Has the goat burned? No! The Gävle goat is hitting the halfway through December milestone in fine fettle! Live stream https://www.youtube.com/live/IhU2MIUaFlg Official website https://www.visitgavle.se/en/gavle-goat #GävleGoat #Gävlebocken #goatwatch2025

As someone who runs my own blog, email, social media, backup system, home automation, business site, etc... I feel like self-hosting digital services is a lot like backyard chickens. Rewarding, lots of control, independence from Big Egg, and a great reminder of why distribution of labor and […]

RE: https://bookwyrm.social/user/dokushokyou/review/9214103 okay, only one left. i'm gonna have to concentrate to convince myself to read it tho, coz once i'm done with The Shepherd's Crown, that's it, i will have finished all the Discworld novels. (T_T) if i am not a sobbing mess by the end of […]

I am begging, begging, begging cool people making cool things to please have any presence on the web other than Instagram.

"Let us be the repository of your passkeys" and "We may terminate your account at any time and permanently refuse to communicate with you" ... seems like a bad combination?

Eating cereal from a bowl while sitting in a high chair: Torture Eating cereal that has been strewn like chicken feed onto the floor of the baby circle: A fun and nutritious enrichment activity ~Flock of Kittens 👶

Happy #hanukkah to all who celebrate, and solidarity with the Jewish community after the horrific news coming out of Australia.

it snow (^_^)

There’s a gen zer in med school right now and they know what brainrot is. They will probably treat you someday

Me: trying to have a weekend lie-in The cats:

Friends, if you use Adobe to fill out forms with assistive tech like JAWS or NVDA, do not update to the December Reader or Acrobat version. made life at work a freaking nightmare. Turn off auto update or try to get a previously working version to manually install.

The Creature just picked up some new friends at Federation Drive! 🫐🍓 #plushtodon #longbeach #losangeles #california #merchtodon #photo #photography

its a winter storm warning around here today, so my wallpaper is...

The 🐏 I can afford: 🐏

As we're working on Collections (an upcoming feature similar to "starter packs"), and improvements to the design of user profiles, we would like to hear from you! Please use our - short & anonymous! - User Experience Survey to share your thoughts. #mastodon #userexperience #design […]

Britain ends new fossil fuel exploration. The government has introduced a legal moratorium on all new oil and gas exploration licences, ending five decades of North Sea expansion and aligning policy with 1.5°C targets. Existing fields will keep producing under stricter climate tests, but future […]

I was told to expect a cyberpunk dystopia, so no surprises there. But it's much brighter and hotter and people don't dress as well as I had been led to expect.

I am immune to social media disinfo by the one simple trick of refusing to take anyone seriously who is recording a video while sitting in their car.

Fun fact: it's been raining in Seattle for 52,847 day straight.

Okay, that was a very lovely encounter. The guy who contacted me is a surfer, born & raised in FL. He said the #clay had washed up in big balls onto the beach after the storms and that he’d never seen anything like it before. I told him that the hurricanes […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

[AI news] So what I'm hearing with this Disney/OpenAI deal is that Disney is no longer defending its trademarks, everything is public domain now, the stories now rightly belong to the people.

[linuxtalk, long, venting] god i hate appimages. every little niche thing i use seems to be enamored of the things, but like, just give me a flatpak and shut up. your stupid appimage is a pain to use and it's impossible to manage. i shouldn't have to download a whole third party appimage […]

Youth pastor: We have all sinned. Scripture says no one is truly good. Little Clark Kent: But I've never done a single bad thing in my life. Youth pastor: If you've never, ever, ever broken a commandment, that would mean you're not human. Little Clark Kent: Um, about that—

Hey other blind people. Is there a comprehensive audio tutorial on direct touch typing? On the iPhone? I hear it’s much faster, but I don’t really get it because I seem to be double tapping keys anyway so I don’t understand the direct part. I know I’m not doing something right, but I can’t […]

Do you ever think about all the good you could do for the world if you didn’t have to spend most of your time selling your labor just to survive? 🤔

So much to do this holiday season. I’m just now getting around to defragging the candy canes!

I'm interviewing Doug Harper soon — the mind behind the Online Etymology Dictionary, affectionately called Etymonline. What questions do you have for him? They can be about the site or about word origins specifically or in general.

Hey. So. 😅 One of the folks here suggested I put out the Holiday Gift Crowdfund hat to get this Zune holiday sweater (which is $80) as a gift from the community. Since they still have a handful in stock and it is indeed still a thing I could order, and it’s incredible and I will shamelessly […]

My thoughts on social media bans everywhere is that if you're taking digital connections away from teens, you better make sure they have third spaces for physical connection, and give them options for transport that is not "parents drive us around" otherwise all you're creating is isolation. And […]

listening to a podcast about Chrono Trigger and now i need to play Chrono Trigger.

My dream is to walk into a store where there's a cat and they're like "Hey human, let me show you around." 📸 weiwei.kwan.7

Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #digitalsovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation […]

actual helpful explanation: There once was a guy from Chu (think "Florida") who lost his sword overboard while sailing across a river. He hurriedly marked the still-sailing boat with his dagger, so he would know where to dive later to find his sword. "Mark a boat to find a sword" = a solution […]

Tonight on translations that are almost as unhelpful as the idiom itself, “mark a boat to find a sword”: There once was a guy on a boat Who found out that swords do not float. He pulled out his dagger With native Chu swagger And said “I’ll just make me a […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

The #smashwords end of year sale has started. Lots of #DRM-free ebooks, discounted by 25-100%. https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos/ #bookstodon

hour five in the pharmacy drive thru line. people are forming and breaking alliances out of sheer boredum, and a religion based on the supremacy of the drive thru clerk has swept the nation.

3,150-year-old papyrus reveals the world’s earliest recorded labour strike. New analysis of the Turin Strike Papyrus—a detailed account from 1157 BCE—shows how artisans building the royal tombs at Deir el-Medina staged a coordinated walkout after going 18 days without grain rations. The document […]

Has the goat burned? No! The Gävle goat has survived a dark weekend. And its lights are back on! Zoom in to today's picture to see what appears to be a whole tour group of people visiting the goat. #GävleGoat #Gävlebocken #Goatwatch2025 Live stream […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

In the _Starfleet Technical Manual_ , there is a throwaway detail of the LCARS user interface that when it is upgraded, users can still utilize the previous several versions. This is because their work is mission-critical and it is unacceptable to compromise the mission by forcing unfamiliar […]

Things are moving really fast, so I went on and created a Codeberg organization for coordinating a post-Calibre path forward for uniting readers and writers in the goal of archiving, organizing, and reading books. https://codeberg.org/rereading DNS is still propagating, but […]

As of 1st January, #smashwords will be simplifying their royalty rates. https://authoremail.com/email/campaigns/ax263a298k390/

Front views of the Luggage Mimic. I sculpted 4 feet, 2 left and 2 right, and made a mould of each. The casts were removed from the mould early and reposed before curing fully. They all required some tidying up before adding them to the chest. #theluggage #discworld #mimic #Scratchbuilt #drh

Wishing my timeline a happy. We need it. :blobcat_doggo:

Alcohol and psych meds don’t mix, be careful yall

RE: https://famichiki.jp/@RachelThornSub/115672738142359471 This is a good thread for anyone interested in the status of the criminal justice system in Japan (spoiler, you really don’t want to get into it) or in the status of western celebrities in the country

Finally, the ridiculously talented @gloriouscow has decided making one of the, if not *the*, most accurate IBM PC emulators around isn't enough - and is now working on CC0-licensed reference book going into component-by-component detail of exactly how the IBM PC and later PC XT work […]

Cosplay implies the existence of sinplay and tanplay 🧐