It’s International Repair Day, and we’re celebrating with a giveaway! 🛠️

We’re giving away 3 Pro Tech Go toolkits on each social platforms! To enter, tell us about a repair you’re proud of in the comments. A cracked screen you brought back, a vintage console you revived, we want to hear them all

📅 Closes Sunday Oct 18 at 11:59 PM PT
🏆 3 winners will be randomly selected Monday Oct 19

Sorry, international fixers, shipping limits mean this one’s US only, but we’d still love to hear your stories!

Seems like at least the account back, but no word from Meta on why this happened. This is why they were so smart of @indivisibleteam build out on platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon & their own direct to their users newsletters too - that are not at the whim of giant big tech.

#Meta needs to give exact and full answer of what the Hell just happened on this critical day of action. #Nokings #NoKingsVoteEarly

The idea that you can develop software or policy with the help of LLMs *and* have anything worth hearing to say about the gratis software ecosystem is laughable.

Should we get our thought leadership on climate change from the CEO of BP? Maybe he can fly in on his private jet to lecture us about how fossil-fuel-producing algae are the future of energy. Maybe I can get a T-shirt as swag! They've got polyester!

As little sand grains of useful antifascist resistance, I think it's our social obligation to tune these clowns out, deride the very idea of their authority, and warn each other about the controlled opposition that's expecting us to show up as an audience. Sorry if any of these men (and it's always men) were heroes of yours when you knew less about them. But here we are now. No credibility, no quarter, show them the door.

There's a dust-up over an AI ad from Bookshop.org. But they didn't use AI; Meta's ad platform automatically created an AI "variation" of the original, non-AI content.

I went to disable this crap in our Shiraki Press ad account, and got served a popup *demanding a reason why*.

Fuck Meta for this. Consent matters. We've just pulled all paid advertising from their platforms.

It’s been a million years since i posted a picture of myself. Taken by @Ameboid.

You can park here if you’re disabled, old, a parent, or expecting a wifi router.

Heh. I misremembered the date--thought it was today, but looks like it was October 5. On that day, 10 years ago, I posted a link to Mastodon on Hacker News, with the title "Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform". That it made it to the front page ended up bringing the first 5,000 users, setting the project on the trajectory it's on today.

Heh. I misremembered the date--thought it was today, but looks like it was October 5. On that day, 10 years ago, I posted a link to Mastodon on Hacker News, with the title "Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform". That it made it to the front page ended up bringing the first 5,000 users, setting the project on the trajectory it's on today.

I was going to fold and put away the laundry, but, as you know, cat
#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

The People's Bookshelf in the National Library of Latvia showcases 8,000 books from around the world, each with a message from the donor about why that book is special to them. https://tautasgramatuplaukts.lv/en/ via @metafilter