Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

If you want to be around "more colourful queers" beyond gay and lesbian stereotypes (nothing wrong with those per se), you'll have to get rid of a looooooot of normative thinking.

You'll have to get used to trans people who don't stealth.
You'll have to get used to nonbinary people without expecting either an androgynous girl light, or a bearded guy light in a dress.
You'll have to get used to asexual people who will fuck your brains out.
You'll have to get used to aromantics who will perform the gestures like they were written by Shakespeare.
You'll have to get used to neopronouns.
You'll have to get used to a lot, because gender, sexuality, attraction, and relationships are a wild, wild cosmos.

And I'm not hopeful, since you seem to lose your mind already when finding out that a bi person stays bi when being in a monoamorous relationship with someone, and hasn't "decided for one side".

I accidentally found a local supplier of open-source scientific hardware - automated optical microscope, bioreactor, colorimeter. Nice! https://labcrafter.co.uk/

I kind of wanna do some biology now...

Get Tested!!

Coyotes on Telegraph Hill seemed very used to seeing people.

I'm not used to seeing coyotes, though.

#Coyote #SanFrancisco

Pedestrians in Madrid.

#photography #Birds #madrid

Have you already deleted or are planning to delete your Threads/Instagram/Facebook/WhatsApp account in light of recent policy changes?

I have zero respect for anyone who maintains a presence on facebook.

I do not care about whatever excuses they have.

Recently, Altbot has been targeted by DDoS attacks. While the motive is unclear, it seems tied to a misguided belief that the bot’s alt-text generation is harmful to the environment. Let me set the record straight.

Altbot uses Gemini-1.5-flash, a specifically low-power AI model. Processing a single alt-text request consumes around 0.0005 kWh, meaning that in the 4 months since I created Altbot—and tens of thousands of alt-text entries generated—it has consumed roughly 10 kWh in total. That’s about the same energy as running a single LED light bulb nonstop for 41 days or driving an electric car just 40 miles.

These DDoS attacks, however, have already consumed more electricity and computing power than Altbot has across its entire existence... in a matter of hours. This means the attacks have caused more environmental harm than the very thing they seem to be protesting.

Altbot exists to improve accessibility on Mastodon, not to harm the environment. Accessibility and sustainability can coexist, and I’m committed to keeping Altbot energy-efficient and purposeful.

If there are concerns, I encourage constructive dialogue—not destructive actions that undermine both inclusivity and sustainability.

Thank you to everyone supporting Altbot’s mission of making the Fediverse more accessible for all.

Can every website have near the top of its home page and about us that explicitly says what the organisation is?

"We leverage creative strategies to achieve a step change in your global reach"

Okay, but what are you?

"We're passionate about putting our customers at the heart of everything we do."

Which is what?

"We have offices in 13 countries!"

What. Do. You-

"We're leaders in our industry!

Which industry???

Wikipedia: "They're a bank."

Thank you!

“Fascists love to tell us that their numbers are great. They hate hearing that our numbers are also great. They want us to think we have a them problem, and we do. But we should not forget to give them an us problem.”

https://www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-the-dark/

If someone's definition of ethics is "I should have full unequivocal access to all you create"
Then they will never, ever, respect boundaries or social contracts.

me irl

you can just walk out of facebook!
Rohingya genocide
Covid denial
Anti-vax
Chemtrails
White supremacy
Posting pictures of women for men to rate if your quick

If it sucks, hit da bricks

real winners quit facebook

Another take on AI that (at least for now) kinda nails it.

"The Mayor & City Council cutting $23 million from LA fire dept to give LAPD a $138 million raise is Class War!"

Graffiti in downtown Los Angeles

I’d like to send a special “fuck you buddy” to all the boomers that told me “oh you’ll get more conservative as you get older, once you get some money”

I don’t know what world those people live in, but every day since probably 1989 everything I have seen in the world has only convinced me more and more that capitalism is a disease that is destroying lives and the planet.