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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

Get your flu (and COVID) vaccination!

You may have seen headlines that this year's flu virus isn't a great match for the 2025 vaccine. This has led some to think they do not need to get vaccinated. This is wrong. As one expert notes, “If there’s ever a year to get a flu vaccine, this is the year.” Many fear that this year's flu season could be particularly severe, with the UK, Japan, and Korea already experiencing a very early and severe wave of influenza.

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https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/flu-season-2025-vaccinations-still-helpful-h3n2-subclade-k/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Worth noting with Mastodon - one of the reasons for no cookie consent popup is.. there are no tracking cookies. At all.

Similar with official mobile apps, there's no privacy agreements etc in the app stores as there's no third party tracking.

Why is this notable? Try doing the same check on Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky or basically anywhere or anything else online. It's basically unheard of in 2025, as everybody else is selling you.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
IcooIey@mastodon.green wrote:

I have a student with a service dog. Yesterday our class was small, only 3, and she asked if she could take the dog’s vest off because he had been on task all day. We were all OK with that and as soon as she did, Milo, the dog came up to all of us for scratches and pats, a silly goofball with a full body wag. I had not appreciated how well trained and obedient he is, how much control it takes to be working. Really grateful he’s there for my student, and impressed how much they do together.

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

tracking down a networking-attack issue can make me crazy(er)

Tangled lines of code,
A maze of sharp, twisted paths,
Secrets hide in knots.

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

I found out through some googling that this is Chicago. I'm not sure when exactly, but the fashion looks very 1950s.#photography #filmphotography #slide #streetphotography #history #usa #america #chicago #vintage

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

I hate traffic, but at least the cars look nice. This was taken somewhere in the States, I have no idea exactly where or when.#photography #filmphotography #slide #streetphotography #history #usa #america #vintage #cars

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

We're taking a break from ugly Icelandic and venturing into old American. Among my grandfather's slide collection, there are a few from the States. According to my grandmother, these were likely given to my grandfather by someone he worked with at the Naval Air Station. #photography #history

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bramus@front-end.social ("Bramus") wrote:

Starting with Chrome 144, Anchor Positioning is going to be transform-aware.

From then on, anchoring will resolve against the bounding box of the transformed anchor.

Demo: https://codepen.io/bramus/pen/pvyrmWv

Before this change, the tooltip on the right (the one on the transformed anchor) would be anchored to the untransformed bounding box. Visually it would be anchored to the (untransformed) anchor in the center, which is not what you want.

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

“LLMs aren’t going away” statements are wishes, not predictions, that they’re trying to make happen. Treat them as advocacy for a specific future, not observations of inevitability

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

It's easier for me to name the places I'd avoid then to list all the parts of the world I'd love to visit.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/20/when-i-picture-hell-it-looks-like-dubai/

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

how to say you are an authoritarian without saying…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/20/warner-bros-discovery-takeover-paramount-skydance-larry-ellison

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
aram@aoir.social ("Aram Sinnreich") wrote:

Very cool research tool called Little Sis allows you to map the economic and institutional relationships between major power brokers and wealthy individuals. ht @emmalbriant

https://littlesis.org/database

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

I think this would have made C. Wright Mills smile

https://littlesis.org/database

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
davidaugust@mastodon.online ("David August ❌👑") wrote:

#USpol #ice #iran #refuge #refugee

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

https://youtube.com/shorts/teUcza18RwE?si=9KdbB3tsJbw52r7X

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

Goddamn it now it is in my head too

RE: https://www.threads.com/@colbertlateshow/post/DRQ62KDjz6G

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/111443182757520317

Today is #TDoR (Trans Day of Remembrance) 🏳️‍⚧️🕯️
My thoughts published on this day in 2023 still stand strong in 2025:

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
TheBreadmonkey@beige.party ("Ben") wrote:

I will be observing today's Trans Day of Remembrance. A day to commemorate our trans brothers and sisters lost to violence. People killed just for wanting to exist. To all my trans family, I want you to know you are not alone. Together we're stronger. ❤️

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
vagina_museum@masto.ai ("Vagina Museum") wrote:

Today is #TransDayOfRemembrance. Trans people and their human rights are under attack around the globe. The Vagina Museum stands defiant against these attacks. We are a proudly trans inclusive space, even as discourse grows ever more toxic.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Plant-based Babybel, first impressions food review

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/8Uz9A1D5wvqC3bhjdeFDaX

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

An artist and their helper

Attachments:

• gifv: Video of several scenes of an artist drawing and sketching while her orange cat watches from her lap the entire to and occasionally inpecting (rubbing) the tools of the trade. It's quite cute and video ends with the artist cuddling the cat like baby.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

The Verge: Screw it, I’m installing Linux

https://www.theverge.com/tech/823337/switching-linux-gaming-desktop-cachyos

#win11 #linux

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

I feel like copy/paste text from Figma is worse than a Word document, so much random whitespace and invisible characters. Unless it can from Word to begin with? 🤔

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

I don't manage to get time to end writing the account management process of https://message.casa

It is not complicated, just registration with an invite code, and password change, but they must be secured processes.

I'd like to keep accounts anonymous, just a login and a password, without requiring an alternative email address. But this implies that it is not possible to get a link to reset the password.
Isn't it too dangerous to not have this possibility? If you lose your password, you definitively lose your account!

It's not a good idea to send the reset link to the message.casa address. If you want to reset your password, it could be because someone has stollen your device or your session.

Is there a good design pattern to reset a password without a "backup" alternative email address?

#smolweb #privacy #anonymity

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Cancel your Spotify subscription until the ICE ads stop. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: https://indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=mastodon

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

Even when they kneel down in my frying pan, I refuse to cook and eat spiders.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/19/that-was-a-weird-thing-to-find-in-a-frying-pan/

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

It is so absolutely perfect and perfectly out of place, 10/10

Attachments:

• video: Just listen to it, that's all that matters.

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

why is nobody talking about the fact that the Hollow Knight: Silksong true ending has a wilhelm scream in it?! I almost just died laughing because of it.

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

Wil does some great narratin', ask me how I know

Anyway absolutely check out this podcast, it's freakin' great

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
noupside.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Renee DiResta") wrote:

New from me: an essay on the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, and its remarkable 30 year history of witch hunts & blacklists. It chronicles the progression of how industries & academia went from capitulation to defiance,& what we can take from that todaywww.lawfaremedia.org/article/proc...