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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-09-06 17:47:09

Folk who've been following me for a long time will remember that last autumn I was posting pictures of doing the joinery for a new workshop. And then I went mad, and got ill, and for most of this year there's been no progress.
But my friend Lucy has been here for a week, and between the two of us the frame is now erected. Now I need to sort the timber stack (which hasn't been improving while I've been ill), erect a roof, and build some walls. But the bit I couldn't …

Lucy standing in front of the north end truss, which has just been erected and its tenons forced into their mortices with a Spanish windlass. The truss is held upright by temporary diagonal braces. Between the pillars, various carpentry tools lie on a very chaotic timber stack.
The footing of one pillar of the south end truss on an old tree stump. The reason the building is so crooked is because it's foundations are the stumps of four trees that were blown down in Storm Arwen.
General view of the newly erected frame from its north east corner. The chaotic pile of sawn timber runs through it from north to south. Beyond, the trees on the edges of the wood are still standing, but most of the centre was blown flat in the storm, and new young trees are only slowly beginning to grow through the remaining wreckage.
Looking down on the new frame from my bedroom window. One of the new top rails still needs to be cut to length, and there's at least one brace still missing (I'll add more if I think they're needed. This is enormous progress, and a weatherproof workshop will be a great improvement to my quality of life.
@cdarwin@c.im
2026-09-07 16:33:54

"The wheels are coming off."
"The IRS and Social Security are now run by the same person, which I think is a red flag, right?" Don Moynihan says.
"These are like two huge, complicated federal agencies, and one guy is running both of them."
Moynihan notes that a recent Inspector General report found that the agency is collecting much less revenue than it should from its audits.
Elon Musk's DOGE fired scores of tax audit specialists, …

The federal government is falling apart
Don Moynihan on what's been broken within the federal government.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-08-06 20:00:04

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012). 180 nodes, 45047 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_high_school_new#2012
@markhburton@mstdn.social
2026-08-08 09:59:23

This article is utter nonsense. The planning system does not prevent building.
1) The NPPF has a presumption for sustainable development, where 'sustainable' is nothing of the sort.
2) Sure councils can refuse planning applications but a) if they are the sponsors, why would they, and b) if they do then the planning inspectorate / Secretary of State will overturn the decision.
/contd.

Without radical planning reform, Burnham cannot build the houses he’s promising | LSE British Politics
Governments keep promising more houses, and keep failing to build them. If Burnham is to keep his promise, there needs to be a radical reform to planning rules.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-08-07 05:00:05

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012). 180 nodes, 45047 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_high_school_new#2012
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
2026-08-05 00:30:03

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Lucky LUCKY SHD 100 (6x7) English alt text: Black-and-white close-up photo of a motorcycle in display. The front of the motorcycle is turned slightly to the left. A round headlight and a clear windshield or windscreen stand in front of the handlebars and instrument area. The motorcycle has a round side mirror on the left side. The front wheel and tire tread are visible at the bottom, with the wheel angled slightly toward the camera. In the background, shelves or containers and other display it…
Lucky LUCKY SHD 100 (6x7) English alt text: Black-and-white photo. In the lower left, there is a metal grid or framework with many straight bars forming a rectangular shape. The framework looks like a small structure seen through foliage. In the right half, large arch-shaped branches and smaller twigs are in the foreground, partially covering the metal structure. The background is bright and mostly empty sky with thin branches and leaves. 中文 alt text： 黑白照片。画面左下有一段金属网格或框架结构，里面由许多直线杆组成，整体呈矩形。这个框…
Lucky LUCKY SHD 100 (6x7) English alt text: Black-and-white photo taken outdoors. A modern building fills the background, with many rectangular windows arranged in rows. In the foreground, a large wooden bench is centered, and a person is lying down on the bench. Dense bushes and small trees surround the bench, filling most of the lower half of the image. The person’s clothing appears light in tone, and the person is resting with their body lying horizontally on the bench. 中文 alt text： 黑白户外照片。…
Lucky LUCKY SHD 100 (6x7) English alt text: Black-and-white photo indoors or under a roof. In the foreground on the right, there are tall, thin bamboo stalks with visible nodes. The bamboo stalks are sharp and close to the camera. In the middle distance, there are several tables and chairs, but they are blurred, creating a sense of depth. Vertical wooden or structural elements frame the space. Bright light comes from the left side, and the background people, if present, are indistinct due to b…
@cdarwin@c.im
2026-10-06 16:34:36

US justice department officials on Monday announced the filing of
“denaturalization actions”
against more than three dozen people alleged to have committed such offenses
as “acting as an agent for a foreign government,
committing voluntary manslaughter,
and aggravated sodomy against a special‑needs man”.
The denaturalization requests in question were submitted in multiple federal courts
between 21 August and 2 October, according to the justice depart…

US justice department moves to strip citizenship of 40 naturalized citizens
Officials file ‘denaturalization actions’ against people accused of crimes in what they call ‘largest’ such initiative

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-08-07 17:00:20

twitter: Twitter followers (2010)
A directed network of following relationships from Twitter, from a snowball sample crawl across "quality" users in 2009. A directed edge (i, j) indicates that user i follows user j.
This network has 465017 nodes and 834797 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
network…

twitter: Twitter followers (2010). 465017 nodes, 834797 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/twitter
@cdarwin@c.im
2026-10-02 22:32:45

California Attorney General Rob Bonta today led a coalition of 26 states, counties, and cities
 in filing a lawsuit against the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
challenging its final rule weakening corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards for new passenger cars and light trucks.
Historically, NHTSA’s standards have reduced consumer costs by improving fuel efficiency for vehicles,
placed downward pressure on gas prices by reducing fuel cons…

Attorney General Bonta Files Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Rollback of Fuel Economy Standards
OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today led a coalition of 26 states, counties, and cities in filing a lawsuit against the

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-09-03 03:20:07

The Justice Department’s updated position stunned industry stakeholders.
The Department of Justice spent years favoring copyright owners.
That changed Wednesday.
With the Trump administration filing in support of OpenAI amid its legal fight with The New York Times,
the administration departed from the status quo position of Washington politicians
— one that had long cast its lot closer to the entertainment industry in matters of copyright legalities
— to …

‘Darn Unusual’ DOJ Filing Has the Trump Administration on Different Path
The administration's support for OpenAI in its legal fight against The New York Times departed from historic norms and could save AI companies billions of dollars.