@theodric@social.linux.pizzaI love finding a random Bluetooth device advertising in my house as "TY" with MAC address DC:23:4F:A5:21:4D that isn't associated with any vendor.
It's a good thing I'm not an *even more* paranoid person or this could send me off a cliff
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
End It:
🎵 Could You Love Me?
#EndIt
https://longdissonance.bandcamp.com/track/end-it-could-you-love-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/1mVgr0bu8qYVs2pNcQniLD
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Westside Cowboy:
🎵 I've Never Met Anyone I Thought I Could Really Love (Until I Met You)
#WestsideCowboy
https://westsidecowboy.bandcamp.com/track/i-ve-never-met-anyone-i-thought-i-could-really-love-until-i-met-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/1h2hL1RTrCERqapaEDz4mR
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
@wraithe@mastodon.socialRivers father turning out to be running what basically amounts to the “The Deadly Childcare Assassination Squad”
(with apologies to “Kill Bill”)
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNotre Dame RB Jeremiyah Love declares for 2026 NFL Draft. Could he be a top-10 pick? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6895360/2025/12/16/jeremiyah-love-2026-nfl-draft-declares-scouting/
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldFor #WWBC this week, I’m reflecting on the books I wish I could read again for the first time—from Jurassic Park to Red Storm Rising and beyond. Some stories just hit differently the first time through.
https://www.bob…
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeThe peoples:
The tech companies:
You asked for it and we listened! We added powerful AI everywhere!!! There is no opt-in or opt-out as we know you LOVE AI and wants it everywhere!!
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialThe Perverse Beauty of Regex: A Love Letter to the World’s Most Efficient Torture Device
— by @…
🔣 https://www.<…
@ErikUden@mastodon.dei absolutely love going through https://okstupid.lol/ and seeing all the MEN who signed up for "WhiteDate" thinking they could find far right women to mingle yet all it lead to was their insane incel beliefs being leaked alongside their real address and name
@adamhotep@infosec.exchange"AI" screening on job sites has people looking to network their way into jobs via dating apps
https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/25/12/29/2144201/tough-job-market-has-people-using-dating-apps-to-get-interviews …
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldFor The First Time, Again
Thinking about the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge, I reflect on books I wish I could read for the first time again—Jurassic Park, Red Storm Rising, and Parker’s mysteries—and how those stories first hooked me on reading.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/for-the-f
@cdarwin@c.im“In two weeks” finally arrived.
That’s the usual time period in which Trump has, for the last 10 years, promised the arrival of a spectacular plan to reform the healthcare system,
one that would solve every problem anyone could identify,
individual or systemic.
Just you wait, he’d say — the plan is coming in two weeks, and you’re gonna love it.
Well now the White House has indeed released what it calls
“The Great Healthcare Plan.”
Is it great? No…
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe US military has always had a massive global advantage against enemies by having bases all over the world. There are bases in every NATO country. This would appear to be a powerful threat to anyone willing to oppose American hegemon, and under normal conditions it would be.
But a lot of those kids serving on those bases joined, not because they love America but, because they needed a ticket out of poverty. They joined for the education, for the money, maybe a bit for the adventure, but, more than anything, to escape the ghetto or podunk backwater that trapped them. Under normal times, this is the best deal they could expect. Maybe they risk their lives, usually they sit around being bored for a few years, and they get to come out with respect and paid college.
But what they are being offered is normal in most of the countries they're stationed in. Free healthcare, cheap or free education, is just what citizens in a lot of countries have come to expect. If the US attacked a NATO country, how many would snap up citizenship if they were given a chance to defect? Bonus points for taking some hardware with you, I'm sure.
But there are some who love their country. There are some patriotic Americans on those bases. Some of them joined specifically to protect the US from all enemies, foreign *and* domestic. Given a chance to fulfill that oath or violate international law, what happens?
There are a good number of former military folks too who now are unsafe in the countries they served, who would do just about anything for citizenship in any EU country and almost any NATO ally. Some of those folks know things they swore an oath to never share, but the country they swore an oath to has betrayed them. Today there's no value in leaking those secrets, but in a war between the US and NATO allies things would be different. Some of those former military folks still believe in their oath, and know exactly who the real enemy is. What happens when there's a real threat of war, when they can use their knowledge to fulfill that oath to protect the US against those domestic threats?
There are a bunch of civilian tech workers who have become targets of the regime. Some of them had clearance, or know about the skeletons in the closet. They know about critical infrastructure, classified systems, all sorts of things that would be extremely valuable to an opponent. But the opponents of the US have always been a frightening *other*, never familiar societies these folks look up to, have visited, have thought about moving to, are trying to escape to.
All I'm saying here is that invading Venezuela and kidnapping the president has a very different calculus than does attacking Greenland. I don't know if Trump or his people are able to understand that, but if he and his folks aren't then I hope European leaders are. But more than that, I hope it never comes down to finding out.
But perhaps we should all think about what we would do to make sure things ended quickly if American leadership ever made such an incredible mistake.
@almad@fosstodon.orgGreat writeup on how tech elites have given up (quite a few years ago).
From 2019, but could be written yesterday
https://www.boundary2.org/2019/08/sarah-t-roberts-and-mel-hogan-left-behind-futurist…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzChiefs' Travis Kelce mulls possible retirement: 'There's a lot of love for the game that's still there' https://www.nfl.com/news/chiefs-travis-kelce-mulls-possible-retirement-a-lot-of-love-for-game-still-there…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialA century ago the KKK hoped to foment race war by trying to get African Americans to try shooting at them so they could use that as justification for their own homicidal actions. It looks to me that ICE is trying that same tactic today. They’d love for protesters to start shooting at them so they can open all out war on US citizens. Prove me wrong.
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialYears ago, I started saying "have a great day" and "I love you" every morning to my kids when sending them off to preschool or school. I did it because I had a realization there's a possibility, however remote, this morning could be the last time I say something to them, and I wanted it to be something good.
I can't imagine the heartache the parents feel who sent their kids off to school, preschool, or even college, to never see them again.
@paulbusch@mstdn.caAs a former netminder, I love these rare backup #Goalie stories, and even rarer cases when they actually get called into action. I could dream of sitting in the stands of Maple Leaf Gardens in the mid 80s. Two freak injuries to the home team goalies prompts an announcement, "Is there a goalie in the house?" I slowly stand up and yell, "I'll do it."
I then proceed to shut out the Oilers for the rest of the game, including 3 breakaways by Gretzky. He shakes his head slowly after every unsuccessful attempt.
Hey... it coulda happened...
#NHL #Hockey
Dave Nozzolillo, a beer-league goalie and banker, forced into emergency backup duty for Chicago Blackhawks | RMNB https://share.google/JVJVmGlaNZHL3gYJT
@detondev@social.linux.pizzai love every little bit of human bodies on an aesthetic level but backs are lowkey my favorite part, i could study every slope and pore of them all day, whats ur favorite back image
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotDad told me that on Tuesday reindeer were taken to Mum's care home - how cool is that! Mum was stroking the 6mo calf who was there with its ma. I joked to Dad (who we live with, in his house, albeit very collaboratively) that that was a good reason to get a puppy, so we could take it in to Mum and she'd love stroking it and to my amazement he took me seriously! He said it's not an outright no, so I'm quite encouraged. We're looking to adopt a couple of kittens in Jan so w…
@chiraag@mastodon.online
@petaqui@masto.es@… Hi guys! Could you develop an integration to import from UpNote? Please. I love that app, but I want E2EE in my life...
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca"I'd love President Trump to come and see me," she says.
"I'd soon tell him how it is being an Army wife and an Army mother, and what it is to lose a child in those circumstances, something that he knows nothing about."
I'd love for him to go meet her too. He could meet a mother from every NATO country that he has insulted and betrayed with his idiotic, ignorant and disgustingly narcissistic remarks.
This is how century-long friendships and alliances are destroyed.
Americans: don't say sorry. Say, "I'm going to change this”.
#CanPoli #NATO #Afghanistan #UK #Scotland
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cdxjjwjvkkzt
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 122 - CXXII
Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Full charactered with lasting memory,
Which shall above that idle rank remain,
Beyond all date, even to eternity:
Or, at the least, so long as brain and heart
Have faculty by nature to subsist;
Till each to razed oblivion yield his part
Of thee, thy record never can be missed.
That poor retention could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
Ther…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaider Nation Reacts After Bold Jon Gruden Return Suggestion https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-reacts-after-bold-jon-gruden-return-suggestion
@NFL@darktundra.xyzUpset alert in NFL Week 10? Why these favorites could fall, including Jordan Love and the Packers
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-10-upset-picks-underdogs-to-wat…
@petaqui@masto.es@… Hi guys! Could you develop an integration to import from UpNote? Please. I love that app, but I want E2EE in my life...
@NFL@darktundra.xyzHow do this season's Heisman Trophy finalists project as NFL Draft prospects? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6878491/2025/12/12/nfl-draft-2026-heisman-mendoza-love-pavia-sayin/
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Westside Cowboy:
🎵 I've Never Met Anyone I Thought I Could Really Love (Until I Met You) (6M Session, 17 December 2025)
#WestsideCowboy
https://westsidecowboy.bandcamp.com/track/i-ve-never-met-anyone-i-thought-i-could-really-love-until-i-met-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/1h2hL1RTrCERqapaEDz4mR
@NFL@darktundra.xyzPackers vs. Broncos prediction: Jordan Love and quality of his receiving corps will be the difference
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/packers-vs-broncos-where-to-watch-pick…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
LuxJury:
🎵 Snacks (I Could Love You)
#LuxJury
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://luxjury.bandcamp.com/track/snacks-i-could-love-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/33ruyJ6RnTbH13JAtpvK2X
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
I don't post much about #Hockey as I've fallen out of love for the game in recent years. But in my youth, I was a goalie, and one of my early sports heroes was Glenn Hall. On this day in 1962, Hall set a record that will never be broken when he played in his 502nd consecutive NHL regular-season game and 552 straight, including the Stanley Cup Playoffs. This was an era when goalies didn't wear masks or helmets and were routinely stitched up after being cut so they could return to the net. I didn't become a fan until after his streak ended, but his dominance over the next few years made an impression on me and my style of goaltending. He was the pioneer of the butterfly style, which at the time enraged NHL coaches and confounded scorers. His goaltending for St. Louis in the Stanley Cup series of 1968 was some of the best I've ever seen.
#CanadaIsAwesome #NHL #GOAT
https://www.nhl.com/news/glenn-hall-holds-nhl-record-that-likely-will-never-be-broken
