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It’s #AdoptACatMonth and we’re spotlighting some of our sweet seniors in need of homes! Seniors are often overlooked because of their age, but they’re as loving as their younger counterparts and can be just as playful too. We’ve got senior #kitties at all four of our shelters (in #Boston, #Methuen, #Centerville on #CapeCod, and #Salem). Stop by during open hours to adopt and learn more about them at mspca.org/adoptacat 😺

#catsofmastodon #cat #cats #pet #pets #rescuepets #massachusetts



Are you teaching a course on social change? Please consider assigning material from this powerful new book I've had the opportunity to co-edit, Beautiful Solutions—full of tales from solidarity economies around the world, designed to be taught: beautifultrouble.org/beautiful…


Recuperamos una breve reflexión sobre la historia de Internet de los últimos lustros, centrándonos en los cambios sociotécnicos (2019).

¿cómo crees que ha cambiado en los últimos tiempos?

Las dos etapas de Internet: social y corporativa

sursiendo.org/2019/08/las-dos-…



👐🏽🫂Nuestro trabajo se ha caracterizado por visibilizar violencias, defender los derechos de las mujeres y personas LGBTIQ+, y por sostener una firme defensa de los derechos digitales. Sabemos que nuestras redes han sido espacios de encuentro, denuncia, cuidado y resistencia.

Por eso, queremos asegurarles que nuestro activismo digital sigue más vigente que nunca, así como nuestra línea de acompañamiento en casos de violencia digital, que continúa activa y disponible para quienes lo necesiten.



Update to our article on the recent X.Org X server and Xwayland security issues. Another new version of each is *now* being released.

gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/mult…

#Linux #Security #OpenSource



Simon the Sorcerer Origins adventure game announced for release in October gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/simo…

#Gaming #PCGaming #Linux #AdventureGames

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Ouch, Adventure Gamers website owner sold it, and now it's basically a site to advertise gambling.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

The fact it doesn't count as illegal impersonation if, after being sold, they behave as if they're the same people behind the name is just immoral as fuck. Fuck this whole economical system…
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Sounds like they're morphing into another slophole like the sites being paid for "SEO juice", covered by Stephanie Sterling of The Jimquisition many years ago.
IIRC it basically meant/means to have slop "articles" on your site with some legit inline links for cover and then some other inline links to gambling garbage sites to boost those sites' SEO through manipulating search crawlers.
Though I'm not sure that method would even work anymore in the age of so-called "AI"-crawlers.


Meet some Translate Science folks! (online, July 22, 23, 24)

Scholarships available through June 20th!

@lynnebowker @OliverCzulo and @JMMaok will be presenting Introduction to Translation for Nontranslators: Encounter the World of Translation at FSCI2025.

force11.org/fsci-2025/

This course is for anyone interested in multilingual open science who isn't a professional translator.

We hope to see you there! If your financial circumstances mean you need a scholarship to attend, don't hesitate to apply. A generous number are available and FORCE11's goal is for them to broaden participation in the event.

#OpenScience #translation #scholarlyPublishing #ScholarlyComm



Reminder that Humble Choice for June 2025 is a good one: gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/humb…

#Gaming #PCGaming



Comic-page roguelike shooter Fury Unleashed gets an essential Linux fix gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/comi…

#FuryUnleashed #Gaming #Linux #SteamDeck #SteamOS



Why I am working on eliminating the term "research output" from my vocabulary:

science-in-the-digital-era.khi…



ScummVM announces support for the classic adventure The Last Express gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/scum…

#TheLastExpress #Retro #Gaming #RetroGaming #ScummVM


in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

“Why would I even look at the sale? I have a library of hundreds of games I have never played on GOG let alone Steam and I don’t need to add to it” I say as I complete a purchase for ….. 9 new games.


"Works on my machine", oil on canvas.
Unknown artist, 2025
in reply to BeyondMachines

Reminds me of how often my "digital native" students try to turn in work as local-machine addresses.
in reply to Nathan Schneider

@ntnsndr This! After I spend an entire class period showing them how to upload to the LMS and attach a file to their university email…


Mastodon is happy to be recognised as a #DigitalPublicGood by @dpgalliance - alongside many other incredible #OpenSource projects. Find out more in our blog post. #UNOpenSourceWeek

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/06/…



In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/in-t…

#Sandustry #IndieGames #Linux #PCGaming



Bristolians' help needed!

Bit of a longshot perhaps, but my daughter is off to Bristol in September to study for the SQE (Solicitors Qualifying Examination) and will be in need of accommodation.

She's studious, clean and tidy, sociable but not a habitual party animal. Total ally, but is in her early 20s and has all the absolute certainty about societal ills which comes with that.

She will pay her rent, on time, and pull her weight. She won't cover her stuff with name labels or leave passive-aggressive notes on the fridge.

If anybody has any insights into the (slightly more mature) student accommodation in Brizzle, a room to rent or even an offspring in a similar position, with whom to join forces, please drop me a message.

BOOSTS TREMENDOUSLY APPRECIATED!

#Bristol



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in reply to Badgardener

a couple of Christmases ago the whole family went round to my brother's house, and he and his wife went all out - decorations, games, Santa footprints in icing sugar, the works.

When we were leaving I asked my niece what her favourite bit of Christmas was, and she said excitedly "When the cat did a poo on the stairs"

in reply to Jules

Years ago, when my son was still in primary school, we were doing the usual teatime catch-up on the kids' day, somewhat on autopilot.

Him: "This morning we had maths"

Us: "Oh good, you like that"

"Then this afternoon we had PE"

"Uh-huh. Yes, yes"

"And we saw a plane crash"

"Lovel- wait, WHAT?"

It turned out that a light airplane had ditched in a field about a mile away, and the kids had all been in the playground and seen it fall out of the sky.

It's a huge part of family folklore that he considered this the third most interesting thing he'd experienced that day.

in reply to Badgardener

this is really great, thanks for sharing. And well done. Shauna was lucky to find you.


This is so delightful and funny!

youtube.com/shorts/CsTvE4q5ll8…



GOG Preservation Program expands with Devil May Cry HD Collection, Devil May Cry 4 and more classics gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/gog-…

#GOG #Gaming #PCGaming #RetroGaming #DevilMayCry



Steam gets a new Steam Deck-like Performance Monitor now in Beta replacing the FPS counter gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/stea…

#Steam #Gaming #PCGaming #Valve



Hello #Nextcloud users speaking dutch.
The dutch translation needs some love and translators team need your support.
See help.nextcloud.com/t/dutch-tra…

Join the team!

See app.transifex.com/nextcloud/te… and we are looking forward to see you.

Starting page about translating Nextcloud to any language:

nextcloud.com/translation/

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80% of our engineering time goes to maintenance, not new features.

Why? 👉 Because speed, security & stability matter more than flashy extras.

Get the full story: 🎥 youtu.be/kZ8KMXoOtYk

#Nextcloud #OpenSource #PrivacyFirst

in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

“There is never enough time to do it right, but there is always enough time to do it over.”

> John W. Bergman
😉



Say bye to #BigTech lock-in and hi to Nextcloud Workspace, the European alternative to Microsoft 365 for bigger organizations, in partnership with IONOS.

💼 Office suite
📩 Email
🎥 Video calls
And more!

Launching Q3 2025. Stay tuned! 👉 nextcloud.com/newsletter/

in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

Do those services "talk to each other"?

Meaning:
Is it possible to create a calendar event for a video conference (some time in the future) and set it to "send an email with a link to the video conference to the participants of the event"?



I guess this is sort of like a co-op paying members for their data?

"Co-op offers members £10 discount on shopping after cyber attack" bbc.com/news/articles/cvg85r4y…


Unknown parent

mastodon - Link to source
It's FOSS
@nazokiyoubinbou The button mashing must never stop! 🤣
@Nazo




Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/stea…

#Steam #Linux #LinuxGaming #SteamOS #Proton



I am pretty clearly the target audience for one of the world's greatest experts on bookbinding giving a lecture on where people wrote titles on books historically, but I think this video is really great: youtube.com/watch?v=AMcNv0Sbz6…

He highlights a painting with a really wonderful demonstration of bottom edge titling in the 17th century.

in reply to John Overholt

I hate to spoil his closing image but I've never seen anything like this one book owner who read a particularly interesting fact in a book and wanted to make absolutely sure that he could find it again later.


What could enable economic democracy at scale? At the Democracy Policy Network, Júlia Martins Rodrigues and I have a new report on lessons for state-level policy, based on experience from Colorado to Brazil: democracypolicy.network/agenda…


Someone educate the admins at mastodon.social that holocaust and Holocaust are different things. Note the capitalisation.

What israel is perpetrating in Palestine is *a* holocaust, not *the* Holocaust. And yes, it is genocide. And yes, they’re also guilty of close to eight decades of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler colonialism. All these things can be (and are) true at the same time.

Basically, if you’re defending israel in any way, shape, or form right now, you’re the worst of the worst. Almost a century ago, you’re the kind of person who would have been cheering on Hitler. And yes, that’s also a valid comparison.

(Genocide-loving Germans on mastodon.social don’t @ me. My mentions are a genocide-apologist-free zone.)

#mastodonDotSocial #israel #holocaust #germany #Nazis #Holocaust #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank mastodon.social/@Sable_Shade/1…




OMG, em dashes are not a sign of AI writing!

I kept hoping this myth would burn itself out, but no — the idea that em dashes are a sign of AI writing just keeps spreading. I finally couldn't take it anymore, so I crashed a segment into the latest Grammar Girl podcast.

The whole thing seems to have taken off after a popular GenZ culture podcast advised people to stop using the “the ChatGPT hyphen.” (And I have to confess it kills me that they didn't even know the name for it.) 🧵

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@Davidimel just interviewed @pcottle about Threads new #fediverse integration and answers some questions that I hadn't seen directly mentioned before
threads.com/@davidimel/post/DK…
in reply to wakest ⁂

@Davidimel I don't see anything after Peter's "Let's do it!" under that link. Everything else is replies from other people.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

@Gargron @Davidimel you might have to load remote, it's all visable to me but I was already following both actors


Shall we push for Platinum once again in 2025? 😇

Last year, your support placed Nextcloud at the top of the CloudComputing-Insider IT Awards. Let's get there once again!

Here's how to cast your vote: nextcloud.com/blog/vote-for-ne…



Si eres fan de Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates o Elon Musk, te gusta ganar dinero por encima de todo, no tienes ganas de organizarte con nadie o crees que el neoliberalismo ha hecho más en favor de la humanidad que Violeta Parra, este texto no es para ti.

Autonomía tecnológica: Herramientas libres para la lucha social.

#InternetLibre

sursiendo.org/2021/05/autonomi…

in reply to Sursiendo

📢 Autonomía digital: ¿realidad o utopía? El artículo plantea una reflexión clave sobre el dominio tecnológico y las alternativas libres. Sin embargo, ¿hasta qué punto es viable una independencia total de las grandes corporaciones? El equilibrio entre innovación y autonomía sigue siendo el gran desafío. #TecnologíaLibre #AutonomíaDigital
Unknown parent

mastodon - Link to source
Javier Pérez Belmonte

2/
Y aquí va otra

«el problema de la agricultura actual es que no es un sistema orientado a la producción de comida, sino a la producción de dinero».

Toma ya.

sursiendo.org/2021/05/autonomi…



RetroArch makes playing classic games on Linux super easy. 🎮🪄

news.itsfoss.com/retroarch/

#linux #linuxgaming



Sounds like a valuable event teaching some #digital #security lessons. Happening in couple days (June 20th) put on by the local #queens #Mutual_Aid group. #nyc #swma


Pollinator Week is a great time to share this print, which expresses the central theme of my work about the Future of Pollination for Manufactured Ecosystems. Our food sources & ecosystems around us are dependent on pollinators (mostly bees & other insects, some birds & mammals) but insects populations have lost huge numbers and many species altogether.🧵

#PollinatorWeek #nativeBees #entomology #ecology #sciart #insects #butterflies #beetles #moths #printmaking #linocut #ManufacturedEcosystems

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