Ah, finally a #Plushtodon unboxing video! From @schasch and @moyie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGyDk5dwDNg

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PCMag/115856696065155915

Not content with littering up the Earth, the billionaires are now coming for our night sky too. I wish we could shoot all of it down.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mrgrumpymonkey/115856095074084551

Whether it works or not, I know it would make my day if I walked past a window like that! 🙂

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lawnchairapp/115808293344610014

My wife has been using this app, looks like they joined #Mastodon recently.

I certainly hope the EU can put the same sanctions on the US for attacking Venezuela as they did on Russia for attacking Ukraine. This is indefensible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmOtrCRrlDA

My mom asked me to help her with a problem with her WordPress (.com) site, and oh boy. It's been a while since I've seen a UI that frustrating. The new theme editor is a sluggish nightmare. It took me by surprise too, was originally trying to troubleshoot an issue with her original theme, switched to another, suddenly the theme editor is completely different, previous theme nowhere to be found.

Happy new year! We made it!

Updated my portfolio with some previously missing photos, and removed some that didn't seem as good as I originally thought.

https://eugenrochko.com

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography

I'm pretty sure both Lilac by #Katatonia and Restless Boy by #PainOfSalvation are using a sample of a floppy disk drive and I find that interesting. It is a pleasant sound. Let me know if I'm mistaken...

The US version of Oscar is much less funny than the original, but as far as US adaptations go it's still quite good.

✨ 🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄 ✨

@FediTree 🎄

#PsychedelicPornCrumpets - Unconventional Daze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epb0cbJAXjY

#NowPlaying #NP

@owncast (self-hosted livestreaming platform that integrates with the fediverse) is looking really good right now. There's been a lot of progress since I first heard of it.

You know, I'm still a bit mad about the picture they put on my Wikipedia article. Back at FOSDEM 2023, some guy walks up to me, asks if he can take a picture. I've been taking selfies with folks all day so I say yes. People are happy to meet me and I don't mind. He takes the picture and leaves. Then months later I find out that blurry, low light, bad hair, bad composition picture is how I will be remembered in the world's most popular encyclopedia.

You know, I'm still a bit mad about the picture they put on my Wikipedia article. Back at FOSDEM 2023, some guy walks up to me, asks if he can take a picture. I've been taking selfies with folks all day so I say yes. People are happy to meet me and I don't mind. He takes the picture and leaves. Then months later I find out that blurry, low light, bad hair, bad composition picture is how I will be remembered in the world's most popular encyclopedia.

You know, I'm still a bit mad about the picture they put on my Wikipedia article. Back at FOSDEM 2023, some guy walks up to me, asks if he can take a picture. I've been taking selfies with folks all day so I say yes. People are happy to meet me and I don't mind. He takes the picture and leaves. Then months later I find out that blurry, low light, bad hair, bad composition picture is how I will be remembered in the world's most popular encyclopedia.

Somehow #Tidal has failed to inform me that the new #Avkrvst album came out June this year. Catching up now.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115737483111161917

I'll elaborate. I believe we're in an AI bubble. AI companies are pushing the overton window on AI discourse. They want the most extreme anti-AI sentiment to be "Sure, it's an overhyped technology right now but there will be reasonable applications down the road". I want to see pushback on this. It doesn't matter if I can disable some AI feature in the settings. The fact that Mozilla is jumping on this bandwagon is deeply disappointing to me.

I've finally switched to the @Vivaldi browser. I've been using Firefox for as long as I've been on the internet, but the focus on AI means it's no longer the browser for me. Thankfully unlike Chrome, Vivaldi supports the uBlock Origin extension which is the most important extension for being able to browse the web nowadays.

Bard frog #Dota2

I got the The Archer archetype!

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/wrapstodon/2025/a8e79a7541febc69

#Wrapstodon2025

Baked some gingerbread cookies.

@Ameboid gifted me a loupe.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

From a couple months back.

📷️ Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 @Ameboid
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria

Here! Finally! I have my sample. The "Live laugh federate" enamel pin.

https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/live-laugh-federate-soft-enamel-pin

#Merchtodon

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115698604360170391

There's now free shipping on orders of 70 EUR and over.

I've realized we don't have a lot of time left to ship orders before Christmas, and the sample of the new "Live laugh federate" pin might take a few more days to arrive at my home for product shots, so I've put it up on the shop with the picture the manufacturer took for me. This is the last new product this year.

https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/live-laugh-federate-soft-enamel-pin

#Merchtodon

Christmas time means an attrition battle between my cats and me about whether the baubles belong on the tree or not.