Current* conditions near Pentwater, MI:

Just so it's official:

Elon Musk has endorsed the Nazi Party in Germany.

I'm sure he will endorse the KKK and AtomWaffen as well in this country.

Of course Trump loves him-he's a white racist Nazi pig from way back.

I feel 'owned', although mine is age related with smidgins of noise damage. That's me finally booking a professional hearing test in the New Year - I've been putting it off for too long. Goddess, the good hearing aids are soooo expensive!

https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2024/dec/20/cookie-bite-hearing-loss

Not all techbros smoke vapes.

Your Christmas TV Schedule in full:
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6.00pm People Who Can't Cook Trying To Cook
7.00pm People Who Can't Sing Trying To Sing
9.00pm People Who Can't Dance Trying To Dance
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Invítame a una cerveza 🍻

Tanto si decides donar, como si no lo haces, mi blog y todo el contenido que genero seguirá estando abierto a cualquier persona. No habrá distinciones preferencias de unas sobre otras. 👍

https://victorhckinthefreeworld.com/invitame-a-una-cerveza/

I’m doing some shadow mentoring with Sitara today. - Professor Skye 💕

One more sleep, one more work day. ❤️

Me when I hear the Discord notification noise and then I click on Discord and I can't figure out what changed

As I said earlier, I’m hoping to top up my EV whilst I sleep on Sunday morning. However, if you can’t wait till then, tomorrow looks like an overall feast of cheap Agile electricity most of the day! Unit prices are 5p or less through the small hours, heading up to around 6.8p from breakfast until the teatime peak at 4pm. Then, after 7pm, the price plunges and ends the day in negative rates, which hopefully portends low prices on Sunday morning. https://agile.octopushome.net/dashboard

The Vatican calls gender-affirming surgery a threat to human dignity
#FriendlyAtheist
#Eurocentric #Christofacism #AntiSemitism #AntiMuslim #Theocracy #AntiDemocracy #AntiReason #AntiScience #AntiWomen #AntiChildren #AntiLGBTQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJcqphPzc5g

On January 1, 2025, thousands of copyrighted works from 1929 will enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1924. They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon.[2] 2025 marks a milestone: all of the books, films, songs, and art published in the 1920s will now be public domain. The literary highlights from 1929 include The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, and A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf. In film, Mickey Mouse speaks his first words, the Marx Brothers star in their first feature film, and legendary directors from Alfred Hitchcock to John Ford made their first sound films. From comic strips, the original Popeye and Tintin characters will enter the public domain. Among the newly public domain compositions are Gershwin’s An American in Paris, Ravel’s Bolero, Fats Waller’s Ain’t Misbehavin’, and the musical number Singin’ in the Rain. https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/

Gefrühstückt, restliche Mails verschickt und jetzt einen schönen Tag in FFM machen. 😁

Ich freue mich auf die freien Tag mit dem Mann. Jeder Tag ist wichtig. 😉

#Dyson to face human rights abuse claims in the UK - https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/dyson-face-human-rights-abuse-claims I think the expression is "suck it up"...

Get them where it hurts, in their cold, capitalist pocket books. Don't watch it, don't eat out, stay home, stay strong.
#fascist #inauguration #day #stay #home #InaugurationStrike #resist #fascism #KillKapitalism #cold #capitalist #wallets #empty #NoInauguration #money #spending #please #fight #back #power to #people #corporate #greed #progressive #taxation #democratic #socialism #bodily #autonomy #environment #protection #SCOTUS #ethics #lapse #public #trust #judiciary #lowest in #generations

Jetzt kann ich das aus direkter Erfahrung bestätigten: Das Antragsverfahren für die Wärmepumpenförderung auf der KfW-Seite dauert (wenn alle Infos vorliegen) weniger als eine halbe Stunde, die Förderzusage kommt unmittelbar nach dem Absenden.

Your regular reminder that I am gorgeous, and this far outweighs my limitations as an inhumane mouse trap.

Wie oft noch? Seit fast 20 Jahren versuchen Politiker, die verfassungswidrige Vorratsdatenspeicherung durchzudrücken – und scheitern immer wieder vor den Gerichten. Wann wird endlich akzeptiert, dass diese Eingriffe in Grundrechte keinen Platz haben?

#vds #grundrecht

https://www.heise.de/news/Nach-FDP-Ausscheiden-Faeser-will-Vorratsdatenspeicherung-durchdruecken-10108048.html

Für mich ist es der beste Blaumilchschimmelziegenkäse der Welt. Für den Mann ein Verstoß gegen die Genfer Biowaffen-Konvention.

'Looked tiny': Ex-senator flags what 'has got to be bugging Trump big time' - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tiny-claire/

Biden is running out of time to stop another Trump execution spree. https://theintercept.com/2024/12/20/intercept-briefing-podcast-death-penalty-biden-clemency-pardons/

Here's yet another example of how our media sanewashes Republicans while trying to put the blame for what they do onto Democrats.
https://journa.host/@theintercept/113686307780749747

Another Italian town, another detail of a prize painting in a collection. Any guesses as to the artist? Re the subject, I've left in a hint.

Nach Wahlwerbung für AfD: Elon Musk stellt neuen Sprung vor https://www.der-postillon.com/2024/12/musk-sprung.html

After a rather complicated "small" class about creative coding in Blender this month I am having a really hard time feeling ready for my "big" class in May. I wish I had more time to learn from people what they struggle and how they approach the concepts and how they overcome obstacles in Blender.

The content of the class is basically creative coding practices and techniques inside Blender using geometry nodes and shaders. Still images and animations.

In that light, I'd love to start a study group like this:
- no previous Blender knowledge required
- no previous coding knowledge required
- up to 20 people
- online only
- starting sometime in mid-January
- asynchronous material (video tutorials)
- weekly exercises / themes
- kind of required participation on weekly exercises
- I'll be reading, researching and answering questions daily

Would you be interested? If yes, what format would you think is the best?
Boosts appreciated! :B

• Not interested (0%, 0 votes)
• Forum (66%, 2 votes)
• Chat (33%, 1 vote)
• Email (33%, 1 vote)
• Other (0%, 0 votes)

3 voters. Poll end: 1 month ago

Deutsche Bauern halten 25 Prozent weniger Schweine und 18 Prozent weniger Rinder als vor zehn Jahren. Doch der Trend geht zu größeren Betrieben. https://taz.de/!6058041

#3Thesen für 2025!

Warum?
Scheinbar herrscht ein Mangel an objektiver Selbsteinschätzung.

Wo?
Während Leistungen von Schüler*innen und Sportler*innen sich anhand objektiver Daten einschätzen lassen, fehlt diese Prüfung oft als Bestandteil der (politischen) Diskussionskultur.

Ziel?
Ende 2025 kann ich und jede:r Andere beurteilen, ob man mit der eigenen Prognose Recht behielt oder eben nicht. Sind wir, bin ich, wirklich so schlau, wie wir/ich glauben?

Gerne mitmachen!

1/2

die Union ist auch widerlich.
#lasttröt

👀👀👀
Via Bill Kristol:

I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.”

The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.

Could I ask how a private citizen who was NOT elected and is not in the government was allowed to make Congress shut down?

Just because Musk is a billionaire does NOT give him any more special rights than say, me, to tell Congress what to do.

Congress is a bunch of spineless lackeys for this shit. Knock it off you spavined monkeys! You're not doing your job, you're doing Musk's bidding!

A group of R HSE members is calling on Trump & AG nom. Bondi to replace all 93 US ATTYs with interim replacements -would ensure any Biden-era fed prosecutors don’t automatically rise in the ranks to fill the slots of outgoing US ATTYs while new ones are considered by the Sen.

“Trump was given a mandate to root out the rot from our weaponized, 2-tiered DOJ” Rep Timmons, R, the lead author of the letter. “We don’t need lingering Biden-era officials.”

#Fascism #USPol #DOJ
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/20/2024/gop-lawmakers-urge-trump-to-replace-all-us-attorneys

From bsky

‪Roughly, the R timetable:
60s: Laid foundation; Nixon
70s: Powell memo; Watergate
80s: Iran Contra; deregulation
90s: Contract on America
00s: GWOT
10s: Tea Party; Dump

Non stop litany of evil all aimed at limitless power w 0 oversight or accountability

~Jeff (no, the baking conchas one)‬ ‪@jeff-notheotherone.bsky.social‬

"[Louisiana's] health department provided a statement to NPR saying that it has been "reevaluating both the state's public health priorities as well as our messaging around vaccine promotion, especially for COVID-19 and influenza." The statement described the change as a move "away from one-size-fits-all paternalistic guidance" to a stance in which "immunization for any vaccine, along with practices like mask wearing and social distancing, are an individual's personal choice."

Now, let's replace some words in that statement:

[Louisiana's government] provided a statement to NPR saying that it has been "reevaluating both [its] public [] priorities as well as our messaging around [product] promotion, especially for [consumer goods]." The statement described the change as a move "away from one-size-fits-all paternalistic guidance" to a stance in which "[consumer purchases] are an individual's personal choice."

Wait, is Louisiana against advertising? Why should a company get to pop up ads all over my computer screen and interrupt my programming to tell me what to buy?

The difference is that public health information is a public good. Our taxes pay for the research, data analysis, and the means to communicate it broadly to the public. So, yes, "paternalistic" in the sense that it is the type of information and healthcare your loving dad would want you to choose.

#USPol #USPolitics #Healthcare #COVID #Vaccines #PublicHealth #Louisiana #Advertising

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

I haven't read the whole thing so not sure if I agree or disagree but it seems like the sort of thing that might interest us #Fediverse folks so sharing: 'Free software does not mean “free” as in a lack of price, but in the sense of liberty—as Stallman says, “think free as in free speech, not free beer.”' #Technology #Computing #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Capitalism #Socialism #Marxism #Economics #SocialistForum #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica #DSA https://socialistforum.dsausa.org/issues/fall-2024/on-the-commodity-fetish-of-computation/

One of the final stories posted by the wonderful Hakai Magazine:

The Canoe in the Forest

An unfinished boat hidden on a remote island in Alaska illuminates a missing chapter in the history of traditional Haida and Tlingit canoe building

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-canoe-in-the-forest/

Fortunately, much of the outstanding Hakai editorial team is joining the California Academy of Sciences' bioGraphic, another excellent publication with no paywall:

https://www.biographic.com/

#ocean #coastal #indigenous #environment

Russia Lost 2,200 Soldiers in the past 24 hours!

These are the estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of Dec. 20, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #Breaking #BreakingNews