Hi friends! Here another week to help our friends in Gaza survive the continuing horrors they face - harsh winter, bombings, lack of clean water, food, healthcare. Anything you give helps, even $5 - they really add up.
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Yes, Mothra, destroy not-America, give the people what they want.
Honestly, it's hard to riff this part because it's just so damn well done.
Just updated the FediCollective website to help us stay in a high vibration.
1. Ambient 528Hz Love Frequency Player: For transformation and deep rest. Use headphones to really feel the vibration
2. Frequency Visualizer: To ground your focus and see the sound
3. Daily Affirmation Cards: For your mental hygiene and a quick reset
This is a high-vibe spot to breathe and heal. It’s free. Share it if you know someone who needs a reset.
Let’s value our peace today. How do you feel when you listen?
![A digital artwork features a central circular design with concentric rings and a rainbow-colored wave, set against a background of flowers and floating petals. At the center, the text “528Hz” and “LOVE FREQUENCY” is displayed. Small icons on the rings include hearts, a heart with a plus sign, an [@] symbol, a speaker icon, and other symbols. In the top-left corner, the text “(Math of Love)” appears alongside heart and plus symbols. The bottom of the image shows the text “ALOHA WAY”, with a backdrop of vibrant flowers and floating petals under a starry, dark sky.](https://macawsocial.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/cache/media_attachments/files/115/919/694/511/969/540/original/7bc615493141e521.png)
This week on Fireside Fedi!
21/01/2026 10:00 UTC-5
Special Guest: @ellyxir@humanwords.cc
bio.site/ellyxir Programming languages enthusiast, choir, classical singing, video game creation, retro computers, languages
23/01/2026 10:00 UTC-5
Special Guest: @limebar@mastodon.social
Making electronic music:https://mastodon.social/tags/limebar He/Him/His and 100% OK with you being you. Hello new users best advice:write a short intro post, pin it to your profile and update your profile follow every interesting account you see you can and should follow interesting hashtags and use hashtags when posting home shows what you follow and what they boost follow @FediFollows & @FediTips
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Tomorrow is our monthly @makerdeck mixer at Formula Brewing in Issaquah from 6–8 pm. Come hang out with other makers, meet some new faces, and enjoy a relaxed evening. They also have great beer, or so I’ve been told. I don’t drink anymore.
Let's review a few case studies to see how to use the powerful new AgX module in darktable:
https://avidandrew.com/case-studies-agx.html
#photography #tutorial #opensource #artwithopensource #foss #fossart #darktable #canon #camera #linux #software #freesoftware
If it's a bubble, why is it still growing?
- Some investor; during a bubble
#silentsunday on the Oregon Coast. Yachats, Oregon. #sunset #oregon #ocean #sky #coast #landscape #architecture #vibrantcolours #landscapephotography #photography #amateurphotography #pixelfed #fediverse
2 new tagpush app services
ATvenezuela@tagpush.app
ATcuba@tagpush.app
[change AT to @]
These services seek out posts with those #hashtags from all over the #Fediverse and then boost them to many servers. This helps distribute the posts much more widely, including to smaller servers.
To have your posts picked up by these services, simply use the applicable hashtag in your post (#Cuba and/or #Venezuela).
To receive the feed of boosted posts, follow the user IDs shown at the top of this post. BTW, this #tagpush service also boosts #Gaza and #Palestine hashtags, and you can follow them also.
Many thanks to tagpush.app for providing this service. 🙂 ❤️
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If you are using undocumented immigrants’ tax records to find and kidnap them, then it was never about them paying taxes.
If you are showing up at their place of employment, then it was never about them not working.
If you are showing up at courthouses, then it was never about getting them to “do it the right way.”
If you are kidnapping women and children, then it was never about criminals.
If you’re refusing to give them due process, then it was never about the Constitution.
If you’re spending billions to do this, then it was never about the economy.
And if you’re doing all this in the name of a 34-time convicted felon, then it was never about following the law.
Dirt Cheap LiDAR Detector
The Dirt Cheap LiDAR Detector is an small device which uses PIN silicon infrared diodes, a Schmitt Trigger, and some math to detect the TrueDepth Dot Grid Lattice LiDAR projected from the backs of iPhone Pros, and possibly other LiDAR sources too! [...]
https://blog.dirtcheaphackingtools.com/dirt-cheap-lidar-detector
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He's completely lost the plot.
He's blaming the PM of Norway for him not getting the Nobel Prize (Nobel ≠ Norwegian govt).
He thinks that Norway has control over what Denmark does with Greenland.
(Norway ≠ Denmark).
These are the deranged ramblings of a demented old man.
If there are any grown-ups left in America, now is the time to take back the wheel.
Edit: Norwegian state broadcaster confirms
https://www.nrk.no/urix/trump-med-ny-gronland-melding_-_-na-er-tiden-inne-1.17733081
![Nick Schifrin
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NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @Nobel Prize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
"Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a "right of ownership" anyway? There are no written documents, it's only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President
DJT"](https://macawsocial.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/cache/media_attachments/files/115/920/390/183/247/782/original/d027459aa90208dd.jpg)
Miniaturenwunderland: Die Hälfte der Wähler der gesichert rechtsextremen AfD sind keine Nazis. Wer „Fuck AfD“ toleriert, muss AfD-Wähler und „Fuck Grüne“ tolerieren.
Nazi-Bar und Toleranzparadox offensichtlich unbekannt.
https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/miniatur-wunderland-gruender-gerrit-und-frederik-braun-reichtum-kann-eine-provokation-sein-a-40b213f6-f587-4359-a65a-4da8061777b6
🔴This artwork is now sold, thank you so much!
If you are interested in seeing or purchasing my art, I'd love you to visit my Folksy shop. Lot's of work on sale this month!
https://folksy.com/find/shop/theweeowlart
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#genuary #genuary2026 #genuary18 unexpected path
two paths determined by digits of e and pi
Boosts
we all need a little less raging against the dying of the light and a little more coordinated tactical assault on the darkness factory
Dear Gen X: Please go get tested for measles immunity. Every single one of my friends who was tested at various points in their life (started working at a hospital, went back to school, etc) found they had no immunity. I just found out myself, and it's probably been like that for a long time. I got a shot a few days ago.
Edit: or skip the titer testing and just go straight to getting the shots, as it is apparently safe to do so. Thanks to those who pointed that out!
@dannotdaniel Make bad art
It' vital that we understand the enshittome. The new science of enshittomics will allow us to design laws, systems, approaches, movements to resist technofeudalism & enshittification, restore democracy, and build a decent internet.
@pluralistic
boy, bye
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/01/15/hans-zimmer-to-compose-score-for-harry-potter-hbo-series/
🧵 As a former Republican consultant who left in 2015, I'm often asked why Trump and his minions are willingly destroying science, K12 education, universities, international organizations, public broadcasting, and social welfare institutions.
There are many reasons, but the main ones are psychological rather than ideological. They struggle with abstract thinking and are afraid of the world...
I assume they’re all narrated by Brian Blessed.
Do I need a content warning for this?? 🥵
Ich:
Okay I'm a teacher so let me explain in simple terms what happens the second the US invades Greenland:
1. NATO dissolves.
This would literally be a founding member of NATO invading another member nation. This would be a gross violation of one of our longest held treaties in our history. NATO as it exists, would not, and could not, survive.
2. Instant war.
This triggers the defense clause of the post-WW2 agreement, a clause specifically written to trigger if this exact thing were to ever happen. We are instantly at war with (at bare minimum!) the other 11 founding nations: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the UK.
3. Financial ruin.
The EU is the largest holder of US foreign debt and it isn't even close. With every country now left defending itself, most of the EU decides that loaning money to a nation currently at war with them is a bad idea. They call in the debts, stop extending us credit, and within a week every US based business from Amazon to Walmart experiences an extinction level event.
4. We never, ever recover from this.
There is absolutely no way on God's green earth any nation ever trusts us ever again after this. How the fuck could they? Even if we get rid of Trump, even if we get rid of elected Republicans, even if we get rid of MAGA as an ideology itself, all we have proven in the end is that our friendship is capricious and can't be relied on because it could just as easily flip flop in another four years.
5. This isn't even including long term effects.
This is literally just what happens the very moment we send American troops to invade Denmark soil. We lose. That's what happens. We lose forever.
PSA: vimeo will be acquired by a company known for firing all but essential personnel and milking websites dry. If you have videos (you like) there, back them up and look for alternatives.
edit: huh, this blew up so I'm adding sources. Here's vimeo's own announcement: https://investors.vimeo.com/news-releases/news-release-details/vimeo-enters-definitive-agreement-be-acquired-bending-spoons-138
and the wikipedia page for bending spoons has their track record of past acquisitions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_Spoons
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Yes, I'm delusional but it's by choice.
I mean, have you seen reality lately.
I lost a friend over my article about the murder of Renee Nicole Good.
He was angry I called out the underlying misogyny.
He was mad I didn’t give ICE the benefit of the doubt.
He made it personal.
He told me my “stupid clown hair” is why people don’t take me seriously
Everything he said to me was dripping with disdain and misogyny.
There was no debate.
There was no respectful disagreement.
In under five minutes he had attacked my intelligence, my politics, my appearance and my writing.
This is not normal behaviour.
He literally proved my point.
Had I taken the bait I’m convinced that I would have been called a “f*cking b*tch” by the end of the conversation.
This is what MAGA is doing to men.
It’s emboldening them.
It’s validating their bigotry.
I assume this person was always hateful and misogynistic on some level … but now he no longer feels he has to hide it.
He literally said as much.
He said “I never told you in the past because I wasn’t allowed. Now I am.”
Why is he allowed to tell me now??
Why does he feel justified in lashing out with rage and insults over something that has nothing to do with him?
It’s because of what happened to Renee Nicole Good.
We all watched a woman get shot in broad daylight and there’s been zero consequences
We’ve watched rapists, pedophiles and abusers go free for years.
Every woman who’s ever experienced abuse knew exactly what Jonathan Ross meant when he said “f*cking b*tch”
He didn’t fear for his life.
He was enraged she didn’t fear for hers.
My friend was enraged I dare speak out for a “lesbian leftist”.
He was enraged I didn’t remain silent, complicit and demure.
He was apparently also enraged I didn’t realize he hated my hair and change it to please him.
Make no mistake, there is a war against women going on.
This regime wants to make us “less than”.
They want us afraid.
They want us in the home serving our husbands and having children.
They want us seen and not heard.
They don’t want us resisting.
Which is why we must keep speaking out.
We must refuse to go back.
My life is better off without this person in it, and thankfully I can walk away.
Not everyone can.
Speak up if you see someone being hurt.
Protect your friends and neighbours.
Challenge misogynistic talking points.
Demand justice for Renee Nicole Good.
Don’t cower. Don’t be afraid. Don’t give up.
#reneenicolegood #abolishice #uspol #fascism #ableism #misogyny
"Keine Frau kann sagen: Früher war alles besser. Nostalgie ist ein Luxus für weiße Männer. Für uns liegt mehr Potenzial in der Zukunft als in der Vergangenheit. Häuser brennen, Leben gehen verloren- und trotzdem: Wir kämpfen nicht nur für uns. Wir nehmen das Feuer und gehen weiter, für die nächste Generation. Frauen haben das seit Jahrhunderten getan."
Leïla Slimani im Interview von "der Freitag", Ausgabe 2 2026