The @bonfire project is what I’m most excited about in the social web lately: https://bonfirenetworks.org/

I was going to say “I can’t wait to see Bonfire Communities”, but I love their “slow but steady” approach so much that I’ll say “I can and I’ll wait”.

They’re fundraising now: https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community

Männer, die Ideen von Frauen als ihre eigenen ausgeben. Sehr entbehrlich.

Pepper & Carrot, Episode 39: "The Tavern" is finally out!

This 11-page webcomic is a standalone episode that you can read in five minutes. It's about courage and an experiment with sound in the comic medium. Translations are already available. We've got English, Français, Deutsch, Español, 中文, Nynorsk, and Toki Pona, thanks to some great contributors. And a big thank you to my 1106 supporters for giving me the time to create this one.

https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomic/ep39_The-Tavern.html

#webcomic #krita #peppercarrot

«If life intervenes (with illness, caregiving, burnout, financial stress, etc.) we don't apply pressure; we offer solidarity. As much as possible, the rest of us stretch so others don't have to vanish or push through pain.»
( https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/matters-of-care-why-maintenance-comes-first/ - @bonfire )

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#bonfire

RE: https://indieweb.social/@bonfire/115537150532181217

Bonfire is by far the most promising thing happening in the fediverse right now. I just pledged to the maintenance fund, and I should even get a guided install party out of it. I plan to use that as an opportunity to add a bonfire instance for interop testing in https://github.com/Letterbook/Sandcastles

Just backed the @bonfire crowdfunding campaign, since it is a genuinely interesting project in the fediverse: https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community

Even though money's tight for myself right now, I wanted to personally support their project.

We’re crowdfunding for maintenance first: the unsexy work funders usually don’t want to support. Our new post explains why care and maintenance are the foundation before we can unlock all the other stretch goals: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/matters-of-care-why-maintenance-comes-first/
We’re at 74%. Help us cross the finish line: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=KQi0KDuSGE2TPSH9j9eCww
#crowdfunding #care

🎉 100 backers! We're ~€8,000 away from our first goal of €30,000 for maintenance.

Campaign perks include a limited-run, hand screen-printed piece by Rocco Lombardi, the artist behind Bonfire's visual world. There's also a regular print for a lower price, which available in more locations.

Rocco's work embodies what we care about: living worlds, connection, plurality. Our aesthetic embraces "contamination" and renewal: away from sterile platform design.

Claim yours: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=FVxjqI1kLUOhHXxqyrS6-g

Wow, this campaign website against Google's plan to kick out XSLT is a thing of beauty.

https://xslt.rip/

less "you can transition in your 40s and 50s and still be hot" and more "transitioning is worth it regardless of whether or not you turn out conventionally attractive," please and thank you

Bonfire Social 1.0 is live! A federated, community‑first social network built on the modular Bonfire toolkit, and it’s only the beginning.

It's time to go beyond microblogging and build apps for community organising, open science, mutual aid, and collective decision‑making. Let's take back the internet with open protocols, consent‑based governance, and portability by design.

Back the “last migration” from closed platforms to open networks: https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community

There's this pretty widespread 'belief system' of pessimism, that says something along the lines of "most people are fundamentally untrustworthy, or evil, or selfish". It thrives in right-wing circles (and vice versa), but it definitely is also present in leftist spaces.

It's a very long-running philosophical debate. With many arguments; social, political, anthropological, economic, you name it. Everybody's arguments in this discussion are heavily influenced by their personal experiences. And that is no different for me, but there's one angle I have that I haven't seen brought up before.

See, I'm quite kinky, and my 'kinks of choice' as a sub are free use, and CNC (consensual non-consent). As the names imply, that means "people being free to use me for sexual/kinky purposes without asking, within certain parameters" and "me having no right to refuse things, within certain parameters". They combine, too; people being free to use me at any time and me having no choice in the matter.

And this goes *far*, for me. We're not just talking about some slightly lewd things here; I prefer giving any-time blanket consent for as many things as I reasonably can, in some cases even to the general public (albeit without the CNC part there, for safety reasons). If I'd agree to doing something when asked, I'd *probably* give blanket consent for it, unless I have a specific reason not to.

In other words: for anyone but the most kinky of people, this pretty much boils down in practice to "you can do whatever you want with me, whenever you want to, whether I feel like it or not, and I can't stop you". A great playground for power fantasies, with no consequences for what you do. Right?

And you know what the single most common response is, by a country mile, that I get to this from people I offer such blanket consent to? No matter how much I try to reassure them?

Hesitance. Fear of 'going too far'.

Okay, you might say, but clearly there's some bias going on there; you'd only offer that to trustworthy people. To which I'd say, not really? Anyone who passes a very rudimentary 'vibe check', for lack of a better term, would get offered such blanket consent if the topic came up; and very few people have ever failed this check, and then only in the seediest of places.

(This works for me specifically because of an adjacent noncon kink; I wouldn't recommend anyone else take this approach unless they understand *exactly* what they are signing up for. This is very different from private free use arrangements.)

To repeat: when given near-unfettered access to my body at any time, with explicit permission to push boundaries and ignore refusals or resistance, the first thought for the vast majority of people is... "but what if I go too far".

And how could this possibly fit with the idea that most people are selfish and would choose their own pleasure over the well-being of others?

#Feminism

Sie sollte die Arbeitswelt revolutionieren. Doch mehrere Studien belegen nun, dass der Einsatz von KI keine Effizienzgewinne in Unternehmen bringt.
https://taz.de/!6125562

Spicy Grench take:

I kinda really hate Christmas Culture.
I hate Christmas music.
I hate the super elaborate light displays.
I hate the fucking bell ringers every time I just want to get groceries
I hate all the bullshit that goes into the hype and merch and Black Friday and Christmas Specials and whatever else.

I just want a quiet gathering with my family and chosen family where we eat and have fun for a day, and trade a few presents.

All this other shit is too overwhelming to deal with for 2+ months of the year.

based kde

https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-www/2025-October/009275.html

Tawny Platis on 65 years of female robotic voices in movies and TV

#voices #assistants #ai

Unsere Klägerin arbeitet seit fast 30 Jahren bei Daimler, 15 davon als Abteilungsleiterin. Trotz gleicher Arbeit & Quali verdiente sie deutlich weniger als ein Kollege auf gleicher Ebene. Objektive Gründe für diesen Unterschied? Konnte Daimler bislang nicht vorbringen.

Das LAG BaWü hatte ihr nur den Unterschied zum Medianwert der Männer zugestanden. Das hieß im Klartext: Eine Frau kann immer nur so viel verlangen, wie ein mittelmäßiger Mann. Diesem Ansatz hat das BAG jetzt eine Absage erteilt.