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

The Grinch Song is a surprisingly good exploration of change and growth. And it’s fucking hilarious. Merry Christmas. https://youtu.be/nQLJNCDa4GA?si=7mNbhUbHG6xQAZXA

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

Human and spiders were all well served with a Christmas lunch.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/25/lunch-has-been-served/

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• Honey bear! Spiders had mealworms (not shown). (remote)

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nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

Amazingly dozens of people survived and walked away from this crash.

#azerbaijanaircrash #Russia

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• aeacb635f1591f61.mp4 (remote)

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kiwix ("Kiwix") wrote:

If you think it's time for the Wikimedia Foundation to complete #mastodonmigration, then you can:
* Subscribe to (pretty inactive) @wikimediafoundation
* Challenge clearly the rationals to stay on "the hostile network" at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Social_media #elonmusk #wikipedia

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JMarkOckerbloom ("John Mark Ockerbloom") wrote:

More than funds, what Wikipedia really needs is more good editors. The number of people who regularly edit articles in English Wikipedia hasn't grown substantially in years, while the number of articles has, and editor demographics remains skewed. The foundation itself largely stays away from editing, leaving it to volunteers. While articles that get a lot of attention are often good, it's not hard to find ones with biased and promotional content in less-visited topics, and in other languages.

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petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

Did you know you can download an entire copy of Wikipedia for use offline? Takes some storage space but there are text-only or (larger) versions with images.

https://www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-to-download-wikipedia-for-offline-at-your-fingertips-reading/

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catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Mama cats doing their thang

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• Dual photos with one showing a mama cat carrying her kitten in her mouth, and tge other showing a large CAT machine carrying a smaller one in its shovel thingy. (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

cool, lmstudio-community/Phi-3.1-mini-4k-instruct-GGUF does run (albeit slowly) on my Mac Mini M1 and does accept the same call as OpenAI

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Happy holidays and merry Christmas! 🎄

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• My wife, Amelia, and me with my arm around her.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

good Q

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jwz wrote:

The King In Red:

Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.
Stranger: Indeed?
Cassilda: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
Stranger: I wear no mask.
Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!

Alternately:

Tillinghast: Oh, it's so beautiful... So... beautiful!
Pretorius: Now you can truly see.
Katherine: What have you done to him?
Pretorius: I only awakened his sleeping pineal gland. It did the rest itself.
Katherine: No!

https://jwz.org/b/ykfD

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nickthewright@tenforward.social ("Nick Wright") wrote:

“You will be visited by three spirits.”

The three spirits:

#startrek #ds9

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• Nog, Quark, and Rom from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. (remote)

jwz wrote:

A Merry Christmas to All Oligarchs.

By order of His Majesty King Mob
https://jwz.org/b/ykfA

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MrBerard@mastodon.acm.org ("Will Berard 🫳🎤 🫶") wrote:

Remember that the true meaning of Christmas is using money you don't have to buy things they don't need to people you don't like.
#consumerism #Christmas #Memes #TheyLive

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• A six panel montage inspired by They Live, with Santa as the alien, and the words "WORK" "CONSUME" "OBEY" (remote)

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docpop ("Doctor Popular") wrote:

I saw Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer for the first time as an adult and saw something I hadn't seen before #rudolphtherednosereindeer

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• Doc Pop sitting in front of the camera and talking while footage of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer plays in the background. He shows footage from the film, including Rudolph being sad and a collection of misfit toys. These include a toy train with square wheels, a talking watergun that shoots red jelly, and a bird on a perch that says it cannot fly, then it jumps into a bowl of water. Later we see Rudolph guiding the sleigh with his bright red nose. Once they are high up, an elf starts pulling out toys and giving them an umbrella before tossing them off the sleigh. The indication here is the umbrellas help the toys float safely. Then he pulls out the flightless bird and an umbrella. He looks at the umbrella and then the bird as if he is thinking about something, and then he throws the flightless bird out of the sleigh.

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Eighty years ago, Jews were given a choice between two legacies: Never again, the Jews will never face a similar danger, or – Never again, no one in the world will ever face a similar danger. Israel clearly chose the former option, with a fatal addition: After Auschwitz, Jews are permitted to do anything.

Israel has implemented this doctrine in the past year as it never has before.”

~ Gideon Levy, Haaretz

#Christmas #Gaza #Israel #Auschwitz #Holocaust #Shoah
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thorncoyle@wandering.shop ("T. Thorn Coyle 🖤") wrote:

@blogdiva Hmmm…
“Did nothing of note.”

You survived. You gave others joy.

To quote Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel: “Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.”

(Now, let’s all kick our inner capitalist puritans out for good!)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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barackobama@threads.net ("Barack Obama") wrote:

Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you and your loved ones have a wonderful day filled with gratitude and joy.

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• Photo by Barack Obama on December 25, 2024. May be an image of 5 people, baby, christmas tree, tinsel and text. (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

maybe there is a reason for wearing that ugly sweater https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/yule-cat-jolakotturinn-iceland

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omi_kim@threads.net wrote:

Snowy night in Shibuya Tokyo.

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• Photo by omi on December 25, 2024. May be an image of 3 people, people standing, umbrella, street, Times Square and text. (remote)
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• Photo by omi on December 25, 2024. May be an image of street, night and text. (remote)
• Photo by omi on December 25, 2024. May be an image of 3 people, street, night and text. (remote)

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jonty@chaos.social ("Jonty Wareing") wrote:

So I've been notified that my role is at risk. Would anybody like to hire a me.

I've spent the last 7 years as chief architect, which realistically meant doing every job from infrastructure to product and occasionally acting CTO. For the last two years I've been merging platforms of two billion dollar companies.

I am interested in everything, and curious to try new things.

I like python and postgres, but happy to quickly pick up any stack. You do not want me anywhere near your frontend code.

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

Digital exile: A socialist clothing company was banned from multiple major Internet platforms for releasing “CEO Most Wanted“ playing cards.
PayPal, YouTube, TikTok, and Meta have all banned the provocative clothing company Comrade Workwear. Presumably, the bans are a response to the company revealing a playing card set with pictures of American CEOs.
They shut down my business. Can’t accept any payment on my ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/25/digital-exile-a-socialist-clothing.html

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

Liquid Swords by GZA is like cinema. I listened to this album every morning before school for a year straight. I still go back to it every so often. https://music.apple.com/us/album/liquid-swords-expanded-edition/1537029775

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• Album cover: Genius/GZA Liquid Swords. Illustration. Men fighting brutally on a chessboard.

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latte@mastodon.online ("a new hope :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:

getting distracted while working on my recap by revisiting the stuff i'm including and just watching that instead of writing

today edition is revisiting plagiarism and you(tube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein it's a Christmas toilet miracle!
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2024/12/24.html

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ DNA LOUNGE YULE LOG: 24 HOURS OF FIRE AND MUSIC at DNA Lounge starting now!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2024/12-24.html
#dnalounge #dnaloungeyulelog #sanfrancisco

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Merry Christmas from Taiwan, y'all.

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Mrfunkedude ("Mr. Funk E. Dude") wrote:

If you're feeling lonely tonight or on Xmas day, feel free to join my Matrix chat. I'll be monitoring it, and there are almost always a few people to chat with.

Just say hi when you come in and you'll have people to waste your time with. Just as if you were with your family and friends.

I recommend using the Element interface.

Please BOOST for reach.
#chat #christmas #xmas #friendly

http://chat.mrfunkedude.com/

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

In cold blood.

I’ve read that phrase more in the last two weeks than perhaps in my lifetime. So much so that I lost its meaning and needed to look it up.

To say someone was killed “in cold blood” means it was done without emotion, in a calculated manner. I can’t think of anything more emotionless and calculating than budgeting death for faceless shareholders. Can you?

US healthcare executives kill thousands of Americans each year in cold blood.