🥳 Welcome to the Public Domain: creative works from 1930 & sound recordings published in 1925! Duke Law's video highlights some of the most anticipated works entering the #publicdomain in 2026!
Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/public-domain-day-2026/
On this New Year's Eve, 2025, I would like to wish everybody an uneventful New Year. May 2026 be boring, predictable, safe, and gentle. And may you experience many, many precedented events.
WHOO-HOO! Tickets for New Year's Eve acquired!
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3188. Anyone Else Here
3188. Anyone Else Here
title text: Anyone else watching this Youtube video in 1954? If so, my last trip definitely messed with the timeline.
desktop link: https://xkcd.com/3188
mobile link: https://m.xkcd.com/3188
explainxkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3188
If you begin #StarTrek Voyager episode Spirit Folk at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's Eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. Join in our very dumb annual tradition and start 2026 off on the right hoof.
Welp ... I was just informed through a Slack DM that I will no longer be working at the place I'm working at in two weeks' time. That is, evidently, how we handle that now. Not entirely unexpected as the writing on the wall was evident, but still not loving that approach for reasons I haven't quite worked out yet.
If anyone needs help with their #accessibility from someone with both native #screenReader experience and a coding background, keep me in mind I guess :)
Located in the eastern Netherlands, primarily interested in remote opportunities.
#fediHired #layoffs
How do you feel about the coming year?
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Optimistic 12% (107 votes)
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Neutral 13% (118 votes)
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Very unsure 32% (279 votes)
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Pessimistic you voted for this answer 41% (352 votes)
3187. High Altitude Cooking Instructions
3187. High Altitude Cooking Instructions
title text: 1,300,000-1,400,000 ft: Ask a crew member to show you how to use the ISS food warmer.
desktop link: https://xkcd.com/3187
mobile link: https://m.xkcd.com/3187
explainxkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3187
The Internet Archive has a playable version of the NY Times Crossword Puzzle app from 1992. It ran on Windows 3.1 and included a few hundred puzzles. (Click on Game/Open to select a puzzle.) https://archive.org/details/the-new-york-times-crossword-puzzles-1992
Shel Silverstein’s short poem Homework Machine (1981) was prescient about the limitations of LLMs. “I guess it’s not as perfect / As I thought it would be.” https://kottke.org/25/12/the-imperfect-homework-machine
- Cereal is a breakfast food
- Wheat is a cereal
- Macaroni noodles are made from wheat
∴ Macaroni and cheese is a breakfast food
TIL Jane Goodall observed a 4 year "civil war" among chimpanzees at Gombe Stream National Park. The conflict involved kidnapping, organized violence, and the total annihilation of a breakaway group, shocking Goodall who previously thought chimps were peaceful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1py8zxs/til_jane_goodall_observed_a_4_year_civil_war/
These Muppet versions of Xmas movie posters are great: Beaker as John McClane in Die Hard, Oscar the Elf, Animal as Clark Griswold, etc. https://kottke.org/25/12/muppet-versions-of-xmas-movie-posters
Son: What's Frogger?
Me: It's Crossy Roads with a frog.
I've failed him as a parent.
@danjones000 Here is your #FediTree for the year 2025.
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Tonight you will be visited by three ghosts.
Happy Christmas All!
Yesterday, the #FediBuzz relay at https://relay.fedi.buzz turned three years old. By now we are feeding 1704 servers and 6149 other users.
Are you the Spirit whose coming was foretold to me?
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!"
My five-year-old decided to put out milk and pretzel sticks for Santa, and some carrots for the reindeer.
Dan Jones