2025-11-21 07:57:14
Timbuktu’s Medieval Manuscripts Return Home After a Decade Away Safe from Insurgents https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/timbuktus-medieval-manuscripts-return-home-after-a-decade-away-safe-from-insurgents/
Timbuktu’s Medieval Manuscripts Return Home After a Decade Away Safe from Insurgents https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/timbuktus-medieval-manuscripts-return-home-after-a-decade-away-safe-from-insurgents/
Hurts unfazed by reports Eagles frustrated with QB https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47029357/hurts-run-away-eagles-reported-frustration-qb
Greenlanders Don "Make America Go Away" Hats - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/01/greenlanders-don-make-america-go-away-hats/
Democrats Are Running Away From Epstein Connections (Deanna Fisher/Victory Girls Blog)
https://victorygirlsblog.com/democrats-are-running-away-from-epstein-connections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p177#a251119p177
Fernando Mendoza runs away with Championship, into heart of Raider Nation https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/19/fernando-mendoza-runs-away-with-championship-int…
Dr. Gladys West,
the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology,
has died. She passed away Saturday, surrounded by her loving family. She was 95.
Born into poverty on a Virginia farm during the Jim Crow era, West grew up in a segregated South where opportunity was scarce.
Through determination and extraordinary academic talent,
she graduated first in her high school class and earned a scholarship to Virginia State College …
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Ramones:
🎵 The KKK Took My Baby Away
#Ramones
https://shonenknife.bandcamp.com/track/the-kkk-took-my-baby-away
https://open.spotify.com/track/0N8c4Yf3gp8KnngZggvpqi
I've been railing about the need to restructure SCOTUS for rather a while now. (I've added a couple of URLs after the Guardian opinion link.)
Here is an opinion piece that says something similar.
It adds something that I missed - that SCOTUS and Congress are filled with people who think that if El Cheato goes away that his mess will also go away.
I don't think so. The maga-klan is too deeply embedded into our judiciary and administrative agencies. It's go…
For Trump, the Epstein Files Won't Go Away (Annie Linskey/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/for-trump-the-epstein-files-wont-go-away-cd3e0167
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p52#a251220p52
It needs repeating time and again—the "clash of cultures" isn't about "differing opinions".
One side wants to treat people respectfully and be welcoming and kind and have a fun time.
The other side wants to remove (deny medical care, disenfranchise, lock away, deport, kill, genocide etc.) people they don't like.
This isn't politics, and when someone claims it is and you take them at their word, you've already lost.
The cyber news machine never stops cranking away, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--The US, UK, and Australia sanction Russian bulletproof hosting providers,
--Alice Guo sentenced to life for running scam compound,
--Samourai Wallet operator sentenced to four years,
--SK Telecom rejects breach mediation proposal,
--USBP is massively surveilling Americans,
--Trump to preempt state AI …
Germany turns away suspected Russian shadow fleet tanker from Baltic Sea: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/17/germany-turns-away-suspected-russian.html
"If any other group arrived into a neighborhood carrying long guns, deploying chemical weapons, violently engaging and then taking people away with no warrants nor apparent legal reason, we would dispatch SWAT, as SWAT has the training to defuse and deescalate such situations."
https://
Love it or hate it, there's no getting away from the fact that BBC Four has decided to give us not one, not two, not even just three but three-and-a-quarter hours of Top of the Pops tonight.
So gird your loins pop kids, for better or worse it's going to be a #TOTP marathon.
NS International Railways tries to make international rail travel even harder. Screenshot by my daughter, travelling from Barcelona to Rotterdam today. The app is informing her that the train from Paris to Rotterdam leaves on the same platform at Gare du Lyon where the train from Barcelona arrives. Not really. It leaves from a different station (Gare du Nord), about half an hour away by RER city train. 🤦♂️🤦♀️🤦
What @… says is what a lot of us have been lamenting since the ICE invasion started. Shouldn’t local police protect citizens from ICE?? Why this hasn’t happened is a really good question. Factors to consider:
- “Obstructing a federal agent” is illegal, and local police / politicians feel constrained by that (even if the agents themselves don’t seem constrained by the actual law at all, only by what they think they can get away with)
- Police can in theory cite federal agents for e.g. traffic violations or illegal plate swapping after the fact, as long as they’re not “obstructing” the agents — but how do you cite a masked person with fake plates who refuses to give ID?
- Some police are visibly supportive of ICE, chumming it up with them and giving literal fist bumps; a nontrivial subset are outright closet Nazis. A lot of people don’t really see any need to go past “ACAB” as a full explanation for all of this — and certainly The ACAB Hypothesis is…um, not really being proved false right now in Minneapolis.
- I think some police quietly resent ICE for stepping on their turf, but that does not seem to have boiled up into actual confrontation in MSP. One police leader here painted it in early Dec as “some people want to instigate a confrontation between Minneapolis Police, and that’s not going to happen.” Police culture says that police should be a neutral party in a dispute between ICE and residents, and actually protecting residents would be taking sides. (Duh, yes, taking sides that way is your literal job, you dumbasses…but I digress.)
- Some police (especially leadership) really want to get on the community’s good side after the murder of George Floyd, and see this as an opportunity, but unfortunately this has materialized entirely as non-interventionist support: “We responded to a 911 call and help a distressed resident after her husband was abducted!” “We transported children left parentless on the streets by ICE safely back to their home!” “Our officers volunteered at the food shelf!” OK, nice, good for you buddy.
So yeah, I’m wondering this too, and am bitter about it. https://tilde.zone/@n1xnx/115928447564126393
Don't be surprised if ... Caleb Williams, Michael Wilson continue to rack up yards https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/47038947/2025-fantasy-football-surprises-sleepers-busts-trade-away-add-drop-w…
BBC board member Shumeet Banerji resigns, saying he was cut out of discussions that led to the resignation of the BBC's director general, Tim Davie (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov
If you watched cartoons in the 90s or early 2000s, you probably heard some of Guy Moon's amazing theme songs and scores. Guy passed away earlier this month after injuries from a car accident- I wrote this short piece over at Animated TV Blog to commemorate his work: https://animatedtvblo…
All my apes gone!
#nwsl
"The most reliable predictor of future conflict in a place is past conflict in that place. In large part, this is because of unresolved injustices. Resentments over past crimes simmer. Then, they boil over.
In other words, 'they got away with mass murder' is not a great way to build a lasting peace" -- @…
Away from e-mail until 6 January 2026, suckers.
""[…] one message came through clearly: as we move forward, we should take the opportunity to improve the [#Fedora packager workflow] model rather than simply replicate it. The conversation focused on three key areas: package ownership, artifact storage, and Packit integration.
[…]
Key takeaways include:
* A Shift to Merge Requests: There is strong momentum to make …
I got another letter in the mail today about a data breach. This time the company was Bell Ambulance and they supposedly got away with
patients' first name, last name, date of birth, medical information, and health insurance information. 🤷♂️
So I’ve been away for the day. Anything unusual happen on the Internet today? 😉
Interesting documentary about the 1960s TV show #TimeTunnel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upqYnU5kJWo - I was blown away by it as a child when it ran on German TV in the 1970s ...
#3GoodThings
Taking Kid2 to the local public pool.
Reading on the porch (for the last time this year?) in the few minutes of sun we had this morning.
Live radio, still my favorite way of discovering musicians I haven't heard before (today's take-away is the Mary Wallopers).
A new open letter urging the EU to stick to hard climate targets was signed by nearly 2200 international scientists: https://zenodo.org/records/17399532
Please spread the word widely and send towards your representatives for the upcoming decision.
Holy crap #soundcloud I don't know how a #website can be more off-putting.
I just wanted to listen to a music clip.
Sure, the last 30 years of my life went away in a political world governed by post-communist Russia-loving and/or mobster-pleasing dumbdumbs (domestically). Now, on top of that, the next 30 years will benefit from the political influence of bing-bong ballroom-dancing unspeakably-evil trumptrumps (globally).
"Banking alliance aimed at limiting fossil fuel investments collapses"
#Banks #Finance #FossilFuels
I have two "house"/montessori beds for children that I bought 3 years ago or so that I wanted to sell but it turns out nobody on Kleinanzeigen wants non-IKEA furniture, so I looked at giving them away instead and I'm happy (?) to report that there are apparently no more refugees or otherwise disadvantaged families in Berlin.
Nostrshire panel talking about Adam Curry's podcast2.0 , more tags in your podcast rss for payments, in the hope it can fund producers. Did you know besos takes 75 percent of all Audible money? Actors and writers sharing scraps from Amazon's table.
Hot news is that keysend tags are out of fashion and the bolt11 lnurl invoices are taking over.
Podcast platforms can be bridged through nostr to enable cross platform comments and discovery but making users create key pairs is to complex the fountainfm guy reckons. Wants to hide and shatter l abstract away that complexity.
#nostr #nostrshire #podcasting2.0
Noisy traffic is making Galšpagos’ yellow warblers angry https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/noisy-traffic-is-making-galapagos-yellow-warblers-angry/
#Science #ClimateChange Open letter by Scientists: #Climate Neutrality is Europe's Greatest Economic Opportunity
Nothing better than watching #MAGA loser Jake Paul get KO'd by #AnthonyJoshua.
AJ is my hero for taking out this Trump-loving fraud. #JakePaul the coward ran away for 5 rounds until Joshua…
From National Observer
Why a former oil exec is going all-in on geothermal
“I am a big believer that the future of energy supply is moving away from conventional sources,” says Eavor Technologies CEO Mark Fitzgerald.
Strange concrete sculptures circa 1960 near that big cluster of trees in the Arboretum
#photo #photography #landscape
Pedaling backwards as fast as we can. :-(
(While China and the rest of the world race forward into a new energy future.) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/climate/clean-energy-department-office…
Foggy afternoon on the boardwalk at Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, USA. October, 2025. Fujifilm X100VI. #moonstonebeach #boardwalk #fog
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Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
TARRANT: [V.O.] Any sign of the box of crystals?
CALLY: Not yet.
TARRANT: [V.O.] Keep looking.
[Vila is walking with two natives, and sees buildings far away]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/81 B7B4
Just was made aware that the #StoneRoses innovative #BritPop bass player Mani passed away. His fluid & funky Rickenbacker 4005 basslines helped form a unique sonic perspective, adding dance floor sensibilities to their psychedelic pop pastiche, that helped make their early records so refreshing, influential and su…
Sonnet 068 - LXVIII
Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,
Before these bastard signs of fair were born,
Or durst inhabit on a living brow;
Before the golden tresses of the dead,
The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,
To live a second life on second head;
Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay:
In him those holy antique hours are seen,
Without all ornament, itself and true,…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Bear's Den feat. Jade Bird:
🎵 Please Don't Hide Yourself Away
#NowPlaying #BearsDen #JadeBird
https://open.spotify.com/track/1MGgAsiipppMFd9gydSmTq
Shit will hit the fan soon
#Epstein
https://couriernewsroom.com/news/leaked-epstein-files-talking-poin…
A few years ago I cleaned out my house. I gave away/disposed of about a dozen VoIP phones, Cisco, Polycom, etc. What did I just order on ebay? A SIP phone for Asterisk. Argh. I should stop getting rid of things that work. Maybe I need a bigger house.
Moody Urbanity - TWO 2️⃣
情绪化城市 - 贰 2️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
There are early signs that Darth #Trump may be approaching a tipping point. Much will depend on voters' reaction to the Eppstein Files.
He also seems exhausted and is obviously struggling to maintain his initial momentum. Mistakes are piling up on an even larger scale, and he can see that things are slipping away from him.
Now all he wants is to win the
@… *backs away slowly*
A decade into our collective Donald Trump nightmare,
most of the reality-based population has given up on hoping MAGA voters will wake up and see the light.
We’ve come to realize that he could eat a live kitten on TV and they, unwilling to admit his critics were right all along,
would argue that kitten was “antifa” and liberals are the ones who are stupid for not seeing the threat the kitten posed to our safety.
I predicted this miserable state of affairs back in 201…
6 draft prospects a top Cowboys draft analyst wouldn't trade away from https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/17/irishs-love-among-6-players-top-cowboys-analyst-wo…
sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…
"Software is no longer seen as an asset, as something to care for, to maybe even take pride in. It’s a throw-away product. Like a napkin. Just get one quick, wipe your mouth and throw it away. Like a novelty t-shirt."
(Original title: Software as Fast Fashion)
https://tante.cc/2026/01/15/software-a…
Google has one enormous advantage over all other AI players in the industry. It can offer "AI-modus" to the billions of people already using Google Search. And yes, AI-modus can be bad, full of faults, but it improves and gets better. For many questions it is "good enough" probably. Also it is just one-click away for most people on a site they already visit regularly. This way Google will create another unhealthy market dominance i am afraid.
Eagles vs. Commanders takeaways: Philadelphia pulls away in second half to win NFC East again https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6906856/2025/12/20/eagles-commanders-score-takeaways-week-16/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Faux Real:
🎵 Walking Away from My Demons (Wet Leg Remix)
#FauxReal
https://cityslang.bandcamp.com/track/faux-real-walking-away-from-my-demons-wet-leg-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/30dZW6UD1rqjHjvFdLYMt0
Mark would never...
#mastodon
“For millions, adaptation is not an abstract goal,”
“It is the difference between rebuilding and being swept away,
between replanting and starving,
between staying on ancestral land or losing it forever."
UN Secretary General
Guterres also supported a just transition, to ensure those working in the fossil fuel industry are supported into new livelihoods.
AFSCME Members Help Win Fight To Repeal Utah Law Taking Away Union Rights | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-12-16/afscme-members-help-win-fight-repeal-utah-law-taking-away-union-rights
Sonnet 073 - LXXIII
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou see'st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west;
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire,
T…
Here We Goooo: Three keys to the game for the Cowboys against the Eagles https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/here-we-goooo-three-keys-to-the-game-for-the-cowboys-against-the-eagles
"Israeli officials openly stated the goal: to destroy #Gaza and make it uninhabitable. By textbook definition, this is genocide: the deliberate targeting of people not for who they are as individuals, but because they are members of a group marked for destruction"
#GazaGenocide
…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
London Elektricity:
🎵 (I Don't Want to) Fly Away
#LondonElektricity
https://londonelek.bandcamp.com/track/i-dont-want-to-fly-away-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/3h30FCntFpqBDAng37AUIk
Raiders Predicted to Swing Blockbuster $106 Million Trade With Cowboys https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-cowboys-trade-prediction-rumors/
years wasted arguing about so-called 'free speech' when in reality that concept was just a tool brought up by some people trying to get away with having said something racist
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Faux Real:
🎵 Walking Away from My Demons (Wet Leg Remix)
#FauxReal
https://cityslang.bandcamp.com/track/faux-real-walking-away-from-my-demons-wet-leg-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/30dZW6UD1rqjHjvFdLYMt0
Lamarr Wilson has passed away :(
https://people.com/award-winning-tech-influencer-lamarr-wilson-cause-of-death-revealed-11873432
Hey #GenX. Did you know the infamous WKRP "Turkeys Away" episode was based on an ACTUAL radio station promotion at KBOX radio in Dallas, TX?
See fact #2 for the story!
▶️ 15 Weird Facts About WKRP in Cincinnati (1978) You Never Knew
Sonnet 063 - LXIII
Against my love shall be as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn;
When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night;
And all those beauties whereof now he's king
Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify …
Questions, takeaways from Week 16: Eagles run away from Washington to clinch division https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47325576/nfl-week-16-2025-season-questions-takeaways-lessons-stats-recap-every-game
Raiders GM John Spytek honors late daughter through National CMV Foundation and My Cause My Cleats https://www.raiders.com/news/john-spytek-raiders-general-manager-my-cause-my-cleats-national-cmv-foundation
Cowboys list of 2026 home, away opponents almost set, season nears end https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/15/cowboys-list-of-2026-home-away-opponents/87775986007/
CDC officials confirm that the US is two months away from measles being considered endemic for the first time since 2000.
“Elimination status is lost if the virus spreads continuously for 12 months
https://kottke.org/25/11/0047877-cdc-officials-confirm-tha
Inside Mike Tomlin's decision to walk away from the Steelers https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47622479/inside-pittsburgh-steelers-coach-mike-tomlin-decision-walk-away-step-last-game
Our reporters look ahead to the draft: Big questions for every team selecting in the top 10 https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/47671434/2026-nfl-draft-questions-top-10-picks-raiders-jets-cardinals-titans-g…
Eagles are one win away from a second straight NFC East title and a home playoff game https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/eagles-are-one-win-away-from-a-second-straight-nfc-east-title-and-a-home-playoff-game…
On Sept. 21, the police came for Larry Bushart.
They handcuffed him and hauled him away in the dead of night.
He spent 37 days in jail while held on a $2 million bond
— an amount the retired police officer could not afford.
It’s the sort of treatment one expects for accused murderers and thieves.
But Larry’s only “crime”?
In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, he posted a meme on Facebook
quoting President Trump’s remarks about a different …
The running man: Josh Allen on cusp of QB history https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/47011271/nfl-week-12-odds-lines-spread-betting-picks-josh-allen-quarterback-rushing-touchdown-record
The Trump administration has reportedly set a goal of yanking citizenship away from over a thousand naturalized Americans in fiscal year 2026,
in yet another escalation in the administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown.
New guidance issued on Tuesday directs the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) field offices
to “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month” next year, according to The New York Times.
Denatu…
Chiefs OT Simmons mum on reason for absence https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47027215/chiefs-ot-simmons-keeping-reason-22-day-absence-house
Dr. Kirk Moore had been on trial for five days,
accused of falsifying COVID-19 vaccination cards and throwing away the government-supplied doses.
The Utah plastic surgeon faced up to 35 years in prison if the jury found him guilty
on charges that included conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Testimony had paused for the weekend when Moore’s lawyer called him early one Saturday this July
with what felt to him like unbelievable news.
U.S. Attorney Gener…
Cowboys' Dak Prescott 'humbled' to near passing Tony Romo as Dallas' all-time pass yards leader
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys…
Josh Allen is in his prime. The Bills acted now to fire Sean McDermott before it was too late https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6983716/2026/01/19/josh-allen-future-bills-sean-mcdermott-brandon-beane/
There’s an unwritten rule in publishing,
or so I’ve been told:
don’t write about COVID.
Our collective attention span has been saturated by those endless months holed up in attics and cramped corners of apartments, staring out at a world we could no longer take part in.
When the worst of it passed, we felt an urge to close that chapter, to padlock it behind a heavy latch.
But in doing so, we also tuck away the hard-won lessons of that time:
how quickly s…
Bills' Josh Allen throws away best shot at Super Bowl with four turnovers in playoff loss to Broncos
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bills-josh-allen-no-…
Matthew Stafford's MVP pursuit: Rams QB is just three games away from locking up Hall of Fame status
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/matthew-stafford-mvp-rams-qb-hall-of-fame/
Eagles' Jaire Alexander stepping away from football; CB to determine playing future https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-jaire-alexander-stepping-away-from-football-cb-to-determine-playing-future
Source: CB Alexander stepping away from football https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46934445/source-eagles-jaire-alexander-28-stepping-away-nfl