George Clooney is an actor.
Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained.
Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery.
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"But one of the starkest findings of the report is that the ultra-rich 0.001% control three times the wealth of the poorest half of humanity. Not only that, their wealth is growing at a faster rate – close to 5%, compared with 3.4%. (...)
But to give an idea of the disparity, the image below shows how big the bottom half is. Each dot represents one stadium of 56,000 people."
theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/…
‘The 0.001%’: a quick visual breakdown of the world’s wealthiest people
About 56,000 people control three times as much wealth as half of humanity. Here’s one way to illustrate thatOliver Holmes (The Guardian)
The image is a solid field of small, repeating squares. The squares are primarily green, with a slightly darker shade interspersed throughout, creating a textured, grid-like pattern. The squares are arranged in a uniform manner, covering the entire image area with no visible borders or empty space. There are no other elements or text present in the image. It appears to be a digital pattern or texture fill.
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Ma no, che attacco. È solo un'operazione militare speciale (cit.)
Attacco USA Venezuela, la temperatura sale: gli scenari futuroprossimo.it/2025/12/atta…
Attacco USA Venezuela, la temperatura sale: gli scenari
Il Center for Strategic Studies calcola "molto probabile" un attacco missilistico USA al Venezuela. Proviamo a capire insieme.Gianluca Riccio (FuturoProssimo)
Ein Landschaftsbild, das durch einen Rahmen von grünen Blättern betrachtet wird. Im Vordergrund befindet sich eine Person, die mit dem Rücken zum Betrachter steht und auf eine Wiese blickt. Hinter der Person befindet sich ein großer Teich oder See, der von Hügeln und Bäumen umgeben ist. Im Hintergrund sind Berge zu sehen. Der Text auf dem Bild lautet: „The longer you spend in tech, the stronger the urge to buy a farm and never touch a computer again“.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 14th of December: Share how you tackle a first round of revisions.
The first round usually occurs when I'm copying a disjointed draft from a notebook onto my computer, and then I adjust as I go.
One sick motherfucker.
Trump Scraps Abolition Coins, Features Himself Instead
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#TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #AmericanFascistParty #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Trump Scraps Abolition Coins, Features Himself Instead
The Trump administration nixed commemorative coins meant to honor abolitionists and women in favor of honoring more old white men.The New Republic
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Living conditions are better in the country regions near Montbrison than they are in Saint Etienne from which this family was transferred
#Montbrison #SaintEtienne #Photography #LewisHine #ChildLabour #ChildLabor
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Collettivo studentesco CRAVOS contro il ritorno della leva obbligatoria l Osservatorio contro la militarizzazione delle scuole e delle università
D'un roig encès
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Sta tornando Pinochet? Il Cile decide oggi
Il Paese che sognava una nuova Costituzione ora rischia di consegnarsi alla destra più dura e guardare al passato più nero.AndreaCegna (Il Finestrino - lo sguardo sul mondo di e con Andrea Cegna)
'We ain't buying it': It's time for an all-out food fight with Trump
alternet.org/trump-food-fight/
#TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #AmericanFascistParty #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
'We ain't buying it': It's time for an all-out food fight with Trump
Hunger has a funny way of concentrating the attention.The cost of food and cutbacks in the provision of food for those who need it have been drivers of mass protest throughout much of history: One of the events initiating the French Revolution was th…Jeremy Brecher (Alternet.org)
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine
Dnipropetrovsk region governor shows damage from Russian attacks Shown in
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, drone and artillery strikes by Russian forces damaged homes, a business, and vehicles. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
Una storia di ejecta in Arabia Terra settentrionale
L'obiettivo è esaminare l'ejecta proveniente da un cratere ben conservato. Si tratta di un luogo ideale per l'acquisizione di immagini perché è poco coperto da polvere, quindi sono visibili molti dettagli.
umbertogaetani.substack.com/p/…
Una storia di ejecta in Arabia Terra settentrionale
L’obiettivo di questa osservazione è esaminare l’ejecta proveniente da un cratere ben conservato.umberto gaetani (La macchina del tempo)
ximaar.wordpress.com/2025/12/1…
Dec-13: Calibri Too Woke
Ik blijf nog een beetje bij het wappie-regiem, dat in de USA de lakens uitdeelt. Een discipel van Mr T, Marco Rubio, heeft bedacht dat het lettertype calibri te woke is en dus vervangen moet worden…ximaar
I was trying to hide the description, what with it being Silent Sunday. It's also the only photo of me I'm likely to post on here (as it shows my fabulous knees).
Le metropolitane non possono più dipendere da norme speciali e deroghe.
A Mobilitiamo Roma, l’assessore Eugenio Patané chiede un sistema di finanziamenti strutturali e continuativi, indispensabili per programmare e completare la rete.
Un tema centrale per il futuro della mobilità romana.
🔗 odisseaquotidiana.com/2025/12/…
#Roma #Metropolitane #TrasportoPubblico @roma
Metropolitane: “Basta norme speciali, servono finanziamenti strutturali”
L'appello all’assessore Patané durante l’evento Mobilitiamo Roma. Ascolta "Metro C a rischio: Roma tra tagli, cantieri e tes...Andrea (Blogger)
I'm not quite sure how I'm feeling about my current mastodon instance. It's on v4.1.13 which is ancient, unsupported, and missing nice QoL features.
(What about security?)
I'm not complaining though, I know well enough how cumbersome and time-consuming it can be to keep self-hosted stuff moderately up-to-date. That's the main reason why I haven't tried (yet?) running my own instance.
So.... I don't know. Maybe I'll consider yet another migration. Which is one of the nicer features of Mastodon!
I'll probably slim it down by removing cache and messages older than 2 years as it seems most don't really care about keeping very old messages.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll be patient then. It's interesting to hear about the disk space required by a moderately small instance.
RIP my bookmarks. (No, I'm joking, they're not that important, and for my own posts I have even configured an auto-delete...)
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Certains de nos ami.e.s de la bande de Gaza rencontrent des problèmes avec le site Gofundme qui s'amuse à bloquer l'argent de leurs cagnottes... Certain.e.s préfèrent donc changer de site par sécurité, c'est le cas de mon amie @eslamradwan1_D_5 qui vient de migrer vers chuffed; son nouveau lien=>chuffed.org/project/161617-abdo
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I wasn't aware there was a problem with my
campaign link, and all donations got stuck.
I haven't received donations for the last week.
#SoSadAboutThat😔😭
I created a new link until the problem is fixed.
#Be_the_first_donor_here🙏🙏
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#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #israel #genocide #famine #mutualAid
@D1
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy
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@neutrinoceros
@ravensrod
@kathimmel
@simon_brooke
@tekul
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@appassionato
@ravensrodHelp my family live out of Gaza
I'm Islam Radwan from Gaza, I'm married to three children. In the 34 years of my life, I have witnessed 5 brutal wars and many escalations.Chuffed
Per favore, dai un'occhiata al blog di oggi per sapere se dovrei vivere in una grande città o in un piccolo villaggio in Italia…
#blog #Italy #Italia #Travel #Travelwriting #travelblog #Tuscany #Toscana #MonteAmiata #share #adventure #traveling #tourism #explore #travelgram #trip #expats #expatItaly #viaggaire #bookstodon
Living in Italy. Insights and adventures.
Discover insights on living in Italy, including renovating a Tuscan home and embracing the Italian lifestyle.mark-tedesco
¿Sabían que en años recientes se reportó en Japón una peligrosa práctica denominada "oculolinctus", consistente en lamer el globo ocular de la pareja?
Este fenómeno, conocido coloquialmente como eyeball licking, ganó notoriedad mediática internacional alrededor de 2013, cuando diversos informes señalaron un aumento de casos de infecciones oculares entre adolescentes y adultos jóvenes japoneses vinculados a esta conducta.
Desde una perspectiva sociológica y conductual, la práctica se describió como una forma de fetichismo o una expresión extrema de intimidad afectiva. Sin embargo, desde el ámbito de la salud y la medicina, los oftalmólogos advirtieron sobre los graves riesgos que conlleva. La lengua humana alberga una vasta cantidad de bacterias que, al entrar en contacto con la conjuntiva o la córnea, pueden provocar conjuntivitis severa, úlceras corneales y, en casos críticos, ceguera permanente debido a la fragilidad del tejido ocular frente a patógenos bucales.
Aunque el alcance real de la práctica fue debatido —oscilando entre una tendencia urbana minoritaria, un reto viral de Internet —, el fenómeno permanece como un caso de estudio sobre cómo conductas de riesgo pueden difundirse en entornos digitales y las consecuencias biológicas de alterar las funciones naturales de los órganos sensoriales.
#Sociología #Psicología #Japón #Salud #Comportamiento #Medicina #parafilia #fetichismo #wtf
Primer plano de una parte del rostro de una persona. En la imagen se muestran el ojo derecho, la mejilla y la boca, que está ligeramente abierta con la lengua extendida. El ojo está mirando hacia la izquierda y los párpados están visibles. Los dientes superiores son parcialmente visibles entre los labios. La lengua es de color rojo y tiene una textura ligeramente rugosa. El tono de piel es rosado y la iluminación es suave y uniforme.
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Standing near the buffet table, Chip looks up to Minervie and says, "What is goon running?"
Minervie looked back down at him, but he offered no hint or context. Minervie replied, "I don't know what you are asking."
Chip pointed to the buffet table, and said, "I hear somebody say something is called it."
Minervie scanned the dishes, and then saw the deep fried wanton noodles. "It's Rangoon, Chip."
"That's what I said, what is it?" Chip insisted.
Okay so my side quest this month is making a small pixel art looking game in C with SDL2, I want it to be pixel perfect, so does anyone know the right way to follow this up?
I know about SDL_RenderSetLogicalSize, but I wanna be aware of more stuff that could help me on achieving this.
....und dann hüpf ich hier immer durch #Mastodon
um für mehr gegegenseitiges Verständnis aufzubauen.
Ich lasse dabei oft seelisch meine Hosen runter damit man auch Einblicke bekommt die man sonst nicht bekommt. Ich erzähle auch oft Dinge über die nur wenige reden aus vielen Gründen.
Ich hüpf hier rum im Blinde, Sichtbar zu machen
ich hüpf jetzt mal ganz hoch und ruf ganz laut...
...SEHT UND HÖRT IHR MICH IN DIESEM FEDIVERSE
you've pressed your bike brake but, before braking, would you like an AI summary of what brakes are for?
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#amano #mostra #fumetto #photo #photooftheday #instagood #alessandrogaziano #milano #visioni #italia #picoftheday #igers #igersitalia #photography #vero #verofriends #pictas #Podium #Raw_community #snap_community #snap_community_member
Sette cornici rettangolari sono appese a un muro bianco. Ognuna delle cornici contiene un'immagine colorata. Le immagini sembrano essere dipinti o disegni, in stile cartone animato. Sotto ogni cornice si trova un piccolo cartellino rettangolare bianco con del testo nero.
Il cartellino superiore sinistro recita: "1981, n. 14". Sopra, si vede un personaggio in primo piano con un cappello. Il cartellino successivo recita: "1981, n. 12", con un personaggio che si affaccia attraverso una finestra. Sulla destra, il cartellino recita: "1981, n. 15" con un personaggio che sembra una volpe con un ramo tra le mani. Il cartellino in basso a destra recita: "1981, n. 21" e l'immagine mostra un gruppo di personaggi. Le altre cornici contengono personaggi simili in vari ambienti. Tutti i cartellini riportano l'anno 1981 e un numero di scena.
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Un'immagine illustrata raffigura sei personaggi in uno stile che ricorda i fumetti o l'animazione. Al centro c'è un uomo con i capelli lunghi che indossa un abito blu scuro con una camicia bianca e una cravatta. Cinque figure intorno a lui sono vestite con tute blu e rosse, con caschi e ali. Le figure sono disposte in modo irregolare attorno all'uomo, alcune in posizioni accovacciate o inginocchiate. Le tute rosse hanno grandi ali in stile uccello. Lo sfondo è di colore bianco.
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Pastor: Today’s sermon is “You CAN Balance Faith And Fun!”
Me: I love it. Do reason next, please.
Die Schaffnerin hat sich gerade von den Fahrgästen verabschiedet, die beim nächsten Halt "raussteigen"
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Demonstration in Solidarität mit allen inhaftierten, untergetauchten und angeklagten Antifas!
🗓 Samstag, 10. Januar 2026
🕠 17:30 Uhr
📍Arrivati Park / Grüner Jäger (Hamburg)
#antifa #antifatresen #familyfriendshamburg #basc
Am Dienstag, den 13.01.26, beginnt der Prozess vor dem Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf gegen Clara und sechs weitere Antifaschist*innen. Ihnen allen wird vorgeworfen, im Februar 2023 in Budapest Nazis angegriffen zu haben.
Seems I've underestimated our local Chinos 😊
They only had 2 kinds, but I'm always happy with a Verdejo 🥂
Pubblicità di un famosissimo giocattolo del 1983.
Secondo voi quello nel video è Enzo Iacchetti da giovane?
#Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content. More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked.
theguardian.com/global-develop…
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warningsAisha Down (The Guardian)
#knitting help please!!
I'm making my first pair of mittens and am following a pattern where the thumb is knit first after the bottom of the mitt. However I don't understand where I'm supposed to add the 4 stitches so that they're at the end of the round OR that they're after I've knit the 14 existing stitches twice? 🥲 Am I to place them on another set of needles to have them be round?
"Knit the 14 thumb stitches and leave the rest on a spare needle. Using the backward loop method cast on four stitches; knit the 14 stitches and then the four new ones. You will now have 18 stitches for the thumb; they should be arranged so that the four new stitches are at the end of the round. "
(Pattern is a free one ravelry.com/patterns/library/d…)
Double Mitts pattern by Frankie Brown
Double Mitts are normal mittens with a flip top for when you need to be able to use your fingers. They are knitted in the round and different sizes can be made from the same pattern by varying the weight of the yarn used.Ravelry
Comic: "I Would Do Anything" from ROONIE THE RABBIT
SQUIRREL: Roonie, I'm your friend, and I would do anything for you. The squirrel puts their hand on the rabbit's shoulder, and the two share a smile. A pause. SQUIRREL: But don't, like, ASK, OK?rooniecomics.com
Gay man detained by ICE, prompting husband and advocates to speak out. Via @gaycitynews #LGBTQ 🏳️🌈 #Politics 🇺🇸 🗳️
Gay man detained by ICE, promp...
Gay man detained by ICE, prompting husband and advocates to speak out
Outside of East Village’s Middle Collegiate Church on Dec. 9, Rev. Amanda Ashcraft and attorneys led a press conference to discuss the unexpected detaining ofAmber Sexton (Gay City News)
20th International Exhibition on Textile Industry (ShanghaiTex 2025)
ShanghaiTex 2025 — the 20th International Exhibition on Textile Industry — will return grandly from December 16–19, 2025, at the Shanghai New International Expo Center.China Business Forum
La Thorpe, Devillers, Shelton, Hymas, Sicard and Le Poème Harmonique perform Bach in Gdansk - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Actus Humanus Nativitas Festival. Charlotte La Thorpe, soprano, Perrine Devillers, soprano, William Shelton, countertenor, Hugo Hymas, tenor, Victor Sicard, baritone, and Le Poème Harmonique conducted by Vincent Dumestre perform: BAC...www.worldconcerthall.com
Music for guitar from Koblenz: Piazzolla, Manén, Albéniz, Schnittke, Kellner and more - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Higlights from the Koblenz Guitar Festival. Works and performers: PIAZZOLLA: Suite Troilena/ BACH arr Ferruccio Busoni: Chaconne from Partita for Violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004. Aniello Desiderio, guitar, Zoran Dukic, guitar. Joan MANÉ...www.worldconcerthall.com
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This is interesting. I recently copied a list of restaurants from Google Maps.
open.substack.com/pub/laurenle…
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.Lauren Leek (Lauren’s data Substack)
Io e @joy_d_joy riprendiamo in mano #ItTakesTwo dopo un annetto.
E la qui presente Lige decide che deve obbligatoriamente stare sulle/tra le mie gambe.
Il computer è collegato al proiettore, e noi giochiamo sul divano con tastiera/mouse + joypad wireless.
Non potendo mettere la tastiera direttamente sulla gatta, avevo bisogno di un minimo di piano semirigido/stabile.
Soluzione: mi metto un cuscino sulla gatta e sulle gambe.
A me va bene.
A lei pure.
#caturday fuori tempo limite
Und ich muß sagen - auch wenn ich das als Kind selbst gespielt habe - Blockflöte ist einfach ein richtig beschissenes Instrument!
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in reply to Mx. Eddie R • • •A counter-example (with actors stepping in and doing "the job") is Galaxy Quest.
That's a documentary film, right?
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When you ask a pet parrot "Who's a pretty bird?" and the bird excitedly responds, "Pretty bird! Pretty bird!" you are having more of a real conversation with avian intelligence than you are with AI. But human beings are so easily fooled by good grammar and syntax that if you could teach a bird to respond, "You know, Sooz, I've thought about this a bit and it occurs to me that I am indeed a pretty bird," most humans would assume it understood exactly what it was saying. They would be blinded by eloquence.
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