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Current situation... Could be worse. Could be tenting... Heavy rain watch for the next dozen or so hours... Have a great finish to your year! It was... a year, eh. Ok to put it behind us.

Of course, my default will always be "keep things out of the government so those things can't be held hostage" but that's a longer term goal. First, understand the situation then figure out how to respond.
Now that everyone is good and scared, and realizing that a whole chunk of the population can suddenly go without food, I'm gonna remind everyone that the time to learn to grow food and forage is not *when the food runs out*. It's in the years before that.
Here's a fun place to start with foraging....
https://youtube.com/@blackforager

Ukrainian military warns of critical situation in Lyman amid Russian assaults: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/01/ukrainian-military-warns-of-critical.html

The #sunspot show goes on: now activity region (1)4274 - which caused a major geostorm last month - has returned onto the disk with the new number (1)4299. And immediately fired off an X1.9 #SolarFlare today: see #SDO HMI image - https://jsoc1.stanford.edu/data/hmi/images/latest/HMI_latest_Int_4096x4096.gif - of 18:11 UTC, i.e. exactly an hour ago.

Stupefied, the host, who had only handed the three teenagers knives and pumpkins a few moments before, surveyed the wreckage.
"Who could've guessed that the situation would degenerate so quickly?"

Local Hero.
"The head of a leading disability rights charity turned down an MBE in the New Year Honours over what she described as the "simply intolerable" situation facing disabled people in the UK."
"Tressa Burke, chief executive of the Glasgow Disability Alliance, was recognised by the prime minister for her services to people with disabilities."

Disabled charity chief condemns UK government as she rejects MBE
Tressa Burke, chief executive officer of the Glasgow Disability Alliance, says the situation facing disabled people in the UK is "simply intolerable".

Heard a TV news report say that the courts backlog started during Covid.
This completely papers over a situation that predates 2010 and is the responsibility of both main parties. Any small progress the previous government made in ten years was wiped out by the pandemic - but the underlying condition is why it's still not recovering.

The following “Dear Joe” email exchange is a hypothetical email colloquy
between an expert in military law and a fictional service member seeking advice on how to deal with the current situation.
The content is based on publicly reported facts, the Manual for Courts-Martial, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and the authors’ opinions.
Military law establishes a strong presumption that military orders are lawful and must be obeyed.
We do not counsel any military mem…

Dear JAG: What Do I Do if I Get Unlawful Orders to Blow Up Civilian Boats
Orders are presumed to be lawful, but that presumption is rebuttable rather than conclusive.

Maxx Crosby Gives Cryptic Response on Raiders Situation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-cryptic-response-situation/

Our NFL trade grades: Did the Eagles fix their CB situation with Alexander, Carter? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46201721/2025-nfl-trade-grades-deadline-latest-best-worst-deals

One of the most biting & memorable film monologues, inspired by the poetry of Antonio Machado, and delivered by "Jefe" near the end of Ridley Scott's The Counselor:
"Actions create consequences, which create new worlds, and they're all different [...] and hitherto unknown to us. They must have always been there. [...] I urge you to see the truth of the situation you are in. It is not for me to tell you what you should have done or not done. The world in which…

Because I do not see it repeated on my TL nearly enough:
To hell with the Trump regime for sending National Guard into DC for absolutely • no • reason • whatsoever • except inflaming the situation. They’ve been desperately waiting this whole time for something to blow up and some troops to get harmed so they’d have an excuse for more escalation. Hurting troops was the goal. The •goal•.
And now Epstein’s off the front page. They’ve got to be over the moon.

Totally normal situation:
Ruh 🐱 is eating from the bowl. Mr Ek 🐱 comes through the window. He walks up to the bowl. She notices him and stops eating to sniff his snout. Ek uses the opportunity to start eating the food. Ruh looks at me surprised.
After a minute, Ruh shouts at him. He answers with a hiss, and continues eating.
#cat

OK so this is multiple levels of cursed.
But I have the I-side L1$ enabled on the M33 now.
(record scratch) You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation... Time for a bit of an explainer.

NFL Insider Pours Cold Water On Rumored Cowboys Coaching Hire https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/brian-flores-cold-water-defensive-coordinator/

Every new initiative from Washington unfolds according to the same pattern:
a diplomatic cavalry charge against Ukraine,
which Kyiv, with other European capitals, manages to fend off.
They stabilise the situation but never actually win the battle.
This pattern will, no doubt, persist.
The White House presumes that it is impossible to force Russia to relinquish the territory that it already controls in Ukraine’s south or east.
The problem is that while reco…

Friends, if anybody could inform me about my home network setup problem, I'd greatly appreciate it!
Namely, I have a situation of a router (ISP's; I'm not given access to its configuration) that has a 2.5Gbit ethernet port, and two PCs that have 1Gbit ethernet cards (stock, on the motherboard).
To avoid running two ethernet cables across the room to the PCs, my idea was to get a switch and run one cable to the switch, and then two small cables from the switch to the P…

Hey everyone,
@…’s mom needs your help:
“My mother has been suffering from chronic diabetes, and some time ago, one of her toes had to be amputated. During the war, her condition has worsened, and she now relies on a walker to move. 💔
Today, she fell inside our tent, and her foot got injured again – it’s swollen and bruised badly…

Help Bara'a and her elderly parents in Gaza
My name is Bara'a El-Mughraby. Me and my older brother are the sole breadwinners for my family of five in Al-Shati refugee camp in North Gaza. Me, my elderly parents, my sister and my brother. For months, we have endured the unimaginable and did everything we can to survive, but now our situation worsened a lot and has become a matter of life or death. The constant bombardment and the recent evacuation orders from the IDF mean we have to leave our home—but we don't have the capabilities nor t…

The Latest on the Raiders' Quarterback Situation https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-latest-on-quarterback-situation

The side HDMI on my old plasma TV broke. After that it wont turn on. Not by the button or the remote. The TV situation is Black Friday solved (and I had decided to not buy anything this year), but it annoys me that I can't figure out why it's not turning on.
The sode port is not really needed, so I removed it completely. Can't find any physical damage, and it seems like everything has the correct voltages. Schematics would have been really useful, but I haven't found a…

Last photos from that day in the #schwarzwald . We were pretty surprised when we came to the part shown in the last photo. The #moss was so thick there - like a real carpet! I've never seen such before. I found it pretty hard to get a photo that pays the situation justice. I hope it works for …

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-citizen-assaulted-border-patrol-chicago-halloween-parade-b2853988.html
“The agents threatened to break his window if he didn’t m…

Researching inequality – Northampton and the Welfare State https://edintone.com/northampton_1913-24/ Two studies of Northampton in 1913 and 1924 give us a detailed view of working-class life

Researching inequality - Northampton and the Welfare State - Miscellanea Edintone
Two studies of Northampton in 1913 and 1924 give us a detailed view of working-class life and economic conditions in on the eve of World War 1 and the somewhat better situation in the early 1920s.

Brock Purdy injury update: 49ers QB will not start vs. Giants amid 'sensitive situation' with turf toe

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/brock-purdy-injury-up…

havent paid much attention to the ireland situation but its delightfully appropriate she looks like shes wearing the facemasks and molds they made for 2000s fantasy blockbusters 24/7

Sometimes I think people’s opposition (well justified!!) to war and the military-industrial complex makes them lose sight of the class dynamics in this situation:
Military service, National Guard and otherwise, is a pathway to steady pay, to health care, to something resembling the fabled middle class. The Trump crowd can treat the National Guard members as if they are disposable political props in large part because of class dynamics.

“In my view, we are in an all-out war with the United States, Israel, and Europe;
they do not want our country to stand on its own feet,”
Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said in an interview with the Supreme Leader’s official website.
He said the current war is worse than the Iraq war in the 1980s.
“If one understands it properly,
this war is far more complex and more difficult than that war.”
“In the war with Iraq, the situation was clear;
the…

Iran says it is in full-scale war with US, Israel and Europe
Iran’s president said on Saturday the country is facing a full-scale confrontation with the United States, Israel, and Europe, describing the pressure campaign against Tehran as more complex and damaging than the Iran–Iraq war.

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

Man I hate the new language for a task one doesn't want to do — "aversive”.
Primary reason is that it externalizes the problem. It's fixed mindset framing, that something _else_ has to change to make the situation better, that it's the task's fault for being aversive, instead of our own for not working on the aversion to the needed task.
We have a bad habit lately of attributing relational traits to the party in a relationship, rather than to the relationship itself and it weakens our thinking about things. Noticing this pattern really changes how you think, because you can start attributing things better and noticing the contexts — and contexts are often things that can be changed!

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
AVON: Right. How's our armament situation?
SOOLIN: Good as it'll ever be. We couldn't hold off a Federation patrol with it, but we knew that already.
https://blake.torpidity.ne…

It's incredible that the EU can't agree to seize all Russian assets for the war in Ukraine. The situation is dire for both Ukraine and Europe but still formal/legal arguments prevail it seems, while we are at war already in many ways.
#russia #eu

"""
[…] Paradoxically, the more a population grew, the more precious it became, as it offered a supply of cheap labour, and by lowering costs allowed a greater expansion of production and trade. In this infinitely open labour market, the ‘fundamental price’, which for Turgot meant a subsistence level for workers, and the price determined by supply and demand ended up as the same thing. A country was all the more commercially competitive for having at its disposal the virtual wealth that a large population represented.
Confinement was therefore a clumsy error, and an economic one at that: there was no sense in trying to suppress poverty by taking it out of the economic circuit and providing for a poor population by charitable means. To do that was merely to hide poverty, and suppress an important section of the population, which was always a given wealth. Rather than helping the poor escape their provisionally indigent situation, charity condemned them to it, and dangerously so, by putting a brake on the labour market in a period of crisis. What was required was to palliate the high cost of products with cheaper labour, and to make up for their scarcity by a new industrial and agricultural effort. The only reasonable remedy was to reinsert the population in the circuit of production, being sure to place labour in areas where manpower was most scarce. The use of paupers, vagabonds, exiles and émigrés of any description was one of the secrets of wealth in the competition between nations. […]
Confinement was to be criticised because of the effects it had on the labour market, but also because like all other traditional forms of charity, it constituted a dangerous form of finance. As had been the case in the Middle Ages, the classical era had constantly attempted to look after the needs of the poor by a system of foundations. This implied that a section of the land capital and revenues were out of circulation. In a definitive manner too, as the concern was to avoid the commercialisation of assistance to the poor, so judicial measures had been taken to ensure that this wealth never went back into circulation. But as time passed, their usefulness diminished: the economic situation changed, and so did the nature of poverty.
«Society does not always have the same needs. The nature and distribution of property, the divisions between the different orders of the people, opinions, customs, the occupations of the majority of the population, the climate itself, diseases and all the other accidents of human life are in constant change. New needs come into being, and old ones disappear.» [Turgot, Encyclopédie]
The definitive character of a foundation was in contradiction with the variable and changing nature of the accidental needs to which it was designed to respond. The wealth that it immobilised was never put back into circulation, but more wealth was to be created as new needs appeared. The result was that the proportion of funds and revenues removed from circulation constantly increased, while that of production fell in consequence. The only possible result was increased poverty, and a need for more foundations. The process could continue indefinitely, and the fear was that one day ‘the ever increasing number of foundations might absorb all private funds and all private property’. When closely examined, classical forms of assistance were a cause of poverty, bringing a progressive immobilisation that was like the slow death of productive wealth:
«If all the men who have ever lived had been given a tomb, sooner or later some of those sterile monuments would have been dug up in order to find land to cultivate, and it would have become necessary to stir the ashes of the dead in order to feed the living.» [Turgot, Lettre Š Trudaine sur le Limousin]
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Saints WR Chris Olave to miss finale after blood clot was detected in his lung https://www.nfl.com/news/saints-wr-chris-olave-to-miss-finale-after-blood-clot-was-detected-in-his-lung

@… years ago I read a "helpful hint" that boiled down to: form a sensible association between (a) the person's name and (b) the situation in which you met. A word-association-thing to ensure that you will you remember the name.
I tried it, once, at parties. At the second party, I clearly and correctly remembered the person's name:
Frid…

If you've been wondering how the poltiical situation in DE & across the EU is developing, some new research shows how the normalisation of the far-right . both by parties & the media has enabled their successes across the EU:
«The research highlighted the need for mainstream political parties to carve out their own discourses, said Saldivia Gonzatti, particularly when it came to topics such as migration and integration, rather than constantly trail after the far right»
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/18/german-far-right-setting-agenda-as-opponents-amplify-its-ideas-study-finds

Amazon have a comedy movie about an armed hostage situation at a wedding, "Bride Hard". And I thought "oh, was this one of those instances where two movies with the same premise somehow went into production at the same time?".
But no, this was announced after the release of "Shotgun Wedding" like they expect it to become a genre.

"famine, overwhelming injuries, a collapsed healthcare system, and outbreaks of disease fuelled by the destruction of water and sanitation infrastructure.
"On top of that, [there is] restricted access to humanitarian aid. This is a very fatal combination, so that makes [the situation] catastrophic and beyond words."
"If you take the famine and combine it with a mental health problem which we see is rampant, then the situation is a crisis for generations to come…

Gaza health crisis will last for 'generations', WHO chief warns
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tells the BBC far more aid is needed to start tackling mounting problems in Gaza.

Jason Proctor is contributing to the CBC's live blog scroll from a legal perspective and as always, his stuff is illumniating. I'll paste his report in because it can get lost in the scroll easily.
"Creditors circle as cull looms
Jason Proctor
I'm Jason Proctor, a reporter with CBC Vancouver who looked into a series of lawsuits facing the owners of Universal Ostrich Farms Inc.
Last month, I spoke with three creditors who are watching today's ruling with great interest — and some skin in the game.
B.C. Supreme Court judges have ordered the farm's owners to repay debts worth more than $250,000 but, up until now, the creditors have been unable to collect. Normally in this kind of situation, a creditor would move to seize the business assets — but because in this case those assets are ostriches caught up in a legal battle, that's been challenging, to say the least.
All three creditors have tried to garnish the CFIA to intercept any money the agency might pay out as compensation for killing the birds (potentially up to $3,000 a bird, the CFIA says) but it remains to be seen how that will work. The creditors, however, told me they are anxious to recoup their losses.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/bc-ostrich-farm-decision-scoc-9.6968394?ts=1762453717737

From a friend in #Gaza on the food situation today:
"For the variety of foods, there are not a lot of items. For example, no meats, no chicken, no eggs. If we find them, the price is insane. For example if we want to bring two chickens for my family, I think we need more than 130$."
If you are supporting families in Gaza, please keep doing it. If you're not yet supporting fa…

The Raiders' Handling of Jakobi Meyers Has Caused a Stir https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-pete-carroll-tyler-lockett-jakobi-meyers-brock-bowers

There’s this place we walk by pretty regularly that’s semi-abandoned. The owner replaces parts when they fall off and there are lights at night, but the front and back have been left to return to nature. This chunk of land is worth ~$2.5M Canadian, so an odd situation. Anyhow, I enjoy watching the progress of the informal small-scale rewilding.
#Photography

Take the high-in-Correspondence Virtual Adept out of their mage circle and then throw the remaining members into a situation that would benefit from, well, Correspondence.
»I don't have Correspondence.«
»Do you have Correspondence?«
»Does anyone?«
At one point they asked the 15 yo little sister of my missing VA if she knows about computers. 😂 (She doesn't). And even pondered to ask the Technocracy if they know something about his disappearance.

I realize I have no words to describe those who are not outraged by this #abuse of #PolicePower. This is among the horrors of dictatorship that were cited to me as one example of how evil the #totalitarians

No sign ICE is improving conditions at S.F. immigrant holding cells, attorneys say
Attorneys claim that ICE has not improved the conditions of holding cells at 630 Sansome St. More so, ICE has blocked repeated attempts to monitor the situation.

I realize I have no words to describe those who are not outraged by this #abuse of #PolicePower. This is among the horrors of dictatorship that were cited to me as one example of how evil the #totalitarians

No sign ICE is improving conditions at S.F. immigrant holding cells, attorneys say
Attorneys claim that ICE has not improved the conditions of holding cells at 630 Sansome St. More so, ICE has blocked repeated attempts to monitor the situation.

Ha someone asked a question about the steam frame: what is the situation with desktop mode? Are we getting a KDE VR desktop experience? I know it's a lot of work but Wayland is kind of VR ready and the opportunities seems so cool....
#steamframe #KDE

We distinguish "personal unfairness",
-- the view that one’s own economic situation is unfair,
from "social unfairness",
-- the view that the economic situation of others in society is unfair.
Uncertainties associated with the transition to a globalized knowledge economy heighten people’s feelings of personal unfairness
Feelings of personal unfairness increase support for the "populist right"
and feelings about social unfairn…

Left-Wing Populism vs. Right-Wing Populism - What's the Difference? | This vs. That
What's the difference between Left-Wing Populism and Right-Wing Populism? Left-wing populism and right-wing populism are both political movements that aim to...

Ukraine war latest live: Ukraine says it still holds parts of Pokrovsk, Myrnohrad situation 'difficult': https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/ukraine-war-latest-live-ukraine.html

Prospects for Degrowth: the story so far.
by Anna Gregoletto and Mark H Burton1 In the series Prospects for Degrowth Overviews of the current conjuncture – openings and risks We opened the series with Mark’s stock take, Prospects for Degrowth 2025 of the current situation of polycrisis2, which presents a multitude of challenges but also opportunities for degrowth horizons to flourish. He offered a system diagram, showing how a number of factors interact to shape the…

Prospects for Degrowth: the story so far.
by Anna Gregoletto and Mark H Burton1 In the series Prospects for Degrowth Overviews of the current conjuncture – openings and risks We opened the series with Mark’s stock take, Prospects for Degro…

Mike Vrabel benched Patriots DT Christian Barmore 'to protect the team', but emphasizes situation is resolved

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/m…

"#Austria’s Democracy on the Decline"
“The Situation is Serious”: #Democracy Index with Sobering Result for Austria
https://www.europesays…

A good blog post about the Framework/Omarchy/DHH situation. It’s just sad. And support for far-right people in Open Source projects should just not be a thing.
https://crimier.github.io/posts/Framework-Omarchy/

Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?
You might’ve noticed Framework, the laptop manufacturer, embroiled in a controversy as of now. The Discord server is on lockdown because the volunteer moderation team has gone on hiatus, and the Framework forum post about the controversy has been gaining unsightly amounts of steam from people disappointed at actions taken by Framework.

Chris Krebs compared the Balancer exploit to the scheme from Office Space, where the idea was to skim fractions of a penny off the top of many individual transactions.
Krebs also pointed to the possible use of artificial intelligence in crafting the exploit code as another interesting aspect of the situation.

$120 Million Crypto Hack Blamed on Office Space-Style Exploit
Insert your favorite Office Space quote here.

Researching inequality – Northampton and the Welfare State https://edintone.com/northampton_1913-24/ Two studies of Northampton in 1913 and 1924 give us a detailed view of working-class life. @…

Researching inequality - Northampton and the Welfare State - Miscellanea Edintone
Two studies of Northampton in 1913 and 1924 give us a detailed view of working-class life and economic conditions in on the eve of World War 1 and the somewhat better situation in the early 1920s.

woke from a dream of mentally drafting a toot about a book I just finished. I had started it yesterday, and had gone to bed with a bookmark halfway in it.
but then I realized, I had only finished reading it in the dream. the bookmark was still there.
so now I was in the interesting situation of being able to finish the book again, and then comparing the real ending with my imagined ending. I started mentally drafting a toot about that.
and then I woke up more. the book does…

One of the most ill-conceived #EV charging solutions is to place the plug in the kerb. Clearly, no one has considered the costs of groundwork and accessibility. Introducing a special arm for the latter does not improve the situation. This is not innovation, this is stupidity.

#ladebordstein #eladebordstein #elektromobilität #eauto #emobility #ladeinfrastruktur #innovation #barrierefreiladen #innovationfüralle #einsteckhilfe | Der Ladebordstein
Mehr Zugänglichkeit beim Laden – mit der Einsteckhilfe!🔋🔌 Die Ladeinfrastruktur ist für mobilitätseingeschränkte Personen oft schwer erreichbar.♿ Unsere Lösung: die Einsteckhilfe – eine clevere, kostengünstige Erweiterung für bestehende Ladekabel.🔝 ➡ Einfaches Handling dank Bajonettverschluss ➡ Einhändig nutzbar – ideal bei eingeschränkter Beweglichkeit ➡ Verbesserter Zugang zum Ladebordstein ➡ Mehr Komfort, weniger Barrieren Ein kleiner Adapter mit großer …

@… someone (I think Oro?) messaged me telling me they've "dealt" with the situation... I checked the server again and she was still there...
I'm sorry

...normally that won’t be the case, even when the person seems nearly totally to blame (and that isn’t even a very common situation) normally there are obvious weaknesses in the system that put them in the place to fail and will likely put anyone else in the same place in the future.

On the BNG scam.
Biodiversity Net Gain: can developers be trusted?
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/biodiversity-net-gain-can-developers-be-trusted/

Biodiversity Net Gain: can developers be trusted?
Developers seem rather too fickle concerning their obligations to protect the environment, and the situation may be about to get worse

I must admit that I’m not comfortable that it’s the Guides leadership who will be having the sleepless nights dealing with the kickback of leaders not happy with the trans ban and not the bigots putting them in this situation
#trans #guides

@… I assume you know about this https://www.threads.com/@maddowshow/post/DSnrGV4FvtV . I'm lost for words.

The situation in Ukraine is both horrific and inspiring.
The terror Russia has been unleashing for over 1300 days needs to be more widely understood and recognized.
US media will not do its job, they refuse to address the terror and truth that is so apparent and easily reported - if they only cared to do so.
Georgio is a journalist on the ground in Ukraine, reporting from the trenches of democracy.
He provides the receipts and gut-wrenching reports of Russian fuckery…

Wooden Windows and Steel Hearts
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Consistent gauge theories for the slave particle representation of the strongly correlated $t$-$J$ model
Xi Luo, Tao Shi, Yue Yu, Long Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09264 htt…

Consistent gauge theories for the slave particle representation of the strongly correlated $t$-$J$ model
This note aims to clarify the confusion and inconsistency, and to address the incompleteness in our recent work [1,2]. In order to avoid the ill-defined nature of the free propagator of the gauge field in the ordered states of the $t$-$J$ model, we adopted a gauge fixing that was not of the Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) exact form in our previous work [2]. This led to the situation where Dirac's second-class constraints, namely, the slave particle number constraint and the Ioffe-Larkin curre…

No, the Raiders aren’t tanking—and no, Maxx Crosby isn’t leaving https://raiderramble.com/2025/12/28/no-the-raiders-arent-tanking-and-no-maxx-crosby-isnt-leaving/

Trump just keeps killing people illegally in international waters, regardless who they are , they deserve a trial, this is not a war situation.
But all Trump allies (or countries that keep pretending they are) stay silent.
#trump #criminal

US forces kill two in strike on alleged drug boat in the Pacific
This is the eighth US strike on alleged drug trafficking vessels near Latin America, the first on the Pacific side.

New on my #Gentoo blog: One #jobserver to rule them all
"""
A common problem with running Gentoo builds is concurrency. Many packages include extensive build steps that are either fully serial, or cannot fully utilize the available CPU threads throughout. This problem becomes less pronounced when running building multiple packages in parallel, but then we are risking overscheduling for packages that do take advantage of parallel builds.
Fortunately, there are a few tools at our disposal that can improve the situation. Most recently, they were joined by two experimental system-wide jobservers: #guildmaster and #steve. In this post, I’d like to provide the background on them, and discuss the problems they are facing.
"""
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2025/11/30/one-jobserver-to-rule-them-all/

I appreciate all the legal thoughts laid out here in this piece (via @…), and yes, Congress and all the relevant parties should move in all these fronts.
I find it hard, however, to take completely seriously a legal strategy document of this length that (1) imagines Congress doing any of this and (2) mentions the SCOTUS only twice, and then only in reference to its past upholding of law. I’m not convinced this is a piece that fully appreciates the severity of the current situation and the degree of institutional rot.
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/115758300023480323

NFL Insider Gives Latest Update on Maxx Crosby Situation https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-insider-gives-latest-update-maxx-crosby-situation

Finished "Lobizona" by Romina Garber. I have extremely mixed feelings about this book. It's a powerful depiction of the fear of living as an undocumented child/teen and it has interesting things to say about rejection, belonging, and the choice between seeking to be recognized for who you are and wanting you blend in enough to be accepted as normal. However, it's also an explicit homage to Harry Potter, and while it doesn't include antisemitic tropes or glorify slavery or even have any anti-trans sentiments I can detect, to me the magical school setup felt forced and I thought it would have been a better book had it not tried to fit that mould. Also, it would have been a super interesting situation to explore trans issues, and while it's definitely fine for it not to do that, the author's praise of Rowling's work has me wondering...
There's a sequel that I think could in theory be amazing, but given the execution of the first book, I think I'll wait a bit before checking it out. By putting her main character in opposition to both ICE in the human world and the magical authorities in the other world, Garber explicitly sets the stage for a revolution standing between her protagonist and any kind of lasting peace. But I'm not confident she's capable of writing that story without relying on some kind of supernatural deus ex machina, which would be disappointing to me, since "a better world if only possible through divine intervention" is an inherently regressive message.
Overall, #OwnVoices fantasy centering an undocumented immigrant is an excellent thing, and I've certainly got a lot of privilege that surely influences my criticism. However, #OwnVoices stuff has a range of levels of craft and political stances, and it can be excellent for some reasons and mediocre for others.
On that point, if anyone reading this has suggestions for fiction books grappling with borders and the carceral state, Is be happy to hear them.
#AmReading

Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of Iran, the country’s president has said.
The situation in Tehran is the result of “a perfect storm of climate change and corruption,” says Michael Rubin, a political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute.
“We no longer have a choice,” said Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian during a speech on Thursday.
Instead Iranian officials are considering moving the capital to…

Iran's Capital Has Run Out of Water, Forcing It to Move
The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame

Folks, by the time we welcomed Saeed to Gaza Verified, it was too late for him to be included in the Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal so we weren’t able to get him any money to help with his evacuation to the South.
He’s still in the North and the situation is untenable and his life and the lives of his family are in danger.
Please help him if you can and please share this.
Remember that the amounts he’s requesting take into consideration a ~38% commission as he goes to withd…

'A risky situation' — The critical situation at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, explained: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/03/a-risky-situation-the-critical.html

Cowboys Trade Proposal Brings in Running Back to Fix Only Offensive Issue https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/trade-running-back-offense-fix/?adt_ei=[email]

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
ARLE: No hurry.
BERG: Let's get back and report.
ARLE: We've got nothing to report. If we could get back and tell Kasabi what's INSIDE the zone-
BERG: She said as far as the security boundary.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/4

Ook so i'm not making any progress on the shower situation tonight.
For the STM32MP2 FPGA test board I'm setting a goal: do not buy a single new component. Just order a board and populate it entirely from what I have on the shelf.

Great blog about the current situation in the US.
#trump

Comedy Of Terrors
America’s most inept administration will destroy itself

Trump is demanding the Justice Department pay him $230 million
to compensate him for the federal investigations into him
— a situation with no parallel in American history in which the officials reviewing Trump’s claims are his own allies
Trump said he might use those funds to pay for "his" ballroom.
“He seems to be upending all the norms that are associated with the presidency,”
Matt Smith, a tourist from Lexington, N.C.,
observed this afternoo…

The White House Wrecking Ball
President Trump’s demolition of the East Wing has struck a nerve in Washington and beyond.

Brock Purdy injury update: 49ers QB's recovery from turf toe a 'sensitive situation,' per Kyle Shanahan

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/brock-purdy-inju…

All the TRUTH about the FRONT! UKRAINIAN ARMY stabilizes the situation in Donbas #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/09/all-the-truth-about-the.html

NFC Playoff Picture exposes how bad Cowboys’ situation really is entering Week 11 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/nfc-playoff-picture-exposes-how-bad-cowboys-situation-really-is-entering-week-11

Trevon Diggs injury update: Cowboys place star CB on IR following 'fluke situation' that led to concussion

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/trevon-diggs-in…

How Reeling Raiders Will Make the Most Out Current Situation https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-reeling-will-make-most-out-current-situation

President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him, according to people familiar with the matter,
who added that any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit.
The situation has no parallel in American history, as Trump, a presidential candidate, was pursued by federal law enforcement and eventually won the election,
ta…

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
Senior department officials who were defense lawyers for the president and those in his orbit are now in jobs that typically must approve any such payout, underscoring potential ethical conflicts.

It’s important to put Ukraine’s current situation in the context of history. And it’s important to know that history is still controversial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor The past isn’t even past.
https://social.vivaldi.net/@Ann1944/115590607854450930

How the Past Determined the Raiders' Current Situation https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-geno-smith-davante-adams

Did the Vikings botch their QB situation? Reassessing Minnesota's now-bumpy bet on J.J. McCarthy, backup plans

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/did-…

On July 18, a mild, overcast night in Nairobi, Kenya, a team of Donald Trump’s top foreign aid advisers
ducked into a meeting room at the Tribe Hotel,
their luxury accommodations in the city’s diplomatic quarter,
for a private dinner.
To press the urgency of the situation in East Africa, the embassy officials enlisted Dragica Pajevic,
a World Food Program veteran of more than two decades.
Pajevic arrived at the Tribe Hotel early. She brought props. The b…

Inside the Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

Cowboys’ Front Office Offers Even More Clarity on Why Lamb and Pickens Were Benched https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-front-office-offers-even-more-clarity-on-why-lamb-and-pickens-were-b…

How the Past Determined the Raiders' Current Situation https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-geno-smith-davante-adams

"I’m sure she’ll take it under consideration and look at it seriously. …
Trump hasn’t made a secret about the retribution that he is asking some of his U.S. attorneys to take against his perceived enemies.
It is an extraordinary request, but maybe this is an extraordinary situation."
— Professor Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law,
in comments given to Law.com, concerning a request made by ex-CIA Director John Brennan’s lawyers
to Ch…

Lawyers Try To Bench Aileen Cannon From Case, Arguing She’s Been In Trump’s Corner One Too Many Times
Attorneys think Cannon’s pattern of deference to Trump has destroyed any appearance of neutrality.

Shanahan hopeful but admits Aiyuk case 'unusual' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47065408/niners-shanahan-admits-aiyuk-contract-situation-unusual

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration into their curved, fully formed shape with only a single pull of a string.
This technique could enable the rapid deployment of a temporary field hospital at the site of a disaster such as a devastating tsunami
— a situation where quick medical action is essential to save lives.
The researchers’ approach converts a user-specified 3D structure into a flat s…

One pull of a string is all it takes to deploy these complex structures
MIT researchers developed a method that converts a user’s design into a flat series of interconnected tiles that can be converted to a 3D structure with one pull of a single string.

Columbia faculty received notification from the university that we can submit claim forms asking for part of the $20 million Columbia is paying out to Jewish or Israeli members of the community who have been victims of antisemitism.
Quite a few of my Jewish colleagues are trying to figure out if they qualify
-- because of what happened to them when they expressed opposition to the genocide in Gaza
- Peter Woit (Not Even Wrong)

The Situation at Columbia XXXV
A quick update on what has been going on here at Columbia in recent months: The campus has been rather quiet this semester, about to get much more so as the semester ends and we go into winter brea…

Raider Star Gives Blunt Words on Potential George Pickens Move https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/possible-cowboys-george-pickens-move/?adt_ei=[email]

Why the Broncos have unequivocal trust in Courtland Sutton https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46686016/courtland-sutton-receiver-most-trusted-player-denver-broncos-offense

Chiefs Patrick Mahomes’ Current Situation Sends a Clear Warning to Rival Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/chiefs-patrick-mahomes-current-situation-sends-clear-warning-las-vegas-kansas-city

There's an article in the Constitution about this
https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3m5uhayi2mg2m

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)
Trump: We’re going to make the American Dream a word that—two words that you didn’t have. Remember when Biden said it’s all about three words: The American Dream. You don’t ever want to get in that situation.

Ex-Raider Gets Honest Over Kenny Pickett, Geno Smith Situation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/kenny-pickett-geno-smith-qb-situation/?adt_ei=[email]