@whitequark@mastodon.sociala human: "I want to put a cat that is physically able to kill me in approximately ten milliseconds in my home and share my life with it"
(One day passes)
same human: "I am going to annoy the animal that can split my spinal cord in two on purpose because I am bored"
never gets old https://www.youtube.com/sh…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialGloom & Bloom IV ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 IV ☁️ 🌺
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@cdarwin@c.imDozens of unions, community and faith organizations are calling on every Minnesotan to take a stand on January 23rd.
The ICE “surge” that cost the life of Renee Nicole Good is violating the Constitutional and human rights of Americans and our neighbors.
On January 23rd there will be a unified, statewide pause in economic activity.
We are demanding:
🔸ICE must leave Minnesota now.
🔸The officer who killed Good must be held legally accountable.
🔸No additiona…
@johnhobbs@mstdn.caEnvision starting your day with the calming rhythm of ocean waves or the soft rustle of a mountain breeze, all while savoring your coffee without a care in the world. ☕️🏞️ Retirement isn't merely the end of work; it's the beginning of life's most cherished experiences and thrilling adventures. Let's forge a future where every day feels like living the dream! #DreamAgain #RetirementBliss
@kctipton@mas.toAmplify Utah - Voices: I built my life in Utah. Now the government wants me gone. https://amplifyutah.org/point-of-view/voices-i-built-my-life-in-utah-now-the-government-wants-me-gone
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"In 2025 I have spend some time to untangle my digital life from billionaire/fascist run platforms. So at the beginning of 2026 maybe it makes sense to talk a bit about what I did, why I went certain ways and what works and what doesn’t."
(Original title: Exiting the Billionaire Castle)
https://
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
Ares steers his chariot towards a #NewYear 🍾
"The Amazones of the Doiantian plain were by no means gentle, well-conducted folk; they were brutal and aggressive, and their main concern in life was war. War, indeed, was in their blood, daughters of Ares as they were."
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.989
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Beatles:
🎵 A Day in the Life
#TheBeatles
https://lennonviadinhe.bandcamp.com/track/a-day-in-the-life
https://open.spotify.com/track/0hKRSZhUGEhKU6aNSPBACZ
@cdarwin@c.imA new ProPublica investigation reveals new details about a sprawling ICE detention complex
where families describe horrific conditions inside, such as being served contaminated food,
with children and parents at times finding worms in their meals.
Lights are reportedly left on for 24 hours a day.
South Texas Family Residential Center, in the town of #Dilley a few dozen miles from …
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgLife hack*: Put dentist or scary doctor's appointments on the same day as important and also scary work commitments (talks, deadlines) - then the stress at work won't leave time to worry about the other thing 🙃
* In a few weeks I'll report back whether this works or was just a colossally stupid idea leading to failure in both work and life appointment 🙈
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAdobe partners with YouTube to launch a dedicated content creation space for YouTube Shorts creators within its Premiere mobile app for iOS (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/adobe-launches-content-…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzThe new best team in the NFL, plus sorting through the college football mess https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6853727/2025/12/02/patriots-giants-nfl-power-rankings-the-pulse/
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialUn Momento 🕰️
一瞬 🕰️
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialThis is pretty cool. Not often somebody gets to announce the discovery of a whole new branch of life. The cells contain mitochondria unlike any known before. Features support the #endosymbiont theory of #mitochondria origins, that they were originally separate animals but one got swallowed by so…
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
On this day in 2012 Leonard Cohen releases "Old Ideas", an album that becomes No.1 in 10 countries. It easy to forget just how big an impact Cohen made in music from the late 60s through to this album. Many fans were introduced to his music via his song "Hallelujah". Cohen first released it on his 1984 album Various Positions, though it gained massive popularity through covers by artists like Jeff Buckley and K.D. Lang. He had an incredible journey, starting as a poet, enjoying stardom in the 70s, retiring to a monastery in the 90s, and having to tour later in life to rebuild his fortune after suffering embezzlement by his agent.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianLegends
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeIt's a pretty big day in cybersecurity news, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical developments you should know, including
--Korean cops raid Coupang HQ looking for security lapses, breach perpetrator clues,
--Compromise NDAA bill is chock full of cyber provisions,
--FTC rejects petition from spyware company founder,
--Commonwealth Bank of Australia fined A$702k for breaching data rules,
--FBI warns of fake proof of life photos,
--Oz…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgOkay, for those who want to switch Email providers and think about Fastmail (as I described in my article https://tante.cc/2026/01/05/exiting-the-billionaire-castle/ ):
This link gives you 10% off your first year. (It will give me 10 USD, too, so you can consider this a…
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.placeI watched Michael Brough’s (smestorp) vlog the other day and he mentioned The Secret Life of Games podcast! Apparaently they discuss all his games now and I thought to myself that this is exactly the kind of thing @… would love and… [touches earpiece]… Raigan is a guest of the introductory episode!
Brough-likes and Raigan are intertwined in my mind…
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#CarolsAcrossTheCountryASeasonalJourney
- Live from the Peak District in Staffordshire
Mark Forrest starts the day at Peak Wildlife Park in Staffordshire. With live music, sounds of the natural world and the voices of people bringing the area's rich history to life.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mk1k
@theadhocracy@indieweb.socialHaving discovered that 2025 marked the 10 year anniversary of my return to the indie web, I've spent the last six months making small, incremental improvements in just about every part of my web life.
Felt like the right thing to do, on the final day of the year, to write something about these little side quests: #IndieWeb #HappyNewYear #Blogging
@fgraver@hcommons.socialThis is true. Especially good wool socks for anyone living climates with cold winters. https://mastodon.green/@juliette/115635128700362435
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a beautiful first Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday. May the new year bring love and pleasure into your life 🌹
"There is at hand a good relish, very inviting, and Thasian wine and ointment and fillets. For Kypris [Aphrodite] dwells where plenty is, but among those who are hard up Aphrodite will not stay."
Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 1.28
🏛 Celestial Venus, Roman sculpture, 2-3rd Century CE
@joe@toot.worksI just watched a tiktok video that started "A day in the life of a homeless guy who sleeps in his private plane". 🤨
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
I finished my breakfast this morning only to discover that it's National Maple Syrup Day. A missed opportunity but at least I can share some important facts about Canada's sweet and sticky sauce.
- Indigenous People taught early Canadians how to harvest maple sap and boil it down into a sugary liquid.
- A maple tree can yield sap for up to 100 years, but the trees must be roughly 45 years old before it’s first tapped for syrup making.
- It takes roughly 40 gallons (150 litres) of tree sap to produce 1 gallon (3.8 litres) of syrup.
- Quebec produces 72% of the world’s maple syrup. In 2021, that equaled 133M lbs from Quebec.
- The big bottle of Costco Maple Syrup is from Quebec.
- Maple Syrup only has 1 ingredient. Sap.
- Maple Syrup has an indefinite shelf life but should be frozen if storing for more than 2 years.
And regarding the great Maple Syrup heist, this is still the best report on that famous crime.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MmmmSyrup #MapleSyrup
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/maple-syrup-heist?srsltid=AfmBOoq7fMx3GguT20T9cNrpZgrtVue4leiYZpZibZT_7S9WHWDfI0Ln
@pre@boing.worldApparently last week's improv class, which I missed, did indeed talk about a story spine, a template I first heard from a Pixar story course:
Once upon a time there was... And every day they would.. Until one day... And because of that... (repeat 'because' till end)...
And this week was concentrating mostly on the first bits: Playing out some scenes introducing characters, setting up their normal routine.
The nature of improv can be tricky here. Things spiral out of control quite fast. Things start happening immediately, without time to build that normal routine which you then break.
Take for instance the scene tonight at an airport. Lady rushes in: "Get me on a place as far away from here as possible, right now".
Its a great offer, but hardly a normal routine for a person. Can you really have a person whose daily routine is to fly to the furthest place they can get to immediately?
Perhaps a flashback to their normal routine then? Or perhaps make the staff the protagonist and their daily routine is to deal with crazy customers.
Character is key in the early scenes of a narrative really. Get the audience to identify with a protagonist. Who are these people, how do they know each other and what's their normal life like?
#improv #hooplaImpro #london
@mlawton@mstdn.socialFinished “We Begin at the End” by Chris Whitaker. A bit whodunit, a bit about coping with tragedy, and a bit about holding onto a past that can never be again.
Duchess Day Radley is a young girl who had to grow up fast. She raises her young brother while her mom suffers with substance abuse and a violent man. A self proclaimed outlaw, Duchess lashes out at the world rebelliously. But when tragedy strikes, so too does trouble.
4/5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaA good day is when I learn something new. Today I learned a small thing in AWK for IF statements. It makes the life of the team easier now as I can allow for multiple year checks on an input file. This coming December I can set it up to handle 2026/2027 dates without causing an error message like we received today. I knew how to do it in APL, BASIC, C, dBase, PASCAL, PL/1, COBOL, FORTRAN, REXX, RUST, SQL and BASH. Never did it in AWK.
@johnhobbs@mstdn.caWith 50 years in the professional realm, I've learned every day holds potential to turn challenges into stepping stones. From historical fiction to new ventures, remember growth starts with knowledge. What book transformed your life? 📚✨ #Entrepreneurship #BookLovers
@cdarwin@c.imSome of the nation’s top health officials and Donald Trump have cast doubt on a vaccine that doctors call lifesaving.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned whether babies should continue to receive the vaccine on their first day of life,
arguing that the disease is mainly transmitted through sexual contact and sharing needles.
But the virus can also pass from mother to child at birth.
In September, Mr. Trump said that he thought children …
@hippyjo@c.imAs Trump further humiliates America and alienates the world, his fiendish fuckery of Ukraine coincides with brutal weather conditions to create amazing suffering.
Giorgio describes a day in the life of -20 c temps and no electricity, no wood fires, as Russian drones seek out the tiniest thermal source and destroy it.
Support Ukraine and the work of Giorgio and Alla by sharing the friend link to bypass the paywall:
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioReplying to someone to check if a term in their message was just a typo, and spelling the word typo as "type", then correcting that typo to "typ0", and so on. 🤦♂️
Anyway, how's your day going?
#life #irony #typos #greetings
@cdarwin@c.imI was shot point-blank.
At sixteen years old, I chased down and tackled a man who had stolen a woman’s purse.
In the struggle, the thief shot me at point-blank range.
The bullet tore through my gut, lodging in my liver.
Doctors weren’t sure I would survive.
Hi, it’s Tony Box,
candidate for Texas Attorney General to replace Ken Paxton.
That day, I got a second chance at life.
I vowed to dedicate the time God had given me to the servi…
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
I'm sitting my sunroom sipping coffee and contemplating the year that's past, and thinking about #NewYearsResolutions. I've never previously indulged in making promises to myself that I forget about in a few months, but I might make one for 2026. According to Narrative Research, 48% of Canadians made resolutions in 2025, with most setting goals related to health or finances. More than 71% are confident they’ll reach their 2025 goals. Quebec residents are more likely to have made a resolution for 2025, and resolutions are more likely for Canadians age 34 or younger, with the likelihood decreasing with age.
What about you? Please select an option from the survey below, and please boost for additional data collection. I've included a tune to set the mood.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Poll
Do you make New Years Resolutions?
