This year, the Mastodon team returned to FOSDEM for the third time.
FOSDEM is an annual gathering of open source developers, held in Brussels.
We’re excited to report that the Fediverse is feeling vibrant!
FOSDEM has become a central element of EU Open Source Week
- a series of events, meetups and workshops that have formed around the conference itself.
The range of events makes this trip to Brussels valuable for our team,
with opportunities to meet other …
Sources: Bengaluru-based quick grocery delivery startup Zepto confidentially files for a ~$1.3B India IPO; Zepto raised $450M at a $7B valuation in October 2025 (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times)
https://economi…
Grr and argh.
The people who make government websites generally tend to do a halfway decent job of meeting the spec, but they really really need to learn to push back when the spec is FUCKING STUPID.
Having just completed my "Annual Filing" with Companies House - and why is that even a thing, we're not posting fucking vellum to Victorian clerks who scurry up ladders to deposit the sacred paperwork in the appropriate filing cabinet any more - I got a new scary emai…
float through the night with the frow show, new music & sound adventures from now 'til 3am ET on @…, filling in for rich hazelton. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/260103
Feeling very relaxed. Scrolling Mastodon while listening to Christie Moore. The back door is open and cool air is wafting in. I'm sipping a glass of icy cold pink Moscato. Nice.
#Mastodon #Music #ChristyMoore
Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
AVON: Yes, well, that makes it all worthwhile.
VILA: I mean, you give me a warm feeling right here, around the money belt.
AVON: We are going to need some kind of casing for Orac.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/103 B7B2
light some incense, locate your frop, & widen your 3rd googly eye with the frow show, jamming all the freshest transcendence from now 'til 8pm ET on @…, filling in for music of mind control. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/25120…
The "Board of Peace" was created as a result of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adoption of Resolution 2803 on November 17, 2025,
which authorized the organization as a “transitional administration with international legal personality”
intended to “set the framework and coordinate funding for the redevelopment of Gaza.”
However, the organizational charter revealed in Davos is light on details and makes no mention of Gaza.
This has caused many to…
Amazon plans to cut ~16,000 roles across the company as part of an ongoing effort to reduce organizational layers and bureaucracy, after cuts in October 2025 (Beth Galetti/About Amazon)
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-layoffs-corporate-jan…
All worry is laid to waste.
The endorphins rushing wild from the freezing water,
the music pounding through my body,
the caffeine,
the fucking ducks and the God-roiling sky
– no what-ifs,
no yeah-buts,
no what-abouts,
no caveats, at all.
I am made happy,
and that happiness is entire and incontestable.
And all the way home, I go
— to my beautiful waking wife
– on this, the best day ever.
Love, Nick Cave