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New Year Special
If anyone needs a last 2025 tax receipt, World Central Kitchen has a benefactor doubling all donations for their Gaza aid mission, up to $2million USD, ending tonight.
If you recall, 7 WCK aid volunteers were murdered when the IDF bombed their clearly marked convoy on an approved, demilitarized route in April, 2024.
I think it speaks volumes about the commitment of WCK and Chef Andres that they just laced up more boots and got them back on the ground in Gaza.
https://donate.wck.org/campaign/747111/donate?c_src=2025-site-eoy-gaza-popup
欧州で流行ってるDCT！とはいうが、そもMTがまだ主流の地域だから、シェアは雀の涙みたいなもんか
#LearnLockpickingWithAlice, lesson 1: Get yourself a decent starter set.
You'll want some good turning tools. My favorites are the red/white/blue set from Red Team Tools for a few reasons: they're a good range of thicknesses, they're color-coded, they're smooth, and the short ends are slimmed down for top of the keyway tensioning or for smaller locks. Turning tools are the most important part of your kit.
You'll want a couple good hooks. I recommend a thin-shank short hook, and a sturdy short/medium hook. The thin one will be your friend in tight keyways and for small locks. The sturdy one will let you bully most other locks.
Finally, you'll want a couple wave rakes. My favorites are the triple-peak w-shape and m-shape (in that order). They're easy to work with, don't get hung up on the keyway, and can be maneuvered to more precisely hit specific pins.
Oh, and you'll need some locks to practice on. Clear locks are great *for your first day*, but you'll run into trouble if you start to rely on seeing the pins. Grab some cheap Master No.3, Master No.140, and/or Brinks padlocks. They're satisfying to open, and they'll teach you the basics. Beware dollar store locks—the manufacturing is usually shit and some have plastic cores, which feel like garbage to pick, and break easily.
Everything else is icing on the cake.
Most starter sets will include a "city rake" or "L rake", and several other mostly useless picks. Ignore them. They're filler and you'll spend days just trying to find a valid reason to carry them—because they *have* to be good for *something*, right? ...right?
Here's the kit I currently recommend: https://www.redteamtools.com/learn-about-lockpicking-kit/ (with the book) It's $125, but it's solid, no fluff, and well made. I love the book, the turning tools are part of my everyday carry, and I use the picks whenever I teach lockpicking in person.
Disclaimer: 
@deviantollam (Red Team Tools' founder) is a friend of mine, but I don't recommend anything that I don't personally use.
🐹 IT WASN'T EVEN THAT FUNNY TO BEGIN WITH
🦝 Tragedy plus time equals comedy
The comedy: .
End-of-year feelings, is it optimism or is it the stubborn refusal to give up? They smell kinda similar
Anyway, stay strong Fedi, don't give up, never give up
길 가다 고양이 봄
#NewYearsEve is now trending across Mastodon
可不ェイン取る必要がある
New: Cop City RICO Cases Dismissed Years After 61 Activists Charged as Criminal Conspiracy
Racketeering charges against dozens indicted as co-conspirators in the Stop Cop City movement were dismissed yesterday marking a legal victory for the movement
Happy New Year's eve! I hope your 2026 is full of the good stuff! 🎉✨🥳
The ginger #cats dominate the bed.
Here’s an excellent interview @leolaporte.me@bsky.brid.gy did with Stewart Cheifet a dozen years ago that covers many of the main beats of his story.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdtH...
Triangulation 114: Stewart Che...
(are..... あれ..... 覚えました)
If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.
I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.
https://disconnect.blog/we-need-to-reassess-our-relationship-to-digital-tech/
ニュージランド領はUTC+13のトケラウからUTC-11のニウエまでタイムゾーン的な意味で広いんだなあ
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%82%B1%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A6
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A8
Privacy and control. My tech setup
Link: https://toidiu.com/blog/2025-12-25-privacy-and-control/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446938
This year was a busy year!
This year I wrote 28 articles for Privacy Guides, created 4 designs for our new merch store, started a new project you will soon hear more about, all while still working on my own projects as well. It was a busy year, but it was a good year.
May the next one bring even more new projects and community growth!
There will be many hard battles for privacy rights to fight in 2026. But together, there is nothing we cannot accomplish ✊💛
RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115815436545230779
Actual civilization-killer tech
I recognise these faces ❤️ - from bubbel.blue
It #whiskerswednesday #whiskers and theze my brofur Jean Luc’s magnificent whiskers #cats #CatsOfMastodon #FediPets
Me when American culture accuses me of being a pervert
There are three developments since 2019 that have significantly improved my life as a developer:
- SwiftUI. SwiftUI in 2019 was a game changer and while I can use UIKit without an issue, SwiftUI makes iOS dev more enjoyable for me.
- LLMs: Controversial but while I do not promote vibecoding, I believe LLMs can be used responsibly. They have found their place in my workflow and have helped me write code faster.
- SQLiteData 
@pointfreecoPoint-Free ! Finally makes CloudKit usable for me.
Added an LLM policy to nextest, with the goal of aiming for a higher standard of excellence than achievable without them
"... in contrast to Unix manual editions (which were formally numbered and give the Unix Research Editions their name) distributed software tapes were mostly a copy of whatever was at the time in the (single) Unix development computer."
Unix V4: The secret 1973 birthplace of "Works On My Machine."
(attn: 
@codinghorrorJeff Atwood )
先走ってる方向にはUTC+14があるんだけど最も遅いのはアメリカ領の島々のUTC-12みたい。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UTC_offsets#UTC%E2%88%9212:00,_Y
まだちょっと、重いかな？
New: Cop City RICO Cases Dismissed Years After 61 Activists Charged as Criminal Conspiracy
Racketeering charges against dozens indicted as co-conspirators in the Stop Cop City movement were dismissed yesterday marking a legal victory for the movement
TAG YOUR FUCKING 2026 SPOILERS
SOME OF US ARE STILL IN 2025
Puffin watching us yesterday like "wait a minute... thorough cleaning of the whole house... decorations going up... this means that PEOPLE are coming over soon! 😱"
올해도 같이 행복하자 우리 사랑둥이야
If you click on any of these,
it will bring you good luck for 2026 
Groff, Beastie, and I are celebrating Unboxing Day today! We're excited to build this beautiful lavender mini 
@frameworkcomputerFramework 
laptop and install FreeBSD on it!
I like the term 'traumatic masculinity' more than 'toxic masculinity'.
It provides greater clarity to both cause and effect. "Toxic masculinity" doesn't snap into existence fully formed, it is caused by the traumatizing way we raise men. And its effects are that it further traumatizes - women, men, everyone.
This term also provides real guidance to what healthy masculinity looks like (tho that's not for me to figure out). What parts of masculinity are not trauma responses? Lean into those.
睡眠時間脅威の一時間
わたなれみようかなぁ 
ねむ
If you click on any of these,
it will bring you good luck for 2026
#NewYearsEve is now trending across Mastodon
あけましておめでとうございます
ケモミミ美少女が生まれる間にはとてつもない過酷な行為があるんだろうなぁ
さすがに寝るる
ほぼ仮眠だけど
Em 
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Jenniferplusplus
＠次回例大祭 
の絲針紡🐬🤓 
