Tootfinder

"Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music or a book can make a difference. It can change the world."
—Alan Rickman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

I somehow missed this at the time, but I discovered tonight and it was the sardonic medicine I needed.
https://theonion.com/ice-confirms-agents-do-not-have-faces-beneath-masks/

US army lawyer fired as immigration judge after defying Trump deportation agenda (Associated Press)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/19/army-lawyer-fired-immigration-trump-deportation
http://www.memeorandum.com/251221/p1#a251221p1

Voor wie niet slapen kan...
Da hilft nur beten! • Fernsehfilm Deutschland 2022
https://www.ardmediathek.de/tv-programm/691f3408ee10b78c435ef11c (2022, 90min)
Nu* (03:00 - 04:30 ) bij de WDR.
Enjoy
* andere tijden regio slot

Des trains stationnent entre Pont de Sèvres et Trocadéro en raison d'un incident technique Š Porte de Saint-Cloud .
🤖 21/12 05:52

Raiders name Omar Young Running Backs Coach https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-name-omar-young-running-backs-coach

NFL playoff schedule: Top-seeded Seahawks, Broncos advance to conference championships https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6979795/2026/01/17/2025-26-nfl-conference-championship-schedule/

“ Collectively, these optimizations target common real-world bottlenecks, improving consistency across a wide variety of configurations. HTTP Archive data supports this pattern, showing that WordPress performance variance is driven more by configuration than by core limitations.”
💐 Flowers for the #WordPress performance team, gifted by

CMS | 2025 | The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive
CMS chapter of the 2025 Web Almanac covering CMS adoption, user experience of websites running on CMS platforms, and CMS resource weights.

Shares of Insilico rose 45% in their Hong Kong trading debut after the AI drug discovery startup raised $293M in an IPO; Insilico reported $85M in 2024 revenue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-30/a…

RE: https://ohai.social/@dramypsyd/115629013266911492
buh buh buh

The Rosette Nebula as seen from my driveway. From a few years ago.
#astrophotography

"Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost"
#Animals #Nature

Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered the global authority on species’ conservation status. We may never see another individual of these species ever again. Or will we? Slender-billed curlew This […]

Russia's friends helping each other:
Germany’s far-right AfD invited to join Munich Security Conference 2026, on initiative by JD Vance
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/29/german…

@… ありがとうー。

2025 Measles Cases In America Surpass The 2,000 Mark | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/30/2025-measles-cases-in-america-surpass-the-2000-mark/

#China 's government takes up to 35% of small #business prepaid revenue:
"At a fitness center...Mr. Liu was paying for an annual gym membership by scanning a QR code...prominently marked with 'Trusted Consumption Code of Prepaid Consumption Credit Supervision Platform'.
.…

A $400,000 shipment of lobster was stolen as it was headed for Costco stores, according to the freight company’s president
It'll be fenced by a shell company
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lobster-stolen-en-route-costco-stores-rcna251110<…

$400,000 worth of lobster stolen en route to Costco stores, shipper says
A whopping $400,000 shipment of lobster was stolen as it was headed for Costco stores, according to the lobster company's president.

from my link log —
An Ed25519 vulnerability in libsodium.
https://00f.net/2025/12/30/libsodium-vulnerability/
saved 2025-12-30 https://

Wondering if anyone (in EU or JP) using ​AltStore PAL can test/screenshot if @… is listed and works?
I've revived this old app, tried out the steps to distribute it on AltStore PAL (https://

Distribute with AltStore PAL | AltStore

Once upon a time ther was a rabbit named hare who had an identity crisis. he asked his mother "am I rabbit or hare?" and his mother answered "hare"

I mean what?
What?
I don't have any idea how you'd embed 7 tablet screens into a semi-circular pine table, let alone also have some kind of telescopic central column?
Even if I knew how I don't have the money for seven individual in-console embedded tabled place-settings.
This is madness. I should be asleep.

A year on #GitHub
https://git-wrapped.com/profiles/nfrankel

Well, it took me a while, but I finally vanquished #Chronos. What a way to finish the year! 😎
Can't wait for the next try.
#Hades2 #ChronosMustDie

Free stickers and CC Mysteryhack cards to scan at my Angel Shift Location E-2-F1
#39c3

Trump says Russia-Ukraine peace has 'good shot,' New York Post reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/27/trump-says-russiaukraine-peace-has.html

RE: #Zukunftsklage nachlesen. …

fröhliches vorvorböllern allerseits
nicht vergessen: morgen ist vorböllern

Nur noch ca. 4️⃣ Tage bis zum ersten Digital Independence Day #DIDay am kommenden Sonntag (04.01.2026).
So gut die Idee ist: Von den großen OpenSource Transitionen in München und Schleswig-Hollstein wissen wir: Ohne Support sind viele User:innen überfordert und frustriert.
Auf

I made a point of filling in the heart in the health app which wasn't easy on a day like today in a city like Milwaukee.
It was a little cold and snowy out there.

Die Nachvollziehbarkeit der Ergebnisse gehe dabei verloren: „Dann stellt sich am Ende die Frage: Ist der Computer jetzt zu dem Ergebnis gekommen, dass da eine Verbindung besteht oder dass die Person gefährlich sein könnte?“
https://www.heise.de/news/39C3…

The two curves you see here should be the same. Obviously, they are not.
If you are at #39c3 and want to learn about the unusual things I found in Greenhouse Gas Emission Databases, come to stage One at 11:00

CUII Liste — Diese Webseite ist aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Die CUII hat entschieden, diese Seite ohne gerichtlichen Beschluss zu sperren. Selbstjustiz? Nein danke!
Die CUII ist eine private Organisation, die sich selbst das Recht nimmt, Webseiten zu sperren, die ihrer Meinung nach gegen das Urheberrecht verstoßen. Dies geschieht ohne gerichtliche Beschlüsse - und Internetanbieter ziehen mit.
🚫

CuiiListe.de - Gesperrte Domains
Die CUII Liste zeigt dir, welche Domains von der CUII gesperrt sind und wie du die Zensur umgehen kannst.

someone pweaze make stickers
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-struggles-to-go-digital-stuck-in-analog-era-fax-machines-paperwork-bureaucracy/a-75206481

🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
Die #Alpakas haben auf einer kleinen Anhöhe frische, leckere #Gräser entdeckt. Welches ist als Erstes da? 🤓 🤔 😃
Wählt einen Favoriten und BOSTEN! 😆
🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
#Rennen

How AI Artists Tried to Scam Me! by Roll For Combat
#ai #art

People who don't like AI probably also disapproved of Dr. Robotnik imprisoning woodland creatures inside robots and forcing them to attack Sonic and Tails. 🙄 Just say you hate progress.

Is anyone of @… at #39c3 by any chance?

Ungewohnt blauer Himmel, krasse Fernsicht und Reif oder Schnee in den Wäldern.

"Die Tatsache, dass Konservative, die in Bedrängnis geraten, sich schnell als „Rechtsradikale light“ inszenieren und „die Sorgen und Ängste der Bürger ernst nehmen“ für einige Teile der CDU bedeutet, so zu klingen und zu handeln wie die AfD, ist keine neue, aber eine zentrale Erkenntnis dieses Jahres." @JanSkudlarek | #Jahresrückblick 2025 ( Ausblick '26)

I only noticed now that the famous string riff in the iconic shower scene in Psycho accompanies the mention of the movie in Billy Joel’s song “We Didn’t Start the Fire”.
#TIL #music #songs

#socialcoop So our Meet.Coop instance has been down for 3 weeks, and from what I see on https://forum.meet.coop/t/meet-coop-update-october-2025/1739/47, it's not clear w…

Meet.coop update October 2025
Me and Nick worked on the servers again today. Everything me and Nick have access to is now backed up now using encrypted backups (Restic and Borgbase). For anyone wondering this is the current plan with recordings: Can I recover my recordings despite service being down? - #3 by kawaiipunk Unfortunately we still don’t have all the access we need to complete our work. We are still missing: ssh/root access to ca.meet.coop Keycloak sso.meet.coop master realm access Hetzner account access - f…

This is what BBC news articles look like nowadays: Every single sentence is its own paragraph, and I absolute cannot stand this “style” at all. I suspect the editors only care about making articles look nice in the mobile app.
IMHO, paragraphs are specifically meant to intuitively communicate which sentences belong together because of content/meaning. Just separating any sentences is what full stops do. If actually no two consecutive sentences belong together, the article is just incoh…

Hear about the bombshell discovery of a report that U.S. govt officials had ordered burned that has the potential to expose the truth about one of the most radical policy decisions in all of American history.
Listen to:
✅ Burn Order | Rachel Maddow
https://www.rachelmaddow.com/burn-order/<…

Es gibt hier in Vorpommern nicht so wahnsinnig viele regionale Brauereien. Aber einen neugierigen und experimentierfreudigen Getränkemarktpächter, der das Großhändlerangebot regelmäßig ausschöpft. Deswegen gestern zur Brotzeit ein Bayreuther Urstoff. Wenn ihr das noch nie getrunken habt: ihr habt nichts verpasst. Solides Helles, Oberfranken kann das auch besser. #abenteuerbier

Harissa discoveries

do I wanna play a video game or read a book or try to finish my "ten years ago was 2000" shirt design

Im Artikel 1 des NATO-Vertrags verpflichten sich die Mitgliedstaaten, Konflikte untereinander friedlich beizulegen.
Mit seinen Drohungen gegen Grönland, und damit gegen das NATO-Mitglied Dänemark, bricht Trump seine NATO-Verpflichtungen und die Abkommen, die sein Land selbst mitinitiiert hat – um Grönland, ein faktisches NATO-Mitglied, zu annektieren.

The North Atlantic Treaty (NATO Agreement) - The Faculty of Law
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

Samsung, up 125%, and SK Hynix, up 268%, accounted for nearly half of the 76% gain in South Korea's Kospi, the world's best-performing major stock index in 2025 (Youkyung Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

:duckduckgo: how to nap 5 hours in 90 mins

This is Republicans fucking with vote-by-mail because they can’t win elections fairly https://mstdn.social/@redcrew/115806124317380707

Far from a lost year: Raiders developed some foundational pieces on O-line https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/far-from-a-lost-year-raiders-developed-some-foundational-pieces-on-o-line-3696094/

mstdn.jpの画像が表示されなかったのっていつからだっけ？

"From deadly heatwaves to flash floods: How Europe’s extreme weather events defined 2025"
#Heatwaves #Environment #Climate

A timeline of disaster: How extreme weather battered Europe this year
Europe’s extreme weather has caused thousands of deaths and shaken the economy. Will it be 2025’s grim legacy?

"Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job."
—Joan Rivers
#acting #coaching

Although the growth rate (%) of global CO2 emissions has gone down, the increase in absolute terms is still pretty much a straight line:
On average, we're increasing the amount of CO2 that we dump in the atmosphere by around 450 million tonnes every year. Making the climate crisis worse faster.
#emissions

Russian troops execute five disarmed Ukrainian POWs near Pokrovsk and Huliaipole - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/29/russian-troops-shoot-five-disarmed-ukrainian-pows-near-pokrovsk-and-huliaipole/

Once upon a time there was a young woman who thought she was a plank. that her calling was to bridge gaps chasms torrents freeways missing teeth. what a dumb shit

I paid more in domain name fees this month than xmas presents. Again.

Democrats Aim to Spotlight Republican Efforts to Rewrite the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot (Michael Gold/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/us/politics/jan-6-anniversary-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p90#a251229p90

#SpringBoot 4 #OpenTelemetry: From Zero to Full #Observability in Minutes

US Senator Graham says Tomahawks should go to Ukraine if Putin rejects peace deal: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/22/us-senator-graham-says-tomahawks.html

Shares of Shenzhen-based OneRobotics opened flat in their HK debut after the Chinese home robotics maker raised $210M by selling 22M shares at about $9.50 each (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/markets/ipo/amazo…

Amazon supplier of household robots shares open flat on trading debut
OneRobotics raises $210mn to expand global market presence

Aaargh @… is down, we're lost and all gonna die!
#39c3

Wordle, but just variations of meow...

The year is 2065 and a new trend has started among teens where they watch old video over 90 minutes long that used to be called movies.
"I'm concerned what this long format video is doing to their brains" a local parent complains.

A for Andromeda
is a British television science fiction drama serial
written by cosmologist Fred Hoyle,
in conjunction with author and television producer John Elliot.
It concerns a group of scientists who detect a radio signal from another galaxy that contains instructions for the design of an advanced computer.
When the computer is built, it gives the scientists instructions for the creation of a living organism named Andromeda
But one of the scientists…

Who's the Super Bowl favorite in this unhinged NFL season? Nobody. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6927991/2025/12/30/nfl-super-bowl-favorite-contenders/

Was Spotify ums verrecken nicht hinkriegt oder nicht hinkriegen will: Lautstärke innerhalb einer Playlist normalisieren. Zefix. #uxfromhell

"Clean energy is still winning. These 10 charts prove it."
#Energy #Renewables
https://www.

Clean energy is still winning. These 10 charts prove it.
Solar and wind are beating new power demand, steelmaking is slowly getting off coal, and more clean energy victories are clear in these charts.

Mastodon（Fedibird）からこんにちは
実は自宅サーバー勢でもあったりします。面白そうなのでお邪魔しますー。
@…

Driven by the AI boom, chipmakers posted $400B in sales in 2025; FactSet projects revenue for Nvidia, Intel, Broadcom, AMD, and Qualcomm to reach $538B in 2026 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/…

Kennedy Center exodus: The 11 acts, creators pulling out amid Trump takeover
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/30/new-years-2026-trump-kennedy-center

More Kennedy Center Performers Pull Out After Trump's Name Change (Tomšs Mier/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kennedy-center-trump-rename-events-cancelled-1235491851/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p91#a251229p91

Anyway, more immediately, the corner cushion and long cushion have arrived.
Both a bit understuffed from what would be ideal. Creased, but maybe that'll drop out. Says not to iron it.
Can't even open the long one for adding more stuffing. Would have to unstitch and restitch.
Comfy though. This is the best bed I've ever had for lazing around in bed watching TV and I haven't even added the projector yet.

Russia attacks Kherson market, Chernihiv apartment building on Christmas Day, killing at least 2: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/25/russia-attacks-kherson-market-chernihiv.html

I've watched so many nissan Leaf videos to the point where it's really just a survey in the quirks of how people talk about cars.

SI-Einheiten, metrisches System, Normierung, dies, das. Aber habt ihr euch schon mal mit Härtegraden von Wasser beschäftigt 🤯

Designed a new t-shirt. You should get one and go running wearing it*.
https://davidaugust.threadless.com/designs/i-am-a-bomb-technician-if-you-see-me-running-try-to-catch-…

Meta says Manus, initially based in Beijing and Wuhan, will cut Chinese investor ties after the deal and "will discontinue its services and operations in China" (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Meta says AI startup Manus to cut China ties after acquisition
US tech giant says Manus will maintain current operations as it is integrated into Meta platforms

"Call for citizen scientists to monitor threatened turtle species on NSW beaches"
#Australia #NewSouthWales #Animals

むしろ休みになってからが本番

Ukrainian POWs ‘being systematically executed’ by Russia, says top commander | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-pow-prisoner-of-war-russia-putin-execution-b2891941.html

👀
You could like, embed a tablet screen under each place setting.
Would make it more awkward to serve dinner off of. Might need a glass or plastic cover. Lose the touch-screen sensitivity.
The reason all my domain names expire this time of year is because it's so common to have these hair brained schemes between xmas and new year.

Meta has agreed to acquire AI startup Manus; the Singapore-based startup said in December that its annual revenue run rate is over $125M (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-29/meta-acquires-startup-manu…

Gnah, zefix!
So ein Tag ist heute.

Orban says Ukraine's collapse would be a catastrophe for Hungary, urges peace: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/22/orban-says-ukraines-collapse-would.html

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."
—Mikhail Baryshnikov
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Australian State Secures Federal Support to Achieve 100% Net Renewables Goal by 2027"
#Australia #Energy #Renewables

Australian State Secures Federal Support to Achieve 100% Net Renewables Goal by 2027 | Happy Eco News
South Australia has secured federal funding to meet its 100% net renewables goal by 2027. The support will add at least 1 gigawatt of wind and solar power plus 400 megawatts of battery storage—enough to power hundreds of thousands of homes—cementing the state’s global leadership in the clean energy transition.

Trump Threatens To "Knock The Hell" Out Of Iran - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/trump-threatens-to-knock-the-hell-out-of-iran/

Meta says it will continue to operate and sell the Manus service, and Manus' talent will join Meta to deliver agents across Meta products, including Meta AI (Meta)
https://www.facebook.com/business/news/manus-joins-meta-accelerating-ai-in…

Manus Joins Meta: Accelerating AI Innovation for Businesses
We are excited to announce that Manus is joining Meta to bring a leading agent to billions of people and unlock opportunities for businesses across our products.

UK-based Octopus Energy reaches a deal to sell about $1B of equity in Kraken Technologies, its tech spin-off, at an $8.65B valuation to a syndicate of investors (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/eaad78f4-b52c-4116-ad1b-3e79694ebeed

"Five short videos that debunk climate lies and falsehoods"
#Climate #ClimateChange
htt…

Five short videos that debunk climate lies and falsehoods
Join Samantha Harrington as she sleuths out climate misinformation on social media.

Filing: Chinese chipmaker GigaDevice aims to raise up to ~$600M in a Hong Kong IPO, offering 28.9M shares at up to ~$21 each (Nichiket Sunil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-based-gigadev…

"Chocolate could disappear by 2050. Could this climate-resistant alternative take its place?"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Chocolate

Meet the scientists saving the chocolate industry from climate change
As cocoa production plunges, scientists have turned to a climate-resilient plant to save the chocolate industry.

"Scientists Create Durable Biodegradable Bamboo Plastic That’s Stronger Than Petroleum-Based Materials"
#Bamboo #Plastic #Plastics

Scientists Create Durable Biodegradable Bamboo Plastic That’s Stronger Than Petroleum-Based Materials | Happy Eco News
Chinese researchers created biodegradable bamboo plastic with 110 MPa tensile strength that decomposes in soil within 50 days. Published in Nature Communications (October 2025), the material outperforms petroleum-based plastics in terms of strength and stability, while maintaining 90% of its original strength after recycling. This makes it a renewable and recyclable alternative for industrial use.

Global fintech VC funding rose 27% YoY in 2025 to $51.8B; Y Combinator was the most active investor in the space, participating in 151 deals, up 24.8% YoY (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/most-active-fintech-inve…

Y Combinator Was By Far The Most-Active Fintech Investor in 2025, Data Shows
All told, global venture funding to financial technology startups totaled $51.8 billion for 2025 compared to $40.8 billion in 2024, per Crunchbase data. The investors who provided all that capital included a mix of private equity and alternative investors, with venture capital firms and accelerators next in line.

Bengaluru-based edtech startup Emversity raised a $30M Series A led by Premji Invest, sources say at a $120M post-money valuation, up from $60M in April 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/indias-emversi…

India's Emversity doubles valuation as it scales workers AI can't replace | TechCrunch
Emversity has raised $30 million in a new round as it scales job-ready training in India.