I'm old enough to remember the unraveling of the Watergate cover-up, and the Epstein story has a very familiar stench. #USpol
Green light. #photography image
We just transitioned CoSocial from an ad-hoc combine of AWS, OVH, and DO to @npub1c36h...t8sz, see
FediHost - Managed Fediverse Hosting
, a Managed Fediverse Hosting outfit. Already feels faster, and should be cheaper too. Self-managed instances are cool but not, I suspect, the general-case future.
RE:
toot.community
Jorijn Schrijvershof (@jorijn@toot.community)
Attached: 3 images Another interesting adventure from the life of a #MastoAdmin: "Where do all these requests come from?" These spikes come and g...
 Big swathes of the #Fediverse are being remorselessly crawled by mindless brute-force bots. If your instance is slow this morning, that’s why. Probably more AI vandalism. View quoted note →
Brutal. Aristotle on Democracy - Existential Comics
Aristotle on Democracy
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
Quoth @John Gruber in
Daring Fireball
A Note on Current SMS Marketing Practices
Link to: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/15/note-on-sms-marketing
: “But there are an infinite number of things in life that cannot be assigned numeric values” John, watch out, there’s a major math rat-hole waiting for you:
Infinity - Wikipedia
 (But, nice piece)
There’s this place we walk by pretty regularly that’s semi-abandoned. The owner replaces parts when they fall off and there are lights at night, but the front and back have been left to return to nature. This chunk of land is worth ~$2.5M Canadian, so an odd situation. Anyhow, I enjoy watching the progress of the informal small-scale rewilding. #Photography image
News flash: Billionaires are unpopular. But, the strength of the sentiment and how fast the needle has moved were both surprises to me.
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
The first rule of dark money is to quit blabbing about it. Did they think people would thank them for it?