When I first moved to Australia I marvelled at how friendly everybody was. Strangers waving at me across the street. Lovely, I thought, so I waved back. It took me a while to realise that they weren't greeting me at all, just batting away the flies.
Christmas Chainsaw Massacre
I am amazed by how many of you didn't realize you have a gigantic spider egg nest right in your living room.
#monsterdon I have a feeling the best review I'll be able to give this movie is "under 80 minutes"
Today's environmental GOOD NEWS!
The hole in the ozone layer closed on December 1
The ozone layer is a layer of the atmosphere that protects us from UV light. Years ago, it was noticed that chlorofluorocarbons in aerosol sprays were aiding in the depletion of the ozone layer, and a hole was detected in this protective layer. After years of regulation and work, the hole is closed.
https://www.eldiario24.com/en/ozone-hole-closes-hope-rise/26941/
“Today is a defining moment for our country,” Michael Osterholm, a public health expert at the University of Minnesota, said. “We can no longer trust federal health authorities when it comes to vaccines.”
#giftlink
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The Resonant Computing Manifesto (via atharva) — discussion
#programming
A friend, while having an existential meltdown, just said:
"I think I'm grieving for the future."
And dayum! That pretty much sums up all the feels rather poetically, eh?
#Via PBS News / pbsnews
8:01 PM · Dec 14, 2025
"Ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast secured a thumping victory in Chile’s presidential runoff election Sunday, defeating the candidate of the leftist governing coalition and setting the stage for the country’s most right-wing government in 35 years of democracy."
Authors are not okay, folks. Between AI destroying the industry and wrecking people's careers, and the big spike in piracy since people decided the solution to boycotting Amazon is *stealing* from people who are literally making *pennies* (21 cents per day... that's what I made in book sales in 2025. I calculated it yesterday), we are not okay.
Please, please, please support authors. If you can buy books in places other than Amazon, please do so. If you can't buy books, please borrow them from your library. Request that your library pick up titles from your favourite authors (most libraries have form you can fill out to do that). Leave reviews everywhere you can. Sign up for author newsletters, and follow authors on social media. Repost social media content. Talk about your favourite books - help other people discover that they exist! All of these things *matter*, and you really have NO idea how much they mean to most authors.
@Taweret I did not know that about Devadatta thank you for that addition
“20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple | hey.paris”
https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/
Yeah. Time to review how you use Apple, Google, and Microsoft cloud services.
My #Monsterdon might be messed with tonight.
If you’re not familiar with it, in 2023, I set up an index of free downloads Microsoft deleted from their website. Almost everything they purged has been preserved in the Wayback Machine, but it’s hard to find what you need. This makes it easy to download from a source you can trust. https://legacyupdate.net/download-center/
It is so rude for Netflix to release the first part of the next season of Bridgerton during FOSDEM.
https://www.tvguide.com/news/bridgerton-season-4-release-date-cast-trailer/?ref=activitypub
“We’re diversifying our diversity programme by sometimes not having one”
IO STO VOLANDO
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