Goo Truther @thufie@pixie.town

Github is the first code hosting platform to reach Six Sevens uptime

the silly

I know I'm not here that much but I am really light on money this month for various reasons and would really appreciate if anyone could throw some spare coins my way to get food for me and my family.

paypal.me/queerfaun is the easiest way.

If you want something for your money, ackthrice.itch.io/healing-rites is my book about a mage who has a stroke and must learn to navigate life without magic in a supernatural world.
I have a bit of time for writing commissions too if you need a short story or something written up
#transcrowdfund #mutualaid

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Today someone (who is not on Mastodon) released a collection of more than 570 distinct operating systems, pre-installed with VM configurations for the 250+ different platforms, going back all the way to 1948.

https://virtualosmuseum.org/

Now, I have to admit I'm posting this without trying it myself, as I'm running low on disk space on this machine.

Because the full download is 121GB (174GB unzipped!). There is also a lighter version at 14GB that will download stuff on demand.

#retrocomputing

Enron existed for longer than the confederacy.

Club Penguin outlived the confederacy

Chinese researchers sprayed cyanobacteria onto desert sand and turned it into stable soil in just 10 months. Cyanobacteria oozes sticky sugars that glue loose grains of sand into a crust that’s tough enough to cut wind erosion and trap water — and then those bacteria photosynthesize, leaving behind organic matter, and pull nitrogen from the air, converting it into fertilizer. Drop seeds into the soil 10-16 months later and they’re very happy. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/chinese-researchers-turn-desert-sand-into-fertile-soil-in-just-10-months-using-cyanobacteria/articleshow/130391558.cms
#ShareGoodNewsToo

The Battle of the Bulge is when the polycule is home and fighting for who gets to be topped by-gets dragged off-stage by a hook

Noticed a large amount of traffic started coming from Meta/Facebook AI bots crawling public posts, and thus filling our instance storage with 100's of GBs of cached media within 24 hours, much faster than our usual cleanup job would catch.

Suggest blocking the "meta-externalagent" user agent from your web server, and the following IP ranges:

57.141.6.0/24
2a03:2880:f806::/48

#fediblock #mastoadmin

New on From The Periphery dot com: our transcript of a recent episode of From The Periphery Podcast (FTPP) with guests Juls and Alaa of The Peoples Want internationalist network.

FTPers @leilashami and israa' talked to their TPW comrades about internationalism from below, their journeys that led them to The Peoples Want gatherings, and what the relationships they are building in that space mean to them.

https://fromtheperiphery.com/2026/05/11/revolutions-of-our-times-an-internationalist-manifesto/