1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Feds will freeze $10 billion in social services funding to blue states The states expected to be impacted are Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado, a federal health official confirmed to MS NOW on Tuesday […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

.... Fucking hell. #uspol #dirtyliars #trump White House unveils Jan. 6 webpage saying Democrats ‘staged the real insurrection,’ criticizing Capitol Police https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5675182-trump-launches-jan6-website/

Watching Ford vs Ferrari. Surprisingly engaging. Christian Bale is a genuinely likeable firebrand. Matt Damon is Matt Damon in a cowboy hat. There are bits of the cinematography that are freaking amazing, even in quiet moments (one night, Ken is working in the hangar and a plane passes outside […]

US to slash routine vaccine recommendations for children in major change experts say creates doubt Jabs to prevent influenza, rotavirus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and other vaccines are no longer fully recommended […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

Aw. CMON people. You do NOT NEED THE INTERNET AND A SUBSCRIPTION TO DETERMINE IF YOU ARE HYDRATED OR NOT. Engadget: Vivoo's toilet computer keeps an eye on your hydration https://www.engadget.com/home/vivoos-toilet-computer-keeps-an-eye-on-your-hydration-030000209.html? #Cloud

I do not want Venezuela I do not want Greenland. I do not want Cuba. I do not want Canada. I do not want Mexico. I just want healthcare.

The trauma is beating me around the head lately but some journaling has provided a revelation that I think some other folks might need to hear too: You deserve for other people to do the work to make you feel safe. #trauma

New Comic Strip Found: Baby Blues - 2026-01-04 https://www.gocomics.com/babyblues/2026/01/04 #comicstrip #babyblues #parenting

The Guardian: ‘Our minerals could be used to annex us’: why Canada doesn’t want US mining https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/05/our-minerals-could-be-used-to-annex-us-why-canada-doesnt-want-us-mining #Climate #canada #war #mining

Don't say you don't need feminism. You do.

In 1980 the United States led a boycott of the Olympic games in Moscow due to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. Sixty countries joined the boycott. The 2026 World Cup is mostly in the United States. [Yes, this post is about Venezuela.]

Unfortunately, the server has shut down. You'll need to find another instance or have yourself or your organization create one. We've created an activitypub group @[email protected] to allow orphaned #medmastodon users to find each other. poliverso.org/profile/medm...

If you’re connected over at BlueSky, there’s a very helpful thread identifying a number of AI generated/manipulated images and videos that are currently being circulated in relation the Venezuela… https://bsky.app/profile/shayan86.bsky.social/post/3mbjy54flhc2u #uspol #venezuela

Your cat *wants* to pet you back, but they is sad that their petter is small, rough, and wet.

First print of 2026: Very long snek. Meet Felicity. Articulated prints fascinate me. The geometry of the joints is so elegant. File: https://makerworld.com/en/models/900903-tiny-flexi-snake-as-long-as-it-gets-one Filament: ELEGOO Silk PLA Filament Magenta Blue https://a.co/d/ccG03fu #3dprinting

So it's appropriate to arrest a world leader if you consider them criminal? You can just go get them? Just asking questions here.

Hey you guys who think about the Roman Empire a lot. When is it that the Imperial bodyguard usually murders the Emperor?

I certainly hope the EU can put the same sanctions on the US for attacking Venezuela as they did on Russia for attacking Ukraine. This is indefensible.

During the Iraq war I let people gaslight me into thinking I didn't know enough about "foreign policy" and "global politics" to say the war was a bad idea. I would hesitate because, I'm not an expert on those things. But I was right then and I'm right now. You don't need to be an expert, it's […]

You may have heard that the maintainer of med-mastodon.com, a large, prominent Mastodon server, recently decided to shut down the server without warning, leaving his users with no access to their data. This could happen to you at any time. If you care about this, you should be backing up your […]

HOAlien #scifisuburbanlife #HashtagGames

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/115828276041483994 Ah, perfect, @AkaSci added a diagram and an explanation of why this weather warning is happening! Happy Perihelion+perigee Moon!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115825601939497488 No words indeed, they are not trying to hide it but are proud of it..

There’s people out there upset that Mamdani swore his oath of office on a copy of the Qur’an. They would much rather he swore his oath on a book he hasn’t read and doesn’t actually believe in; you know, like they would with a Bible.

Hmm, sounds like you can go to jail by loading up the "X" site right about now. (apparently rampant CSAM. I wouldn't load the site myself to check).

OMG. Iconic! #coffee #ferrari #wildmashups A San Francisco coffee roaster turned an office joke into reality by transforming a 1984 Ferrari 308 into the world's fastest café, complete with a trunk-mounted espresso machine that sits right next to the roaring 3.0-liter V8 engine. - […]

RE: https://hellions.cloud/@dannotdaniel/115823756471991403 Fuck. Yes. A Greatest American Hero reboot where Ralph goes around punching MAGAs.

Fuck Bob Iger. #disney #owlhouse #fuckgenai Disney showrunner: "Pirate my series" https://youtube.com/shorts/EJ1BfyNqKMs

Have something light-hearted, y'all. Read the comments, too. You will be surprised. #violin #fiddle https://youtube.com/shorts/4jByGD3rqFQ

Lol oops. #omaha Omaha's New Year's Eve fireworks show was cut short https://www.ketv.com/article/omaha-new-years-eve-fireworks-show-was-cut-short/69896493

This is a MAJOR deal - spread the word: "The recall does not apply to frozen and refrigerated products that Gold Star Distribution, Inc., shipped to retail and convenience stores—only to the shelf-stable items stored at the facility. However, those items were sent to more than 50 grocery and […]

The childcare thing is about getting women out of the workplace. #uspol

Friends: You're not a painfully introverted person who can't muster the spoons to go out with friends on a popular party night. No, you are a competent and worldly-wise individual who knows it's important on this night to stay off the roads populated by amateur drunks.

a solution doesn’t need to be universal in order to be viable. in fact, few are

"....According to OxFam, a global confederation of non-government organizations, the $2.2tn growth in net worth for the world’s wealthiest 500 individuals would have been enough to lift 3.8 billion people out of poverty..." #poverty #wealth #billionaires

Just created the 2026 folder for #HashTagGames on the Fediverse. Thank you for playing our little once daily @hashtaggames game. I never imagined when I posted my first game in 2022 that we would develop such a community. I was just bored and needed a distraction. @paul

The US is on a human rights watch list, and there are literally countries warning about visiting the United States of America. All it took was one year of Putin’s puppet being in power again.

😬 WSJ: Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity (Dec 30, 2025) "...Earlier this year, two nicotine startups—*** and ***—made branded vending machines filled with flavored products for analytics company Palantir Technologies. Both […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

New at Flatwater: When Nebraska’s DHHS unveiled a plan to divvy up opioid settlement money, one recipient stood out: The Central Wyoming Counseling Center, which got $3.4 million. The Wyoming center’s former CEO: Steve Corsi, who now runs DHHS. 🔗 buff.ly/3UaJfY2

Dear rest of the world, We don't like him and his administration either.

Walter Koroshetz was head of NIH's neurology institute for a decade. In 2017, when I was a research patient at NIH in an ME/CFS study, he spent 90 minutes one evening talking to my late partner, Beth Mazur, about ME/CFS and how NIH was going about its research. Beth gave him a bunch of good […]

These people "We're creating the Torment Nexus to destroy all life on the universe, we need to hire someone to oversee to make sure we don't make the Torment Nexus capable of destroying all life on the universe." […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

'South Park' writers create parody website for Trump Kennedy Center after snagging the domain names. Logo has redacted Epstein file snippets "Welcome to TrumpKennedyCenter.org A national cultural center dedicated to legacy, loyalty, and the careful […] [Original post on oldfriends.live]

#nws #tornado Tornado Warning for Jasper, IN #inwx https://api.weather.gov/alerts/urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.e5e4cbc434b0f5904f1d541731ce7fbd710046cb.001.1

"The venue's president, Richard Grenell, said he would seek $1 million in damages 'for this political stunt.'" #uspol #kennedycenter #ironyisdead Kennedy Center criticizes musician who canceled show after Trump name added to venue […]