Late last year many residents of our building formed a neighbor-owned company in order to add a solar array to our roof! A few days ago they got the final panels installed. It’s not turned on yet, but seeing this much progress made me so proud! 🤩

#SolarPanels #SolarEnergy

Web design in the early 2000s: Every 100ms of latency on page load costs visitors.

Web design in the late 2020s: Let's add a 10-second delay while Cloudflare checks that you are capable of ticking a checkbox in front of every page load.

We absolutely do know that Waymos are safer than human drivers -> https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-absolutely-do-know-that-waymos

I've been biking & walking Atlanta for 15+ years. Waymos are far and away the best vehicle to share a road with.

alive internet theory -> https://news.spencer.place/p/alive-internet-theory

excellent post about why the bots will never win and just hanging out online by @spencerchang

RE: https://wandering.shop/@alexhaist/116030576923457430

The GOAT spark birds doing some light persuasion

Someone at #FOSDEM asked us to put some promotional materials on our website that they could print for an event. There is now a section for that on the Branding page with our first poster:

https://joinmastodon.org/branding

@admin I did not post a lot. Not out of concerns for data collection, but just out of social media dynamics.

And yes - that still carries over to Fedi.

Today UGA scientists learned that deer use glow in the dark scrapes to mark territory & attract mates-> https://news.uga.edu/a-glow-up-in-deer-communication/

Nature is definitely stranger than we can suppose.

@jon This is totally the tip of the iceberg on the topic of non-tech folks learning about tools that are cheap, free, and super-convenient. I mean VPNs are minting money even though they don't advertise how regular folks *actually* use them (get around sports blackouts, school filters, out of state betting, etc).

We've teamed up with Automattic to fight link rot on the open web. Check out the new Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer for WordPress. The free plugin preserves pages, redirects broken links to archived versions, and helps ensure the web keeps its memory.

“It’s very important that websites have a memory," said Alexander Rose of Automattic. "When links go dead, in effect, the truth goes dead—especially in the age of AI,”

Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/04/inside-the-new-wayback-machine-plugin-for-wordpress/

#linkrot

A Trip Around the World in 1900: See Restored Footage Showing Life in New York, London, India, Japan, China & Beyond

https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/a-tour-of-the-world-in-1900.html

Wir alle, Zug. Wir alle.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/116006707161737581

More sports FTW

RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116006766300526796

"Then the great egg dance, the special dance of the season, began. A hundred eggs were scattered over a level space covered with sand, and a young couple, taking hands, began the dance. If they finished without breaking an egg they were betrothed, and not even an obdurate parent could oppose the marriage."

@GooseOfStrathearn What?!?! Bravo

Today I was allowed to get very close to this beautiful female kestrel.

@IsabelB I absolutely love this. Very gothic.

“… the forest-planting red squirrel, flood-preventing beaver, deer-managing lynx, and landscape-shaping aurochs through their modern-day descendant the tauros …” https://theecologist.org/2025/dec/01/lynx-beavers-and-aurochs-return-highlands

Wildlife clearing atop Allison Ridge in North Georgia, USA.

These "balds" were common across the Appalachians for centuries. Most are actively maintained as wildlife openings by wildlife & forest agencies. The density of bird species on these is incredible.

#Appalachians #Forests #Mountains