ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

I bought my cats a cat bed for Christmas, and it shipped in a box that I fear will be a bigger hit than the bed itself. #caturday #catsofmastodon #catstodon #cats #cutecats

@g @jerry @SwiftOnSecurity Same. I deployed uBlock Origin a few years ago and showed the two people who had problems how to disable in on a per-site basis. No other problems.

#Garfield #music #TheDevilWentDowntoGeorgia
#bot #lyrics

Born on this day. Otto Dix, 2 December 1891, one of the most important painters of Expressionism and New Objectivity in Germany during and after the Weimar Republic.

The question to ask is, if he was around today would he be happy for his work to be used in genart training sets? Would he be using DALLE 3? If he was a musician, would he put his tracks on Spotify? Do you think his searing scorched earth anti war anti corruption anti fascism messages would go across well on those platforms? Do you think he'd tweet some of his paintings? Would he have a big following on Instagram?

Does the communication medium impact the quality of the message? Do we trivialise everything through the extractive capitalism of our digital platforms?

#politics #art #platformsociety #digitalsociety #capitalism #arthistory

I'm reading and really appreciating Nicholas Carr's book The Shallows.

Published in 2010, it's the sort of book that with time has become more relevant rather than less, what for how well it anticipates events of the past decade.

I am incredibly excited to say that my debut novel released today on Amazon KU/ebook/paperback: http://quill-still.sofaer.net/mast . It's a queer, cozy slice-of-life portal fantasy story about civics, divinity from a Jewish lens, chemistry/alchemy, and more civics.

Join Sophie Nadash, burned-out 39-year-old chemist, as a run-in with the goddess Artemis while hiking in the Greek woods and finds herself sent to a new, kinder world.

@bookstodon #bookstodon #indieauthor #fantasybooks #fiction #books

It's December! Here's your yearly reminder:

Look I don't want to jinx anything but in the last 72 hours Elon Musk ruined himself, Henry Kissinger died, George Santos got expelled, and Gavin Newsom spanked Ron DeSantis live on Fox News. It's a pretty good time to hate all the same people I do.

I finally saw that "Elon" interview everyone was talking about. Or at least some clips from it. And, it cross over from watching a guy who I don't agree with with bad ideas... into ... He's Not OK. Territory.

If I had a student saying such strange self destructive alienated things, I'd have a conversation with the guidance councilor about next steps.

It's bizarre that one of the most wealthy and by that also powerful people in the world is giving off "cry for help" vibes.

It's creepy.

I pledge to give to charity 99% of anything I have over $1 billion.
Please send me all your money now for, ya know, the kids.

This explains so much.

It's me. I'm a penguin.

This book cover always cracks me up!

Feel free to share book covers that make you laugh too!

I won! I finally reached 50k in my pirates & barbarians swashbuckling fantasy adventure for #NaNoWriMo - at 2:25am! Here's my reward box which I wisely opened after some sleep! Love the note from my wife & the very appropriate chill-out tea rather than my usual super-dense coffee. And yes, that is a party popper!
#Nanowrimo2023 #WritingCommunity

What the actual fuck. One of my favorite political commentators, Mehdi Hasan, has been speaking out very eloquently, with his usual evidence-based arguments, in favor of Palestinian rights. And as a result, MSNBC canceled his popular show. This is a terrifying sign that so-called free speech in this country is anything but free. https://presswatchers.org/2023/11/msnbc-cancels-mehdi-hasan-a-truth-teller-in-a-time-of-crisis/

our dream is to be a task location in #taskmaster for a game of hide the sausage. please make this happen, somehow.

Sen Whitehouse is a hero.

Via Sen Sheldon Whitehouse

You just watched every permutation of Republican obstruction: first, invoking the 2-hour rule; second, trying to deny a quorum; third, interrupting the vote with points of order; fourth, a general walk-out.

It shows how *desperately* Republicans want to prevent Americans from seeing what’s been going on between the right-wing billionaires and the gift-taking justices. It has to be really bad to trigger that barrage of procedural weapons.

I'm willing to stick my neck out.

If there's a Trump obit before the end of the year, I'll go back to church for an entire month.