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I worry that some people aren’t taking Omarchy seriously enough. It’s not just another Linux distro. It’s a well-orchestrated campaign to centralize power and influence within the Linux FOSS ecosystem. And it’s working. Anyone paying attention to DHH and what he stands for can see what’s going on here. When the guy who thinks that brown people don’t belong in society hires the guy who thinks trans people shouldn’t exist, you can see where this is going.

It’s the last day of September, and the Robb × omg.lol St. Jude fundraiser is coming to an end. It’s been an amazing month, with us raising $7,900 to fight childhood cancer and support kids and families affected by it. It’s still not too late to give! 👉 https://stjude.omg.lol 🎗️

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/117361659806759724 Half a day later, we’re at $8,266! 😮

RE: https://www.manton.org/2026/07/17/moral-busybodies.html "The man without a moral code, like the animal, is free from moral problems. The man who has not learned to count is free from mathematical problems. A man asleep is free from all problems." — C.S. Lewis

For anyone seeking an unbiased account of what this is about, I highly recommend this piece: https://coyotetracks.org/blog/pressure-to-stay-genteel/ To this day, Manton still hasn't denounced the transphobic statement made by his employee, or the barrage of harassing emails that his employee sent to an omg.lol member who was offended by that statement. He clearly knew that it was a bad look, though, since he removed the employee's name from the Micro.blog website. He also still has not made a clear and unequivocal statement of support (or even acceptance) of queer people. The closest he's ever come was "Micro.blog is a good place for LGBTQ+ people." He probably thinks this post is a "personal attack", because any time a privileged white man's integrity is questioned, they feel attacked. But this post is just me sharing facts. They may be inconvenient for Manton, but they're 100% true.

If any other Mastodon admins or federated service admins using Hetzner infrastructure are seeing jobs queuing up, consider switching your DNS away from Hetzner's default servers to work around the issue. https://dns.kitchen/jingle #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

Elon Musk owns X. Solely. There is no board of directors; there is no higher governance structure. X *is* Elon Musk. When you "return to X", you're supporting Elon Musk, full stop. There's no way around it. When you post there, you're contributing to him. Directly. So if you're not going into this with your eyes open, you're fooling yourself. But if you *are* going into it with your eyes open, you are the problem.

"not Polish" 🤔 "foul rap music" 🤔 This is Vincent Ritter, who in addition to these thinly-veiled racist remarks also once posted "When a game asks for 'pronouns' and doesn’t let you skip that part. Uninstall. Sigh." And posted about how sad he was to see the heteronormative Apple emoji being replaced by inclusive, genderless versions. He pays for a blue checkmark on X, cheers for Elon, and is a member of the Micro.blog team. If you use Tinylytics or Scribbles, this is what you're supporting.

Just in time for spooky season, there's a brand new omg.lol feature brewing in the Neatnik cauldron...

Interesting report from my wife, an elementary school teacher for 20+ years: the number of students who choose to use their Chromebook’s on-screen touch keyboard instead of the physical keyboard has reached 50%. Half the class refuses to type on a physical keyboard.

My favorite thing to buy at Pokémon card shows is the stuff made by other Pokémon fans. Picked these up today! https://adam.some.pics/6acbc694075ad #pokemon #art

@morrick@appdot.net Maybe that’s me next year. 😄

@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe Won’t be much longer!

@manton I don't recall anyone asking you to fire Vincent. People did want to see some acknowledgement from you that what he did was wrong, though, and you flatly refused to provide that.

• https://micro.blog/krisbrowne/55840123
• https://micro.blog/Havn/55818308
• https://micro.blog/danhallock@me.dm/55809206
• https://micro.blog/andrew@thestopbutton.social/55807866

Vincent is incredibly talented, but he can't stop doing and saying bigoted things. At a time when people are increasingly concerned with a measurable rise in fascism and are fed up with the likes of DHH for his desire to see Europe ethnically cleansed, Vincent is still out there posting nice things about DHH on X.

You can work with anyone you want, and those folks can hold whatever views they want. But separately from that, you can still choose to point to something wrong and say that it's wrong. Even when it involves a friend or colleague. When you won't do that, you leave people to assume that you think it's right. I know that feels unfair, but silence has always leaned toward complicity.

I think you and I would make great friends. I mean that. Even now. But I can't be friends with someone who refuses to acknowledge harm in all of its forms. Not just in world leaders or other influential people, but—and especially—when it's in our own neighborhood.

@DenOfEarth@mas.to just asked, and she said they were tapping. Very slowly.

@markwyner@mas.to Public school, yeah, and fifth grade.

@yehor@mastodon.glitchy.social 👋 We’re running Caddy here on social.lol. The minimal config looks like this: domain.tld { root * /home/mastodon/live/public route { @streaming { path /api/v1/streaming* } reverse_proxy @streaming 127.0.0.1:4000 file_server { pass_thru } reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:3000 { flush_interval -1 } } }

@roddie@roddie.social No special technology here! We’ve been working on spreading awareness about the importance of using alt text, and I think it’s helped. The number fluctuates a lot but I was super happy to see it at 100%! @AltTextHealthCheck@mastodon.social

@azaleah@social.lol I’m working through some significantly elevated traffic issues; it kind of resembles a DDoS but not quite, though I’m still trying to mitigate. I think things are a bit more stable at this point but I’m putting some things into place that should keep them that way. Thanks for your patience!

@digitalsnow@social.lol so you had to go dentist https://youtu.be/HxYYtxGrszw

The omakasedekinai sticker now has its own web page to provide some further explanation, courtesy of the anonymous omg.lol member who conceived the (brilliant) idea! https://omakasedekinai.omg.lol

@davidcelis@xoxo.zone That Pokémon one!