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50+ Music 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

O, Tannenbaum 🕑
#GaryBurton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-oTDgcp_Lw

#garyburton

Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now! 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

anyone got some good 256 color palettes to recommend?

Jennifer Ouellette 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

Louisiana bars health dept. from promoting flu, COVID, mpox vaccines: Report https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/12/louisiana-bars-health-dept-from-promoting-flu-covid-mpox-vaccines-report/

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Alan Miller :verified_paw: Well THAT didn't go as hoped 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

Someone is disgruntled that I'm traveling. #caturday #catsofmastodon

A tuxedo cat sitting on the ottoman and quilt that are supposed to be part of bastard cat papa blanket lap. She looks displeased.

#caturday #catsOfMastodon

David Bisset 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

Gazzetta is an #RSS reader for #Mastodon (for #iOS)

https://primatology.xyz/blog/introducing-gazzetta

#Mastodon #ios #RSS

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

😵‍💫

A social post from @Cpin42 that says:
Took three Ambiens and tried to call God on the microwave

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Marvin Hamon 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

If you take one more then god answers.

Peter Koopman 🦣 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

The microwave is for calling the Obamas. Everyone knows.

Kernou 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

Very rich people only care about increasing wealth, that is their sickness, and it's what makes them parasites.

Carmen Zedler 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

„Wir sehen schon jetzt, wie #islamhasser #rechtsextreme und #AfD Sympathisanten in eine Parallelwelt abtauchen, #verschworungserzahlungen verbreiten. Sie fahren eine Kampagne gegen die #medien. Sie wollen nicht wahrhaben, dass der mutmaßliche Täter Islamhasser ist, also aus ihren Reihen kommt.“ #magdeburg #deutschland #medien #x #musk #afd #sozialemedien

https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/innenpolitik/id_100558000/magdeburg-experte-warnt-vor-wachsender-radikalisierung.html

#Deutschland #AfD #Medien #rechtsextreme #Magdeburg #Musk #x #SozialeMedien #Verschwörungserzählungen #islamhasser

@juliknaut 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

moin
Was immer auch vermutet wird,eines ist sonnen klar.
Wer mit Vorsatz Menschen verletzen und töten will, muss Menschen hassen.
Nix auf dieser welt rechtfertigt es Menschen zu töten, nur weil mann es kann.

Boerps ☑️ 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

@classicalmusic
Concerto I for 3 Harpsichords in C major, BWV 1064 (1735-45?)

Gustav Leonhardt, Alan Curtis & Anneke Uittenbosch, harpsichord
Leonhardt Consort

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJx5fOpAp6Y

#music #barock #concert

J.S. Bach - Concerto II for Three Harpsichords, BWV 1064 (c. 1740)

Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental c...

^YouTube

@classicalmusic group

Khurram Wadee 6 days ago • diaspora

N. E. Felibata 👽

2024-12-21 09:22:58

Source: https://fosstodon.org/@codfather/113689092204796649

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Kevin C 🎬 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

#KungFuSat Bruh, do you realise your crown was a really distracting wobbling tassle? Not sure I can follow this plot with that thing mesmerizing me.

#kungfusat

Khurram Wadee 6 days ago • diaspora

Alex Feldstein

2024-12-21 02:02:09

https://www.wonkette.com/p/elon-musk-boosting-german-fascists

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Peter Lindelauf 6 days ago • diaspora

No surprise from a child of apartheid. He wasn't born that way but got that way.

spaf 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

Friends - DO NOT drink and drive this festive season. If you want to stay safe, feel free to call, email, or text me at least two days in advance. I have years of experience and am happy to help. I'll come by and drink for you so you can drive safely.

Happy holidays!

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Piousunyn 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

Then they get to dive you home?

Wittyyolo 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

🤭

Jesse Skinner 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon & the Fediverse whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.

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EvilKiru 🇮🇸 he/him 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

@admin_backup

From what I've read on Mastodon, Bluesky is the new Nazi bar.

@JesseSkinner

@Jesse Skinner @Die™ar

Bruce 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

@EvilKiru

Hardly.

@EvilKiru 🇮🇸 he/him

Bruce 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

"...sticking around Mastodon..."

I'm not quite sure, yet. I've seen more activity from historians and archeologists in three days on Bluesky than I have in two years on Mastodon.

Solarbird :flag_cascadia: 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

One of the things I want to bring up is Bridgy App.

One of the plans I’m trying to make with getting people on BlueSky to turn on the Bridgy App has to do with the sudden-but-inevitable-betrayal moment.

One of the reasons people didn’t want to leave X was because they didn’t know people other places.

If they they give the gateway permissions, they will start knowing people other places before things go oh so very wrong.

They’ll already know where some of their friends are.

So that’s where they’ll look to go first.

I wrote a bunch of other stuff about all this here, at my fully-Federated and self-hosted blog.

https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/11/18/something-about-barn-doors-and-escaped-horses-but-also/

The "all or nothing" world of social media is over. We can start moving on from it now.

Mike Beasley 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

@moira There will be no sudden-but-inevitable betrayal with Bluesky. There can't be. The tech is so open that the network could move on without the Bluesky PBC. Even if the company went rogue or disappeared overnight, the network would still be possible to run without them.

That's the difference between atproto and ActivityPub. You lose everything if your instances goes belly-up overnight. You lose nothing on atproto.

@Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

Solarbird :flag_cascadia: 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

@MikeBeas Except that's not true - at least not _yet_.

They're promising it, but unless I'm very out of date, they have not yet delivered it.

I'm aware it is theoretically possible to do this. But there are leagues between "theory" and "reality," and last I heard, they still don't even have a real plan for actually _implementing_ portable identity.

(eta: To be clear, if they actually manage to pull it off: great! _I'm for it_. But they haven't _yet_, and there exist what historically have been very strong pressures _not_ to actually follow through. I'd love to see those pressures fail this time.)

@Mike Beasley

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Mike Beasley 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

@moira No, it's true right now. Nearly every part of the infrastructure is open source.

@Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

Solarbird :flag_cascadia: 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

@MikeBeas I'm unaware of any other... what do they call them, collector nodes? The stream collectors through which everything must pass. I mean, _I have seen people running BlueSky instances talking about this_, and they were saying that they don't exist yet, that everything has to go through central.

I mean, it's possible they're _also_ out of date, but I'd think people actually running their own instances would be caught up on this stuff.

@Mike Beasley

Solarbird :flag_cascadia: 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

@MikeBeas (Also also I'm not beating up on them for not having portable identity figured out with only a quasi-functional placeholder in its stead. Last I heard it was even called something like PH for PlaceHolder, which I found pretty amusing. That's a hard problem and good luck to them getting a real version to work.)

@Mike Beasley

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Mike Beasley 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

@moira PLC, and it's not a placeholder anymore. It's now a backronym for "Public Ledger of Credentials" and they're looking to hand it off to a web standards body so they don't control it.

@Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

M.S. Bellows, Jr. 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

Hey, guys? Heuristics are a thing.

Here's a helpful heuristic: "Tech billionaires don't build commercial entities that can work just as well without them."

That's my helpful heuristic. Thank you for coming to my #HelpfulHeuristic Talk.

Edit: #BlueSky

#Bluesky #helpfulheuristic

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Mike Beasley 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

@msbellows @moira Which tech billionaire are you referring to?

@Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @M.S. Bellows, Jr.

M.S. Bellows, Jr. 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

@MikeBeas @moira All of them?

@Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @Mike Beasley

Geert Aarts 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

Mastodon is great, but to make it even better for professional use it might help if something like the "top-links" in the "catch-up" (Beta) window of #phanpy (https://phanpy.social/ ) is the home page by default for all users. These top-links are sorted by the number of times boosted by the ones *you follow*. This could be useful for #science, to highlight most important developments (e.g. publications) in your network. Now you easily miss them, causing some colleagues to leave.

#Science #phanpy

Strypey 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

@geertaarts
> Mastodon is great, but to make it even better for professional use

Using Mastodon is only one way to participate in the fediverse. It wasn't even the first. There have always been a range of apps you can use, many of which have features Mastodon lacks;

https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/

Existing professional tools can be modified to communicate over ActivityPub too, see;

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/alphaxiv-and-fediverse/4750

@JesseSkinner

- Fediverse.Party - explore federated networks

Let's make social media free, federated and fun! Fediverse.Party is your guide into the world of decentralized, autonomous networks running on free open software on a myriad of servers across the world. No ads and no algorithms.

^{fediverse.party}

@Jesse Skinner @Geert Aarts

Dreaming of dad jazz. 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

I'll be on both..

@pineywoozle (s) for HARRIS 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

@michaelcoyote I think keeping Mastodon as a main account and also building a community on BS that could be ported here if the enshitification of BS hits, might not be an awful idea. it might also be a way to educate people about the fediverse. #Mastodon #BlueSky

#Mastodon #Bluesky @Dreaming of dad jazz.

Robert Kingett 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

@Pineywoozle @michaelcoyote And really, you can follow blue sky users on here anyway, and bridge your account over there anyway, so I am choosing to bridge my account, and follow accounts that have bridged, so when they enshittify I won’t be starting over from scratch

@Dreaming of dad jazz. @@pineywoozle (s) for HARRIS

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Flying_Donny for democracy 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

@WeirdWriter @Pineywoozle @michaelcoyote Same.

@Dreaming of dad jazz. @@pineywoozle (s) for HARRIS @Robert Kingett

@pineywoozle (s) for HARRIS 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

@kateiacy We need to build the most robust communities. Speaking of, I’d love to boost some of your COVID posts, so hit me up when you’re no longer an anonymous pachyderm. 😉 RFK is gonna damage a lot of lives & the more we raise our voices together the safer we’ll all be. 😊 @WeirdWriter @michaelcoyote @JesseSkinner #Covid #LongCovid

Embroidery hoop, with a wreath where the flowers have been replaced with Covid molecules and tiny skills. Inside the embroidered wreath are these words. WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU MUTATES AND TRIES AGAIN.
Signed @Pineywoozle

#Covid #LongCovid @Jesse Skinner @Dreaming of dad jazz. @Flying_Donny for democracy @Robert Kingett

Strypey 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

> keeping Mastodon as a main account and also building a community on BS that could be ported here if the enshitification of BS hits

*When* the enshittification of BS hits;

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/?ref=ActivityPub

@michaelcoyote @JesseSkinner

@Jesse Skinner @Dreaming of dad jazz.

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@pineywoozle (s) for HARRIS 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

@strypey I hear ya. Valid point. @michaelcoyote @JesseSkinner

@Strypey @Jesse Skinner @Dreaming of dad jazz.

shield_asset 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@strypey @Pineywoozle @michaelcoyote Does the fact that BlueSky only operates with around 20 employees not alarm anyone?

@Strypey @Dreaming of dad jazz. @@pineywoozle (s) for HARRIS

M.S. Bellows, Jr. 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

@MikeBeas @moira Bluesky isn't owned and run by tech billionaires?

@Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @Mike Beasley

Toni Aittoniemi 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

Bridging to bluesky should be enough. I still enjoy a non-algorithm view more than chasing a computer algorithm to boost things for me!

Bam 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

@gimulnautti

I just wish the bridge operated by opt out rather than opt in. So many Bluesky non-techies don’t understand how it works or why they should do it.

@JesseSkinner

@Jesse Skinner @Toni Aittoniemi

Marc W. 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

@Bam @gimulnautti
“Because most people don’t understand it” is a terrible reason to make it opt-out.

@Bam @Toni Aittoniemi

Strypey 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

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@Bam
> I just wish the bridge operated by opt out rather than opt in

AFAIK it was. Then the Mastodon Homeowners Association dogpiled @snarfed.org until he made it opt-in. What I'd like to see him do is make the opt-in itself opt-in. So it's up to server admins to decide whether they want BS interop with their server to be opt-in or opt-out.

I suspect our server's community would prefer opt-out.

@gimulnautti @JesseSkinner

@Ryan Barrett @Jesse Skinner @Bam @Toni Aittoniemi

Strypey 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

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Having said that, there's some benefits to people effectively having to choose either;

* actually decentralised social networks like the fediverse (or Nostr)

OR

* pseudo-decentralised social platforms like BS (or Meta's Chains)

It spares us having to deal with "influencer" types who think volume of noise is more important than quality of signal.

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Alexis Bushnell 4 weeks ago (Received 2 weeks ago) • mastodon (AP)

@strypey just to throw a different light on influencers as someone who works in social media - the reason quantity over quality is important on other platforms is because of the algorithms on them. A lot of them would prefer to post less but they can't because it's their livelihood and posting less would see them punished.

Sure there's some who don't care and want to post nonsense, but there are great influencers who are pushed to in order to be successful.

@Strypey

Strypey 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@alexisbushnell
> the reason quantity over quality is important on other platforms is because of the algorithms on them

That explains how the habit develops. But not why people pick replacements that supply the habit, rather than liberating them from it.

While I'm glad you shared this, your reply is somewhat out of context. I was referring more to some people choosing a Xitter replacement on the basis of total population to be reached (quantity), over the values encoded in the tech (quality).

@Alexis Bushnell

Alexis Bushnell 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@strypey I have the same frustration but when your business model depends on reaching the most people, the decision is made for you based on where the most people are.

I also know some people have tried Fedi and had bad experiences here because they didn't understand the cultural norms here and instead of gently explaining, people just yelled and called them awful, so they left for less aggressive pastures.

@Strypey

Strypey 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

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@alexisbushnell
> when your business model depends on reaching the most people, the decision is made for you based on where the most people are

That logic makes sense in a broadcast world, where channels have fairly consistent audiences. But it totally breaks down in social media.

FarceBook still has a higher total population than anywhere. But there's no guarantee anyone will see your stuff there - even if they follow you - unless you pay to play.

@Alexis Bushnell

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Strypey 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

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Speaking here as an activist, writer and advocacy journalist for about 3 decades. If you think I don't want lots of people to read and share my stuff, you're imagining someone much more enlightened than me ; )

Strypey 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

(3/3)

I first got active on the fediverse on Quitter.se. They ran a GNU social server, which could automatically crosspost to a Titter account. I set one up for that purpose.

Every now and then I'd login to respond to any comments that merited a reply, and compare the level of engagement with what I was getting in the verse. Despite the total population of Titter being massively higher, both the quantity and quality of engagement here was consistently higher.

#SocialMedia #fediverse

#fediverse #socialmedia

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

I'll be with the nerdy kids in the library, thanks.

BoneHo-Ho-HouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

@Cliftographer Serious, I'm afraid. Logged onto BS a couple times in the last week or so - first time in a year or so and saw lots of posts from MAGAts gloating about their election victory and trolling the 'libs' or whatever.

I'm not a Fediverse dogmatist and I'm not interested in being part of the next Twitter replacement. I'm sure BS will work for many people. I'm just not interested in that discourse anymore.

@Teach Honest History

BoneHo-Ho-HouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

@EvilKiru @admin_backup Certainly true, IME.

@EvilKiru 🇮🇸 he/him @Die™ar

Teach Honest History 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

Are you serious or satirical? #Bluesky is a wonderful welcoming & supportive environment. Throwing shade at Bluesky seems to be a popular pass time here. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. But the 'one true faith' #Fediverse dogma I see here is increasingly off-putting.

jakob 🇦🇹 ✅ 1 month ago • friendica (via ActivityPub)

@EvilKiru 🇮🇸 he/him @Jesse Skinner @Die™ar

Fediverse.

Mastodon is only a Part of the Fediverse.

(Posted from Friendica. Friendica is not Mastodon!)

@Jesse Skinner @EvilKiru 🇮🇸 he/him @Die™ar

Wolfgang Cramer 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

I must admit that my failure to reach "non-nerdy people" in the fediverse has been discouraging. The arrival of climate and biodiv scientists + communicators on bsky is massive.

I will "stick around" here, but I found, after a short trial that bridging is not good enough for me, because I can't see how to have two-way follow-up exchanges across that bridge.

So I have resolved to use buffer for posting in parallel on both sides, and then deal with the engagement where it comes.

jakob 🇦🇹 ✅ 1 month ago • friendica (via ActivityPub)

@Wolfgang Cramer @Jesse Skinner

Friendica, anither service in Fediverse, has a native Bluesky-Connector.
No bridge needed.

@Jesse Skinner @Wolfgang Cramer

Strypey 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@alexisbushnell
> an amazing Fedi following won't get you paid

I beg to differ. I recently got my first paid subscription from a shameless self-promotion here. I regularly see people posting jobs wanted and jobs offered ads. As well as begposts along the lines of 'can't pay my rent this week, please drop cash money in this digital bucket'.

Will an amazing BlueSky following get you paid in similar ways? Probably. But it has nothing to do with the relative size of their total population.

@Alexis Bushnell

Strypey 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

> I meant in the way influencers make money - by selling ad space on their content

Is it mean to say that I simply don't care what happens to people who make money that way? Just like I don't care about what happens to any bacteria on my hands when I wash them?

Like the bacteria, this style of "influencer" floods the zone with shit simply by existing. If BlueSky keeps them away from the fediverse for a bit longer, that's the best argument I've seen so far for BS existing ; )

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Alexis Bushnell 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@strypey I meant in the way influencers make money - by selling ad space on their content.

@Strypey

LA Sooner 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

"Guess we're gonna need a new midget." #KungFuSat

#kungfusat

David McMullin 7 days ago (Received 6 days ago) • mastodon (AP)

“AI enables everyone to be a creator.”
Everyone could already be a creator. What was stopping everyone before AI? “Gatekeepers”? How does AI solve that? It makes gatekeepers more necessary and valuable, to filter out all the AI slop.

“AI can create just like a human artist.”
Then what does it need copyrighted art made by humans for?

From: @muz4now
https://mastodon.world/@muz4now/113683045826174265

Stan Stewart aka muz4now

2024-12-20 03:33:36

U.S. Copyright Law, Not Big Tech, Democratized Authorship - The Illusion of More http://dlvr.it/TGvMWP #Copyright

U.S. Copyright Law, Not Big Tech, Democratized Authorship - The Illusion of More
Big tech talks about democratizing creative and cultural works as anathama to copyright law. This is is backwards.
^{David Newhoff (The Illusion of More)}

@Stan Stewart aka muz4now

Estarriol, Tinsel Wrap Dragon 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

AI allows companies to not pay creatives in the belief that creativity than be automated.

Stan Stewart aka muz4now 1 week ago (Received 6 days ago) • mastodon (AP)

U.S. Copyright Law, Not Big Tech, Democratized Authorship - The Illusion of More http://dlvr.it/TGvMWP #Copyright

U.S. Copyright Law, Not Big Tech, Democratized Authorship - The Illusion of More

Big tech talks about democratizing creative and cultural works as anathama to copyright law. This is is backwards.

^{David Newhoff (The Illusion of More)}

#Copyright

CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow: 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

Somebody really wants to play with his shadow.
#Caturday

#caturday

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Mensch, Marina 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

Cat Tai Chi - shadow boxing - she's doing fitness training and you make fun of her 😾

Old Man in the Shoe 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

I like to think about the #Axial age a lot

#axial

Sue Stone 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

'A fiasco by any measure': Wall Street Journal turns on Trump over budget 'blundering' - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fiasco/

'A fiasco by any measure': Wall Street Journal turns on Trump over budget 'blundering'

Following a last-minute deal in the House which kept the government running until March, the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal placed the blame for the House budget chaos on Donald Trump and not House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) who was unde…

^{Tom Boggioni (Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism)}

Lu ohne CiA 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

Kann man sich echt nicht ausdenken! #Magdeburg #AfDVerbot

#Magdeburg #afdverbot

Mensch, Marina 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

schlimm, das mag ich gar nicht boosten. Aber solche werden noch mehr aus der Versenkung kommen.

Lu ohne CiA 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

@energisch_ die Befürchtung habe ich leider auch 🙈

@Mensch, Marina

Kevin C 🎬 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

#KungFuSat I like that the soundtrack stole a flute theme from somewhere. 👍

#kungfusat

Gary Hill 6 days ago • diaspora

Imagine a world where supermarkets use refrigerator units to store photos of fish and meat...
#Photo
#Photography
#Photographer
#MyWork
#signofthetimes

#photography #mywork #Photo #Photographer #signofthetimes

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Kenny Chaffin 6 days ago • diaspora

😀

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Mulkurul 6 days ago • diaspora

Hunka Munka redux...

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Inkican 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

Asteroid nearly hits Earth in Siberia, with a 2nd massive asteroid passing this week https://abcnews.go.com/International/asteroid-creates-fireball-siberia-larger-version/story?id=116422005 #space #nasa #universe #astronomy #art #science #galaxy #moon #stars #spacex

Asteroid nearly hits Earth in Siberia, with a 2nd massive asteroid passing this week

The asteroid entered the atmosphere Tuesday morning in northeastern Siberia.

^{Leah Sarnoff (ABC News)}

#Science #art #space #NASA #Galaxy #SpaceX #astronomy #universe #moon #stars

animalsfarm 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

She's been waiting all day for this

#Caturday

A calico cat hanging off the side of a bed while getting a tummy rub

#caturday

Sue Stone 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

GOP lawmakers now face job danger from 'Musk Republicans' in 2026: ex-RNC official - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/musk-republicans/

FediFollows ☃️ 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

Christmas can be an especially difficult period for people who are socially isolated.

If you're feeling lonely, whether alone or among other people, there is a group and a hashtag you can follow which encourages friendly chit chat:

➡️ @joinin

➡️ #JoinIn

It works like this:

1. Follow the tag and/or group
2. Post about what you are up to in everyday life (cooking, walking the dog etc) and include the tag and/or group
3. Reply to someone else's Join In posts in a friendly supportive manner

#JoinIn @joinin group

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Maria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️ 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

@seanbala I participated in this for a while last year but quickly got totally bummed out by the tales of woe reported and then tagged #joinin. I think I'll skip it this year. Sorry, but I don't come here so other people can bring me down. I need to look after my own mental health first. 🤷🏻‍♀️

#JoinIn @Sean Bala

Tyrion 🐧🏴‍☠️ 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

@mlanger
I wonder if something like a positive-only #JoinIn can be made. #PositiveJoinIn or #UpbeatJoinIn or #CheerfulJoinIn, something like that.

I mean, we don't have to laugh like clowns all day, but we can keep the serious stuff for other tags.

#JoinIn #positivejoinin #upbeatjoinin #cheerfuljoinin @Maria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️

FediFollows ☃️ 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

The experience you have will vary depending on which accounts your server has noticed.

I did join in last year and (from what my server could see) it was mostly people talking about positive everyday things, it was very fun and constructive.

Obviously you had a different experience, but the Join In tag isn't specifically intended for tales of woe.

A way to avoid this variation is to follow the group rather than hashtag, as the group will be identical on any server.

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Maria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️ 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

I'd say that most were upbeat, but there was certainly a lot of pity partying going on, too. We all have shit to deal with in our own lives and the last thing I need to see is someone else's.

FediFollows ☃️ 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

People deal with loneliness in different ways, I don't think it's useful to vilify any particular approach. Join In is meant to be as inclusive as possible.

I'm sure you didn't mean it like this, but some people might interpret phrases like "we all have shit do deal with" and "pity partying" as shaming them into keeping quiet.

(Again, I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, I'm just saying it may sound like shaming, especially if someone is having a tough time.)

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MicroBlog Castellano 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 If you're on Spain, we're promoting the tag #Únete
🇪🇦🇺🇾 Si estás en España estamos proponiendo la etiqueta #Únete para quienes quieran pasar estas navidades con su "familia virtual" del fediverso. Creo que también será bienvenida la gente de Latinoamérica, pero de momento estoy viendo eventos en horario europeo.

#unete

FediFollows ☃️ 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

@fivethreezerosiamese

Just to be clear, I didn't set this up, I'm just letting people know about it 🙂

@น้อย คงคะดี

✒️Miguelbrasil :disfarce: 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

hi there people

Subcömandante♠️Midas🦄 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

OB DAS TESLAWERK SCHON BESETZT WURDE UND WANN DA DIE ERSTEN E-LASTENBIKES VOM BAND LAUFEN HAB ICH GEFRAGT

Jamie Knight 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

Out for today’s visit to my friend #IndustrialEstateCat to drop off a meal and exchange her microwaveable heat pad. She’s just enjoying some turkey and a sachet of chicken-flavoured yoghurt. The heat pad means she’ll be warm and comfortable in her Mr Snugs Kat Den, as there’s a nasty cold wind blowing. Since the weather got colder she’s living almost full time in the den. 😊

#CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Caturday

A white and grey tabby cat in front of two mostly empty food trays, near her green plastic cat den, looking up at a nearby human. She’s just enjoying turkey and a yoghurt treat.

#cats #caturday #catsOfMastodon #industrialestatecat

Marion Donnelly 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

You’re a kind person, Jamie.

Three varied illustrated cats in winter hats and scarves

Jamie Knight 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

@MarionDonnelly Thank you. 😊 I do what I can to make their lives a bit more comfortable.

@Marion Donnelly

😃ʙᴛ'ғᴀɴ•ᴍᴀ!! [ᴄʜʀɪsᴛɪᴀɴ] 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

Definitivamente La Inquisición Me Daran Casa Hoy Estoy Muy Herraje Siguiendo A #Slaanesh

• SLAANESH, Canción del placer - #Warhammer40K Epic SONG 2024 #Video
#MusicAI #Music #YouTube

[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZodWapr4LM ]

SLAANESH, Canción del placer - Warhammer 40k Epic SONG 2024

Y llegó la canción que muchos esperaban; al príncipe del exceso, placer y lujuria! Quise hacer algo al nivel de Slaanesh, Posiblemente me la bajen pero valió...

^YouTube

#video #music #YouTUBE #warhammer40k #musicai #slaanesh

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

"We haven't any room in Prison to spare"

They're doing this intentionally, as a message to the rest of us about protest.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/21/elderly-activist-to-spend-christmas-in-prison-because-tag-does-not-fit

#JustStopOil #UKpol #Ukpolitics

Elderly activist to spend Christmas in prison because tag does not fit

Woman jailed for M25 protest not allowed to continue home detention because electronic tags are too big

^{Diane Taylor (The Guardian)}

#UKpolitics #ukpol #juststopoil

Paul 💙 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

Shortage of prison space... Release environmentalists, drug users, and sex workers and make some space... Keep those that are a danger to society in jail...

But not those that need help not imprisonment, those that are trying to make a better place and those who are just trying to get by

Old Hippie Ⓥ Resistance! 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

Meat-eaters more likely to be disgusted by meat after taking part in #Veganuary
#veganism
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/dec/21/meat-eaters-more-likely-to-be-disgusted-by-meat-after-taking-part-in-veganuary-study-reveals?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Meat-eaters more likely to be disgusted by meat after taking part in Veganuary, study reveals

Avoiding animal products – and alcohol – at the start of the year makes lasting changes more likely, say researchers

^{James Tapper (The Guardian)}

#veganism #Veganuary

NotImpressed 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

#Syria #AlQaeda2.0
#US #Israel #Turkiye
@palestine

An update from geopolitical analyst Ben Norton:
- The US has 2000 troops on the ground in Syria, where the oil fields are located. They're there to stay.
- How the Cesar sanctions crippled Syria
- How the US created, armed and trained Al Qaeda
- Israel's strategic occupation of Mount Hermon

Who lost the most out of the neo-colonial US/Turkiye/Israeli led regime change are the Syrian people and the Palestinians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qicLi6kqt7M&t=1051s

Exposed: US military supported Syrian rebel offensive that toppled Assad government

Syrian rebel commanders have admitted that the US military helped them overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad. NATO member Turkey and Israel played a ke...

^YouTube

#US #Israel #Syria #turkiye #alqaeda2 @palestine group

“””””Saint””””” Nick 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

My 10:00 appointment didn’t pick up the phone. Good.

SoydelBierzo ⁂ 7 days ago • mastodon (AP)

Tanta preocupación con Huawei, TP-Link, TikTok y resulta que el peligroso es el Gran Dragón Niño-Hombre

No sé a que espera la UE para cerrar el acceso al bar nazi

https://12ft.io/https://elpais.com/internacional/2024-12-20/elon-musk-siembra-el-nerviosismo-en-alemania-al-apoyar-a-la-extrema-derecha.html

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Mon 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

Pues que la UE está llena de Nazis.

Ya no tenemos al Pacto de Varsovia para mantenerlos a raya.

SoydelBierzo ⁂ 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

@xesfur eso parece

@Mon

Khurram Wadee 6 days ago • diaspora

𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕒 🏳️‍⚧️🦋

2024-12-20 20:08:02

#books

9 people like this

:earth: Peter 🌍:NoNazis: 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

Far Right

Donald Trump and Elon Musk Have Energized the German Far-Right – Mother Jones

Germany’s AfD, with its own plan for mass deportations, is hoping to replicate the MAGA movement’s success in upcoming elections.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/donald-trump-elon-musk-alternative-fur-deutschlandafd-german-elections/

Donald Trump's victory energized the German far-right. Elon Musk's endorsement has them exultant.

Germany's AfD, with its own plan for mass deportations, is hoping to replicate the MAGA movement's success in upcoming elections.

^{Mother Jones}

Taz Bewegung 6 days ago • mastodon (AP)

Urteil zu Eigenbedarfskündigungen: Nichts zu gewinnen mit Eigenbedarf

🔥 Tausenden Mieter:innen wird in Berlin jedes Jahr unter vorgeschobenen Gründen gekündigt. Jetzt stärkt ein Urteil die Rechte der Betroffenen.

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