Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

"One of the most underreported stories of 2025 is that Trump is the first President ever to create electricity shortages on purpose. "He is illegally canceling solar and wind, causing layoffs and price spikes, and the media is like 'wow what a showman that guy is!'"

Senator flags 'underreported story' about Trump 'illegally' creating a shortage on purpose - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-climate-2674832472/

Your periodic reminder that denying trans kids life-saving healthcare is called "malpractice" and if you do it you shouldn't ever be allowed to call yourself a doctor again.

@thejapantimes #WashingtonHasFallen and #Putin is extremely pleased with his puppet in the #WhiteHouse.

#Resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion to #SaveAmerica.

Insane NY Post column suggesting that the new First Lady who is sad about leaving her longtime neighbors in a not fancy NYC neighborhood is an ungrateful brown woman

Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the idea of the United States being the custodian of the international rules-based order has been cast aside, lending new urgency to long-simmering questions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/28/world/filling-americas-shoes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #us #china #donaldtrump #climatechange #taiwan #uschinarelations #wto

I may have done a thing

Der kleine Kater hofft, ihr hattet entspannte Feiertage oder könnt euch zumindest jetzt noch ein bisschen erholen. 🐈‍⬛

Happy #Caturday!

One of Donald Trump's favorite talking points is that #Denmark is not a good ally and that therefore, they somehow owe us #Greenland. It turns out that Denmark lost more troops per capita in #Afghanistan than we did.

27 December 1902 | A German, Erich Julius Bass, was born in Königsberg (then Prussia, today Kaliningrad in Russia). A locksmith.

In #Auschwitz from 13 September 1941
No. 20738
He perished in the camp on 12 January 1942.
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🎧 A podcast about registration photos: https://youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc

One concern about the AI bubble that I've not yet seen discussed is how many All-In podcasts it's going to create. Every time one of these AI companies is bought or IPOs, it creates like 10 new billionaire who will start a podcast where they pass their single brain cell around a table and influence people on issues they know nothing about.

Remember when David Sacks and Jason Calacanis got together with Elon Musk and tried to sabotage Ukraine's defense because they convinced themselves that angering Russia would lead to a nuclear war? Now imagine there's 400 of them. At this rate the entire media sphere will just be midwit billionaires with podcasts.

"Russia can stop the war anytime by leaving Ukranian land."

#Putin #Russia #Ukraine #USPol #Trump #PutinWarWarCriminal #RussiaIsATerroristState

OK, this is genuinely scary. It's a picture of me, aged 5. It was taken in 1960. It was scanned and uploaded to Google Photos in 2002. No one has told Google where it was taken. But the map, bottom right, is correct.

Obviously, in 1960, my father's pre-war Exakta camera did not have GPS. Could you identify, from that picture, exactly where it was taken?

Google can.

A Russian Shahed drone struck a bus stop in Bila Tserkva. Another deliberate attack on civilians. Russia continues to wage war not on the battlefield, but against ordinary people going about their daily lives.

📅The Last Blog Update📅
"Looking back the year 2025"...In the last blog article, I looked back this year with a few favourite photos.
👉 https://tokyomegaloops.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025-summary.html

I don't think I've every wanted a company newsletter.
No really.

I used your company once to buy a thing. Why would you now assume i want a weekly newsletter? Why am I opting out and not in? Grow up. No one cares

"Again, why would ANYONE willingly come to the United States while Donald Trump was in the White House - why?"
- Aure

Indian foreign ministry says their citizens are being stranded in India due to H1B appointment delays from Trump regime.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #India

This article by @pluralistic is very good and I agree with most of it. I ran across it after just buying his book ENSHITTIFICATION, and while looking into why he isn’t on Bluesky, where I’m active and have helped build what I think is the biggest and best community of urbanist and city-builders of social media.

I like Mastodon a lot for the reasons he stresses, but I’ve been at 17k followers here for several years. My efforts to grow here have failed. 1/2
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast

@markmetz

I don't know how many of my fellow Americans really understand how badly American voters fucked up. How ludicrously fubar this nation is.

@markmetz

Nor should they.

I don't trust American voters and I am one.