World War Fee

and we are all paying the Fee
for the World's Wars
with our Taxes
Supplying the Bullets, and the Bombs
The Planes and the Tanks

The victims of the Wars
are paying with their lives

The Wars are between the good
and the bad
the same 2 sides as in the first 2 Wars
but the line is so blurred
no one knows who is good
and who is bad anymore

#WorldWarFee

Elon Musk Hit For Comparing Far-Right German Party to Dems

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/elon-musk-brutally-roasted-for-claiming-far-right-german-party-identical-to-democratic-party-under-obama/

Pixelfed has a Mascot.

How did I not know this.

Pixelfed's mascot is a Red Panda.

(source: https://github.com/pixelfed/brand-assets )

#DeSo #Fediverse #Pixelfed #RedPanda

Veterans Commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, Hitler's Last Major Attack on the Western Front
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/veterans-commemorate-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-battle-of-the-bulge-hitlers-last-major-attack-on-the-western-front-180985709/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Smartnews @smartnews-Smithsonianmag

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." —Alice Walker

The Winter Solstice Is Here. How Dark Days Affect the Human Body

The moment when Earth’s Northern Hemisphere tilts farthest away from the sun—the December solstice, on the 21st this year—is not just a mark on the calendar. It is also defined by the way our bodies react to the event. The dimming of our daily ration of natural light leading up to the winter solstice produces a series of conspicuous physiological changes.

These changes relate to circadian rhythms. The word circadian derives from the Latin “circa diem,” meaning “about a day.” It signifies the way animals, plants, fungi and bacteria react to environmental cues, including inputs of light, on a daily and seasonal basis.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-bodies-are-so-ready-to-celebrate-the-rebirth-of-the-sun/

LMAO someone unironically posted Thiel’s book on startups as one of their 20 books. somehow posts from Bluesky tags federate with ours? i just blocked them.

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You don't have to feel sympathy for mass-murdering CEOs to recognize that committing individual murders won't get us to systematic change.

That's not hand-wringing about "violence is not the answer," it's me begging you to realize that the Luigi/Incredibles meme actually highlights the problem: individualist philosophy of action doesn't result in lasting justice.

The sun will rise in #StLouis #Missouri tomorrow at 7:15, 29 seconds later than the day before.
It will set at 16:42, 27 seconds later than the day before.

Hey I would love help calibrating something, if you see this and you’ve read Joshua Meyrowitz’s No Sense of Place (more than short excerpts), would you let me know?

If you haven’t, you don’t have to say, I will assume most people have not!

RGB displays are designed around average human rods and cones. Audio compression is designed around psychoacoustics — what the brain notices vs. filters out in sound, so compression can selectively damage the part your brain throws away anyway.

I have never seen science fiction acknowledge how fucking weird our MP3s must sound and how bizarre the color gamut of photographs on a luminous RGB or reflective CMY(K) display surface (including printed paper) must be to space aliens.

the entire history of paint mixing is like that to some extent. and we don’t necessarily need space aliens for this, human tetrachromats and birds with wider color gamut sensitivity exist

@janboehm war in einem Restaurant mit #Sharing-Konzept — und ich dachte, es wäre was lustiges mit Sherry-Konzept...
#festundflauschig #Weihnachtszirkus

Würde ich überhaupt auf einen Weihnachtsmarkt gehen wollen (was mich nicht interessiert) - ich würde mich auch jetzt nicht davon abhalten lassen.

Das Risiko, auf dem Rad- oder Fußweg dorthin von einem Autofahrer, der mich "übersieht", verletzt oder getötet zu werden, ist ungleich größer als das Risiko, bei einem Anschlag verletzt zu werden.

Von gezielten Attacken, weil mein Transsein irgendwem auch dank rechter Hetze nicht passt, ganz abgesehen.

Darum bringt #Magdeburg mich auch nicht einmal ansatzweise auf die Idee, eine Partei zu wählen, die mir "mehr Sicherheit, mehr Abschiebungen, mehr Überwachung" verspricht.

Diesen Parteien ist unsere Sicherheit nämlich egal.

HOUSE PASSES FUNDING

The House is voting yes on the CR to fund the government; President Biden just stated he WILL sign the bill by midnight!

#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #breaking #breakingnews

Goodbye and good riddance. #AutismSpeaks #ActuallyAutistic

Current* conditions near St. Ignace, MI:

#musk
Der Zwischenruf von Musk: Nur die #AfD könne Deutschland retten, ist
- inhaltlich substanzloser Quatsch
- eine hohle rausgehauene Parole
- absolute Kompetenzüberschreitung: der Mann hat uns gar nichts zu sagen
- vielleicht ein (leicht zu durchschauender) Trick: Musk will Deutschland zerstören.

https://www.europesays.com/1704054/ ich🍝iel #DeutscheMemes #IchIel #Memes #SelbstiesDerSeele

Stop pretending that Firefox is a browser for everyone.
It doesn't do half of the things I have gotten used to by using first Opera and later Vivaldi for most of my life.
I would love there to be more open source browser and more usable browser engines, but the fact that it's open source alone, doesn't make Firefox a good browser for my needs.
Failures to recognize this can result in getting blocked.

Since I used the term again, let me provide a definition to pin:

Virality Coefficient
Characteristics of social media, describing, if it actively amplifies or dampens the reach of posts.
Social networks like Twitter, with an algorithmic timeline tend to amplify viral posts, by
a) making sure your followers don't miss them
b) even showing them, despite you don't follow its author, nor any retweeter.
c) raising posts as context for replys

Mastodon doesn't do that.

So, time for an #introduction
I am a software engineer working on #Linux and lately also #Android system and security tools in the German automotive industry. When I am not #hiking in the Alps, you might find me ranting about terrible kernel behavior and the mess that Android is under it's hood.
Privately I can geek out about everything from military technology to trains. I am political far left, but certainly not a tankie and will always #StandWithUkaine
Thank you #hachyderm for welcoming me.

Susanne Klatten, mit einem Stundenlohn von 1,1 Mio €, war einfach ein bissel fleißiger als ihr. Jeder kann es schaffen. Man muss es halt auch wollen.

happened upon an early noughties video channel & all i could think about was 'the suffering' by coheed & cambria. good? bad? i don't know, but it'll be stuck in my brain for the next week.
#jukeboxFridayNight #music #coheedAndCambria
https://youtu.be/XnABRPS37hk

we should not take it as a coincidence this is happening in Canada, Germany and France at the same time. it’s a petromafia behind coup 2.0 after all.
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/justin-trudeau-avoids-questions-about-his-future-after-cabinet-overhaul/article_9b875b9e-be5b-11ef-8000-97b1f7a57f63.html

https://www.europesays.com/1704051/ BREAKING: Ukraine announces it will stop all transit of Russian gas to Europe through Ukraine from January 1st #ConflictInUkraine #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #Ukrainian #UkrainianConflict

#paranormal #ghosts #ghostcam #usa #willardpubliclibrary #greylady #webcam #liveghostcam #spooky #phantom
Nothing to watch on TV tonight? Here’s a live cam to keep you going.
The Grey Lady. Last seen August 10, 2010 in this hallway of the Willard Public Library.
Keep some fresh pants on standby in case she turns up again…
https://www.willardlib.org/basement-hall

#Art by Jana Heidersdorf

https://apnews.com/article/congress-budget-trump-musk-johnson-5dc9fd8672f9807189032811d4ab0528?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

Politics
Trump’s words of opposition stop a bipartisan budget deal in its tracks with Musk’s help

By CHRIS MEGERIAN
Updated 8:24 AM EST, December 19, 2024