John

all you had to do was pay us enough to live

Love spending a day at the beech

> The #FOSS space today is littered with a litany of local groups, projects, and teams, all working towards roughly common goals with relatively little coordination or overlap. This has real consequences: it is incredibly difficult for projects, conferences, and community groups to find support without courting corporate sponsors. Whether the average community-driven project lives or dies often depends entirely upon the passion of a handful of isolated individuals.

https://disjunctionsmag.com/articles/foss-contra-big-tech/

With a German keyboard enabled, Anthropic autocorrects to "Antiheld"

Today my colleagues and I hosted the brilliant Dr Jody Metcalfe and Quintin Goliath aka Jitsvinger for a guest lecture on #Afrikaaps and the decolonial struggle to reclaim language through poetry, hiphop and theater.

I learned so much. Total #breinsuiker*

Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxMponKKsdc

Tunes: https://jitsvinger.bandcamp.com/album/jitsologie

* An Afrikaaps word that means "attraction on the basis of smartness"

@Stoori@polyglot.city haha you had me

imagine running a marathon in under two hours (!)
and not finishing in first place

“Today, wars are proliferating and the major powers are rearming, yet the streets remain strangely quiet. … Pacifist engagement – which is stigmatised by a media that is quick to conflate it with support for Hamas, the Iranian regime or the Kremlin, and sometimes repressed – sits uneasily with the zeitgeist. Such engagement demands stubborn optimism, a conviction, forged through struggles which sometimes succeed, that nothing is settled, that collective action can still alter the course of events.”

https://mondediplo.com/2026/04/01edito

> indie videogame making revolves around figuring out how to be in between and work around different pieces of software as much as competing schedules. This comic article seeks to graphically investigate and represent those in-betweens and the work of translation they require.

Congrats Federico De Musso of @recntr@post.lurk.org on this gorgeous publication!

https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2026.2682349