@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-21 08:00:00
A Golden Morning At Piz Beverin.
(Luckily, the dense fog was just starting to lift when we arrived, revealing the silent spectacle beyond and the majestic peak...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-21 08:00:00
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-20 17:25:48
The World Economic Forum in Davos is now dominated by tech giants, whose interests shunt aside topics like climate change, as Trump and AI take center stage (Peter S. Goodman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/business/davos-trump.html
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-01-16 20:17:55
Almost exactly 2 years ago when it was below -16°C.
This was a real cool experience - literally.
But I'm just so glad that I went there. I think, this waterfall isn't frozen like that so often. So I was just really lucky to be at the right time at the right spot.
And now - enjoy your weekend 😉
#nature
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-16 21:30:31
For a president who wants to project vigor and command at all times, Donald Trump made the worst possible spectacle of himself in the Oval Office last Thursday
when a participant fainted and several officials on hand rushed over.
-- Not Trump, however, who, after turning to look at the fallen man, stood a few feet away at the Resolute Desk with his back to the action, wearing an indifferent expression.
This was pointedly reflected in news photos that instantly went viral.
@seav@en.osm.town2025-11-16 05:29:38
@marcel@waldvogel.family2026-01-10 06:22:03
Content warning: USpol
Insider trading and show for Elon Musk/Twitter. Or: Profits, profits, profits. Costing real lives.
"When the Trump administration kidnapped the Maduros, it was a serious geopolitical action that seemed engineered primarily to play on X. And X is indeed where it played out. The action makes the most sense if we assume the primary purpose of the Maduro kidnapping was to generate content. After all, US forces could simply have assassinated him."
💰🧱
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-07 18:04:48
“The real question, then, is not ‘what can we do?’, but ‘what are we afraid to do?’ Whose comfort are we protecting when we ask safe questions? Whose illusions do we preserve through politeness? Solidarity is not an optic; it is a disruption. It is noisy, uncomfortable, often isolating. It pulls reputation apart rather than polishing it.
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We are too fluent in the language of outrage, too comfortable in the posture of virtue. History will not absolve spectatorship, even when specta…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2026-01-09 10:22:20
Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
CROUPIER: Come on, my friends. Gather round. You are about to witness the most important spectacle in the history of sport.
KRANTOR: Friends and patrons! We have here a young trekker as you can see. His name is ... [Consults with the man] Thrills. And he is challenging the mighty Klute at speed chess. Your applause for his courage, please. [He leads Thrills to the speed chess table.]
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2026-01-16 01:36:41
Content warning: Star Fleet Academy S01E02 Spoilers
Okay whales are cool but stop treating them like a spectacle and treat them like the SAPIENT PEOPLE THEY ARE AND SAY HELLO COME ON.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-08 03:15:44
Blood for stonks ... It was the first in a series of increasing bets. (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/858075/trump-venezuela-maduro-kidnapping-spectacle
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p167#a260107p167
@Xexyz@mastodon.me.uk2025-12-05 11:56:21
Radiant Silvergun: an abundance of weapons
I'm not great at scrolling shooters, though I enjoy their spectacle and the panic they induce as the number of bullets increases. Radiant Silvergun not only has a great many bullets, it also has a great many weapons, all but one of which I forget to use. This makes things very tricky indeed, especially when you're supposed to be firing around corners using a homing missile and I'm stuck firing upwards like a lemon.
@Nathan@social.lostinok.com2025-12-03 02:17:34
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-05 20:33:04
Donald Trump was awarded the new
"FIFA peace prize"
on Friday at the 2026 World Cup draw
— giving the spectacle to set matchups for the quadrennial soccer tournament
even more of a Trumpian flair.
https://www.
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2025-11-25 07:30:12
'Eisige Zeiten' #FotoVorschlag 'icy times'
Oh I have a couple of frosty photos, but this might be one of my best. I spent quite a while there to capture the cold feeling.
Packed in multiple layers, I really spent quite a while around that spot in order to really see the right motives.
It just reminds me that I could post more of my winter photos! :)
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@servelan@newsie.social2025-11-29 21:18:52
""The Republican Party is compromised and is now a functional asset of the Russian Federation.""
'Appalling spectacle': Ex-GOP insider accuses Republican senators of being 'compromised' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-russia-compromised-stuart-stevens/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 21:03:02
What we witnessed was not journalism but the choreography of propaganda.
CBS, in particular, offered thirty uninterrupted minutes of state-sanctioned fantasy,
anchored by a fawning interview with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth,
a man implicated in the killing of more than one hundred people at sea without evidence, accountability, or due process.
Rather than interrogating power, the networks shifted seamlessly into spectacle.
At no point did either network rais…
