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

I’m a big fan of being kind to yourself. I made it part of my New Year’s resolution last year and it worked out pretty great. This year, I’m making it my one and only resolution. I’m doubling down in 2026. I’ll be so kind to myself that it’ll make me sick. Looking forward to it. Join me.

#HappyNewYear

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
GoodNewsGreyShoes@mastodon.art ("GoodNewsGreyShoes🔞") wrote:

@fromjason This particular description hit me rather hard, as it neatly captures an experience I've had trouble pinning down:

When I left Twitter, I remember trying to seek out the closest Twitter clone under the assumption it would be what I needed.

I tried a bunch, but the only one that stuck was Fedi, which I knew *wasn't* like Tw.

I truly had no idea what I was actually looking for, & could easily have missed it if I'd relied more on my assumptions than experiences.

Humbling.

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

And I think that desire lives in all of us. It just takes us being in the right mindset at the right moment.

It's like taking a sip of Coca-Cola only to find out it's orange juice. It's jarring. It's not that you don't like orange juice. It's just you were expecting something else. And when it didn't meet your expectations, you winced.

Or something like that lol

/🧵

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

It's funny, this account is like my second or third attempt at Mastodon. I realized that the first go-rounds I came here thinking this was just another microblogging platform. I enjoy participating in new things. But, my frame of reference was Twitter, so when Mastodon wasn't that, it didn't stick. It wasn't until I came back here looking for change that it clicked for me.

#CnM

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

I came to Mastodon for something different. Looking back, perhaps I didn't know what I was looking for, exactly. But I knew it was not more of the same. So the initial barriers to entry (choosing an instance, people and content discovery) were not too high for me.

#CnM

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

Aside: Just wanted to thank everyone for allowing me to share my thoughts in this thread. Everyone was supportive. Even when there were disagreements. That honestly surprised me. Lots of insight. I loved it.

I was nervous before writing this thread. This topic is so heated, so contentious, I thought I would be eaten alive. Lol. But I wasn't. This was nice. Thank you.

#CnM

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

Also, NetNewsWire lets you try to undo deleting a feed but seems to just return an error if you do, saying that the feed can't be added because it can't be found.

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115745770152711683

As a consequence of the situation I described in this blog post (most of the existing blogs in my feed reader turning to either "AI" boosterism, becoming outright bad writing, ignorant, or all of the above) I'm slowly going through my feed reader and unsubscribing from hundreds of blogs.

This is delayed by the fact that NetNewsWire has very quickly become incredibly buggy. Unsubscribing is incredibly laggy and often removes the WRONG feed for some reason.

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

This is how you focus with the terminal ⚡

🎧 **relax-player** — A lightweight ambient sound player TUI.

🌧️ Mix rain, thunder and campfire sounds with per-channel volume control.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/ebithril/relax-player

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #terminal #focus #productivity #ambient #opensource

Attachments:

• gifv: 2c6f3b895cf277be.mp4

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115800070779396832

About a dozen gambling ads in this lot. And, despite the fact that the ad has the same script as before, pointing to the same service, just with a different brand name, all of the reports are coming back saying that the ads don't violate Google's policies. Before 90% came back saying they did.

This is how it ended the last time I did this and is the reason why I basically have to recommend to all relatives that they all install ad blockers. Google is deliberately letting harmful ads through

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

This card wishes you 365 happy days in the year 1917. Which is a bit optimistic, but it's the thought that counts. Happy New Year! #Iceland #holidays #newyear #happynewyear #happynewyear2026 #1910s #postcard #vintage #history

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
morel@pdx.social ("Morél") wrote:

New Years Resolution:

Separate myself *even more* from the mega-corps.

#NewYearsResolutions #Privacy

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:

Mood:
#caturday

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

The bird bath is frozen over.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
killyourfm@layer8.space ("Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒") wrote:

WHOO-HOO! Tickets for New Year's Eve acquired!
(Source unknown)

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
kibcol1049@mstdn.social ("Col") wrote:

The infuriating and stupid public transport slogan “See it, Say it, Sorted” is far better in Latin. Translated with the correct grammar, imperatives and participle, it comes out as the wonderfully appropriate: Vide, Dic, Rectum. (The Oldie)

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

Couple that with the meteoric rise of the Centre Party (our version of Trumpism), the "centrist" government's plans for the construction of a deportation camp, portrayal of foreign students as criminal cheats,, the collapse of the left, and Iceland's political outlook is—shakes a Magic 8 Ball—"outlook not so good"

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

A worrying development in Iceland in the past year was the fact that a group echoing the iconography, language, and tactics of Naziism started to march (sorry, "patrol") in Reykjavík. This is the first time since the 1930s that a group with that message was marching in Iceland's capital

In this year's "Skaup" a recurring joke was to portray this group as a group of loveable but misguided lads being annoying but largely harmless, more or less as sports enthusiasts "just being boys"

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
v@catgirl.cloud ("a little bit insane") wrote:

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

So, Iceland has a tradition of airing a parody sketch show on New Year's Eve, Skaupið, that mocks the past year. It's almost always quite dire, largely because Icelandic TV and pop music is generally quite dire.

But it is a decent gauge of what's getting normalised in Icelandic society each year.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
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.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

I recently saw a post with a meme that had two skulls, one saying ‘yes, but that wasn’t real socialism’. The implicit argument was that socialism is often used as an excuse and ends up with totalitarian regimes that kill a load of people.

One thing struck me about that: there’s no right-wing equivalent. People on the left point at Stalin and Mao and say that they were people who used left-wing ideals to build authoritarian states and ended up killing a load of people. They weren’t real communists. But, at the same time, people on the right wear ‘Hitler was right’ t-shirts. There’s no claim that Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, and so on were not real embodiments of their ideals.

Both extremes have given rise to dictators who have committed atrocities, but the ones on the left have been roundly disavowed by the movements that they rode to power. Falling to authoritarianism is seen as a failure by the left, but as success by the right.

So I saw this meme as a pretty strong endorsement of the left. Probably not how it was intended.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
tess ("Dana Fried") wrote:

Anyway I'm very happy that people have started to realize that following dramatic and romantic storylines in sport can be a lot of fun - and is one of the primary ways women engage with women's sports.

Perhaps the networks will take notice and do a better job of covering and treating women's sports as something other than a lesser version of the men's game.

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

Having a blog of my own on the #indieweb was first in my bucket list for a long time.

A few weeks ago, I discovered omg.lol and realised that was exactly what I was looking for: an easy and painless door to my little piece of the internet.

Today, 1st January, I took the step and created my address: yvan.omg.lol. It is a WIP, but I am really looking forward to creating and posting some stuff 😄

Thanks @adam for making it so easy!

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

*** AI furniture intensifies ***

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6327-Wheeler-St-Philadelphia-PA-19142/10403865%5Fzpid/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
Pionir@masto.bike ("David S") wrote:

@fanf42 @pluralistic

Illustrating your final point:

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
yosh@toot.yosh.is wrote:

Related: https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
yosh@toot.yosh.is wrote:

When people say: "billionaires shouldn't exist" that isn't a call to violence. "Being a billionaire" isn't some inherent property in the way that say, skin color is.

Wealth taxation is a perfectly acceptable way of eliminating all billionaires. That doesn't mean billionaires stop being people, they just stop being billionaires.

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

The outlook for me, personally, is no better or worse than it was a year ago.

But globally?

Ugh.

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

One of the downsides to sitting down and attempting an end-of-year review, with a forward outlook, is that things genuinely look worse than I expected, and I say that as somebody people routinely label as a pessimist.

We're going to need much better coping mechanisms.