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aliettedb@wandering.shop ("Aliette de Bodard") wrote:

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• Art of two women of Vietnamese descent kissing: one of them is wearing a mint blue ao dai and has a tight topknot, the other one is wearing dark burgundy, and her topknot is loose with flowing dark hair. They are against a background of stars. It all ooze lesbian tension. (remote)
• Cover of the Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard: Two women of Vietnamese descent holding hands on a background of stars, with a fleet of spaceships going towards them. The quote reads "Thrillingly exciting and achingly romantic" by Stephanie Burgisi. The prevailing colours are blue and pink. (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I continue to be struck by how much the issues and arguments about activitystreams server federation and linkage sound like the conversations/arguments between Usenet news group node administrators in the 1980s... fascinating to see things getting reinvented and old arguments re-emerging anew

anathema@eightpoint.app wrote:

Guess which bitch just aced the first stage of a job interview???

Got told “expect to hear from us by end of day tomorrow” literally 20m later had an email asking for my availability for the next stage.

😁

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erosdiscordia@hackers.town ("Mystery Babylon") wrote:

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taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:

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• Noam the CEO of Post saying the company is not focused on accessibility or other things like DMs, the android app, and dark mode.

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danbri wrote:

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metacurity@infosec.exchange ("Metacurity") wrote:

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canongatebooks@bookish.community wrote:

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cliffwade@androiddev.social ("Cliff Wade :novaLauncher:") wrote:

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• Image with the words Monday Mention in read and the image of a computer mother board behind it in black and white. (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

@AlgoCompSynth [[waves]]

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

@AlgoCompSynth [waves hello ] welcome

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

@garystark good to see ya here

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

This year, the War on Christmas is going to get weird.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/11/28/now-that-thanksgiving-is-out-of-the-way/

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• Santa & Krampus share a hug (remote)

lcasdev ("Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Is there no way to see image alt text on the mastodon.social web app via the UI? I like the little "Alt" button that Twitter has - I feel the visibility encourages people to add (better) alt text.

lcasdev ("Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

On my way to the @TC39 meeting in A Coruña 🇪🇸

Hopefully less rainy then the Netherlands today 😅

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• Picture taken out of a train that is zooming past a bunch of slower cars that are driving on a Dutch highway

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scalzi ("Scalzi") wrote:

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• Krampus has horns! Santa has a beard! They both are secure in their masculinity!

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seldo wrote:

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• Reuters: Elon Musk claims "all-time high" Twitter signups, averaging 2M+/day in the seven days to November 16, up 66% YoY, and user active minutes of ~8B/day, up 30% YoY Josep / Washington Post: China seems to be flooding Twitter with porn tweets mentioning places where people are protesting, overwhelming Twitter's radically reduced anti- propaganda team

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

" So maybe the industry is about to discover that invasions – of homes as well as countries – don’t always work out as well as you hoped."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/26/alexa-how-did-amazons-voice-assistant-rack-up-a-10bn-loss

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Richard_Hull@social.coop ("Richard Hull") wrote:

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Did this man really write a novel-length version of the 30–50 feral hogs tweet?

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pinafore@fosstodon.org ("Pinafore") wrote:

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

Nothing like puzzle to help you feel accomplished for doing nothing at all but relaxing.

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• A completed 500 piece puzzle of colorful Pokémon characters

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tripofmice@friend.camp ("mouse reeve") wrote:

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Walked around Seattle’s Chinatown/International District tonight. Checked out Chiyo’s Garden and the murals in Nihonmachi alley for the first time: https://www.wingluke.org/exhibit-nihonmachi-alley

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Strandjunker@mstdn.social ("Andrea Junker :verified:") wrote:

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JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com ("James Gleick") wrote:

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

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smaideman ("Steve Saideman") wrote:

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davew ("Dave Winer ☘️") wrote:

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gdyson@sciencemastodon.com ("George Dyson") wrote:

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