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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 04/10/2026

[letters from the dating front] @SnoopJ get those reps in 😹

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 02/10/2026

@SnoopJ I found it somewhere in the regular appearance/theme settings

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 02/10/2026

@SnoopJ in all fairness, there is now a ”compact“ setting that didn’t even exist before

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Gentle reminder that just because #Python 3.10 entered EOL today, you don't have to race out to drop support for it. There was a brand-new patch *just* released, after all. Some of your users *will* be constrained to it for a bit, yet. (Hi, I'm one of them!)

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 01/10/2026

The greatest of vibes: waiting at a light in your sleek 1990 300ZX with the T-tops open on a nice sunny day, the 1990 hit song Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) starts playing, and someone drives by in their eternally cool mid-90’s MkIV Supra. :blobcatpat: Not so great vibes: someone […]

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 29/09/2026

@nileane have you heard about Kitten Space Agency?

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 27/09/2026

@SnoopJ one of my all-time favorites is the sound used in Compound (a throwback VR rogue-lite shooter) www.youtube.com/shorts/WYxQAWZMSKA

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 26/09/2026

A pox on every website that refuses to show a password field until *after * you enter an email address, thereby preventing my browser from offering to autofill anything from my password manager.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 26/09/2026

[spoilers for SUPERHOT, a 14-year-old video game] @glyph @bitprophet @SnoopJ your content warning is triggering me. Wtf do you mean super hot is 14 years old, it just released a few years ago 🤪🫠💀

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

:blobfoxdrakedislike: CLOSEDWONTFIX :blobfoxdrakelike: CLOSEDSLOP

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 25/09/2026

My brain has crossed the rubicon. Not even my nightmares are safe from being made worse with LLMs.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 24/09/2026

@glyph in retrospect, I miss the hacktoberfest slop PRs. At least they were human generated slop, and you had eleven months to forget about it before the next tide came in.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 24/09/2026

@glyph reminds me of all the people/professors/etc who ruined hacktoberfest with tutorials showing people, who otherwise wouldn’t notice or care, how to make shitty PRs for the purpose of getting a free t-shirt/extra credit/whatever, but the end result was always maintainer burnout, or insults […]

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 23/09/2026

So the folks behind Star Citizen have introduced a space ship, then introduced an updated version/model of that space ship, then deprecated the old space ship, and now are re-releasing the "classic" version of it ... all while never actually "releasing" the game that I pledged for 14 years ago […]

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 22/09/2026

@bitprophet I think the answer for AF1 is no, because it’s a military plane, same as any other military plane, and none of them transmit adsb

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 19/09/2026

Just over *two weeks* to go before #PyBay 2026, happening on October 3rd at UCSF Mission Bay. We've got an excellent lineup of speakers, including: @gaborbernat @emmatyping @pamelafox @brianokken @coderanger and so many more! Thanks to our generous sponsors […] [Original post on toots.n7.gg]

PyBay 2026, October 3rd, in San Francisco. 11th Annual Regional PyBay Conference. For the community by the community.

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Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Social media bans exist to prevent young people from organizing on climate change, Palestine, and LGBTQIA+ rights.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 18/09/2026

Oh NOW you want my opinion on the ridiculously overpriced VR headset that was too heavy and where you refused to embrace popular VR use cases for until it was too late so I just put it on top of my *other* horribly expensive monument to Apple Design? Ok

Screenshot from my email client, of an email from Apple Market Research, with the subject “Tell us about Apple Vision Pro”

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 18/09/2026

@SnoopJ doesn’t sound like a lot, is that a lot?

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 17/09/2026

@glyph you can’t put a price on memories <taps ear> Oh, I’m being told there is indeed a price for the memory

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 17/09/2026

Oh boy, I have once again won the opportunity to spend more money! 😹

Email from Valve saying I’m “officially in the reservation queue for Steam Frame”

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 17/09/2026

[US/Canada politics] @brettcannon the Republican Party is so dumb and petty and vindictive I can’t fucking stand it. I’m super happy for Canada and everyone else in the US should be too.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 17/09/2026

RE: framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117281447… unironically, unashamedly do this. call your friends, ask them for help. and when they say “wait did you ask me just to replace your AI” say yes. say you’ll owe them one but you appreciate them so much more than AI. and show up for them […]

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Chris is. @offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

If tomorrow someone proved that being gay (or being straight) is a choice and that someone can simply choose not to be ... I would still support every single person, straight, gay, bi (hi!) or otherwise, to be who they chose to be. You don't have to be born that way to be valid.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 17/09/2026

@offby1 it's not for everyone, and it's barely for me :blobcatsweat:

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 15/09/2026

@todd I bookmark things every once in a while, but rarely come back to actually find them later 🙃

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 15/09/2026

@glyph is there a good reference page somewhere of how to do all that? I’m hesitating to upgrade because I like being on the on version with a hard “ai off switch”, but I know that can’t last forever

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 15/09/2026

for those who don’t remember, or more likely, were too young *or not yet born* … 💀 www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vint…

Picture of most of the Apollo 13 Hardees rocket set, including the plastic rocket in the background, and a set of Apollo 13 branded pogs and slammers in the foreground.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 15/09/2026

@SnoopJ randomly reminded me of some amazing childhood brand integrations. Do you remember the Apollo 13 movie tie-in kids toys from Hardee’s? Fascinatingly of-an-era: collect all the pieces of the plastic Saturn V rocket that served as a container for the Apollo 13 branded *pogs* and slammers […]

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 15/09/2026

@nileane why sleep when half the time I do, I just wake up because my brain cooked up some new terrifying situation that I might possibly face in my daily life 🤪

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Glyph @glyph.im · 13/09/2026

So if you find yourself feeling dependent upon AI because you're "not good enough", not like the prominent critics who you are putting on a pedestal, then allow me to paraphrase this famous exhortation from the philosopher Kamina: "Don't believe in yourself! Believe in me! Believe in the me who […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 13/09/2026

Second, the way you get to be a "good programmer" (on any one of the multivariate axes upon one can be such a thing) is to practice a lot, and AI deprives you of practice. So it might be momentarily helping you to *avoid embarrassment* but you're basically just bluffing your way through a […]

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Mario Munoz @pythonbynight.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I spent the last several days writing this. When I started, I felt like maybe the title was a bit of a hyperbole, even though I feel like my point is well argued. But then again, you have people working in this industry saying that they are building a weapon of mass destruction that could […]

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 12/09/2026

First time in many years that I haven’t set an alarm to preorder an iPhone. Weird.

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glamcode @glamcode.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

How I receive your offer to put AI into anything 👇 #AI #LLM

Two panels from a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip.
Calvin has a hammer and offers “you name the surface and I’ll fill it full of nails”. The answer of mum is “Um, no…” and “No thanks, not today”.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 10/09/2026

[Transphobia] @JessTheUnstill and we know what’s next once they erase trans people: they’ll simply pick the next group of people they don’t like and repeat the same process.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 10/09/2026

You say you have to support the fashy software stack because that’s where the majority of AI users are going. Gee. I wonder why the majority of AI users are picking the fashy software stack for their “projects”. 🤔

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 08/09/2026

@offby1 goodness has it really been that long? 💀

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 07/09/2026

@offby1 and of course the YouTube app settings on the Apple to look nothing like I remember 🙃

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