I expect we'll be starting war with Iran soon seeing how Australia has requested all citizens leave the country immediately. They must have been given a heads up.

> "Leave Iran now. Commercial options to depart are still available but becoming more limited. Airspace closures and flight cancellations could happen soon, making it impossible to leave later," the public communique read on Monday (January 12). Canberra further said that Australian citizens staying back in Iran despite the advisory would be responsible for their own safety.

Existing World's Smallest Violin Still Too Large By Orders of Magnitude, Say Boffins

futurism.com/artificial-intell…

Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized

A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.

^{Joe Wilkins (Futurism)}

I am here once again to tell you no centralized service is the solution, the solution is #decentralization

> Investment firm buys #Threema.

> Their "investment themes":

> - Growth potential above 10% per annum
> - Profitable or foreseeable path to profitability

comitiscapital.com/news/comiti…

About one in 12 sheep is gay, but when rams prefer the company of other rams, they're considered a commercial failure and slaughtered. In Germany, some are lucky enough to end up in the Rainbow Wool sanctuary, a biodiverse sheep farm that prioritizes animal welfare, run by Michel Stücke and his partner Jochen. Last month, the wool from some of those sheep was showcased by LA designer Michael Schmidt in his "I Wool Survive" collection, a collaboration with Grindr and publicist Kelly Cutrone. Dazed talked to Schmidt and Cutrone about the collection. Learn more about Rainbow Wool — including how to sponsor a gay sheep — at the second link.

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#LGBTQ #Fashion #Farming #AnimalWelfare #Sheep #Animals

The designer making clothes with wool from gay sheep

Using the wool of 35 homosexual rams, LA designer Michael Schmidt crafted a collection that examined the ‘stereotypical tropes of gay fantasies’

^{Dazed Digital}

Introduction Time:

Mastodon was recommended by a friend, so still figuring all this out. I'm a young writer trying to learn my craft by writing in public. Learn by doing, right?

Works are free under CC BY.
100% human.
#introduction

This ad for a cheap Funai VCR on marketplace had an completely incorrect AI description (image1), because they googled the Funai UL Listing number (image2,image3) which scraped an ebay listing for a DTV box that also used the UL Listing number (image4).

The internet is eating itself and I'm tired.

😳 🥵

youtube.com/shorts/zIh3tIckyg0

Your Shadow Daddy needs a New Sword #booktok #romantasy #fantasy

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For the fourth time, the Blind Travel Foundation $10000 travel grant is available to benefit the blind and visually impaired community.

They are doing amazing work and really put the money to good use. Please apply by February 1, or just spread the word.

blindtravel.org/

I don't know what's worse.

Links to flipboard or links to instagram or facebook ?

Just randomly thinking about that car I used to pass every week on the way to and from my child psychiatrist's office in 1995, with a missing door. Lots of tape where the door should have been.

I wonder how that person's life turned out.

'Imperialists can never save you': In Lebanon, Iranians divided over protests shaking their country #press

today.lorientlejour.com/articl…

'Imperialists can never save you': In Lebanon, Iranians divided over protests shaking their country

^{Gabriel BLONDEL (L'Orient Today)}

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Helm's Deep is a fortress where attackers break against its strong walls. Helm's Chart is a fortress where they get lost in a maze of YAML and template errors. ​​

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#231 Blueprint Maps
thisweek.gnome.org//posts/2026…

#GNOME #TWIG

#231 Blueprint Maps

Updates on what happens across the GNOME project from week to week

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I’m moving away from Facebook and Instagram, as they no longer feel like the places where I want to spend my energy.

I’m a photographer working across film and digital — people, places and weddings — and I’d love to connect with others who care about analogue photography.

EOS 30
Revolog Tesla BW 200
#analogue

Comitis Capital hat den Kauf von Threema vereinbart – final abgeschlossen ist das laut Mitteilung noch nicht (Closing im Jan. 2026 geplant).
Und ja: Threema bleibt weiterhin in der Schweiz (Sitz), aber „Schweizer Souveränität“ ist am Ende auch eine Frage von Eigentümerstruktur, Governance und Transparenz.

comitiscapital.com/news/comiti…

#Threema #Datenschutz #ITSecurity #Datenhoheit

Apparently to renew a passport in Canada one has to pay a tax to Adobe, and Microsoft or Apple.

What kind of fucking elbows up is that?

#cdnpoli

I've been beaten by the LAPD. I lived in Berkeley in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I've been tear gassed and watched police push people backwards off of highway overpasses. I knew and understood many Black Panthers.

I am sick and tired of Kumbaya songs. I am sick and tired of turn-the-other-cheek reactions to current affairs in the US.

But I am also a lawyer, sworn to peaceful methods.

What do I do?

What strikes me is the age old method of ostracism - practiced in ancient Athens, written about in plays like Lysistrata, and rendered into strong force by churches through the practice of excommunication.

We ought to perform civil excommunication on ICE agents - do not sell or rent products to them in stores, do not rent hotel rooms to them, do not fund them, treat them like modern day lepers. Businesses should make it clear that they will never be hired for a job. Do not adopt Jesus' policy of acceptance of them.

Spread their names so that we may cut them off from society.

RE: tldr.nettime.org/@dk/115883068…

fanbois call it Epic Yclic Code

Dmytri

2026-01-12 16:28:20

It attempts to fit solutions from potentially very different domains together with corrective code "epicycles" until it satisfies its context, the user, and tests.
4/7

RE: cyberplace.social/@Wuzzy/11588…

Good news, i hope to see other project do the same (if technically possible ... of course) @CachyOS @fedora @opensuse @ubuntu @archlinux @flathub @IzzyOnDroid @nixos_org

RE: social.abolivier.bzh/@brendan/…

If you're going to @fosdem be sure to find us in Building F AND be sure to check out @brendan 's talk! We can't wait to see everyone, and don't worry, we're bringing all the stickers.

Brendan Abolivier

2026-01-09 11:11:43

Going to @fosdem this year? Me too! I'll even be babbling about the work we've done over the past couple of years to support Microsoft Exchange in @thunderbird - that'll be Saturday midday in the Modern Email devroom.

fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…

FOSDEM 2026 - A short story of supporting Microsoft Exchange in Thunderbird

^fosdem.org

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 18 updated and 1 added apps:

* Coffee: prevents your screen from dimming or locking 🛡️

RB status: 796 apps (61.9%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

@thunderbird Hey TB Team. I really never need HTML-formatting in event descriptions. How can I turn that off? It is really bugging me to see format options there.

Thank you.

We love to see it--community-created harm reduction infrastructure in the face of the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) ❤

github.com/zoicware/RemoveWind…

I wrote about a new MacOS accessibility library, pyax. It's a cool little tool you can use to inspect the accessibility API of apps. #a11y #macos #firefox #accessibility

blog.monotonous.org/2026/01/12…