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Please be advised that all employees planning to dash through the snow in a one-horse open sleigh, going over the fields and laughing all the way are required to undergo a Risk Assessment addressing the safety of open sleighs.
The assessment must also consider whether it is appropriate to use only one horse for such a venture, particularly where there are multiple passengers. Please note that permission must also be obtained in writing from landowners before their fields may be entered. To avoid offending those not participating in celebrations, we request that laughter is moderate only and not loud enough to be considered a noise nuisance.
Benches, stools and orthopaedic chairs are now available for collection by any shepherds planning or required to watch their flocks at night. While provision has also been made for remote monitoring of flocks by CCTV cameras from a centrally heated shepherd observation hut, all facility users are reminded that an emergency response plan must be submitted to account for known risks to the flocks. The angel of the Lord is additionally reminded that prior to shining his/her glory all around s/he must confirm that all shepherds are wearing appropriate Personal Protective Equipment to account for the harmful effects of UVA, UVB and the overwhelming effects of Glory
Following last year’s well publicised case, everyone is advised that legislation prohibits any comment with regard to the redness of any part of Mr. R. Reindeer. Further to this, exclusion of Mr. R Reindeer from reindeer games will be considered discriminatory and disciplinary action will be taken against those found guilty of this offence.
While it is acknowledged that gift-bearing is commonly practised in various parts of the world, particularly the Orient, everyone is reminded that the bearing of gifts is subject to Hospitality Guidelines and all gifts must be registered. This applies regardless of the individual, even royal personages. It is particularly noted that direct gifts of currency or gold are specifically precluded under provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Further, caution is advised regarding other common gifts, such as aromatic resins that may initiate allergic reactions.
Finally, for those involved in the recent case of the infant found tucked up in a manger without any crib for a bed, Social Services have been advised and will be arriving shortly.
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas – be safe out there.......

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Na blogu @iurecz vyšel náš přistup k mobilům, technologiím a obrazovkám obecně. Zkusili jsme dát radu jak to udělat na Androidu pro někoho s non-IT backgroundem. Ty technikálie kolem de-googled Androidu atd nejsou ve skutečnosti to zásadní. Díky @hynekolog za spolupráci.

#digitalnispolecnost #rodicovstvi #digitalnisvobody #rodice #deti

blog.digitalnisvobody.cz/2025/…


Chytrý telefon pro děti bez nežádoucích aplikací? Řešením může být open-source nástroj AppLock - Blog digitálních svobod

Řada rodičů řeší, jak děti bezpečně doprovodit do digitálního světa. Pro někoho může být řešením oddálení koupě chytrého mobilu či pořízení tzv. hloupého mobilu. Lze ale také nastavit telefon do jakéhosi polochytrého módu.
Hynek Trojánek (Blog digitálních svobod)
#děti #digitalnispolecnost #rodicovstvi #digitalnisvobody #rodice @IuRe @hynekolog

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Mein Gastbeitrag ist heute in der WELT (Debatte) erschienen:
„Eingliederungshilfe: Doch, wir müssen uns persönliche Assistenz auch künftig leisten!“

Ich schreibe das nicht als abstrakte Position, sondern aus der Praxis: Ich arbeite im Bundesarchiv, bin (kleiner) Unternehmer und ehrenamtlich engagiert. Das funktioniert nur, weil persönliche Assistenz mir die Handgriffe ersetzt, die mein Körper nicht leisten kann – 24/7 im Schichtsystem. Nicht als „Luxus“, sondern als Voraussetzung dafür, überhaupt Verantwortung zu übernehmen und produktiv Teil dieser Gesellschaft zu sein.

Im Text geht es u. a. um drei Punkte:
• warum 24/7-Assistenz in der Realität Sicherheit und Selbstständigkeit bedeutet – nicht Komfort
• warum die Alternative häufig Heim/Institution oder Überlastung von Angehörigen heißt (und oft teurer ist)
• warum die Bürokratie rund um mehrere Kostenträger, Nachweise und Verordnungen selbst ein Kosten- und Kraftfresser ist – und was man daran besser machen könnte, ohne Transparenz zu opfern

Ich freue mich über eine sachliche Diskussion – gern auch kontrovers, aber fair.

(Artikel ist WELTplus)
welt.de/debatte/plus6942916111…

#Eingliederungshilfe #PersönlicheAssistenz #Inklusion #Teilhabe #Sozialstaat #Leistung #Bürokratieabbau #Barrierefreiheit #Behindertenpolitik #Pflege

Bitte teilen und auf Welt kommentieren und liken!

Screenshot von Welt.de

Eingliederungshilfe: Doch, wir müssen uns persönliche Assistenz auch künftig leisten! - WELT

Eine persönliche Assistenz für Behinderte ist kein Luxus, den sich der Sozialstaat nicht mehr leisten kann – sagt unser Gastautor, dessen Arbeitsalltag ohne Unterstützung „24/7“ nicht möglich wäre.
DIE WELT
#inklusion #teilhabe #barrierefreiheit #Eingliederungshilfe #personlicheassistenz #sozialstaat #leistung #burokratieabbau #Behindertenpolitik #pflege

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Update time! #LibreOffice 25.8.4 is now available, with 70 fixes and improvements to compatibility: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #openSource
LibreOffice 25.8 banner

Announcement of LibreOffice 25.8.4 - TDF Community Blog

Berlin, 18 December 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.4, the fourth minor update to the free office suite developed by volunteers for personal productivity in office environments on Windows, MacOS and Linux, is now available from the download page.
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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RE: toot.cafe/@baldur/115740595660…

This post is a good example of why truth and factuality same thing. This is the most viscerally true thing I’ve read in a long while, but the degree to which it’s factual or not is largely irrelevant. It feels like a kick in the gut nonetheless

(It is tagged as ‘non-fiction, so it probably is factual)

Baldur Bjarnason (@baldur@toot.cafe)

“The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles” https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/ > The Tech Bros haven't invented the term, but they have automated the process.
Baldur Bjarnason (Toot Café)

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RE: someplace.social/@jonathan859/…

Guess what, btw, I haven't been contacted regarding my work time tomorrow until now. My taxi isn't informed yet, and I have now proactively messaged the responsible person. I'd love to just stay at home if I don't get an answer, but sadly this is my fucking job and I don't need even more trouble.

Jonathan

2025-12-12 10:36:46

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My vocational school class is going to the cinema next Friday, actually, not even just the class, several other classes from the school. Our English teacher was (apparently) able to select a movie from the catalog. But, guess what, oh no how sad, the film has no audio description, but but, we even asked the cinema, so sorry, we need to find an alternative for you. The alternative is that while my classmates to whom I already am separated thanks to several other factors of my disability enjoy themselves next Friday, I'll be sitting at the office (being given the time to work on school stuff), and of course I don't have to stay the full time. You know I'm not even angry, this was totally no surprise to me but it's so fucking ridiculous.

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Ich hätte gerne mal Feedback von Menschen mit #Sehbehinderung oder #Seheinschränkung: Mir ist gestern das erste Mal begegnet, dass die im wissenschaftl. Kontext übliche Bezeichnung Double/Single #Blind Review, bzw. "verblindet" (also dass nur eine Partei den Namen der anderen kennt, oder keine:r von beiden) offensive sei, weil #ablesimus. Wie seht ihr das? Gibt es dazu einen Diskurs/Literatur? Ich finde das Argument nachvollziehbar, ist mir nur bisher noch nicht begegnet. #PeerReview
#blind #sehbehinderung #peerreview #seheinschrankung #ablesimus

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Every time there's news from Mozilla we see a lot of takes around here along the lines of: they're clueless, their heads are in the sand, they don't know their userbase.

Alternative interpretation: We're looking at another case very much like Bluesky - a corporation with somewhat-openwashed branding which knows exactly who their userbase is, hates it, and wants a different one.

The rationale is clear enough; the browser is just a massive opportunity for datamining. The "AI" startups can only dream of controlling a browser with even the marketshare of Firefox. In that light, it's no use having a userbase of technically competent, privacy-aware dissidents who can work around the extractive dark patterns. Let's face it people, we're not profitable to surveillance capitalism

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Fedora's elections are now open until Wednesday, 7th January!

I'm applying for a seat at FESCo [1] as I want to represent the interests of users, developers and maintainers of what we call Atomic, Bootable Container, Image Based or Immutable variants of Fedora (CoreOS, Atomic Desktops, IoT, bootc, etc.).

You can find my full interview at communityblog.fedoraproject.or…

And vote at elections.fedoraproject.org/

[1] docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/f…

#Fedora #CoreOS #AtomicDesktops #BootableContainers #bootc


F43 FESCo Elections: Interview with Timothée Ravier (siosm/travier) – Fedora Community Blog

The F43 FESCo Elections are open until 7 January 2026. Read this interview with candidate Timothée Ravier (siosm/travier).
Justin Wheeler (Fedora Project)
#fedora #coreos #atomicdesktops #bootablecontainers #bootc

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Inclusiveness

September 2025: There are lots of rainbow arches and pavements around Iceland, but this has to be my favourite.

The LGBTQ+ pride colours changing to transgender pride and back again at the far end is a clever idea.

The location of many happy marriages, I'm sure, this pavement can be found at Ísafjörður in the Westfjords of #Iceland.

#TravelThursday #Iceland2025 #Photography

A colour photo of a street on a rainy day. There are puddles on the pavement and a few leaves are scattered around. There are shops along the street with lit windows. A rainbow-coloured block pavement is curving away from the viewer. At the halfway point, it changes to the blue, pink and white of the transgender flag, then back to rainbow at the far end of the curve.
#photography #iceland #travelthursday #iceland2025

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Lesbians of the world!

(and also other people I suppose)

I have one remaining thing to get/do/arrange ahead of Chrimbo (excluding all of the other stuff).... and that is get a present for my eldest kiddo. Just between us so be cool and don't say anything, but she's proposing to her girlfriend on Tuesday so (assuming she doesn't tell her to get on her bike) it looks like I will be inheriting a brand new daughter in law, which I'm very excited about. However - I have got ZERO ideas for a Christmas present for one or either or both of them and I thought it might be nice to do something that also encompasses their engagement.

I ask for lesbian engagement because I don't recall having a lesbian wedding in the family before (I have GOT to stop calling it a lesbian wedding) and wondered if there's some cool secret lesbian ideas for engagement and Christmas presents that I haven't yet thought of. So I'd be really grateful if you could get on the secret lesbian underground network, do the special secret lesbian handshake, give me temporary lesbian authorisation/clearance and help me come up with ideas because at the moment they are terrible. It's all..... Vouchers for a nice dinner, which is BULLSHIT. In my head I want to get them like quad-biking and such, but I can't help feel that's mildly offensive and they're not really action-lesbians. I've definitely said the word lesbian too much.

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Learned something new today:
Both organisation and organization are correct spellings of the word, but they are regional spellings: organization (with a 'z') is American English (AmE), while organisation (with an 's') is British English (BrE) and common in Commonwealth countries. Both refer to the same meaning: the act of organizing or a structured group of people/things.

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Chtěl jsem dneska makat na webu.
No, mám pocit, že to nevyjde.
Sice se mi fakt chtělo, ale… 😇

Ráno psala manželka, že si zapomněla průkazku do práce, housle a noty.
Tak jsem jí to samozřejmě “musel” přivézt.
Cestou jsem se stavil pro suroviny a už namáčím čočku (bude na kyselo).
Úplně náhodou jsem upadl na gauč a pustil se mi Netflix an Anthony Jeselnik - Na porodním hoří.
Sami vidíte, že příroda si nepřeje abych ten web dodělal 😇

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LibreOffice

@Woodsie111 Yes, it can open Microsoft Office/365 documents: libreoffice.org/discover/libre… – Note that it doesn't include an email client, though.

What is LibreOffice? | LibreOffice - Free and private office suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft

LibreOffice, Free Office Suite, Fun Project, Fantastic People, Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base, Charts, Diagrams, extensions, templates, word processor, text editor, spreadsheet, presentation, database, documents, Document Foundation
www.libreoffice.org
@Woodsie

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Falls ihr #Watchtower (automatisches Updaten von Docker Container) von containrrr eingesetzt habt: Das Projekt ist jetzt nach langer Zeit offiziell archiviert und bekommt keine Pflege mehr

github.com/containrrr/watchtow…

Als Nachfolger könnte man diesen verwenden. Ich habe ihn nicht getestet, wird aber häufig empfohlen:

github.com/nicholas-fedor/watc…

#docker #homelab #selfhosted


Goodbye containrrr/watchtower! · containrrr watchtower · Discussion #2135

It is with a heavy heart, and some sense of relief, that I'd like to announce that we are looking to archive containrrr/watchtower. Neither @piksel, nor I, are big users of docker anymore, and fran...
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#homelab #docker #selfhosted #watchtower

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Ok, so you guys are probably tired of having to disable TalkBack just to play your audio games, and that frustration only grows when the game requires keyboard input.
Well, not anymore!
Introducing NVGT Bridge, your solution to this problem!
It works on Android 11+ devices and lets you add apps that TalkBack should ignore. However, TalkBack will still respond to the keyboard, navigation bar, and status bar if you touch them, so you can type in your games without constantly turning TalkBack on and off.
Sounds interesting? Go check it out!
github.com/aryanchoudharypro/N…
a huge thanks to @Bri for helping me test this!

GitHub - aryanchoudharypro/NVGTBridge: allows games written in nvgt to have functionality like ios direct touch by using an accessibility service to remove the game from the explore by touch zone"

allows games written in nvgt to have functionality like ios direct touch by using an accessibility service to remove the game from the explore by touch zone" - aryanchoudharypro/NVGTBridge
GitHub

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feld

@sun I remember when they actually debunked this but the internet still didn't believe it and still keeps pretending that this was a thing

> They told us the death was initially recorded as a COVID-19 death after the victim tested positive. After the medical examiner and epidemiologist reviewed the death, they say they removed it from the COVID fatality list.

wusa9.com/article/news/verify/…


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Get the latest news and information from around the DC Metro area here on WUSA9-TV's You Tube page.
YouTube
@Blurry Moon
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Blurry Moon

the claim is that you can show that the inclusion process is incredibly bad and permissive not that there were secretly one million motorcycle crashes skewing covid numbers. people found a particularly bad one, and only AFTER a specific one was found, they got embarrassed and removed that single one.

furthermore tons of studies are based on scraping VAERS and there is no pre-verification at all.

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It is now, or, depending on your Timezone, just was, John Mastodon Day.

Here’s an appropriate song for the celebration. Enjoy!

John Mastodon (ft. Andre Louis [@Onj])
~#Dgar
dgar.bandcamp.com/track/john-m…

Grab a copy. It’s free.

#DgarMusic #JohnMastodonDay #JohnMastodon #Dgar #Music #Anthem #Bandcamp


John Mastodon (ft. Andre Louis), by Dgar

track by Dgar
Dgar
#music #bandcamp #johnmastodon #dgar #dgarmusic #johnmastodonday #anthem @Onj 🎶
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There has been a lot of talk about "raccoon domestication" lately because of one sciencey article discussing it and I saw there was this TikTok or whatever video with a caption like "I'm a raccoon biologist and this is why raccoon domestication is never gonna happen"

Ok sorry you lost me there you are a "raccoon biologist"? I'll believe raccoons can talk before I believe you have a full time career as a "raccoon biologist". There's no way you're making a living in that speciality this has to be a hoax video

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