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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
br00t4c wrote:

Josh Hawley tries to distance himself from GOP health care mess

#JoshHawley #HumanCost #CNN #Republicans #RepublicanParty

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/12/9/2357687/-Josh-Hawley-tries-to-distance-himself-from-GOP-health-care-mess

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

NASHVILLE JUDGES request heightened security from @GovBillLee after Rep Andy Ogles posts their pics with the phrase “we are at war” A sitting congressman putting judges in danger. Pinocchiogles is going get people hurt. A disgrace to the office. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

At least six executives from top Indian arms makers, including Adani Defense and Bharat Forge, attended rare meetings in Russia this year to discuss potential joint ventures, sources said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/10/asia-pacific/india-arms-makers-russia/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #asiapacific #india #russia #russiaukrainewar #defense

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

"Idealism doesn’t mean cheerleading for politicians. It means believing democracy is still worth the work — and covering it that way." 👏👏👏 https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-political-journalism-that-matters-most-will-be-built-from-the-ground-up/

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

ick

https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou/115692949293515367

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kcarruthers@infosec.exchange wrote:

And here’s the heritage foundation’s follow up to project 2025 for 2026 #USpol

https://www.heritage.org/priorities

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/

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)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Step Right Up!

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

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

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld") wrote:

Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!

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

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

Boosted by jwz:
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.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
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:

Invite codes for https://message.casa

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Boosted by jwz:
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/

Boosted by jwz:
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

Boosted by jwz:
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