Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg) @jgg@qoto.org

A cross-section of an elephant’s foot reveals a structure similar to a human foot, but with a large, thick fatty pad beneath the heel.

Because a LOT of people are missing the point:

No, Elon Musk is NOT serious about putting a million data centres into orbit. It can't work: laws of physics say "nope".

But SpaceX is expected to go public this year.

Elon is talking up his company's future prospects in front of gullible investors because he needs a growth narrative beyond Starlink, which is already priced in. Something to justify the Starship proram beyond NASA's lunar ambitions.

So it's salesman's bullshit, lies for fools.

Things Straight People Can Stop Saying A #PoliCartoon by me and Becky Hawkins. (Links to blogpost, transcript and Patreon in replies)

I Can't Believe They Deported Carol By me and Mike Lawrence. Read more cartoons! ---> #PoliCartoon Help us make more! ----> patreon.com/barry

The Future of Journalism is Now By me and @jennmanleylee.myatproto.social Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry

Time Travel Read more cartoons! ---> #PoliCartoon Help us make more! ----> patreon.com/barry

Some interesting (to me) stats from #FODEM

Talks about NFTs: 0.

Presentations about the Metaverse: None.

Cryptobros inviting me to a party in order to schill their coin: Zip.

Really enthusiastic LLM users describing how AI has improved their OSS codebase: Zilch.

People complaining about pronouns and codes of conduct: Nada.

"Ironic" hats saying "Make xyz Great Again": Conspicuous by their absence.

What did *you* think was missing from FOSDEM?

@matthiasott I'm listing AI (and other poorly behaved crawlers) in my robots.txt while also sending them a 403 to anything else they request should they not honor that. I also had to block all traffic from China due to bots fetching endless pages sequentially. https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/blocking-entire-countries-because-of-scrapers

I used to live in Texas. I would get so mad at dudes I knew that downplayed the confederate flag, until I realized that their textbooks literally lied about the reasons for the civil war!

Showing them the articles of secession blew their mind. Some stopped rocking the flag. 👍🏿

Imagine how much less racist the US would feel if 10% of all confederate flags just disappeared. Disappeared!

An abolitionist designed the statue. A group of abolitionists paid for the statue. There's a plaque at the feet telling everyone what it's for. They named it the Statue of Liberty. It's arguably the largest anti-racism monument in the US, and the most recognizable anti-racism monument in the world...

Except people don't even know it's an anti-racism monument. They think it celebrates the huge influx of white immigrants from Europe that came to the US.

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

You know the drill by now. I don't like talking about Black history. Americans know Black history. I want to talk about white American history. In other words, racism, and the erasure of both positive achievements of, and injustices suffered by, non-white people. That's what people don't know.

Try this: Ask your white US friends what the statue of liberty celebrates.

Now ask your Black friends. Or French folk of any color.

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#BlackMastodon

Fight the power nivel Dios XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

The kind of "out of the box" ethical thinking the world needs. 🤔💯❤️

Edit: meant to add this link. Sorry. 🤦‍♀️ https://beige.party/@FeloniousPunk/115981577199676916

Especially if you're headed to a protest. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/30/washington-post-hannah-natanson-fbi-biometrics-unlock-phone/

"¿Sabéis por qué el marisco se llama marisco? Porque viene del mar.
Si viniese de Francia, se llamaría Francisco."

No tengo nada contra los millonarios extranjeros que vengan aquí y no especulen con la vivienda ni traten como el culo a los trabajadores ni monten digitales de bulos para conspirar contra nuestro gobierno democráticamente elegido.