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• Post #4469782

  Yet more of capitalism pretending to be environmentally friendly. "Half sheets" of kitchen roll are actually more like 2/3 of a sheet, and you always take two because half a sheet isn't enough. So now we're using MORE than we were before they forced this stupid change onto us (at least in Sweden it's almost impossible to find the full sized sheets any more). #CapitalismKills #Environment

• Post #4449037

  @benc@mastodon.hawaga.org.uk @RockyC@fosstodon.org Yeah, I got that only for Swedish. Funny how some of the people online are *immigrants*. Sigh.

• Post #4279634

  Do we have any camera nerds out there? I've got two Nikon 1s (don't snigger, I love them) and they're both unusable at the moment - one has an unpleasantly terminal dark red screen when fired up, the other one objected to me inserting the wireless adapter the other day for the first time in several years and is now insisting that the clock has been reset, but won't let me actually reset it. I haven't got either the money or the desire to replace them (I've got several of...

• Post #4060221

  Other Kagi users, you'll want to turn off the revolting "Summarize" option on search (click the three dots next to the share button on any search page and hit the slider). #noAI #Kagi

• Post #3879664

  Well this is pretty worrying, not only for the vast swathe of Europe that will be too hot to produce food, but also for the rest of it, which is largely currently supplied with food by those red bits. https://www.euronews.com/2026/07/16/interactive-map-predicts-climate-driven-farm-decline-by-end-of-century

• Post #3666756

  So no matter what happens in the future, no matter how long I live, I will never buy a car made later than 2025. https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-mandates-driver-facing-cameras-in-new-cars-from-today

• Post #3632190

  I am absolutely fucking SICK of all the unpaid work required to simply exist in the techno-hell that is 2026. I've just spent half an hour trying to take a photograph of my passport that Wise.com will accept – to no avail. They now want me to do something involving live photographs of myself and my passport using my smartphone. JUST FUCK OFF. Let's just let the money launderers do whatever they want, eh? Let the mysterious people who might want to pay my bills do so. Let the people who...

• Post #3510122

  I have actually worked for @mullvadnet@mastodon.online a couple of times, translating their book about why data privacy is so important and why Chat Control is an absolutely terrible idea. The people I worked with were lovely. But they weren't the CEO, who, presumably, would have thrown up his hands at the thought of paying me, an immigrant to Sweden. (Or is it only brown people who aren't allowed to pollute Swedish soil?) Either way, I'm sorry for the non-racist people working ther...

• Post #3509701

  If you *were* still using Lloyds, you really shouldn't (don't suppose anyone here was if they can't escape). https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/06/30/lloyds-canary/

• Post #3470584

  Random question - do I know anyone on #LundUniversity teaching staff who'd like to rent a largeish house in the countryside between Kristianstad and Hörby? About 40 minutes' drive to campus, 30 minutes to the Åhus coast.

• Post #3448464

  RE: https://mas.to/@greenfrogg/116823297167630790 Fuck em, who wants to go to the US anyway?

• Post #3370301

  Once again I'm reassured that I'm not missing anything by being in the wrong time zone to watch the #Monsterdon selection. Great work, everyone, keep it up. #insomnia

• Post #2210058

  Time taken to write an email: 20 seconds Time taken to work out how to reduce the number of exclamation marks in the same email so I come across as friendly and competent rather than barking: 10 minutes

• Post #2067439

  Very very unlikely, but is anyone else out there going to see #BRUIT in Copenhagen tonight? I've been wanting to see them for aaaaages, but now it's come to it the logistics are quite difficult and I'm wondering whether I should just not go. Having someone to hang out with would really help! #loppen #Copenhagen #København #LiveMusic

• Post #2026566

  Looking for a human translator to convey your human words to a human audience? Maybe that's me! I translate from Swedish, French, Norwegian and Danish into English (mainly UK but US possible depending on the text - I also work with a USian translator as a team where required). I'm a full Member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting for both Swedish and French. I'm also an Intermediate Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading – in other wo...

• Post #1969385

  Går du i tankarna på att få din bok översatt till engelska? Oavsett om det rör sig om en roman eller facklitteratur, har jag två lediga platser kvar i år. Just nu färdigställer jag en samöversättning av Musan, av Mats Strandberg – ska din bok bli mitt nästa projekt? #FediHire #GetFediHired #Litteratur #Översättning #Translation #FörfattareLiv

• Post #1591577

  I've been doing this for some time now, but it occurs to me that maybe other people aren't. Every time you get the chance, every time you're discussing how awful things are with anyone, in any context, bring it back to how the super rich are sucking us dry and how they can never be satisfied. Not only because it's true, but because we all need *everyone* to recognise that the entire planet (and not just every human) is being held hostage by the bottomless thirst...

• Post #1254223

  So let me get this straight. Companies having replaced their human customer support staff with an AI chatbot (an insult to both their customers and employees in so many ways) can be forced to pay massively over the odds for said AI by people asking it to do things like "reverse a linked list in Python"? I wonder what other examples could be used to do such a thing? Just so I can avoid doing it, obviously. https://www.cio.com/article/4155404/ai-token-freeloaders-are-coming-for...

• Post #1152099

  I think this might be the best bit of writing on AI yet. https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

• Post #952179

  Yay! @kagihq have provided a URL where you can continue to use their "1996-style" search as your home page. It's so nice to have a bit of colour and human interaction there. "Small Web" has already become a favourite after just a few days. So many great, mad, creative websites to browse! https://kagi.com/?year=1996

• Post #941396

  As a European, I think I'm going to have to mute the word "gallon".

• Post #879589

  Because I'm terrible at marketing myself (or alternatively that I don't view tdov as an excuse to try to do business) I haven't even thought to talk today about a translation of mine that's just been published. But I'm really proud of this, and actually some of you might enjoy reading about Eva-Lisa, a Swedish transgender pioneer who played a really important role in establishing the LGBTQIA+ movement in Sweden. This bit is about her childhood but there ar...

• Post #671546

  I'm really loving how Mastodon has become a refuge for all the grizzled seafarers on the ocean of the internet. They pop up in my feed and their bios all say something like "I've been online for longer than the internet. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 56k modems on fire in the light of Usenet. I watched IRC forks glitter in the dark near the Gateway 3000. All those moments will be lost in slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify.&q...

• Post #630391

  If you like music and/or coding, or indeed have never been much into either, you need #algorave It's like cooking a communal meal where none of you know what it's going to be, but most of the fun is trying out the weird combinations of flavours and just being in the kitchen stirring the pan with other people – even if you're using an internet spoon to do it with. Here's a fantastic explanation by @TodePond of what it is and why it's important in an age w...

• Post #211323

  Long shot, but is anyone out there working on cancer treatment trials in the UK? My sister's on her last chemo and there don't seem to be any available trials any more. Boosts and helpful hashtags welcome. #cancer #CancerResearchUK

• Post #147149

  I live in a small town in Sweden. This morning I went out to my car (realising that I'd once again forgotten to lock the front door last night), drove along empty, wide roads to the nearest largeish town and parked in the brand new multistorey carpark by the railway station, where the first two hours' parking is free and the remainder of the time is very cheap. I got out of the car without checking my surroundings, and as I leaned back in to get my bag out, I thought "In large part...