I am always fascinated by the people who claim to love and want to protect and promote Mastodon, but then express this by loudly arguing against how many thousands of other people use the platform (and have done for years).

"Multiple instances have now blocked my whole server, not just my account, with no consideration of *my* free speech" is an interesting complaint coming from someone who is in trouble specifically for telling other servers what they can and can't post.

If you detonate big, illegal fireworks in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the day the day before Independence Day, you are an asshole.

You’re also an asshole if you do it at night.

You’re also an asshole if you do it *on* Independence Day.

Basically, fuck off with your fireworks.

There are only two types of people who talk seriously about data centers in space:

People who don’t know what they are talking about.

People who think you are stupid.

Baby’s first hack!

The four-year-old discovered that this amp in a club in LEGO DC Super Villains will give you unlimited studs (coins) for as long as you keep attacking it.

So he set a heavy book on the controller button and walked away, letting it rack up hundreds of thousands of them.

Democrats: Vote Blue no matter who!

Public: [elects Mamdani]

Democrats: Wait.

Public: [votes for other socialists in primaries]

Democrats: NOT LIKE THAT!

As the United States of America prepares to celebrate 250 years as a country, I have a heartfelt message I want to share with my fellow Americans:

Boy, we really fucked that one up, didn’t we?

Server admins: consider not having open registration for your instance.

If you leave sign-ups open, all of the cold air will get out and your air conditioning bills will skyrocket.

Follow me for me more fedi tips!

This is gross. Tags.pub is using @nprofile1q...'s content (among others) to get followers for a bot instead of letting those followers accrue to Alice or their preferred hashtag. And the excuse the proprietor offered that "not everybody can follow or easily see hashtags" is weak sauce—if someone can find these bots, they can find the original content, and if they can follow the bots, they can follow the people posting the content.

I would never say this in an interview, but I like working somewhere where it's not only ok to say "I don't know," but also where it's at least *sometimes* ok to say "I'm not responsible for knowing that."

I strive to be a team player, but I hate the idea that literally anything that lands on literally anyone's plate is theirs to deal with. If you can't answer my question, I don't think it automatically becomes your job to find out just because you're first colleague I happened to bump into.