Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

They Want You:

Worried
Stressed
Scared
Confused
Irrational
Impotently Angry
Directionless
Hopeless

People like this are easy to control, People like this stop trying. Sometimes it feels like, "What can I even do?!" Times like this I think about this quote from P.J. O'Rourke:

Everyone wants to save the world, but no one wants to help Mom do the dishes.

Small things matter, my life has been changed by small acts of kindness. We don't have to save the world, but we can make our small part of it better. A lot of you probably do this already, and you don't even think about it. Remember being kind includes being kind to yourself too!

beware of Proton (mail, VPN, etc)
resharing this after they deleted the thread. I think people might want to know that the CEO of the tool they are using to protect themselves with is a JD Vance fan...
(the whole thread is on https://web.archive.org/web/20250115164340/https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833074076075466)

https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113834929470701959

@jonny Web archives. Gotta love em!

https://web.archive.org/web/20250115164340/https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833074076075466

The DIY FOSS Cyborg https://dustycloud.org/blog/the-diy-foss-cyborg/

Yes, I met a DIY FOSS Cyborg who lives in Emacs and Guix full-time. And YOU TOO can live such a life, if you dare!

If you are still using the Circle V ⓥ logo to indicate you support Veilid, we are switching to the Square V 🅅 logo to disambiguate from the Vegan/Vegetarian usage of that symbol, which has caused some confusion.

Please update your profiles, and thanks for supporting us!

At CES I stumbled on this Linux ARM handheld from @mecha Systems You can switch out the IO with a keyboard and gamepad in the works. What do you all think? VIDEO: https://zurl.co/2ebET

My organisation is looking for a Campaign and Membership Digital Infrastructure Specialist - someone who knows Action Network, and integrations like Airtable, on a contract. Figure there might be some of you around here!

Also, we are recruiting a Head of Operations, part-time, remote. It is mostly helping us work effectively online, tending to people, culture and governance.

Happy to answer any questions!

#GetFediHired

https://rethinkeconomics.recruit.charliehr.com/careers

which is why am going back to one of my hills: software developers are artisans, some are even artists.

software developers and engineers are part of the creative classes; and by default, the working classes.

it’s why they need, more than ever, to have their consciousness raised and radicalized 😉

/ 🧵

I woke up the other morning and discovered that during my sleep I had transformed into a monstrous bug.
Here's what it taught me about B2B sales:

I want to publicly announce a change in my thinking. For many years I have promoted non-profits, especially foundations as a good way to keep FOSS (Free and Open Source) projects protected and effective.

Not any more.

I am now leaning towards coops as the better vehicle. The cooperative approach allows for better distribution of power to those that do the work where foundations typically concentrate power on those with the money. This might become a long thread that'll take some time.

Has anyone from Lemmy or Friendica written up a FEP for !group@instance.tld format? Would be nice to acknowledge this more as an integral part of the fediverse and get other software that support groups able to do something with these mentions the same way that @username@instance.tld is handled.