2025: Web pages vanished. Links broke. Public data disappeared. But the Internet Archive kept the receipts.

From investigations by The New Yorker and The New York Times to video features from the BBC and CNN, these stories show why preserving the web became one of the year’s defining information battles. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/12/22/top-news-stories-about-the-internet-archive-2025/

Guess what — Mastodon & @bbcmicrobot are in the news.

BBCMicroBot is a fun bot that started off on Twitter in February 2020 — although it is on Mastodon now.

People send it BASIC code — and it runs it and posts the result!

Many use it to create "pixel-art"

BBCMicroBot migrated over to the Fediverse in Nov 2022, as part of the Twitter-migration.

Read more here:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/bbc_micro_bot/

#BBCBasic #BBCMicro #Fediverse #Mastodon #PixelArt #RetroComputing #TwitterMigration #VintageComputing

For the Record: #Canadian #Mastodon achieved the 500 signatures required for certification on ePetition #e4769 in just under 37hrs.

Use this as a point of pride when you're sharing and encouraging people to sign over the next 88 days!

EN: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4769
FR: https://www.noscommunes.ca/petitions/fr/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4769

*difference between the official start of the petition listed, and the timestamp on toot about 500 signatures -- EDT
#CdnPoli #CanPoli #Fediverse #TwitterMigration #Government

“Wound Man” is an illustration which first appeared in European surgical texts during the Middle Ages. It laid out schematically the various wounds a person might suffer in battle or in accidents, with accompanying text stating treatments. Tag yourself as a wound. 😂

#histmed #medhist #histodon #histodons #twitterstorians #twitter #twittermigration #history #medical #medieval

I spent some time at my old place in Toronto today.

Can’t say I miss that town much, but I can’t complain either; it was pretty good to me over the years: mugged once, a not bad career, relationships. And for people as young as I once was (and their new baby), it’s still got the hotness.

I understand.

There are parts I still enjoy.

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#stratford #toronto #photography #art #mural #city #AltTxt

Are Warner Bros on Mastodon? 😁 Someone uploaded this two-minute crew video which features a lot of wonderful behind-the-scenes material from Coyote Vs Acme. This is what $70m can get you. The designs are great and so much work went into this.

This video has been published on X and YouTube but Warner Bros are taking it down wherever they find it.

The disturbing thing about oil company's profit is that it's surprisingly dependent on war in the Middle East.

Bichler and Nitzan have been showing this fact for decades, but it's still not widely know. Here's an update.

https://capitalaspower.com/2023/11/bichler-nitzan-blood-and-oil-in-the-orient-a-2023-update/