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"prototype of the new Plushtodon series has arrived" Looks nice but in a year it is out of fashion and then it is added to the gigantic world waste mountain. How much energy and chemicals are used to make this one-time-use toy? In which sweatshop is it assembled and for what wages? Can you also design something usefull?
I strongly dispute the notion that anything used for an entire year can be defined as “one-time-use”, but you raise some great questions!
I can't speak to the new plushies, but the original Mastodon stuffed toys are roughly 500-gram products primarily made of polyester. Given their simpler material mix, they likely required comparable, if not less, energy to manufacture as standard umbrellas.
I also don't know where the new plushies are made, but the original Mastodon stuffed toys were manufactured in facilities certified by ICTI's Ethical Supply Chain Program and Intertek's Workplace Conditions Assessment.
Further, plushies are useful in providing emotional comfort, which I would personally rank as at least equivalent to brief protection from the rain while walking.
Recent figures estimate that roughly 1/3rd of annual toy sales are plushies.
Mastodon's stuffed toys have additional value beyond that, serving as both a funding source and a physical advertisement for an increasingly important open-source project.
Those uninterested in owning one of these small-batch indie toys can support Mastodon in a variety of other ways, such as a monthly pledge to their Patreon campaign.
"IntelBroker's" real identity is Kai West, a British national, according to court filings now revealed by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York today.
U.S. is seeking his extradition from France, where he was arrested on February 5 and detained.
The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, and the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), Christopher G.
The Iran crisis has shown yet again how Israel dominates U.S. politics. It also made clear that Zionism is an ideology based on nothing but brutal violence. The urgent task before American Jews is to dissociate themselves from this rogue state.
I've finally started having some free time lately and have been working through my Steam library, most of which is Windows games I'm playing with Proton.
I wanted to install some mods, and wanted a mod manager for this. Nexus Mods has Vortex, which is not available for Linux. In any case, running Windows games on Linux through Proton on Steam is fairly specific; the game files will be at certain locations on a Linux filesystem, not at the same locations as they would be on a Windows filesystem. So I think I would need software that has specifically been designed for this use-case (Windows games from Steam running on Proton).
Are there any such mod managers out there? What do other people do when playing games on Linux? I can't be the only person who wants to play video games with mods.
It should be a thing! Linux has lots of games now. Linux has lots of games with mods. Linux needs mod managers! Voice your want for it here, discuss, and best: contribute to the open source code for Vortex! :3 Link to the development forum where ther…
Oh amazing. Seems like it's still in early development and only supports Stardew and Cyberpunk but I look forward to it being more mature and supporting more games.
I used vortex it works pretty for windows games there no difference for mod manager where to work cause it think that it windows and files hierarch in windows prefix as is it expect vortex .So simply just install vortex in same wine prefix where u had installed before and that's it.
TLDR: ModOrganizer 2 works well under Linux (native) with Steam, and does not require any install scripts, Lutris, or otherwise. This process can also fix broken installs from scripts that went awry,
Protontricks can help for some games. Personally I used it to install Openplanet for Trackmania which doesn't have any sort of explicit Linux support specified.
What Protontricks does is allow you to run installation files within the context of a steam game, as you mentioned. Simply launch Protontricks and select the game you're trying to modify and it will mount it properly for you. Then choose "Run an arbitrary executable (.exe/.msi/.msu)" and proceed to run the installer as you would normally.
Sometimes the path can still be a bit janky. For example when Openplanet wanted to install to the Trackmania directory as mounted through Protontricks, I had to specify: Z:\home\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\Trackmania.
I'm not sure why one of those is flagged. From what I can see its just the obnoxiously written write_file.content one-liners and lots of regex/sed, but nothing looks wrong with what its doing.
For Bethesda (and other compatible games), ModOrganizer 2 via SteamTinkerLaunch has worked reasonably well for me. There’s some jank involved but nothing terribly complicated for anyone who’s already used to Linux gaming hoop jumping. STL also supports Vortex but I’ve never personally tried it.
<br />To add in about game modding on Linux:
https://github.com/limo-app/limo
https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.limo_app.limo
Limo is a universal mod manager that is linux native.
And I do mean universal. It’ll work with literally any game, you just have to take a bit of extra time to configure things for games that do not yet have a supported preset configuration out of the box… but at this point, that includes most games that are generally reliant on some kind of mod manager type program on Windows, to keep track of 10s or 100s of simultaneous mods.
It works very much along the same lines as something like Mod Organizer 2, though there are some differences, read the wiki.
It sets up a virtual file system that allows mods to be set up outside of the main game directory itself, and will override them such that the mods actually load, but they can be ‘undeployed’ to revert back to vanilla, you can set up different profiles of different mod configurations and deploy/undeploy what you like.
It can also manage load orders, supports formats such as fomod and similar for games like Fallout New Vegas and Skyrim, you can set up tags and category groupings, and it also shows you conflicts between mods down to the specific files, showing you a chain of overwrites to the final file from the final loaded mod.
It doesn’t support things like LOOT, which purport to autogenerate correct load orders… but frankly, thats fine, because shit like that doesn’t even work properly in situations you’d use it in on Windows 90% of the time.
EDIT: Wow, apparently it does support LOOT now, it did not a few updates ago.
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I have successfully gotten FONV working using Limo to set up uh… there’s a variant of the Viva New Vegas mod setup guide aimed at Steam Deck users, but it tells you to set up Mod Organizer 2 on the Deck… which you can do, but its rather input laggy and there are other inconveniences…
Here it is, Mirelurked Viva New Vegas:
https://ashtonqlb.github.io/mirelurked-vnv/intro.html
I had to alter a few steps from this to get it working with Limo, but they were basically just… set up Limo instead of MO2, and you have to handle NVSE a bit differently, because it literally replaces/overrides the entire main game exe.
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I have also used Limo to mod Cyberpunk 2077, works with more in depth frameworks like CET, RedExt, etc, as well as using the Decky Framegen plugin to insert FSR 3.1 Upscaling and Framegen into CP77, which gives better quality and fps than the official FSR 2 and 3 implementations that come with the vanilla game and are vanilla supported on a Deck.
You basically just have to launch the vanilla game via the normal launcher first, check the ‘enable mods’ switch, fully load the game…
Then you can set up the Framegen mod, which adds a custom command in steam to the launch parameters… and then you can also setup the ‘skip intro’ mod, which is reliant on both the mod being present, as well as additional command line parameters…
There are a bunch of reddit posts complaining that the FrameGen mod doesn’t allow other additional launch arguments, but they are wrong.
All you have to do is append those additional launch args … at the end of the FrameGen mod’s launch arg. This just doesn’t seem to be explicitly documented anywhere, by anyone… I may have been the first person to figure this out?
Anyway, after that bit of silliness, setting up other mods for CP 77 using Limo is fairly straightforward.
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… I am doing all this on Bazzite on a Deck, but you could do it on… presumably any linux distro that supports flatpaks and proton (the translation layer that allows Windows games to run on Linux).
There will always be a few ‘weird’ mods that are just totally reliant on a whole bunch of Windows specific things to work, or just cannot be made to work without actually overwriting some core game files in the main, real directory itself…
And, some of these mods will require a windows component dependency, like vc_2017 or vc_2022, you set those up with something like ProtonTricks or SteamTinkerLaunch to modify the proton config per game, instead of trying to install the exe system wide as 99% of the windows oriented mods will tell you to do…
But so far, I have found either my own solutions for these cases, or someone else already has, or someone has just made basically a linux compatible equivalent for such a windows reliant mod.
… You can also just choose to run MO2 on Linux, it will work, its just… buggy, and overlycomplicated, imo, you’ve got to set up a custom wineprefix for the MO2 UI to not do dumbshit, give it thr dependencies it needs, and then you’ve got to do this for each different game you want to mod with MO2.
I found that Limo is sufficiently capable and much less hassle to use once you take the time to understand its differences from MO2.
I’m not super-familiar with mod managers in general but my experience has been that they just work with proton more than you might expect. I know for sure that unity mod manager works fine in proton; I use it for railroader.
I use Limo, it takes some getting used to after using Mod Organizer 2 for so long but it gets the job done. I havent used it for any huge modlists yet though as it tends to be a little buggy/unintuitive sometimes.
There's also a way to get MO2 on linux, should he on github as modorganizer2-linux-installer.
It's using OverlayFs to lay mods on top of the game files which allows for easy switch-arounds of mod sets while keeping each mod separated in their own folder. It's based upon config files and allows to freely collect mods in sets, even nested.
It's probably full of unnoticed bugs because I'm the only one using it, but it works 🤷 I do have a bunch of convenience stuff queued up locally though. They need a bit of polishing but soon it's ready for another push.
I tested in these games - ls -1 "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mod-manager": * Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.toml * Cyberpunk 2077.toml * FlatOut 2.toml * Gotham Knights.toml * Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.toml * Ready Or Not.toml * Stellar Blade.toml * The Witcher 3.toml
very niche but i think it deserves a mention: the Outer Wilds mod manager doesn't just support Linux natively, but it even has a CLI version, and it's up on AUR and Flatpak
as others have said though, r2modman/thunderstore manager also runs in an appimage and works perfectly well for games it supports, and MO2 and Vortex work more or less alright if they're in the same prefix as your game or potentially even if they aren't.
It's not ready yet (preview state) but NexusMods is developing an app for managing all their mods: github.com/Nexus-Mods/NexusMod… for Linux they're releasing both an appimage and a standard setup.
I am using r2modman most of the time and it works well for the modded games I play on my machine. I uses Thunderstore so it might not have the biggest library of mods for all your titles but it's worth mentioning imo.
I suggest Prisim Launcher for Minecraft, but if you also play other games and want mods I can recommend r2modmanPlus they have a appimage and platform specific builds that you can download and its opensource!
I haven't done it a lot, but running a Windows mod manager in the same prefix as the game should work where there isn't a Linux native version available.
I've not really tinkered with any kind of settings and just use Steam's default which is to have a separate C: drive for every Proton game, so does that mean I'd need a separate install of a mod manager for every game? Ideally I'd like to have just one mod manager that recognises all my games (that are supported by the mod manager at least)
Depending on the game and comfort with bash scripting you can roll your own mod managers. I don’t really play Minecraft anymore, but if I did it would be heavily modded. In an effort to avoid installing a client/launcher beyond the one I already use I just keep folders for mod lists and configs, and then have bash scripts with aliases to do all the necessary file moving to swap between mod packs.
This doesn’t really work for most other games, but for things that run natively on Linux can usually do the trick.
For things running through proton it’s a bit more involved, but I also found a lot of satisfaction in figuring out how to manually install mods within the proton prefix. Used to have to do that a lot to mod Skyrim when it first came out and I got it running through wine on a school issued MacBook.
github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinke… for when you need MO2 or Nexus (that isn't Stardew). Keep in mind this will install a new instance of the app for each game you use it with (in its proton prefix folder).
github.com/Nexus-Mods/NexusMod… is the current version of the new Nexus Mod Manager App, which has linux support. Currently it only has game support for Stardew Valley.
As many others have said, go with PrismLauncher for Minecraft. Modrinth's launcher works fine too, but doesn't have curseforge support.
Apparently I can't. I have Nvidia GPUs and no Intel/ On-Board GPU on my motherboard so everything I'm reading is telling me it's no bueno to install Qubes with Nvidia. 🙁
I'm using a Nvidia GPU. Either use the newest kernel if you have the option (so that nooveau is included) or install the nvidia driver manually in DOM0.
(All of this should be possible from the command line if you somehow get access to it. Don't know at which point you are stuck!)
I have Qubes installed right now on my Framework Laptop and I do recall there's a boot option to boot Qubes with the latest kernel during the install. Hmmm.
Only other thing I'm concerned about is all my other drives are Luks encrypted. I do have the keys saved for all the drives in my credential vault and have copied my /etc/fstab just in case.
And fortunately my $HOME isn't on my boot device so I hopefully won't lose any data (crosses fingers).
Can you boot into rescuing the current Qubes installation? Maybe with the USB-Stick? Then follow this: github.com/Qubes-Community/Con…
(Basically tells you to download the driver from the nvidia site, installing some library and then installing the driver. The hardest part is probably moving your driver installation file to dom0.)
Community documentation, code, links to third-party resources, ... See the issues and pull requests for pending content. Contributions are welcome ! - Qubes-Community/Contents
Never tried to do it and it's probably not sooo smart, but what's about just copying your (with the latest kernel installed) existing qubes+boot partitions onto that device?
S.B. 690 isn’t tech policy — it’s a civil rights threat. It puts immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, abortion seekers, and protesters at risk of silent surveillance. This Corporate Cover-Up Act must be stopped. #StopSB690eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/cali…
Every month, we do this cool thing on QueerSciFi.com to support indie writers. We share 4 of their books with our readers for free, and then add those readers (only with permission) to the author lists. It's a great way to get some new reads, "meet" a few up and coming authors, and forge new connections. 😀
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A closeted Zionist (Mamdani) won the primary, Nazi segment of Jewish community seems to be copying quite well — by imagining things that are not there.
If someone who is for actual Decolonization won primary (unlike Mamdani who has bent over backwards for segments of Jewish Nazism to get Jewish vote), they might call them Hitlerᴴᶦᵗˡᵉʳ as Nazis need to be hyperbolic to express how oppressed they fell while enabling non-stop genocide.
Jewish Nazi hyperbole is so transparent that they say Democrats i.e Mostly NazLibs & lil bit of Shitlibs—not even Left,leave alone Far-Left—are bigoted against Jews&these Naz-&Shitlibs are nothing more than Nazis of 1930s.
No wonder, nobody takes them seriously.
Self-delegitimization is what we are witnessing from Jewish community at large (thats filled with Jewish Nazis). Many Jews who oppose Jewish-Nazism are still living in denial.
Handful of of Jews who are for actual decolonization (not only oppose Jewish Nazism, but are for decolonisation) are not taken seriously within their broader Jewish community.
Ofcourse, this last segment has no organised & sizable Jewish groups like other Jewish groups.
So, barring these handful who see clearly where their community is & has been at, most of Jewish community ranges from active denial to full embrace of Nazism.
« On Sunday, June 1, the Israeli military destroyed the Noura Al-Kaabi Dialysis Center, the only one in North #Gaza, which served more than forty patients a week. For these patients my research has become largely irrelevant [...] Many of them will die slowly, each one becoming another number in the growing butcher’s bill of the #GazaGenocide. »
Gaza (Quds News Network)- A total of 18,741 children in Gaza have been admitted for treatment of acute malnutrition since the beginning of this year, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of
I am smitten with DeltaChat... DeltaChat has been making massive strides lately and I think you should consider using it as your full time secure messenger.
Antidark the group that spammed monero transactions for being "complicit in for-crime operations such as those [darknet] marketplaces" and threatened doxing dread user got hacked and takendown
ChatGPT’s 300+ million users submit over 1 billion messages to its chatbots per day, often for personal purposes. Their privacy shouldn’t be put at risk. But a recent court order does just that. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/copy…
Like users of all technologies, ChatGPT users deserve the right to delete their personal data. Nineteen U.S. States, the European Union, and a host of other countries already protect users’ right to delete.
By Sara Flounders June 24, 2025 Stay Alert! U.S./Israeli war on Iran and decades of U.S. sanctions, sabotage and encirclement continue. Genocidal Israeli attacks in Gaza escalate. Iran has succeeded in defending itself from planned U.S.
For example, there's a rule that the lowest priced bid that conforms to all standards needs to win the contract. This sounds good (and it is, in many cases) but it's how Newag keeps selling trains in Poland, even after they were caught boobytrapping their trains so they would immobilize themselves if the operator took them for independent maintanance:
if you have the room for me to stay I'll probably be there from the 20th to 25th. I personally don't mind meeting up with a bunch of other fedi users. I'm just not sure if they would be cool with my other identity or if its best they just know me as vitalis.
The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years. Astronomers use Andromeda to understand the structure and evolution of our own spiral, which is much harder to do since Earth is embedded inside the Milky Way. The galaxy […]
Blogger, author, and activist Cory Doctorow is the most provocative, original, and widely admired thinker on the politics of Big Tech in the world today.
The "Eurostack" is a (long overdue) project to publicly fund a European "stack" of technology that is independent from American Big Tech (as well as other powers' technology that has less hold in Europe, such as Chinese and Russian tech):
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A secret group chat reveals that Democratic strategists plan to support the pro-crypto GENIUS Act for political gain, despite acknowledging it’s a Trump corruption giveaway.
I said goodbye to my wife and turned back to Big Agnes, the new yellow & red tent I had just erected on the lawn of Fairview-Clifton German Language School. It was dinnertime, but instead of eating a…
My last nationally bestselling novel was "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench.
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
Blogger, author, and activist Cory Doctorow is the most provocative, original, and widely admired thinker on the politics of Big Tech in the world today.
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And thank you for coming all the way to NZ - so few ever do, on account of it being so far away from the rest of the world that it is practically on the moon.
The bit that echoed the longest was the Corpus callosum severance story, where the spoken word is the spark that jumped the gap.
The analogue hole between McGilchristian hemispheres... and I'm prone to going a bit Milton/Blake on the whole thing so am tempted to see the gap between the hemispheres as being a literal physical instantiation of The War in Heaven - and "in the beginning was the word" has a certain ring to it.
“Wiring up a country is not the lost art of a fallen civilization, like building pyramids without power-tools or embalming pharoahs. It's something that even the poorest counties in America can manage, bringing fiber across forbidden mountain passes on the back of a mule named "Ole Bub.” 😅
Cue up your ad blocker, a short and easy to implement list from J Morgenthaler - make sure your recipe doesn't suck, use stronger ingredients, and ice ice baby, keep cold drinks really cold.
Let’s be honest, there are a million versions of every cocktail out there online these days, and most of them are fairly terrible.
That sounds more like a matter of taste and making sure that you actually have the same ingredients (or knowing how to adjust if you don't) as the person who made the recipe.
Whenever I see a car on the road that has a dealership badge glued onto the rear I immediately look down on the driver as a cuck. Imagine getting financially raped on a new car purchase and then driving around in a vehicle branded with the name of your wallet rapist.
Secretary of Defense (War!) Pete Hegseth, together with Military Representatives, will be holding a Major News Conference tomorrow morning at 8 A.M. EST at The Pentagon, in order to fight for the Dignity of our Great American Pilots. These Patriots were very upset! After 36 hours of dangerously flying through Enemy Territory, they landed, they knew the Success was LEGENDARY, and then, two days later, they started reading Fake News by CNN and The Failing New York Times. They felt terribly! Fortunately for them and, as usual, solely for the purpose of demeaning PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP, the Fake News (Times and CNN) lied and totally misrepresented the Facts, none of which they had (because it was too soon, there were no Facts out there yet!). The News Conference will prove both interesting and irrefutable. Enjoy!
Ayer el parlamento iraní aprobó la retirada de #Irán de la #OIEA y la expulsión de todos sus inspectores y trabajadores del país. Existen claros y repetidos indicios de la colaboración entre la organización y el estado judío, cuya documentación publicamos anteriormente, con respecto a la ubicación no solo de los depósitos de uranio sino también de los ingenieros nucleares, sus nombres y sus domicilios. Se da el caso que #Israel no es miembro de la OIEA, por lo cual está libre de sus inspecciones.
Please do not watch the video where a Israeli/Belarrusian man beats an Iranian 2 year old child in Moscow's air port.
I wish I didn't.
Anyway yo already have all the information, an Israeli beat a 2 year old Iranian child for no motive whatsoever. The Russian authorities detained him, so he'll prob. get some jail time, not that it'll help him. He seamed not a bit remorseful of his heinous act.
Anyway, you don't need to watch violence against children, it's horrible.
@disisdeguey Yeah, I wasn't prepared for the level of violence. I though maybe he slapped the child, but seeing the clear intent he had to kill, and how he didn't hesitate to attack the kid. Disturbing.
Old school winter fishing in Finland. youtube.com/watch?v=DvYjC7_UJY… The subtitle translation does not work, as they speak Swedsih. And I cannot see a way to make it start from Swedish. Seems like Google missed something here? Most countries are multilingual. Or am I missing something.
Filmat på isen på Gloskärsfjärden, mycket folk hade samlats och många nyfikna samlades dit.This video vas filmed on a lake in Larsmo, Finland. It's one of th...
En la Armada se han venido arriba con lo del aumento del gasto militar y han decidido ignorar positivamente la principal enseñanza de este último cuarto de siglo: en el mar, hoy por hoy, solo hay submarinos y blancos. Te gastas mil millones de euros en un portaaviones para que te lo hunda un yemení de 19 años volando un dron hecho con un Passat del 1981 y dos alas de fibra de vidrio
La noticia dio la vuelta al mundo, como lo hacen esas noticias jocosas que informan de puentes que se quedan cortos, o se caen. Uno se divierte mucho leyendo esas cosas que en el caso español fue calificada como ‘chapuza hispánica’.
Les archéologues de l’INRAP viennent de mettre au jour une mosaïque antique exceptionnelle à Alès, dans le Gard. Une découverte survenue dans le cadre de fouilles préventives menées entre février et juin 2025, à l’Ermitage,...
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honest to god. my server, as long as we dont count my music library, is using 8gigs of disk space. my Android operating system (JUST the OS) on this fucking spybox i carry around with me everywhere is using 10 gigs. and now is itching for me to go to sleep to use another 1.8 gigs. i cannot get around to running #mobian fast enough.
@ChristiJunior I have no idea. But it doesn't matter what I believe, or what reality is, so long as they believe it. He does seem to be genuinely anti-Israel, which is actually inseparable from being against organized Jewry.
@ChristiJunior imagine all the jew tunnels that could be found once they leave NYC. Also isn't he going to make government owned grocery stores. Perfect for him to turn new york into new jeet city. The NuJeet Mafia inc. only their stores will have proper anti-theft protections. Everyone else is chopped liver.
Lety Does Stuff
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Looks nice but in a year it is out of fashion and then it is added to the gigantic world waste mountain.
How much energy and chemicals are used to make this one-time-use toy?
In which sweatshop is it assembled and for what wages?
Can you also design something usefull?
Lety Does Stuff
in reply to zvhxxl • • •I strongly dispute the notion that anything used for an entire year can be defined as “one-time-use”, but you raise some great questions!
I can't speak to the new plushies, but the original Mastodon stuffed toys are roughly 500-gram products primarily made of polyester. Given their simpler material mix, they likely required comparable, if not less, energy to manufacture as standard umbrellas.
I also don't know where the new plushies are made, but the original Mastodon stuffed toys were manufactured in facilities certified by ICTI's Ethical Supply Chain Program and Intertek's Workplace Conditions Assessment.
shop.joinmastodon.org/products…
Further, plushies are useful in providing emotional comfort, which I would personally rank as at least equivalent to brief protection from the rain while walking.
Recent figures estimate that roughly 1/3rd of annual toy sales are plushies.
businessinsider.com/plushies-m….
store.mintel.com/us/report/tra…
These numbers are comparable to those of umbrella sales, billions of which similarly get added to the “gigantic world waste mountain” annually.
skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/5…
Mastodon's stuffed toys have additional value beyond that, serving as both a funding source and a physical advertisement for an increasingly important open-source project.
Those uninterested in owning one of these small-batch indie toys can support Mastodon in a variety of other ways, such as a monthly pledge to their Patreon campaign.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •