Happy Festivus!

Happy Festivus!

My dear friend Morda!
Tennessee Christmas by Amy Grant
Happy Holidays everyone!
#ukulele #cover #christmas #music
https://youtu.be/NmXJwc_XRd8

Many people recognize this composition
For example it's known as a #Christmas carol, "Carol of the Bells" in the USA
But the original title is "#Shchedryk"
Composed in #Ukraine by Mykola Leontovych about 110 years ago
The original lyrics tell a story of a swallow flying into a household at #NewYears. To sing of the wealth that will come in Springtime
Here it is symbolically performed in the machine hall of a thermal power plant destroyed by Russian strikes
RE: https://mastodon.online/@octothorpe/115735731258373543
I had such a crush on him
https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/
One of the best, messiest, and most human things I've read in a while.
It made me feel a little better about all the creative things I do badly.
Adding @WeirdWriter to the thread so they can read some of the comments people have left on this post.
A nerve had been struck here, in the best way.
Content Warning: a deeply disturbing article, as Ars Technica reports on the role of AI in yet another violent death https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/openai-refuses-to-say-where-chatgpt-logs-go-when-users-die/ Businesses putting money into this stuff, especially players like Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI, can’t be bailed out when people fully realize that AI is largely useless at best. We’ve been warning folks