Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

How do we know these aren't all cover stories and Prigozhin's not setting up operations on the moon?

Hey, anyone else hear this news that a random 60-year-old with Prigozin's spare passport just died in a plane crash?

I have all media obscured by default, so to those posting images and videos without any accompanying text, I'm not bothering to click to view them unless I know you pretty well.

I doubt I'm alone in this: after Twitter's endless "my face when" gifs, the feature is just too attractive to be ignored.

"Hi there, in my incredibly principled way I'm leaving Twitter and moving to Bluesky or Post or Threads on account of I don't want to depend on a VC-funded platform ultimately responsible only to whoever owns the most shares...

um...

..."

I find it's pretty reliable to judge people inversely by the calibre of their detractors. For example, take a close look at anyone who makes a point of tearing down Megan Rapinoe: they invariably turn out to be Jan 6 and/or police abuse apologists, that sort of thing. I don't know a thing about women's soccer but by that measure, Ms. Rapinoe's surely a damn goddess.

It'd be nice if I could persuade google to automatically add

"-pinterest"

to all my searches. The ratio of it coming up in results to anyone wanting it to must be about a trillion to one.

BREAKING: Fury in Mississippi at the suggestion it's as impoverished and poorly governed as #Brexit Britain

I wish I could get enthusiastic about nuclear energy, because "Fissile, not Fossil" is a great slogan.

At this point I'm starting to realize that blue-checks are essentially the same people who fall for Prosperity Gospel: Send the grocery and mortgage money to the crazy rich guy who blows it on himself, and feel like one of the elect. #Elon #Twitter

Massive #nerds everywhere: what are your favorite #hostname conventions for computers and #IOT devices around the home and office?

Of late I've been going with Hebridean islands for system names, Star Wars critters for IP cameras (because one of the first ones I installed reminded me vaguely of a Jawa), and characters from #MontyPython and the Holy Grail for other minor network-enabled microcontroller-based gizmos.

I've started instantly blocking accounts that continually post "news" that doesn't seem to be corroborated anywhere else and has no links or attribution. It's really distracting.