@daedalus 😆

yes, unless one is on a deadline

(one is always on a deadline 😩)

@shermozle @DausDD 🎉 🤜💥🤛‬

"They're joyless. Nothing makes them happy. Nothing even remotely comes near making them happy. And as a result, they treat the world the way that they feel, which is that they are not happy. They don't want other people to be happy. The only thing that actually gives them joy, and i's fleeting, is to hurt other people."

~ Jared Yates Sexton

#Republicans #Trump #cruelty
/5

https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/in-the-thick-of-it-the-check-in-with

"This new petty cruelty follows other pettinesses in the administration of Chief Petty Officer Donald Trump, the selfsame administration that tried hard, but failed, to ban sign language interpreters from press briefings, that is now routinely humiliating trans people at U.S. Customs desks, and that has downgraded the Coast Guard’s designation of swastikas and nooses from 'hate speech' to something less … unpleasant.

#Republicans #MarcoRubio #Trump #cruelty
/3

Gene Weingarten says Marco Rubio has banished Calibri typeface for official State Department communications because it's "woke" in comparison to Times New Roman, which is to be used in its place.

"Sans serif Calibri has been shown to be easier to read for people with certain disabilities, such as dyslexia and substandard visual acuity, and people who need assistive technologies such as screen readers and voice-to-text."

#Republicans #MarcoRubio #Trump #cruelty
/1

https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/this-just-in

@anon_opin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windshield_phenomenon

@JenMsft

fully half the rabbit-holes I go down are me researching some obscure technical arcana for 4 hours just to make an extremely niche pun reply to someone else’s masto post…

🐰 🕳️ 🕳️ 🕳️
 
 

(I’ve learned to bookmark them before I go spelunking so I can actually find them again once I’ve discovered, honed , & polished a suitable nugget of a pun 🙃)

@merlin 🎉 🤘 but also someone #LiquidAss’d it too… 🤮

@merlin

@pluralistic gratz, Cory! 🎉 🚫💩

Well, THAT was fucking awesome.

#TheDailyShow #BookTour

@dgodon @pluralistic Minus tracking crud ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5nE

I wrote on Boing Boing about the physics professor who became Uruguay's energy secretary, and within five years had the country on 98% renewable energy.

NOT ONLY CAN IT BE DONE, IT WAS AN ECONOMIC BOON THE THE COUNTRY.

https://boingboing.net/2025/12/09/this-physics-professor-transformed-his-country-to-98-renewable-energy-in-five-years.html

must-have hair clip

@daringfireball just completely unhinged – regardless of whether it’s actually written by him or by his comms team trying to capture his “voice” 🤪

You Can’t Please a Madman
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/09/you-cant-please-a-madman

Because age verification is really just there to:

- suppress queer information
- restrict abortion access
- gatekeep sexual education
- slurp up more personal data for marketing

"But think of the children!"

Maybe we should think about the corporations that prey on their attention-spans and self-esteem instead.

Sign stuff here:
https://www.stoponlineidchecks.org

Info on how to help here:
https://docs.fightforthefuture.org/s/637497e2-8a61-42aa-82fe-1b847e113ebb#h-what-are-online-id-checks-and-why-are-they-a-threat

#CallToAction #Activism #InternetSafety

@skyglowberlin 🤔

Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source

Schleswig-Holstein’s migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.