<<People like to over-use the phrase "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism", but the flip-side of that statement is that there are very few unethical targets [for a boycott]. There's an entire roster of evil for you to choose from.>> https://youtu.be/DJvYRYIn-dE

RE: https://mstdn.social/@TheRaDR/115724291258120368 Listen… If you're dismayed by so much that's happening in the world, then I encourage you to read this. Even if you're not Jewish. It's a Chanukah story, but it's not just a Chanukah story. This will give you hope, and it may just help you […]

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 😉

I followed @carmensandiego and I kept thinking some of the henchmen in "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" had great names... so... I went off to find my copy that ran on MacOS 6.0.7 or higher and it still had the booklet! (Though not the World Almanac.)

I managed a comics/games shop in the 90s. One day, a kid I'd never seen before came in & started preaching to me about how I was going to burn in hell because I sold satanic things like D&D. When he was through his screed, he handed me his resume & asked if I was hiring. #satanicpanic […]

Did you know they just let you add anything you want to canned soup? I just had a hearty tomato stew by adding fresh mushrooms, tomatoes, frozen chicken, and frozen chipotle potatoes to a half can Progreso tomato basil soup, topped with crispy onions from a can, all made in the microwave. I […]

Any chance there is someone on here planning on traveling between approximately UC Irvine and University of Arizona in the next little while? Might be looking for transportation for a sewing machine between those approximate locations. Nothing unusually large, though a little heavy because it's […]

My first reasonably viral toot, and somebody reported me, lol. Do you not realise the pointlessness of that action for a single user instance? Also... there's nothing to report? Except you're a bigot, obviously.

Wenn Vertreter der A💩 D und der Werteunion in die Staaten reisen und Listen dabei haben... Ist das Hochverrat? Was meinen die Juristen unter Euch? #hochverrat #afd_gesichert_rechtsextrem #werteuntion #maaßen

@cdarwin “Many of these cases also show how the rhetoric on Twitter and in press releases and statements is not surviving the courtroom,” he said. “What that tells you is that the Trump administration is hoping to send a message and chill future protests, not pursue serious criminal cases that […]

#Frei : „Wir haben das teuerste Gesundheitssystem der Welt" - Gelogen! #Medien übernehmen das ungeprüft! 1. #USA 2. #Schweiz 3. #Deutschland Die Gründe? Vorgeschoben. #Spahn ordnete an: Rücklagen aufbrauchen. #Bund zahlt #Corona - Kosten der #GKV nicht. Die Beitragszahler müssen's ausbaden. #cdU

You earnestposters just don't understand how much harder it is to shitpost through hypernormalization and societal decline into fascism I swear, nothing my mentally defective noisy mind thinks up can ever even hope to be weirder than reality right now And that's […] [Original post on jorts.horse]

When your 13yo comes into the room, gives you a kiss on the head and walks off again, you know you've done something right. #parenting

A quotation from **Bill Watterson** > CALVIN: This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn’t make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists, why doesn’t he ever show himself and prove it? And if he _doesn’t_ exist, what’s the meaning of […] [Original post on friendica.world]

🥳 Guinea and Kenya eliminated sleeping sickness. 🥳 Niger became the first African country to eliminate river blindness. 🥳 Georgia, Suriname and Timor-Leste were certified malaria-free. 🥳 Brazil eliminated mother-to-child transmission of #HIV. 🔗 bit.ly/49wdcpl

It's been interesting putting up a high-impact (hopefully no pun there) paper and getting lots of feedback! One (highly respected!) scientist graciously showed us a small error in our calculation, which we have fixed. It's like crowd-sourced peer-review. Interesting. So, with that fix, the […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115771677138824946 By now, if you’re still free to travel to the United States, you’ve got to wonder what you did wrong in life.

The AI controversy is the loneliness crisis, the inequality crisis, and the education crisis stacked on each other, wearing a trenchcoat and a fedora.

Read @adamserwer.bsky.social on the Roberts' court's attempts to "to turn the guarantees of the Civil War amendments back into what James Madison called "parchment barriers.'" www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Christmas shopping. The man in the record shop said he was so ill, he didn't know when he would be opening after Christmas. Getting sick is not good for business. #ChristmasFever #WillThisBeTheLastYearThatYouBelieve

Nicely written.

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@paulisci/115769768411754410 there should be a IgNoble Jr. award for this one

while the Internet Archive in general is a great, it's also a convenient place for nazis to disseminate their shit with. A large part of German language media on there is either 3rd Reich media, neonazi stuff, or cryptofascist stuff noone else would touch. (and I notice that Mein Kampf has […]

"These vessels represent the first moment in history when people chose to portray the botanical world as a subject worthy of artistic attention," the authors note. "It reflects a cognitive shift tied to village life and a growing awareness of symmetry and aesthetics." “This research contributes […]

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]

A part of becoming a responsible adult is accepting that the life experiences of other people can differ from your own without automatically assuming that those life experiences are invalid.

This is a great bluesky thread that runs through the major papers published in 2020 about what we knew then about #covid. Its an impressive list and a major scientific accomplishment. Most of the major risks and issues were at least pointed at in rough by the end of 2020. Not withstanding the […]

I teach Science to children. I teach about the development of drugs - medicines - and the tests & trials they have to go through. The products in this shop are not medicines. I teach students that unscrupulous people want to take advantage of them. #Immunity #ChristmasFever🧵

"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of […]

Now #theamericanfascist has appointed an 'envoy' to help convince Greenlanders to ditch Denmark and join the USA. Denmark is shocked and angered, as they should be. Greenlanders are wholly opposed. There is poetic irony of a Louisiana politician being tapped to lead a "Greenland Purchase" by […]

Das wöchentliche Update des DINÖ zeigt eine Verdoppelung der #Influenza Nachweise im Vergleich zur Vorwoche. Der Anteil von #H3N2 ist auf 4/5 angestiegen. #Grippewelle […] [Original post on wien.rocks]

For Mask Up Monday: have an elevator selfie of me taking my neighbor her lunch. In Germany stores close early on December 24th, are closed both on the 25th and 26th, are open on Saturday and then closed again on Sunday. So I thought I'd be smart and go to the […] [Original post on mas.to]

Being an immigrant is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Cities on the west coast aren’t really my type of city, but I tried to lean into the spectacular nature on this coast. It helped. Going out into the world to look at magnificent creatures, listen […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

* Illegal settlements www.bbc.com/news/article...

I spent a lot of this year on boats. I really enjoyed it. I have perfected the art of propping myself snugly on railings of boats of all sizes, trying to take photographs of birds and whales. A tripod is useless on such a boat especially in the chaotic waves of […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

If you wait long enough, one day your children will all sleep until 9:30AM. #parenting

Remember you can make Christmas your own. You can choose not to hang out with relatives you don't like, you can have sandwiches, you can decorate with skulls, you can do whatever makes you happy, even if that's ignoring the whole thing and just binging your favourite shows all day.

Kleiner Reminder für die Feiertage: man kann auf den Webseiten vom DM-Markt und Rossmann nachsehen ob und wieviele Schnelltests (ich weiß, ich weiß die sind nicht so zuverlässig; aber besser als nix) und FFP2 Masken verfügbar sind. Denkt dran: selbst wenn es kein […] [Original post on mas.to]

Sorgt mal für ein kleines Weihnachtswunder: Meine Frau hat gerade ein Geschenk im RE14 (4497) von Mainz nach Mannheim liegen gelassen. Ankunft in Mannheim war 16:06.

I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking. Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals… All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it. We CAN change things.

I remember the first time I saw a little Black girl in a toy commercial. I ran to get my mother. "Look mom look!" It was a My Little Pony commercial and there was a very light-skinned little black girl with perfectly permed straight hair (why couldn't my hair do that) playing with the toys I […]

Just reading about the power outage in SF leaving all the robo taxis stranded, just as I am waiting for my kid to leave a children's birthday, which he can't leave because all the lockers in the place are electronic and have a power issue.

Wisst ihr, was böse Menschen gerne haben? Listen. Listen über ihre Unterstützer, Listen über ihre Gegner, und ganz besonders Listen über ihre geplanten Opfer. Solche Listen sind gar kein Spaß, fragt ruhig mal Menschen die in der DDR als "politisch unzuverlässig" markiert wurden, oder Fußballfans […]

Only on extremely rare occasions do I tend to repost posts from other platforms, but there are exceptions and this is certainly one of them as I feel this message is worthy to be spread as far and wide as possible. I was going to post link to the full article on […] [Original post on retro.pizza]

How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀 LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽‍♂️

The people talking about implementing AI in education are saying things that start out sounding sensible until you think. Most of my students don't need "extra attention" what if the AI could take care of the easy students and I would get the ones who need more nuance? Well first of all […]

I know a few people on here as well as myself will FEEL this cartoon.

Who chose Steve Witkoff? Putin www.wsj.com/world/putin-...