Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025In the Washington, DC area there's a real estate agency called RLAH, and every time I see one of their signs for a split second I think that it's for R'lyeh Real Estate. #cthulhu 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025The Plan Is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. novaramedia.com/2025/12/07/the-plan… An interesting interview with Cory Doctorow.novaramedia.com 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2025This is the "If you give a mouse a cookie..." approach to fiscal policy. Trump to announce $12 billion tariff relief for farmers archive.ph/K0tIs 010
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2025Am I the only person who saw Notting Hill and didn't understand why Hugh Grant's character would want to end up with Julia Roberts's character? (Yes, I realize it came out a quarter of a century ago, but I just got around to seeing it today.) 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025RIP, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. deadline.com/2025/12/cary-hiroyuki-…deadline.comCary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Dies: ‘Mortal Kombat, ‘Last Emperor’ & ‘Man In The High Castle’ Actor Was 75Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, the prolific and instantly recognizable actor best known for his roles in the Mortal Kombat films, The Last Emperor, Memoirs of a Geisha and The Man in the High Castle, died Thursday in Santa Barbara. He was 75. Tagawa died due to complications from a stroke early this morning surrounded by his children. […] 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025Last year my inbox was inundated on #GivingTuesday by every non-profit organization that had ever gotten ahold of my email address. But this year I've gotten like three appeals so far. Curious. 100
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025I saw someone at the grocery store wearing a hoodie. I could only read the back, which said, "No one likes us. We don't care." I immediately thought, "That has to be #Philly." It was. 000
Reposted by Steve Foerster 🌐Mark Gardner @phoenixtrap.com · 24/11/2025According to my chocolate Advent calendar, there are only three days until #Christmas. 002
Reposted by Steve Foerster 🌐Book!BlaBla @bookblabla.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2025📚 Stranger in a Strange Land by: Robert A. Heinlein Raised by Martians on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith is a human who has never seen another member of his species. Sent to Earth, he is a stranger who must learn what it is to be a man. But his own beliefs […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 103
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025While the Hallelujah Chorus is the most recognizable song from Handel's Messiah, and is great, Worthy Is The Lamb is absolutely the pinnacle. What a stirring ending to the oratorio! #music 001
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025Border Patrol and other federal law enforcement agencies are conducting a massive surveillance network monitoring the actions of millions of Americans. These agencies are not protecting Americans from threats. They are the threat […]social.fossdle.orgOriginal post on social.fossdle.org 010
Reposted by Steve Foerster 🌐Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 18/11/2025Almost half a century later, IBM's internal training documents from the late 70s are specifically valuable in the era of #AI. 0325
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025Usually I switch over to Christmas music on November 22nd (St. Cecilia's Day, patron of musicians) by queueing up Handel's Messiah, but... oh well, this year I'm jumping the gun a few days. 🎄🎶 000
Reposted by Steve Foerster 🌐Ron Dyck @dyckron.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025More liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they're buying guns out of fear www.npr.org/2025/11/15/nx-s1-560706… 001
Reposted by Steve Foerster 🌐Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/11/2025“Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it, but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man.” —Thomas Paine, “The American Crisis” […]mastodon.onlineOriginal post on mastodon.online 115
Reposted by Steve Foerster 🌐Ambivalent Dictator For Life @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025Happy Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to those who celebrate 240145
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025I don't often get to say "Good news from the Supreme Court!" but the Obergefell decision is safe for now, so I'll take the chance while I have it. Supreme Court declines to revisit gay marriage decision www.npr.org/2025/11/10/nx-s1-560429… #uspol 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025"Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery." - Amy Chua 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025Trump admin tells states to 'immediately undo' steps to fund November SNAP benefits www.npr.org/2025/11/09/nx-s1-560341… The cruelty is the point. Moreover, if Democrats can't turn headlines like this into control of the House and Senate next year […]social.fossdle.orgOriginal post on social.fossdle.org 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld are meeting in the Oval Office. Rumsfeld says, "Mr. President, the Pentagon estimates that if we go into Iraq, it will lead to the deaths of a million Iraqis and a cocker spaniel." Bush says, "Wait a second, why would invading Iraq kill a cocker […]social.fossdle.orgOriginal post on social.fossdle.org 004
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025I was literally listening to lo-fi beats when I ran across this! 😄 010
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill will push US debt levels beyond those of Greece or Italy, IMF forecast predicts www.independent.co.uk/news/world/am… One Big Beautiful Bankruptcyindependent.co.ukTrump’s budget will push US debt levels beyond those of Greece or Italy, IMF predictsPresident’s allies say deficit is going down, but predictions for 2026 still range as high as $2.2 trillion 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025It's always the ones you most expect. www.politico.com/news/2025/10/20/pa… #uspol 010
Reposted by Steve Foerster 🌐Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025On Tuesday, Bookshop launched a new digital platform enabling independently owned bookstores to sell digital books, granting them a foothold in a marketplace long dominated by Amazon. At launch, Bookshop’s platform offers a catalog of more than three million e-books available online via any web […]c.imOriginal post on c.im 002
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2025As someone who goes to church every Sunday, I can assure you that the last person whose theological opinion I'd value is Peter Thiel, whose name anagrams to "The Reptile". archive.ph/9zsIT 000
Reposted by Steve Foerster 🌐random stranger @kyonshi.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025every 3-4 years when they are cleaning it the authorities allow visitors into the #Lodz waterworks. They are pretty fussy about security (I guess rightly so) but they do allow pictures. #pictures #water 819136
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025US buys Argentine pesos, finalizes $20 billion currency swap apnews.com/article/trump-bessent-ar… #uspol 010
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025Because calling for one's political opponents to be incarcerated is a perfectly normal and healthy part of a liberal democracy. 🙃 archive.ph/lhYGC #uspol 000
Reposted by Steve Foerster 🌐FediForum @fediforum.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025... and FediForum is getting started. We will keep registration open throughout the event today and tomorrow. If you just decide to join us online now, feel free, chances are you will have fun and meet many interesting people moving the open social web forward. fediforum.orgfediforum.orgFediForumFediForum: moving the Open Social Web forward 005
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025Six US Surgeons General, Democratic and Republican—including one appointed by Trump is his first term—spoke out with one voice to condemn anti-science HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. archive.ph/DNPUh #uspol 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025Here's an editorial about DSA written by two who know it well, including a former board member: archive.ph/ZGSib Right now Americans are living the nightmare of what happens when one of its major parties gets captured by its lunatic fringe. The last thing we need is for the other major […]social.fossdle.orgOriginal post on social.fossdle.org 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025My eldest just described driving across Indiana as "an unskippable cutscene". 😄 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025I just beat #MinesweeperOnline in 144 seconds on Expert mode! minesweeperonline.com I mean, the bad news is that I wasted 144 seconds of my life. The good news is that it was only 144 seconds, and that's my all time best score, so... #LittleVictoriesminesweeperonline.comMinesweeper Online - Play Free Online MinesweeperFree Online Minesweeper in JavaScript. Play the classic game in Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert modes. 110
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2025Unfortunately, smart money says that Alligator Auschwitz is already living up to that nickname. www.esquire.com/news-politics/polit… #uspolesquire.comWait, How Exactly Did ICE Manage to “Lose” More Than 1,000 Alligator Alcatraz Detainees?It appears that the agency is just as incompetent as it is cruel. 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2025It would seem that colonialism and imperialism are also features of late stage communism. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09/28/china-d…hrw.orgChina: Draft ‘Ethnic Unity’ Law Tightens Ideological ControlA newly proposed law in China would provide a broad legal framework to justify existing repression and force assimilation of minority populations throughout the country and abroad. 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025Because for a moment there one of Trump's minions was in the news more prominently than he was, and we obviously can't have *that*! archive.ph/JYXuZ #uspol 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025I'm sure this isn't much comfort to people who have lost their homes to wildfires, but it is scientifically interesting. humanprogress.org/wildfire-heat-cou…humanprogress.orgWildfire Heat Could Unexpectedly Lower Eastern US Air Pollution 010
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025Okay, _this_ is funny. www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-tru… #uspol #friendshipmonthnbcnews.comStatues of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands is removed from the National MallThe statues, which depicted the president and the convicted sex offender skipping together, had been placed in front of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. 001
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025Here's a fascinating case study of how #SystemD works in #Nigeria. My own experience there and in Dominica tracks with this. medium.com/@kbabs/anyhowness-knows-… 010
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025Wow. Disney+/Hulu announcing a rate hike right now, as a bunch of people are cancelling their service over the Jimmy Kimmel fiasco, is a fascinating decision on their part. 1112
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025www.derekthompson.org/p/the-25-most… This is a fascinating snapshot of where we are in social metrics, from one of the #abundance guys.derekthompson.orgThe 25 Most Interesting Ideas I've Found in 2025 (So Far)Charts and history lessons—across culture, politics, AI, economics, health, science, and the long story of progress 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.social.fossdle.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025Why did the people who market to middle-class Americans decide that "street food" was hip? 🤔 000