK drags its feet

thomkennon 4h ago

Radical Anthropology 7h ago

Preprint on effects of #menarche on mental health and the adolescent brain:

'These findings suggest that menarche is not only a reproductive milestone but a neuroendocrine driver of adolescent brain and mental health trajectories. This normative and easily identifiable marker could define a critical window for mental health screenings with greater precision than current age-based guidelines.'

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.13.718198v2

thomkennon 4h ago

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Radical Anthropology 7h ago

Hunter-gatherers are hugely aware of the significance of first menstruation. It stands as an organising principle in cosmology, and the ceremony around it is more memorable for the girls themselves than any form of so-called marriage.

This study claims 'onset of menarche, largely independent of timing and socio-environmental factors, preceded a significant spike in internalizing symptoms, while altering the rate of ongoing structural brain development'.

Independent of socio- environmental factors? And yet hunting and Indigenous peoples very deliberately furnish special space and time for a #menarcheal girl to collect her powerful 'thoughts'. This is intergenerational guidance and protection which, if proper care and attention is given, imply her thoughts become wrapped up in the health and welfare of the entire community. Easily, menstrual observance is equivalent of -- and probably foundational of -- shamanic/ healing observances.

Key refs below 👇

thomkennon 19h ago

Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴19h ago

From @chrismurphyct on🦋 4hrs ago:

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders.

Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order.

That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.
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Me:

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#USpol #ICE #Immigration

(Video at
https://bsky.app/profile/chrismurphyct.bsky.social/post/3mk6i6ix4v225)

thomkennon 1d ago

Signal 1d ago

We are very happy that today Apple issued a patch and a security advisory. This comes following 404 Media reporting that the FBI accessed Signal message notification content via iOS despite the app being deleted.

Apple’s advisory confirmed that the bugs that allowed this to happen have been fixed in the latest iOS release. You can read more here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/127002

About the security content of iOS 26.4.2 and iPadOS 26.4.2 - Apple Support

This document describes the security content of iOS 26.4.2 and iPadOS 26.4.2.

Apple Support

thomkennon 1d ago

Luigi. 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇮🇷 🇻🇪 🏴1d ago

As alegrías da infancia

thomkennon 2d ago

tante 2d ago

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@CarePackage17/116448327781336010

Be the change you want to see in the world.

thomkennon 2d ago

APC 2d ago

"When I question whether AI can ever be ethical or feminist (...) it doesn’t come from cynicism for the sake of it, but from years of watching patterns repeat. The promises to do better, the carefully crafted language of responsibility, the performance of listening, none of it has meaningfully shifted how these systems are built or who they serve."

New piece by Hija Kamran, part of the series "Don't ask AI, ask a peer," an initiative by APC, GenderIT and Global Voices.

https://genderit.org/feminist-talk/ai-work-us-it-will-have-stop-pretending-be-us

thomkennon 2d ago

Smashing Frames 2d ago

AI as a Fascist Artifact

(This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism and AI. One was in German at the Cables Of Resistance conference, one in English at the Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy. I added some shots of the slides I used as a structure for the text which might make it look a bit weird. You can just ignore the images if you want to. They are kinda like subchapter marks. The text is not exactly what I said but a longer version of my arguments that should be easier to […]

https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

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