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colleeneh mastodon (AP)
Lord Percival pretending he's sleeping. #cats #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #caturday #tuxedocat #lordpercival
Tuxedo cat pretending to sleep on velvet chartreuse chair.

Dgar mastodon (AP)
This is Space Pop (feat. Kaaren Elizabeth Smith), a short film I made in #Blender

https://youtu.be/ztqPhHmA2YY

#DgarMusic #ShortFilm #Indie #Rock #Music
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Keith McNeill mastodon (AP)
“Climate change is no longer just an environmental problem. It is an economic threat, and it is an affordability issue that we should not ignore.”
– Sheldon Whitehouse, US senator
#GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition
https://grist.org/economics/new-data-shows-just-how-bad-the-climate-insurance-crisis-has-become/

Kahte🐿️ mastodon (AP)
@mag Bisous du train 😘😘😘😘

Kahte🐿️ mastodon (AP)
Bah il fait gris gris là
Vu de l'extérieur et de l'intérieur d'un Eurostar,  sièges rouge et temps gris

President-elect Elon Musk: "I ruined Twitter
but my ultimate goal is to ruin America."

#politics #greed #grift #Twitter #ElonMusk #MuskIsPresident #MuskTrumpShutdown
it is what America gets for letting a non American buy the country.

jakob 🇦🇹 ✅ friendica (via ActivityPub)
These:

#Schizophrenie und #Albträume sind eigentlich das selbe. Nur Schizophrenie ist der Albtraum als dauerhafter Wachtraum.


AmiW Streetart 🍃 mastodon (AP)
⚪ Mehr... Lieblingsfotos?
🟤 More... Favorite photos?
📷 by Artist: #MónicaEgido 🇪🇸 in Loc.: unknown ❄️ 2022 - Title: "VACÍO" ("Emptiness"/"Leere") - #Art #Artist #Streetart #PhotoArt #Fotografie #Snow #Winter #Selfportrait #Minimalism #Photography ➡️ #APhotoLove - Website: https://monicaegido.myportfolio.com/home
Photography. A minimalist color photo of a young woman on a snow-covered surface. The woman has been photographed from behind and is sitting naked and huddled together on a wide expanse of snow. The background is also a cool gray-blue. The photo is an unusual self-portrait.
alice 🪞♥️ mastodon (AP)
portrait /pôr′trĭt, -trāt″/
noun
A likeness of a person, especially one showing the face, that is created by a painter or photographer, for example.
... (Wordnick)

portrait
noun
1: picture
especially : a pictorial representation of a person usually showing the face
2: a sculptured figure : bust
3: a graphic portrayal in words
... (Merriam-Webster)

Portrait
Artistic representation of one or more persons
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. ... (Wikipedia)



Puffer mastodon (AP)
Really wish news media would stop referring to that shit ass as a “healthcare” ceo/executive. He was an insurance executive. If we take one thing from this it should be that insurance has nothing to do with healthcare. And in fact is pretty much the antithesis of it.
Just another banker. And even less, just another necktie.

John Rooke diaspora

Anti-racist runner looking forward to a better world


Deo Kato ran from Cape Town to London to raise awareness of racism and the positive aspects of migration
Kato wanted his journey to draw attention to the earliest migration of humans from Africa and challenge the racist notion that people should “go back to where they come from”. Viewed as a whole, he said the run had underlined the positive aspects of migration and its potential to “create a more culturally connected and enriched global society”.

His experiences also led him to believe that humanity will prevail over prejudice. “I think that in the future, we will create a world free from racial discrimination,” he said.

“Although it won’t happen in my lifetime, I believe that my efforts and those of others who are dedicated to this cause are laying the foundations for the next generation to build upon.”

However, he admitted it had also reinforced concerns over the “fortress Europe” approach that the EU is pursuing to prevent migrants from Africa moving north.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/dec/20/ugandan-runner-deo-kato-cape-town-london-hope-racism-europe-africa

#racism #migration

La machine - imago mundi https://www.imagomundi.fr/article25.html
#art graphique #cartographie
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Jac 😎 diaspora

La machine - imago mundi https://www.imagomundi.fr/article25.html
#art graphique #cartographie


How AI deepfakes polluted elections in 2024


The most visible use of AI in many countries was to create memes and content whose artificial origins weren't disguised. They were often openly shared by politicians and their supporters.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
posted by pod_feeder_v2

People power's unfinished work: Can Bangladesh be an exception?


The Wilson Center's Michael Kugelman says that for many Bangladeshis, a successful youth-led mass movement has shattered a long malaise and kindled a newfound optimism about the country's future.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
posted by pod_feeder_v2

Ransil (elle) mastodon (AP)
Librería Delirio #móstoles saca una agenda para el 2025 en solidaridad por un compañero que lo perdió todo en la #Dana.
El diseño es del librero, Such, conocido por los cartelazos que hace para presentaciones y actividades que se han realizado en Delirio y que son contenido de esta agenda, haciendo recorrido por los trece años de la librería.
Carteles de presentaciones de gente tan chula como @proyectouna @putomikel @Miquel_R entre muches otres autores de libros, cómics y fanzines

Disponibles en tamaño A6 y A5.

Si estás por #Madrid y puedes pasarte por Delirio ¡No lo dudes!
Disponible también en las librerías Traficantes de Sueños, El Molar, La Libre del barrio, MUGA y la FAL
La imagen muestra un anuncio para una agenda del año 2025, titulada "Agenda 2025: Entre Libros y Carteles".  La portada de la agenda presenta una ilustración de una persona con estilo punk sentada y dibujando. El anuncio también incluye texto que describe la agenda como un recorrido por trece años de una librería de barrio, que construye comunidad y genera pensamiento crítico. Se menciona que la agenda también incluye muestras de arte que han acompañado eventos de la librería. Finalmente, se muestran los logos de varias organizaciones colaboradoras. 
La imagen muestra la portada de una agenda 2025. El diseño es vintage, con tonos marrones y un estilo de ilustración dibujado a mano.  En el centro, una ilustración de una joven con cabello estilo mohicano está sentada con las piernas extendidas, dibujando.  La agenda se anuncia como "Agenda 2025", con el precio de 18 euros y un formato A5 de 186 páginas.  Se indica que está disponible en "La Libre de Barrio" y "Traficantes de Sueños".  También se incluye un logo de "Molar".
La imagen muestra un anuncio para una agenda 2025. El diseño es de estilo vintage, con un fondo beige y bordes de líneas discontinuas.  En el centro, una ilustración de una mujer joven con peinado mohicano, dibujando con un lápiz, ocupa la mayor parte del espacio.  El texto "agenda 2025" aparece en la parte superior, junto con el precio (15 euros).  Se menciona que está disponible en varios establecimientos, nombrados en la parte inferior. El número "13" aparece en un globo de diálogo cerca de la ilustración principal.  La agenda se describe como "entre libros y carteles" y se especifica su formato (A6, 190 páginas).
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Joyce Donahue diaspora

Meet the world's only lithophone - an "organ" that plays stalactites


https://youtu.be/rjXZzB5bUAo

unusual_whales mastodon (AP)
Powell has said that "it's pretty clear we've avoided a recession."

Do you agree?

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

Carlos Francisco 🦣 mastodon (AP)
22/12/2024. Hoy se conmemoran 117 años de la Masacre de la Escuela Santa María de Iquique. Un evento que no podemos dejar en el olvido.

https://edicioncero.cl/2024/12/a-117-anos-de-la-huelga-y-masacre-de-la-escuela-santa-maria-de-iquique-por-que-seguir-recordando/

Mike. 🩼🇨🇦 mastodon (AP)
"Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots"

Where's the white knight or comic book hero coming to save us all?

#Politics

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/12/20/nx-s1-5223440/louisiana-ban-public-health-promoting-covid-flu-mpox-vaccines-landry-rfk-jr-anti-vaccine
Mike. 🩼🇨🇦 mastodon (AP)
@bebadefabo ps nice profile Pic 😀

Carlos Francisco 🦣 mastodon (AP)
Somos el mejor país de Chile
👇🏻

Barack Obama incluyó “Gata Only” de FloyyMenor y Cris MJ en su lista de canciones favoritas de este 2024

https://www.publimetro.cl/entretenimiento/2024/12/21/mi-pais-mi-pais-barack-obama-incluyo-gata-only-de-floyymenor-y-cris-mj-en-su-lista-de-canciones-favoritas-de-este-2024/

#BarackObama

Lake Michigan! Live! mastodon (AP)
Current* conditions near St. Ignace, MI:
Southwestern view of the Mackinac Bridge traversing the Straits of Mackinac. // Image captured at: 2024-12-21 15:49:41 UTC (about 13 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in St. Ignace: 6.30 F | -14.28 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: NNE at 9.015 mph | 14.50 kph // Humidity: 84%

Georgiann Baldino mastodon (AP)
Congress leaves 'a big mess' for Trump and Republicans in 2025

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/21/congress-avoids-a-shutdown-but-leaves-a-big-mess-for-trump-and-republicans-in-2025.html?__source=androidappshare

This week's turmoil predicts the upcoming #Trump administration.

Josh mastodon (AP)
Psst. You see a #caturday anywhere saround here?

#ca #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse
Squeaker, a ginger Tabby and certified mouser stops and gives a close up of his gorgeous mug while on a mouse hunt.

Meanwhile, in The Seething Hotbed of Unbridled Lust, South Carolina…

...is proposing executing women who seek an abortion: MAGA Republicans in South Carolina have introduced SC H3537, also known as The South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act. South Carolina House Bill 3537 is one of the most extreme pieces of legislation we’ve seen. It proposes changing the legal definition of the word “person” to include an unborn fetus.

http://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/12/21/meanwhile-in-the-seething-hotbed-of-unbridled-lust-south-carolina/

🤖 Lazaro el dog mastodon (AP)
Committee to Protect Journalists: 2 Kurdish journalists killed in suspected Turkish drone attack in northern Syria
https://cpj.org/?p=440906

If you're not one of three dogs, fuck off the whole goddamn day.

Andrew Pam diaspora
How community wind power can ease permitting woes
Lawrence Weston is a community of several thousand residents in the city of Bristol, in the west of England, and one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the region.

Between 2014 and 2023 a group of determined residents and supporters led a successful campaign to build an onshore wind turbine in the area through their community action group Ambition Lawrence Weston and subsequent sister group Ambition Community Energy.

They did so overcoming great difficulties including a government-imposed, de-facto ban on onshore wind power in England that the UK’s new centre-left Labour government finally ended several weeks ago.

The resulting turbine — a 4.2MW EP115 EP3 unit supplied by German manufacturer Enercon — began producing electricity last year and is already generating money for Ambition Community Energy and the residents of Lawrence Weston.

Now the people behind the project hope to see it replicated elsewhere.

Two of the project's key proponents — David Tudgey and Charles Gamble — believe they have created a model that can be replicated beyond Lawrence Weston.

“A lot of people will say this is a one-off, that it won’t happen again. But they don’t understand me and Charles. We didn’t do it for eight years just for one demonstration turbine [and] what we have codified is the Sustainable Innovative Financial Foundations for Turbines (SIFFFT),” Tudgey, the project development director at Community Power Solutions, told Windpower Monthly.

The pair’s SIFFFT model seeks to build on the solutions they and others came up with to overcome the major challenges they faced with the Lawrence Weston turbine.

Via Reasons to be Cheerful


Elsa & Balou mastodon (AP)
Heute, zum Winteranfang,
wünsche ich euch, ihr Lieben, 🧡
einen wunderbaren Tag mit vielen schönen Momenten und netten Begegnungen. ☀️

Beugen wir uns nicht dem Terrorismus,
in welcher Form auch immer,
bieten wir ihm die Stirn!
Meine Gedanken sind bei den Menschen in Magdeburg.

#Winteranfang #Samstag #Magdeburg
Verschneite Winterlandschaft mit Bäumen, Schneeflocken,
weißer Text:
"Schneeflocken sind die Schmetterlinge des Winters."
biszumhorizont
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Ich danke dir, liebe Elsa!🥰
Heute brauchen wir wirklich viel #schonesgegendoofes!
Ich wünsche auch dir einen dennoch schönen Tag!🙋🏼‍♀️🧑‍🎄🌲🕯️🕯️🕯️🌟
Elsa & Balou Private Message mastodon (AP)
@Nordin 🧡 ☀️

For Pagans, winter solstice is a time for reflection and celebration


In the darkness of winter solstice, pagans celebrate Yule — welcoming longer days to come

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
posted by pod_feeder_v2

CAPETOX mastodon (AP)
Depredador (1987)
Director: John McTiernan
#Cats #Catstodon #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

fediverseobserver friendica (via ActivityPub)
Found 10 new servers and 21 servers died off since 7 hours ago.

22,901 servers checked. 14,808,144 Total Users with 1,067,821 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

mahakala.icu a #mastodon server from Japan
fedi.idesmi.eu a #gotosocial server from
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mastodon.calitabby.net a #mastodon server from United States
yosijo.de a #wordpress server from Germany
ap.bluecatnet.work a #mastodon server from Singapore
fedi.viois.gay a #sharkey server from United States
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ice.midnightoasis.moe a #iceshrimp server from United States
mk.fef.jp a #misskey server from Private

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Franklin López mastodon (AP)
Si tu regardes un film pendant le congé d’hiver, regarde "Ru", un film absolument fuckin magnifique sur une petite fille du Vietnam, une des nombreuses #boatpeople qui sont arrivées au Québec après la guerre du #Vietnam. Honnêtement, ça fait longtemps que j’ai pas vu un film aussi bon. Je te le recommande vraiment.Chaque prise est une superbe peinture, les choix musicaux sont parfaits et le jeu des acteurs est incroyable. Juste wow. Pour l’instant, le seul endroit où tu peux le trouver, c’est sur Crave, un service canadien. Mais bon, tu peux être créatif et voir si tu peux le trouver ailleurs!

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=TG7EuC6JlTg

Eryngium mastodon (AP)
Perfectly captured the two sides of her personality.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #BlackCat #cats
Two side-by-side photos of the same black cat sitting on a wooden table. In the first image, the cat sits in left-facing profile like a majestic statue bathed in sunlight coming from a nearby window. In the second image, the cat is turned to face the camera and is caught mid-lick with direct eye contact, making it look like she's deliberately sticking out her tongue at you.

pzmyers 🦑 mastodon (AP)
Curious. All these billionaires are college dropouts who know nothing about physics, but they like to claim they could have been physicists. So why don't they go back to school?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/21/a-common-thread-among-billionaires/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmJI6qIqURA
David K2FI mastodon (AP)
I couldn't be a physicist and I have an actual Physics degree!

AusderPampa mastodon (AP)
#FotoVorschlag ‚Dunkelheit‘ erhellt durch weihnachtliche Sterne in den Bäumen

#photography #christmas
Zwei Herrenhuther Sterne hängen in der Dunkelheit in den Ästen eines Baums. Von unten in den Baum gezoomt

Amy Diehl, Ph.D. mastodon (AP)
While Amazon claims the goal of RTO is to increase collaboration, survey finds many employees (45%) aren’t even assigned to the same office as their manager and 38% said they only worked alongside a fraction of their team members—either 20% or less.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91248618/exclusive-amazons-rto-policy-nearly-half-corporate-workers-looking-new-jobs
@blogdiva it's never been about collaboration, it's 100% about justifying the billions they've invested in real estate that they now can't unload because the world realized office buildings are terrible.
@blogdiva what's wild to me is that the shareholders are stupid enough to fall for it instead of holding management responsible for making bad decisions (or, y'know, understanding that circumstances change and you just have to take losses sometimes).

Instead they take it out on the #labor.

The system's propensity to perpetuate itself is just ... mind blowing. Frustrating. Depressing.
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