Sylvain Miermont @miermont@qoto.org

The science is unimpeachable: human-made art makes you laugh, laughter releases endorphins, endorphins are basically tiny maintenance workers repairing your insides, and boom: you’ve just extended your warranty.

And unlike intermittent fasting, we’re offering you a path to longevity that involves more laughter, not less food.

Becoming a patron isn’t just supporting an artist. It’s an investment in your own continued existence. Your move, mortal.

https://www.patreon.com/warandpeas/join

For the last decade, the #EU has been funding #Mastodon #KDE #Phosh #Nextcloud #OnlyOffice #PixelFed, #Libreoffice, #CryptPad, #Kdenlive, #Lemmy and many other Open Source projects you know and love through its #NextGenerationInternet programme.

But now that programme is ending and they are thinking about its successor.

They want to hear from you on what it should look like: Share your feedback to make sure the Commission keep funding amazing Open Source projects!
[JM]

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems_en

This Saturday more than 50 kids from the High School of Mathematics OMG "Akademik Kiril Popov" in Plovdiv soldered their first RISC-V Open Source hardware retro like computer RVPC and played TETRIS on it https://olimex.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/risc-v-eur-1-retro-computer-soldering-workshop-at-high-school-of-mathematics-in-plovdiv/ #riscv #retrocomputing #workshop #soldering

"After 2 centuries of 'energy transitions', humanity has never burned so much oil and gas, so much coal, and so much wood."

Solar and renewables aren't replacing fossil fuels, just as EVs aren't replacing gas-powered cars.

There is no energy transition.

It's just more and more and more...

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OKAY big day today! I am so so so so happy to officialy launch Kaomoji Cool Club version 2 today!

https://kaomojicool.club

Please share it with the world!
1/6

#kaomojicoolclub #kaomoji #design #asciiart

Lost science... :/
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/science/trump-lostscience-genetics-henn.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BVA.SobF.SJH6SFLTN4m_

"We obtained 100 gigabytes of data from unlisted websites associated with Canary Mission, revealing their internal workings, employees, and an internal website called BlackNest where the group celebrated its “impacts”— arrests and deportations."
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mission-blacknest-doxxing-israel-potestors-united-states

Start considering moving your communities out of Discord now. Don’t wait for the enshittiffication to arrive, the clock is ticking. No one will listen to me, but let’s talk again later. https://www.reuters.com/business/chat-platform-discord-confidentially-file-us-ipo-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-01-06/

#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1939, French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers element 87, which she later names francium. It was the last element to be discovered naturally.

Perey was a student of Maria Skłodowska-Curie. She was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize but never received it.

#WomenInSTEM #ScienceHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

The big 1422 partner polycule that values my privacy. 🥴🙃

When I see such banners I close the webpage.

Les braves cyclistes sous la neige. Bd Arago, Paris 14ème.

#velotaf #paris #tempeteDeNeige #paris14

there are three kinds of programming tutorials:

“look man we both know you don’t wanna learn this shit so just install 30 GB of random frameworks and here’s the code to copy-paste if you wanna make a basic game and feel like you accomplished something. I’m not gonna explain how any of this works because nobody cares as long as your little guy jumps when you press spacebar”
“an endofunctor is a type of monoid which is a subcategory of monad that is variadic over the set of all impure lambdas - therefore all possible expressions in this language can be modeled after- wait where are you going?”
“this is called a variable! a variable is a little friend that can hold onto something called a value! variables love grabbing values and they can even carry them into functions! say hi, variable!”

Wow this talk is very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANECpNdt-4

Folks interested in science should be interested in Retraction Watch, which is now 15 years old. Started by medical journalists Ivan Oransky & Adam Marcus, the site is the only one (that I know of, anyway) that uncovers and tracks scientific retractions, errors, and other controversies. My best friend of 27 years happens to work there too, but that's besides the point! They do vital work no one else is doing. Their year-end summary is impressive.

#science

https://retractionwatch.com/

Anyone got custom emojis that are SVGs or APNGs? Please link me some, need to check they work correctly in #Tusky.

When people talk about social pariahs in the tech industry, THIS is who we should be talking about.

received this card in the mail from a neighbour. paper tape and stickers. 🎄

this is more beautiful and more creative than anything an image generator can ever spit out. :)

Here's that 60 minutes segment - not the Canadian guy filming his TV (thank you), but a 1080p grab from a browser someone posted to Internet Archive.

That 1080p video is 1.4GB. This 720p version (crf:35) is under 40MB, which just happens to be the default / most common media size limit for mastodon instances.

NOTE: mastodon re-encoded the upload to 100MB so HERE'S THE 40MB version
👉 https://drive.proton.me/urls/XA5XYQV47M#VSGTMh8TpDEO

This is unconscionable, and must not be covered up. Apparently CNN is running "the story" now; those jackals just want the clicks.

share / download / re-post elsewhere, etc.

#60minutes #cecot #fascism