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IT'S THE WEEKLY GOOD NEWS ROUNDUP - 11/16/25
Here’s a recap of all of the good things that have happened in the courts and elsewhere over the past week in our battle to defend our country from the ravages of the current administration, and to turn this ship around!
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Weekly Good News Roundup - 11/15/25
Here’s a recap of all of the good things that have happened over the past week in our battle to defend our country from the ravages of the current administration, and to turn this ship around!

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@sonjavan62/115907195588415214
Hier op Mastodon hadden we ook al zitten rekenen. Het CPB moet zich schamen dat organisaties als de Woonbond met uitleg moeten komen over de bizarre beeldvorming die plaatsvond.
Zo gaan we in Nederland niet met elkaar om. Zeker van een dienst die het moet hebben van -betrouwbare cijfers- mag je beter werk verwachten.
(Die vage CBS alinea maakte trouwens juist dat ik op zoek ging naar de cijfers.)

“Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world.."
Oh really?
1) Emissions of greenhouse gases are still rising
2) The degree of decoupling is far from enough
3) for the United Kingdom, the reduction 2015-2023 was -18.41%, average
-2.51% per year. To reach net zero emissions by 2050, an annual reduction of 10% is needed.
4) Those decoupling countries are not compensating for the growth in emissions elsewhere.

Decoupling …… again
An article appeared in The Guardian on Thursday, December 11th, entitled “Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds” 1. The Guardian appears…

From email:
> Parliament is going to debate the petition you signed – “Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy”.
> https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/744215
> The debate is scheduled for 9 February 2026.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ChoralEvensong
- Chichester Cathedral
Live from Chichester Cathedral, with music by Elgar, Wood, Ireland and Timothy Ravalde,
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002lqxl

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Elias RŸnnenfelt:
🎵 Love How It Feels
#EliasRønnenfelt
https://eliasronnenfelt.bandcamp.com/track/love-how-it-feels
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Fx3P9danCmSW1d8sZ9aAF

Successfully got the openSUSE Pi5 abomination booting off a WD VelociRaptor 10kRPM SATA hard drive that uses more power than the entire rest of the computer!
Things are different in openSUSE-aarch64 land compared to Raspbian:
1. videocore loads a grub executable, so it feels like a PC when it boots
2. there's no /boot/cmdline.txt (on mmcblk0p1 or elsewhere)
3. the usual `grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg` / update-grub command autodetects current root and silen…

As one might expect El Cheato appointed judges rule in favor of trump far more often than do judges appointed by prior presidents.
But the amount of that imbalance is beyond astounding.
From the NY Times:
"Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor"
Which causes me to repeat my suggestions, from year 2020, about how we can remove power from those judges by using a technique well practiced elsewhere - redefining jobs and "rubb…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Unclassified
- One Leg One Eye’s Listening Chair
Elizabeth Alker invites One Leg One Eye - aka Ian Lynch from Lankum - to the Unclassified Listening Chair to select a track that transports him elsewhere.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f76m

An interesting example of how a non-grid operator can achieve a (temporary) grid connection using a battery. Once the grid operator has made the permanent connections, the battery can be used elsewhere.
A temporary variant on contestable build that can be scaled further?

Provincie Noord-Holland helpt woningbouw met oplossing netcongestie
De provincie Noord-Holland stelt € 150.000 beschikbaar aan Woningcorporatie Parteon om de nieuwbouwwoningen aan de D. Doniastraat in Zaandam eerder op te kunnen leveren aan de bewoners.