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

Is there any reason to celebrate the end of this godawful year? Will 2026 be any better?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/31/im-ready-for-2025-to-end/

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

What a year it's been. This post includes my usual "things I enjoyed this year" list, but it's also an autobiographical look back at a wild ride of a year in my personal life.

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/2025

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Happy new year !

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

A foggy respite: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/a-foggy-respite/

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

This my Threads Post of the Year of 2025, and it's a pretty good one if you ask me, and still true!

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jscalzi/post/DRCqbvQAK6t

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I'm pretty sure both Lilac by #Katatonia and Restless Boy by #PainOfSalvation are using a sample of a floppy disk drive and I find that interesting. It is a pleasant sound. Let me know if I'm mistaken...

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

such a pollyanna @CARROT

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

In the second she explains why didn't use a tablet or iPad to draw the graphic novel

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YT7dS%5FIqsus

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

I uploaded recently a couple of shorts-style videos where Brynhildur Jenný describes the approach she took to drawing the graphic novel "The Cat and I" (Kötturinn og ég). In Icelandic but with English subtitles.

The first is on the tools and styles

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vrUX-AvRDGc

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

These are probably the spookiest from the foggy walk the other day #photos #iceland #hveragerði #blackandwhite

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

Because I tend to underuse colour. #photos #iceland #hveragerði

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

These photos give you a little bit of a sense of how thick the fog was here the other day. #photos #iceland #hveragerði #blackandwhite

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

this piece nicely illuminates what will become a much-studied area in grad psych programs. as is true of so much about humanoids, the emerging patterns are complex & overdetermined & not what most folks (including me) would have expected/predicted .

people are wonderful, and IMHO it is better to observe new interactional systems & patterns than to pontificate predictions of absolute good or evil.

#AIBoyfriend

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000743300165

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

So, because editing and rewriting is where the magic happens, I decided to rework yesterday's "signs in fog" photos. Made the colours a little bit less natural and more contrasty (still more natural than the average phone's defaults) #photos #iceland #hveragerði #iceland

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Happy NY from NZ!

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

“Days Gone By”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/days-gone-by/

> I’m not sure I have the stamina right now to revisit the horrors of 2025 in detail

Hard same.

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

We bid adieu to 2025 with a post detailing how files are stored by Debusine.

Read about how abstractions for low-level file storage and object collections in Debusine allows storage to be scalable beyond a single filesystem and be highly available. It also goes into detail about how data duplication is minimized using content-addressed storage.

Learn more at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-file-storage/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

#debusine #freexian #contentaddressable

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

2025 gave us new TUIs, new friends and a lot of lore to tell for years 🌆

I wrote a **blog post** about my year: https://blog.orhun.dev/2025-wrapped

Thank you so much to everyone who stuck around.
See you in 2026! 🚀🐀🌕

#blogpost #opensource #rustlang #ratatui #2025wrapped

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
noondlyt@hellions.cloud ("LAUREN") wrote:

I just realized why it wasn't called the iWatch

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

The problem with the world wide web is there are far too many markets, and far too few communities. Markets have monopolized our time and have turned our attention into wealthy empires. It's not because platforms were built on the wrong protocol.

We don't beat the techno-oligarchs with a decentralized system. The World Wide Web *is a decentralized system*.

We beat them by building more communities (and rebranding the ones we have that work).

More tomorrow(?) 😴

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

I know there are tech people who are job hunting, and this popped up for the county north of Seattle.
http://bit.ly/SWSCADAAdmin

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

"The homegrowns are next"
- Donald Trump, convicted rapist

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• video: 0837886a27935e13.mp4

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

U.S. measles cases reach highest level in over 30 years: CDC (Julianna Bragg/Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2025/12/30/us-texas-measles-cases-cdc-vaccine-rfk-jr
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p76#a251230p76

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

Since markets need value to extract, they need a governing system to ensure that the right kinds of content is discovered.

This is the algorithm's role. Algorithms are the invisible hands of the market.

Algorithms influence the way people create content and frames social media as a way to make money. Every post is a sales pitch. Attention is currency. These platforms are quit literally open air markets, not communities.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

There is no such thing as "sex with underaged girl", CNBC. The words you're looking for are MATT GAETZ RAPED A CHILD.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Track 13 - Watch Your Step, Grand Central Terminal, NYC, 2013.

All the pixels, off peak tickets accepted, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/10101066135

#photography

Boosted by jwz:
praxeology@post.lurk.org ("Hart of the Wud") wrote:

Imagine that it's 1925 and I am a clever, experienced mechanical engineer. I look around at the "tech" world of the time and notice some disturbing things:

- the rising power of literally fascist CEOs like Henry Ford
- What began as an inefficient, quirky novelty toy for rich people, the automobile, has become "normal" and started to dominate public space
- rising levels of fossil pollution
- the rising monopoly power of Oil companies
- dangerous levels of stock-market speculation
- brutal exploitation of people and environmental destruction in mining and rubber producing (mostly colonial) regions
- the use of debt to get less wealthy consumers to buy cars
- scores of innocent pedestrians injured or killed by automobiles
- urban planning that increasingly favors more expensive cars over other users of the streets
- declining sense of importance of shared forms of transportation like trolleys and trains

As an engineer, I look at all those rising issues and then I say:

"What we need is an Open Source Model-T Ford with some slightly better safety features."

In retrospect, that would seem like a pretty inadequate response.

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

Today in History: First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940

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

[BEGIN TODAY IN HISTORY RUN]

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

I really wish everyone would stop making fun of the people they don't like based on their physical appearance.

We really need to collectively grow up from this high-school bully mindset.

When you use appearance instead of ideas and behaviors to criticize someone, even someone deserving mockery, you are also shooting at everyone who might look like them, even the ones that might be incredibly good people.

There is more than enough content to talk against when it comes to the tyrants that currently surround us. Talk against their ideas, their words, and their actions. Be relentless for that. But their physical appearance is irrelevant to their moral deficiencies.

Mock their words, but not their looks.