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Pete @caffetino.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Whoops! @[email protected] seems to be down! (Already!)

Our engineers are working on the problem. We expect normal service to be resumed in the next 12hrs.

Pete @caffetino.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Still struggling with DNS records. If there are any #selfhosting folks out there who can help me....

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Dante SCAREline 🏴‍☠️ @dantescanline.autonomous.zone.ap.brid.gy · 5d

"... A bearded vulture nest can host the animals for multiple centuries. Objects made by humans, including paper litter and plastic bags often find their way into the nesting components. And after surveying multiple sites in Spain, researchers determined that some of these accumulated artifacts […]

Original post on autonomous.zone

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Pete @caffetino.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

@stefano good work!

Pete @caffetino.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

A really interesting article on Social Media usage by John Burn-Murdoch in the FT:

Have we passed peak social media

https://on.ft.com/4pOoLiV

#socialmedia #antisocialmedia

Photo of a graph showing social media usage to keep up with friends, share opinions and meet new people going down, while following celebrities and filling spare time have increased.

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Dear LLM, please make me a pet site about cats. Make sure to include recipes!

#ai #slop #aislop #llm

AI slop website with "A Guide on How to Cook A Cat: Preparing, Cooking Methods, and Serving Suggestions"

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Pete @caffetino.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Bambino #1 (11) had an email last night at 7:30pm from school asking them to prepare a 2 minute speech for this morning!

Why are we asking our children to be checking emails so late in an evening?

Pete @caffetino.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

"2026 is all about AI and agentic AI" 😴

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Eponymic Cradle @eopoint.com · 10d

cait (and adonis)
@cait.bsky.social
i'm sorry to say this but if you send me a tiktok of a person telling a story into the camera for 3 minutes i'm not fucking watching it. just in general ever. people need to start typing things up again because i can read so much faster than you can talk and i'm not wasting my precious time on this

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Simon Phipps @meshed.cloud · 9d

The @EUCommission would like to hear your views on the governance and sustainability of critical open source software. The survey closes October 5th.

https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/FOSSEPS_Governance_and_Sustainability_Survey

#OpenSource #governance #sustainability

Study of the European Commission: Survey on the Governance and Sustainability of Critical Open Source Software

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Satori :Skye: 🌷 @satori.mastodon.thirring.org.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Just an interesting side note about the crow who finally left for warmer southern weather yesterday. All summer, I washed out the birdbath daily. Each time, there was always at least one flower in the water. I never thought much of it, since the flowers […]

[Original post on mastodon.thirring.org]

A birdbath beside some petunias and thunbergia has a single orange thunbergia
Blossom floating in the water.

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Helen @miffyhelen.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 9d

[Mad about work hours and childcare]

TL; dr: fuck capitlism.

As a member of the DINK* community, this won't be news to many of you. But I got mad at work today when someone sent round an email desperate for shift swaps, because they don't have childcare on those days and they've already used […]

Original post on beige.party

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

A great researcher I work with @carlysagan is looking for research funding or a remote position! It is really depressing how little funding is available to research the effects of satellite reentries... we REALLY need to get more scientists on this, because 1-5 Starlinks per day are reentering […]

Original post on mastodon.social

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Pete @caffetino.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d

#selfhosting - Everything ready to go except certificates and backups... Probably another week or so before I can get them sorted.

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Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Along with @__nate__, I have a new article out, called "After Twitter":

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051251366907

The article is #openaccess and is our analysis of the fragmentation, polarization, and protective connections we're seeing across a major portion of social media […]

Original post on aoir.social

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Pete @caffetino.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d

@rwg @__nate__ This is REALLY interesting reading. Thanks 🙏

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 11d

My family came here 50 years ago. They've worked, paid taxes, raised families, been good citizens.

My many colleagues and friends who were either born elsewhere, or their parents were, the same.

It's so offensive to be told you're here on sufferance.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 11d

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!

Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Tim Berners-Lee explains why he gave away the #www for free.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free

"For the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also […]

Original post on fediscience.org

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Pete @caffetino.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Disgraceful.

PGA silent after Ryder Cup MC leads foul-mouthed chants abusing Rory McIlroy https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/27/pga-silent-after-ryder-cup-mc-leads-foul-mouthed-chants-abusing-rory-mcilroy?CMP=share_btn_url

#golf #rydercup

PGA silent after Ryder Cup MC leads foul-mouthed chants abusing Rory McIlroy

The Ryder Cup host organisation did not respond beyond boosting security and posting requests asking for decorum that were booed

www.theguardian.com

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Pete @caffetino.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

This is an excellent, thought-provoking article.

How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power
https://on.ft.com/3Ko3tIC

How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power

Digital moguls and strongman leaders are more than disrupters of the old liberal order. Together they seek to sweep it away, writes Giuliano da Empoli

www.ft.com

Pete @caffetino.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

They say the mark of a good baker is in the consistency of the shape and size. Every roll should be identical.

I think I've cracked it.

😂

Pete @caffetino.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

ENGLAND 33 - 13 CANADA !!

What a cracking game! Well done #redroses !

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/czjvgj81y2mo

Canada 13-33 England: Red Roses win Women's Rugby World Cup

England produce a clinical performance to defeat Canada at Twickenham and win the Women's Rugby World Cup for a third time.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 13d

The platformization and datafication of early childhood is going great for data extractive startups and hackers

"The software is widely used by other nurseries and childcare organisations, and it says on its website it is used by more than one million 'owners, managers, practitioners and families'"

Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 13d

BBC News - Nursery hackers threaten to publish more children's profiles - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nursery hackers threaten to publish more children's profiles

The criminals say they will share 30 more profiles along with 100 employees' data if a ransom is not paid.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Pete @caffetino.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d

According to Copilot, I had 71 emails and 325 messages in the past 24hrs. No wonder I feel drained!

Pete @caffetino.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d

@jekely do you reckon they will sell these in NZ?