Niléane

🏳️‍⚧️ Présidente Toutes des Femmes (npub1p4e…azm7)
📰 Design pour partidesfemmes (npub10zz…klkt)
🎙️ Silliest co-host on Comfort Zone Podcast (npub18ey…wk83) every week

~~also I make things:
🍊 Tangerine UI for Mastodon (npub1lge…urx0), a custom theme for Mastodon
🔍 TinyStart for macOS (npub1y95…ghzt), a tiny launcher and emoji picker for macOS

🐱 Zelda (npub10pv…kxkf)

Toutes des Femmes: https://toutesdesfemmes.fr
Tangerine UI for Mastodon: https://nileane.fr/@TangerineUI
TinyStart for macOS: https://tinystart.app
S-tier flags: 🇷🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸

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nileane_at_nileane.fr@momostr.pink

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2026-04-17 09:33:01 UTC

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Le projet de loi a été rejeté, mais il reviendra en deuxième lecture, donc pour préciser : son objectif est de réduire la durée d’indemnisation de l'assurance chômage en cas de rupture conventionnelle pour faire 1 milliard d’euros d'économies.
1 milliard sur le dos des chômeurs qui ont réussi à négocier un départ avec leur employeur. Et les socialistes n'ont aucun problème avec ça.
https://www.humanite.fr/politique/assemblee-nationale/ruptures-conventionnelles-nouveau-revers-pour-le-gouvernement-a-lassemblee-nationale

2026-04-17 09:19:44 UTC

Hier, l'Assemblée nationale a rejeté le projet de loi du gouvernement qui réduit la durée d’indemnisation chômage de 18 à 15 mois, via un amendement de la gauche supprimant l'article unique du texte.
Et devinez qui s'est abstenu : le PS. https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/scrutins/6283
Je vous en conjure, respectez-vous et votez pas pour ces gens en 2027.
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/116/419/302/381/155/954/original/224180a81c33d8ec.png
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/116/419/302/633/532/281/original/9539be6c78310acf.png

2026-04-16 19:26:33 UTC

imagine raising $100M and this is the state of your service for an entire day (and still ongoing)
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/116/416/026/325/767/648/original/5295a9adeaa4b57e.png

2026-03-30 20:56:12 UTC

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Thanks!
1. Not localized yet. I would love to get to it at some point. But if I do it, I wanna do it well. Do note though that the emoji picker already lets you search for emojis in a handful of languages beyond just English! (including German)
2. I think that's out of scope yeah.
3. Buy once, use on all your machines!

2026-03-30 20:52:23 UTC

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Thank you!! I hope you'll like it 😊

2026-03-30 17:46:26 UTC

Big news!
I'm launching a tiny Mac app 🥺🔍🤏
:tinystart: It's called TinyStart, and it's a lightweight Launcher and Emoji picker for macOS!
Unlike Spotlight, TinyStart is super fast at showing results and launching apps. It never becomes overcrowded with search results you don't need, and it lets you open URLs, perform web searches with custom search engines, and quickly open folders in Finder.
Oh and yes, I think the Emoji picker is pretty good too. It's everything the default macOS Emoji picker isn't: it's fast, it lets you insert Emojis in any text field, it isn't picky about keywords, and it learns your favorite Emojis over time.
Get TinyStart at https://tinystart.app: it's €5, you pay for it once and future updates are free!
also I made a lil' video to show you what it looks like:
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/116/319/599/268/080/783/original/79c8b7591b1427db.mp4

2026-03-29 17:26:58 UTC

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116291641538524981
The Verge is doubling down and it's a good one to read and share 👌
https://www.theverge.com/report/901818/hbo-harry-potter-jk-rowling-transphobia
Especially to your cis folks who are still somehow arguing that it's possible to watch something that’s directly funding a worldwide fascist crusade against trans people without being a part of the problem.
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/116/313/634/573/760/086/original/a4729a2b1a9cd372.png
#note1fgy…2y6s

2026-03-25 20:22:15 UTC

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Cis people reading this, if you intend to watch the new HP series when it comes out, here’s two pieces of advice that you're not allowed to ignore:
• Have the decency to keep it and your reactions to yourself. This trans people-killing piece of media doesn't need any of your free publicity.
• Pirate the shit out of it.

2026-03-25 20:18:54 UTC

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Media coverage aside, looks like this Christmas is gonna suck for trans people who will have to deal — on top of everything — with their entire social circles of cis people gasping and gushing over the new Harry Potter series that's actively funding the policies that are torturing and killing them.

2026-03-25 20:13:47 UTC

I've been critical of the way the @npub14ps…pcuh has been covering the development of HBO's upcoming Harry Potter reboot. But it looks like it wasn't in vain.
If you're going to cover it, *this* is how the series should be described every time it's mentioned.
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/900819/hbo-harry-potter-trailer-release-date
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/116/291/641/293/806/706/original/8c735addabcfc47b.png

2026-03-24 16:52:25 UTC

you’d think this @npub1wpq…nt3y video would be about how he's sorry for having praised TRMNL, a company whose CEO turned out to be a homophobic, transphobic, pro-Trump, Charlie Kirk-loving douche
but nope, it's actually about how much he still loves the product as well as the company's newer models that he was offered to review by that very same CEO -- oh and he’s also promoting his affiliate link for TRMNL purchases
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/116/285/187/132/216/257/original/36c5b3c56744f447.png

2026-03-10 21:12:19 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116206874904164848
This is also absolutely true for software localization.
Translation tools are useful when I’m in charge of how I use them, and when I have contextual hints to help me interpret them.
But when a piece of software is localized exclusively using machine translations, not only are the resulting translations of poor quality (yes, even when done with LLMs — I’d even argue that they’ve gotten worse with LLMs), but also, as a user, I end up at a loss as to how to deal with them, except by switching the app back to English (if the option exists).
Suffice it to say that you’ve massively failed at your localization mission if the result is so bad that you’ve made me fall back to a language that I don't natively speak.
#note1pc5…6xg7

2026-03-02 22:01:16 UTC

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/116160637051672728
the question you should be asking yourself is not “what's the best way to verify the age of every single computer user on earth”
but rather “why the fuck are we trying to verify the age of every single computer user on earth????”
and the answer to that is: fascism
stop. complying.
#note1aa4…7h3k

2026-02-20 19:52:03 UTC

RE: https://nileane.fr/@younishd/116059055071850253
https://dialed.gg
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/116/104/699/612/119/769/original/d7a0aa4648f7851a.png
#note1s6a…d5wr

2026-02-11 20:23:10 UTC

I think it's fun that macOS Tahoe insists on reordering all my menu bar items after every OS update, don't you think it's fun? I think it's fun

2026-02-06 12:17:41 UTC

I just wanna say, I'm still very much in love with @npub14qx…v8wz's cozy iPod sock icons for my removable drives
https://lmnt.me/blog/icons/ipod-socks.html
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/116/023/640/498/390/319/original/47bc784ed2f6ad3c.png

2026-02-06 06:17:16 UTC

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I'd love the default theme to start looking like Tangerine UI 😁

2026-02-03 21:27:16 UTC

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I almost broke down in tears halfway through because I'm a mess and I’m feeling stressed as fuck by <insert every big and small thing in life>, and because I feel like a piece of garbage for not being able to read through a page of documentation without losing focus -- but hey, I made progress

2026-02-03 21:23:41 UTC

spent the whole day dealing with my anxiety by reviving my 15 year-old Jekyll website that I took down in 2020 and rebuilding it using @npub1qud…y0rz
it's very slowly getting there and I've got a ton of ideas for it in my broken brain but yeah, it looks like my personal website is making a comeback soon-ish

2026-01-30 18:29:05 UTC

Apple designers be like: “ok guys, if you come across any remaining readable text across the OS, you need to ruin it asap”
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/115/985/464/501/789/434/original/62a922580921ce5e.png
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/115/985/464/756/982/270/original/6306236c6fe9cc25.jpeg

2026-01-27 19:25:25 UTC

heartbroken
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/115/968/699/156/731/623/original/cafdac597a71c440.png
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/115/968/699/406/959/432/original/834b1838acf14c07.png

2026-01-23 00:37:46 UTC

Sigh… yes, there is a very true fact that "a new generation" of AI developers, vibe coders, and tech commentators does exist and exclusively posts and promotes stuff on X instead of Mastodon and Bluesky -- and as a result we on the latter platforms are not aware of everything that goes on over there.
But once you've made that observation, why would you not pause for a minute and ask yourself why that overlap is there?
Why would you not conclude anything from the fact this entire new generation of AI enthused developers are hanging out almost *exclusively* in the Internet's largest nazi bar?
Why would you even mention this observation as part of your argument if not to state that conclusion?
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/115/941/613/965/039/477/original/b05e079c82d40894.mp4

2026-01-15 19:41:31 UTC

at this rate by the end of 2026, Bluesky will be 80% features that are not supported by ATProto and will never become decentralized in any way, yet tech pundits will still be calling it a decentralized platform for some reason
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/115/900/814/947/109/689/original/af01d51a1473185a.png

2026-01-08 09:38:45 UTC

Some USians in my timeline might wanna be reminded that Spotify loves running ICE ads and they have insisted on keeping running them even after getting called out for it. https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/10/22/spotify-users-boycott-streaming-platform-over-ice-recruitment-ads
Spotify loves ICE. They also love it when you advertise them for free with your Spotify Wrapped screenshots. And they love ICE.

2025-12-20 23:31:38 UTC

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I liked it better when we all agreed the antifascist masterpiece was the best thing on TV this year

2025-12-20 23:30:07 UTC

I don't mean any disrespect but it's absolutely insane to me that some of you think Plur1bus is supposedly the best show of the year when we had Andor S02 🤌🤌🤌
pull yourselves together people

2025-12-14 23:28:45 UTC

I am in disbelief that the only argument I'm seeing mobilized against age verification laws (and their accompanying social media bans) is “It sucks for privacy!”, and not “why the fuck are we okay imposing a digital jail on every single child?”
Digital privacy matters and it's an important reason why these laws must be repealed at all costs, but let's also please humanize the issue here: social media bans for minors are just another massive chapter in the conservative's playbook to deprive any social class that's not ‘adult white males’ of their bodily and existential autonomy.
That same playbook has chapters we're already familiar with, including staples such as “let's force gay kids back into the closet”, “trans kids shouldn’t be able to decide anything for themselves”, “women shouldn't have a bank account”, and “abortion should be illegal”.

2025-12-06 14:27:36 UTC

So it seems Apple's latest attempt (as of macOS Tahoe 26.2 RC) at compensating for how unreadable Liquid Glass gets in most situations is just to add some comically massive drop shadows around system elements?
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/115/673/088/184/088/689/original/7d5856b7f5b4b039.mp4

2025-12-04 13:46:01 UTC

Most of you have probably already seen it, but Drew Gooden absolutely cooks in his latest video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Z3MfNpJpE
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/115/661/599/931/075/368/original/793c4b061d4a46fe.mp4

2025-11-28 21:17:38 UTC

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I'm at a loss honestly, I tried quitting every else on my Mac to make sure nothing is interfering and it’s still happening. Frustrating 😭

2025-11-28 19:48:58 UTC

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are you using the keyboard arrow keys when you try to reproduce?
If I quit and relaunch Ivory then never use the arrow keys, I *think* so far none of the above issues occur.

2025-11-28 19:28:32 UTC

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Something weird is definitely going on, I'm also seeing this bug now:
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/115/628/973/051/715/278/original/912028a4a7712c60.mp4

2025-11-28 19:23:01 UTC

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I haven't noticed anything like this in any other app fwiw

2025-11-28 19:21:40 UTC

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I'm using the MX Master 3S.
I don't have any other mouse, but yeah I've only owned this mouse for a few weeks, I was using a Trackpad before

2025-11-28 18:09:04 UTC

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Okay, I've disabled Reduce Motion, and the issue still occurs, so it's not related to that after all, sowwy.
But it might be even more specific than that: it's when navigating back with the ← arrow key, then attempting to scroll *while the mouse cursor is on top of the Ivory window*.
The view will not scroll until I move the mouse outside of the Ivory window, then back over the window (without clicking).
Here's my attempt at recording it (keep in mind that I'm scrolling my mouse wheel after I've hit the ← arrow key):
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/115/628/660/490/334/059/original/9c239f6a17462112.mp4

2025-11-28 18:01:54 UTC

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macOS Tahoe 26.1
I think I've narrowed it down: it's only when navigating back with the ← arrow key

2025-11-28 15:55:34 UTC

@npub1lyn…ve6v Hello there! I've noticed a bug in Ivory for Mac when Reduce Motion (the system accessibility setting) is on.
It's hard to show in a screen recording, but when Reduce Motion is on, there’s a bug that prevents scrolling the timeline for 2 seconds or more when navigating back from a post's details view.
I suspect this is related somehow to how Ivory’s sliding animation is replaced by a fading animation when Reduce Motion is on.

2025-11-18 13:08:30 UTC

Guess which web browser will straight up refuse to launch when Cloudflare is down
(it's Dia Browser)
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/115/570/855/698/448/209/original/31dc9caa0eab2a19.png

2025-11-04 12:13:54 UTC

En train d'écouter un podcast sur la préhistoire et là j'entends « Homo Erectus est bipède, et le plus souvent à découvert »
il y a 1,8 millions d'années, Homo Erectus vivait déjà dans la France de Macron 😔

2025-10-01 21:31:33 UTC

Thiago Ávila 👏
#GlobalSumudFlotilla #Gaza
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/115/301/042/907/562/700/original/e8b50fc98cc099a8.mp4

2025-09-25 08:19:29 UTC

Instead of whining like a child about the DMA like this, maybe Apple should bribe Ursula von der Leyen with a golden trophy or something. I'm sure that'll smooth things out. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/the-digital-markets-acts-impacts-on-eu-users/
Just an idea.
https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/115263860861531246

2025-09-21 20:27:04 UTC

I've been having a hard time feeling motivated to maintain and work on @npub1lge…urx0 lately.
It's a bigger project than it seems, and for every new version of Mastodon it requires quite a bit of time to update.
If you value my work and enjoy the theme, and you want to help keep the project going, I would greatly appreciate your support over on my Ko-fi 🫶 https://ko-fi.com/nileane

2025-09-14 18:25:03 UTC

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"Legibility isn't that bad in the latest betas, Niléane."
"Why do you keep catastrophising the state of Liquid Glass, Niléane"
"You're always staging your screenshots Niléane, in day-to-day use it's not that bad"
Meanwhile, this is the state of Safari in the *Release Candidate* of iOS 26 that Apple is releasing worldwide tomorrow:
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/115/204/050/265/619/866/original/84b184309515e79b.png
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/115/204/050/240/377/749/original/39aa11181807e3c9.jpeg

2025-09-14 00:02:43 UTC

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That second line of text under the track title goes practically invisible when it starts scrolling btw
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/115/199/715/686/934/857/original/049311d0bdaf10fc.png

2025-09-13 23:56:16 UTC

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This is the Music app that Apple is releasing to the public on Monday.
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/115/199/696/722/847/370/original/f50055687c6805e1.png

2025-09-12 22:06:01 UTC

This is the Safari that Apple is releasing to the public on Monday.
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/115/193/594/132/294/746/original/6ad65a350f0ff929.mp4

2025-09-12 18:36:51 UTC

I spent thirty minutes looking for her
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/115/192/772/021/216/282/original/285b5b38347a39d1.jpeg

2025-09-10 21:11:02 UTC

how is the US doing today

2025-08-23 13:30:23 UTC

TIL the red traffic light button *kills* apps in iPadOS 26?? 🤨
At this point, it's pretty ingrained in people's minds that the red button doesn't actually kill apps on macOS (it only closes the window). It has worked like that for the past 24 years.
Why in the world would Apple add macOS's emblematic traffic lights to iPadOS only to assign the most crucial of them a totally different function?
https://mas.to/@kaylee/115077904131684831

2025-08-22 10:20:00 UTC

UN officially declares famine in Gaza.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/08/22/un-declares-famine-in-gaza_6744612_4.html
Shame on every fucking nation that had (and still has) the power the prevent this.

2025-08-11 17:42:28 UTC

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And if that's not clear:
No, to a French-speaking person, using "Intempéries" to describe a heat wave makes absolutely no sense.

2025-08-11 17:33:43 UTC

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Even Apple's to blame here.
Here's the Weather app incorrectly labeling a *heat wave* weather alert as “Intempéries,” which is only used in French to describe *wet* weather conditions, such as storms, heavy rain, or snow, and never in the context of extreme heat.
I strongly suspect the person who localized this string simply looked up the translation for the original string “Severe Weather” and chose “Intempéries” as the first result they found.
I filed a feedback for this issue almost exactly 3 years ago today, but Apple marked it as “works as currently designed.”
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/115/011/329/805/161/790/original/b6fdeefd76911a27.jpeg
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/115/011/342/374/149/928/original/24e80c510e71a825.jpeg

2025-08-11 15:11:41 UTC

I always feel very smart when I use the regular vaccum cleaner to clean the insides of the robot vaccum cleaner

2025-08-11 09:29:23 UTC

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Btw, English-speaking devs: I'd rather you not offer any localization for your app than some really poor automatic (or even LLM-powered) translations that end up being confusing and frustrating more than anything.
Please just spend the time or money to do it well. 🙏

2025-08-10 22:59:21 UTC

J'ai remis mon iPhone en français pour la première fois depuis environ 2 ans, and I forgot what it was like to live with half of my installed apps not localized and still have to use those in English alors que le reste de l'OS est en français

2025-08-09 04:09:46 UTC

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I step away from the computer for a few hours, and you have already managed to get us into a war with a better podcast???

2025-08-06 22:13:02 UTC

So, the last time Tim Cook bribed Trump (with a $1M donation to his inauguration fund) the Apple tech bros kept telling us that was a personal donation from Cook, not from Apple the company.
What's their line of defense gonna be now that the bribe has a big ass Apple logo on it?
https://www.theverge.com/news/737757/apple-president-donald-trump-ceo-tim-cook-glass-corning

2025-08-04 13:33:21 UTC

I thought for a good minute that this bright neon green folder was a visual glitch.
But nope, it's just because there's a speck of greenery in that spot on my wallpaper.
Liquid Glass is great.
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/114/970/747/925/631/077/original/0a716a8f0d8e7929.mp4

2025-07-11 22:33:23 UTC

Foundation season 3 :blob_aww:

2025-07-05 15:45:06 UTC

I've been getting some questions from admins regarding @npub1lge…urx0 and its compatibility with Mastodon 4.4 releasing next week:
Unfortunately, I've been overwhelmed lately, so I was not able to release the new version of Tangerine UI ahead of the upcoming Mastodon release like I usually do.
However, *yes*, I am working to adapt Tangerine UI to Mastodon 4.4. It just may not be ready on day one.
In the meantime, nothing will dramatically break if you update to 4.4 and don't wait for Tangerine UI. Just note that users of the theme may encounter broken UI elements here and there (especially on small screens where there have been some significant UI changes in 4.4).
I recommend you enable notifications on the @npub1lge…urx0 account, where I will inform everyone as soon as Tangerine UI is ready sometime next week!
Thank you for your patience (and sorryyy)

2025-06-20 22:10:55 UTC

The fact that YouTube is now defaulting to AI-dubbed audio and automatic translation for titles and descriptions is so freaking hostile to basically anyone using the platform outside of English-speaking countries.
Fuck AmericaCorp™ for thinking any of us (aka, the rest of the world) actually wants this.

2025-06-14 05:06:01 UTC

This. So fucking this.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdA33wRd/
#FreeGaza
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/114/679/975/571/792/136/original/0f0e98b28aeb0233.mp4

2025-06-09 06:17:35 UTC

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You would think Emmanuel Macron would be absolutely enraged to learn that Israel has illegally arrested French citizens outside of Israeli territorial waters, including a French official elected in the European Parliament.
And yet, his silence is deafening.
#Madleen #FreedomFlotilla

2025-06-09 00:46:38 UTC

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So it's happened: Israel has seemingly arrested the crew of a humanitarian ship, including a European MP onboard, in international waters, and in complete disregard for international law.
Their impunity is through the roof.
#Madleen #FreedomFlotilla
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/114/650/673/874/278/384/original/5587699031dc29f7.jpeg
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/114/650/674/118/450/678/original/941dd3dc0f0c07da.jpeg

2025-06-09 00:20:45 UTC

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French journalist Yanis Mhamdi (working for [@blast_info](https://mamot.fr/@blast_info )) aboard the #Madleen, at 1:49 AM CEST:
“I am a journalist, and after covering the Freedom Flotilla convoy for a week, my arrest by the Israeli army is imminent. Humanitarians and journalists should not be arrested. I call on all my colleagues to mobilize.”
#FreedomFlotilla
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/114/650/542/274/086/186/original/95c8568a1c5d7319.jpeg

2025-06-09 00:14:26 UTC

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“Connection has been lost on the Madleen. Israeli army have boarded the vessel.”
#Madleen #FreedomFlotilla
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/114/650/517/236/947/609/original/f37bf1562d521bb4.jpeg
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/114/650/517/494/448/348/original/3c2ba7e766f4f63f.jpeg

2025-06-08 23:56:46 UTC

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Drones are surrounding the #Madleen and are firing a white irritant substance at the ship
https://t.me/FFC_official_channel/482
#FreedomFlotilla
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/114/650/447/436/130/140/original/335170c6c97f2f0d.jpeg
https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/114/650/447/826/998/916/original/f55ae683cf76f170.jpeg
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2025-06-08 22:27:02 UTC

#Madleen #FreedomFlotilla
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2025-06-08 10:12:25 UTC

Men saying "the girls are fighting" to talk about Elon and Trump should fucking stop with the misogyny

2025-06-07 18:10:45 UTC

I am in this picture and I don't like it
https://mastodon.social/@adhd_coffee/114642381928437822

2025-06-07 11:11:20 UTC

There is now a firmly documented pattern of Israel ordering civilians in Gaza to evacuate into "safe" zones, then directly bombarding those same zones in the following days.
This is a full-on pattern of ethnic cleansing, and methodically executed genocide.
https://frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/updates/attacks-following-evacuation-orders-in-areas-where-civilians-were-directed-to
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2025-06-05 21:11:06 UTC

my cat is melting
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2025-06-01 10:49:17 UTC

Here’s a friendly reminder to cis folks: don’t be this meme
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2025-05-27 16:15:39 UTC

Fuck The Verge for reporting on the upcoming HBO Harry Potter reboot without ever mentioning that the show will immensely profit JK Rowling, who has now chosen to dedicate entire chunks of her fortune to harassing and torturing trans people worldwide through harmful policies and intense anti-trans lobbying.

2025-05-13 22:22:53 UTC

@npub1lyn…ve6v Hi! I have a question regarding the Mac app: I remember in Tweetbot being able to swipe left with two fingers on the trackpad over any post in the timeline to quickly flick open the detail view (instead of clicking on posts).
Afaict, this still seems to be a thing in Ivory; however, I find that it triggers very inconsistently, or perhaps that the sensitivity of the two-finger swipe is very low and makes it hard to perform as a result. That being said, swiping back from a post to the timeline with two fingers is very easy to do and pretty reliable.
Is that something you've noticed?

2025-05-08 12:14:05 UTC

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TL;DR: get a grip, people.

2025-05-08 12:00:39 UTC

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“But Tim Cook made that donation out of his own pocket, not Apple's!”
Tim Cook is the CEO of Apple. The CEO of Apple chose to donate $1M to the man enacting catastrophic policies targeting trans people and minorities in the US.
To decouple that donation from the fact that he holds this position as the head of Apple; to pretend that Tim Cook exists publicly as anything other than the CEO of Apple; I think it would be dishonest, to say the least.
My point stands firmer than ever now that Apple has introduced its 2025 Pride Collection. The company has brought this criticism upon itself.
They are the ones choosing to sell Pride merchandise and simultaneously curtsy to the Trump administration. They are the ones making the decision not to protect their trans employees, not to increase their financial support to trans organizations, and not to utter the words “LGBTQ Pride“ at any other occasion this year than when they need to sell Apple Watch bands.

2025-05-08 11:49:45 UTC

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”But what did you expect Niléane? We can’t expect the CEO of a tech giant to behave any differently.“
Let me get this straight, Internet friend: Because tech giants have selfish economic interests, we shouldn't be criticizing their behavior and expect anything from them? We should all just let it go and move on because that's what big companies do?
Apple is successfully protecting its economic interests, so they're exempt from all criticism. Is that what you're saying?
I still fail to understand what is it that you people are trying to say when you reply to this criticism with “Tim Cook is just doing his job. He's protecting Apple's interests.” — I'm not denying that, and no one is.
The only thing we're saying is: the successes Tim Cook has had protecting the interests of the company have a devastating human cost. And you are choosing to dismiss or minimize that fact entirely.

2025-05-08 11:42:51 UTC

To the Apple fans fixated on defending Tim Cook, who have been clogging my replies on Mastodon and Bluesky over the past few days following my story on @npub1sz3…05rp (https://www.macstories.net/stories/are-pride-wallpapers-and-a-watch-band-enough-in-2025/). Here is my response to you:
In 2014, Brendan Eich, creator of the JavaScript language and now CEO of Brave Software, was appointed as CEO of Mozilla. I will quote his Wikipedia page for you (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Appointment_to_CEO_and_resignation), and you will very quickly understand why:
> The appointment triggered widespread criticism due to Eich's past political donations – specifically, a 2008 donation of $1,000 to California Proposition 8, which called for the banning of same-sex marriage in California, and donations in the amount of $2,100 to Proposition 8 supporter Tom McClintock between 2008 and 2010.
The news of Eich's donations led to major protests inside the company and among Mozilla's supporters, volunteers, and users. Most notably, half of Mozilla's board stepped down. Which ultimately led to him resigning, just 11 days later:
> After 11 days as CEO, Eich resigned on April 3, 2014, and left Mozilla after public outrage. In his personal blog, he posted, "under the present circumstances, I cannot be an effective leader".
I would argue that Tim Cook's donation is an even worse offense than Eich's. Cook made his $1M donation to President Trump's inauguration fund while it had already been public knowledge for years that he would immediately start his mandate by rolling back LGBT rights in devastating ways.
I think it would be more than fair to call for his resignation for the same reason that it was fair to call for Eich's resignation back in 2014. And yet, it seems that a majority of people are choosing to dismiss Cook's donation and subsequent stance regarding Trump's administration as either necessary, pardonable, or irrelevant.

2025-05-05 18:11:15 UTC

Are Pride Wallpapers and a Watch Band Enough in 2025? https://www.macstories.net/stories/are-pride-wallpapers-and-a-watch-band-enough-in-2025/
(No. Not even close.)
@npub1sz3…05rp

2025-04-27 01:12:54 UTC

“We asked Labour’s 59 LGBTQ+ MPs if they think trans women are women – just four replied saying yes” https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/25/labour-mps-are-trans-women-women/
The UK Labour Party has become a cowardly collective of misogynistic and transphobic conservatives with a red coat of paint.
This is what happens when you spend years eradicating any “radical” voices from your platform just to win elections.
In the end, not only are they jeopardizing their own chances at winning anything ever again, but in so doing, they're putting the rights of all women at risk.

2025-04-21 16:38:30 UTC

From friendly googly eyes to Wii-themed mouse cursors and cozy socks for your disk drive icons, here's a selection of my favorite whimsical additions to my Mac’s UI. 🫶
https://www.macstories.net/roundups/whimsy-roundup-six-playful-apps-and-customizations-for-your-mac/
@npub1sz3…05rp
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2025-04-06 08:59:56 UTC

Gruber should go fuck himself, and anyone who still invites this guy on shows and events should join him in fucking themselves.
It’s remarkable that two of the only times we've ever seen him mention Gaza were:
• When he posted (then deleted) “Fuck around and find out” in reaction to Israel’s bombing and killing thousands of civilians a day.
• When, in the matter of two Microsoft employees publicly calling out the trillion-dollar company against their complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people, his only choice was to defend the company and question the integrity of the protesters. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/04/05/microsoft-50-employee-protests
Gruber is a genocide apologist. I don't fucking care anymore for your excuses. Most of the time, he tries to hide it, but every so often he just can't help himself and has to say it out loud.
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2025-04-03 07:53:36 UTC

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*frantically comparing DACs by listening to the same song over and over*

2025-04-03 07:48:50 UTC

I've become an audiophile send help

2025-03-03 12:42:07 UTC

I freaking hate that every OS I use will passive-aggressively red underline and correct my sentences when I write in Creole because it thinks I'm misspelling French.

2025-02-24 12:58:59 UTC

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It's from Le Monde :) https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2025/02/24/legislatives-en-allemagne-visualisez-la-percee-de-l-extreme-droite-dans-les-regions-de-l-ex-rda_6561714_4355770.html

2025-02-24 11:57:05 UTC

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We’ve even got about the same number of nazi seats 🥰
(💀💀💀)

2025-02-24 11:52:21 UTC

The new Bundestag looks awfully similar to the deadlocked French National Assembly
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2025-02-13 15:32:32 UTC

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to everyone defending Apple in the replies:
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2025-02-13 10:22:25 UTC

You gotta be a real fucking nazi if you think now is a better time than a year ago to purchase ad space on Elon Musk’s X
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/12/apple-resumes-advertising-on-x/#:~:text=Apple%20this%20month%20started%20advertising%20on%20X%20for%20the%20first%20time%20in%20more%20than%20a%20year.%20The%20company%20had%20stopped%20advertising%20on%20the%20social%20media%20platform%20in%20November%202023%20following%20controversial%20remarks%20made%20by%20its%20owner%20Elon%20Musk.
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2025-02-10 00:13:58 UTC

why sleep when you can spend the night in a Twitch chat
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2025-02-01 01:19:37 UTC

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USA: the land where parents won’t allow their kids to start hrt and transition to avoid literal death by suicide, but will feed them death-inducing food-adjacent products to take to school every day

2025-02-01 01:11:06 UTC

TIL about “lunchables” and “lunchly”, and why do American parents torture their kids is my question
what. the. hell.

2025-01-24 14:48:23 UTC

Posting this guy's review of @npub18ey…wk83 so I can attract more leftist listeners to the show
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2025-01-24 13:22:02 UTC

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Oh, c'est une grave une bonne idée

2025-01-22 13:40:13 UTC

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And a message to fellow apple tech podcasters and writers reading this (specifically the men): say something for fuck's sake.
Don't pretend this isn't part of the topics you need to cover (yes it absolutely is).
Your silence is disgusting.

2025-01-22 13:25:56 UTC

Call me dumb and naive if you want, but seeing Tim Cook applaud Trump at this inauguration made me think of the Pride bands for the Apple Watch that I bought over the years and how fucking humiliating it feels to own those today.

2025-01-21 11:53:05 UTC

https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/113/866/203/152/404/505/original/acd9ef06be0931ae.mp4

2025-01-12 13:51:08 UTC

The EU should be bannning Musk's X for electoral interference, like yesterday.
what. are. they. waiting. for.