Tootfinder

🍗 Is gen Z’s love of fried chicken pushing Britain to ‘peak pizza’?
... as a🦊I approve!
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/30/is-gen-zs-love-of-fried-chicken-pushing-britain-to-peak-pizza

Is gen Z’s love of fried chicken pushing Britain to ‘peak pizza’?
Competition intensifies as former chief of Domino’s says days of ‘massive growth’ are over

#ThursdayFiveList
We are in the midst of winter.
Days shrink, light thins, breath fogs the air
Today, our music does the same.
Tiny sparks against the cold.
Blink and you miss them.
Short days.
Short songs.
#TheShortestSongs

FanDuel and CME Group launch a prediction market app called FanDuel Predicts in five US states, just days after DraftKings rolled out a similar product (Denitsa Tsekova/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12…

Hey everyone in the northern hemisphere: all the days get longer after today, whoo hoo!!! 🌞😃

spotify calling anna's archive "anti-copyright extremists" is extra lulzy considering that spotify built their initial library on pirated mp3s. https://gizmodo.com/early-spotify-was-built-on-pirated-mp3-files-new-book-1795109991

Early Spotify Was Built on Pirated MP3 Files, New Book Claims
Spotify has been the biggest music streaming service to find a business model that users can accept, and music labels can endure. In its early days, the

Keon Coleman landing spots: After wild Bills press conference, team has no choice but to deal receiver

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/keon-coleman-landing-spots-bills-press-con…

Only few more days and we can stop being Jupiter, right?

"And the older your hardware gets, the more likely it will no longer run on Windows or macOS, support will expire, and updates will be missing.With Linux, the opposite is true."
Well.
The opposite of that would be: "And the older your hardware gets, the more likely it will run with Linux"
Hm. No.
Getting Linux for a e.g. HW-wise perfectly running PPC Macs is getting hard these Days. To say the least.
Let's be real: Linux will help a lot, …

“Clawdbot can execute Terminal commands, write scripts on the fly and execute them…”
I don’t even trust myself to do those things before 9am most days!
I just do not think I can be convinced I need a “digital assistant” in my life or on my computers (with elevated permissions, no less). https://mastodon…

Federico Viticci :ticciseal: (@viticci@macstories.net)
Attached: 1 image An open-source AI agent running on my Mac mini server is the most fun and productive experience I've had with AI in a while. Clawdbot by @steipete@mastodon.social is a personal AI assistant that you can infinitely tweak. It runs in any messaging app (!), has access to skills, can use the shell, and – notably – it can improve itself because it's completely open to customization. My story: Clawdbot Showed Me What the Future of Personal AI Assistants Looks Like https://ww…

...on second thought, maybe let's not go to the mountains this weekend. Avalanche danger Level 4 (2nd highest grade) pretty much everywhere. Bit of an unusual sight, but not surprised, we had quite a lot of fresh snow in past three days, and it's getting too warm too quickly...
#Avalanche #Map

⚡ UKRAINE recaptured 201 km² in 5 days – the largest gain in 2.5 years #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/ukraine-recaptured-km-in-days.html

It’s possible that this is nothing at all, and they’ll be back in full force today. Nobody, and I mean nobody, has suggested that maybe the worst is over.
But we took the days of relative rest anyway. Hmm, “rest” is wrong: mutual aid, food distribution, school observers, people doing laundry for those who can’t go to a laundromat — that continues unabated. But there’s a definite feeling of catching our breath for a moment.
3/

"Talking to faculty about AI assistants in academic databases" https://liaisonlife.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/talking-to-faculty-about-ai-assistants-in-academic-databases/

In #Knysna, Südafrika, drohen in wenigen Tagen die #Wasserhähne trocken zu bleiben.
Der #Akkerkloof-Damm ist nur noch zu 15 Prozent gefüllt. Jahrzehntelange Versäumnisse bei

Knysna has days of water left after years of ‘long-term operational and management failures’
Unless there’s a significant downpour in Knysna, residents’ taps will run dry within days. An intergovernmental team is looking at urgent interventions, but the crisis has been brewing for years.

My question "Why is Avi NOT on Mastodon" has been upvoted but not answered. Who knows, maybe he will show up on this platform in the next few days.

Framed #1412
🎥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛
https://framed.wtf

Framed - The daily movie guessing game
Guess the movie from 6 frames. Come back each day to see if you can guess the daily movie, or visit the archive to answer the days that you missed!

"Misery for many as rain falls for 40 days in some parts of UK"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Weather

When Lee and Yang suggested there's a fundamental difference between left and right, Pauli wrote:
"Ich glaube aber nicht, daß der Herrgott ein schwacher Linkshänder ist."
(I do not believe that the Lord is a weak left-hander.)
Two days later, Wu's experiment showed that Lee and Yang were correct!
-- @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social

Jacopo Bertolotti (@jacopobertolotti.com)
There is a infinite number of stories about Pauli being horrible to other (especially younger) Physicists. His word carried a lot of weight, so people were either psychologically crushed, or abandoned promising research lines just because he liked to be a assh@le.

Missing 66-Year-old Hiker is Found–Even After 2-Week Search was Called Off in New Zealand https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/missing-66-year-old-hiker-is-found-even-after-2-week-search-was-called-off-in-nz/

Missing 66-Year-old Hiker is Found–Even After 2-Week Search was Called Off in New Zealand
A 66-year-old who'd been missing in New Zealand backcountry for two weeks has now been found, even as search was called off three days ago.

I've been doing these trivia quizzes for a couple days in the *Canberra Daily* but they're also available in the *The New Daily*
Trivia Puzzles Online - Play Free Daily Trivia
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/puzzles/quiz-trivia

Trivia Puzzles Online - Play Free Daily Trivia | The New Daily
Play Trivia puzzles for free online at The New Daily. Enjoy a new Trivia puzzle every day. Play online for free now.

Been out cycling for an hour. The last days were a mix of cold and sunshine. The result is that my usual loop has quite a couple of sections which are fully iced. And no rough ice but plain like a mirror.
We decided to change the course a little bit. But it was fine to get out

Inside Giants coach John Harbaugh's frantic first 30 days in office https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7047459/2026/02/15/giants-john-harbaugh-frantic-first-30-days/

12/17/25 ☀️ AM: ... There are just three days left for legislating ... (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/archive/121725-am/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p4#a251217p4

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci:
🎵 Christmas Eve
#GorkysZygoticMynci
#Christmas)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Sharon Jones and the Dap‐Kings:
🎵 8 Days (Of Hanukkah)
#SharonJonesandtheDapKings
https://open.spotify.com/track/4062PAj5KS0FpoCyx6tFPC

In a few days the #PlanetNine hypothesis - first published on 20 Jan 2016 in the paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-6256/151/2/22 ("EVIDENCE FOR A DISTANT GIANT PLANET IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM", yes, they shouted it in all caps) - will turn 10 years old. The proposed big outer solar system inhabitant has never been found: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/planet-9-x-y-edge-of-solar-system reviews the situation.

One of these days, friend
One of us will be proved wrong
And one of us right.
#dailyhaikuprompt - friend
#haiku
#poem

A couple days ago I was doing a work call in my car (I’m in I.T.) and after I hung up my daughter, who was in the car with me said:
“I could NEVER do your job…I don’t mean the technical part.”
😂

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115905711246518413
Cyprus, probably the most corrupt country in Europe. For a while they were profitably selling EU citizenship to Russian gangsters - this is from just 4 days ago:

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Phoenix:
🎵 Too Young
#NowPlaying #Phoenix
https://phoenixcityall-stars.bandcamp.com/track/seven-days-is-too-long
https://open.spotify.com/track/2THkQauDWMvJgXFGPY4iKB

Adelaide Festival board resigns and Adelaide Writers’ Week cancelled after 180 authors pull out in protest of Zionist board decision to disinvite Palestinian author.
Remember this, if you’re a Zionist: like the Nazis before you, you are committing genocide, you are on the wrong side of history, and – as long as there are people of good moral character and conscience to oppose you – you will not succeed. Your only allies are the MAGAs of the world and those too spineless to stand up to …

Adelaide Writers' Week cancelled after week of escalating controversy around author Randa Abdel-Fattah
The remaining members of the Adelaide Festival board will step down and this year's Writers' Week event has been cancelled, after days of furore regarding the decision to cancel a scheduled appearance by Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah.

California DMV says a California administrative law judge recently ruled Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/california-judge-say…

California judge rules that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around Autopilot
An administrative law judge in California ruled Tesla's license to sell or manufacture cars in the state should be suspended for 30 days.

Oh, today is my iTunes Match-iversary. I pay Apple ~$30CAD annually for them to store and sync my 30 year old digital music collection of like ... 100GB and counting.
Looks like I wrote about it last year.
Most of my music purchases are Bandcamp/indie these days and uploaded to my home Ampache. https://bsky.ap…

Boris (@bmann.ca)
Oh, today is my iTunes Match-iversary. I pay Apple ~$30CAD annually for them to store and sync my 30 year old digital music collection of like ... 100GB and counting. Looks like I wrote about it last year. Most of my music purchases are Bandcamp/indie these days and uploaded to my home Ampache.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Kelly Finnigan:
🎵 I Can't Wait (For Christmas Time)
#KellyFinnigan
#newRelease 🆕 single
#Christmas)

You still have time to submit a proposal for GÉANT Security Days 2026 🔒
Now in its third year, #SecurityDays brings together the #Research & #Education community to share real-world experiences…

As promised, over the past few days I've been scouting for accounts on several Mastodon and Pixelfed servers related to #AltProcess photography & print making, in the hope to get more insights into each others' work/creations/experiences, successes & failures etc. Obviously the list below (in A-Z order) is NOT meant to be exhaustive in any way or form and if you feel you'd…

Sonnet 022 - XXII
My glass shall not persuade me I am old,
So long as youth and thou are of one date;
But when in thee time's furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.
For all that beauty that doth cover thee,
Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,
Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me:
How can I then be elder than thou art?
O! therefore love, be of thyself so wary
As I, not for myself, but for thee wil…

The Santa Barbara City Council passed a temporary rent freeze
in a 4-3 vote on Tuesday,
putting a halt on rent increases for up to a year
while the City Council works toward drafting a more permanent rent stabilization ordinance
to be considered later in 2026. 
The rent increase moratorium will be officially adopted next week
and would be effective 30 days later.
The council failed to get the fifth vote needed to qualify for an urgency ordinance,

Santa Barbara City Council Passes Temporary Rent Freeze
Council will adopt a moratorium on rent increases while the city drafts a permanent rent cap.

"Climate whiplash by 2064: Study projects extreme swings in rainfall and drought for Asia"
#Asia #Climate #ClimateChange

Climate whiplash by 2064: Study projects extreme swings in rainfall and drought for Asia
A climate study led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in collaboration with an international research team, reveals that under a high-emission scenario, the Northern Hemisphere summer monsoons region will undergo extreme weather events starting in 2064. Asia and broader tropical regions will face frequent "subseasonal whiplash" events, characterized by extreme downpours and dry spells alternating every 30 to 90 days which trigger climate disruptions with catastrophi…

"Another way to look at it is, what was the biggest battery in the world a few years ago, which was the Hornsdale South Australian Tesla big battery … households right now are installing the equivalent of a Hornsdale big battery every three and a half days."
https://www.

Household battery uptake booms on back of 'game-changer' rebate
Battery uptake is booming since the federal government rebate came into effect in July. Here's what you need to know if you are thinking of joining the thousands of Australians adding a battery to their home solar systems.

one of these days they'll invent optimizing compilers

Good.
Never submit to #Racisn, or to the apologists of #Genocide.
#GazaGenocide

Adelaide Writers' Week cancelled after week of escalating controversy around author Randa Abdel-Fattah
The remaining members of the Adelaide Festival board will step down and this year's Writers' Week event has been cancelled, after days of furore regarding the decision to cancel a scheduled appearance by Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah.

Sajal Nigam will speak on 'Guardon: Bringing Kubernetes Guardrails Directly to the Developer’s Browser' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x

got nerdsniped by a very old and widely-repeated falsehood in the postgres docs https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/6b35a3d6-ec6d-2c34-dc10-7cfa739c27cc@dotat.at

[PATCH] doc: correct history of Julian dates
Julian dates as a count of days were introduced into astronomy by Herschel; Scaliger's Julian Period was a way to …

There are three kinds of #winter days:
1. Days when the heat pump can handle both floor heating and domestic hot water heating.
2. Days when I let it initially heat DHW in the morning, then switch to using an electric heating element, while the heat pump focuses on floor heating.
3. Days when I use electric DHW heating entirely, and let the heat pump start running floor heating from early morning hours.
#HeatPump

bsdinstall: Mount /dev and /packages after using the shell to partition disks
<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/f63a8c0a0915a3eceac179d4d18b2c03b1319fa2> was a few days after FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE. For <

The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) said the project aims to loosen what it described as the “chokehold” of US technology companies on Europe, which is damaging democracy.
https://www.eurasiareview.com/30122025-german-hackers-call-fo…

Two days, two Mar-a-Lago summits – but Trump still has nothing concrete to announce on Ukraine or Gaza | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-netanyahu-ukraine-zelensky-gaza-b2891841.html

Once upon a time there was a DOS user who saw Unix, and saw that it was
good. After typing cp on his DOS machine at home, he downloaded GNU's
unix tools ported to DOS and installed them. He rm'd, cp'd, and mv'd
happily for many days, and upon finding elvis, he vi'd and was happy. After
a long day at work (on a Unix box) he came home, started editing a file,
and couldn't figure out why he couldn't suspend vi (w/ ctrl-z) to do
a comp…

You guys?
I get back to internet after 3 days in the field in Antarctica and this is going on?
What the actual hell? 😲
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/groenland/ingen-vil-doe-groenland-danmark-staar-alene-ved-et-amerikansk-angreb-siger-eksperter

Selten hat der Song so gut gepasst, wie zu den jetzigen Zeiten.
"Greed and jealousy, each equal, all your days now dark"
"Monsters rule your world, are you too scared to understand?"
"We put our faith in maniacs, the triumph of the will
We kill for money, wealth and lust, for this we should be damned
We are disease upon the world, brotherhood of man"

Having depression is kinda like being a shitty werewolf. When you feel okay, you have to remember the depression is still in there, and can try to jump out at any time. Even with meds. Even on my most medicated days, I can still feel the depression in there, clawing to come to the surface

Attention dog lovers: The audiobook for "Arthur" is available for the next 2 days for FREE for Audible members!
▶️ "Arthur: The Dog Who Crossed a Jungle to Find a Home" by Mikael Lindnord on Audible https://www.audible.com/pd/B078251LNZ?source_code=AS…

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Ron B. down here in Fla. (I'm still here at the moment) charts a positive path:
#Bible

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Sofia Grant:
🎵 congregation (a christmas song)
#SofiaGrant
#Christmas)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Free Design:
🎵 Close Your Mouth (It’s Christmas)
#TheFreeDesign
#Christmas)

Ugh the aliexpress wiimotes are shit
Wtf are you supposed to do these days if all your original wiimotes broke?

Void, with encrypted zfs, on the laptop. Dwm or River. Tbc. But Gentoo dwm is calling. Possibly before Tet.
NixOS with KDE on the N150. Solid.
Finally revived the old NUC with Slackware Tilers: Sway and Mango. And Dank. Great stuff.
The Thinkpad that wasn't sold: this will be either TileOS or Hatchery, a project by Troutcobbler, an old ArchLabs mate. Both Debian, tiling wm's. Cool. Check them out.
The last one will be after Tet, I'm off for a couple of days fo…

Some of the little things that don’t make the news really get under my skin.
ICE agents blow through stop signs, speed, drive recklessly.
They take off their license plates (illegally), cover their license plates (illegally), •swap• license plates (illegally). We’ve seen the same vehicle show up with different plates on different days There are photos circulating of the •same• license plate number on multiple ICE vehicles side by side.

From @… posting as @cilip.bsky.social€ :
Call for volunteers to join the National Committee for IFLA World Library & Information Congress in London 2027!
Would you like to help organise the the sector's biggest global event & can spare 1-3 days per month? Check out our website: ow.ly/Wbhp50Y4Xic
Deadline to apply: Midnight 13 Feb

Appfigures: Sora 2 had ~6M iOS downloads as of December 2025; the Android version, available since early November 2025, had ~3.1M, as growth begins to slow (Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/openais-sora-2-started-off-scorching-hot-t…

Trump’s weeklong ceasefire? Russia says 2 days: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/30/trumps-weeklong-ceasefire-russia-says.html

#Bridgyfed seems to have had a little hiccup a few days ago. I just noticed some posts missing on BS and a reply I got no notification of.

The ephemeral nature of digital music and "albums" is a bit annoying. You can listen to an album today that has more or fewer songs than it had two days ago.
Also, artists can republish the same song on the same album, effectively replacing the original over time. Next thing you know, your folk album is a dubstep nightmare (hyperbole).

Good Morning #Canada
My daily post is being hijacked once again, but this should be the last time.
The #MastoCanadaGOV initiative now has it's own account for communication and you can follow the team at @…. They have some updates scheduled over the next few days on progress towards convincing our government and politicians to build a presence in the Fediverse. It's small contribution towards #DigitalSovereignty by getting our government contacts off of U.S. controlled social media platforms.
My account can now return to meeting your expectation of Canadian trivia and bad puns... and the occasional beaver joke.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MastodonCanada
https://thecanadian.social/@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Jonathan Jeremiah:
🎵 Counting Down The Days
#NowPlaying #JonathanJeremiah
https://open.spotify.com/track/7rKApsKYCMfXZTrHkXn3Kv

The Purged -- The purge began late Friday night, four days after Donald Trump returned to the White House. (Franklin Foer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/02/trump-federal-worker-layoffs-interviews/685321/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p42#a260111p42

#Framed #1379
🎥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛
https://framed.wtf

Framed - The daily movie guessing game
Guess the movie from 6 frames. Come back each day to see if you can guess the daily movie, or visit the archive to answer the days that you missed!

Colts to start Philip Rivers vs. Seahawks just days after QB came out of retirement https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-to-start-philip-rivers-vs-seahawks-just-days-after-qb-came-out-of-retirement

Filing: Gemini says its COO, CFO, and chief legal officer are leaving; Cameron Winklevoss will take on many of the COO's duties; GEMI falls 10% (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/

Gemini ousts COO, CFO and Chief Legal Officer after international exit and 25% staff cuts
Newly public crypto exchange Gemini Space Station Inc. said Marshall Beard, Dan Chen and Tyler Meade are departing effective immediately, days after the company announced plans to shut down U.K., EU and Australia operations and refocus on the U.S. and prediction markets.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Alton Ellis:
🎵 Christmas Coming
#AltonEllis
#Christmas)

What’s disgusting is speaking to a Palestinian person in Gaza this way.
Maybe Mastodon server admins should check for basic humanity before allowing people on. Unless that’s not a necessary prerequisite for membership in your community, of course. https://lemmy.ca/comment/20336687

The latest pain report is that the new medication and increased old medication may be working because the last two days I managed to sleep until 5am (instead of 3am) and the pain hasn’t been as bad.
10 more days until my next appointment where they electrify a needle inserted into my back.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Lakecia Benjamin & Christie Dashiell:
🎵 The Christmas Song
#LakeciaBenjamin #ChristieDashiell
#Christmas)

"Six Days on the Road" (the Taj Mahal version) but about academic reading loads instead of trucking:
I'm takin' little white pills, and my eyes are open wide.
I just read some Hayden White.
I've been reading everything in sight.
Six days in the library and I'm gonna see my baby tonight.

Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/us/politics/trump-david-gentile-commutation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E8.ZEMZ.EBMHEuKQ8-9j

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Led Zeppelin:
🎵 Dancing Days
#LedZeppelin
https://bethhart.bandcamp.com/track/dancing-days-when-the-levee-breaks-medley
https://open.spotify.com/track/43doj2cumGe9W3p5ucxaoH

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
James Brown:
🎵 Soulful Christmas
#JamesBrown
#Christmas)

Winter's got one advantage: you don't need an evaporative radiator for a while, so you can shave your head.
Then you can rediscover that shaved head causes enough friction to make your winter cap turn to the other side while taking it off, for a few days after.

Deaths in ICE detention centers have occurred with increasing frequency in recent months,
as Trump’s immigration crackdown floods these facilities with record numbers of detainees.
At least 30 people died in detention last year
— the highest in two decades
— and Lunas Campos is one of four who died in the first nine days of 2026 alone, according to ICE,
which posts information about all detainee deaths on its website.
Medical examiner believes death of Ca…

Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.

Joe Burrow 'can't see' world in which he's not with Bengals in 2026 https://www.nfl.com/news/joe-burrow-can-t-see-world-in-which-he-s-not-with-bengals-in-2026

France's far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack (Agence France-Presse)
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/frances-far-right-leader-hit-by-egg-days-after-flour-attack/?taid=692b820cc7c4790001ebfc5b&utm_campaign=trueAnthem: Trending Content
http://www.memeorandum.com/251129/p55#a251129p55

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Khruangbin:
🎵 Christmas Time Is Here
#Khruangbin
#Christmas)

Good Morning #Canada
I'm heading out for an early appointment in Barrie and checking the weather to see if I'll have any challenges during my 25 minute travel time. I'll have to navigate through some snow - duh... it's Barrie - but poorly salted roads is also an issue. Ontario is facing a shortage of road salt due to an early onset of winter, higher than normal ice days early in the season and some supply chain issues with suppliers. Currently municipalities are trying to stretch their dwindling supply and mixing in more sand. That additional use of sand will result in higher cleaning costs in the spring but right now it's their only option. Suppliers believe that they'll solve the shortage problem in the next month but for now, get used to a bit more snow on your roads.
#CanadaIsAwesome #WinterDriving #SlipnSlide
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/road-salt-shortage-ontario-cities-ration-supply-9.7041857

The article glosses over Mayor Frey’s catastrophic ineffectiveness in the days after the murder of George Floyd, but that’s a detail that stands out just to a local; the large argument of the piece rings true.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Chris Rea:
🎵 Driving Home for Christmas
#ChrisRea 🖤
#Christmas)

Binance says it will convert $1B in stablecoin reserves held in its SAFU into bitcoin over the next 30 days, as BTC falls to its lowest level since November (Danny Park/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/387786/binance-1-billion-safu-bitcoin

Donald Trump has set free a private equity executive
who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence
for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme
that defrauded thousands of victims.
David Gentile, 59, a onetime resident of Nassau County, N.Y.,
had reported to prison on Nov. 14, and was released on Wednesday, according to Bureau of Prisons records and a White House official who was not authorized to discuss the matter.
Mr…

Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
David Gentile had been found guilty for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.

Trump met with David Ellison days before saying he's 'not involved' in Paramount's Netflix battle (Brian Stelter/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/02/12/media/david-ellison-trump-paramount-netflix-wbd
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p94#a260212p94

Good Morning #Canada
Prior to #Retirement, my last decade in business was spent in #ReverseLogistics managing major retail and manufacturer clients. Reverse logistics is the process of managing customer returns with the objective of recapturing value or ensure proper disposal. It covers activities like processing, restocking where possible, repairs, recycling, refurbishing, and resale. This company in Mississauga is relatively small in comparison to a Costco or Walmart reverse logistics warehouse but it provides a glimpse at a little known industry that deals with $880B USD in annual returns worldwide. The industry is about to enter its busiest period as consumers will return over 10% of Christmas purchases, close to 30% for clothing. In the 1st 3 months of 2026 some remarketing B2B auction sites (representing Costco, Walmart, Home Depot, Target, etc) will be liquidating 100 tractor trailer loads per day, including stuff you're about to unwrap in a few days.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://www.orilliamatters.com/ontario-news/inside-the-warehouse-poised-to-process-your-unwanted-gifts-this-holiday-11646891

Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization (Paul Wedding/WFAA-TV)
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/tarrant-county/disabled-son-ice-detainee-dies-30-days-hospitalization/287-0b945cda-2cd7-4abd-8eb9-d81117e47061
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p138#a260123p138

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/115973764612876036
ICE is crashing out these days because,
for all their increased budget, and fancy SS style trench coats, and raids on elementary schools,
they still can't match the scaled efficie…

xAI rolls out Grok Imagine 1.0, which it says can generate 720p 10-second videos with better audio, and says Imagine generated 1.245B videos in the past 30 days (@…)
https://x.com/xai/status/2018164753810…

xAI (@xai) on X
Introducing Grok Imagine 1.0, our biggest leap yet. 1.0 unlocks 10-second videos, 720p resolution, and dramatically better audio. Imagine has generated 1.245 billion videos in the last 30 days alone. Try it now: https://t.co/zGhs9czkC5

DHS is two months into its occupation of Minneapolis,
where ICE and Border Patrol agents are operating with shocking lawlessness and appalling brutality.
They have terrorized residents regardless of their immigration status,
abducted children,
and killed US citizens in broad daylight.
On January 7, an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good,
and just 17 days later, Alex Pretti,
a 37-year-old ICU nurse, was shot repeatedly in …

'Abolish ICE' is imperative
It's also better politics than you might think.

Key Trump officials appeared on Fox networks more than 1,300 times in the first 300 days of his second term (Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/key-trump-officials-appeared-fox-networks-more-1300-times-first-300-days-his-presidency
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p63#a251204p63

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Tokyoidaho:
🎵 Other Places, Other Days
#Tokyoidaho
https://tokyoidaho.bandcamp.com/track/other-places-other-days
https://open.spotify.com/track/4pSAy0UoC4W8Sxb255gWyW

Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence (Kenneth P. Vogel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/us/politics/trump-david-gentile-commutation.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251129/p58#a251129p58

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Freddie King:
🎵 Christmas Tears
#FreddieKing
#Christmas)