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

Small Change Got Rained With His Own .38

https://music.apple.com/us/album/small-change-got-rained-on-with-his-own-38/1485074801?i=1485074812

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

Nice surprise to see my latest post in Taylor Lorenz's "What I'm Reading" section.

https://www.usermag.co/p/a-prediction-market-for-shortform

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

The One That Got Away

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-one-that-got-away/1485074801?i=1485074811

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

fast women,
slow horses,
unreliable sources…

(Tom Waits)

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jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Step Right Up!

https://music.apple.com/us/album/step-right-up/1485074801?i=1485074804

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hennichodernich@radiosocial.de ("Henning Paul DC4HP") wrote:

Made a small PCB to turn a Cat5 patch cable into an 8-turn loop antenna

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

"They say that I have no hits and I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing!"

Tom Waits

(Happy Birthday to another 1949 baby)

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tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld") wrote:

Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!

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mralancooper@hachyderm.io ("MrAlanCooper") wrote:

When I was a kid probably around 13 years old I kept getting junk mail from a company I once bought something from. Each unwanted mailer had a "Business Reply" return card. One day I securely taped one of the Business Reply cards to a 7 pound red brick and posted it. I never received another junk mailer from them again. I've never told this story to anyone.

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PonyoMina@toot.cat ("Ponyo & Mina") wrote:

Too short ?

#cats #猫 #chats #caturday #FediCats #MastoCats #CatsOfMastodon

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

Thinking back twenty years ago at our collective utter lack of imagination for what Zuck's TOS would do with our posts and images

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Fascism Wrapped just dropped in NYC — and more cities are coming soon. Don’t use Spotify until they stop running recruitment ads for ICE: https://indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=mastodon

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

@viticci Are you a Qobuz user? I feel like it came up on Connected, but I can't remember. :)

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

The human-curated “Winter Drive” Qobuz playlist I’m listening to went from a brand new Sarah McLachlan cut to Dylan LeBlanc’s “Coyote” (new to me, and great) to the symphonic overture to “Princess Mononoke” to deep cut 1980s Jackson Browne. It's winning me over.

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macmanx@social.lol ("James Huff :prami_pride:") wrote:

Thanks for the #stickers, @adam and @robb, and especially thanks for running https://tiltify.com/@rknightuk/stjude2025 !

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

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virtualbri@mastodon.online ("Brian Tatosky") wrote:

One of my running cheat sheets:

“cost synergies” = layoffs
“regulations” = protections
“the economy” = rich people’s money
“GDP” - the stock market
“Stock Market” - Vibe economy
“Vibe economy” = smoke and mirrors

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

The video for my #monktoberfest 2025 talk on trust as infrastructure is now up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF7J7qtZ8TA

Slides are here:

https://speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/trust-as-infrastructure

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

Current holiday melancholic webdev nostalgia trip: browsing old editions of 24 Ways. I looked forward to this every year for over a decade.

https://24ways.org/2005

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

The world needs social sovereignty - Mastodon Blog:

"Public institutions should communicate with their citizens on open platforms, not ones that require creating an account and sending personal data to a self-serving tech company."

Oh, are we severing ties with #Threads finally? https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

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maxbvrn@eldritch.cafe ("Maxime") wrote:

Here's a mini guide on how to bring your website to up-to-date standards! You don't even need to have AI to be an AI company

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kittylyst ("Ben Evans") wrote:

So, over on BSky, their Head of "Trust and Safety" has just suspended an account whose husband was abducted by ICE and then posted memes mocking the affected account.

Just in case you were wondering how this prediction was going: https://mastodon.social/deck/@kittylyst/115310163126309071

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

I imagine the people of California and Portland and Chicago and Minneapolis and Seattle are familiar with this feeling, when the president of the US makes palpably false claims about the ruin around their homes. He's not our president. He's the president of a failing nation of his own making.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/09/racist-old-fool-trash-talks-minnesota/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD1fl6TJBM8

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

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Publico regularmente códigos de invitación (necesarios para crear una cuenta), así como usuarios ya registrados.

jwz wrote:

Honsky Dot CX Adjustable Anus Clamp.

Compatible with All Anuses. For 7.9" to 12.9". Cool!!!...cute, compact and effective!!! Thumbs-up design!!! Use it as anus clamp at home, rectum holder at the office for fashion and youth feel. The unique and cute...
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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Just arrived on our store: New soft enamel pins featuring the #Mastodon logo. This time, they have a copper finish. However! I have to warn you there will be another enamel pin design up on the store this week, so if there's any chance you might want an alternative design or both, you may want to hold off on making orders for now to save on shipping.

https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/mastodon-logo-enamel-pin

#Merchtodon

Attachments:

• gifv: Me demonstrating the shiny finish of the Mastodon logo pin by moving it around in front of a plain white background.

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haubles@hachyderm.io ("hannah aubry") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115689198997943088

I’m proud to share my first blog as @Mastodon’s Community Director. Well the first one posted under my name at least 😉

Digital social networking is one of the most important threads in the fabric of our societies. Right now, we’re letting that thread be controlled by social media platforms that let advertisements for scams stay up because they’re profitable, and that use their algorithms to run human research experiments on us without our consent. That’s not the society I want.

“By making the news and truth contingent on advertising budgets we’ve created an environment where any narrative can win, as long as the storyteller is willing to pay. If we allow these conditions to continue, we will leave behind the voices that truly matter; the people and their public institutions. It is critical that those voices not be silenced forever. The promise of the #fediverse is the promise of a better way forward: free from ads and manipulative algorithms, a place built by and for people like you, where #SocialSovereignty is a right and not a privilege.”

In this thread, we asked folks to crowdsource a list of resources so you can find your local representative. Find them, contact them, and tell them this: if you care about a free and just future, and if you care about #DigitalSovereignty, you must leave X and join the fediverse.

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warandpeas ("War and Peas 🧿") wrote:

This year, skip the generic. Seek out the unique, the handmade, the weird and wonderful. Buy a comic book, a print, a piece of art that speaks to you. Give something with soul.

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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

software developer discovering code optimization again because RAM costs more than ever before. 😅

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janeadams@datavis.social ("Jane") wrote:

The static electricity from the cold weather on our couch has turned #Greg into a science experiment 🤣⚡️⚡️⚡️