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

I know I give liberals a hard time for not being progressive enough (plus a lot of other things).

But, now that we're all friends, I think it's worth mentioning that the two things I'm most known for on the internet are the worst cases of libbing out you've ever heard.

First, I wrote *a lot* of the Biden and Obama memes in 2015. I didn't invent the meme but I managed a novelty Twitter account where I pumped them out like wild 🫣. And anything I posted were written by me. Sorry about that.

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

Researchers Are Hunting America for Hidden Datacenters:

"“A combination of weatherproof tents, colocation facilities and Meta’s traditional datacenter buildings, this datacenter shows Meta’s pivot towards AI,” Epoch said"

Seems like a pivot towards infrastructure which I feel may prove to be an important distinction one day. https://www.404media.co/researchers-are-hunting-america-for-hidden-datacenters/

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

Researchers Are Hunting America for Hidden Datacenters:

"The team pores over satellite imagery, building permits, and other local legal documents to build a map of the massive computer filled buildings springing up across the United States."

Here’s the interactive map.

https://epoch.ai/data/data-centers/satellite-explorer

https://www.404media.co/researchers-are-hunting-america-for-hidden-datacenters/

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

Shout out to Tales of the Flowers: just a family blog I stumbled across with semi-daily posts since 2007. No social media links. Nothing really to sell. Just cataloging their life and vacations.

Nothing wrong with selling stuff, btw. I love small businesses. It’s just so rare to see someone blogging like this for the love of the game that isn’t tech related.

#blogging https://www.flowerstales.com/

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Jdm2@boriken.social ("jdm2 🇵🇷") wrote:

Este hilo que hizo @fromjason está buenísimo. Lectura obligada. Añado mis pensamientos abajo. 🧵

https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115806120211378582

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Jdm2@boriken.social ("jdm2 🇵🇷") wrote:

Hello ex-twitter users!

We are boriken.social, a Mastodon instance creating a space for Puerto Ricans on the fediverse both inside the archipelago and abroad.

You can register here. It might take a little bit of time since we are approving new requests manually to avoid spam. But here you are more than welcome!

#PuertoRico #MastodonPR #TwitterPR #Fediverse

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
juliana@solarpunk.moe ("Rat Goddess of Vengeance") wrote:

eating yeast is vegan because yeast are nasty lil freaks and they like it

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

Yes "fight" was a typo for "right" but holy shit it worked even better so I kept it

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

Hey, fuck fascism, there, now I've started 2026 on the fight foot

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

I've written briefly about some of the (media) things I enjoyed the most in 2025.

https://friendo.monster/posts/things-i-enjoyed-in-2025.html

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

His vibe dysphoria bit makes me laugh so hard every time.

https://www.tiktok.com/@chrisflemingfleming/video/7269797958563007790

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

What's the name of that comedian who has medium length curly hair and wear glasses? He has big theater kid energy. Perhaps queer. Very funny (imo). Screams and is very animated on stage?

Remember when you could type a description into Google and it would more often than not give you the right person?

Edit: Chris Fleming!

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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

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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:

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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

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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

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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"