OutOfWineError

After a delicious Christmas pudding. We're now sat sipping red wine by light if two home made candles and a pair of reproduction oil lamps. Gezellig.

Are there any English language news orgs who cover German flavored political stuff? I think the anglosphere needs to be in the know about what's going on with GLS and Sparkasse terminating anti-fascist bank accounts and it seems like this still hasn't gotten any English coverage.

Dutch Television is now playing a Christmas folk concert with such traditional American carols as Country Roads, Take Me Home and Cotton-Eyed Joe #netherlands

I also took a bunch of pics of the tops of concrete fence posts at the bottom of the dike for you #lichensubscribe freaks 😂 #mosstodon #Fryslân #frisia #friesland

There is a (human) baby at this gathering and I have now learned that “baby shark” is not merely a song but an extended cinematic universe of dozens of minor variations of the same song of such profound extent as to constitute a religion

Dad’s carnivorous plant collection is popping off

wowow 🤩 📷/creator : u/embroiderybynusik via https://www.reddit.com/r/Embroidery/comments/1puyp56/my_new_embroidery_silent_shore/ #Space #aurora #art #embroidery #astronomy #aurorae

I forgot wine has alcohol in it...

Aim was for dinner to be on the table at around 1400. Final serving time was 1655. It may have been late, but most importantly. It was delicious. Am quite full now.

Today we have a collection of cursed turrones for Xmas. Which is the most cursed?

For the record, I am mainly interested in seeing the major US retailers moving to stop selling these devices, period. That seems to be happening, at least on the ones that are being called out. But the only reason that's happening now is because more people (present company included) are […]

When an entire class of technology states on the packaging that it was made in China but intended "for overseas use only," this should really give you pause before plugging it into your network. You will find this verbiage on a lot of Android TV streaming […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Ages ago one of my chairs broke cos a screw was damaged. I got a replacement, brought it home. And it promptly went missing. A few weeks ago during a tidy up I found it again, and put it somewhere safe so I could do the repair later. Then couldn't find it. Clearing the dining table for Xmas […]

Upon discovery that I do not in fact have a tea pot. The wonderful @moof stepped up with a Christmas gift of a wonderful Delft blue tea pot with cute monkeys on it. Yay. Having opened it, I made a nice pot of Irish breakfast tea with loose leaf tea from a small […] [Original post on social.v.st]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bitboxer/113488282272850633 Important Christmas reminder: download all the manuals from all the devices your family got this year and store them in a folder. Thank me in half a year if you need them 😉

@quixoticgeek it always feels like we get locked down for two days, other than some urban transport on boxing day. But craziest of all is throwing open all the pubs and running big public events on New Year’s Eve, but stopping all the buses at 6pm.

Do you know what one of the biggest seasonal culture shock was here in the Netherlands Vs back in the UK. Public transport is work today. The UK tends to shut down all public transport sometime on Christmas eve and not restart it until early on the 27th. Cos noone needs to use public transport […]

With my poor pronunciation, attempting to say fijne kerstdag in Dutch sounds more like fine cursed day... Oops.

Merry Christmas from Leiden! #MerryChrismas #Xmas #Christmas #Sleutelstad #Leiden #bloomscrolling

Yum!

And happy Octal Halloween!

On the first day of Christmas this year, I am appreciating the quiet. After last year's incident with the 183 birds, and my true love being arrested for people trafficking. It looks at least like the restraining order is working. So far. No birds have been delivered. #12daysofchristmas (What […]

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate. Happy arbitrary Thursday in December to everyone else. After years of not having a Christmas tree (I don't want to bring a plant into the house with the intention of it dying... Much better that it's a Darwinian experiment […] [Original post on social.v.st]

YouTube keeps recommending videos at me which are clearly all AI, but also have typically less than 500 views. I don't quite get what the algorithm is basing it's recommendations on.

My early night, curl up with a book plan has been thwarted by the fact the battery in my ereader is flat. And it seems when the battery is really low. You can't even read while it's charging. The future is weird.

Bah. Not only did a chip a tooth off my favourite end mill, but where it was €13 when I got it, the price is now €25. Boo.

i am: ☐ man ☐ woman ☒ once again seeking: ☐ man ☐ woman ☒ your financial support

My parcel has been scanned 6 times at USPS location 60666 in the last 10 days. But as yet it doesn't seem to have made it onto a plane to this side of the Atlantic...

#sweden takes great national pride in three massive failures: * The Vasa war ship 🇸🇪 * The André polar balloon expedition 🇸🇪🇸🇪 * The Gryphon fighter aircraft 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪 #nationalism

Having carefully planned various festive meals over the next week. I have realised one small gap in my planning. What do I want to eat this evening?

After entirely failing to understand the cultural reference to Dickens in the last 3 #makershour questions. I have finally sat down to watch the classic of cinema that is "A Muppet Christmas Carol".

In what has become a bit of a tradition. For Christmas eve I get myself a Lego set, then settle down with a mug of tea and build it. So far am about a quarter of the way through the build. Have fun out of tea, gonna have to move to the cider soon.

Also looking for recommendations for great museums to visit. I like museums with lots of interesting artifacts.

I'm pondering a bit of an interrail trip in Feb or march. I've got a couple of waypoints I want to hit, by otherwise it's quite open ended. So, fedi, any recommendations on places to visit in Europe in Feb/march. Any fedi nerds want to meet up while I'm passing through?

The metro cathedral of Amsterdam Centraal is always so impressive.

Ok travel nerds of Fediverse. What are my options for getting from Sweden to Germany without going through Denmark? I know there's a couple of ferries from Malmö to German ports. Are there any from further north? Something from Stockholm maybe ?

I offer Cassandra's Complete Class Theorem¹. All "good use cases for AI" break down into one of four categories: I. Bad use case. II. Good use case, but not something AI can do. III Good use case, but it's already been done without AI. IV. Not AI in the LLMs and GANs sense, but in the machine […]

After Christmas I need to buy a new washing machine. The one I have is over 25 years old (fitted as a package by the builders when I bought this house off-plan) and the drum bearing is making ominous sounds. The shocking thing is how many of the latest crop of simple basic washing machines have […]

A reminder during this holiday season, courtesy of the late Barbara Ehrenreich, about the "major philanthropists of our society."

[auspol, firearms] Well done NSW parliament by legislating quickly to prevent further gun massacres by *checks notes* increasing police power to ban protests.

Reading Tim O'Reilly's essay on the economic future of #ai, one sentence stands out: "By product-market fit we don’t just mean that users love the product or that one company has dominant market share but that a company has found a viable economic model, where what people are willing to pay for […]

Reading about san francisco's first chinese sex worker, Ah Toy. She arrived in 1849 from Guangzhou. "She was unusually tall for a Chinese woman, with delicate, bound feet and a slender boding and laughing eyes. Shew as 'strangely alluring', as one admirer later put it." "Her first place of […]

I love that so many of us have realised that hang on a minute, we're not as cis as may have been initially thought. But it does mean things happen when I know "John Smith", then "Jane Smith" turns up, and I need to investigate whether they're the same fucking person or not.

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/unix_v4_tape_successfully_recovered/ Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works <- by me on @theregister

Mila mostly powers down in the winter, except at 2 in the morning when she has zoomies and wants love and headbutts. If you think a cat stops having zoomies at nearly 20, apparently they don’t #cats

New Banksy dropped in London. I thought immediately of Oscar Wilde's "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Perhaps it is a Christmas reference, to that star that was followed in the famous story.

Me and who (I'm the dragon) ​:neofox_pleading:​

Have been putting off breakfast cos I have a grocery delivery due, which contains the food for breakfast. Except cos it's 2 days before Xmas, the delivery is running late.