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Boosted by jwz:
exador23@m.ai6yr.org ("Hippy Steve") wrote:

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Halloween Candy Spending Surpasses President Trump's Humanitarian Aid Funding in 2025 Chart showing U.S. spending on Halloween candy and U.S. humanitarian aid funding from 2019 to now.  Peaked at about 18B in humanitarian aid now 3.4B vs steady growth in Halloween candy between 2.2B and now 3.9B Note: Includes U.S. humanitarian aid funding as reported by UN OCHA as of December 19,2025 Sources: National Retail Federation; UN OCHA ofr

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Boosted by jwz:
infernusgoatus@kvlt.zone (":googlyeye: Stlex :googlyeye2:") wrote:

RIP Cecelia Giménez, whose effort to restore a religious painting gave us a legend.

The infamous Ecce Homo painting. It's a 1930s painting of Jesus that was restored in 2012 by an amateur painter, making it into a very ... unique interpretation of the Christian icon.

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Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@xinit When I built DNA Lounge, we had a number of walls that were made of drywall. And over the years, someone would punch them, and then the wall would have a hole in it. But instead of patching it, my policy was, we only replace drywall with plywood. Because on the next punch, the wall will not break, it will be the hand.

This is a story about a third party provider failing you and moving to yet another third party provider instead of moving in house.

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ckape@teh.entar.net ("Brian Danger Hicks") wrote:

Your Spiders Wrapped is in.

This year you ate 0 spiders.

This places you in the top 80% of spider eaters.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy ("Kees van der Leun") wrote:

Although the growth rate (%) of global CO2 emissions has gone down, the increase in absolute terms is still pretty much a straight line:
On average, we're increasing the amount of CO2 that we dump in the atmosphere by around 450 million tonnes every year. Making the climate crisis worse faster.
#emissions #co2 #ClimateChange

Graph showing almost linear increase from 9 Gt in 1960 to 38.1 Gt in 2025, with some bumps.

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
eunews ("European News 🇪🇺") wrote:

The EU will launch the digital euro as a 100% European digital payments system to replace reliance on Visa, Mastercard, and Apple and Google Pay, with the European Central Bank issuing a digital form of cash. It will be built entirely in Europe, have zero transaction fees, instant payments, and strong privacy, giving the EU full control over its payments infrastructure.

https://www.independent.ie/business/digital-euro-what-it-is-and-how-we-will-use-the-new-form-of-cash/a165973061.html

(https://archive.ph/ERzTA)

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
dotmeow@hachyderm.io (".meow ∙ We'll be at #39C3 ^-^'") wrote:

We JUST hit €40,000!!! That is HUGE, thank you all SO much!

However, we are still only halfway to our goal, so make sure to share, to support, and to let everyone know about .meow!

We will throw off the yoke of digital landlords, but we still need your help :3

And for now… champagne! Catnip! Celebrations!!

https://kickstarter.dotmeow.org

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
cmccullough@polymaths.social ("Chad McCullough") wrote:

So, the first of the year is coming up quickly. As many of you know, I've been unemployed from full-time employment for quite a long time. I've been working part-time jobs to make ends meet but I need to do more. I've decided to start doing some consulting.

I want to start offering a few services:

1. Building websites for individuals, small businesses, or non-profits.
2. Helping individuals, small businesses, non-profits with certain Information Technology needs. Mainly, Linux, Open Source Software, and networking.

I'm really hoping that this turns into something more than just small consulting work. I would love to start doing this full-time. At nearly 59, I don't see myself ever getting full-time employment any other way.

#fedihires #fedihiring

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Before I continue, if I continue this thread (I'm sleepy) I want to acknowledge that strategy is easier said than done. I don't often appeal to authority on here, but I do have twenty years in marketing and business strategy. I'm just chewin' the fat rn.

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
vampiress@eigenmagic.net ("Elissa") wrote:

The greatest piece of advice I was ever given was this: when you stop work for the day, never stop at a 'clean' break point; stop in the middle of something you can finish easily.

That way the next morning you're not confronted with a a dauntingly blank page or an empty function to write, but a half-finished one you can get back into without difficulty.

I can't remember who gave me that advice, but I've stuck to it dogmatically whenever I can.

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/115656738828145224

We're cooking tonight!

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Like, yeah, fighting against AI may not seem as important as fighting against violent racism and trans eliminationism. I get it.

But also, it's the *same people pushing all of it*. It is as important because *it's a different part of the same fight*.

Giving up on AI means ceding ground to fascists, ground that they will absolutely fucking use on every other goddamned front. I'm not about to do that.

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115805406024095867

thhhiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssssss (sorry for doing a "this" but this)

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

In other news from across the microblogging world: reading too many books is \checks notes\ oh fucking hell.

Screenshot of tweet:&10;&10;DM&10;@bØrn2pay&10;Over 30 books in a year is consumerist and anti-intellectual&10;09:40 • 27/12/2025 • 3.2M Views&10;

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Just read a Vice article about Dead Internet Theory and AI slop that I'm fairly sure was written by an LLM. lol.

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/115805631426760859

If I ever die and my family wants to use an AI avatar to speak on my behalf, please kill me.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
LucCogZest@fediscience.org wrote:

On Substack, @pluralistic I have described a subtle example of Apple giving itself an unfair competitive advantage over its developers: https://luccogzest.substack.com/p/apples-macos-apps-are-the-weak-link : Apple can create links from Calendar app to specific messages; but it does NOT provide an API for developers (and automators) or UI to do this. This limits tools like Hookmark which enable users to link most of the information on their Macs (emails, files, tasks, etc.) per https://hookproductivity.com. I can explain in more detail if you like.

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
hamishtpb@mewblog.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Hamish The PolarBear") wrote:

A bunch of idiots playing a party game on the Internet...

video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/vWm4cPEsW9HYgPaaSHEPRU

Features, me, @uoou and @ChrisWere @rosie_108 @wing and others

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Twitter 2008:

I love lamp.

💬 867 🔄 11k ❤️ 14.5k

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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

GlaaS

When your API server lies to you about the cause of an exception:

Gaslighting as a Service.

(Someone here has a pattern of turning all server-side exceptions into HTTP 404s…)

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
_elena ("Elena Rossini ⁂") wrote:

Don't walk, RUN to check out @TIBtv

🔗 : https://tv.theindiebeat.fm

The Fediverse's own MTV 📺 🎵

I've already discovered so many talented indie artists thanks to it

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Boosted by jwz:
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

A two-panel comic. In the top panel, a sleek, silver alien figure says, "YOUR PLANET IS NOW MARKED FOR DEATH." In the bottom panel, a crowd of people is celebrating wildly with speech bubbles saying "FINALLY!!", "NO MORE TAXES", and "NO RENT," while the alien looks confused.

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
sirpondo@snowfan.it ("ッSir Pondo") wrote:

Adele ( @adele )
ha realizzato un servizio semplice e funzionale denominato

https://message.casa

Questo servizio fornisce un indirizzo email e un account xmpp a titolo gratuito e anonimo, su invito.

io lo sto provando e testando.

Se hai piacere, valuta e mi raccomando di verificare se fa al caso tuo leggendo le policy e il regolamento.

😎

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jcoglan wrote:

so you can exploit bluetooth to hijack call control on headphones and use that to take over a whatsapp account

from there you hijack amazon, which offers whatsapp as an auth channel

great demo of why all this big tech platforms using one another as auth channels was a terrible idea

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
quietewe@urbanists.social ("Erin") wrote:

I saw my aunt this weekend. I always admired her growing up: she was a dedicated dancer, bird watcher, traveler, and general arts-enjoyer. I took up ballet and piano because I wanted to be just like her.

I just found out that she started all of those hobbies after she got sober in her 40s, shortly before I was born. Her defining characteristics, in my eyes, have occupied less than half of her life.

It was a nice reminder that you can start a new chapter of your life whenever you’d like.

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Boosted by jwz:
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

More yelling from the homeowners association

#The #hashtag #mob #can #go #fuck #right #off.

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Does anyone else find it ironic that we use the federated analogy, implying that there is a federal power that binds us together?

I mean, don't get me wrong. I think it's better than social web. Just thinking out loud.

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The Federated Universe of These Decentralized Social Medias

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Boosted by jwz:
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

We can't have this ⬇️
· $20 billion - ending homelessness
· $25 billion - eradicating hunger
· $79 billion - free college for all

Because we bought this instead ⬇️
· $40 billion - make Argentina great again
· $70 billion - Trump's personal Nazi ICE army
· $318 billion - Israeli genocide
· $620 billion - Pentagon contract for Don Jr
· $2.21 trillion - US military
· $4.5 trillion - billionaire tax breaks

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Boosted by jwz:
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

@xgranade @at

“Bouvat-Merlin says he was drawn to Sauron by both the mission and an opportunity to solve a real customer problem.”

… the mission. the mission of Sauron. The problems that Sauron, Dark Lord of Mordor is interested in solving