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#TuckFrump mastodon (AP)
Madison Students March To The Capitol For Gun Safety https://crooksandliars.com/2024/12/madison-students-march-capitol-gun-safety?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

stefani mastodon (AP)

Pejac´s ‘The world going down the drain’ – In Santander, Spain.
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When Art Meets Activism: 7 Powerful Street Art Pieces Fighting for the Planet: https://streetartutopia.com/2024/12/20/street-art-that-echo-environmental-awareness/
A striking street art piece by Pejac located in Santander, Spain. This artwork features a painted map of the world seemingly flowing into a storm drain, symbolizing environmental degradation and the loss of natural resources. The minimalist design, placed on a white concrete surface along a roadside, uses the shape of the drain to emphasize the visual metaphor of Earth's decline. The piece invites reflection on sustainability and our impact on the planet.

Why are ethics questions always:

“Is it ethical to steal bread if your family is starving?”

And not:

“Is it ethical to hoard a million loaves of bread when other families are starving?”
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” Dom Helder Camara
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Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
Dark energy 'doesn't exist' so can't be pushing 'lumpy' Universe apart | ScienceDaily

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/12/241220133038.htm

Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
Jan. 6 report leads to false claims of FBI setup | AP News

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-capitol-riot-fbi-justice-department-598b775804bdcef9cb065a67a4236033
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Andrew Pam diaspora
Netflix's lackluster management team embraces enshittification
Netflix's "freedom and responsibility" culture once set it apart from the competition, allowing it to attract the best talent; but under the leadership of Ted Sarandos, it's rapidly falling into line with every other large corporation as it rolls back the ground-breaking policy of unlimited parental leave during the first year of a child's life it implemented a decade ago.

Ever since Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings stepped down as co-CEO in 2023 to make way for the former employee of a video store chain, the company has steadily backtracked on its parental leave policy, using vague and sometimes contradictory internal guidelines to make the point that taking more than six months of parental leave is a bad career move.

This regressive cultural shift is part of an explicit refocus at the company from subscriber growth to profitability, in other words, or as Cory Doctorow would put it, full-scale enshittification: the only stakeholders that matter are the shareholders. A company that once attracted the bright and the best because it treated people like adults, and saw them to respond in kind, is now just another place to work.
Tess diaspora
True. I recognized the change some time ago.
Loads & loads of trump followers seems to equal not attracting the best & the brightest any longer...enshittification?

Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
Don't forget your learning today ... Hugz

Hugz & xXx

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast: What Will TWISmas Bring?

Episode webpage: https://www.twis.org/18-december-2024-episode-998-what-will-twismas-bring/

Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/twis/TWIS_12_18_2024.mp3

Joyce Donahue diaspora

Magdeburg Attack Suspect Said Elon Musk, Alex Jones 'Telling Truth': Report - Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/germany-magdeburg-terrorism-musk-2004573


Termina el año y voy a hacer un resumen de la pandilla de compinches que tengo por aquí.
Me gustaría estar con @editora en @casatiajulia escribiendo poemas, me gustaría da un paseo por el bosque con @clifor , ir al bar con @IoannesEnsis a conocer a la vieja guardia roja, escuchar en vivo a @Bettie cantar una jota castellana, trastear en una raspbery con @soydelbierzo para construir un controlador domótico, quedar con @SrMoshuelo y hacer hermosos poemas a dos bocas,
1/2🧵
#amigues

Camping is the answer. Who cares what the question is.
Camping is the answer. Who cares what the question is. A picture of people camping in the woods. From: I Love Camping


Chuck Darwin mastodon (AP)
In August 2023, the Heinrich Böll Foundation (HBS) announced that Masha Gessen was the winner of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought.

In December, days before the award was due to be presented, the HBS said that it was withdrawing its support because it objected to Gessen's December 9 New Yorker essay
"In the Shadow of the Holocaust"
on German Holocaust memory and the Israel–Hamas war.

In the essay, Gessen argued that Germany's remembrance culture regarding the Holocaust was being used as a "cynically wielded political instrument"
by the Alternative for Germany (AfD)
to target Muslim immigrants.

Gessen was also critical of the Israeli bombings of the Gaza Strip, which they considered to be highly destructive and comparable to
an Eastern European ghetto "being liquidated" by the Nazis.

On December 16, 2023 Gessen received the Hannah Arendt literary prize award in a scaled-down ceremony.
https://apnews.com/article/germany-hannah-arendt-prize-masha-gessen-1923648579baea413c8b35cc436375fe
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Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706195/ ‘She won’t disappear’: Gisèle Pelicot’s lawyers on what she will do next | Gisèle Pelicot rape trial #News #world #WorldNews #WorldTopics
‘She won’t disappear’: Gisèle Pelicot’s lawyers on what she will do next | Gisèle Pelicot rape trial

NotSteve_ lemmy (AP)
world's most important companies

That's hilariously American defaultism considering most of the world doesn't need companies like UHC


Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706193/ ‘Resistance was not a choice’: how Syria’s unlikely rebel alliance took Aleppo | Aleppo #Conflicts #Syria
‘Resistance was not a choice’: how Syria’s unlikely rebel alliance took Aleppo | Aleppo

https://sweatmoonlace.blogspot.com/2024/11/weekly-secret-sweetheart-112324-15.html

#secretsweetheart #sfw

Olivier Revelin mastodon (AP)
#bikepunk ma libraire ce midi quand je commande Bikepunk : ".. Mais il se passe quoi avec ce titre???" (Ellipses, Toulouse)
Olivier Revelin mastodon (AP)
@ploum Pas grand chose de pertinent, j'avais un timing serré. Avec un peu de chance elle a compris que je parlais du buzz sur un réseau social alternatif.
ploum mastodon (AP)
: en tout cas, c’est vraiment génial d’attirer l’attention des libraires de cette manière. Merci !

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706191/ A road accident in a remote part of western Iran left 9 dead and 14 injured | World #ap_world #Conflicts #GeneralNews #Iran #IranRoadAccidentNineDead #WorldNews
A road accident in a remote part of western Iran left 9 dead and 14 injured | World


Steve Herman mastodon (AP)
Update: Five people were killed and dozens seriously injured after a car drove into a crowd at a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg. https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/12/21/magdeburg-christmas-market
Steve Herman mastodon (AP)
US “extends our deepest condolences to the people of Germany grieving the terrible attack at a Christmas market yesterday in Magdeburg, Germany. No community—and no family—should have to endure such a despicable and dark event, especially just days before a holiday of joy and peace.” - President Biden https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/21/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-attack-on-magdeburg-christmas-market/
John G Fitzgerald mastodon (AP)
Meanwhile it's perfectly ok to kill thousands of refugees with high-tech weapons supplied by USA.

João Pinheiro mastodon (AP)
Ambientalistas e autarcas não querem construção de novo açude no Tejo https://omirante.pt/sociedade/2024-12-21-ambientalistas-e-autarcas-nao-querem-construcao-de-novo-acude-no-tejo-935386b2

OldAndMerry mastodon (AP)
Apparently I lied about staying off of social media for a week... but this is too good not to share. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-american-oligarchy-is-out-of?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share

Lese gerade wieder vermehrt Texte, wie erschreckend es ist, welche "normalen" Männer, normal aussehend Frau Pelicot vergewaltigt haben. Und dann auch noch Männer, die gerade erst Vater geworden sind oder schon Töchter haben.

Aber ich verstehe diese Texte nicht. Wer soll das denn sonst sein?
Männer üben Gewalt aus. In der Mehrheit Männer. Und das nicht aus einer irgendwie anders markierten Position heraus, sondern im Alltag. Eben noch Zähne geputzt, Feierabend gemacht, Brötchen gekauft, sich im Freundeskreis oder online als Toptyp verkauft. "Normale" Männer, in fast jedem Fall.
Also setzt euch hin, insbesondere Väter & erzählt euren Kindern davon. Wie mein Vater. Jung waren wir Töchter da, als er sagte: "Ganz normale Männer machen eklige Sachen, euch werden Dinge widerfahren. Ihr seid nie Schuld!! Erzählt mir jede Kleinigkeit, ich bin da!"
Und so war's. 100% Verlass drauf!


Kevin Leecaster mastodon (AP)
Yesterday, a member of the AfD German far-right political party drove his car into a Christmas market killing many and injuring many more.

Here's our vice president-elect and unelected president-elect praising the AfD in case you still don't know what we're up against over the next few years.
JD Vance 
It’s so dangerous for people to control their borders. So so dangerous. The dangerous level is off the charts. 

 lvana Stradner @ivanastradner-1d 
This is SO dangerous. If this is not clear enough- that’s what he also wants to do in USA.

 If the AfD wins in Germany, we are going to have a very different world. AfD is not only dangerous for Europe but also for USA. Too bad that many people can’t connect the dots... 

Elon Musk  @elonmusk 
Only the AfD can save Germany 
07:38-12/21/24 - 886K Views
Toni Aittoniemi mastodon (AP)
And.. Russia’s Africa corps & Syrian opetations have been stoking the wars that created the refugees that helped the far right grab power in central Europe in the first place..

And AfD, Musk & Vance just seem to LOVE Russia..

If it’s any more obvious that there’s a feedback loop at work in here, it’s kind of hard to point it out more clearly.

Russia weaponised refugee creation, because it had been fighting a war against the west for more than a decade now.
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Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706187/ Meghan Markle’s Reaction to Kate Middleton’s Big Nomination Unveiled #BritishRoyalFamily #DuchessOfSussex #DukeOfSussex #Harry #Meghan #MeghanMarkle #PrinceHarry #RoyalFamilies #RoyalFamily
Meghan Markle’s Reaction to Kate Middleton’s Big Nomination Unveiled

La Razón:
«¿En que zona de Madrid puedo comprarme un piso si me toca la Lotería de Navidad?»

La Edad de Oro del Periodismo. 🙄
Juan CBS mastodon (AP)
exactamente en ninguna. Sería lo último que haría con cualquier dinero que tuviese, comprarme un piso en Madrid.

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Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706185/ In the court of Trump, our royal family could be key #royal #RoyalFamilies #RoyalFamily #royals
In the court of Trump, our royal family could be key

Todd Bohannon mastodon (AP)
“On Thursday, the UN aid coordination office reported that Israeli authorities denied another UN request to reach besieged areas of the North Gaza governorate & deliver food and water” #GazaGenocide
https://aje.io/odp7h3?update=3400017

Abysim 🇺🇦🇧🇬 friendica (via ActivityPub)
Прикольно, що сеанс повинен був бути англійською, але його пустили болгарською. Хтось з глядачів пішов пожалівся та через 5-10 хвилин показу перемкнули на англійську та перемотали на місце, де зупинили показ) Вперше таке, хоча рідко що одночасно двома мовами показують.

#Mufasa: #TheLionKing хороший фільм. Перевершив очікування, враховуючи умови, творці зробили все, що могли.

Картинка гарна, видовищна, леви стали більш виразними в плані емоції ніж у фільмі 2019 року.

Музика ок, але половина мелодій це музика Ганса Циммера з оригіналу, що викликає мурашки. Шкода, що нові треки помітно поступаються. Пісні також ок, місцями навіть більше ніж ок)

Головні герої цікаві, Муфаса й Така зазнають змін і їх можна зрозуміти. Голос Муфаси Аарона П'єра норм, але дуууже далеко до Джейс Ерл Джонса слова котрого відкривають картину.

Келвін Гаррісон-молодший добре впорався зі своєю ролью, до Джеремі Айронса, авжеж, далеко, але помітно краще Чіветела Еджиофора.

Остання сцена між братами може притянута, але в емоційному плані працює та не дуже розходиться з тим, якими вони були показані до того. Цей момент отримання прізвиська викличе дискусії)

Більше питань викликає саме ім'я Така, чому королевича назвали відходами? В книжному каноні ім'я мало сенс, а тут вихде окрім імені нічого більше не взяли з книжок.

Злодії, білі леви аутсайдери, типові діснеївські доволі плоскі та їх мотивацію пояснюють словами. Але тут стандартно на роль головного злодія, Кіроса, взяли крутого актора, що витягує персонажа, Мадс Міккельсен проявив себе краще ніж в Докторі Стренджі.

Переінакшеня історії братів і розкриття аутсайдерів можуть полегшити втілення екранізації сиквелу оригіналу - без цього приквелу занадто багато питань у сиквелі, що можуть зіпсувати враження.

Цікаво, кого в кіно-канон зараз ввели? Кайона чи когось іншого, кого вб'є Зіра? Хоча, знаючи Дісней, то скоріше перший варіант)

Загалом, порадувало, що у фільмі виражено багато хороших різних ідей. Промова Муфаси у фіналі викликала мурашки по шкірі навіть без відповідної музики. Було б чудово, якби цим проникнулося та слідувало більше людей, особливо потрібно це українцям зараз, хоча американцям також не завадить.
Постер фільму "Король Лев" зображує величного лева, що стоїть на засніженій горі в оточенні інших левів та левеняти. Назва фільму "Король Лев" помітно виділяється вгорі білим текстом. На задньому плані - засніжений гірський пейзаж, а назва написана чорним кольором


JA Westenberg mastodon (AP)
When a lot of people miss the good old days, they miss the time before other folks had rights.
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Facebook now is a flood of nostalgia accounts no one chose to follow, the comments filled with people bemoaning the modern world, even when the then and now pictures are practically identical and responding to the caption "Take me back" with "Sure, get the Northern Line southbound from..." is met with stony silence.
szakib mastodon (AP)
Hell, the time when other folks didn't even exist! A while ago I calculated that since my parents were born, the population of the world has tripled.

Yogthos mastodon (AP)
Bird flu update: Maps show states most affected

https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2024/12/21/bird-flu-h5n1-avian-influenza-maps/77100793007/


Swede’s Photographs mastodon (AP)
The Hole Beneath the Fence

Frankie, the fox squirrel, ventured underneath the hole beneath the fence. Frankie's friends told him that the place beyond place beyond the hole was filled with lots of food, just there for the taking. But they warned that the place was also filled with danger, because there were two dogs, named Ben and Charlie, who regularly patrolled the area. Once under the fence Frankie noticed that the dogs weren't there, but Sam the house sparrow was on the ground atop a low brick retaining wall. Frankie asked Sam, "where is all of the food that I heard so much about?" Sam said, "look up." But just as Frankie looked up, Ben and Charlie came running out of the door to the house and Frankie had to flee back under the hole beneath the fence.

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #EasternFoxSquirrel #HouseSparrow
"The image shows an eastern fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) standing on its hind legs and looking up towards an unseen bird feeder. The squirrel's tail is bushy, and its fur is a mix of gray and reddish-brown. To the right of the squirrel, on a low brick retaining wall, is a house sparrow (Passer domesticus). The sparrow is small with brown and white feathers.

The background includes green foliage and a white fence, creating a natural setting. This scene is intriguing as it captures two different species interacting within the same environment, highlighting their behaviors and coexistence." - Copilot with edits

katharine mastodon (AP)
Speakeasy but it’s a vaccine clinic
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sleet01 mastodon (AP)
A Jabhappy?
Mother Bones mastodon (AP)
Yes. I've been trying to get a Covid booster before the floor falls out of society in January, but yesterday the pharmacist reiterated it's not yet six months since my last one.

Which is not actually a medical requirement, it's an INSURANCE requirement. I simply can't assume there will even be vaccines after January 20. Or health insurance that covers anything.
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Chris Trottier pleroma (AP)
1.25M is not much in seed money—so not really a win here.

It’s enough to keep the lights on for a year if the main devs are willing to eat a whole lot of instant noodles.

And due to the previous PR disaster, I suspect that money came with a whole lot of conditions.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/20/after-causing-outrage-on-the-first-day-of-y-combinator-ai-code-editor-pearai-lands-1m-seed/

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