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

I did another online article thingie where I use highly professional tech terms like "thingie".

https://overengineer.dev/blog/2025/12/10/boring-webthings/

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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

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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

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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

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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


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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!

Title: The street tom waits grew up on. Image: a shabby, broken down old timey American street. Caption: Buildings (left to right): vern's all-nite pizza 'n' tattoo, accordion players' graveyard, abandoned clown-shoe factory, divorced salesmen's polka club, tomb of the unknown cabbie, bootleg ice-cream warehouse, saint frank's hobo orphanage, illegal umbrella incinerator.

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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

A siamese a cat is trying to reach a christmas tree from a cupboard

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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

A photo of “Fascism Wrapped” signs posted on the wall outside of a subway station in New York City.
A photo of “Fascism Wrapped” signs posted along a street in New York City.
A photo of people looking at “Fascism Wrapped” signs posted along a street in New York City.
A photo of “Fascism Wrapped” signs posted on a street in New York City.

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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. :)

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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 !

5 stickers arranged on a black surface: A glittery “neato” logo, a purple recatangle that says, “URL Town web directory,” a smiling cartoon pigeon with flapping wings, a purple and yellow logo for “Ruminate - fuego podcast,” a glow in the dark smiling ghost.

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

Invite codes for https://message.casa

┌────────────────────────┐
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├────────────────────────┤
│ married-tablet-8567    │
│ tremor-hatless-6101    │
│ chest-referee-8773     │
│ deluge-boondocks-8384  │
│ bucked-envoy-3177      │
│ tricycle-boastful-3903 │
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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

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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

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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

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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

Screenshot of a series of search input updated to make them look like all those AI websites Update your search input for the Al era Take your old, dated input Screenshot of a basic input with a search icon, search placeholder and Search button Make it monobloc Same thing but with the button inside the input Round everything, it's 2025 Same thing but rounded Center that text Placeholder centered and a small horizontal separator between icon and input Change the vocabulary and use an abstract random shape for the icon Placeholder is now "Find anything", button is "Ask" and the search icon is now a random shape Add the Al Glow™ Same thing but with a gradient glow around the input and as the background of the button

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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

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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

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

¡Message.casa también está disponible en español!

https://message.casa/es es un servicio gratuito de correo electrónico y mensajería instantánea centrado en la privacidad, basado en los principios de la smolweb: ligero, intencional y respetuoso con tu espacio digital.

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

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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...
https://jwz.org/b/yk0Q

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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

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

A cartoon illustration showing a witch dressed as Santa Claus holding a mug and standing next to a black cat dressed as a reindeer and the Grim Reaper decorated with Christmas lights, with a decorated Christmas tree in the background. The text reads "Give Art. Not Stuff."
A cartoon showing a small orange bird or creature perched on top of a Christmas tree with neutral expression. The tree has a simple face drawn on it. Text above reads: "Christmas is the season of stuff: cheap, forgettable things churned out in mass-production and destined for landfills. But what if, instead, we gave something that actually matters?"
The same Christmas tree character from the previous image, now shown with an angry expression and a speech bubble saying "He shat on my head again, didn't he?" The small orange bird flies away. Text reads: "Art isn't mass-produced. It doesn't come from Amazon or big-box stores. It comes from real people: artists who pour their hearts into what they create, who stay up late perfecting their craft. When you buy art, you're not just buying a thing. You're supporting someone's passion, not funding some soulless billionaire who can't even appreciate a good bowl of soup."
A cartoon showing a black cat sitting on top of a robot character, getting hit in the face with a snowball thrown by a dog in the distance. The word "BOOOF" appears in stylized text near the impact. A crescent moon is visible in the upper left corner. Text above reads: "And not only that. People who are getting art as presents, are scientifically proven 300% more happy with the gift!"

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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

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

A screenshot of social media post from user @gizmobly from X/Twitter that reads as: "If RAM becomes so rare / expensive that software enshittification and the impending crash of the industry reverses due to developers needing to learn about resource constraints and quality then I will start believing in a god"