Green light. #photography

We just transitioned CoSocial from an ad-hoc combine of AWS, OVH, and DO to @npub1c36h...t8sz, see

FediHost - Managed Fediverse Hosting

, a Managed Fediverse Hosting outfit. Already feels faster, and should be cheaper too. Self-managed instances are cool but not, I suspect, the general-case future.

RE:

toot.community

Jorijn Schrijvershof (@jorijn@toot.community)

Attached: 3 images Another interesting adventure from the life of a #MastoAdmin: "Where do all these requests come from?" These spikes come and g...

Big swathes of the #Fediverse are being remorselessly crawled by mindless brute-force bots. If your instance is slow this morning, that’s why. Probably more AI vandalism. View quoted note →

Brutal. Aristotle on Democracy - Existential Comics

Aristotle on Democracy

A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Quoth @npub1e0x2...xqda in

Daring Fireball

A Note on Current SMS Marketing Practices

Link to: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/15/note-on-sms-marketing

: “But there are an infinite number of things in life that cannot be assigned numeric values” John, watch out, there’s a major math rat-hole waiting for you:

Infinity - Wikipedia

(But, nice piece)

There’s this place we walk by pretty regularly that’s semi-abandoned. The owner replaces parts when they fall off and there are lights at night, but the front and back have been left to return to nature. This chunk of land is worth ~$2.5M Canadian, so an odd situation. Anyhow, I enjoy watching the progress of the informal small-scale rewilding. #Photography

News flash: Billionaires are unpopular. But, the strength of the sentiment and how fast the needle has moved were both surprises to me.

Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV

The first rule of dark money is to quit blabbing about it. Did they think people would thank them for it?

I must be weird, am one of the apparently 0.02% for whom #Pluribus isn’t doing much, 6 episodes in. I mean Rhea Seehorn is great but she’d be greater if they gave her a chance to be anything but angry-and-rude for even a minute here or there. Will watch the last 3 shows despite massive suspension-of-disbelief failure, hoping for a change of course.