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Stefan Bohacek

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Husband, father, side project enthusiast: stefanbohacek.com/projects Big fan of the #fediverse: stefanbohacek.com/fediverse If you enjoy my […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ stefanbohacek.online/@stefan, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 12/10/2026
Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! "Be humble and keep learning—especially when it’s hard." www.greenpeace.org/usa/10-ways-to-b… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Pe… ✊ #solidarity […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]
A scene from the TV show The Good Place where one character explains:

"Fun fact, Columbus is in The Bad Place because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide."
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 19/09/2026
"The internet emoticon truly traces its lineage directly to Fahlman, who says he came up with the idea after reading "lengthy diatribes" from people on the message board who failed to get the joke or the sarcasm in a particular post -- which is probably […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]
A screenshot of two paragraphs from the linked article:

1982: At precisely 11:44 a.m., Scott Fahlman posts the following electronic message to a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University:

19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-)
From: Scott E Fahlman

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:

:-)

Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use:

:-(
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 02/09/2026
"At a celebration marking his seventieth birthday, the artist presented each of his 150 dinner guests with a unique miniature painting: tiny vistas embedded in a studio photograph of himself, poised with brush in hand." […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]
A three-by-three grid of aged photographs of a painter sitting in front of a canvas. Each photo has a different painting painted over the canvas.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 01/09/2026
Hey fediverse, happy #LibraryCardSignUpMonth! www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celeb… #libraries #LibraryCard #books #bookstodon
A two-panel Charlie Brown comic.

In the first panel, three young children (Charlie Brown, Lucy, and Linus) stand outside. One of the children, Linus, approaches the other two children, holding a library card, and says:

"Look! Library card! I've taken out a library card!"

He stands proud, holding his library card to his chest, and continues:

"I have been given my citizenship in the land of knowledge!"
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 27/08/2026
Happy Beginning of the Internet Age Day! "The first two-network TCP/IP transmission was between the [Packet Radio Van] and ARPANET on August 27, 1976; the van was parked next to Rossotti's (since 1956, officially the "Alpine Inn"), a well-known Portola […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]
A photo of a commemorative plaque that reads:

BEGINNING OF THE INTERNET AGE 

On August 27, 1976, scientists from SRI 
International celebrated the successful 
completion of tests by sending an electronic 
message from a computer set up at a picnic table
behind the Alpine Inn. The message was sent via 
a radio network to SRI and on through a second
network, the ARPANET, to Boston. This event 
marked the beginning of the Internet Age.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 18/08/2026
@leonardof Ohh, totally missed that! @liaizon
A cropped screenshot of the new Mastodon sidebar menu with items:

- New post
- Home
- Explore
- Fediverse Feeds

The last item, Fediverse Feeds, uses the ⁂ (asterism) symbol as its icon.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 06/08/2026
The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProje…! "On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]
Screenshot of a very simple web page from the first link in the post, titled "World Wide Web", with no images, just black text on white background, and blue, underlined links.

Below the title is a brief description of the World Wide Web project and a few links, that are blue and underlined.

Full transcript of the web page text:

The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.

Everything there is online about W3 is linked directly or indirectly to this document, including an executive summary of the project, Mailing lists , Policy , November's W3 news , Frequently Asked Questions .

What's out there?
Pointers to the world's online information, subjects , W3 servers, etc.

Help
on the browser you are using

Software Products
A list of W3 project components and their current state. (e.g. Line Mode ,X11 Viola , NeXTStep , Servers , Tools , Mail robot , Library )

Technical
Details of protocols, formats, program internals etc

Bibliography
Paper documentation on W3 and references.

People
A list of some people involved in the project.

History
A summary of the history of the project.

How can I help ?
If you would like to support the web..

Getting code
Getting the code by anonymous FTP , etc.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 29/07/2026
@vhs is back, please enjoy! stefanbohacek.online/@vhs/117005155… (Static preview of CW-ed videos.)
Frame from the video in a linked post showing analog static noise one would see when playing a blank VHS tape.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 17/07/2026
Hey fediverse, happy Friday, and happy #WorldEmojiDay! Resharing, again : Find top emoji from your fediverse posts: data.stefanbohacek.com/projects/fed… A look at custom emoji across the fediverse: stefanbohacek.com/blog/custom-fediv… #emoji #EmojiDay
A random selection of emoji, their size based on my frequency of their use.

Top emoji from my posts include:

- ✊  (used 133 times)
- 🤞  (used 43 times)
- 🙃 (used 41 times)
- 😬 (used 24 times)
- 🤷‍♂️ (used 20 times)
- 🤔 (used 16 times)
- 🎉 (used 14 times)
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 12/07/2026
@XedYourLastY
The anthropomorphize baby sun character from the British children's TV series Teletubbies. The image is captioned with: "You have tried your last bottle of sunscreen."
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 09/07/2026
Asterism. fediverse.stefanbohacek.com/08 #fediverse #typography #asterism #FediverseSymbol
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 02/07/2026
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was enacted 62 years ago. And the work towards a more just world continues ✊️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_… Photo via www.history.com/articles/civil-righ… #CivilRights #CivilRightsAct #history #USHistory #OTD #OnThisDay
A close-up black-and-white photo of President Lyndon B. Johnson shaking hands with civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 at the White House.

Behind them is a small crowd of onlookers.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 26/06/2026
Nice, this will be fixed in an upcoming release! github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/3…
A before/after screenshot comparing a Mastodon notification email that links to an image on the left, and fully embeds it on the right.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 25/06/2026
The original gay pride flag flew at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade celebration on June 25, 1978, 46 years ago. It was designed by Gilbert Baker, artist, activist and openly gay military veteran […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]
Design of the original gay pride flag, which consists of eight horizontal stripes in alternating colors, from top to bottom: pink, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, indigo, and violet.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 24/06/2026
Social interactions can be challenging to get right online. Here's a helpful chart for whenever you find yourself in a situation where you're wondering if you should send out that unwanted opinion, video link, or anything else, really. Courtesy of […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]
Flowchart for whether or not you should send "it", whether "it" is an unwanted opinion, a video link, as in the original flowchart this one is based on, or anything else, really.

"If the person requested it, send it."

"If the person didn't request it, don’t send it."
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 20/06/2026
Please enjoy animated 88x31 fediverse GIFs! Dark: static.stefanbohacek.com/88x31/fedi… Dark with border: static.stefanbohacek.com/88x31/fedi… Light […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 18/06/2026
Well I couldn't find one, so I put this together based on data from fedilist.com/instance. Almost half of active Mastodon users are now on version 4.6, nice! #mastodon #fediverse #data #dataviz #DataVisualization
A screenshot of a table and a pie chart from Excel showing top 10 Mastodon versions by the number of Monthly Active Users (MAU) with version 4.6.0 at 407,149 MAU, making up 49% of the total MAU.

Full raw dataset:

Mastodon version, MAU (Monthly Active Users), MAU %
4.6.0, 407149, 49.2%
4.5.11, 106624, 12.9%
4.4.0-alpha.4, 98256, 11.9%
4.5.10, 40361, 4.9%
4.5.9, 20071, 2.4%
4.1.18, 15348, 1.9%
4.6.0-alpha.9+gl, 12159, 1.5%
4.3.22, 10270, 1.2%
4.7.0-nightly.20, 7938, 1.0%
4.5.11+vivaldimo, 7530, 0.9%
Other, 102259, 12.4%
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 18/06/2026
12 hours later, 26% of active Mastodon servers are running the latest version. Nice. #mastodon #fediverse #MastoAdmins #FediAdmins
A screenshot from the linked website showing a pie chart labeled "Active instances software version distribution".

Top 3 Mastodon versions are:

Version 4.6.0: 2,440 servers at 26.42%
Version 4.5.11: 2,368 servers at 25.64%
Version 4.5.10: 613 servers at 6.64%
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 17/06/2026
Will be interesting to watch fedi.wrm.sr/software/mastodon#:~:te… throughout the day, expecting servers to get updated pretty quickly based on past experience.
A screenshot from the linked website showing a pie chart labeled "Active instances software version distribution".

Top Mastodon versions included:

Version 4.5.11: 4,115 servers at 44.48%
Version 4.5.10: 609 servers at 6.58%
Version 4.5.9: 545 servers at 5.89%
Version 4.5.8: 337 servers at 3.64%
Version 4.5.7: 220 servers at 2.38%
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 16/06/2026
Playing with the email subscription feature in the latest pre-release version of Mastodon. Neat idea, but especially for accounts like @southpoleviews, it would definitely make sense to include the image in full rather than just a link. #mastodon #EmailSubscription
A screenshot of an email version of a post from the South Pole Views bot showing the account's name, username (@southpoleviews), and profile image (an emoji map of Antarctica).

The content of the email is the title of the research station, in this case the Troll research station, with a source link, a few hashtags, the image that's attached in the post also rendered as a link.

After the post is the text "Interact with this post and discover more like it." followed by a link to "Create a Mastodon account" styled as a button, and finally, a footer that reads:

"You're receiving this email because you opted into email updates from Views from South Pole. Don't want to receive these emails? Unsubscribe"
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 15/06/2026
"Suddenly, you're gonna have a lot more time to fill. And what will you do?" "Stare at a wall." via www.bbc.com/news/live/c77yx1jpg1nt #news #AgeVerification #SocialMedia #UK
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 11/06/2026
Fair enough. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will via fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/prof… #FreeWill #wikipedia #DepthsOfWikipedia
A screenshot of a section from the linked Wikipedia page showing a person on a bike performing a trick mid-jump with clear sky in the background.

The text below reads: A dirt jumper performing a trick, according to some interpretations, is the result of free will.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 08/06/2026
Pretty incredible. "Carlos Moreno, a professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a former adviser to the city, said the French capital has developed “an urban policy based on well-being.”" Paywalled link […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]
Six heatmap charts arranged in a three-by-two grid showing the average nitrogen dioxide concentration in Paris in multiple years between 2007 and 2024, with the colors shifting from red mixed with orange in 2007 (60-80 micrograms per cubic meter) to mostly green and yellow  in 2020 (20 micrograms per cubic meter) until the map looks mostly green (0-20 micrograms pre cubic meter).
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 07/06/2026
A fun thought experiment from 2009 that imagines a world where dinosaurs didn't go extinct. "What would the world look like if these strange and majestic animals had not gone extinct? And, would they ever evolve into intelligent species comparable to […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]
A composite image that consists of a drawing of a dinosaur-like animal herd at the bottom and an imagined cavemen art-style representation of the scene above it.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 03/06/2026
Happy World Bicycle Day! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bicycle… #bicycles #BicycleDay #WorldBicycleDay
A yellowed-out, 1890s Victorian-era illustration titled "The Awful Effects of Velocipeding" showing a confident woman wearing a dress and riding a bicycle, colliding with a man also riding one, knocking him off flying, and moving along unaffected.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 31/05/2026
Logging in. #mastodon #fediverse
Cover of the 1997 animated movie short Mastodons: The First Encounter featuring four anthropomorphic mastodons wearing colorful 80s-style leotards striking action poses.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 26/05/2026
Agreed with @ryanrandall (h/t), that's a great sweater! spectrum.ieee.org/floppy-disk-data-… #floppies #FloppyDisks #VintageTech
A smiling person wearing a cream-colored sweater adorned with floppy disk design, sitting with their arms crossed behind a bright orange table with scattered floppy disks on it, in an otherwise empty-looking room with a white wall in the background.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 22/05/2026
Hey fediverse, happy Friday! A small personal victory, but after a few days of tinkering with my website stefanbohacek.com, I finally achieved the mythical perfect PageSpeed score. #WebDev #WebPerf #WebPerformance #PageSpeed
Screenshot of PageSpeed Insights web performance score for my personal website with 100/100 scores across all categories: Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 18/05/2026
Happy 18th anniversary to the very first fediverse post, courtesy of @evan! web.archive.org/web/20080618164355/… identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqa… #fediverse #identica #anniversary #FirstPost
A screenshot of the first fediverse post from Evan Prodromou dated May 18, 2008, posted on the early fediverse platform Identica.

The text of the post, "This is my first post.", is next to a photo of smiling Evan, wearing a hat, and looking sharp.

Below the post is a partial list of people who liked and shared the post.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 15/05/2026
List of potential limitations: bsky.app/profile/alexbenzer.com/pos… I don't know if it's the anti-virality features/anti-features, or the size of the userbase, but I'm glad we're able to just edit our posts. Makes micro-blogging almost feel like blogging. It's really nice.
A screenshot of a portion of the linked post showing a list of limitations being considered to allow post editing to work on Bluesky.

1) you have 5 minutes to edit a post
2) you can only edit each posts once
3) images and videos can’t be edited
4) a prominent "edited" badge appears on the post
5) version history is visible to everyone
6) your account has to be at least a week old
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 12/05/2026
A good case for bringing your kids to work. www.scientificamerican.com/article/… #science #MargaretHamilton #nasa #science #kids
A screenshot from the linked article:

Crashing the Flight Simulator

While working for M.I.T.’s Instrumentation Laboratory, which was contracted by NASA to develop software for the Apollo program, Hamilton often took her daughter Lauren to work with her in the evenings and on weekends, sometimes allowing the child to play with the lab’s flight simulator. One day, the then four-year-old pressed all sorts of buttons on the device, causing the onboard computer to crash: she had tried to run the prelaunch program while the simulation was in flight, meaning two programs were trying to occupy the same section of computer memory.

This gave Hamilton pause for thought: she urgently wanted to create a way to prevent problems like the one Lauren had triggered from occurring during a real mission.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 12/05/2026
Applauding @admin for taking a strong, well-argued stand on this. Can we get more admins onboard? #fediverse #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins
Screenshot of a Mastodon server's server rules:

Don’t police others’ use of CWs, alt text, or tags
Whilst we have some guidelines around when to use CWs, alt text, and tags, we only have one rule about them: Use CWs for adult or NSFW content.

You can politely ask other people to use specific CWs, alt text, or tags that you prefer, as long as you don’t state your preferences as absolute rules or requirements.

This is especially important when marginalised people speak about their experiences of marginalisation. For example, if you are not BIPOC, don’t tell BIPOC to hide their experiences of racism behind CWs.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 09/05/2026
Sound governmental policy, and good advice for us all. www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1… www.nbcnews.com/science/ufos-and-an… #news #USNews #UFO #declassified
Screenshot from the linked PDF:

Even if we only found tame chemical Martians, or merely the debris from some intra-galactic survey mission, it would be a good idea to proceed on the assumption that the human race would finally have found a bigger problem than the ones it has created for itself.

There likely is nothing to be done at the moment to prepare for these possibilities (the only body of writing on the subject available in an emergency is science fiction), because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens.

At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.

[signature]

Maxwell W. Hunter, II
Member, Professional Staff
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 07/05/2026
Oh cool. If you're on mastodon.social, you get to try Collections already. #mastodon #collections #StarterPacks #fediverse
A screenshot of an empty Collections page titled "Your Collections", with a drawing of a mastodon, smiling and greeting you.

The text says:

Showcase your favorite accounts

Collections are curated lists of accounts to help others discover more of the Fediverse.

There are also two tabs visible: "Created by you", which is selected, and "Featuring you".

On the right side is a user menu with options such as Home, Trending, and more, with the Collections menu item selected and shown with a logo that consists of a triangle shape on top of a square and a circle.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 03/05/2026
Huge thanks to everyone sharing their photos! Having a little fun myself.
A collage of three photos of the printed mini-zine, cut out and arranged on a dark background image with translations of the word 'fediverse' written in white in different languages, repeating across multiple lines.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 02/05/2026
A little preview! And a shout out to @zserge, thank you for making github.com/zserge/zine! #zines #zine
Pages of the Join the Fediverse! zine laid out in a four-by-two grid, with the top row upside-down. The zine explains how corporate social media platforms isolate their users, and fediverse, much like email, lets people communicate and interact across different networks. Visit jointhefediverse.net/zine mentioned in the parent post for full content.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 01/05/2026
Happy #InternationalWorkersDay! ✊ #MayDay #workers #WorkingClass #WorkersRights #WorkerSolidarity #labor
A vertically-split three-panel hand-drawn protest artwork. Each panel is labeled with "8 hours" above it and additional text below it:

- 8 hours for work (person working)
- 8 hours for rest (person sleeping)
- 8 hours for what we will (a couple on a boat, woman reading newspaper called Union Advocate)
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 26/04/2026
Seconding @vantablack's parting words. Thank you @vantablack for sharing your story, and glad you found a safe place for yourself!
A screenshot from a YouTube livestream with Vanta, the speaker, visible in the top-left corner, and a slide with a rainbow gradient prominently in the view overlaid with an all-caps text:

1. COMMUNITY WILL SAVE YOU
2. BUT IT WILL BE HARD
3. IT'S STILL WORTH IT
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 20/04/2026
I wouldn't typically recommend products to buy on here, but I really like this T-shirt design. www.catawampus.ink/products/copy-of… #empathy #EmpathyIsCool #tshirt #design #NotAnAd
A black T-shirt on a white background with the text "Empath is cool, actually" written in a playful, bubbly font, with colors forming a light-pink-to-light-blue gradient.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 19/04/2026
Via gallery.multcolib.org/image/adults-… #NationalLibraryWeek #libraries #LibraryCard
A black-and-white photograph of four adults dressed in formal clothing, smiling and holding oversized library cards from three different counties (Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington County). One person is holding a large eight-sided card that reads "Metropolitan Interlibrary Exchange".
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 19/04/2026
Happy National Library Week! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Libr… #libraries #NationalLibraryWeek #LibraryWeek #books #reading #bookstodon
A two-panel Charlie Brown comic.

In the first panel, three young children (Charlie Brown, Lucy, and Linus) stand outside. One of the children, Linus, approaches the other two children, holding a library card, and says:

"Look! Library card! I've taken out a library card!"

He stands proud, holding his library card to his chest, and continues:

"I have been given my citizenship in the land of knowledge!"
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 13/04/2026
"This handbag thwarts fascists." #OnThisDay #OTD #history #photography #fascism #FightFascism #nazis #DanutaDanielsson #handbag
A black-and-white photograph of a 38-year-old woman, Danuta Danielsson, mid-swing, just about to hit a neo-nazi marching ahead of her, carrying a large flag, with her handbag.

There are two small crowds of on-lookers behind and next to them, and one other person turning to witness the handbag attack.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 12/04/2026
about.fediway.com looks like an interesting project, if you use multiple different federated networks. But this animation looks like a scene from a war. Which, yeah, maybe accurate. #SocialMedia
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 11/04/2026
Welcome home, #ArtemisII crew! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfhDuOHMp0A
A captured scene from the linked live stream captioned with "Integrity. Splashdown. Sending Post-landing command.".

In the image we can see the Orion spacecraft from above, landing in water, three small parachutes slowly descending down.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 09/04/2026
Happy Appomattox Day! "The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last, and ultimately one of the most consequential, battles of the American Civil War." […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 08/04/2026
Imagine being able to show off like this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Astro_Ch… #wikipedia #ArtemisII
Screenshot from the linked Wikipedia user page for astronaut Christina Koch.

It lists two "achievements":

"This user has left the planet Earth 2 times."

"This user has an article about herself on Wikipedia."
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 07/04/2026
Earthrise! #earthrise #ArtemisII #moon #earth #space
A space photo of our planet rising from behind the moon, which is closer in the view, taking up the bottom third of the image.

The surface of the moon has a brownish tint, and is littered with shallow craters.

Earth is further back in the view, backlit by the sun, which itself is not visible.

Both our planet and the moon are surrounded by the darkness of space, but the image conveys solemn and introspective feelings of seeing our home from an unfamiliar angle, photographed by brave members of the moon mission crew.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 06/04/2026
"NASA Mission Control in Houston has lost a direct communications link with the astronauts aboard Orion, which is entirely expected as the spacecraft soars beyond the moon’s far side and moves out of the reach of large antennas on Earth. This loss of […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]
A space photo taken from the NASA live feed showing the Earth as a small bright crescent on the right side and the dark side of moon closer in the view.

Part of the Orion spacecraft is visible on the left side of the view.
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 06/04/2026
This from www.nasa.gov/missions/nasa-answers-… #space #science #ArtemisII #moon #humans #robots
A screenshot of a paragraph from the linked website:

"Why do we need astronauts to view the Moon when we have robotic observers? Human eyes and brains are highly sensitive to subtle changes in color, texture, and other surface characteristics. Having astronaut eyes observe the lunar surface directly, in combination with the context of all the advances that scientists have made about the Moon over the last several decades, may uncover new discoveries and a more nuanced appreciation for the features on the surface of the Moon."
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 03/04/2026
Alright, Mastodon's getting the "Follows you" badge back. Whew. The 👋 is a nice little touch, I like it! #mastodon #fediverse #FollowsYou #UXUI #design #WebDesign
A screenshot of a cropped view of a Mastodon test account profile page. Highlight of it is the "Follows you" badge mentioned in the post, which indeed has a little waving-hand icon. Neat!
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