Always thankful for Techdirt.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/20/everyone-knows-our-mad-kings-greenland-obsession-is-insane-why-wont-congress-stop-it/

@LilPecan So so cute! Thank you 😊

@LilPecan I must know!! Where does one find this awesomeness??

We are heading home today but not before stopping at Raglan Road for Lost Irish coffee and step dancing 🇮🇪

#DisneySprings

Relaxing with hubby and a Lavender Fog at Enchanted Rose 🌹

#DisneyWorld

(a #MutualAid post, i guess)

if anyone can help please?

i'm a disabled, autistic, nonbinary sculptor with a husband and two cats, one of whom needs daily medication and special food.

i'm still down around 75% of my sales this year after having lost nearly 90% in august to november last year thanks to US tariffs. i'm also increasingly missing days of work now due to my deteriorating health. husband is doing his best, but it's just not enough. we are not surviving.

our washing machine is broken; we've spoken to an engineer who's said that a repair will cost at least 750€ and that it's not worth doing, given the machine is 19 years old, so we need to buy another. we also need a car repair; we can do it ourselves, but we'll need to buy a part. and we'll need heating oil soon. plus feeding ourselves and the cats and dealing with health stuff and paying rent and.

so if anyone would like to buy a sculpture or just give us a few currency units to help keep us afloat, that would be amazing.

i'll be adding more sculptures tomorrow and in fact every friday/saturday. i can ship to the US again — tariff free! — but it's quite expensive as the cheaper service hasn't been reintroduced (hence the not many sales, sigh).

thank you, and i'm sorry.
:Blobhaj_Heart_Rainbow:

sculptures at: https://www.driftingspirits.art
(or, for UK and norway folk because tax reasons, https://www.etsy.com/shop/driftingspirits)

https://ko-fi.com/moon_bun

Dear #Verizon,

My phone has been a brick all day and you gave us a generic “we are working on it” statement.

I had no access to WiFi today so that meant my elderly mother and in-laws had no way of reaching me in an emergency.

Thankfully no emergencies or things I had to deal with but more than eight hours with no way to use the service I have been paying on for decades - along with a ridiculous generic statement - is terrible customer service and you know it.

Can it be called voluntary if it’s mandatory?

The answer is no, it cannot.

he reminds me of someone
#dogsofmastodon #dogs #Humor

Another meticulous NYT video analysis that refutes the ICE/Trump propaganda and shows that the shooting in Minneapolis was murder as abuse of power. Note that the agents do not provide medical help and actually block a physician who wants to check for a pulse, then drive away. https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Not a strictly #genealogy post but I loved this…

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZThLar9Dv/

@croyle @LilPecan Also helpful when you can't find the dogs at last out for the night and then you find them but need to catch them and bring them back in ;-)

@LilPecan Been there. Done that. 🙂

Sometimes you have to give in, take the dog’s advice, and just curl up together on the sofa…
#DogsOfMastodon

Are you a #PublicLibrary Director looking for a new opportunity? The #Middleboro #Massachusetts #library has just the opening for you!

Our beloved Director is moving on to a different organization & the Board of Trustees (I'm one of those peeps!), is looking for a new Director.

Check out the job listing, description, and application on the library website: https://midlib.org/jobs.

Our staff is fabulous & we need an equally fabulous Director!

A snowy new year day deserves a #Lego Hot Chocolate Stand ❄️☕️

Ciao Bella! This #Lego #Vespa is absolutely adorable 🇮🇹

Marriage and the Maiden Name
| by Margot Mifflen, JSTOR Daily, New York

https://daily.jstor.org/marriage-and-the-maiden-name/

Yall its not too late to help your local library in 2025 by signing out a bunch of materials - this helps boost circulation count for the year which is a statistic that usually corresponds to budget/funding. In person or e-materials, get on it before the end of the month #libraries #books #library

‘The hidden engine room’: how amateur historians are powering #genealogy research
Wealth of datasets compiled as private passions are now a goldmine for those hunting for their #ancestors

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/dec/26/hidden-engine-room-amateur-historians-genealogical-research #familyHistory