Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

In Poland we have the tradition where we keep an extra space on the table for Christmas dinner (which is on Christmas Eve), and an “unexpected guest” can find a place for warm food, and company.

I do hope the same spirit will open houses and communities to strangers out in the cold during #BombCyclone

Happy #ChristmasEve #Caturday from me and my cats, Emmett and Apolllo! #cats #CatsOfMastodon

雪の京都。Snowy Kyoto. #Fotomontag #photomonday #photography

I wrote a post about Apple’s decisions to move forward on end-to-end encrypted cloud backup. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2022/12/07/apple-icloud-and-why-encrypted-backup-is-the-only-privacy-issue/

One bonus tale, because #caturday and #JoinIn:

Storyteller Taffy Thomas has a folktale called The Christmas Cat. It's about a time Mary has a sore throat and Baby Jesus is cranky. Joseph can't sing, so the animals decide to take turns singing lullabies. Cat wants to join in, but she's dirty so they send her to wash. By the time she returns the baby is asleep.
Ever since then, cats have been keeping themselves clean all time time, waiting for a chance to sing again.
🐈‍⬛🐈🐱

#GentleFolktales

Hope everyone who celebrates is ready for a great weekend. But just remember this during your big dinner: every family has a racist uncle, and if you look around the table and don't see him...

...you're the racist uncle.

A good day to post this on Mastodon.

A timeline of Dolly Parton’s good deeds. 🖖

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/dolly-parton-good-deeds-timeline-9487782/

What. I’m helping.

#Caturday #catstodon #Catmas #jigsaw #JigsawPuzzle

A Polish man, Aleksander Kosmalski

He was a tram driver from Warsaw. He perished in the German #Auschwitz camp on 24 December 1941.
He was 42.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #ChristmasEve #Warsaw #tram #Remember #people #mugshot #photography

Merry Christmas! We wish you joy and peace.

Yes, it’s true, when you’re walking in a forest someone might be watching you, so look up and say hello:))
We’ve spotted this cute and curious barred owl in a #seattle park.
More versions of her: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/barred-owl-watching-people-ez-lorenz-imagery.html
#AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #prints #mugs #gifts #wildlife #owl #pnw

@marcelias
'In 37 years of practicing law, Barr said, he had “never been involved in such a gigantic waste of time as this case.”

“The judiciary and the bar needs to step up to the plate here and to sanction this conduct,” he added. “It has gone too far for too long.”'
Geez..

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, because I killed the mouse

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care

In hopes that this mythical Santy Claws soon would be there

#Caturday #Poem #Cat #NightBeforeChristmas #ChristmasEve #HoHoHo #Funnies

Schöne Ferien
Joyeuses Fêtes!
Buone vacanze
Щасливих свят
Beannachtaí na Féile
𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓗𝓸𝓵𝓲𝓭𝓪𝔂𝓼

I like following people who oppose NHS privatisation. If that’s you, could you pls share this post and follow me, and I’ll follow you back? Trying to find ‘my people’ 🤣💙

The #QuiverTrees in #Namibia #Africa are so unique and the light at #sunset was gorgeous the evening we were there.
#LandscapePhotography #Photography #Nature #NaturePhotography #PhotoOfTheDay

Snuggle time with Catniss.

#catsofmastdn #cats #rescuekittiesofmastodon

Jennifer Rubin writes,

"The overarching takeaway from the report is that the Jan. 6 assault was a highly organized operation by groups that joined together to keep Trump in power with violence. Trump knew they were armed, had close associates directly engaged with them, let them run rampant for hours and even egged them on during that time by demonizing his vice president."

#Trump #Jan6 #crime #insurrection

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/23/jan-6-report-trump-right-wing-extremism/

She sniffed out her Christmas toys stash and would like to speak to the manager 🎄

#Moody #ChristmasEve
#Cat #Cats #Caturday #Christmas #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOnMastodon #MastoCats #Photography #Kitties

It's very disheartening to see that in the space of a month, the majority of images on my feed went from being described to having not even one sentence as a description. I started ID-ing on tumblr but #Mastodon really encouraged me to make it an actual habit.

Please, if you're able to, add descriptions to the pics you post.

#Fediverse #TwitterMigration #Inclusivity #Ableism #Solidarity

‎leider Elias Raisi, der zur Vollstreckung des Urteils in Quarantäne gebracht wurde, wurde heute Morgen zusammen mit Ayuob Rigi im Gefängnis hingerichtet.Elias und Ayoub befanden sich ab dem 25.Dez für eine Woche in Einzelhaft, in der Angst vor der Vollstreckung des Urteil.Auf diese Weise foltert die Islamische Republik Iran diese beiden Gefangenen und ihre Familien und uns alle. Beenden Sie diese Verbrechen! @YourAnonRiots @Anonkurd @Anonymous0ps