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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:
"A lame-duck president who said he’d make life better for MAGA starting on 'day one' but has made life worse for MAGA by month 10.
He doesn’t even believe in lowering prices. He calls the affordability crisis a 'con' job."
#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Congress #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #affordability #ballroom
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EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:
"We're defending your freedom 400 kilometers east of Warsaw. While you avoid calling this a war, we are dying in your stead."
Oleksandr Yakovenko, Ukrainian defense tech founder, has a message for Europe:
"We are the only buffer between Europe's cozy 'Russia is weak' theory and reality. When it breaks, your generals will call Article 5 'a political decision.' Your soldiers will refuse to fight. It's your war too. You've just outsourced the dying." https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/05/its-your-war-youve-just-outsourced-the-dying/
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kravietz@agora.echelon.pl ("kravietz 🦇") wrote:
European Twitter exploded following yesterday’s rants by US and Russian hardliners calling to “abolish EU”.
Lots of voices like “we need European social media!!”
And I said, “actually, you know what, we kind of have one for years…” 😆
Some people started complaining “but nobody uses Mastodon” and I once again had no choice but to explain that if “nobody uses” then how come I’ve got 3k+ followers here and engaging in truly interesting discussions not less often than there😁
There’s two data points where Fediverse can be indeed seen as less attractive than US cortisol aggregators:
• number of engagements, but granted that up to 60-70% of these on Twitter are generated by bots who cares? Maybe media advertising agencies do, but I don’t.
• presence of public persons - this is where Fediverse actually loses, because it’s a network that grows between them and can’t be “invited”
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
yacodes ("Aleksandr Yakunichev") wrote:
#Plushtodon has arrived to help me get through the upcoming work week!
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
yes! finally figured out how to tell vibe.d how to log the IP of low-level TLS-error attackers. now I can use fail2ban and do a decent job of blocking their [expletives deleted] addresses.
Mastodon Feedadele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:
I hope I’ll be able to finalise tests on https://message.casa/ this evening/night : main services are ok (postfix, dovecot, rspamd, snappy&nocc webmails, prosody) but anonymous registration method with invite codes needs to be overtested to avoid malicious accounts
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:
Annual reminder to water your Christmas tree poems …
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ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:
Latest Freebooters podcast: Getting busy with bash, FOSS sound formats, and why YouTube has outgrown us
https://freebooters.uk/media/20251206-getting-busy-with-bash.mp3
Chris shares the bash projects he's been working on, we talk about MP3 vs other FOSS audio formats, and we talk about why YouTube isn't the best place for smaller creators any more....
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LesleyPhillipsArt@toot.wales ("Lesley Phillips art") wrote:
Conwy
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fuzztech@infosec.exchange ("Nick Selby :donor:") wrote:
When I was four and in surgery, and afraid, my parents wrote a letter to Fred Rogers who immediately wrote back with a signed picture and a personal note, telling me that everyone gets afraid sometimes and it would be OK. I lost the photo and letter when my storage locker was burglarized in 1996, but the message stayed with me. I love this post. https://social.edist.ro/@CosmickTrigger/115277597918055096
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CosmickTrigger@social.edist.ro ("Daughter of Discord") wrote:
Mr Rogers was a republican.
He was a white christian cis het man.He prayed and read the Bible every day.
He created a children's TV show with taxpayer money in which he promoted his "christian views" to a secular audience through secular media.
He studied other religions and other cultures to improve on his reach and connection. He never preached or quoted scripture--yet, we all got the message he intended for us.
He appealed to President Nixon and Congress to continue to fund the creation of PBS with a persuasive speech that is one of the most studied for public speaking and PR. A gentle but powerful speaker.
While white people were pouring concrete into public pools rather than share with black neighrbors, Fred Rogers broadcast himself sharing a quiet conversation in a pool with African-American music and co-worker, Francios Clemmons. The softest act of defiance against White Supremacy.
He was the most demanded speaker on college campuses--he did not have to con his way onto campus to speak and nazis and counter-protesters did not follow his appearances---You know, despite the fact that he was a white christian man promoting christian values to the general public.
Every generation since the 1968 has been positively impacted by Mr Rogers.
Even children in the past 20 years are benefiting from his legacy at PBS --his methods and messages are STILL used in children's programming around the world.
No one had to mandate mourning his death because we all actually felt a genuine loss when he passed away. Even grown adults, who had not watched his show for 10 years by the time he passed, felt a piece of genuine goodness leave the planet.
We did not have to be Christian with Mr Rogers for him to do so much for us.
He never asked us to be Christian with him.
He only asked us to be his neighbor.
So...
If you find that the general public is rejecting your brand of Christianity, it might because you are a horrible fucking person with a 2000 yr old book of shitty excuses that no one is buying into.
It might be because you are a filthy grifter looking to capitalize off end-times hysteria and seniors with end-of-life anxieties.
It might be cause you are a disgusting bigot trying to reap superiority while evading moral accountability.
It probably has nothing to do at all with you actually "being a christian".
Cause we all fucking loved Mr Rogers.
-- Patchie Dee
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
finally, after diving deep into the docs, I *think* I've finally found a way to trap the IP addresses of attackers going after my service and logging in a way fail2ban can cope with. I *think* I have...
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:
Not adding Hitler’s birthday?
“National Park Service drops free admission on MLK Day, Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday”
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ben@kwiecien.us ("Benjamin Kwiecień 🇵🇸") wrote:
If AI-generated art can't be copyrighted, it seems to be that this is a powerful loophole to those who are against copyright.
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chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:
Hitman™ 2 Ghost Mode highlights, clean kills and epic duels!
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
hah! ppl lie about this stuff, to themselves as well as others... how many US citizens actually know all of these lyrics?
https://amhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/pdf/ssb%5Flyrics.pdf
(I would bet a lot that <10% of US citizens know it from memory)
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Today in History: Bernardo Pasquini is born in Tuscany, Italy, 1637
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Today in History: Harry Chapin is born in New York City, 1942
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Today in History: Independence Day in Panama
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Today in History: Independence Day in Ivory Coast
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Today in History: Delaware Day in Delaware
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Today in History: Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 1941
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podfeet@chaos.social wrote:
Saw this on Threads:
To commemorate Alan Dye moving from Apple to Meta, here's one of his best quotes.
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czottmann@norden.social ("Carlo Zottmann") wrote:
I hate that by default #macOS hides scroll bars at rest. I mean, look at that settings tab in #FaceTime. It appears to show everything, but there's more if you scroll down which isn't obvious because scroll bars are hidden.
The fix, for you and future Carlo: System Settings → Appearance → "Show scroll bars" → set to "Always"
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Found it. The app does the bullshit “hide features until we think you need them” thing that has been a bad idea for decades but devs keep repeating because they’re allergic to learning anything useful from other fields
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
I've never worked for a co that wanted me to write. I've had employers that discouraged me from writing or ignored it, but never one that saw any value in it, so I hadn't realised that much of people's experience with editing is more properly conformance
That is, the argument and voice of the text doesn't matter. What matters is the language, logic, and vocabulary of that corporate world. You don't edit text to sharpen it to a point or clarify its voice, you edit it to remove all that crap
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
So it's no wonder I keep seeing statements along the lines of 'the more I edit my posts the worse they get' in my feed reader even though the posts they write are manifestly under-edited. (Over-editing is a thing.) The process they've learned at work is the opposite of what they want
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Idle Sunday thoughts on why so many people love LLMs for 'editing' even though it gives that 'je ne sais qua' of corporate blandness. I'd assumed it was the perceptual con: chatbots keep making generic statements that users interpret as specific
It works a bit like a "soup stone". You're the one providing the work, observation, and analysis—the ingredients—while the credit goes to the 'soup stone'. Except the stone is charging you Michelin star prices for the soup