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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
IndivisibleSF@sfba.social ("Indivisible SF") wrote:

The Trump Administration has just starting bombing Caracas, Venezuela. We demand a stop to this illegal war and accountability to the war criminals in power. Call your Members of Congress now and stay tuned for future actions. https://indivisiblesf.org/call-scripts/2026/1/3/all-mocs-no-war-on-venezuela

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

Wife: Where are all the coffee filters?

Me:

A close-up of a classical oil painting depicting a man with a mustache wearing a large, white pleated ruff collar. He has a slight, knowing smirk on his face.

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
killyourfm@layer8.space ("Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒") wrote:

@ChrisWere I got ya: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I certainly hope the EU can put the same sanctions on the US for attacking Venezuela as they did on Russia for attacking Ukraine. This is indefensible.

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

Happy New Year of the Linux Desktop.

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

Hey fedi. Someone posted our reposted a blog post on here about a comparison between blogging and social media. I thought I favourited it to read later, but I didn't. Does anyone know I'd remember where I can give it?

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

Well, seems we have an answer to "how far will Trump stoop to distract from the Epstein Files?"

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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Fog in #pnw winter.. Snapped today with a #phone while going for a #run :-)

A panorama of a lake in winter. In the front, a wooden pier juts out from the left side of the photo towards the middle. There are four tall posts around and nearby the pier, all of it giving a nice reflection in the calm water. On the other side of the lake there's a few nice looking houses, and above them the main point of attraction: a low horizontal strip of fog separating the forest behind the houses into two parts with a line of tree tops appearing above the fog cloud, and the rest of it below.

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
TechTangents@dialup.space ("Tech Tangents") wrote:

I was asked by a family member why it was taking so long to paste something large into a new Microsoft Word document on their computer, I sarcastically replied it was because it takes a while to upload it all to the copilot AI nonense first. And then I realized accidentally I might be right...I disabled copilot in Word and it went back to being instant again

So that's cool that Microsoft seems uploading everything you paste into a new Word doc to their servers now.

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
allaboutgeorge@social.lol ("George Kelly") wrote:

"All I'm left with"

https://on.soundcloud.com/Yd99nfzHKTtWyaEDA5

#music #Jamuary #Jamuary26 #Jamuary2026

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Boosted by jwz:
Sempf@infosec.exchange ("Bill") wrote:

You know when you have that one piece of firewood that you can't get a grip on? This one took me a while to get right.

Me lifting some firewood.

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jwz wrote:

POP3POCALYPSE UPDATE! It is now Jan 2 and the POP3POCALYPSE has not yet occurred.

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virtualbri@mastodon.online ("Brian Tatosky") wrote:

Getting Grok to "apologize" for generating non-consensual porn is like getting Excel to apologize for generating accounting fraud.

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

We Bought 404media.com:

"“I think we should just get 202 Media if this doesn’t work,” he [Jason] said."

lol https://www.404media.co/we-bought-404media-com/

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

It's 1984. What can I say that won't sound cliched? Nothing. So I'll share this:

When I was a young marketer, I would confidently tell anyone who'd listen that Apple's 1984 Super Bowl ad was the best bit of marketing the world has ever seen 😭

It isn't. But, ironically, the ad has aged quite well if you trade IBM for Apple.

https://youtu.be/ErwS24cBZPc

Book cover. Illustration. An ominous man with a mustache looks down at a row of people in line. All silhouettes except the person in the center. It reads 1984 George Orwell.

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

I may be stretching the definition of sci-fi by including Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R F Kuang, but let's go with it. If you think about what constitutes science fiction for too long, the earth opens and swallows you whole.

It's about the characters for me. I will never forget Robin. I *think about* Robin sometimes, which is wild!

A modern masterpiece.

BABEL OR THE NECESSITY OF VIOLENCE: AN ARCANE HISTORY OF THE OXFORD TRANSLATORS REVOLUTION R. F. KUANG Illustration of a tower in black and white with white birds flying around it.

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

It wasn't until the second Blade Runner movie that I finally read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.

I love the world building and the themes explored, and it quickly became one of my all-time favorite post-apocalyptic stories (it's a long list).

Book cover with a gold-colored circuit board as the background. A red circle in the middle with the title of the book.  PHILIP K. DICK DO ANDROIDS DREAMOF ELECTRIC SHEEP? ILLUSTRATED BY TONY PARKER WITH BLOND

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

I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov is my first memory of my father gifting me something based on things I showed an interest in. I was obsessed with robots, and boy, did I love these stories.

I took the book everywhere with me, even after I had finished it. The little robot tattooed on my forearm is in part based on my love for this book as a kid. I haven't revisited it since childhood though. Thinkin' I should.

The movie was fine.

Deep red cover: I, Robot A humanoid robot spans the cover.

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

The best ending to any book I've read hands down. Also, the first book that scared the shit out of me.

Richard Matheson is one of my all-time favorite authors, and I Am Legend is his best work. It's an annual re-read for me. Usually around Halloween, but come to think of it, I missed this year!

Recently, my sister scolded me for explaining the book to my niece 😅. It's not my fault she loves zombies. Maybe it is.

Nevilllllllllle! 🧟‍♂️

*This may be the most terrifying. novel you will ever read." -William Comphell Gault IAM LEGEND Book cover. Top third is red with white lettering. Bottom half is a man standing above a pit filled with bodies.

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jwz wrote:

My 50 most popular blog posts in 2025.

Here are my most popular blog posts from 2025, with the caveat that this might all be bullshit from bots. For example, this year the number one hit was a blog post from 2022, that never had a large number of hits...
https://jwz.org/b/yk1N

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

Parable of the Sower is the only book I've read where I can, at any moment, revisit the locations Octavia Butler described. Lauren's childhood neighborhood, the derelict city streets, desolate highways, the farm with the big tree. Nothing before or since made me feel like I was part of the story. The world building and character development are unmatched. It's a beautiful read.

Octavia E. Butler Parable of the Sower. Green book cover. Gold letters. A woman in the middle. The sky and space behind her. The earth, small, in front of her floating between her hands.

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
anarchiv@todon.nl ("now is the winter of our disco tent") wrote:

No matter the language you speak, your nationality, colour or creed, regardless of how you express your gender or whom you love,

I want you to know

I don't want to download your fucking app 💚

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Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
FediTips@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Tips 🎄") wrote:

If you see something you like on here, don't be scared to give it a favourite ⭐ !

If you really like something, you might want to also boost it 🔁 (which shares it with your followers).

There is no algorithm on here, so you can like and share whatever you want without any additional side effects.

Your timeline on here is entirely in your direct control, it isn't going to push stuff at you or hide stuff just because you liked or shared something.

#FediTips

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Boosted by jwz:
bit101@mstdn.social wrote:

I made a venn diagram to help you understand Moiré patterns.

venn diagram. circles labeled "Angled lines" and "Different angled lines", they are filled with patterns of slightly different angled lines. the intersecting area is labeled Moire pattern and indeed has a moire pattern in it.

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Boosted by jwz:
lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E09
🎥 Episode: Protocol
🎬 Directed by: Akihiko Nishiyama
📅 Release Date: August 31, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0320

Frame from the series Serial Experiments Lain

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
surprisetalk ("taylor.town") wrote:

https://taylor.town/reward

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Boosted by jwz:
ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:

Happy #Mamdanistan day to all those inside the official caliphate of #NewYorkistan. I hope your new leader is a benevolent one.

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Boosted by jwz:
h2onolan@infosec.exchange ("myron aub") wrote:

i went to work today because im a dummy but the @jwz mixtape is pretty good.
https://www.dnalounge.com/webcast/popup.cgi?playlist=PLyALKMPGOR5fz2Jk7Ye5ICLv2QkKstF7p&title=jwz mixtape 256

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
kayserifserif@sunny.garden ("katherine") wrote:

omg it's done. April 2024 – December 2025 (tbh i thought it was longer but maybe i've just been thinking about it for a long time). first garment, first sweater, first colorwork piece! this was really challenging but equally rewarding ❤️

pattern: Circe Pullover by Jessica Strough
yarn: Cascade 220 in Red Wine Heather and White

#knitting

red sweater with white colorwork around the yoke, hanging from a hook on the wall
close-up of the colorwork around the yoke
another close-up of the colorwork

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

EchoFeed Profiles https://rknight.me/blog/echofeed-profiles/

I've added a basic version of profiles to #EchoFeed if you fancy trying it out

Here's mine: https://echofeed.app/@robb

A profile page showing my face, that I joined EchoFeed in April 2024, that I have 19 Echoes, 1600 posts, and a bio about me.