A photo of me wearing a blue blazer and pocket square while on a horse, looking quite dapper. Both me and the horse are wearing Santa hats.

🎵 Celiz Davidad 🎶

Próspero año y felicidad!

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Reminder: the Teamsters Union is striking and you shouldn’t be using Amazon to do any last-minute Christmas shopping. Also kill your Prime sub if you still have one.

Teamsters Launch Largest Strike Against Amazon in American History

(WASHINGTON) – The Teamsters will launch the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history beginning at 6 a.m. EST on Thurs., Dec. 19. The nationwide action f

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why stop at polio? let’s bring back the spanish flu! hell, let’s bring back the black death, baby!!!

RFK Jr.’s Lawyer Has Asked the FDA to Revoke Polio Vaccine Approval

Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.

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fuck Meta, fuck Instagram, and fuck Threads. i’ve been cross-posting all of my posts to Threads to meet people i know where they are but that shit is gonna stop. this is the last thing of mine that’s gonna go there 🚮

Exclusive | Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Donates $1 Million to Trump’s Inaugural Fund

The president-elect had blasted the tech tycoon during the presidential campaign, but ties have been improving.

wsj.com

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Oh hey, my former employer is in the news today! Always a good thing when that happens. Let me just take a big sip of coffee and see what this one is all about

CEO Attempted to Navigate Anti-LGBT Hate Incident By Telling Employees His Mentor Was a KKK Member

Recordings show that while he was the CEO of Digital Ocean, Yancey Spruill told staff that they should bend their values because "we love the company."

404media.co

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Well this is something I never would have expected: Foursquare has decided to open source their entire location dataset (over 100 million places) for anybody to use! And they’re committing to updating it monthly!

Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community

Stay up to date with the latest from Foursquare! Learn more about Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community

location.foursquare.com

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This is a great article about where newer social media networks like Bluesky and Threads fit into the existing ecosystem and it honestly mirrors a lot of how I feel about the current state of things, too. I still like Mastodon for a niche kind of community, and I’m committed to federating my posts there, but Bluesky really has become the place that feels like it “has the juice”.

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This new law is good. Cars parked up against an intersection obscure pedestrians until it’s too late, and drivers simply don’t look. Drivers in CA killed over 7000 people in 2023. This law will literally save lives but won’t someone think of the parking spaces???

New California law aims to improve pedestrian safety by changing parking rules

California's new law prohibits both personal and commercial vehicles from parking or stopping within 20 feet of any marked or unmarked crosswalk anywhere in the state. The law applies to curbs whether they’re red striped or not.

nbcsandiego.com

Arizona USPS boxes last week, Portland ballot boxes this week. Definitely vote early, but also track your ballot! The city can tell you if they’ve received it or not and you can request a new one if necessary. People out there want to silence you; don’t let them!

Ballot drop boxes in Vancouver and Portland targeted by arson

Ballot drop boxes in Vancouver and Portland were targeted by arson this morning.

columbian.com

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i’ve been waiting for AGES to share this #xoxofest talk with people who weren’t there. i can’t tell you what it’s about without spoiling it. just watch it (but maybe skip the first minute or two, they follow a brief recap that isn’t included)

Cabel Sasser’s 2024 XOXO Talk

“Don’t waste this. Keep everyone guessing. Make me proud.” When Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser spoke at our second festival in 2013, the Mac software company had just started venturing into games by funding the studio behind Firewatch, an indie blockbuster that launched Panic’s games publishing business and, eventually, the Playdate handheld console. See the artwork in this talk, and more, at Cabel’s new Wes Cook Archive: https://wescook.art/ Cabel's XOXO 2013 talk: https://xoxofest.com/2013/videos/cabel-sasser/ His excellent blog: https://cabel.com/ Panic: https://panic.com/ Playdate: https://play.date/ Follow Cabel on Mastodon: https://social.panic.com/@cabel — Recorded in August 2024 at XOXO, an experimental festival in Portland, Oregon for independent artists and creators who work online. For more, visit https://xoxofest.com. Video production by No Sunrise Wasted Captions by White Coat Captioning Intro music: "For Her" by Lidérc, from Pixabay

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