Flaviu Vescan @flaviuvescan@qoto.org

never change, the onion, never change

Why is gravity so cheap?

Why Because it's mass-produced.

I don't know who invented these little doo-hickeys but god bless them.

What does the Fediverse offer than the Metaverse currently doesn't?

1. Decentralization
2. Open protocols
3. Stable APIs

But most of all, the assurance that no one single company can destroy the network.

I’m sad to say that yesterday was my last day on Chrome; I’m one of the 12k people hit by the layoffs announced today

The last four years have been amazing. I had the pleasure to work with some truly great people and I gladly did what I could to make the lives of extension developers better

While I’m gutted, I’m also very excited to see the #webextension world evolve and, if possible, keep dong what I can to shape it 🤞

for #FungiFriday i have probably the coolest fungus i’ve ever seen. thanks to everyone who helped me ID it on here a while back i now know these things to be the incredibly named Crystal Brain Fungus #CrystalBrainFungus #fungi #fungus #mushrooms #mushtodon

How does it feel?

#WaterfallWednesday #nature #photography frozen in British Columbia

If #COVID19 gaslighting were applied to other risks:

“We tried laws against murder, yet murders still occur. We must rescind those laws and learn to live with murder.”

“People are tired of not smoking, so we should just ignore the risks and allow smoking, again.”

“I feel safe driving drunk, so I should be free to do so.”

“Seatbelts can trap you in a car after an accident, so you should avoid wearing them.”

“There's a mass shooter in the mall, but I really want to shop, so I will do so.”

How rich people get rich

If it is not literally the warmest year ever, someone will complain that global warming has stopped.

Year-to-year fluctuations are a normal part of the ongoing global warming trend. Don't be distracted by the noise.

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

🌱 My Neighbor Mastodon 2

Thank you, thank you, *thank you* for being more than 20K to follow my art here. It's fantastic.

#Mastoart #ArtWithOpensource #krita #HumanArt

something we can all do better to remember is that for every weirdo you see with a bad take online there are about a million people out there who have normal feelings about things

OK, language weirdness question.

Someone recently said:

"I just about caught the train."

Did they catch it or not? Perhaps it depends whether you think of English as (one of) your first language(s).

As always, if you're happy to do so I'd be grateful if you'd boost for reach, and to get beyond my circle of followers.

Thank you!

Banksy, Salford Quays, U.K.

The stablecoin Tether claims it processed $18.2 trillion in transactions in 2022, more than both Visa and Mastercard. If this number is correct, it proves the market is heavily manipulated. There are almost 4 billion Visa cards in circulation vs. a little over 4.5 million Tether holders. If Tether claims 18-trillion in settlements, that means the average transaction size was almost 4-million. This market is completely fake, and propped up by wash-trading whales.

Thought for the day…

Blues: The world is fucked
Punk: The world is fucked and I'm pissed
Emo: The world is fucked and I'm sad
Grunge: The world is fucked and I'm medicated
Ska: The world is fucked and I have a trumpet

Poignant article in the year of the Kraken variant:

"You could be forgiven for not realizing we’re still in the middle of a pandemic, considering the total absence of media coverage. If it was important, you’d surely be hearing about it, right? The last variant you heard about was likely omicron. The last you heard about vaccines was likely “we strongly encourage everyone to get boosted.” The last you heard about masks was that they work, but they’re not required. And why would you bother wearing masks anyway if, as the United States president himself proclaimed, “The pandemic is over”?

Here’s the truth: the pandemic is not over. It’s much worse than you have been led to believe. And unless you’ve spent the past several years reading scientific studies on the subject, it can be hard to convey just how wrong the public perception of COVID really is. Everything from how it’s spread, to how it’s prevented, to what it does once it’s in your body, is being tragically misunderstood."

https://unity-struggle-unity.org/clarion/let-them-eat-plague/