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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

The presents were very different that year. #grickledoodle #thething #johncarpenter #horror #holidays #santa #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
mhoye wrote:

Bicycles for your mind are great and important but libraries are public transit for your mind and we need them too.

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

I had a similar problem with this winter scene from Parc Jarry. I LOVED the black and white version, personally, but most people I tested it on preferred the colour version, which I didn’t like. So I came up with a third version that accomplished much of the same as the black and white, but in colour. #montreal #photos #photography 5/6

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

In this case, I strongly prefer the monochrome version and found initial the colour versions using any of Fuji’s profiles to be substantially worse. So, I sat down and did a bit of thinking and came up with the approach I used in the third version. #montreal #photos #photography 4/6

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

So, what is the “trick” that helped me enjoy the colour photos more? Turns out, one of the basic approaches to colour in photography and cinematography for decades has been to use fewer, more distinct colours in frame at a time, irrespective of the saturation. The best time to handle this is obviously during capture, but it’s also a useful kind for post-processing 6/6

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

The second set of examples pretty much have to be in colour, OTOH, as the colours do a lot of heavy lifting in conveying the story #montreal #photos #photography 3/6

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

The first example has to be in black and white, because the whole point of the colouring of many animals is to break up the shape and make them a bit harder to spot. A few of the photos I’ve been posting lately have been in black and white for similar reasons #montreal #photos #photography 2/6

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

One of the things I’m trying to figure out with my impromptu photography retrospective over the past few days is a better understanding of how I can deal with colour. I’ve been trying to figure out when colour is necessary, when it adds, and when it detracts, how best to use it. 1/6

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
SistaWendy@toot.cat ("Maura Hubbell") wrote:

I love a nerdy bumper sticker.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

In 2019 I decorated my christmas tree thusly to express my displeasure about the year.

I thought *2019* was a bad year for the world.

2019. 😆

Attachments:

• gifv: A Christmas tree, with flashing lights and light up letters spelling the word "fuck"

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

Obviously, this already made the rounds, but another example that brings me cheer. Perhaps UNIX V4 is not beloved exactly, but people care enough to preserve it. "UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again":

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/unix%5Fv4%5Ftape%5Fsuccessfully%5Frecovered/

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

Kristi, She-Wolf of the DHS, was sheltered by Weiss, the propagandist.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/23/put-bari-weiss-and-kristi-noem-in-cecot/

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

Highlights from last week:

- Fix caret never rendering following a newline
- Implement eviction in the HTTP cache using `quick_cache`
- Prescan byte stream to determine encoding before parsing document
- More progress on WebDriver and Web Crypto API

You can help support Servo, an independent web rendering engine, and the health of the web ecosystem by donating:

https://github.com/sponsors/servo
https://opencollective.com/servo

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
CazimodoCreative@universeodon.com ("Cazimodo Creative") wrote:

Here's the final Xmas custom crochet toy I made this year. This is the second toy I have made for this little girl, who is an extremely talented young artist. Her designs are very clever 😊

#Crochet #Crocheting #Toys #Toy #ToyMaking #FibreCraft #FibreArt @crochet@a.gup.pe

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

Many of the women involved are also openly queer and, even though some of them are in heterosexual relationships, (“not that there’s anything wrong with that”, as they said on Seinfeld), the series are clearly personally important to quite a few of the people involved in their production.

And they seem to be growing in ambition. North Star has taken over production of the epic Four Elements, a four series interconnected “shared universe” project set to start airing next year 3/n

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

There’s no way of knowing how it’ll pan out long term. It may stall in terms of quality as you could argue has happened with BL series, but I think in terms of overall industry and audience dynamics, there’s a good chance that we’ll see a number of interesting productions in the meantime. 4/fin

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115768373123932688

Given the structure and dynamics of most media industries, it was pretty likely that as soon as GL series (as in, centring queer women characters) became a viable TV subgenre, their quality was going to leap ahead of BL series (those that centre queer men), and I say that as a fan of BL series.

Basically, women generally have fewer opportunities in these industries and all of a sudden you have an entire genre where most positions require women. 1/n

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

So in only a couple of years after GAP had its breakout success, you got a number of women-led productions, many of them cast with industry veterans whose career opportunities in a male-led industry had dried up. And many of the leading GL production companies are founded and managed by women: Fabel Entertainment, Heart Pop Studio, North Star Entertainment, Mine Media, Motion Minds, Snur Entertainment and more were all founded or led by women 2/n

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
justthepod@tenforward.social ("How Much for Just the Podcast?") wrote:

Here Comes Jeffrey Combs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26H%5FxWocEss

This could not be more our jam.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

@owncast (self-hosted livestreaming platform that integrates with the fediverse) is looking really good right now. There's been a lot of progress since I first heard of it.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
c0debabe@masto.hackers.town ("c0debabe, PDA dev") wrote:

I went looking for embedded software design patterns and I found this book that's online for free.

Small Memory Software: Patterns for Systems With Limited Memory

https://smallmemory.charlesweir.com/book.html

#embedded #M5Stack #developer

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

Oh no. I had missed the news about the passing of Drew Struzan (and I did not know about his struggles with Alzheimer's). His art is always a source of delight and inspiration for me. Some of his amazing work can be seen here:

http://www.drewstruzan.com/illustrated/portfolio/index.html

The NYT's obituary:

https://archive.is/u0rK3

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
small_cypress@indieweb.social ("small cypress") wrote:

Another Archive.org miracle: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer streaming for freeeee

https://archive.org/details/rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-full-movie-1080-p-hd

#internetarchive #christmas #movies

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

Isn't it odd? The more Bill Clinton appears in the #EpsteinFiles, the more Hillary Clinton gets on camera to express contempt towards the youth.

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

@slightlyoff Yeah, I’ve spent much too much time trusting that people and organisations were, as they claimed, on the “my” side, while taking their reasoning for why they were acting the way they acted at face value

But it’s become impossible for me to deny that, as you put it, they were just cosplaying solidarity.

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

“Okazu » ClaireBell”

https://okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/22/clairebell/

> Made on a relative shoestring budget of 30-40 million baht (about $1 million US), it has set design, cinematography, and music and sound design comparable to those of “prestige TV” from services like Netflix, HBO Max, or Apple TV

ClaireBell is excellent TV. Between it, Burnout Syndrome, and Love Design, Thai productions seem to be levelling up

Boosted by jwz:
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

It's really the third one that keeps me up at night the absolute most. This level of inhuman cruelty is institutionalized in American culture so completely that *even in a report on human rights violations*, journalists still bake in the "and they didn't even deserve it" meme.

That is how this happened. That is how, if left unchecked, this will happen again. That is the core germ of the idea that is used to justify all manner of cruelties — the truly vile idea that some humans deserve it.

Boosted by jwz:
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

I finally watched the 60 Minutes video about CECOT, and I have three immediate thoughts:

• This is absolutely horrific, and it is being done to actual humans.
• The video goes out of its way over and over again to mitigate any critique of the Trump administration or its horrific policies. Why did Bari Weiss try to bury this?
• The video keeps stressing that most of the Trump administration's victims weren't gang members, but so fucking what? You shouldn't torture *anyone*.

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

For reasons I can't quite articulate at the moment, hearing stories of people working together to preserve beloved artifacts from their past never ceases to be a source of good feelings. "WE SAVED REBOOT":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L00jx-GH2w8

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
ediz@social.lol ("Ediz :prami_pride:") wrote:

I’ve been dreaming of this tattoo for months, I finally have the Prami tattoo. I’m so lucky to be in the omg.lol community, I love you so much guys, I’m glad to have you. :prami_contented:

@prami @adam