The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.

https://www.axios.com/2025/12/18/tiktok-sale

@Drwave Damn! Who’s their Whip? Crossing The Floor a Cardinal Sin in Australia.

Physicists 3D-printed a Christmas tree of ice
New method uses no freezing technology or refrigeration equipment—just water and a vacuum.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/physicists-3d-printed-a-christmas-tree-of-ice/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Trump claimed Rob Reiner had “Trump derangement syndrome.”

@marsroverdriver I was seeing it in the kids’ prams back in the day.

John Howard pushed for the invasion of Iraq, which was one of the dominoes which created the conditions for ISIS and caused untold human misery we are still dealing with today. He refused to acknowledge racism was a main driver of the Cronulla riots.

I wonder if the software industry will come back to its senses in 2026. 3 years is a long time to waste chasing ghosts.

“With the permission of Adobe Systems Inc., the Computer History Museum is pleased to make available, for non-commercial use, the source code to the 1990 version 1.0.1 of Photoshop.”

https://computerhistory.org/blog/adobe-photoshop-source-code/

CMYK colour matches.

Why is this horrid little gnome still quoted as though he’s in any way still relevant? Irresponsible of the SMH to publish devisive rot in a time we need healing or unity.

Authors are not okay, folks. Between AI destroying the industry and wrecking people's careers, and the big spike in piracy since people decided the solution to boycotting Amazon is *stealing* from people who are literally making *pennies* (21 cents per day... that's what I made in book sales in 2025. I calculated it yesterday), we are not okay.

Please, please, please support authors. If you can buy books in places other than Amazon, please do so. If you can't buy books, please borrow them from your library. Request that your library pick up titles from your favourite authors (most libraries have form you can fill out to do that). Leave reviews everywhere you can. Sign up for author newsletters, and follow authors on social media. Repost social media content. Talk about your favourite books - help other people discover that they exist! All of these things *matter*, and you really have NO idea how much they mean to most authors.

#reading #books #bookstodon #Author

And also, again and again — people need to know this! — I get these messages too:

ICE started to gather, but dispersed when too many observers showed up.

ICE vehicle headed back to base after being tailed in circles for an hour.

ICE started abducting someone, but let them go as the gathered crowd got larger and larger.

These people •really• do not want to be observed. Typical bullies: they cosplay tough guys, they waggle their gear around, but they •behave• like they’re afraid.

@carnage4life always the hypocrisy — always.

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ak6iycxwaavbgm5dudikpig7/post/3ma2tlhs5tc2j

🤪 accurate

To celebrate Dick Van Dyke turning 100, here’s a picture of him visiting the set of The Monkees with his daughter.

@Natasha_Jay @dimsimple boom, tish