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"As far as Science is concerned, the cosmos is expanding, the continuum is getting increasingly stretched and star stuff is getting cosmologically apart. Given this is a gradual expansion, this means star stuff gets further and further apart as the cosmic entropy unfolds.

One day, there'll be no more stars in the sky, the Moon will be long divorced from Earth (her orbit is slowly drifting), and even the strongest bonds will be broken. Luckily, the fossil of the last living being would be long scorched from a blazing engulf from the Red Giant Sun; there'll be no more talking minerals conjured by Homo sapiens to take notes of this happening, and even the spirits and dæemons of the living beings will be long depleted and freed from the cosmic Wheel of Samsara built by Demiurge in a futile attempt to keep star stuff away from The Mother, to whom matter will return no matter the Demiurge's will.

You look at your own body and you forgot to wonder how it's so illusory. This existence is but an illusion, fated to be broken by itself. Alienation and oblivion is a fundamental part of this existence. We're wanderers, getting pulled away from our own wandering even before we get pulled by the cold hands of entropy. Still, we humans "think", driven by our survival instincts, that we are going to last forever. We won't, we can't, we must not. Alienation and oblivion is a fundamental part of this existence."

Timelapse video (flashing lights), direct eye contact, no-blood vampire motif, occult art, feminine personification of Death, serpentine tongue

#ArsRitualisTemplii #digitaldrawing #occultart #sketchbook #timelapseart #timelapsevideo #vampire #reaper #mementomori #lilith

Three initial hours of drawing compressed to three minutes of timelapse. I lost the fourth hour onwards because my potato phone crashed while I was drawing the final adjustments, so Android didn't save the screen recording. I spent more than four hours doing this drawing, so feedback is appreciated...
Dæmon S.
@dsilverz

artwork depicting direct eye contact from a vampire-like supernatural feminine figure (Lilith) with serpentine tongue (no blood, despite the vampire motif)

Despite having support for extensions, #Fennec (and I guess #Firefox for Android in general) don't deal with them as nicely as desktop Firefox/Firefox forks.

This notification popped up yesterday, asking for new (quite dubious) permissions on behalf of "extension"... Problem is, there's more than one extension! Which extension is Fennec referring to?!

There's nothing about this update in Fennec extensions screen, there's no about:extensions in Firefox mobile, there's nothing about this in about:support, I can only do a whack-a-mole game of disabling/uninstalling a random extension until the notification stops appearing.

I initially thought it was a paywall remover I had, and I proceeded to uninstall it, only for the same notification message to appear again today (therefore, it wasn't the extension I suspected).

The new permissions being asked, no matter which extension, feels quite creepy, especially in times of supply chain attacks (when once trustworthy and popular code repositories get hijacked and modified to inject malicious code into potentially millions of user devices; maybe uBO or Ghostery, very popular extensions, got hijacked?). Why would an adblocker, an anti-telemetry or an image extractor (the only extensions I currently have installed in Fennec) require reading my clipboard? I'm not gonna update it, until I find out which extension is requesting this and I proceed to actually read its source code and see with my own eyes what's going on, where exactly within the code the systemwide clipboard API is being used and for what purpose.
Screenshot of Android notification drawer showing a silent entry entitled "extension has an update" which says "Cancel to keep your current version and settings. New required permissions: access browser tabs. Get data from the clipboard".
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Digital drawing of a masculine silhouette standing before a dark red, starry sky he's looking at. Next to the silhouette, a poem-like, nihilist text:

"I tried to count the stars, and I quickly became lost.
Until I realized, I didn't become lost because of the counting:
It's the cosmic existence that rendered me lost 
Lost on my way to my true home, beyond the stars I was trying to count".

Purposefully hidden among the stars and only visible when the picture gets digitally filtered, a winged feminine figure hovers and covers the entire right quadrant.
ALT
you'll see Ishtar
And I literally mean it (spoiler):
Screenshot of a photo editing app showing the earlier art with increased contrast and exposition, zoomed into a specific part of the starry sky to (hopefully) reveal a feminine face.
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06/04/2026, 20:59:23
panos :catodon:
@panos
Now that Catodon is finally rolling, I often think of the time when Firefish exploded, in 2023. There were waves of Twitter "refugees" coming for a while and, while most didn't stay, there was an enthusiasm that we're building something that will attract and welcome more and more people. Somewhere along the way, I feel that this vibe has died. And, on one hand, I know we're building something that has the foundations to be alive in the long run, and that's better than being a short term trend... on the other hand I sometimes miss that enthusiasm and optimism for fedi. Can we have some more of that, please?

#fediverse
Catodon rocks
I'll put this as a reply to the post above, because I think it's related. We don't talk often about how toxic and full of gatekeepers fedi can be, and how much bullying is tolerated or even encouraged, even from people who have a certain influence, like the creator and ex CEO of the most successful fedi platform. I think some people who say they are advocates of an open network can have very strange interpretations of "open network". If you want to keep out specific accounts from your server, you should be upfront about it, make it part of your server rules and suspend accounts that don't align with your vision for your community. If Mastodon thinks that anyone who is not against AI under any circumstances are like people who "want to kill puppies", then this should be reflected in the rules of mastodon.social. Instead, it seems that it is encouraged to bully the hell out of anyone we don't agree with, until they leave. This is social networking 101 for building a toxic, unwelcoming and miserable community. Let's build a fediverse that is better than that.

Related posts: https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352522288234148

https://mastodon.social/@MozillaAI/116279201448628866

#fediverse #mastodon
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panos :catodon:
@panos
If you don't see a problem with bullying people (instead of suspending/blocking/ignoring them), you're part of the problem.
Jürgen 𐐘
@juergen@hello.jyrgi.de
@panos Why is this a Mastodon problem. I see same reaction from many folks of many Fediverse platforms.
panos :catodon:
@panos
@juergen@hello.jyrgi.de of course, it's not only a Mastodon problem. I was just referencing to some comments in one of the threads I linked to. I do believe though that the biggest software and by far the biggest server on fedi have an extra influence. It's natural that they are affecting the culture much more than smaller platforms and servers. In one of the posts I linked to there was a dozen of abusive comments, and it happened on mastodon.social. And in the other you can see the founder of Mastodon practically supporting the behavior.
Jürgen 𐐘
@juergen@hello.jyrgi.de
@panos Yes, the Mastodon platform is widely known and, I guess, many folks cannot even distinguish between Mastodon and the Fediverse. So it’s clear that the majority of comments come from folks from Mastodon.
The Fediverse grows and many people here like that. With this growth there come a big variety of mentalities, including the one we might not like. Personally I use the muting option quite often protect me from folks that I personally(!) don’t want to cope with.
Laurens Hof
@laurenshof@indieweb.social
@panos the even deeper problem is that there is a correct intuition that blocking isnt enough, because the thing that people dont want is not just that they dont see discussions of ai, they dont want it to be happening at all

which requires much bigger interventions and solutions, and the entire premise of mastodon software is this individualised approach of 'on the network anything can happen, but you get to curate what you see/interact with', but now the founder turns out to not want that
panos :catodon:
@panos
@laurenshof@indieweb.social Eugen practically supported the abusive comments, which (in this example) happened on mastodon.social, and I think it's not a coincidence. Mastodon.social will suspend pro-Palestine accounts, but welcomes abusive behavior in order to keep people away. It's definitely their right to allow only the people that they want on their server, but this is different: it's like saying come, but we will let our users attack you, hoping that you will want to leave this toxic environment. This is pretty fucked up, and clearly has had (and keeps having) an impact on fedi culture.