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Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

Python 3.14 and Ruby 3.4 transitions, dh-python development, a hybrid dependency solver for crossqa.debian.net, rebootstrap updates and making Debian CI resistant to the growing scraper traffic.

#Freexian collaborators worked on these and many more contributions to #Debian in December 2025.

Read all the details at:
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-12-2025/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) for making this possible.

#python314 #ruby34 #debianci #rebootstrap

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Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

We need to stop calling techlords like Mark Zuckerberg (and Tim Cook, et al) "cowards" for their nuzzling up to Trump.

Call them what they are: supporters of America's metastasizing fascism. And for god's sake, stop supporting their businesses.

https://apnews.com/article/meta-dina-powell-mccormick-trump-adviser-bce6b207f1754284f9b922b0ea8ec7bf

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Boosted by jwz:
990000@mstdn.social ("@990000@mstdn.social") wrote:

https://bsky.app/profile/qasimrashid.com/post/3mcbhwh4ao22r

Qasim Rashid, Esq: MAGAs: The left is escalating the rhetoric by calling us Nazis Also MAGAs: Look at our new podium, featuring a Nazi slogan about the time Nazis wiped out an entire village in Czechoslovakia and killed up to 5000 innocent people in retaliation for one Nazi being killed. "One of ours, all of yours."

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

Holy Shit. "one of ours. all of yours". on a government podium?!?

That's serious fascism stuff. It's the approach taken by the Nazis when Reinhard Heydrich, a prime architect of the holocaust, was assassinated by the resistance.

The assassins were mistakenly believed to be from the town of Lidice in occupied Czechoslovakia. So the Nazi's rounded up all the men and boys and killed them, and sent all the women to concentration camps. wiped the town off the map.

THAT is what's being evoked by that phrase on the puppy killer's podium.

US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a press conference in New York. photo by Uki Iwamura/AP The text on the podium reads: ONE OF OURS ALL OF YOURS

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Boosted by jwz:
doctoralex.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("dr alex concorde") wrote:

FFS - Noem’s podium at DHS is just a straight up Nazi slogan Homeland Security Sec Deaddog Barbie's podium emblazoned with "One of Ours, All of Yours" hours after Renee Good’s death, a phrase tied to Nazi collective punishment eg 1942 Lidice Massacre. Miller again. The sickness of these people.

Kristi Noem ‘One Of Ours, All ...

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Boosted by jwz:
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

and of course some of the people I ridicule, ban and expose in these reports come back to me all up in arms about them being completely innocent and they did not know and now I have ruined their professional lives because their cool hacker aliases are now tainted.

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db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

am I the only one? 🤫

https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-01-13T08:23Z/

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db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

we're 6 months away, the leaves look promising this time

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

"fail fast, fail forward, fail better" has been repeated so many times it's become meaningless.

What if we just stopped using the word entirely?

What if we just poked reality to see what happens?

What if we just...ran the experiment?

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/failure-vs-success-is-the-wrong-frame/

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Boosted by jwz:
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Anyway, please enjoy this section of Do's README.md.

License and AI Policy This project is licensed under the MIT license. This license does not preclude you from using Do with AI-encumbered or AI-vulnerable projects, but you do not have the author's consent to do so. This may seem like a contradiction, but copyright is a blunt tool that does not in general have the humanistic nuance to describe something like "you can legally do this thing, but if you do, you're an asshole." Any AI-generated contributions will result in an immediate block. Don't be that guy.

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jwz wrote:

Watchmen being topical again.
https://jwz.org/b/yk1t

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
susankayequinn@wandering.shop ("Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱") wrote:

the kids remain undefeated

Sean T. Collins ‪@seantcollins.com‬ My 14yo tells me kids who use ChatGPT are referred to as "third-party thinkers" 2:12 PM · Jan 12, 2026

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

Indivisible's call to action— "rein in ICE"

This is the worst advocacy I think I've ever witnessed. Even for centrists.

It's so bad they even acknowledge it— "we know thats a little in the weeds”.

No, you're just fucking cowards.

• Strengthens restrictions on ICE and Border Patrol's ability to conduct dragnet arrest operations and target people based on their race, language or accent, place of employment, or location at the time of the apprehension; • Ends Border Patrol deployment to our cities and rejects its ever-expanding mandate in immigration enforcement; and • Limits DHS's reprogramming and transfer authority, including specifically preventing reprogramming and transferring funds for detention. We know that's a little in the weeds, so we've simplified the message in the call script below. Please fill out the form and we'll connect you to your Senator. Tell them they must act now to rein in ICE.

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

Fucking hell. I've been checking for any news to confirm ICE's presence on Bluesky.

I must've hit AI mode while walking with my open phone, and here I find just a completely made up story?

The sources for this are an unrelated article about ICE and the homepage to Hootsuite.

Screenshot: unverified claim by Google's AI that says ICE is using Bluesky as part of a broader strategy to monitor public sentiment.

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kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Borrowed a Haworth Fern office chair today and realized how awful my current office chair is 😭 I need to upgrade

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I'm back teaching genetics, and am wondering why so many people find the subject difficult. I think many of them don't grasp probability arguments.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/12/why-is-genetics-hard/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TYmghROJo8

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

Anti-Latin racism is an epidemic in this country. It's at an all-time high. And worst of all, we've yet to even begin to talk about it.

If you don't believe me, think of your top five political pundits/personalities/influencers whatever you want to call them.

Then try to find a single time they've mentioned the words Latin, Latino, LatinX, or Latine.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

An old potato storage. Or, if you prefer, a hobbit lives there.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #winter #grass

An old potato storage with a green door.

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

What's great about Bluesky is how easy it is for them to tap the data firehose and identify anyone who has not nice things to say about them. Their posts, comments, likes, follows, blocks.

Imagine if everything on the web adopted AT Protocol? A unified, centralized social graph that ICE can tap into with ease.

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

Side note: this is the ICE account in question. No external verification or reporting yet that this a legitimate account. I'd assume that BS would reserve the icegov handle but idk.

Screen shot of BlueSky profile page U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement @icegov.bsky.social 25 followers 8 following 0 posts Protects America through criminal investigations and by enforcing immigration law to preserve national security and public safety. Visit us at ICE.gov Join our team at join. ICE.gov Privacy policy: go.dhs.gov/U

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
jkcheney@wandering.shop ("J. Kathleen Cheney") wrote:

Art by JKBees (via Tumblr) #knitting

Classical Greek inspired drawing of Theseus and the Minotaur, except that as Theseus lets out his thread, the Minotaur is following behind using the thread to knit a scarf (I think)

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

Last night on Bluesky, Crust News (creators of icelist.is) claimed to have data related to 4,000 ICE agents that they intend to release.

Today, ICE joined Bluesky. https://bsky.app/profile/crustnews.com/post/3mc6x7hazts2n

Crust News&10;@crustnews.com&10;We've obtained the largest leak of ICE data since we began tracking them.&10;This data is now under review, all 4,000+ agents will be published upon confirmation.&10;Fuck ICE.

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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

2026 what are you even doing anymore

https://apnews.com/article/monkeys-st-louis-96c55834c7f17854cc4362db891ca8fa

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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I have a substack account mostly to claim my name there to avoid brand confusion. It's at

https://scalzi.substack.com/

It has one post, which is a picture of my cat Smudge. I don't use it for anything because I already have a blog.

If there is anyone else on Substack claiming to be me, they are a bad person and you should tell them I said so.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@10lazlo/post/DTbZjboDZq%5F

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

What was the metaverse? - Fast Company:

"Relabeling the digital economy as the “metaverse” was a simple, elegant move—as well as a deeply cynical effort to rebrand already existing digital markets as the next internet—that allowed forecasts to assume an air of inevitability." https://www.fastcompany.com/91467599/metaverse-zuckerberg-facebook-ai

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chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

LinkedIn keeps saying “you haven’t looked at your tech writing job search in a long time so we’re going to stop sending you notifications about it,” then sending them anyway. C’mon, what are you, a Microsoft product?

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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Oh, nothing, I just found out that there's now an actual minor planet with my name on it, and I am (literally!) over the moon about that fact:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/01/12/a-minor-planet-a-major-thrill/

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
kicad@fosstodon.org ("KiCad") wrote:

KiCad is has started our annual fund drive to support the release of v10 and development of v11! Want to know what your support helped build in 2025? Read all about it at https://www.kicad.org/blog/2026/01/2025-End-of-Year-Fund-Drive-The-Year-We-Lost-Count/
With your help, v11 will be amazing. Help donate here: https://donate.kicad.org

Hand drawn "K" with symbolic people behind it.  A large hand is placed a coin with a heart on it on top of the "K".  The image has watercolor shading and says "2026 SUPPORT"

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Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Awful Systems will be putting up and maintaining a list of open source software that is tainted with LLM code, inspired by a previous project.

We have already had *many* helpful suggestions for additional homework from concerned moderates, and we thank Dr King for his advice on concerned moderates. I'm sure commenters here will add many more homework suggestions, though nobody asked.

What we *really* need is a new name that's anywhere near as good as OpenSlopWare. Those suggestions, we would most welcome. Anyone got ideas that aren't actually profane? PromptFuckerCode(tm) is right out.

cc @zzt

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
silverwizard@convenient.email wrote:

My parents spent years teaching me how to touch type. Made me learn to type without looking at my keyboard. Spent hours every week trying to get my WPM up.

Now - as an adult I have a keyboard without any linguistic symbols on the majority of the keys (I wrote some code to generate magical circles that look like summoning circles and put them on the keys. I have return, bksp, caps, tab, and shift for grounding), and they're like "HOW DO YOU TYPE ON THIS THING". I feel like this is a self created issue.