🐑 🐏🐑 🐏🐑 🐏 #DefaidodonDay #DyddDefaidodon starts now! It's time for lamb spam - shear joy and woolly good vibes all day! On this day every year we celebrate our fuzzy farm friends by drowning the fediverse in sheep! Got no sheep? We happily accept goats, chickens, horses, cows. But mainly sheep. No use bleating around the bush, just post something, tag it, and watch our annual flock grow! :sheep_cute: :sheep_cute: :sheep_cute:

Pet peeve for me: in my Mastodon desktop interface my profile has "Posts" and then "Posts and replies". I always assume "Posts" has my posts, and "Posts and replies" has my posts and my replies. But in fact "Posts" is not my posts, it's my Activity. Boosts and posts. A lot more boosts than posts. Mostly boosts. "Posts and replies" - which sounds like everything in the previous button plus more stuff, removes the boosts. cont'd...

#NosCalanGaeaf https://stephraemoran.com/nos-galan-gaeaf-a-traditional-night-of-the-supernatural/

Every day is a new adventure

I had a lovely live-streamed chat with @npub13c7y...3szn this week on the 50th episode of @npub16k9n...2nry - we talked IFTAS, moderation, trust and safety, the Fediverse in general, and a little bit of life story crept in at the end - it was a blast to talk about the things so close to my heart in such a welcoming environment! It's long, but if you're interested you can catch up on the podcast at

Fireside Fedi

Episode 50 - Jaz-Michael King - IFTAS - Trust and Safety - Livestream 2025-10-21

Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 50 of Fireside Fedi! I

and I think audio only shows up at @npub12maw...laye at some point

Sea Otters Are Stealing Surfboards in California. Again.

Sea Otters Are Stealing Surfboards in California. Again.

Two years after Otter 841 menaced wave riders near Santa Cruz, there have been new encounters between the furry marine mammals and surfers.

The Outsize Influence of Wales on Fantasy, Music, and Movies Anna Fiteni explores what Welsh Culture has to do with Fleetwood Mac, Lord of the Rings, Hayao Miyazaki, and more.

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The Outsize Influence of Wales on Fantasy, Music, and Movies

Wales is a country with a population of 3.1 million. It’s about 8,000 square miles, which means it could fit inside Texas roughly 26 times. Peopl...

🦉 PSA - with earthstream.social disappearing I almost lost Owls in Towels, but they are reconstituted at @npub1yujy...425k Recommend #FediAdmins / #MastoAdmins purge the earthstream.social domain, no self-destruct was sent as far as I can tell. https://fedi.wrm.sr/instance/earthstream.social

Cofio Aberfan. I, like many here, had family that raced to the village to help dig. Growing up, any time a car trip took us past the village, the whole car would be silent. The event is considered one of the worst mining disasters in British history and was entirely preventable. Concerns about the tip were ignored by the National Coal Board. If you'd like to learn more, here's a BCC documentary "Surviving Aberfan"

👋 If you can see this toot you are on the #Fediverse enjoying #BetterSocialMedia How flippin' awesome is that!? In one or two sentences, tell me one thing that stands out for you personally, one of the reasons you enjoy being here. And if you're ok with me using your answer in promotional material to get more people here, add the tag #TellEveryone 📢