ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

🎍明けましておめでとうございます！🎍

Happy New Year! 2023 is year of the water rabbit. Japan celebrates with the Gregorian calendar, which is why you might see a bunch of Japanese rabbit art earlier than other East Asian cultures.
🌊🐇🌕

While a dose of caution would have been prudent, she didn’t have the luxury. Or the time.
Besides, half-assed, ill-conceived plans were pretty much her trademark. Why disappoint them?
Feeling oddly buoyant, she swung her bag over her shoulder. Action? That she knew how to do. She’d always been better at improvising than planning. Never worried about it too much, either.
Of course, there had never been so much at risk.
#vss365

Can you wear your MAGA hat to a government job? A lawsplainer on public employee First Amendment rights, and hats.

https://popehat.substack.com/p/can-i-wear-a-maga-hat-to-my-government

Dave Brubeck's place

I like paying taxes.
I like taxes because I like streetlights and disease prevention and rescuing people from floods.
Grown-ups know taxes are necessary to run a country. MAGA demagogues hope their followers are so childish that they'll buy that "defund the IRS" bullshit.

Comet NEOWISE rising over the Earth just before dawn as seen from the International Space Station.

"A cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors died hours after he was repeatedly Tasered and restrained in the street by Los Angeles police.

"Keenan Anderson, 31, a teacher and father, died at a hospital in Santa Monica.

"LAPD have released body camera footage of the 3 January encounter.

"It shows Mr Anderson begging for help as officers hold him down." #ACAB

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64252337

How do snowflakes form? Is each snowflake really unique? Why is some snow light and fluffy or heavy? The amazing science of snow https://theconversation.com/how-do-snowflakes-form-is-each-snowflake-really-unique-why-is-some-snow-light-and-fluffy-or-heavy-the-amazing-science-of-snow-196269 #Ice #Snow #Winter #Atmosphere #Science

Source: https://twitter.com/ConversationCA/status/1613608258702565376?s=20

Yup’ik masks are expressive shamanic ritual masks made by the Yup’ik people of southwestern Alaska, and one of the most popular forms of native Alaskan art.

Yup’ik people, Complex Mask, ca. 1890–1905
Yup’ik Wolf Spirit Mask 1850-75

This is a huge deal: The FTC proposed a sweeping ban on non-compete agreements.

30M Americans are trapped by these contracts.

The ban is estimated to increase wages by nearly $300 billion/year.

It's not a sure thing. Please flood the FTC with comments: https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2023-0007/document

HourlyWolves presents: https://nitter.net/hourlywolvesbot/status/1613702420428722176/photo/1

🐦🔗: https://nitter.net/hourlywolvesbot/status/1613702420428722176

Become a cat before a cat becomes you

I'm thrilled to announce the availability of Agile Fluency Game workshops—in-person AND remote!

If you're not familiar with it, the Agile Fluency Game is this neat hands-on experience where you simulate the first 2½ years on a new development team. It's a euro-style board game that's actually fun on its own, but it's also a very powerful learning experience. I developed with Arlo Belshee in 2012 and I've been refining it ever since.

See here details: https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2023/back-to-the-office-with-the-agile-fluency-game

#AgileFluencyGame

🇫🇮 Finland.
Winter landscape. Sunset.
Water is warmer than air. The surface of the water evaporates.
Complete silence.

#finland #visitfinland #sunset #suomi #scandinavia #nature #reflect

Something cheery for your (timeline? feed?): This is my "neighbor," Lucy, the leucistic Eurasian collared dove. I can always pick em out from amongst the other neighborhood doves due to the soft wash of eir reduced pigmentation and eir sparkling wit.

(Eurasian collared doves are considered an invasive species here in Oregon, but, of course, they didn't ask to be introduced.)

#Oregon #birding #leucism #doves #naturephotography #backyardbirds

Digital art called "Honey Trapped"

Check out more at my website - http://lucydyerart.co.uk

Thanks 🙂

#mastodonart #artist #digitalart #photoshopartwork #bold #messylook #mastoart #portraitart #painteffect

@supernovae @gersande Oh, that's how they're using that script. Interesting... I posted about this last week. There are dozens more involved. The issue is that they're not real instances— they're ephemeral workers using a script that does the absolute *bare minimum* to be ActivityPub compliant. They spin instances up/down at will. mastodon[.]world is a key entry point for them based on my research

@supernovae I'm not sure if it's related, but activitypub-proxy.cf is another one to keep an eye on. While it's mainly for circumvention of defederation, I can see it being used for DoS attacks.

After watching #GlassOnion, I immediately emailed one of my mentors, David Bordwell, who knows more about mystery storytelling than anyone else I know! A great conversation followed suit, and David has now blogged his thoughts in depth: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2023/01/12/glass-onion-multiplying-mysteries/

List of #MastodonClients I know of:

Unix Terminal:
https://github.com/ihabunek/toot

Win9x:
@maartje https://github.com/meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups

Classic Mac OS:
@smallsco https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon

Amiga:
@midwan

Emacs:
https://github.com/mooseyboots/mastodon.el

Vim:
https://github.com/mattn/vim-mastodon

IRC:
https://alexschroeder.ch/software/Bitlbee_Mastodon

DAW:
http://vst.vocalodon.net/

MS-DOS:
@dec_hl
https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon