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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

There are 109 peach #Plushtodon's left, 65 blue ones; winter and summer mugs are sold out; 8 cherry blossoms mugs and 89 autumn mugs left; 14 sticker sheets left (but I ordered more); and finally 131 logo enamel pins that just arrived yesterday. #Merchtodon

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Mostly I was only using it for the ability to use variables in media queries, which CSS still hasn't really replicated. But other than that, and a few loops here and there (which are easy enough to hard-code), it's just gotten to the point where there's no real benefit over vanilla CSS, but lots more overhead.

It does add some kbs, since I'm no longer smooshing everything into a minified file, but not enough to be concerned about. Might play with optimizing through other means anyway.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

2025 may just (barely) be the year that I (finally) remove Sass from my website.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
cssbasics@hachyderm.io ("CSS Basics") wrote:

Drawing Triangles with #CSS Using Borders: "A long time ago, I wrote an article about triangles in CSS, and explained why the common border-based approach was far from ideal and should generally be avoided... Until now." https://alvaromontoro.com/blog/68086/drawing-triangles-with-css-using-borders-an-exception

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
valkyrie@wandering.shop wrote:

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

Maybe I make a WWWW (World Wide Web Wrapped) 2025

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
Herne@corteximplant.net ("Problem Fox") wrote:

My #smolweb adventures continue. Adding to my initial Gemini Capsule hosted by the inspirational @adele (who introduced me to the smolweb, and #permacomputing )and my Gemini #selfhosting experiment there is now a #Gopher hole.

gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/problemfox/

#alwaysLearning #agingCyberpunk

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

UPDATE: Crush continues unabated

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jscalzi/post/DRn5%5Fe3DCvd

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

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

The conflicting beliefs that 1. Big tech controls what we see, and is using that control for it's benefit, and 2. This is true for everyone but me, for I have trained my algorithm to show me the truth.

🫠

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
edavies@functional.cafe ("Ed Davies") wrote:

The EU project “shaping Europe's digital future” (https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en) can be followed on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube and X. Well, there's your fucking problem, isn't it?

h/t https://mstdn.social/@LouisK100/115695011536118647

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

for no particular reason, here is a colorful little svg file that just so happens to resemble the progress pride flag colors. 😇

best used as inline-svg on your favorite website, where you can use CSS etc to make it fit whatever you want to make it fit to. the footer of my website is a fun example, but your imagination is better than mine.

also, oklch()/lch() colorspace is a super easy chat code to consistent colors. play around with the second value of the colors, the chroma value, to make colors more or less saturated, depending on what you want. as long as you use the same values everywhere (well, except for white and black..), it should look perfectly consistent.

be careful when using this, though. from experience, I can tell you that you might get some emails from angry people. shocking, I know.

:progresspride:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GreenFire@mstdn.social ("Kevin Leecaster") wrote:

The assassination of President Garfield because of his attempt to end the patronage system that was tearing the USA apart is something that U.S. history teachers should have been focused more on in my opinion.

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

More spiders move into the residential complex in the lab.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/10/busy-morning-in-the-lab/

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

(PS: If you think this will be a prime opportunity to dump on Swift in these comments, you will experience "Hide for Everyone" at the least, but probably just a block, save us both the time, thanks)

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Who are you going to believe, the things that Taylor Swift has actually said in interviews and lyrics, or a bunch of random bots who feed your need for schadenfreude about the most famous woman on the planet

(The Life of a Showgirl back at number one on Billboard's album chart for a ninth week, incidentally)

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/dec/10/online-attack-taylor-swift-promoted-nazi-ideas-research

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

Everything Trump does is a metaphor. He knows only how to destroy, not to build.

Destroy the East Wing with no new design or blueprint.
Destroy US healthcare without having a replacement.
Destroy the US economy without having a fix.
Destroy FEMA with no plan for emergency response.
Destroy environmental regulations without any new protections.

https://www.axios.com/2025/12/10/white-house-ballroom-construction-east-wing-site-photos

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

So here is the deal.

Cold air will be arriving through next Wednesday and then a nice warm up just before Christmas.

Where is this warm air currently hanging out? The Western and South Western part of the United States and eventually it will break free and share it's love with the rest of us.

Stayed tuned.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Fulfilling expectations of a “hawkish cut,” the US central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee lowers its key overnight borrowing rate by a quarter percentage point, putting it in a range between 3.5%-3.75%. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/10/fed-interest-rate-decision-december-2025-.html

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

ℹ️ Note: Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is currently experiencing international outages; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #TwitterDown

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:

If the “founding fathers” began the nation, the grifting, mediocre sons will end the nation.

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

okay, I *think* storyteller is finally ready for some public testing...

no tracking, no charges (donationware), no data retention nor give-away... just story/play/haiku ideas to entertain kids.

this tool should always turn out child-safe ideas and sketches at a grade five reading comprehension level.

some engineer friends were grousing about running out of ideas for stories for their grandkids/nieces/nephews, thus:

https://arghstudios.com/

select "Accounts" to set up a free account

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

Mandrake, do you know why I only issue memos in impact bold, and only in a 48 point font?

It's the diversities, Mandrake. The wokes. Sapping our masculine serifs and fluoridating our precious bodily fluids.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DrOinFL@mstdn.party ("OhSnap!Dragon") wrote:

In a world full of Chuck Berrys, be a Little Richard.

Boosted by jwz:
kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("37 Dolls For Your Popehat") wrote:

Before someone told me it was Alina Habba who said it, I just assumed “you can take the girl out of New Jersey but you cannot take New Jersey out of the girl” was from a Valtrex commercial

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

If you watch Hank Green's new video on AI and water consumption, you'll see why Effective Altruist Andy Masley thinks Hank did a good job.

If Hank Green isn't being paid by big tech, he sure is doing a lot of free labor for them lately.

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

I had no idea that Calibri was a DEIA font.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/10/good-to-know-the-administration-has-its-priorities-straight/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

The Nazis, in 1941, banned the Fraktur font because it was “too Jewish.” https://alphahistory.com/pastpeculiar/1941-nazis-ban-jewish-fonts/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#Mastodon mentioned 🎉 🍾

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5nE

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

This piece by @WeirdWriter is *really* good. Set aside 30 minutes and dive in when you can.

LLM ubiquity is ushering us into a sort of warped inverse renaissance, to the detriment of those of us who still value real words written by real people.

https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/