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joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts") wrote:

@slightlyoff
Youtube showed me a credit card ad within five minutes of putting that on. Sort of says it all, doesn’t it?

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Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊") wrote:

Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/12/masonry-things-you-wont-need-library-anymore/ - a nice overview of things that you don't need JS for, if you've been out of Web Platform World for more than 15 mins (eg, in Framework Limbo or Full Stack Purgatory), and a look at CSS Masonry from glamorous @patrickbrosset

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

The inscription on the blade shone silvery.

"Justice," the maid read. "Are you an enchanted butterknife?"

"Yes."

She almost dropped it. "You are?"

"For centuries, none who held me sought justice. I took this form to hide."

It grew in her hand.

She hefted the sword. "Hm. Not sure you can help."

#TootFic #SmallStories #MicroFiction

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
juliusgoat.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("A.R. Moxon") wrote:

If you love something let it go. If it returns to you it’s yours forever. If it falls screaming to its death, you were probably climbing this mountain. Why did you listen to me? I’m just a bird.

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jwz wrote:

Kohler's $600/month toilet camera uses your turds to train AI.

Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as "End-to-End Encrypted": But emails exchanged with Kohler's privacy contact clarified that the other "end" that can...
https://jwz.org/b/ykx8

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jwz wrote:

Snail Heist.

€90,000 of snails. 450 kilos of snail meat. He said he had lost his entire annual production in the theft between Sunday night and Monday morning. "They cut the wire fence, broke open the door with a pickaxe, smashed the motion sensor...
https://jwz.org/b/ykx6

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

okay, this stuff is pretty funny

https://www.youtube.com/user/EleanorMortonable/videos

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

# Loving masculinity when men are in crisis

By @onqueerstreet

https://www.genderbent.co.uk/loving-masculinity-when-men-are-in-crisis/

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

# Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days - Let's Encrypt

The new DNS-based mechanism looks interesting. I've not yet got to the point of running my own authoritative DNS (although I should), and this might be a nice alternative.

https://letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/from-90-to-45#making-automation-easier-with-a-new-dns-challenge-type

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jukkan@loops.video ("Jukka Niiranen") wrote:

Guess the software company. (Whatever you answered, yes - that one!)

Video by Eleanor Morton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
gavi@bagel.ing wrote:

Two kittens, one striped and one black, are looking at the viewer with exaggerated expressions. The image features text that humorously states, "3 GAY CAT LOOKIG AT EACHOTHER."

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

Either the White House doc is a lying sack of shit, or taxpayers have been pissing away money for decades.

We do MRIs of the abdomen to look for specific cancers, or evaluate the common bile duct, but it is not a routine study, and certainly not a normal part of a yearly physical at any age.

We use MRI to image the heart to work up cardiomyopathy — failing heart muscle —, but otherwise it is not a typical way to look at the heart. It is never routine.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
sia@front-end.social ("Sia Karamalegos") wrote:

Hey folks, tomorrow myself and a bunch of other web perf experts are going to be talking about all things Core Web Vitals! Come join us live Dec 3 at 11am Eastern!

#webperf

cc @henrihelvetica

https://www.youtube.com/live/dQqqOYAaDiw

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

@baldur Anybody whose actions make you think "the Copyright Mafia might have a point..." is playing with fire.

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

Starting to think “I’m going to consume all of the media you love and replace it with indistinct but incredibly expensive garbage while artists and writers starve” might not be the great strategy for winning the hearts and minds of the public that the tech industry thinks it is

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

Today in History: Montreux Casino burns down during Frank Zappa concert, 1971

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

Today in History: First successful human heart transplant led by Dr. Barnard, 1967

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

Today in History: First neon light display, Paris, 1910

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sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

"Even Carrington would be impressed" 😬

https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=12&year=2025

Hopefully we just get "someone should check on our satellites" levels of auroras and not "A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered"

What it means if you see an aurora by latitude. Polar: Normal High latitude: Cool and exciting mid latitude: Someone should go check on our satellites equatorial: A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered Image from https://xkcd.com/2233

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jwz wrote:

XScreenSaver 6.13 is out now, including iOS (soon) and Android. Not a lot new in this one, but it has been a while since I synchronized all 3 platforms, so here we are. GL Slideshow does a bunch of fancier transitions when loading new images, inspired...
https://jwz.org/b/ykx4

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

"Anything signed by Biden with an autopen is legally invalid" has a lot of the same energy as the "sovereign citizens" who claim they don't have to pay taxes because the IRS has the wrong kind of flag flying outside its building.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
whitequark ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

check out how quickly #GitPages (and #Grebedoc) can check out a giant git repository without any changes!

if supported by the server, it retrieves only a single tree from git (no other branches, no tags, no history, no file contents), backfills it from the existing site contents, and then pulls in any missing files from the git server on-demand

this lets you publish very large repositories as static sites without straining network and compute (for compression, etc) resources!

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adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/115653027798464443

Here’s a nice challenge for 2026.

1. Print one of these.
2. Fold it in half a couple of times and keep it with you.
3. Each day, jot down one thing that made you feel joy (or something for which you feel grateful).

At the end of the year, you’ll have something truly special. :prami_hearts:

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

Aftyn ahead in Montgomery County (clarksville) early is noteworthy She needs to do well there and Very well in Davidson

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
chaotic_evil@jorts.horse ("Florist vs the Anthropocene") wrote:

if you introduce a waffle iron in your story, there better be waffles by the end

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

Weather: ☁️ Overcast, +31°F, 78%, ↓10mph, 1013hPa
Timezone: America/New_York
Now: 20:15:50-0500 | Dawn: 06:52:35 | Sunrise: 07:25:12
Zenith: 12:00:09 | Sunset: 16:35:26 | Dusk: 17:08:03
Location: Rochester, Monroe County, New York [43.1572,-77.6151]

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

First #TN7 results to hit come in from cherry-red Stewart & Wayne counties (For reference Wayne has been 95% trump in the past)

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

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

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jilleduffy wrote:

A repeating marketing trend in tech: "We are simplifying your life by putting everything in one place!"

My dear, the COMPUTER is already my one place