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

Shout out to all the protesters. You're in my thoughts and I'm sending good vibes.

I am, by no stretch of the imagination, an expert in protesting. But, I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

No, I did attend protests in Atlanta over the years and I learned a few things while marching in one of the most protester-hostile cities in the country.

So, if you're out, that's dope! Here's some basic tips to keep you and the people around you safe(r).

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

🎶 Listening to: [LUX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lux%5F%28Rosal%C3%ADa%5Falbum%29 by ROSALÍA

It’s beautiful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosal%C3%ADa

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

Minnesota has been invaded and occupied.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/12/chaos-continues/

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

He made a fortune off that stupid question mark, pretending that the answer wasn't "NO."

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/12/hes-gone-now-but-he-launched-an-industry-that-continues-on/

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Cat meets dog.#cats #cat #caturday #dogs #dog #graffiti #streetart #urbanart

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kimcrawley@zeroes.ca ("Kim Crawley 😷") wrote:

@riverpunk And here is my survival crowdfund. Please share it. My birthday is tomorrow (I can prove it) and I don't want to be homeless. Two months now, unable to pay my rent because of my principled anti Gen AI stance and my work as a freelancer.

https://medium.com/@kim%5Fcrawley/im-a-professor-literally-risking-my-own-life-to-fight-the-menace-of-gen-ai-destroying-education-6b3c596f55ce

https://medium.com/@kim%5Fcrawley/am-i-rude-or-patient-for-being-told-non-stop-i-dont-deserve-to-be-alive-by-my-gen-ai-loving-boss-eeb8eb1ba9d6

https://ko-fi.com/kimatstopgenai

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

Another one of my coping mechanisms is researching the things causing me anxiety. Even impending WW3 is less stressful to me if I understand the mechanisms of how it could happen. This is not great for those around me because I have a tendency to talk about what I'm researching 😅

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

My town looks okay, for now (photos): https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/my-town-looks-okay-for-now/

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

As a neurospicy person prone to anxiety, pretty much all of my spare time over the past week has been spent either hiking or under a weighted blanked with noise-cancelling headphones.

I think everybody's coping mechanisms are getting intensive workouts these days.

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

“'I don't want to leave my people' - fear grips Greenland”

https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2026/0112/1552595-greenland-world/

> The fear has become so acute that she is considering fleeing the country with her family.

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iso7010@hacksrus.xyz ("ISO7010 pictogram of the day") wrote:

P043 – Not for people in the state of intoxication

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISO%5F7010%5FP043.svg
Author: Wikimedia Commons user Jonas Steinhöfel
Public domain

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jungle-jim78.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("🏳️‍🌈Jamez Re!nert🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

#ICE #TheyLive

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emptywheel.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy wrote:

Apparently Exxon won't have the privilege of having their stuff nationalized a third time in Venezuela bc Darren Woods told the truth at what was meant to be a performed loyalty session.www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Here is how to add sliders to your Rust TUI app! 🦀

🎚️ **tui-slider** — A highly configurable slider widgets for @ratatui_rs 🐭

💯 Horizontal & vertical sliders, progress bars, borders, alignment control & fine-grained styling.

⭐GitHub: https://github.com/sorinirimies/tui-slider

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #terminal #widgets #slider #progressbar #library #opensource

Attachments:

• video: b7ef264eec788f57.mp4

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

noted: Firefox is still doomed
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-01-12T07:49Z/

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

I survive without #WhatsApp, without #Telegram, without #Signal, without #Teams, without #FacebookMessenger even if social pressure is huge (for WhatsApp in particular)

My main discussions channels are #email, #xmpp and the #Fediverse
I've tried #deltachat but removed it because I have no contact using it.

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ghibli@beep.town ("Studio Gifli") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: Maybe it was a dream.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
blablalinux@mastodon.blablalinux.be ("BlablaLinux") wrote:

En 2026, on ne rédige plus ses docs comme en 1995 ! 🐧

Que ce soit pour documenter vos scripts Debian ou vos déploiements Docker, le Markdown est votre meilleur ami. C'est simple, propre et ça rend vos notes ultra-pro sans effort.

J'ai concocté un petit guide rapide sur le wiki pour maîtriser les balises en 2 minutes chrono.

👉 C'est par ici : https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/guide-formatage-markdown

#Markdown #Syntaxe

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leahmcelrath.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Leah McElrath") wrote:

⚠️ Federal Reserve Chair: • DOJ served the Fed subpoenas and is threatening criminal indictment. • “The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of [the Fed] setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President.”

Statement from Federal Reserve...

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

"Instead of building decent public transit, we revel in ridesharing apps that break labor laws and clog city streets. Instead of regulating banks and taxing the rich, we turn to cryptocurrencies that make both things even harder. Instead of modernizing antitrust law, we admire Amazon for making its monopoly powers so efficient and convenient."

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

Thirty Years On, the Californian Ideology is Alive and Well:

"In many areas of life now, technology has become a replacement for political debate and policymaking. It is enabled by what I call “innovation amnesia”—the tendency to forget past social arrangements when new tech comes along to undermine them." https://www.techpolicy.press/thirty-years-on-the-californian-ideology-is-alive-and-well/

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

The Fashion of Sci-Fi Futures:

"Visions of the future are common in science fiction. From “The Fifth Element” to “Doctor Who” to “The Hunger Games,” we have imagined the future of fashion time and time again. But what if…it’s all weird and messed up and we have to write a video essay about it? What if it’s gender? What if we did a gender? A feminism? Boys in skirts? It’s all here!"

Great video essay. https://youtube.com/watch?v=JJl5UWh-wA8&si=9DVk9SPcMWt3dq60

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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Yesterday I made a shared youTube playlist for fediverse people I know and it's been... IDK pretty good.

Things to know:

* sadly you must log in to youTube to use it so many here won't be able to add to it.
* the concept is to just add anything you've watched that you suspect someone else might want to see. Low bar. It's about an alternative to youTube's algorithm.
* You can vote on the videos as a second layer of user filtering.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTh3hv32NLhrPBgOXrUgwp6BQaC94lt9n&jct=HNo63JsyzJgiqq4wtxlQLw

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

Can someone research coup d'état and tell me how long we have?

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floord@hachyderm.io ("Floor Drees") wrote:

@fosdem I'm sure you're well aware of the strike that's planned for the week leading up to FOSDEM. Maybe you want to share it on the website so folks traveling to Brussels can plan accordingly?

For peeps reading along: https://www.brusselstimes.com/1900206/railway-union-announces-week-long-strike-in-january

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

It's also very Republican-coded. If I had to guess, I'd say those who want to blame people for Meta grew up in conservative households. I assume Ronny is on the left. But he's using conservative tools to build out progressive ideals.

It was never as simple as "get off the platform." It's just not.

A big reason why Meta's power is so concerning is its ability to keep people on its platforms through creating legitimate dependencies.

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

What I'm describing probably deserves more nuance than I can fit into a microblog post. I don't want to do a thread while in a food coma. But I'll say this. It's not that both can't be true. It's the instinct to blame the people for the trappings of capitalism and assuming everyone's situation is similar to your own. I don't love that nor do I find it particularly useful when discussing problems and solutions.

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

When speaking on difficult issues, like Enshittification, I've noticed that there are two types of people:

Those who blame capitalists, and those who blame consumer behavior.

Just finished watching @pluralistic interview on the Daily Show and it's a perfect example of this dichotomy. Doctorow was focusing on legislation and interpolation, while Ronny kept trying to bring it back to "just get off Facebook". I like Ronny but I was cringing the whole interview.

https://youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE?si=YUM8XGdNJ7zPgj2K

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

If I were just a tad more into cooking, I'd make a blog about it. I'd use the Mela app as a sort of content management system and get it to work with #11ty. You can export recipes to HTML and .md.

Look at the layout, how pretty and clean.

https://mela.recipes/

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TheJournalingFrog wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nesbotot/115878076522270872

I hope Americans understand that whatever goodwill they had with the world won't be magically restored once Trump is gone.