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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
sylvia_ritter ("Sylvia Ritter") wrote:

Silent Sunday 🌿

#art #speedpaint #mastoart #fediart #nature #fantasy #krita #silentsunday

A lush forest scenery with waterfalls surrounding the center of attention. Seeming dissimilar characters are meeting each other for the first time? A friendly old stone lady covered with fancy moss, sitting comfortably, holding a stick in one arm and a tiny person in an orange raincoat in the other. Both look curious at each other. While intrigued by these two creatures and what they are talking about, we will leave them be and let them chat about their marvelous adventures. Maybe they will look up and greet us soon. This is such a peaceful place *sigh. https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Speedpainting-29012023-947165935

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
brandkopf@mastodon.art ("sommerlich.art") wrote:

#sketchbook drop from last weeks commute.

#art #mastoart #pencil #fromimagination

Pencil drawing of a wildcat sitting on a riverbank, looking up from drinking.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:

This Wednesday is the Folk Tech Connection Call:

https://luma.com/to7dxjhz

​> Folk Tech is a movement among people who want to develop apps for their community without depending on big tech companies and a community of developers making decentralized, p2p, open source, open standard-based tech

Featuring an interview with @mauve!

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
denmanrooke@social.coop ("Denman Rooke") wrote:

New D&D art! Check it out!

Chapter 5: Magic of Faerûn opener illustration created for Dungeon & Dragon's Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn player expansion.
AD: Emi Tanji

The seventh Blackstaff of Waterdeep, Vajra Safahr is seen here awakening The Hawkman, one of the might walking statues of Waterdeep.

https://www.rucach.com/project/magic-of-faerun/

#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #FantasyArt

The seventh Blackstaff of Waterdeep, Vajra Safahr is seen here awakening The Hawkman, one of the might walking statues of Waterdeep.

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

this is fascinating. https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/new-ways-to-corrupt-llms

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

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

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

Add:

- I'm not a person of color.

(Honestly surprised this and the one above this took so long)

Whatever you two are talking about, I'll only listen from the mouth of a POC, and I'll only join a conversation on the topic if provided a link to the mentioned post, else l'il just consider it as "virtue baiting from self-designated allies" (and so far, the bait has worked, congrats).

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

Add:

- I like people of color but they inflict harm on me

@fromjason Id like to have more PoC friends in the fedi, but not all of them want to be my friend, because of what I represent to them. Thats all. 分1 亡く fromjason.xyz contribution. ←1 • 4m alrighty. Thank you for your 3• 1m @fromjason Thanks for helping me with a decision to mute you forever.

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
UndisScot@mastodon.scot ("Undiscovered Scotland") wrote:

Engineering at its most magnificent. The unique and uniquely beautiful Falkirk Wheel rotary boat lift opened in 2002. It fulfils a role originally accomplished by a flight of 11 locks when the Union Canal opened in 1822. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/falkirk/falkirkwheel/index.html

#Scotland #Falkirk

The Falkirk Wheel rotary boat lift. The image shows the Falkirk Wheel from a corner angle with the rotary element halfway through its cycle in the centre of the frame and the support for the fixed end of the canal on the right, with the lower pool bottom left. The visitor centre is in the background. The scene is in sunlight.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
adrian@discuss.systems ("Adrian Sampson") wrote:

☕️ For the sixth time (!), we’re running our little ASPLOS workshop on hardware design languages/compilers/etc. Papers are just two pages! So easy! Please submit! #latte26 https://capra.cs.cornell.edu/latte26/

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

He looks like a creep, and he thinks like one, too.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/15/if-were-going-to-hang-any-member-of-the-loser-generation-start-with/

Joe Lonsdale

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
icm@mastodon.sdf.org ("ICM") wrote:

Artist and former Thinking Machines Product Designer Tamiko Thiel visited https://icm.museum to see the new Large Systems gallery which features the Connection Machine. Tamiko demonstrates the CM-2's "friend height" a suggestion that Danny Hillis wanted to realize.

#supercomputing #hpc #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

Tamiko demonstrates the CM-2's Friend Height
Tamiko looking into the machine
Putting together connection machines

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Definitely for a US audience of people who may have barely heard the term "cooperative", but it is nice to see positive examples of cooperatives being shown (and seeing people work in solidarity with each other to start one). More Perfect Union talks about cooperatives in Italy's Emilia-Romagna administrative region:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQMZR64G%5FeM

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
kzodasnowman@spore.social ("K-ZO da Snowman") wrote:

#Seattle is looking for #Comics artists in #Oregon and #WashingtonState to do stories about transit! $54,000 each!!!

A cohort of six artists will be commissioned to create two original short-form graphic novels each, illustrating stories from communities along Metro’s twelve existing and planned RapidRide bus lines (A–K and R).

https://www.4culture.org/grants/moving-stories/

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

Næstsíðasta bókin í þessu myndbandi hjá Emblu 🙂

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRFsM9WE/

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Glastomichelle@c.im wrote:

I don't think I have ever seen such an intense flash of colour appear so quickly and disappear again as quickly. I really didn't see it coming as it was raining and grey on my walk so this was the best I could get. Photo taken this morning at the base of Glastonbury Tor.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CatsOfYore ("Cats of Yore") wrote:

Just ten days until Christmas! I hope you will consider donating to my holiday fundraiser for our local animal shelter if you can? 🥰 https://givebutter.com/n5l31M

Photo of my beautiful fluffy brown tuxedo tabby Fergus sitting on a yellow chair surrounded by red and white christmas lights.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
coreysnipes@hachyderm.io ("Corey Snipes 🕯️❄️") wrote:

If any #FreeSoftwareAdvent people are daily-driving a FOSS SSO auth solution they like, I'd appreciate hearing about it. (e.g., LDAP, but whatever is working for you). Endpoints are all linux, in my case.

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

A friendly reminder that the #Fediverse is run by volenteers, if you like to support the server you are on check in with your admin or check the /about page that could have some more info❤️

If you would like to support the services I host you can do so via:

https://paypal.me/stuxOS
https://patreon.com/mstdn
https://ko-fi.com/mstdn
https://bunq.me/stuxhost
https://stux.me/donate
https://liberapay.com/mstdn

It means the world :fediverse: :blobcathearts:

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

Add: I'm acting morally superior to white supremacy

"Oh no, someone told me I'm part of the issue too, but I feel moral superior and it can't be an issue that beside being systemic to the fediverse is also an issue I take part in creating and so I make this really clever pun to distract from it" - you

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Boosted by jwz:
parismarx@mastodon.online ("Paris Marx") wrote:

🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨

Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!

Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.

🗳️ Cast your ballot: https://twsu.forms.app/worst-person-tech-2025-round-one

Bracket showing the 32 names in the Worst Person in Tech 2025

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jwz wrote:

Roomba doom.

Let's have a slow clap for the corporate tools who still have to show up at work and try to spin their bankruptcy fire-sale as Line Goes Up:

"Today's announcement marks a pivotal milestone in securing iRobot's long-term future," said Gary Cohen, iRobot's CEO. "The transaction will strengthen our financial position and will help deliver continuity for our consumers, customers and partners."

I guess their pivot to being an arms dealer didn't work out, huh.

https://jwz.org/b/yk0f

Screenshot

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

Add to the list, dunk toot:

- I'm a tool of fascism
- I must first seek to understand

Fun fact: almost nothing is objective. If you cannot provide sources and hard data to your "objective" claims, they are just your opinions. Even when you do, the points that you try to make with those claims are still your subjective opinions and views. Seek first to understand, then to be understood. If you don't, you become a tool of facism. --- A re: race, Fedi I can't express how gross it is to use the term "whitewash" and weaponize social justice langue in an attempt to minimize what is an extremely valid critique and objectionably correct observation that the Fediverse is overwhelmingly white.

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

Slightly longer thoughts on the passing of Rob Reiner, and what a remarkable storyteller he turned out to be.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/15/rob-reiner-rip/

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
greengaybles@sunny.garden ("Daisy 🪺🔪📚") wrote:

@fromjason The responses you've gotten to these posts are wild, and terrible, and also utterly unsurprising. I legitimately don't understand what the resistance is to someone saying this place has a racism problem, unless you feel like you're part of that problem and don't like being called out. Loving Mastodon and acknowledging its many faults don't need to be mutually exclusive things.

It almost seems like these users don't want people of color to be here, the way they're reacting to the suggestion that there could be more work to do to make it welcoming for them. But of course I'm sure that's not the case since we're all good white people here.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
welshpixie@mastodon.art ("Calligrafae") wrote:

@fromjason You: 'there are too many white people on fedi and that's not a representation of the real world'

them: 'good, the real world is messy'

?? Sounds a lot like 'if there were more non-white people here it would be messy and I don't want to see that so let's keep it how it is

Do people hear themselves

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
inquiline@assemblag.es ("tools for commensality 🧿") wrote:

@fromjason

you could shorthand this with #whitestodon, HT @blogdiva for that coinage a couple or few years back

(thanks for these posts)

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Boosted by jwz:
spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie ("Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives") wrote:

Back in 2005 I tried to legitimately put up this billboard. When The Sun found out they contacted the billboard owner & got it cancelled. And then they made sure no one would ever see my sick propaganda by printing it full colour and half a page of a national newspaper

I eventually put it up a few months later.

Sun newspaper clipping. Headline: The Scottish Sun Saves Santa. ART STUDENT'S 'GRINCH BLITZ GETS THE CHOP' With a picture of what the billboard would look like, a fake santa and some kids next to the text: "Santa Gives More to Rich Kids Than Poor Kids" and a picture of me as a hairy art student down the bottom corner Sun newspaper clipping. Headline: The Scottish Sun Saves Santa. ART STUDENT'S 'GRINCH BLITZ GETS THE CHOP' With a picture of what the billboard would look like, a fake santa and some kids next to the text: "Santa Gives More to Rich Kids Than Poor Kids" and a picture of me as a hairy art student down the bottom corner
Billboard in a Glasgow street: SANTA GIVES MORE TO RICH KIDS THAN POOR KIDS. In the foreground a parent and child cycle past on a tandem cycle

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

Oh, I see, yet another reminder today that our president is a pig.

This is, alas, an evergreen post.