@mcfate lost the bank tellers. Harsh.

@phase2 TIL I learned the world includes something called "Coffee Crisp" which I require immediately

@northernbassist smartest or dumbest dragonfly

@JolieSaboteuse Tune in Tomorrow

@Jezibaba Spriggans

@EnochianEntropy yeah you need to pick up the pace.

Korshak, always a good read, calls out a cogent Estonian report, "laying out how the coalition can and should win the war by 2026 at the latest. I recommend reading it in detail because — am I anthropomorphizing here? — like the Estonian stereotype it’s logical, straightforward, direct, pragmatic, and written in English better than the overwhelming majority of native speakers can manage."

#ukraine

https://medium.com/@Stefan.Korshak/december-16-day-661-sturm-und-drang-clever-estonians-missile-records-5696a18a9d7a

and the report (pdf, 24pp):
https://www.offidocs.com/public/?v=ext&pdfurl=https://kaitseministeerium.ee/sites/default/files/setting_transatlantic_defence_up_for_success_0.pdf

/nosanitize

@tyghebright @Anemone
Highly recommend! Can recommend some!
#libraryTourist

@sheseala designed by Jack Daniels

@LlamaMountainStudioArts managed to leave the outside door cracked open after a midnight dog emergency. So that happened.❄️
Starting with decaf?! How's that work?

@RickASamuelson huh. Any connection to Wet Leg I wonder. Aren't they from that island?

@vicky_temperton Hi and welcome from the US , doing some regenerative agricultural on the side, so restoring diversity on a little patch. Maybe check out @LlamaMountainStudioArts? And others.

This AP picture is showing up on news sites with bylines like, "Dr. bandages an amputated limb", which misses that the doctor, Alexis Cholov, is also an amputee and his arm in the picture is a bionic from a Ukrainian company. A proper story about him at the link.
#ukraine #biotech

https://www.kaaltv.com/news/health-science/the-war-took-away-their-limbs-now-bionic-prostheses-empower-wounded-ukrainian-soldiers/

@mcfate huh.
Thought they were a floater

@sfleetucker @Stonekettle yeah that boy's getting a high colonic

Meanwhile in the United "Free Speech" States of America, From July 2021 to June 2023, PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans recorded 5,894 instances of book bans across 41 states and 247 public school districts.

Because some folks get frightened by ideas.

3/2 (okay I'll stop)

https://pen.org/spineless-shelves/

E.g.; Russian state investigators have raided the Zakharov publishing house, because they have refused to stop selling the work of popular Russian-Georgian author Boris Akunin (real name Grigori Chkhartishvili). Akunin, who currently lives in the UK, has been added to a list of “terrorists and extremists” because of his comments condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and his actions in co-founding the TrueRussia Foundation, which attempts to aid those affected by the invasion.
2/2

The Association of American Publishers, which oversees the AAP International Freedom to Publish | Jeri Laber Award, given annually in recognition of a publisher outside of the United States that has "demonstrated courage and fortitude in defending freedom of expression," this year issued the award to “all publishing houses in multiple countries and regions of the world that continued to publish in the face of increased government pressure, harassment, and threats."
1/2
https://publishers.org/news/aap-international-freedom-to-publish-award-recognizes-publishers-under-attack-across-the-globe/

Hmmm. Wikimedia getting into the stackexchange business, sorta. YMMV, caveat emptor, etc. I predict flamewars in the Discussion sections.

"Wikifunctions is a Wikimedia project for everyone to collaboratively create and maintain a library of code functions"
#code #crowdsource

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/12/05/introducing-wikifunctions-first-wikimedia-project-to-launch-in-a-decade-creates-new-forms-of-knowledge

/nosanitize

@mcfate ...and then set up a CS gaslighting team.

"Inundated with complaints, Tesla created "Diversion Team" to cancel appointments."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/tesla-exaggerated-ev-range-so-much-that-drivers-thought-cars-were-broken/