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jwz wrote:

2024 music wrap-up, and mixtape 249.

Here is some new music that I enjoyed in 2024. These are pretty good. Honestly, none of these really rose to the level of: "I am obsessed with this album and can't stop listening to it", but not every year has one of those, I guess. But these are all worth your time.
https://jwz.org/b/ykfR

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CiaraNi@mastodon.green wrote:

That older relative you do tech support for is probably not bamboozled by digital devices. They were guessing their way through Y/N ms-DOS and dodging Fatal Error cartoon bombs on Macs before you and the smartphone were born. Now they're older, wearier, and exasperated by digital coercion and the complication of simple things. They’re not listening to Bing Crosby while being amazed email exists. They’re listening to Queen while cursing enshittification & resenting the time it costs them and you.

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sue@glasgow.social ("Sue Smith") wrote:

A reminder that obnoxious, blocking cookie consent banners are not required by law but are there because tech companies had a massive tantrum at being prevented from tracking the bejesus out of you by default.. They don't need to be annoying or intrusive, companies can absolutely choose not to track, to track less, or make the consent experience easier, they choose not to 💩💩💩

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

The business landscape in this town takes another lurch downward. I have to drive 40 miles (or resort to Amazon) to get useful stuff. (Unless it's in a hardware store -- we got plenty of those.)

This business is new and useless.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/30/another-sign-of-the-coming-dark-ages/

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

at last! I got dynamic rendering (insert a variable like username into a page server-side before it renders at client-side) FTW!

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

My sweet boy.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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• A black cat (Jiji) who is very round, with round eyes, tongue sticking out in a goofy manner.

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

I guess we need to update this old map to include 21st century sterilizations.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/30/the-eugenicists-have-gotten-sneaky/

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

some real reasons to be concerned

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/opinion/elon-musk-china-classified-secrets-national-security-russia-doge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lU4.zTK9.zRbKigrijeGN&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

What if there is a "civil war", and the leaders of the two factions are complete and utter clowns?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/30/only-fools-believe-in-genetic-determinism/

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CatsOfYore@varmint.town ("Cats of Yore") wrote:

Being "helpful" in 1954. https://juan314.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/les-chats-los-gatos-the-cats-by-willy-ronis-1954/

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• Black and white photo of a woman in a checkered dress, seen from behind as she leans out an open window. On her bent over back is perched a shorthaired black cat that looks like it might be in the process of jumping down. (remote)

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stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

As the automobile became more popular, many unemployed horses turned to drink. Here a jobless mare, drunk yet again, is refused entry to the family home.

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• A sepia-toned photo of a back alley perhaps a hundred years ago or more. On the right is a wooden picket fence. In the background is a stable yard and the rear of some terrace houses. On the left stands a horse, tethered outside the yard, an empty beer bottle at its feet. (remote)

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tknarr@mstdn.social ("Todd Knarr") wrote:

@lauren I have to agree. When tech companies say they can't find qualified candidates to fill job openings, they're lying by omission. They can find plenty of qualified candidates, what they can't find are senior-level candidates willing to accept entry-level pay.

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mako@social.seattle.wa.us wrote:

My kid gets me. #photography #tv #twinpeaks

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• A notepad from the Great northern hotel; twin peaks (remote)

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

taking down the decorations

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dealingwith@indieweb.social wrote:

"This is literally a DDoS on the entire internet.

"I am so tired."

https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/17342163

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

I’ve been in a relatively mild comment argument on Instagram for two days about whether the beach level in Mario Sunshine is Frutiger Aero.

I need to reassess some things in my life lmao.

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• Mario and Sonic stand on a beach facing the water.

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

Light sculpture. I don't know if you can tell, but the whale is absolutely massive!

#darktable

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• A big installation of a while looking like a wireframe highlighted in shades of blue. It's suspended in a dark space on top of what looks like a dark hedge with Christmas lights.

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brainwane@social.coop ("Sumana Harihareswara") wrote:

Today I felt a sudden rush of sympathy for Chief O'Brien upon realizing that, while turning Terok Nor into Deep Space 9, he had to figure out how to convert Federation or Starfleet replicator files to the Cardassian replicator file format, or get the station replicators to run off Starfleet's file format

#StarTrek

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

“Lone Pine Hill” by Justin Townes Earle

https://pandora.app.link/tJZEWHzKJPb

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MajDen@sociale.network ("MajDen👠🎗☮️ ♀️🎨🥋") wrote:

Una bella benedizione 😇

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• Video di micio che benedice chiunque passi da lì. La scritta dice: non conosco che religione sia, ma sono interessato 😍 (remote)

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

ahhhhh

“(Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night” by Tom Waits

https://pandora.app.link/Kpu0RZEJJPb

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

“Clay Pigeons” by John Prine

https://pandora.app.link/ez8Wf4iJJPb

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

The New York Post is very upset that some “punks” spray painted “Deny Defend Depose” on Jeffery Epstein’s old mansion. https://nypost.com/2024/12/28/us-news/pro-luigi-mangione-punks-vandalize-jeffrey-epsteins-former-nyc-mansion-deny-defend-depose/

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• Large wood door with stone walls. Red spray paint reads "“Deny, defend, depose” and "Free Luigi."

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

“Atlantic City” by The Band on LOUD

https://pandora.app.link/ajqtKSMIJPb

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jwz wrote:

Recent books.

Despite the evidence presented by the OSHA-violating precarious tower of books on my desk, it seems like I read kind of an embarassingly small number of books this year. Of those, here are the ones that I enjoyed, in desk-stack order. [...]

I gave up on writing book reviews a while ago, but I have a story about 1984. [...]

https://jwz.org/b/ykfO

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brandkopf@mastodon.art ("sommerlich.art") wrote:

Finished my new and so far largest oil painting "Collector" 🎨.
Now I can finally put the brushes away and enjoy a well-deserved coffee ☕️.

Hope you like it 💕.

more: https://sommerlich.art/collector/

#art #mastoart #traditionalart #ölmalerei #fineart #painting

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• Oil painting of an elderly elven lady. She sits by a tree with her arm outstretched and collects amber in her wicker basket. She is wearing simple brown clothes with an oil painting of an elderly elven lady. She has a cheerful and serene expression on her face. She kneels by a tree with her arm outstretched and collects amber in her wicker basket. She wears simple brown clothes with a blue headscarf. She has a large wooden hat on her head on which mushrooms and grass are growing. On her back you can see long blue feathers instead of hair. In the background you can see large clouds heralding a thunderstorm and in the foreground the picture is framed by two trees and a dark meadow. (remote)
• Detail from an oil painting with a portrait of an old woman smiling and long elven ears. (remote)

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redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:

The two kinds of magic:

1. hiding the slow and difficult work, only revealing the payoff
2. love

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

Jimmy Carter was an actual good man in politics. A radical by todays standards.

Fuuuuuuuccccck all these politicians who never respected him when he was an alive pretending he’s their guiding light now that he’s dead.

If you want to know what it looks like when centrists co-opt a revolutionary, listen to our politicians this week.

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

Jimmy Carter was simply a good guy. I'm sorry to see him go.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/29/jimmy-carter-has-died/

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

With the understanding that some people will and do call it a waste of time, another highlight of my year was getting the #Plushtodon out into the world. I didn't want to just make another soulless piece of merch to tick off a box. I wanted to create a toy, a friend, that would rival anything you could get at a toy store. It brings me joy seeing that people seem to appreciate the effort.