Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
PINDER: Checkmate, Egrorian!
EGRORIAN: How dare you!
PINDER: Checkmate... checkmate...
EGRORIAN: [To game board] Recall the last six moves. [Computer replays a sequence of moves]
PINDER: [Sighing] Oh...
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/160
Train supprimé :
-KUMO départ Paris Lyon 17H45, arrivée Montereau.
Risque d'affluence Š bord du train suivant.
Prochain train Š circuler :
-Pour les voyageurs Š destination des gares de Melun, Bois-le-Roi, Fontainebleau-Avon, Moret-Veneux-les-Sablons :
- Train GAMO départ Paris- Lyon 18h14, arrivée Montargis 19h56. Pour les voyageurs Š destination des gares de Saint-Mammès et Montereau : -- Train KUMO départ Paris- Lyon 18H44, arrivée Montereau19H44.
Pou…
I haven't been actively installing feeders this winter with bird flu outbreaks in our rural area, but decided to put out a seed cylinder for the holiday. This resulted in a common, but new bird for me: a Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker.
#birding
Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla and Ethan Choi disavow Keith Rabois' comments on an ICE shooting; Rabois said the man killed by agents was committing a "felony" (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/vino
Charles Duhigg distinguishes "organizing" from "mobilizing" in a way I did not know before, then proceeds to classify a series of movements/campaigns as one or the other.
The real criterion seems to be how much decentralisation and local autonomy/focus a movement allows and fosters.
Reminds me of #Wikimedia chapters, which can be extremely varied and contain all sorts …
Israel appeared to break with the Trump administration on Saturday
over the makeup of a key committee to oversee the cease-fire in Gaza.
On Friday, the White House announced a “Gaza Executive Board”
to help administer the truce between Israel and Hamas.
The members included
Ali al-Thawadi, a senior Qatari official,
and Hakan Fidan, the Turkish foreign minister,
among others.
While an Israeli businessman is on the committee,
Israeli of…
Train supprimé :
-KUMO départ Paris Lyon 17H45, arrivée Montereau 18h45.
Risque d'affluence Š bord du train suivant.
Prochain train Š circuler :
-Pour les voyageurs Š destination des gares de Melun, Bois-le-Roi, Fontainebleau-Avon, Moret-Veneux-les-Sablons :
- Train GAMO départ Paris- Lyon 18h14, arrivée Montargis 19h56. Pour les voyageurs Š destination des gares de Saint-Mammès et Montereau : -- Train KUMO départ Paris- Lyon 18H44, arrivée Montereau19H44.
#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
GAN: Bounty hunters. They're going to sell us to the Federation.
BLAKE: But how did they get on board?
AVON: Gan?
VILA: It wasn't Gan's fault.
GAN: They used me and a voice synthesizer. It was very well planned.
In a state where organized labor is not known to be a major political force,
supporters of teachers, police, firefighters and other public sector workers rallied to force the repeal of a particularly ill-advised, if not downright mean, act of the Utah Legislature.
An ad hoc alliance of labor unions
-- not just those representing public sector workers
-- arose under the title of
"Protect Utah Workers".
It included unions whose members primarily work…