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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Scary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!") wrote:

I'm starting to think the far right can't govern.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

When did you last read a book about history?

#EvanPoll #poll

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tacocrepe@mastodon.gamedev.place ("tacocrepe🍀") wrote:

Calling all office nerds 😎 the Office Mimics are now available (for free) in my Kofi! These are a set of .ico files to customize your folder/program icons with!

https://www.ko-fi.com/s/3683ca94cb

These were super fun to make, hope you have fun customizing your desktop using these!

#pixelart #mimic

Attachments:

• gifv: A set of Office Icons, and their mimic variants. The title text at the top left says "Office Mimics". The tagline right below the title says "A free set of .ico files." This is animated to switch between the normal and mimic variants of each icon.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Ulfh3dnar wrote:

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte:

"Russia has brought war back to Europe, and we must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured."

#NATO #MarkRutte #Ukraine️ #UkraineRussiaWar #War #Russia

Attachments:

• video: 681e79868821b01a.mp4

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

The United States now has militarized zones within CONUS, nilly willy, on the regular (...), as if we were some shithole third world country in the throes of a civil war.

ICE/CBP is a fully fledged INVASION PARAMILITARY FORCE, stomping on the Constitution and every civil right ever warranted by the rule of Law in the US.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/12/10/trump-administration-adds-militarized-zone-in-california-along-border/

#TurdReich #CBP #ICE #nazi #gestapo #tRump #GOP #MAGAts #USPol

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

in just a year 👍

https://hachyderm.io/@BenjaminHCCarr/115701208915726437

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

From 2025, every Finnish conscript will be trained to fly drones, drop bombs, and intercept enemy UAVs.

“We’re acting in time,” says Army Chief Välimäki. No drone corps — these skills are going into all units.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/11/finland-makes-drone-training-compulsory-for-all-new-soldiers/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
artelse ("Arthur Elsenaar") wrote:

Having invested in some really good pliers for electronic work, I was shocked the tip snapped off while cutting the leg of a defect triac. I sent an email to the Lindström company and got a free replacement for the 8145 model. They also asked for the return of the broken one for quality inspection. Great #customer #service #warranty!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kristiedegaris@mastodon.scot ("Kristie") wrote:

A GENTLE PSA

Getting sick doesn’t do what you might think it does.

Viruses can only create new variants when they spread. More infections = more replication = more mutations = more chances for a fitter, more evasive strain to appear.

Very few viruses give lifelong immunity. Most immunity to viruses fades, and with high levels of transmission, new variants appear often. That’s why we keep getting sick.

Getting sick doesn’t fix the problem. It drives it.

https://xkcd.com/2557/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gutenberg_org ("Project Gutenberg") wrote:

In Praise of E. H. Shepard’s Illustrations

What makes Pooh Pooh? The answer lies not only in author A.A. Milne’s prose, but also in the quiet genius of E. H. Shepard’s original illustrations. With Shepard’s work now in the public domain, it’s the perfect opportunity to revisit how these deceptively simple drawings became cultural touchstones.

by Sterling Dudley

https://blog.archive.org/2025/12/10/e-h-shepards-illustrations/

At PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098

#books #literature

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
moira@mastodon.murkworks.net ("Solarbird :flag_cascadia:") wrote:

Y'know, if you haven't read this fascist United States National Security Strategy that the Trump/Vance MAGA state department put out, you really should. It's short, as such things go.

I mean, they're literally and in words not just reviving but extending the Monroe Doctrine to commercial activities and "control" and/or "ownership of key assets." What's happening in Venezuela is absolutely an extension of Section II, subsection 2, paragraph 2, bullet point 1.

This document is an imperialist nightmare.

It's also chock-full of culture war shit. But naturally, the Project 2025 crowd would consider "traditional families" to be a _matter of national security_.

#fascism #uspol #uspolitics #politics #GunboatDiplomacy

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

"Welcome to the world of React Forever" https://johan.hal.se/wrote/2025/12/11/retrofuture/

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

SentinelLabs' Dakota Cary linked Yu Yang and Qiu Daibing, two alleged members of the Chinese state hacking group, to participants of the 2012 Cisco Networking Academy Cup.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/11/salt%5Ftyphoon%5Fcisco%5Ftraining/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
malicethegray@cyberpunk.lol wrote:

@scien

you got this part right tho

The kind of thing you're talking about requires significant build up politically

so let's start building it up

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

U.S. President Donald Trump is targeting nonwhite immigrants to America in renewed xenophobic rants using a phrase that had sparked an outcry during his first term. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/11/world/politics/trump-immigrant-countries-rant/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #worldnews #politics #donaldtrump #immigration #unitedstates

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

:nkoWave: Hello and a good meowing everyone! :blobcatsnuggle: :blobcathearts: Have a most wonderful day and stay safe! 😸♥️

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

Burna junta aircraft dropped two 500-pound bombs on Mrauk-U General Hospital, resulting in dozens of casualties. https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/hospital-massacre-in-mrauk-u-junta-airstrike-kills-33-injures-76.html

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Jes@labyrinth.zone ("Jes - Hedgehog Edition ") wrote:

tbh people shit on devices that take AA or AAA batteries but I think they're wrong. use rechargeables, you get both replaceable batteries and rechargeable ones. if the battery life sucks then Phillips has lithium rechargeable.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

This is a great analysis of why conservatives feel persecuted for others simply existing or being acknowledged.

It’s fear their identity and choices will stop being mainstream or normal. That’s why they get upset at Happy Holidays (acknowledging other religious celebrations exist) versus Merry Christmas.

Attachments:

• video: 5821dd7f7694b714.mp4

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
rail@flufftech.net ("rail 🦊") wrote:

Pilgrimage has been done

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

@codinghorror "I write alt text" along with "Be gay, federate" are on my shortlist for next designs (along with "My friends are not for sale" for a more serious one). I'll see what I can do about making it a t-shirt!

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

All jokes aside I do really like these dudes. Alex recently made it clear that all this AI shit was big tech trying to get their AI licenses which yay! And for Adam, for some reason I had always thought his politics were lame but I was very wrong. This dude is based. Love them both

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

No hate to people who love Hank Green, I was one of them for a long while and I know that the internet loves a good white guy nerd.

But might I offer two white nerds—Adam Conover and Alex Falcone—for one Hank Green?

You get all the cool factoids, minus the lazy centrist sensibilities and big tech shilling. And hey, Adam even platforms women and POCs in tech sometimes.

#Nerds #HankGreen

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

AFAICT this is the context for the Disney-OpenAI deal:

Disney has been cannibalising its legacy media businesses—linear TV and media licensing—to build up streaming, crushing margins and profitability. It did well on box office but that won't offset other decline

The legacy businesses are going to be dragging down the stock price, so they need a good story to prop it up, and "we're a part of the AI future" sounds better to the market than "we're going to crush AI with lawsuits" 🤷🏻‍♂️

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rust 1.92.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀

This version adds RwLockWriteGuard::downgrade(), adds Location::file_as_c_str(), improves diagnostic and validation for various attributes, no longer warns for unused Result<(), Infallible>, and more!

Check out the announcement: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/11/Rust-1.92.0/

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

Invite codes for https://message.casa

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this list is updated frequently

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
harold ("Harold Jarche") wrote:

"The entire business model of silicon valley is surveillance." —Carol Cadwalladr

https://www.ted.com/talks/carole%5Fcadwalladr%5Fthis%5Fis%5Fwhat%5Fa%5Fdigital%5Fcoup%5Flooks%5Flike

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
maffsie@queer.party ("your purple friend") wrote:

friends, i’m sorry, but queer.party will, after eight and a half years, shut down on the 15th of December, 2025.

for more information, please see the announcement posted on the home timeline - this announcement also includes links to, and a list of, other instances that have offered invites or opened registrations to queer.party’s users.

a full timeline of the shutdown is posted on SourceHut, where queer.party's
source code is hosted: https://paste.sr.ht/~maff/67f89a7d69279ee04ea7e352056149f86ac08ec4

Thank you for being here. It’s been lovely.

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

I'm not trying to be obtuse, I get it. But think of it this way—a group of people are being targeted and hunted, whose ancestors have experienced genocide at the hands of this country already. And we're all like, hey you know what this reminds me of? Some other country's genocide.

Americans have plenty of historical context to explain what's happening now and we should lean on that history more instead of outsourcing the imagery. Instead of distancing ourselves from our domestic atrocities.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115616738840241228

Myndasagan sem ég gaf út er á jólatilboði í Pennanum fram á mánudag, held ég

„Virkilega vel skrifuð, skemmtileg og falleg saga. Kötturinn minn, Basil, hefði gjarnan viljað kynnast Kisu.“

— Bragi Ólafsson

https://www.penninn.is/is/book/kotturinn-og-eg

#myndasaga #jólabókaflóð #bækur