I just started reading the blog of @gilles. #HatTip to @mayel for the link to Gilles' homepage.
Anyway, I read this blog post;
blog.gillesdutilh.com/2025/03/the-pain-in-mans...
... and saw "fediverse reactions" at the bottom. So I tried putting that URL into the @Mastodon search […]
#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 […]
#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 […]
Like a lot over the last few years, I've been getting really into the idea of regressing to a simpler phone that's just a phone, and demoting my touchscreen to being a pocket tablet. I've posted a few times on the #DumbPhone tag (#HatTip to @Mastodon for the feature that allows me to filter […]
#Listening to One Million Pines, from from the 6 track mock rock mini-album Measure Twice, Cut Once. Released in 2022 by Ōtepoti band by Night Lunch;
nightlunch666.bandcamp.com/album/measure-twice-cut-...
Bogans rock on steroids, making Deja Voodoo look sedate and sensible by […]
Just for shits and gigs, I've been doing some reading about the origins of Huawei's mobile platform #HarmonyOS;
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/harmonyo...
(1/?)
#HatTip to @billbennett for the Ars link, which I found here; /https://www […]
Also, could easily say the same to the original! #HatTip
#TIL about the #NivenlyFoundation;
"We set the precedent for member-controlled and democratically-governed technical organizations. We support open-source services and projects around the world. We believe in balancing power between our contributors and maintainer(s) that sustain our projects […]
#TIL about #MOBIFREE;
"The Freedom in Human-centred and Ethical Mobile Software (MOBIFREE) project works to give European citizens and organizations more choice in, and access to, human-centred and ethical mobile software."
https://mobifree.org/#how-it-works
#HatTip to the @fdroidorg folks […]
"The fundamental problem, as I see it, is not that social media misinforms individuals about what is true or untrue but that it creates publics with malformed collective understandings.”
#HenryFarrell, 2025
www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-socia...
#HatTip to […]
If anyone is wondering why they're getting a bunch of notifications about posts featuring #Disintermedia blog pieces, I just edited them to replace the SS links with links to my Ghost instance at disintermedia.net.nz.
#HatTip to @lightweight for providing hosting and a huge amount of […]
If you need some utter sillyness to distract you from the interactive horror novel that is postmodern life, here's an oldie but a goodie;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE
#HatTip to Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist for reminding me of this.
#MindCandy
#Listening to A Better World, a 2025 album by political punk bands The Dissidents and D.O.V.E;
https://thedissidents.bandcamp.com/album/a-better-world
If you need to feel less alone in your frustration at the designer dysfunction of a world built for profit not people, check it out.
#HatTip […]
#HatTip to Alternatives Airwaves, who featured Rebuffering in a Nov 2023 edition of their podcast. A mix of corporate rock, of which the podcast delivers only the intro and outro, and CreativeCommons tracks, played in their full glory;
https://pinecast.com/feed/alternative-airwaves
#podcasts […]
#Listening to Who Can You Trust? The opening track of the 5 song EP of the same name by Arden and the Wolves, released in 2018;
ardenandthewolves.bandcamp.com/album/who-can-you-trust
Hot take; most provocative album cover ever.
#HatTip to Douglas @Rushkoff for introducing me to this […]
"Advertising executives aren't 'creatives'. It's like calling landlords architects."
#DominicHoey, How to Lose Money
#HatTip to Freak the Sheep for exposing me to this righteous spoken word track.
feeds.95bfm.com/link/16767/17208338/frea... […]
#Listening to The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, specifically their 2012 album Twenty Dozen;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx_yXkB5eD0
"I'm a dirty old man, and I feel like spanking somebody!"
Yeah, more or less 😁
#HatTip to @nevar23, whose October post linking to the Dozen's Cissy Strut […]
grApple and Goggle vetting developers for the privilege of having their apps available on the iThing and Android OS they control is a protection racket. It's not a legitimate business practice, it's a shakedown. This is not business, it's organised crime, and these tech mafia need to be […]
“This case targets our rights to protest, speak freely, and associate with anyone who disagrees with this government … I’ve spent my career fighting America’s backwards slide towards fascism and I’m not going to give up now.”
#KatAbughazaleh, 2025 […]
"Someone once told me art is like emotional nutrition.
That made sense to me. Art feeds my feelings.
And if that's the case, consuming AI art is like eating styrofoam."
@oatmeal,
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
#HatTip to @lightweight for the link.
#MOLE #AI #AIArt
So sehr treffsicher auf den Punkt gebracht!
#HatTip
thanks #HatTip
#hattip to the wonderful Lauren Collins and her ‘Lettre Recommandé’ also now over on Substack www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/... (a French summer described in her latest post + this)
"No wealthy democracy with nuclear weapons has ever fallen to fascism. The 1930s examples everyone cites were broken countries. Weimar Germany was weakened by World War I and hyperinflation. Italy was barely industrialized. Spain was largely agrarian. They didn’t have the world’s reserve […]
#TIL that;
"Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision was formed by the amalgamation of the New Zealand Film Archive Ngā Kaitiaki O Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, and the Television New Zealand Archive between 2012 and 2014." […]
The Mets fans are travelling well, and they're hella chill #HatTip
love to see a next level wife guy. #hattip
