Aus dem syrischen Gefängnis von Sednaya kamen vor einer Woche Tausende Inhaftierte frei. Angehörige suchen nun weiter nach Vermissten. https://taz.de/!6052798

In case you haven't seen it, I'm helping with the ZeroWriter project. I optimized the Inkplate library for a couple of their epaper PCBs. ZeroWriter 1.0 will ship with the Inkplate5V2 inside. By optimizing the code, it now has acceptable latency to be used as an electronic typewriter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu8y8mqh5r8

https://www.europesays.com/1703691/ England must accept the need for ruthlessness alongside entertainment | England cricket team #america #Entertainment #health #sports #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA

https://www.europesays.com/1703685/ Chiharu Shiota Opens The Largest Exhibition Ever Devoted To Her In France #Art #ArtExhibition #artist #france #GrandPalais #installation #japan #Osaka #paris #thread #Wool

The Rapist in the White House would understand though.
I don't think people understand what they are doing when they bend the knee to this Oligarchy, they think this shit won't effect them?

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/celebs-tv/gb-news-viewers-horrified-guest-9807068

#GBNews #Trump #UK

There is no such thing as being "socially #liberal but fiscally #conservative".

All #fiscal issues are #social #issues.

#USpol #VTpol #GovernmentShutdown2024

Pues el servicio @mastofeed de @Barredo funciona de categoría. Hemos configurado la publicación automática en dos minutos. Gracias a @rober también por los cambios en Masto.es para que funcionara.

https://www.europesays.com/1703677/ Italy’s Matteo Salvini found not guilty of kidnapping in migrant case #italy

Today I heard the most disconnected justification for not masking

Someone told me their dad refused to mask because he wanted to “live his life fully”. He caught covid & died

This person genuinely seemed to believe that her Dad lived more fully than people who mask…because he died living the way HE wanted

Given they’re likely experiencing grief - I pushed back as gently as possible. I explained that you can do almost all activities while wearing a respirator - but you can’t live life if you’re dead.

There was zero recognition of the point I was trying to make. They stood their ground.

I don’t know how we reach people like that. They’re so entrenched in their beliefs that even losing a close family member wont shake their denial.

Because it’s an airborne virus - his choice likely harmed others.

Thats the reason I keep advocating. Your “freedom” to risk your health stops when it puts the lives of others at risk.

Perhaps you’re genuinely ok losing your life just to avoid wearing a mask - but don’t presume to make that decision for other people.

Masking is kindness. It saves lives.

#covidisairborne #CovidIsNotOver #sarscov2 #longcovid #wearamask #maskswork

Fuck! Das ist schlimm!!! Die armen Menschen!
„Auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt in Magdeburg ist ein Autofahrer in eine Menschengruppe gefahren“
https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/magdeburg-auto-faehrt-in-menschenmenge-auf-weihnachtsmarkt-a-89bccf41-ac09-4a5b-8845-fd9080e057e9

Has anyone heard from Joe Biden during this budget impasse? Or has Trump already moved in to the White House and just not announced it?

Fragile. Our Lives Depend On Her.

Don't let her be damaged beyond repair.

Sometimes history rhymes like it's Stephen freaking Sondheim

Yes, many people on LinkedIn are 100% sincere.

I know this because most people in my LinkedIn network are folks I’ve met in real life – and it’s just who they are. That high energy sales guy is still high energy when you’re sipping a beer. That MBA-type is, yes, a golden retriever when you’re having lunch on the porch. And yes, I’ve had plenty of opportunity to hang out with them in non-work contexts.

If you’re the type of person who carefully segments their professional and personal lives, it’s hard to believe that some people don’t have a work persona. But it’s true, some don’t. When I was working in a corporate environment, I was very much the heart-on-your-sleeve type. Perhaps this wasn’t a good idea in terms of moving up the corporate ladder, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I will say this much. You won’t always get frank discussion on LinkedIn because a good many people are simply looking for a job, and they’re trying to put their best foot forward. And I get that.

For myself, I’m not trying to gain much out of LinkedIn other than as an outlet to share stuff. And that’s simply how I look at it. Some of what I say touches on business, some on personal development, and some just on music I’ve been hearing.

Because the truth is, I don’t have a persona. I couldn’t have a believable one if I tried. And because of this, I have room to give contrarian takes that runs counter to the narratives there.

For example, two days ago, someone said “organic traction on social media is dead.” I said – nope, organic traction is alive and well on the Fediverse, and it’s awesome. That person did not appreciate that feedback and sent me a sarcastic GIF to show their displeasure. And that’s fine. 🙂

Of course, there’s lots of vultures and bottom feeders too. I’m aware of that. In fact, I’d be foolish to believe otherwise. Oh, well.

X has rolled out a new recommendation algorithm.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

A word on how the bot works.

Bot is probably not the best term for it, because it is so dirt simple. It is literally just fortune piped to a perl script called cat4stuff which is executed via cron. It used to be called cat4mastodon, but I have since merged another script called cat4mm (as in MatterMost) into the same codebase. So it can be used to pipe command outputs to multiple destinations on multiple platform types now.

The Roman date bot works in a similar way, but instead of fortune, I execute a perl script called kalends that uses Date::Roman, and corrects a spelling error along the way. It also is piped to cat4stuff.

And before anyone asks, yes, the year is correct. It is the years since the founding of the city of Rome, which has nothing to do with the birth of a certain deity associated with the common era.

Es uno de los villancicos rockeros más famosos, pero esconde algunas trampas en su historia.

Para empezar, porque el artista no era rockero.

Y a lo mejor ni siquiera es un villancico.

Hoy, en este hilo pre-navideño de #LaHistorietaMusical, Bobby Helms y su Jingle Bell Rock.

#Navidad #Villancicos #jinglebellrock #BobbyHelms #LaHistorietaMusical

If you don't in the WordPress ecosystem, you may not understand how HUGE this post is

https://joost.blog/wordpress-leadership/

Joost is probably the second biggest figure in the entire WP ecosystem, only after Matt M himself. He is the biggest voice from the "Enterprise WordPress" world.

This is not anymore open source contributors complaining about governance. This is the Business WordPress demanding a leadership change and suggesting it either happens or a hard fork, backed by big business, is on the way.

Look no one is saying Amazon treats it workers like shit and are utter scum as a company … it’s just that Amazon treats it workers like shit and are utter scum as a company

#brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #nhs #costofliving #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ToryCorruption #standuptoracism #farage #nigelfarage #refromuk #Gammons #elon #elonmusk #trump #DonaldTrump #amazon

We're all going to die because a very small minority refuses to reduce its profits and everyone else refuses to lose followers.

El amigo @rafapoverello ha recopilado casi 40Gb de películas dirigidas por mujeres. Un trabajo titánico.
https://zagueros.noblogs.org/post/2024/12/13/dirigido-por-mujeres-feminismos-y-septimo-arte/

The next new leader of the free world
Told me on TV before l could silence it

That america and italy had been allies since the roman times?

I thought he was wrong because america is not that old

Now I find they where actually the enemy in 2 world wars?

Why is he telling such great big lies?

He cant be as ignorant of history of his country as me

Trump the ignorant liar
Is going to be in charge of America?

The insanely rich should be in the nut house
Not the white house

'I feel sorry for him': Ex-Republican lawmaker says Trump just 'kneecapped' Mike Johnson - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/charlie-dent-government-shutdown/

They are always denying their plan to cut your mom’s fixed income, yet here it is in the plan for January.

#trump #musk #mandleson #america
Calling Trump a moron would be an insult to morons. He’s an egocentric nefarious megalomaniac attempting to build a government of unfathomably dumb servile lackeys he can easily control.
Being recommended or chosen by Trump is an endorsement of stupidity.
The picture below never ceases to amaze me. They look like a modern day version of the Kray twins. Would you honestly hand your country over to these idiots? It’s bound to end in tears.
https://news.sky.com/story/incoming-uk-ambassador-to-us-mandelson-called-absolute-moron-over-trump-criticism-13277216

Republicans’ troubles are only just beginning | Semafor

https://www.semafor.com/article/12/20/2024/republicans-troubles-are-only-just-beginning

'Two severe #H5N1 cases caused by the D1.1 genotype are reason for increased concern - the one good piece of news is that so far, there has been no human-to-human transmission of H5N1. If that starts happening, we could be in trouble'. @jeremyfaust

https://open.substack.com/pub/insidemedicine/p/two-severe-h5n1-cases-caused-by-the?r=cwb8u&selection=7ebc5419-e549-42f1-a9e4-8ed149311008&utm_campaign=post-share-selection&utm_medium=web

Content warning: #Wordle 1,280 1/6 NYT Freebie with a slight hint Click to open/close

The only thing worse than African scammers, are white sociopaths pretending to be African scammers, or just people of African descent in general.
#BlackMastodon

Ugh, terrorist attack in Germany!

A car drove into a crowd at Christmas market in Magdeburg

11 people killed, 60 injured based on initial reports