2026-01-23 20:29:01
Went to #ChuckSchumer's office today with a simple message. #NYC
Went to #ChuckSchumer's office today with a simple message. #NYC
NFL Week 12 grades: Chiefs earn 'A-' with season-saving win over Colts, Lions get 'B-' for wild victory
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee
Mireo Plus B: Batteriezüge von Siemens starten in Dänemark
Eine regionale Eisenbahngesellschaft auf dem dänischen Festland setzt Akkuzüge von Siemens ein. Sie sollen Dieselzüge ersetzen.
https://www.
Kargo, which uses cameras and sensors to inspect pallets in a warehouse and provide accurate inventory data, raised a $42M Series B led by Avenir (Colin Campbell/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/supply-chain-deals/2025/12/22/warehouse-tech-kargo-42m-…
Federal Judge Cameron McGowan Currie on Monday tossed out separate criminal charges against the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey and New York’s attorney general, Letitia James,
saying the loyalist prosecutor installed by Trump to bring the cases was put into her job unlawfully.
The twin rulings are the most significant setback yet to Trump's efforts to co-opt the criminal justice system to punish his perceived foes
The dismissals,
while embarrassing for the Wh…
Mastodon, we got you this cat for the holidays. #CatsOfMastodon
Bald ist #Weihnachten und wer eines meiner #Bücher verschenken möchte, sollte daran denken, rechtzeitig zu bestellen.
Die #Bücher liegen nicht auf Halde, sondern werden erst gedruckt, w…
Die Spendenzeit steht vor der Tür - bedenkt doch eure dezentralen und unabhängigen Strukturen mit finanzieller Unterstützung. Da bieten sich Dienstleister (z.B. deine Mastodon-Instanz), FLOSS Softwareentwickler (z.B. Apps aus Fdroid), Journalismus und Demokratie stabilisierende Zivilgesellschaft an. Das können auch Organisationen sein, die fördern und aufklären (z.B. EFF, noyb, Netzpolitik.org). Helfer aus dem nahen Umkreis gibt es sicher auch...
Kennedy Plan to Test a Vaccine in West African Babies Is Blocked (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/health/hepatitis-b-vaccine-africa-study.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260122/p142#a260122p142
Auch wir vom Team Troet.Cafe sprechen unsere ungebrochene Solidarität mit @… aus, dessen Leitung momentan von der U.S. Regierung mit Sanktionen angegriffen wird.
Der Präsident des Internationalen Strafgerichtshof erhielt auch eine Sanktion dieser Art, für ihn hieß das: Einreiseverbot, Schließung seiner Bankkonten, Schließu…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- Vox Luminis sing Bach's B minor mass
Linton Stephens showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including Bach’s monumental B minor mass performed by Vox Luminis and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002q0hp
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
MJ Lenderman:
🎵 Rudolph
#MJLenderman
https://mjlenderman.bandcamp.com/album/rudolph-b-w-knockin
https://open.spotify.com/track/0HJll1OUSh4FUrDUKG0ikX
just found out that e621 is (a) open source and (b) runs on ruby on rails apparently?? https://github.com/e621ng/e621ng/blob/master/docker-compose.yml
"Rabbit Recipes," US dept of Ag 1930. (We are looking for things to cook to celebrate public domain day Jan 21st 2026 re: 1930!)
Not so sure about Rabbit Recipes, but nice layout. Thank you US Dept of Ag for digitizing this (I love my job).
What will you cook to celebrate public domain day?
http…
Wow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/business/bank-data-hack.html
Oh wow.
SitusAMC, a technology vendor for real estate lenders, holds sensitive personal information on the clients of hundreds of its banking customers, including JPMorgan Chase, was hacked.
for today's general strikers: the amazing 1947 anti-taft-hartley pop song "snowball" by socialist girl group, the berries. (the b-side was "swingin' on a scab") https://youtu.be/TAk8qi8LCUE
Ha! Og jeg var nervŸs for at den ikke ville hæve fordi tŸrgæren udlŸb i 2021 (jaja, utjekket ikke at have kŸbt ny gær, I know) 😅
Så starter klargŸringen til ÆldsteSŸns 25 års fŸdselsdag - småt men godt i år, eftersom kun min sŸster og hendes familie kommer. Men hendes mand og ÆldsteSŸn taler enormt godt sammen, så alt er godt 🤗
Glædelig jul, alle sammen! 🎄🎁☃️
Trump is gay. Clinton’s initials: B.J.
Warum heißt es Papierkram erledigen und nicht #Bürokratieabbau?
Bob B on the threshold of the barn with very different colored light inside and outside
#photo #photography #cats #caturday
Ik vind het verbazend hoe veel politici, overheden en organisaties nog op X blijven, het is echt niet meer te verantwoorden.
https://www.…
Superstate raised an $82.5M Series B to expand from tokenized Treasury offerings into SEC-registered equities on Ethereum and Solana (James Hunt/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/386690/superstate-raises-82-5-million-usd-series-b-funding-ro…
VA Dept Bans Abortion And Abortion Counseling - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/va-dept-bans-abortion-and-abortion-counseling/
Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
[Flight deck]
ZEN: Atlay shuttle docked at conference centre.
CALLY: Activate scanners to intercept local transmissions.
ZEN: Activated.
CALLY: Security force wall still in operation?
ZEN: Affirmative.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/547
Ich glaube niemand diskutiert ernsthaft darüber #Weihnachtsmann durch #Weihnachtskraft zu ersetzen. Außer das ziemlich merkwürdige Umfrageinstitut #Civey - was für ein Blödsinn.
"Liebe Unis, ihr müsst nicht heute alles implementieren, nur weil irgendwo #KI draufsteht."
https://bsky.app/profile/drkeichhorn.bsky.social/post/3md2zd5gjpc24
WATCH! EU launches €90B for Ukraine | War hits Russia | Trump’s sanctions game: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/20/watch-eu-launches-b-for.html
08.10.1989 DJ TANITH - CYBERTAPE II Tape Side A-B
@… has uploaded a first cassette tape from his collection. Some really old-school techno.
https://youtu.be/nuS5xq0U5mw?si=fztPdI<…
Gestern ausgelesen. Wenig Text, viel Bild, aber auch Bilder kann man lesen. Eine komprimierte Zusammenfassung der kaputten, an allen Ecken und Enden brennenden Welt. Photojournalistische Arbeit ist wichtig, muss man aber aushalten können. Auch die 2026er Version werde ich mir wieder kaufen, sobald sie erscheint. #bücherliebe
POL-GS: Pressemeldung der PI Goslar vom 24.01.2026 Goslar (ots) - Verkehrsunfall mit beschädigter Lichtzeichenanlage In den Abendstunden des 23.01.2026 befuhr ein 20-jähriger PKW-Führer die B 82 aus Richtung Rtg. Astfeld kommend. Während des Abbiegevorgangs auf die B 6 verliert er aufgrund ... https://www.presseportal.de…
You all deserve a break; so for my last #freesoftwareadvent I suggest the game
'Frozen bubble':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_Bubble
Seems like this could be useful for some #Selfhosted / #HomeLab folks. https://m.vinduv.app/@VinDuv/115940541
É comum que os alunos de Cšlculo 1 apresentem deficiências graves, escrever (a b)^2 = a^2 b^2 ou não saber colocar termos em evidência. Mas esta turma estš anormalmente problemštica, nem parece que passou pelo pré-cšlculo. Eu comecei o curso fazendo revisão de coisas como estudo de sinais de funções de primeiro e segundo grau, mas eles estão errando coisas ainda mais bšsicas. 🫤
omg that mushroom from the tv show Common Side Effects, it's real https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260121-the-mysterious-mushroom-that-makes-you-see-tiny-people
Tea, right after pouring: im hot, way too hot, mcdonalds lawsuit hot, don't drink me
Tea, 5 minutes in: maybe wait just a little
Tea, 10 minutes in (after having already forgotten it exists): i am d r i n k e a b l e
:mouse_blob_tea:
Sorcero, which makes AI agents for pharmaceutical companies to market new medications, raised a $42.5M Series B, bringing its total funding to $59M (Katherine Davis/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/biotech-deals/2025/11/21/sorcero-series-b-agen…
LAP1-B: Nächster Kandidat für Galaxie aus Sternen der allerersten Generation
Sterne der sogenannten Population III waren laut Simulationen riesig und kurzlebig. Nun gibt es erneut einen Kandidaten einer Galaxie, die aus solchen besteht.
F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/fbi-agent-ice-shooting-renee-good.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GlA.feA2.mC6wLoCQuATF&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p109#a260123p109
Die ganze Rentennummer wäre übrigens auch eine schöne Gelegenheit für einen Bürgerrat, weil da
a) Menschen drin säßen, die nicht wiedergewählt werden wollen und
b) junge und alte Menschen drin säßen.
Supreme Court won't allow National Guard deployment to Chicago in major loss for Trump
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5661555-supreme-court-blocks-trump-guard/
Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
ZEN: Planet visual is now available. [Horizon appears on main screen]
JENNA: Still holding course, Standard by Two.
BLAKE: Freighter's speed?
ZEN: Time Distort Six.
BLAKE: Freighter's planetfall?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/69
Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen
me: "🎶 up up and away in my beautiful my beautiful balloon 🎶"
me: *flies the laundry basket between my wife and her two laptops*
my wife: "OKAY! OKAY! I'LL GO TO BED!"
#CatsOfMastodon #AnnoyingHusbandsOfMastodon
Function Health, a health tracking tech company, raised a $298M Series B led by Redpoint Ventures at a $2.5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $350M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/19/funct…
Dolphins to promote B. Slowik to OC, source says https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47717683/source-dolphins-promote-bobby-slowik-offensive-coordinator
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Bob B. Soxx and The Blue Jeans:
🎵 The Bells of St. Mary
#BobBSoxxandTheBlueJeans
https://moochinaboutltd.bandcamp.com/track/the-bells-of-st-mary-feat-the-blue-jeans
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ktQ6en7c8R42MNaTMS6kW
It's Time to Talk About Donald Trump's Logorrhea (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/its-time-to-talk-about-donald-trumps-logorrhea
http://www.memeorandum.com/260122/p152#a260122p152
Philadelphia sues Interior Department over slavery exhibit removal at President's House
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5702955-philadelphia-sues-interior-department-slavery-exhibit/
Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
JOBAN: Supreme commander.
SERVALAN: An honour, Counsellor.
JOBAN: Thank you. [Sits down] Aren't you going to offer me a drink?
SERVALAN: Yes, of course. [Pours drink for Joban]
JOBAN: Not joining me?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/199…
Leistung der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: #Energiewende
Banking tech vendor SitusAMC says it suffered a November 12 hack that could expose sensitive customer data; sources say JPMorgan, Citi, and others are impacted (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/business/bank-data-hack.html
Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner unveils bizarre images of 'New Gaza' - 'No plan B' (Rebecca Robinson/Daily Express)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2161213/jared-kushner-donald-trump-gaza-plan
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p26#a260123p26
Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
BEK: So it was an alien life form that killed her?
CALLY: Yes. It was trying to use Orac as a bridge to cross from it's own universe into ours.
JENNA: That's why it needed so much power.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/598 B7B4
Railway, a cloud platform for software deployment, raised a $100M Series B led by TQ Ventures, bringing its total funding to $130M , says it has ARR of $10M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/…
Political candidates are like pets. Okay, it's very exciting, you brought a new one home, but like, are they even housebroken? You've still got to train them, take care of them... And it's heart-breaking, but sometimes things just don't work out and you need to return them to the shelter.
Oh, you purchased rather than adopted? Well there's your problem.
Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
AVON: Don't overreact. Remember, this is for your beloved leader.
JENNA: Well, I hope Blake appreciates this.
BLAKE: Renounce. Renounce.
ORAC: Renounce what? Tell us what.
BLAKE: Freedom. Freedom Party.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/127
Vaccine-supporting Cassidy declines to speak against RFK Jr. (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/23/bill-cassidy-refuses-to-speak-against-rfk-jr-00666410
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p45#a251123p45
Sam Altman says OpenAI added more than $1B in annual recurring revenue in the past month "just from our API business" (Lee Chong Ming/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-1-billion-a-month-api-business-chatgpt-sam-…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot/115947315956725538
ice balls thrown at iceholes
Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
RO: No, I'm not. Seems I never was.
[Flight deck]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/625 B7B2
I live in "sub-tropical" NYC. My house's heat pumps are rated to heat in temperatures as low as 5F. We went with those models because it rarely gets below 20F here.
On Wednesday, the low is gonna be 4F. 😬
I'm so tired of people blaming each other.
Look, if it wasn't Trump, it would've been someone else. Both Ds and Rs have been aggressively building towards a police state since 9/11. The Federalist Society has rigged our courts, and SCOTUS has done exactly what they intended. Government in the '70s under Reagan started reducing taxes on the obscenely wealthy, who turned around and gutted/purchased media, who convinced people to vote for lower taxes...
We were facin…
Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
AVON: The magnetic barrier must have triggered automatically. The freighter was impervious to it, therefore its fuselage must've been demagnetized. Ours hasn't. If it hadn't been for the force wall, we would be a cloud of agitated atoms.
VILA: I wish I was a cloud of agitated atoms!
https://
RE: https://todon.eu/@dbattistella/115951116199882664
This almost looks planned. The guy w/ the grey jacket grabs the victim's gun out of the rear of his pants, and then runs tf away as if he knows there's about to be bullets flying. I wouldn't p…
I counted 10 or 11 shots into a man that was already on the ground, with several "agents" already on top of him. That was a fucking execution.
Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
PROVINE: On the evidence of that projection, we have no alternative. We must activate.
SELSON: Sir?!
PROVINE: Tronos, lock the door.
TRONOS: Sir?
PROVINE: Lock the door!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/209/14 B7B2
But also, don't just rely on primaries. Go hound them, right now. Go picket their offices. Figure out where they live and protest at their houses. If they're spotted in restaurants, call them the fuck out for being Nazi collaborators. Make them regret ever casting their vote.
https://<…
Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
SERVALAN: I have waited for eighteen days.
TRAVIS: It won't be much longer now. It's started, I can feel it-
SERVALAN: Oh, Travis!
TRAVIS: -I know Blake is coming here.
SERVALAN: And them? [Indicates the monitor]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/10
🎶 what do you get for pretending the danger's not real? 🎶
🎶 meek and obedient,
you follow the leader down well-trodden corridors
into the valley of steel 🎶
me: "You don't want any naan?! Don't come at me with that naan-sense!"
13yo: "Please. Please stop."
Me: "I was looking at what THEY were looking at."
Me: "...which is a dead rat on the subway tracks"
13yo: "EWWWW"
13yo: "...wait, lemme get a picture with my phone."
Today two separate people asked me about (ortlieb) panniers. One in TJs on the escalator, the other outside at the falafel truck. I've been asked so many times by strangers about my various cargo bikes, but can honestly say I've never been asked about my panniers in at least a decade. To be fair, they're pretty new and in both cases they were extremely full!
#BikeTooter …
#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
ORAC: Orac is my bridge. You stand before it, puny telepath.
CALLY: Yes, I know you now. My powers are in your dimension, and Orac's carrier waves are your bridge.
https://blake.torpidi…
I'm working with household legislators to enact a Dad Congestion Pricing scheme. We charge a kid $0.25 for every "hey dad?". A white paper produced by the Dept of Annoyance shows that a modest fee structure could bring the rate of "hey dad?"s down to a rate of around one or two per minute, while not being so burdensome as to hinder kids from saying things like "hey dad? the microwave is on fire."
#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
BLAKE: The President of the Federation runs the shadow operation.
AVON: And since shadow is the basis of the Terra Nostra -
GAN: I don't believe it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/…
F'd train strikes again!
Testing, with the help of a funnel, the theory that cats are actually a liquid. Still having trouble getting his butt through the hole. #CatsOfMastodon
I like when the #NYPost says the quiet part out loud. See, ending illegal labor practices and paying workers a living wage is "anti-capitalist." Being in favor of #capitalism means being happy crushing your workers and driving them into poverty.
If only they said that more…
Okay, but these dumbass nazis (yes, I know that's redundant) appear to be gassing themselves? Wut?
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3mcxnz3k6k22r
More evidence that we are in an active civil war, started by the US federal government.
https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-trump-00d0ab0338e82341fd91b160758aeb2d?
I regret to inform you all that I went back in time intending to only fix one little thing, but I couldn't help myself and I messed with some other things too. Now I've changed the present to be all wrong; not only do you have to deal with that Berenstain Bears nonsense, but you also now have to deal with Trump and Mamdani being besties. I'd say I'm sorry, but I'm really not - it was totally worth it*.
* My lawyers have advised me not to say anything further.
For #Caturday, a reminder that Widget remains available for adoption in the NYC metro area. She would prefer a calm house without kids (we are not a calm house). She's super affectionate! #CatsOfMastodon
me: *low whistles*
me: "Damn, check out THOSE bollards!"
8yo: "What?"
me: "These metal things. they're nice, aren't they? No drivers parking on this sidewalk!"
8yo: *lays down on one*
8yo: "Yeah, they're good, I guess."
#SafeStreets
Gluten tag!
Republicans fear their MAGA base. Like, they're not afraid of Trump - they're afraid of his *supporters*.
I don't see Democrats ever being anything other than collaborators until they fear their base as well.
8yo: "Hey dad?"
me: "what?"
8yo: "the biggest type of black hole is an ultra massive black hole, right?"
me: ...
me: "what?"
8yo: "the biggest type of.."
me: "no, I heard you. I don't know."
8yo: "How do you NOT KNOW??"
me: "I'm not an astronomer!"
8yo: "I'M A JUST CHILD AND I KNOW"