Yay! Some serious research investigating the idea that we all perceive things differently. An idea that’s obvious to anyone who has lived as neurodivergent in a conformist world, or who has used psychedelics.
One to watch. From each of our different perspectives.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Can you see circles or rectangles? And does the answer depend on where you grew up?
We may believe we see the world exactly as it is – but as studies of optical illusions show, it’s far more complex than that, says cognitive and computational neuroscience professor Anil SethAnil Seth (The Guardian)
St. Louis Cardinals caught in massive MLB scandal?
The St. Louis Cardinals were involved in a massive scandal that hit the MLB near the end of last month.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
People of Ice Cubes, are you using this component for quick access to pinned timelines? (At the bottom on iOS 26 and at the top on iOS 17+)
I was thinking of completely removing it and in order to make it live in the top menu.
As a fediverse power user, I'd really like to have 2 separate feeds populated by my follows;
* Firehose; anything that someone on the service I use, including me, might find interesting.
* Home; stuff I definitely want to read on a regular basis
Is this an experience anyone else can relate to?
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Making vacation plans? Be sure to consider--then dismiss--Florida!
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HIMS & HERS HEALTH SHAREHOLDER ALERT BY FORMER LOUISIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL: KAHN SWICK & FOTI, LLC REMINDS INVESTORS WITH LOSSES IN EXCESS OF $100,000 of Lead Plaintiff Deadline in Class Action Lawsuits Against Hims & Hers Health, Inc. – HIMS
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Meanwhile, Trump continues to remove funding for early warning systems
Heavy rains unleashed a “catastrophic” and deadly flood Friday on the Guadalupe River in Central Texas, prompting evacuations and a frantic search for missing people.
At least 32 people were killed in the flood, officials said Saturday afternoon, as both state and county authorities emphasized many unknowns remain
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline
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Official: At least 32 people dead after flooding in Central Texas
More than 20 children were missing as search and recovery efforts are underway in Kerr County.Sarah Bahari (The Dallas Morning News)
Jake Tapper's book is a flop with less than 60,000 copies sold and his TV show has hemorrhaged 25% of its viewers since his book came out.
My faith in humanity is thus restored.
Anyone out there go to DC Code and Coffee? meetup.com/dc-code-coffee/even…
It's been ... just a few years since I went to any sort of event like this.
DC Code & Coffee - CapitalOne Cafe (Chinatown) - July 13
DC Code and Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session. It's community-led and community-run by devs, for devs. People of all skill levels attend.Meetup
@yourautisticlife If you're local, I'd be glad to get together in a more accommodating environment.
Since diagnosis, I truly don't know if that sort of environment would send me into shutdown/meltdown. Working out of coffee shops can be extremely 😬 for me, no matter how much I want to be around humans and almost despite massive auditory sensory deprivation.
DEALMining uses artificial intelligence technology to mine in the cloud, enabling free cloud mining to earn passive income every day – Muddy River News
As digital finance continues to evolve, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The integration of AI and blockchainBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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Super fast Kingston Fury Renegade G5 SSDs are over 25% off at Amazon — PCIe 5.0 drives with speeds over 14,000 MB/s
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Super fast Kingston Fury Renegade G5 SSDs are over 25% off at Amazon — PCIe 5.0 drives with speeds over 14,000 MB/s
Get the speed you want without the debt.Ash Hill (Tom's Hardware)
Facing Climate Anxiety With Visual Comedy: ‘World Without End’ Graphic Artist Christophe Blain
Jean-Marc Jancovici is a well-known lecturer in France, and on YouTube, on the topics of energy and climate change. He focuses on the deep history andBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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I wonder why their family didn't want this huge oil painting 😅
CDPQ participates in the ‘economy of genocide’: UN report
The report cites its investment in Lockheed Martin as an example, which tripled from 2023 to 2024. The report accuses the American company of profiting fromBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Jo
in reply to Strypey • • •Strypey
in reply to Jo • • •@jomangee
As another comment pointed out, you can track keywords with lists. That might be useful with a better UX wrapped around it, as I described in my reply;
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Strypey
2025-07-06 02:16:28
Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •In Mastodon, I end up using Home as a Firehose, and Subscribe to get notifications from the few accounts whose posts I never want to miss. But this just moves the problem sideways. Instead of being lost in the firehose of my Home feed, they end up lost in the firehose of my notifications.
I follow many accounts just to populate search (searches on Mastodon can only find stuff that's born on the service you use, or from someone followed by an account on your service).
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Dave Lane 🇳🇿
in reply to Strypey • • •Strypey
in reply to Dave Lane 🇳🇿 • • •@lightweight
> are you using the 3 column layout in a browser?
Hell no. That thing is kryptonite for an ADHDer trying to focus on one thing. I mainly use Android apps (FediLab for a long time, more recently Moshidon), sometimes web apps (#HatTip to Enafore.social), and very occasionally a desktop app (Tuba on GNU/Linux).
I use vanilla Mastodon so little that if you were able to swap it out for Akkoma, I wouldn't notice until I went to post a freudian typo : P
Strypey
Unknown parent • • •@TerryHancock
> You can do this with 'exclusive lists' in Hometown
Mastodon has lists, but they're kind of a bolt-on. A lot of apps don't fully support them, or bury them so deep in the interface I forget they exist.
What I'm wanting looks like all-follows being a built-in list, set as the default Home feed. Then, when it starts to become a firehose, being able to choose a different list to be my Home feed.
💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱
in reply to Strypey • • •Lists have an option to exclude from Home, so you just put everything in relevant lists, and exclude from Home as you want. Anything you always want to see regardless, just don't add it to any Home-excluded List.
Raineer 🦆
in reply to Strypey • • •Strypey
in reply to Raineer 🦆 • • •@raineer
Lists. Yeeeahhh ...
mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/114…
Strypey
2025-07-06 02:16:28
Isaac Freeman
in reply to Strypey • • •Would it be fair to say that lists are the functionality you want, and the issue is with client apps not making them easy to use?
I'm finding Ivory reasonably good for a similar workflow. I start with a Don't Miss list, then when that's finished go to Friends, then New Zealand, then News. I get to home about once a week, but never get close to catching up there.
I could see a UI that made this kind of workflow central.
@TerryHancock
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@isaacfreeman
> the issue is with client apps not making them easy to use?
I guess so. If the Home feed was a follow-all list, and there was an option to choose a different list as Home, that would do exactly what I need.
Any chance of getting that on the roadmap for @moshidon and other apps?
@TerryHancock
Strypey
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In fact, I don't even know if it always makes sense for Home to be the default. For new accounts, it would be better for Local or Federated to be default, with the follow-all firehose introduced in the interface upon first follow. Progressive disclosure FTW!
#HatTip to @tchambers, whose recent piece on fediverse UX got me thinking along these lines
timothychambers.net/2025/06/24…
#FediverseIdeas
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Lucas @Moshidon 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
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in reply to Strypey • • •Strypey
in reply to Lucas @Moshidon 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 • • •@moshidon
> You can edit which timeline comes first
How do I do that? I had a poke around the list manager and the settings, but can't see any way to make a list come up when I tap Home, instead of the standard follow-all.
Lucas @Moshidon 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
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in reply to 💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱 • • •@SmartmanApps
> Lists have an option to exclude from Home, so you just put everything in relevant lists, and exclude from Home as you want
Hey cool. I guess the idea is your have your friends in Home, people you enjoy talking to and want to do that more. Then Excluded from Home lists are for people you follow more for their topical posts. Nice.
@moshidon has this, but I might set up an alt account to test it out on. Been meaning to set one up for Disintermedia.
@TerryHancock
Strypey
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@TerryHancock
> people who wouldn't want to converse, anyway. Since they're not in my "Home" stream, it preserves the more conversational nature of that feed
That makes a lot of sense. Separating parasocial follows from 2-way connections. Other fedi software, particularly the Friendica branch of the family, supports that distinction more explicitly. I just wish they had better UX.
@SmartmanApps
Strypey
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> Mastodon only displays 4 lists in the web interface
If you have an Android I highly recommend @moshidon. I don't think it has that limit?
Strypey
in reply to Tim Chambers • • •@tchambers Sure did. Now I'm learning about new ways of using lists that I had no idea were possible. There's probably a bunch of stuff I don't know, ironically, because I've been in the verse for so long.
This is a really good example of the 'elephant chained to a post' principle. I learned to fediverse on GNU Social, and my use habits are still shaped by the formative experience of using that. As well as the Mastodon and third-party apps of a decade ago.
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in reply to Strypey • • •For me it's Tech news sources - things I want to keep up with everyday - then excluded from Home is stuff that I don't necessarily need to keep up with every day (but are nice to read when I have time).
Also, everyone goes in a List anyway, and at any time I can exclude all of them from Home and see if there were any I missed. The whole thing gives you granular control over how much is appearing in your Home feed.