szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

For this year's gingerbread I made... the VLA!

#gingerbread #astronomy #radioastronomy #space

Santa is just the fruiting body the real Christmas stretches for miles under the permafrost

One of the challenges of social media -- and this stretches all the way back before the term was even coined and applies to email as well, is to remember that you are communicating with actual human beings with their own lives, loves, worries, and so much more. Except when there's a damned AI robot at the other end.

All self-aware communities on #Fediverse should suspend #Threads just as @aral has done. There's no need for a toxic corporate experiment with the aim to expand the monetisation of #HumanRights violations. #Privacy

Why does google do this? If it's blocked in robots.txt it means don't bloody index it!!!!

This is cool...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/norad-santa-tracker-origin-story-1.7067662

I have a few "impossible numbers", like 02000 numbers, i.e. London numbers starting 0. I often wonder what would be the best way to answer them as if someone was accidentally calling Q or M...

Well it’s a white Christmas of the murky, misty, mild sort. A white out with not much visibility. Mabel can’t help but embrace some festive parlour games - a combination of musical statues and hide and seek - can you ‘Spot the Dog’?

A happy, peaceful and pixel-scrutinising Christmas to all from Mabel and I!

#quantocks #SpotTheDog #DogsOfMastodon #photography #nature #environment

For my Christmas morning, I got to unwrap two goats from a hay net (they are totally fine. They were happily eating inside the hay net and seemed blissfully unaware that they were trapped.)

Dem Künstler, der das hier „Weinkisten-Weihnachtsbaum“ genannt hat und nicht „Weinnachtsbaum“ gehört die Wortspiel-Lizenz entzogen.

Dressed Butt Sculpture for Christmas.

Reuters has taken down -- globally -- an important hacking-for-profit investigation that included details about an Indian hacking "entrepreneur" -- because he got a court in that country to say so.

This is a huge danger to free speech and serious journalism.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/who-is-killing-all-these-stories-about-rajat-khare-controversial-tech-mogul

Reuters deserved praise for its initial investigation. It deserves the opposite now.

(The New Yorker is apparently one of the few publications that hasn't bowed to the pressure.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-crime/a-confession-exposes-indias-secret-hacking-industry

Ich auch, Robot