2025-11-12 17:24:12
Looks like we're getting our rep sworn in today, after 7 weeks of GOP illegally not seating her
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/12/adelita-grijalva-arizona-swearing-in
Looks like we're getting our rep sworn in today, after 7 weeks of GOP illegally not seating her
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/12/adelita-grijalva-arizona-swearing-in
One year into corps system reform, Ukraine's military still faces major hurdles: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/one-year-into-corps-system.html
リレー自身も、IDはしばらく覚えておいて、既にリレーしたActivityは転送しないようにしないといけないんだけど、まあ、面倒くさいよね! \(^o^)/
@… tis the season!! (northern hemisphere)
The toy aisle is still full of gender bias. Here's how to navigate it these holidays
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-toy-aisle-full-gender-bias.html
‼️Die #Petition
"Gesetzlich verankerter Maßnahmeplan zur Einhaltung der Pariser Klimaziele bis spätestens 2035 vom 14.08.2025"
hat bisher 190 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29810 Unterschriften bis zum 07.01.2026.
Deal to end US shutdown would also allow some Republican senators to seek $500,000 for January 6 probe (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/deal-end-us-shutdown-would-also-allow-some-republican-senators-seek-500000-2025-11-11/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p107#a251111p107
Maybe a good opportunity to illustrate the purpose of one of the more uncommon packages in #ThingUmbrella: The https://thi.ng/hex package provides hexadecimal formatters for a variety of word sizes (4-64 bits) and also a…
The NBA takes full control of NBA TV and the NBA App for the first time since 2008, after ending its partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/new-nba-tv-nba-app-2025-…
@axbom@axbom.meJa schön. Einmal hin, alles drin. #Ivermectin, Post-Vac, #Frequenzmedizin - ein Rundum-Sorglos-Paket. https://impfkongress.de/
Incredible if you think about it , 20 drones, none were intercepted...
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/hannover_weser-leinegebiet/celle-drohnen-ueber-kaserne-gesichtet-polize…
"Rise in Chinese off-grid coal plants in Indonesia belies pledge to end fossil fuel support"
#Indonesia #FossilFuels #Energy
Das Wort "gutmütig" ist manchmal viel zu schlecht konnotiert und wird dann für Menschen benutzt, die sich angeblich alles treudoof gefallen lassen.
Dabei ist das im Grunde so eine feine, wundervolle Charaktereigenschaft: guten Gemüts zu sein, hach!
In Pocatello, Idaho, a law passed in 1912 provided that "The carrying
of concealed weapons is forbidden, unless same are exhibited to public view."
🦨 'Rotten egg' gas could be the answer to treating nail infections, say scientists
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-rotten-egg-gas-infections-scientists.html
Der Chefredakteur der DNN freut sich, dass die Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Rechtsextremen und Konservativen im #Staddrat so gut funktioniert und erklärt einen guten ÖPNV gleich noch zu einem linksgrünen Ideologieprojekt.
Das, was ich an mir selbst und an anderen beobachte, deutet eindeutig darauf hin, dass das Jahr 2025 nun offiziell das Jahr des #Struggle ist
.gov #DNS notes
On 2025-01-19 there were two "biden" names, bidenlibrary and bidenwhitehouse. Not so unusual. Associated names for Obama and Trump were also there and remain still. These are exec branch names but the agency responsible for them is the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
As of today, there are four additional "trump" labels in the …
Do you have a long running calculation freezing up your shiny app? {callr} or {crew} might help: https://discindo.org/post/asynchronous-execution-in-shiny/
Sources: CoinGecko, a prominent crypto market data and analytics company, is considering a sale at a ~$500M valuation, after starting the sales process in 2025 (Will Canny/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/01/
Voor het geval dat dit nieuws u nog niet had bereikt: De strijd voor anderhalve graad is (tijdelijk) verloren - NRC
https://archive.ph/TFDeS
Someone reminded me of this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyuFLU2Zqz0
November 6:
Bell*> posts $4.5 Billion-with-a-B profit in Q3
November 12:
Bell> Due to uh… infrastructure investments… yeah… we're uh… going to charge you more for your internet service starting in February. Also—remember—there are no comparable internet services, so you can't really leave.
(*yes, /that/ Bell; they're still here in Canada)
#Kernbeißer 🌰 knacken mit ihren kräftigen Schnäbeln mühelos die harten Schalen von #Steinobst und #Kernobst. Diese Vögel sind in Laub- und Mischwäldern sowie Parks und Gärten anzutreffen. Ich…
who spends his days in a stew of regret, dissatisfaction and deception
It appears that the latest version of Portainer has a significant bug that prevents access to the local server environment, meaning you cannot manage your containers.
Until the developers fix the problem, the temporary solution is to use version 2.20.2.
https://github.com/portainer/portainer
SNAP Recipients Crushed by Democrats Caving on Shutdown: “They Just Wasted It All”
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/12/government-shutdown-deal-snap-medicaid/
The Intercept infuriatingly put this article behind an email wall so I'm copying it …
#icfpsplash25 ... And now Satnam Singh @… with the first ICFP 2025 keynote.
Het lijkt me best goed nieuws dat er steeds meer "zwevende kiezers" zijn. Dat zijn mensen die hun oordeel baseren op actuele inzichten en niet op nostalgie of traditionele denkbeelden van hun 'bubble'.
Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
BLAKE: There's no reason why they should.
[Space City. Chairman is seen on communications screen]
ENFORCER: They'll be making planetfall anytime now.
CHAIRMAN: Excellent. Are all Largo's addicts so available?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/444
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The The:
🎵 Love Is Stronger Than Death
#TheThe
https://ianperson.bandcamp.com/track/love-is-stronger-than-death-tom-demo-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/5zOJ9QpCIPujTaZI1GV1n0
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.comTodd Bowles sends expletive-filled message to Buccaneers after collapse: 'Look in the f---ing mirror'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/todd-bowles-press…
Why in the hell is the state of Texas so hellbent on killing Robert Roberson?
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2025/11/11/state-pushes-back-on-evidentiary-hearing-in-robert-robersons-death-penalty-case/<…
#Epstein emails released by #Democrats from trove of 23,000 documents provided by Epstein’s estate to the House Oversight Committee. say not only did #Drumpf 'knew about the girls' but also spent time with a specific victim …
Cowboys' $22 million, 1st-round pick restored faith in team's draft reputation https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/13/cowboys-tyler-booker-1st-round-reputation/87750433007/<…
La gare de Paris Austerlitz en direction de Versailles Château, de St-Quentin en Yvelines et de Pontoise n'est pas desservie jusqu'Š 18h15.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : affaires oubliées (Š bord du train VIZE).
🤖 12/11 17:17
El domingo estšbamos en la terraza cubierta y totalmente cerrada de un bar con nuestra perra porque no nos dejaban entrar dentro, cuando ebtró a la terraza un tipo y se puso a fumar.
Le dijimos a la camarera que le indicara que estš prohibido y cuando se lo dijo su respuesta fue "quien se queja".
Quien. Porque, claro, el cumplimiento de la ley y el respeto a los demšs depende de lo que ese señor considere de que es merecedor de ser respetado
US Mint in Philadelphia to press final penny | AP News https://apnews.com/article/us-mint-treasury-department-penny-end-production-86139df5644ef0885a9baf98e9677380
2/2
Man könnte jetzt Argumentieren: Das ist "Männer wollen einer Frau die keine Ahnung hat neue Reifen andrehen", ich habe aber das Gefühl, dass es das nicht ist. Die drängen mich nicht, neue Reifen zu kaufen, die weigern sich richtig, die alten Sätze zu montieren.
NOCH kann ich die überzeugen, die Räder wenigstens zu wuchten, sodass ich die dann selber montieren kann, mach ich ja auch, obwohl ich solche Zeit gerne gegen Geld tausche.
Aber nur aus Neugierde: Weiss einer was da los ist?
kind of funny that emojis have only been around in Unicode for 15 years
Thank you @etherdiver.bsky.social for your "Other People's Music" blogs that helps me find great new-to-me music!
https://blog.bmann.ca/3m6pzjjct722k
LIVE | 4 MILLION DRONES A YEAR! Ukraine launches a LARGE-SCALE TECH FRONT against Russia!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/13/live-million-drones-a-year.html
Why do we have to import every American stupidity.
You are a governor of a sovereign, politically independent central bank of a sovereign state. Why do you want to invest in a financial system explicitly designed to undermine that sovereignty, other than “your stonks to the moon”?
https://czch.tv/8Ul7vC
リプライのフォワード、リレー経由とか、同じアクティビティが何回も届くのは普通にあるからねえ
Cal Raleigh’s Big ROM Dumper. Coming to a store near you!
Le trafic est fortement perturbé entre Paris Saint-Lazare et Versailles Rive Droite dans les 2 sens.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la ligne L.
Motif : affaires oubliées (Š bord du train en gare de Versailles-Rive-Droite).
🤖 13/11 18:30
Been in-depth studying the PDF file format spec for the past few days... it's mind boggling that this format with its capacity for monstrous complexity managed to become the de-facto standard for modern documents. So many questionable decisions & undue flexibility in there (in the wrong places) making even a simple task of reliable metadata extraction (for example) incredibly hard... I understand and value flexibility, but not at this cost! Guess I will have to keep on using one of t…
Lebanon faces betrayal in Trump’s secret Israel ‘side-letter’ deal - Canary
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/12/11/lebanon-faces-betrayal-in-trump/
@axbom@axbom.meInside Republicans' new health bill (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/11/congress/whats-in-the-gop-health-bill-00689950
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p36#a251213p36
Los Angeles <--> Legal noses
-- anagrama
Secret spider societies reveal surprising brain differences
#spiders
CNN plans a multiplatform initiative called CNN Creators, hoping to attract a younger audience, starting with a 30-minute weekly program on CNN International (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thed…
{constructive} prints code that can be used to recreate R objects. Like dput, but better... #rstats
would it be unfair to some people who would have to resign even when it later comes to light that they’re innocent?
yes, but that absolutely doesn’t matter in any way—the chance that they’re guilty is a way bigger threat to the functioning of high offices and an ongoing distraction https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115537904470408038
Snufkin is often seen as a free spirit who values personal freedom and dislikes material possessions or hierarchical control. He is a carefree, anti-establishment character who despises private property and the trappings of capitalism, as evidenced by his habit of tearing down "private property" signs.
He embodies a philosophy of simplicity, independence, and living in harmony with nature, making him appear anti-hierarchical and anti-capitalist in spirit. This aligns with hi…
Latin American VC funding rose 14.3% YoY in 2025 to $4.1B, with early-stage investment up 31.9% YoY to nearly $2B and late-stage/growth deals reaching $1.63B (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/vcs-bullish-latam-startup-…
Bengals-Packers takeaways: Green Bay outlasts Cincinnati, spoils Joe Flacco's Bengals debut https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6711684/2025/10/12/bengals-vs-packers-takeaways-results-nfl/
Democracy dies behind closed doors...
https://mastodon.social/@chatcontrol/115539210365913782
Trump Is Losing the Reasonable Majority (E. J. Dionne Jr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/opinion/trump-swing-voters-approval-rating.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8U8.7NyA.S0wcW8QgISiu
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p32#a251213p32
needless to say even a whiff of possible pedophilia should be an immediate resignation
functioning democracies should have an extremely high standard for politicians in high offices, independent of any legal action
there's plenty of other people who can do the job which don't come with the baggage
(yes I know that the word "functioning" is doing a lot of work here)
Judge blocks massive logging project in southern Montana | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-blocks-massive-logging-project-in-southern-montana/
Le trafic est ralenti de Juvisy vers Dourdan et de Juvisy vers Saint-Martin d'Étampes.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : panne de signalisation (dysfonctionnement des feux de signalisation dans le secteur de Brétigny).
🤖 12/11 18:47
A look at censorship at student papers in Texas, Iowa, and Oklahoma; at two colleges, students started independent papers after conflicts with administrators (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/news/one-battle-after-another-student-news…
How to watch Vikings vs. Cowboys: TV channel and streaming options for December 14 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6877901/2025/12/10/how-to-watch-vikings-vs-cowboys-tv-channel-and-streaming-options-for-december…
@… tipped me of to the best rsync tip. Always . at the end of your paths to remove the "is this gonna sync the directory and it's contents or the contents of this directory" ambiguity
`rsync -avsPW host:/path/. data/.`
(how the hell did I typo the original version of this? Fixed.)
If the world loves Moomins so much, then live like them, wander free, share what you have, no kings, no borders, only friends and adventures.
#Moomins #Moomin90s #90s
Cornell's № 15 Sergio Zapata competes for the ball with Brown's № 5 Mathias Hille
#photo #photography #sports
So are there any powerful people who aren’t pedophiles?
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115537830039844784
Stefanik calls on feds to ramp up bid-rigging probe of Hochul homecare contract after 'bombshell' email emerges (Rich Calder/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/13/us-news/stefanik-calls-on-doj-to-ramp-up-probe-of-hochuls-homecare-program-following-bombshell-email-revelation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p33#a251213p33
The OpenAI deal gives Disney a fair amount of oversight and control over how its IP is used, including a joint steering committee to monitor user creations (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/openai-disney-sora
‘Major Win For Justice’: Maryland Lawmakers Celebrate Release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
https://washingtoncurrent.substack.com/p/major-win-for-justice-maryland-lawmakers
Oh wow the thing hat everybody knew the whole time has been substantiated and it will have no consequences whatsoever
We love our hardworking men and women in America, incredible people, the best in the world. But let’s be honest, folks, we’re really standing up for capitalism. That’s the engine, the driver. Without it, America wouldn’t be winning, it’d be a disaster. Total disaster.
--💩 Tonald J. Drump 💩
#Satire #USA
The U.S. stock market lags behind dozens of countries, even in a year of record highs (Steve Kopack/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/sp500-stocks-lags-dozens-countries-rcna243088
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p108#a251111p108
🫰 The Trump administration's authoritarian house of cards is starting to fall down
https://www.lawdork.com/p/abrego-garcia-letitia-james-indiana-redistricting
Still getting replies from the radical helmet deniers (and blocking them), amazing stuff.
It's basically like climate change deniers—including the same type of websites that are full of biased "science" tailored to support their argument that "helmets are actually worse".
Please get a life and leave me alone.
Do you think governments should provide a Universal Basic Income (UBI), a guaranteed monthly payment for everyone, regardless of employment status?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income
Pepsi Gave Walmart Special Discounts, Biden-Era FTC Alleged | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/pepsi-gave-walmart-special-discounts-biden-era-ftc-alleged
Trump moves on D.C. golf courses with notice that jeopardizes lease (Rick Maese/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/13/trump-dc-golf-national-links-trust/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p39#a251213p39
Sony Music reports Q2 revenue up 21% YoY to ~$3.51B, operating income up 28% to ~$749M; Sony Pictures' revenue down 3% to ~$2.24B, operating income fell to $90M (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/sony-quarterly-earning…
I’ve always felt a deep resentment toward the wealthy, not just for their excessive privilege, but for how they hoard resources that could ease so much human suffering. It infuriates me that their fortunes grow while people sleep on the streets and struggle to survive another day.
I believe everyone deserves the fundamentals that make life dignified, secure housing, nourishment, healthcare, education, and fair social support. No one should have to beg for what should already belong to …
Crypto scams received $14B on-chain in 2025, up from 2024's $12B and potentially rising to $17B as more wallets are found; impersonation scams jumped 1,400% (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/crypto-scams-2026/
Poor countries paying billions more to cover debts than they receive to fight climate crisis | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/aid-climate-debt-africa-decarbonisation-b2843274.html
The Nobel Peace Prize Just Surrendered to Trump (Jeet Heer/The Nation)
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-nobel-peace-prize-maria-corina-machado/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p59#a251013p59
The more I study capitalism, the more I realize it is a system structured to divide people. It uses the state and economic institutions strategically to keep the working majority fragmented and powerless, preventing them from uniting against their common exploitation.
It’s wrong, deeply wrong, that capitalism enslaves people not only economically but socially and politically. It steals freedom and dignity, forcing the overwhelming majority to serve the selfish interests of a tiny rulin…
The OpenAI deal gives Disney a fair amount of oversight and control over how its IP is used, including a joint steering committee to monitor user creations (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/openai-disney-sora
White House responds to newly released Epstein emails (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-government-shutdown-house-vote-aca-schlossberg-live-updates-rcna242798/rcrd93045?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/251112/p63#a251112p63
Anarcho-capitalists genuinely blow my mind. Their ignorance of the wider anarchist movement is astounding.
#Ancap