@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-16 16:22:52
Iran had been enriching uranium up to 60% purity
— a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels
— after Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers in 2018.
Tehran long has maintained its atomic program is peaceful, though the West and the IAEA say Iran had an organized nuclear weapons program up until 2003.
Iran says it is no longer enriching uranium at any of its nuclear sites;
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-16 07:22:11
Day 23: Thi Bui
Indirect CW: parental neglect, war, intergenerational trauma
Bui is the author of "The Best We Could Do", a graphic memoir which explores her relationship with her parents and unpacks some of the intergenerational trauma coming out of the Vietnam War. It has a lot of wisdom to offer about both dealing with troubled parents as a 1.5th-generation immigrant, and it delves deeply into her parents' histories in Vietnam and the complexities of the situation there both in the north and in the south. It's beautifully illustrated and very nicely plotted together given all the disparate threads it is working with.
I haven't read any of Bui's other work, but it looks like she's published a picture book for kids as well as a series of short comics during the pandemic. Besides Oseman who also writes non-illustrated fiction and the two manga artists Ice mentioned, Bui is the first graphic novel author I've included here, but I've actually got quite a few of them in my longer list, one of whom may make it into the 30 I'll include in this thread. These days I'm reading a bunch of graphic novels since they're easy to get through, and the variety of stories and perspectives in that space is wonderful these days, with a huge array of indie stuff that probably never would have gotten off the ground in traditional publishing/comics spaces.
#30AuthorsNoMen
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-17 23:01:23
YouTube says it will no longer give data to US Billboard charts after January 16, saying Billboard's ranking formula doesn't count ad-supported streams fairly (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/yout
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-10-17 23:41:44
Public hospital procedure for gastroscopy and colonoscopy. Husband is on a disability pension but that is not relevant in this case.
Obviously he has to take the prep beforehand - which he needs to get from a chemist as TCH no longer supplies it as part of the procedure??? - and it costs about $39 for the 3 sachets he has to take beforehand.
Okay, now we can afford this but it seems to me that it could be quite a stumbling block for those who can't.
Don't get me w…
@Jaffa@social.linux.pizza2025-11-16 10:15:54
It's got to the point in the year where I can't put off doing the self-assessment tax returns any longer.
It's not too hard - I know where to get all the numbers, but it's always interesting to see how close my rough & ready spreadsheet will be to the amount actually owed.
Not that I object to paying taxes: #WhishyLiberalLefty
@jonquark@mastodon.org.uk2025-11-16 20:29:34
@… explains why Mastodon feels like it has a much brighter future than legacy social media really well here:
https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/115560976942889…
@Xexyz@mastodon.me.uk2025-12-15 14:29:25
The Crew Motorfest: on the horizon
The new Crew game has joined Game Pass, so I thought I'd give it a go. At first it felt like I was playing Forza Horizon 2, but after a while it felt more like Forza Horizon 4. It's just so familiar, but with a slightly worse driving model, and more unlikeable characters in longer cut scenes. I've still got a third of FH4 and most of FH5 to complete, but maybe I'll get around to trying this some day - through probably they'll turn …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-17 00:26:50
Sending women who get abortions to prison for decades.
Outlawing IUDs.
Sharply restricting in-vitro fertilization.
These are the strictest abortion prohibitions and punishments in the nation being considered by South Carolina lawmakers,
even as opponents of the procedure are divided over how far to go.
The bill faces a long legislative path and uncertain prospects, even if it clears the state Senate subcommittee that’s reviewing it.
But the measure up for a …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-10-16 18:15:58
Meta opted out of the MRC's annual auditing program for brand safety in September; it still holds MRC accreditation for metrics including video viewability (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/meta-withdraws-mrc-brand-safety-audits…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-14 18:52:50
Politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and bypass invasive laws.
Their solution?
Entirely ban the use of VPNs.
Yes, really.
As of this writing, Wisconsin lawmakers are escalating their war on privacy
by targeting VPNs in the name of “protecting children”
in A.B. 105/S.B. 130.
It’s an age verification bill
that requires all websites distributing material that could conceivabl…
