MJ

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Meet a winner! 🎬 "WHEN I LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND" by Queline Meadows took home the 1st place prize in the 2025 Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest!

Let its poetic mix of film, music, and text reflecting on the passage of time inspire your entry for the 2026 contest!

📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2026-public-domain-day-remix-contest

#PublicDomain #Filmmaking #Contest @internetarchive

Christmas night approaches after the rain in Ripon, California

An analemma is a plot of the position of the Sun as viewed from a fixed position on Earth at the same clock time every day for an entire year.

The lowest point of the analemma occurs close to the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere.

http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/ap130922.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma
5/n

🚨 THE FINAL FOUR 🚨

We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide!

🗳️ Cast your ballot: https://twsu.forms.app/wpit25-semifinals

Although we've officially been in winter mode here the past couple of weeks, the #mbstorm outlook for tonight into tomorrow will certainly make it a blizzard-y winter wonderland. Enough snow for plenty of snowballs but will be kinda cold for them to hold together very well as snow becomes more grainy or powdery the colder it gets.

At least @emmamckeon had some fun with them during her recent visit to Switzerland (she needed to wear her entire wardrobe to keep warm):

https://mastodon.social/@emmamckeon@kilogram.makeup/115701106795643877

After last year's absence due to the #CanadaPost strike in 2024, was greeted with the thirty-nineth annual #Xmas card from my old neighbour today.
It's entitled "Christmas Day" and was a pleasant surprise to see after the last four, which cycled through the Sundays of Advent via different coloured candles that were inscribed in English, German, Latvian, then English once more.
Glad to see another card, as I've always enjoyed them. #Christmas #ChristmasDay #ChristmasCard #Tradition #Handmade

Zuckerberg has blown 77 billion – enough money to revitalize entire countries – on an idea so overwhelmingly, obviously stupid that I have never once heard anyone, from the Thanksgiving avuncular table to the most wretched depths of social media, say they liked it or even tried it. He was so sure that it would revolutionize the world that he renamed his extremely famous company after it. And now he's on to the next thing that he's so very, very sure about.

The world needs direction from sober people who aim to improve the human condition, not the whims of a handful of billionaire princelings who absolutely, positively cannot be dissuaded from failing at unprecedented scale while chasing their own vainglory off the edge of a cliff.

#PPOD: NASA’s Europa Clipper captured this image of a starfield — and the planet Uranus — on Nov. 5, 2025, while experimenting with one of its two stellar reference units. These star-tracking cameras are used for maintaining spacecraft orientation. Within the camera’s field of view — representing 0.1% of the whole sky around the spacecraft — Uranus is visible as a larger dot near the left side of the image. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#planetaryscience #space #science

Have just watched the latest
@soallipodcast ( https://youtu.be/-Y-pPfC2jXw ) where @allisimpson has a rather "spicy" chat (at times) with her mum, @angiemsimpson , and we learn a few more embarrassing stories of Alli.
@codysimpson factors into the conversation a few times, but there was no discussion of Angie's now ex-husband, and father to Cody, Alli, & Tom -- Brad -- although, she did mention the divorce. Quite the family, these Simpsons.
Angie Simpson: Mother-Daughter Mayhem - SO ALLI THE PODCAST

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