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

am I the only one? 🤫

https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-01-13T08:23Z/

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

we're 6 months away, the leaves look promising this time

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

"fail fast, fail forward, fail better" has been repeated so many times it's become meaningless.

What if we just stopped using the word entirely?

What if we just poked reality to see what happens?

What if we just...ran the experiment?

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/failure-vs-success-is-the-wrong-frame/

Boosted by jwz:
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Anyway, please enjoy this section of Do's README.md.

jwz wrote:

Watchmen being topical again.
https://jwz.org/b/yk1t

Attachments:

• video: a7ef4a09e8b04e2d.mp4

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
susankayequinn@wandering.shop ("Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱") wrote:

the kids remain undefeated

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

Indivisible's call to action— "rein in ICE"

This is the worst advocacy I think I've ever witnessed. Even for centrists.

It's so bad they even acknowledge it— "we know thats a little in the weeds”.

No, you're just fucking cowards.

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

Fucking hell. I've been checking for any news to confirm ICE's presence on Bluesky.

I must've hit AI mode while walking with my open phone, and here I find just a completely made up story?

The sources for this are an unrelated article about ICE and the homepage to Hootsuite.

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Borrowed a Haworth Fern office chair today and realized how awful my current office chair is 😭 I need to upgrade

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

I'm back teaching genetics, and am wondering why so many people find the subject difficult. I think many of them don't grasp probability arguments.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/12/why-is-genetics-hard/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TYmghROJo8

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

Anti-Latin racism is an epidemic in this country. It's at an all-time high. And worst of all, we've yet to even begin to talk about it.

If you don't believe me, think of your top five political pundits/personalities/influencers whatever you want to call them.

Then try to find a single time they've mentioned the words Latin, Latino, LatinX, or Latine.

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

An old potato storage. Or, if you prefer, a hobbit lives there.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #winter #grass

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

What's great about Bluesky is how easy it is for them to tap the data firehose and identify anyone who has not nice things to say about them. Their posts, comments, likes, follows, blocks.

Imagine if everything on the web adopted AT Protocol? A unified, centralized social graph that ICE can tap into with ease.

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

Side note: this is the ICE account in question. No external verification or reporting yet that this a legitimate account. I'd assume that BS would reserve the icegov handle but idk.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
jkcheney@wandering.shop ("J. Kathleen Cheney") wrote:

Art by JKBees (via Tumblr) #knitting

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

Last night on Bluesky, Crust News (creators of icelist.is) claimed to have data related to 4,000 ICE agents that they intend to release.

Today, ICE joined Bluesky. https://bsky.app/profile/crustnews.com/post/3mc6x7hazts2n

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

2026 what are you even doing anymore

https://apnews.com/article/monkeys-st-louis-96c55834c7f17854cc4362db891ca8fa

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

I have a substack account mostly to claim my name there to avoid brand confusion. It's at

https://scalzi.substack.com/

It has one post, which is a picture of my cat Smudge. I don't use it for anything because I already have a blog.

If there is anyone else on Substack claiming to be me, they are a bad person and you should tell them I said so.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@10lazlo/post/DTbZjboDZq%5F

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

What was the metaverse? - Fast Company:

"Relabeling the digital economy as the “metaverse” was a simple, elegant move—as well as a deeply cynical effort to rebrand already existing digital markets as the next internet—that allowed forecasts to assume an air of inevitability." https://www.fastcompany.com/91467599/metaverse-zuckerberg-facebook-ai

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

LinkedIn keeps saying “you haven’t looked at your tech writing job search in a long time so we’re going to stop sending you notifications about it,” then sending them anyway. C’mon, what are you, a Microsoft product?

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

Oh, nothing, I just found out that there's now an actual minor planet with my name on it, and I am (literally!) over the moon about that fact:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/01/12/a-minor-planet-a-major-thrill/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
kicad@fosstodon.org ("KiCad") wrote:

KiCad is has started our annual fund drive to support the release of v10 and development of v11! Want to know what your support helped build in 2025? Read all about it at https://www.kicad.org/blog/2026/01/2025-End-of-Year-Fund-Drive-The-Year-We-Lost-Count/
With your help, v11 will be amazing. Help donate here: https://donate.kicad.org

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Awful Systems will be putting up and maintaining a list of open source software that is tainted with LLM code, inspired by a previous project.

We have already had *many* helpful suggestions for additional homework from concerned moderates, and we thank Dr King for his advice on concerned moderates. I'm sure commenters here will add many more homework suggestions, though nobody asked.

What we *really* need is a new name that's anywhere near as good as OpenSlopWare. Those suggestions, we would most welcome. Anyone got ideas that aren't actually profane? PromptFuckerCode(tm) is right out.

cc @zzt

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
silverwizard@convenient.email wrote:

My parents spent years teaching me how to touch type. Made me learn to type without looking at my keyboard. Spent hours every week trying to get my WPM up.

Now - as an adult I have a keyboard without any linguistic symbols on the majority of the keys (I wrote some code to generate magical circles that look like summoning circles and put them on the keys. I have return, bksp, caps, tab, and shift for grounding), and they're like "HOW DO YOU TYPE ON THIS THING". I feel like this is a self created issue.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
TheBreadmonkey@beige.party ("Ben") wrote:

"In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them."

Attachments:

• video: From Reddit - driverless vehicles run amok doing the aforementioned thing as people try to stop them by waving brooms in front of their sensors to no avail

Boosted by jwz:
mcc wrote:

I'll go further: If your code makes use of "AI" code generators, you shouldn't be describing it as "open source". There are source-available game mods of Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time based on code stolen from Nintendo by hackers. These aren't really "open source".

OSS/Libre/Free Software is a project to build a commons based on consensual collaboration. You can't claim those labels when your project has, via "AI" scraping, contributors who are unknown, uncredited, and unconsenting.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
parents4future@climatejustice.global ("Parents For Future :verified:") wrote:

"I gotta be honest, I’m not feeling so great.

Renee Good was murdered in our streets of America, and we got literally storm troopers running around terrorizing.

I can’t pretend all this crazy stuff isn’t happening. We have a president who says laws don’t apply to him.

And we could rely on his morality, but he has no morality.

This is crazy.” - Mark Ruffalo
#Trump #ICE #ReneeGood

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• video: I can't really. I gotta be honest with you. I'm not feeling so great. Um, we have, uh, a woman, um, Renee Good was murdered in our streets of America today, and we got literally storm troopers running around terrorizing. And as much as I love all this, I can't. I don't know if I can pretend like this crazy stuff isn't happening. We have a president who says the laws of the of the world don't apply to him. And we could rely on his morality, but he has no morality. So where does that leave us? Where does that leave the world? So I love these people. I love being here, I love you, I, I, but I also can't. It's so hard to pretend anymore. This is crazy, what's happening. I have to ask you, because I have family from the Twin Cities, so I understand how how hard that is right now. Well, lots of people are hurting right now. And that's the problem is that the people are hurting. Yeah. And and people can't pay their rent. This isn't making us any safer. They can't pay their rent. They can't buy food. Insurance is impossible. They can't take care of their families and health. They there's no education. I mean, this is not making America better. If it was, I'd be: Yeah, great. Let's do it. But that's not that's not what's happening. And we have Americans being shot. Killed a woman in her car. [...]

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

Trump Labor Department’s Chilling Slogan Draws Damning Comparisons:

"The department shared on X, formerly Twitter, an 11-second montage of American artwork captioned: “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage… The language immediately drew damning comparisons to the Nazi Germany slogan “Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer,” which translates to “One People, One Realm, One Leader,”" https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-labor-departments-chilling-slogan-072825243.html

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

"ICE needs training"

Imma stop you right there. Jonathan Ross, the man who murdered Renee Good by shooting her in the face three times and then calling her a "fucking bitch" while fleeing the scene, is a 10 year DHS vet and a firearms instructor. He's who they get training FROM.

This can't be fixed with training. This gets fixed with lasting and severe consequences.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

When the aliens made contact, we learned they had observed us for millennia.

"Yes. We installed the magic soak on your moon around your 500BCE."

"The what?"

"To drain the natural magic, so you would focus on technology instead. But we have turned it off now."

"Teach us!"

"Er..."

"You owe us!"

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories