It’s the Big Beach Busk again at the end of August in #Porty!
#BigBeachBusk #Edinburgh #Scotland #Busking

Art enjoyers! 🖼️ It's only a month til Colony of Artists is happening in Edinburgh (Sat 20 / Sun 21 September) celebrating 20 years with over 100 artists!

https://www.colonyofartists.co.uk/

I've been busy preparing, reshuffling art in frames ^__^

#JfmlArt #art #illustration #creative #DigitalArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #BuyIntoArt #GiftIdeas #ShopLocal #ArtForSale #prints #fair #event #exhibition #festival #conolyofartists #edinburgh #scotland #ArtFair #OpenDoors #colobee

@mntmn I get this if I turn on my computer and log in with my fingerprint instead of my password. The computer can’t access any saved passwords and security keys if you don’t enter your password when you first log in - a fingerprint isn’t enough. Could that be the culprit?

"What do we know about the Covid-19 virus 5 years on?"

"The growing body of research suggesting that for several months after a Covid infection, people become more vulnerable to other infections and there can be lingering effects on the heart, cardiovascular system and the brain."

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/07/what-do-we-know-about-the-covid-19-virus-five-years-on?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

@auscovid19

#Tuba v0.10.0 is now available, with many new features and bug fixes!

✨ Highlights:
- New Composer
- Grouped Notifications
- Play media from third-party services in-app with Clapper
- In-app web browser
- Collapse long posts
- Mastodon quotes
- Iceshrimp Drive
- 'Featured' Profile tab
- Local-only posting
- Search History
- Alt text from file metadata
🧵

As always, there are too many changes to list here, if you're more interested, check out the full release changelog:
https://github.com/GeopJr/Tuba/releases/tag/v0.10.0

A Little Owl at SIWH had pins added to brace a broken wing. Three weeks later his pins were removed and he was "a little spaced out" but eating OK and ready for physical therapy to regain full movement 💛🦉
Want to donate to South Island Wildlife Hospital? https://wildlifehospital.co.nz/help-us/ #owlsintowels

Parts of the Internet are going dark for UK users since the Online Safety Act heaped weighty duties on platforms.

Sites are geoblocking the UK, overmoderating content, age-gating access or shutting down completely.

We need your help to track how content is being censored 🫵

Use our tool to report a site that's shutting down or restricting access to UK users as a result of the #OSA.

➡️ https://www.blocked.org.uk/osa-blocks

#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #censorship #freespeech #ukpolitics #ukpol

Suddenly and viscerally obsessed with these letterforms. Why has that never occurred to me, and why is it the first time I’m seeing the idea??

(Font is ALS Lamon by Dmitry Lamonov.)

@Admin thanks for such a thoughtful and interesting update. Hope you are well!

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

now THAT'S the kind of tipping point we like to see

Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, new UN report finds: 'Fossil fuels are running out of road' https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/solar-power-versus-fossil-fuels-cheaper-study

With the launch of Ghost 6.0, every publication that runs on Ghost becomes part of the #fediverse. You can follow and comment on Platformer or 404 Media articles without leaving your Mastodon feed. This is the future of social media.

Congratulations to @johnonolan and all the team at Ghost!

https://ghost.org/changelog/6/

Duckduckgo image search can now hide AI generated images:

https://duckduckgo.com/settings#aifeatures

Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed!

As many here know, I am co-founder and lead of OpenPrinting since 2001, known as the print guru for Linux and free software by many. I also got one of the 8 fellows of the Linux Foundation for this.

Up to now I was working at Canonical, hired back in 2006 just to run OpenPrinting and also to maintain printing-related Ubuntu packages.

... 🧵

Please boost.

#OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #getfedihired

So…who hates those Google log-in pop-ups that are seemingly everywhere now? Wanna make them go away?

1. Get uBlock Origin (which you should have already been using):

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

2. Open the plugin and click the settings button.

3. Click on the “my filters” tab and paste this into the input:

||accounts.google.com/gsi/*$xhr,script,3p

That’s it! Worked flawlessly for me.

(Updated URL. Thx @IceWolf
and @emz!)

#Google #Privacy #Security #PopUps #InfoSec #BadGoogle

The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved. The makers are also providing affordable access to the drug in the US and beyond, signing royalty-free licensing agreements with six generic manufacturers to produce and supply it. https://newatlas.com/infectious-diseases/hiv-prevention-fda-lenacapavir/

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 really well-written article on the topic. Thank you for sharing

'Disabling' Chronic Illness in Children Not Taken Seriously.

“It was found that... 15%, who had previously tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection were identified as likely having long COVID... Suggesting it has become one of the most common chronic illnesses in children.”

"People operate under the false assumption that if you are young and healthy, like kids, COVID is an inconsequential nothingburger and we should not worry about it... Of course, this is not accurate at all, Dr Ziyad Al-Aly added. Long COVID in children always demanded more attention and seriousness."

Source: https://archive.md/XewA8

@auscovid19

Don't you ever forget the "I want to do this"-part.

I made a typeface, it's called Flexflex 🔠

I've been working on this project on-and-off for many months. Very happy to finally release it!

Flexflex is a typeface that responds to spatial requirements rather than imposing them. Built on a modular system, each letter can fit inside any given rectangular container and transforms continuously if its ratio changes. In theory, it's infinitely flexible.

For more information and interactive demos, see the website: https://ronikaufman.github.io/flexflex