Later today I will migrate my account from mastodon.social to aus.social.

Hold thumbs that everything goes smoothly.

#migration

@holly and it is absolutely justified. Unlike someone's sexuality, religious beliefs *are* a choice. It is high time society treated them as such.

@FeNi @alice funny enough, aus.social is the instance I'm considering moving to. Thank you.

@alice I'm on that instance.

It seemed to be the best option when I signed up, and I am very wary of the account migration process.

Two months ago I became a dual citizen.

Today I received my new passport.

I now have to carry twice the weight in passports when traveling.

@photos Are those buses still active or are they museum pieces?

I have done many a bus ride on an Ikarus.

Australia's off-shore detention for asylum seekers is cruel beyond measure. Australia is paying a staggering $1.5m per year per person detained - but the asylum seekers are starving. Most of the money goes to a US operator of for-profit prisons.

They have done nothing wrong. They are literally being punished for daring to seek a better life.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/03/refugees-and-asylum-seekers-on-nauru-going-hungry-despite-government-spending-15m-a-year-for-each-person

#auspol #humanrights

The enormous elephant in the room regarding the increasing demands on our electricity grid is simply this: we don't actually _need_ AI. It's not in any way a public need for public good. It's a private and public want. If you turned off every major GAI tomorrow nothing would demonstrably change except for our power consumption would go down and nvidia's stock would crash.

Addendum: I am talking here about the slop machines, which are the drivers of this overconsumption. I fully recognize that generative systems are being used for legitimate purposes and research, I literally help run one of them.

@GossiTheDog The LinkedIn 'thought leader' bubble is the gift that keeps on giving.

If you need AI to scour social media for you to have something to comment on, then you probably need to rethink whether you're too terminally online...

Email as a medium of communication has become so sketchy and polluted that management and HR have to regularly assure us via other communication channels that an email purporting to be from the business is, in fact, from the business, and not a scam or a phishing attempt.

#showerthoughts

@alice Jellyfin for the win.

JKR is out here treating 35-year-old Emma Watson like a child because JKR doesn't respect women.

1. A day after the Michigan church shooting, Republicans are silent after learning the shooter was a MAGA extremist. No investigations of Trump supporters as terrorists. No national conversations about the rights of cisgender men. The silence is deafening. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Deafening Silence After Mormon...

The EA sale is bad news for everyone aftermath.site/the-ea-sale-is...

I assume this is called a Mark because you’d have to be one to buy one

Google deletes history: https://www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-erased-7-years-of-our-political-history/

@CCochard

#Women #Men #Feminism #Patriarchy #Alt

@alice do model trains count as weird hobbies?