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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

America didn't break democracy. It just forked it, never merged upstream, and now maintains it out of spite.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Tuuktuuk@piipitin.fi ("Tuukka R") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115811925239381921

This whole thread in the quote is an awesome read!

(I found it on /c/fediverse of piefed.social, where @rimu linked to it. Thanks!)

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
cass@muffin.industries ("Cass 🇵🇸") wrote:

jesus fucking christ

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
rossgrady@dood.net ("Ross Grady") wrote:

So this administration’s doctrine is that authoritarian bully-boys who rig elections and refuse to peacefully transition governments should be exfiltrated by force by the armies of other unrelated countries?

Just jotting that down for future reference.

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

Am thinking about the fact that 3-400 US troops are stationed in Iceland at any given moment

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
dedicto@zeroes.ca ("Douglas Edwards :neurodiv:") wrote:

@AnarchoNinaWrites Don't forget taking down #Labour politicians who might actually back labor, by any means available — like smearing #Corbyn as antisemitic. That was the issue that turned David Graeber against them.

The general case, the unifying pattern: the #Guardian has a history of winning a Left audience's trust with progressive writing on topics they perceive as inessential — then abusing that trust to support reactionary positions on the issues they perceive as most essential. The pattern is too consistent to be accidental.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tommorris ("Tom Morris") wrote:

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115826683070912702

The UK government’s official internet policy:

1. if you run a web forum or fedi instance, you need to do a bunch of paperwork to comply with the #OnlineSafetyAct to protect the kids.

2. if you are rich and run a neo-nazi website with officially posted virtual CSAM, politicians won’t leave despite that being a million times worse than anything you’d read on a forum about fixed gear cycling or a mastodon server run by some queer furries running arch for their polycule.

Incredibly coherent.

Boosted by jwz:
oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

From this month's The Onion.

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

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

Wife: Where are all the coffee filters?

Me:

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/

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.

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

Happy New Year of the Linux Desktop.

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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/

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

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.

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).

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.

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! 🧟‍♂️

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

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.