I am brimming with holiday spirit
Janis
On Wahpekute land in the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ territory.
It's long been my complaint that money/power doesn't land in the hands of intelligence. Until it's a cultural imperative that kindness is smart, that Paul Wellstone finally hits it home with his assertion that, "We all do better when we all do better," we will not all do better, which means humanity will remain weaker than it could be against the forces of nature. We are so busy competing with each other, we aren't surviving.
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Uncle Sam's Dream of Conquest and Carnage - Caused by Reading the Jingo Newspapers (1895) by Udo Keppler, from Puck, v. 38, no. 975.
Source: Library of Congress
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/58628c60-e36a-4b47-b8ca-42c590706e52
#satire #caricatures #newspapers #cartoons #allegory #politics #war #art #publicdomain
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Moscow’s narrative wobbles as Ukraine takes back Kupiansk https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/12/19/moscows-narrative-wobbles-as-ukraine-takes-back-kupiansk
@heidilifeldman He put his name on a memorial. It's high time Republicans, if there are any left, conservatives, and plain old Capitalists realize they've slain the truth on the altar of "financial viability."
He's not dead. Not yet. And the truth is, most Americans can't wait until he is.
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It’s malpractice that the media rarely points out that they are trying to outlaw care for trans kids while EXPLICITLY still allowing the SAME CARE for non-trans kids
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Out of 5,748 mass shootings in the U.S. in the past, only 5 were committed by trans or non-binary people. Joe Rogan needs to stop taking horse dewormer and stop making crap up just to fearmonger and spread hate.
@empathyforward I'm preferential to mutual support verbiage, as "charity" hearkens back to the 1870's NY elite (it was a game piece, really), but if it gets non-profits on the platform, I'm 100% for it, regardless. Thank you!
Buy my old stuff? It'll all go to the next electric bill, anyway.
Boosts welcome. 25% Mastodon discount.
https://min neapolis.craigslist.org/dak/app/d/saint-paul-deep-freezer-53-cu-ft/7903116474.html
I mean, theoretically if a name gets put on everything, it both means nothing and fades into its own background. If those are the case, then removal for pure expediency will be, well, expedient.
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We set up a new Mastodon instance focused on supporting nonprofit/charitable organizations. If you know of such an organization looking for a place in the Fediverse, please point them our way.
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RE: https://hellions.cloud/@noondlyt/115749535634775234
fuck this shit
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Journalists are increasingly relying on insider sources, and protecting those sources is more important than ever.
Here's how SecureDrop is rising to the challenge, safeguarding whistleblowers’ anonymity against ever-evolving threats.
@digyoursoul That looks an awful lot like Colin Jost, except he was probably not even 3 feet tall when this photo was taken.
There are few things other than these files that have made me feel my age, and then some.
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The fifth ICE deportation flight at MSP this week, the most I've seen.
If the additional flights, decreased transparency, and abandonment of due process upset you, join me and many other at the ICE out of Minnesota march tomorrow (Sat, Dec 20): https://www.mobilize.us/indivisibletwincities/event/877268/
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Brent Mckean captured this amazing moonlit scene with three combined exposures on an icy winter morning in Manitoba, Canada.
The colorful rings are a corona caused by diffraction by ice crystals near the direction of the Moon.
Outside those rings, a 22-degree halo was created by moonlight refracting through ice crystals shaped like hexagonal prisms.
On the left and right are 'moon dogs', caused by light refracting through thin, flat, 6-sided ice crystals.
At the top and bottom of the 22-degree halo are 'upper and lower tangent arcs', created by moonlight refracting through nearly horizontal hexagonal ice prisms.
A few minutes later the halo and arcs disappeared and the sky returned to normal -- with the exception of a single faint moon dog.
Image source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200224.html
For more on tangent arcs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent_arc
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I've reached the point in the season when I wish I lived on top of a data center.
"A National Institute of Justice study from 2024 found that far-right extremists were responsible for the majority of ideologically driven deaths. That study showed that since 1990, there were 227 attacks from 'far-right extremists,' with more than 520 people killed, while that period saw only 42 attacks from 'far-left extremists,' with 78 deaths."
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Lately I’ve been talking to organizers in Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Georgia who are all mobilizing community members against the construction of local data centers. Nobody wants these things built in their communities, and many projects are getting delayed or stopped altogether. We can and will win against these tech oligarchs.
@servelan The premise is that wealthy families take care of members. Apparently they also go to church together, dressed to the nines. Though this is often couched as a Patriarchal model, which it is, it's really more along the lines of simply old-school elitist, when you'd "marry up" or risk being cut off from your parents. Names were everything.
Speaking of names, don't forget to remind women who have a maiden name to babysit their voter registrations.
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