I went Xmas shopping with some friends at IKEA. Someone passed us and said, “You guys make me want to put on a mask.”

Nothing is stopping you stranger.

Metro finally reporting on the Palestine Action hunger strike

https://metro.co.uk/2025/12/11/pro-palestine-prisoner-hunger-strike-39-days-deteriorating-past-point-no-return-25380461/

#PalestineAction #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #DefendOurJuries #Genocide #FreePalestine

The BBC must take a stand against Israel's war crimes and join the growing boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Russia and Belarus were rightly excluded following the illegal invasion of Ukraine. Why do the European broadcasters believe that Palestinian lives are worth less?

Starbucks baristas are ✊Still On Strike ✊. Four weeks of incredible collective action and solidarity. Don’t cross the picket line, don’t buy SBX coffee.

No contract, no coffee 🚫✊🚫☕️

I'm hiring a Director of Product Engineering for our product team at @ProPublica. If you're an engineering leader in the US who wants to truly make a difference, we're a nonprofit newsroom investigating abuses of trust in the public interest. Please consider joining us. #amhiring #getfedihired https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4623874006?gh_src=0eh7t3h36us

Nemo, the Swiss singer who won Eurovision in 2024 has announced that they are returning their trophy in protest at Israel's continued participation in the song contest. Their message to the European Broadcasting Union: "Live what you claim."

EU triggers emergency clause to indefinitely immobilise Russian assets

By doing so, the EU will lock the assets under its jurisdiction amid concerns that the US would seek control of the frozen assets and use them in a future settlement with Moscow as it negotiates an end to the war.

http://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/12/11/eu-triggers-emergency-clause-to-indefinitely-immobilise-russian-assets

ICE said it found no records in response to our FOIA for body-worn camera footage from Operation Midway Blitz.

We’re pursuing our options to get to the bottom of it — and send ICE a clear message: It's not the secret police or exempt from accountability.

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/ice-claims-no-body-camera-footage-from-chicago-in-response-to-fpf-foia/

New post: "A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 1: reasons + requirements"

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-1-reasons-requirements/

I can't believe my #selfhosting one year anniversary is coming up next week. @yunohost truly changed my digital life - for the better.

This is a 1st post in a 4 part miniseries intended for real newbies.

And now excuse me while I go hide in a cave expecting irate replies from sysadmins about certain things I wrote 😅

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting

The brainworms have gotten to Liam Neeson. He just narrated an antivax crockumentary.

Please share so everyone can avoid his schlock in the future: https://www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeson-narrates-anti-vax-pro

#PPOD: After a seven-year journey on board the Cassini spacecraft, ESA’s Huygens probe reached Titan’s surface, marking the most distant landing ever achieved by a spacecraft. During the descent, its cameras collected data on the dense atmosphere and took the first-ever images of the surface. These revealed an extraordinary world with lakes, islands, and erosion features similar to those that shape our planet, confirming that liquid methane once flowed there. Credit: ESA/NASA

#space #science

"In the 21st century, every government should understand that ensuring software sovereignty and security is part of its job, not only for themselves but also for businesses, society, and researchers. In the 21st century, software is the invisible infrastructure of our everyday life, like roads and bridges."

(1/5)

Photo: Jaime Villanueva

Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible. 🧵

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM #linocut #mastoArt

Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore. “…that point in midlife when your capacity to pretend, perform, and please others starts shorting out like an electrical system that’s finally had enough.” https://www.blog.lifebranches.com/p/aging-out-of-fucks-the-neuroscience

"The people, united, will never be defeated"

Happening now in Lisbon, and across Portugal, during the first national general strike for 12 years ✊ 🇵🇹

News outlets in Portugal are reporting that THREE MILLION people are on the streets today.

#GreveGeral #WorkersUnite #SolidarityIsBeautiful #GlobaliseTheIntifada

Sitting in a financial services hearing right now with Simon Johnson. He’s quite smart. And it’s worth reading his diagnosis of the problems with and MASSIVE risks created by crypto regulation that has passed the House and Senate this term. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-crypto-legislation-lacks-sufficient-regulatory-safeguards-by-simon-johnson-2025-08

Wooo it's up! New paper alert! I will write a summary thread about this paper tomorrow morning when I'm not quite as mentally exhausted!

"An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions" by Thiele, Heiland, Boley, & Lawler https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09643

Not recommended for reading right before bed. It's real bad up there in Low Earth Orbit, folks.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113849013645359473

Never sold out.

Shipped the Pixelfed app, Loops and more.

Still dedicated to the open social web ❤️

(Btw, you can still contribute to our Kickstarter as a Late Backer ✨)

Conversation between myself and the receptionist at an orthopedic clinic yesterday-

Rec: "Do you mind if I take your picture for our files?"
Me: "That seems kind of weird."
Rec: "Oh, we're doing it so if there are two people with the same name in the waiting room blah, blah, blah..." "So, can I take your picture?"
Me: "No."

Allowing biz/orgs to collect unnecessary data on us is a huge part of the problem. Never volunteer your personal info to anyone who has no business collecting it.

#Data

#OnThisDay, 11 Dec 1983, tens of thousands of women take part in 'reflect the base' at Greenham Common in the UK.

They encircle the 9 mile perimeter fence of the nuclear missile base, tearing it down in at least one place. Hundreds of women are arrested.

The Peace Camp at Greenham ran for nearly 20 years, and founded and run by women.

Watch news footage from the time: https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/video/greenham-common-womens-peace-group-protesting-the-arrival-news-footage/98769427

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons