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First they came for the journalists, who were very surprised to find themselves in a giant warehouse filled with minorities, immigrants, disabled, trans, and gay people.

It's pretty remarkable how much Elon's Twitter takeover is a textbook fascist takeover: leftists immediately purged, censorship regime imposed behind the scenes, secret police rooting out enemies, right wing terrorism supported by the state, etc and how uncannily similar the mainstream liberal response of pretending nothing is wrong is, even with *very low* costs of walking out the door and refusing to collaborate.

Merry Christmas! The U.S. energy department just declared the Texas grid an emergency again-again!

Every time Ted Cruz flees to Mexico, an angel gets its wings! 🎄

Fuck Greg Abbott, Ted Cruz, John Cornyn, and every Republican, Texas voter. Also, merry Christmas. https://mastodon.social/@flexghost/109572011317991158

Children born today will see literally thousands of animals disappear in their lifetime, as global food webs collapse.
https://theconversation.com/amp/children-born-today-will-see-literally-thousands-of-animals-disappear-in-their-lifetime-as-global-food-webs-collapse-196286

The hack of Piers Morgan's Twitter account comes just a few days after someone claimed to obtained the data of 400 million Twitter accounts in a major breach. That person was trying to sell the data and included Morgan's phone number and email as evidence that the breach data was authentic.

I don't see any great news articles about the breach, possibly because of the holidays, but @briankrebs has recently posted some reliably good info and analysis about it here on Mastodon.

AMAZING RARE sighting of massive phantom jellyfish. These jellies can grow to an astonishing 10 metres (33 ft) in length! This giant was spotted 990m (3,200 ft) below the surface off the California coast.

Video by Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.

It is so beautiful with parents of autistic children get it. For any parents reading, please note the part where the author decided to limit what they share of their child's good and bad days.

When I learned my child was autistic, I was devastated. But reading about autism from autistic adults changed my whole perspective.

https://www.insider.com/my-child-is-autistic-autistic-adults-changed-my-perspective-2022-12 #Autism #AutisticAcceptance

@elonjet @mmasnick

Looks like Elmo pulled the plug on Datacenter Dynamics’ website!

Not just for communication platforms, either. For many many things, if you don't control it, it isn't yours. You might have found the perfect little program for part of your workflow but oops it's an online app from Google and it's now in the Google graveyard. You might have found the perfect free to use 3d tool, but oops they got bought out and now it's $1000 a year to keep using it. You might have found the perfect iot device for your home but oops, it relies on a third party server and the company went out of business so now you have to throw all the equipment you bought away.

Americans can help defeat a fascist billionaire oligarchy with the choices they make but instead are like “choosing a server is too hard!!” 😩

I've tried not to bring too much baggage with me from COVID Twitter but this NYTimes story is appalling. Not only do they paint those still wearing masks as holdouts, but they somehow couldn't find someone who wears anything in between a handmade cloth mask and an elastomeric P100, giving the impression that the remaining mask wearers are either wearing ineffectual protection or wearing a level of protection that most people were unwilling to adopt even pre-vaccination.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/us/covid-masks-risk.html