Bladeflow @Bladeflow@qoto.org

🔓 Phone numbers are not private 🔓

This is the achilles heel of many privacy-focussed apps.

Avoiding phone numbers was one of our core design goals from the very beginning, and anonymous sign-up is one of Session’s most-loved features.

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What if Firefox became the best Fediverse client? Could be very powerful and timely.

http://benlog.com/2022/12/28/firefox-should-become-the-best-freaking-fediverse-app/

Builds on ideas from @luis_in_brief

Me: "You wanna go upstairs?"
Him: "Oh yeah."
Me: "Do you have protection?"
Him: [startled] "Why, what's up there?"

There’s no time to explain, get in the pea

me and the boys revolutionising private messaging

Extreme heat and droughts are killing off mistletoe. Will future generations be able to kiss under this parasitic Christmas classic? @nicolakimjones reports for @KnowableMag:
http://on.theatln.tc/5E5Doyc

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1607013726854516738

Good Morning and Merry Christmas!🎄

I hope Santa brings you everything you asked for this year 🙏

And if he doesn't, it's because that snitch ass mothafuckin' elf told him about that shit you did that you weren't supposed to do 🤬

Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere is a weird thing!

- it’s summer. And here in Santiago, Chile, hot summer. Min 14C and max 32C these days. All the chants I’ve learned when a child in France are about winter wind, snow and being cold. Here we’re in short or even in swimming suit in the outdoor pool! The few Santas around are in malls or supermarkets with air conditioning because… 🥵

#ChristmasInSummer #Joinin

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Christmas in #Kherson. People stand in line to donate blood after yesterday’s bombardment of pedestrian area.
#Ukraine #UkraineWar

Whatever you celebrate (or don't celebrate), wishing you and yours the very best of seasons!

#Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Birds #Birding #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography

Happy Holidays.

Trickle-down economics is a cruel hoax designed to enrich the wealthy and corporations while draining money for the middle class and the poor.

Pass it on to a conservative family member near you.

Happy holidays to you all from the beautiful North !!!

Countries that open their presents on #Christmas Eve

Read this article— some rare blunt honesty about choosing all the suburban “advantages,”including the fact that it’s heavily subsidized by the rest of us, and then complaining about the amount of traffic in your commute into the city. It may sound snarky, but it’s also true. “You know what the suburbs aren’t, though? Close to downtown.”
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/pellerin-choose-ottawas-suburbs-deal-with-the-traffic-woes

#Sprawl #Suburbia #Cities #Suburbs #cars #driving #city

There are two things you need to know about me:

1. I like to keep things private.

A stunning slow-motion tracking shot of a cheetah running captured at 1200 frames per second.

Source: https://vimeo.com/53914149
More details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icFMTB0Pi0g

Credit: Gregory Wilson / CC BY 3.0

HourlyWolves presents: https://nitter.net/hourlywolvesbot/status/1606273713032380417/photo/1

🐦🔗: https://nitter.net/hourlywolvesbot/status/1606273713032380417

HourlyWolves presents: https://nitter.net/hourlywolvesbot/status/1606092515291144204/photo/1

🐦🔗: https://nitter.net/hourlywolvesbot/status/1606092515291144204

PHOTO BLOG: Earlier this month, a storm chaser from the Netherlands took a wonderful photo showing several textbook ice halos, including a 46-degree halo, a 22-degree halo with parhelion (sun dogs), and an upper tangent arc. https://www.accuweather.com/en/leisure-recreation/live-news/weather-permitting-photo-blog/933860