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I can't quite decide if this article is Wes Streeting simply taking the absolute piss or finally realising he fucked up and now might be thinking of walking back somewhat.
Either way, he was part of causing all this hatred.
#ukpolitics #trans

Feeling helpless? Don’t. All of this resistance makes a real and concrete difference. Honestly, the fact that this huge chunk of local residents is giving a visible, sustained “HELL NO” all the time is basically the •only• thing holding them back at this point — but it •is• making a difference.
If there were a sense of blanket permission, a sense that nobody is watching and nobody cares, a sense that there will never be consequences…we’d be in a whole different circle of hell right now.

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
HUNDA: I think I can. There are two places along that cooling system where it's possible to surface, and as long as I keep my face to the current I should be heading in the right direction. All right, Hask, you take over now. Get the column moving. If all goes well, I'll be back tomorrow night. [he moves off]
HASK: Good luck Hunda.

he framework upon which the wardrobes will be built starts to take shape.
The headboard sockets are at about the right height :phew:
He was asking if the wardrobe should be backed with some kind of board or if these support struts should remain visible inside the wardrobe.
🤷
I guess it looks neater if you back it, but then there's also some lost space. It'd be painted either way of course.

Right, we're back to 1977. There won't be any drug-induced nonsense in bands in that era, I'm sure. #TOTP

I’m going to make some salmon for dinner, be right back
#Fish #Salmon

Please, think of the hungry kitties. Cats are known to wither away if feeding time is missed by less than 5 minutes. 😭

Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

I don’t suppose there are any Wii Fit U mods that bring back the missing minigames from Wii Fit Plus right?
I guess they chose only the ones they thought were the best ones to bring back which is fair enough I guess, but some of the ones I like are missing
I’d be very cool if they kept everything from Wii Fit Plus, PLUS the new ones in U
(don’t really wanna get plus on wii mode bc then it’ll be two separate games and leaderboards and stuff, and then I probably won’t want to switch between both modes during a playtime and also I’d probably forget to switch for minigames that are available in both places)
#WiiU

This has allowed me to make clear something that's been at the back of my mind. Something that is at the heart of so much blind stupidity in big tech.
It's the assumption that we will change one thing and all else will be the same.
In this case, we will fire lots and lots of employees all over the world and we will make lots of profit. We're smart enough to make the AI, and we're dumb enough to think that there will only be one consequence. 1/n

Zinnias I saw on my expedition to Newark Valley a few weeks back
#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115521925373470883
Like calling them right now would be good, because there's reports that the might cave today—if they do the ACA subsidies will never come back.

Talking #water in Hsinchu: the biggest reservoir and cleanest stream here in the mid-north of #Taiwan is connected with the Science Park. It serves the #semiconductor industry. A bit is for agricu…

Where to watch Cardinals vs. Colts: TV channel, live stream, prediction, pick, odds, spread

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/where-to-watch-car…

#coffeeneuring early bird is today
https://chasingmailboxes.com/2025/09/29/coffeeneuring-challenge-2025-youre-only-15-once

Coffeeneuring Challenge 2025: You’re Only 15 Once
Readers. Bike riders. Randonneurs. Always Be Coffeeneuring Club members. Scenesters. People (on Earth)!  It’s back again and it’s a big one. That’s right, it’s the 15th edition of the Coffeene…

Finally made macaroni cheese tonight after days of thinking about it and added in leftover broc and cauli, craftily making macaroni cauliflower cheese. I think my cooking mojo might be stirring back into life. I love cooking and am right into nutrition, but if I'm tired or overwhelmed, and I've been both the last few weeks, it's the first thing to fall by the wayside.

I think today's worker is the owner of the company, he certainly is the assessor.
He worked a lot later than those without the vested interest there. 😆 I finished work at my job before he did! 🤭
All the wood was sanded down and remaining nude wood given some paint. We have a test plank in the foreground of the first picture here which is painted with a second coat of paint. Seems likely we lose all the wood grain when doing that, and so will prefer the paler look where it's obviously made of wood not paint.
Won't really know for sure till it's dry. Prefer the colour a bit darker like that but if we're hiding the wood grain we might as well have used MDF instead of pine. We're after something clearly made of wood.
Another area is test-painted with just the clearcoat top varnish as a second layer. That's likely to be right, just a bit more shiny and protected.
The carpenter proper is back from holiday and starts tomorrow. He has a lot of drawers and doors to build and edging to attach to make the door panels. Still hoping at least the carpentry will be pretty much all done by the end of the week but likely some painting and touching up still to do next week. Hopefully by the end of Tuesday because I'm not really able to be here all day each day for most of the two weeks after that.

Day 7: Brenda Romero
I hinted yesterday I'd be moving beyond a narrow definition of "author," so of course that means I'm going to include game designers. I'll definitely get back to some more traditional authors before I hit 20, but I wanted to mix things up early.
Brenda Romero is something of a celebrity in the niche culture that is the Game Developers Coherence, I like to imagine. Of course the misogyny there likely means many just pay attention to who her husband is, but she's a terrific designer in her own right, if not prolific.
Content warning: the Holocaust
To me her most outstanding game has always been "Train," which is an exhibition tabletop game in which players collaborate to load and unload cargo and move train cars around a board, with the stated objective of efficiently delivering cargo to meet certain collective goals. However, through both physical cues and in-game reveals, it becomes clear to players that the game they are playing stimulates the Holocaust, and the cargo they're moving is people being brought to extermination camps. The actual goal of the game is for the players to stop playing and walk away, or perhaps to play against the stated objective and gridlock the trains. Romero supervised play at the expos where it was presented, and intervened to stop the game if the players continued too far (in some cases not picking up on the hints offered because they had very little knowledge of the Holocaust as a historical event). I've never played the game myself; just heard Romero give a report about it, but the sheer genius of designing a game meant not to be played to help educate about a system within which defying the rules was the only ethical action earned her instant respect from me. Romero has a whole series of games in this vein about didn't historical events (not necessarily all designed to not be played), although last I checked in most are just at prototyping stages.
I've got other non-man game designers that will appear on this list, but Romero stood out to go first because she's a good example that you don't need to be someone prolific or widely-known to do great work; I'd bet most people have an author or two they respect who is not widely known (and I'll include at least one more from that category on this list).
#20AuthorsNoMen

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
HOWER: You somehow overcame your peaceful conditioning. When you were a child the therapists said that you were at risk. I welcomed this possibility, because I needed, I thought, one man who could think aggressively like my enemies.
BERSHAR: I have not renounced the theory of peace. Servalan is more powerful than these people. Tomorrow or the next day they will go, and Servalan will be back with her battle fleet.

I've had a few of these thoughts stuck in my craw all day because I watched this liberal historian talk about the Galleanisti.
https://youtube.com/shorts/93yHEn8BYE4
Basically, she says that "of course the government had the right to target them." Then she goes on to talk about how it became an excuse to carry out a bunch of attacks on other marginalized people. Now, the Galleanisti had been bombing the houses of politicians and such. I get where she's coming from saying that one of their targets "was in the right" to try to catch them. But there's some context she's not talking about at all.
These were Italian anarchists, so they were not white and they were part of an already marginalized political group. Basically all of Europe and the US was trying to wipe out anarchists at the time. Meanwhile, the sitting president at the time showed the first movie in the White House. That movie was KKK propaganda, in which he was favorably quoted. The US was pretty solidly white supremacist in the 1920's.
Like... A major hidden whole premise of the game "Bioshock: Infinite" is that if you went back to the US in the 1920's, and you had magic powers, you would absolutely use them to kill as many cops as possible and try to destroy society. There's a lot of other stuff in there, I don't want to get distracted, but "fuck those racists," specifically referring to the US in the 1920's, was a major part of a major game.
Those Italian anarchists were also stone cutters. They carved grave stones. But the dust from that can kill you, much like black lung for coal miners. So they were dying from unsafe working conditions, regularly raising money to support dying coworkers and then carving gravestones for those same coworkers.
Now, I personally think insurrectionary anarchism is a dead end. I disagree with it as a strategy. We've seen it fail, and it failed there. But of course it makes sense that they wanted to blow up the government.
...And that's the correct way to structure that. When you say, "of course they were in the right" you're making a very clear political statement. You could easily say, "the cops in Vichy France had every right to hunt down the French Resistance." You would technically be correct, I guess. But it would really say something about your politics if you justified the actions of Nazi collaborators over those fighting against the Nazis.
And you may say, "oh, but the Nazis didn't have justification for anything. They invaded a sovereign nation, so their government wasn't legitimate anyway."
To which I would reply, "have you considered a history book about the US?"

Moody Urbanity - Relations 👥
情绪化城市 - 关系 👥
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ Shanghai GP3 400 Pan
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Well, shit. Guess I picked a bad day to re-case my PC and upgrade the GPU. Everything went well until I tried to update the OS, which failed while tossing a Mesa dependency error. Did some checking, and it seems to just be a Mesa issue I can't really do anything about ATM. So I'm stuck in 4K/basic graphics driver mode, with screen tearing a-plenty, till tomorrow? Hopefully? lol.
The new case looks nice at least.

Self-hosting is becoming popular among a certain kind of user,
-- say the typical readership of ItsFoss.
There is a simple explanation for this shift:
people want their data, dollars, and destiny back.
Centralized platforms optimized for engagement and extraction are colliding with real-world needs
— privacy, compliance, predictability, and craft.
Linux, containers, and a flood of polished open-source apps have turned what used to be an enthusiast’s pro…

Self-Hosting is Rising and Linux Users are Leading This Revolution
Self‑hosting isn’t anti‑cloud; it’s pro‑agency. It’s choosing the right locus of control for the things you care about.

So, what do I love about #NoMansSky?
This picture shows where you have followed a clue correctly, but in the wrong place.
All those little ball terminals?
Messages left from other players getting you on right path (and saying “hi”) Behind them? Someone built a base to help you get back.
Pretty cool

Sam Darnold is back: For the second straight year, the Seahawks QB looks like the right bet for a new team

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/sam-dar…

"if someone has taken a life through dangerous driving, we have to ask: why should they ever be allowed to drive again?"
Good question!
APPGCW and APPGTS asking the right questions and reaching the right answers.
https://road.cc/content/news/mps-warn-

MPs demand lifetime driving bans and stricter phone laws to address justice system "failing" families of those killed in collisions
"This report shines a light on the urgent need for reform. It's unacceptable that drivers who take lives through recklessness are allowed back on the roads while grieving families are left without a sense of justice"

After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol

Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
ENSOR: I'm on three-quarter boost as it is. She's not responding! I'm going to maximum. It's all right. It's all right. She's slowing. Compensators beginning to hold. [Ship starts to steady.] Come on, come on, that's my beauty. That's...come on. Pull us back, pull us back. All right, she's coming back. We're all right.
MARYATT: Don't do that too often, will you? I'm a very nervous passenger.

Gee, ATT - this paragon of responsibility - wants to use a diesel generator as emergency back u p- creating noise and air quality issues on a regular because it needs to be tested on a regular basis.
AND SF has an all-electric new construction ordinance - why shouldn't that apply here? (yes, I get the ordinance applies to buildings and this isn't a building - legal quibbles to allow big corps to do damage, rather than the right thing.)
At a minimum, I think appealing on…

Neighborhood finds it's hard to fight AT&T - 48 hills
Planners approve 104-foot tower in Diamond Heights over broad community opposition

Gee, ATT - this paragon of responsibility - wants to use a diesel generator as emergency back u p- creating noise and air quality issues on a regular because it needs to be tested on a regular basis.
AND SF has an all-electric new construction ordinance - why shouldn't that apply here? (yes, I get the ordinance applies to buildings and this isn't a building - legal quibbles to allow big corps to do damage, rather than the right thing.)
At a minimum, I think appealing on…

Neighborhood finds it's hard to fight AT&T - 48 hills
Planners approve 104-foot tower in Diamond Heights over broad community opposition

You see a detective on the TV and he’s interviewing all the suspects asking them what they were doing on the night of the murder a month ago last Tuesday night.
And on the TV, the suspects all know. Right away.
If you asked me ten years ago though, I’d have had barely any clue. If you’re lucky it’d have been something planned in my calendar but mostly, dunno. Watching TV maybe? No idea what show. Was that a night I was in the pub?
As we all get older this problem increases I’m told. Eventually full on senility sets in.
But what if you have already built the habit to record what you’re doing? To be able to look back and revise and review how you spent your days? An external aid as a crutch to your own forgetful brain’s cortex?
So I started this Exocortex Log over a decade ago and now I can answer: Ten years ago on Tuesday I was having dinner with the guitarist from my band and his girlfriend and they burned the pudding.
The app has been half finished and barely able to even record let alone review for most of that time, but now it’s ready enough that someone else might use it too if they want.
Try it out: #lifeLog #app #memoryAid

Two things are worth noticing right now:
1. The military brass *did not* respond well to Trump and Hegseth.
2. The deployment to #Portland keeps getting delayed.
The military will never say "no" to the president (unless he's literally ordering them to open fire on unarmed civilians or something equally obviously illegal). But there are ways to not comply that don't necessarily involve refusal. Brass showing that they aren't aligned with Trump may weaken his billionaire backers, who might be realizing now that weak dictators who can't lead their militaries tend to get toppled... and their oligarch-backers tend to end up against walls.
If folks being ordered to send troops to #PDX don't want to comply, delaying until the there's an initial response from the lawsuit would be basically impossible to detect. The deployment to LA went far too fast, running into logistical challenges like troops sleeping on the floor. The delays we've already seen could indicate either a more careful approach or quiet resistance.
Trump will continue to escalate at every chance he gets. I would be surprised if PDX didn't give him a fight. I doubt the troops will become more interested in serving a guy who's stabbed them in the back and wasted their time at every opportunity.
It is still possible troops just won't deploy. Trump will make something up about how just the threat of an intervention was enough to make things safe or something like that. If we see that, it's 100% the military telling him to kick rocks because he's not competent enough to know when to back down.
Honestly, I think Trump wants revenge for the resistance PDX put up at the end of his last term. Any backing down from that is absolutely a big loss for him.

Aston Jeanty Draws Blunt Words After Raiders Loss to Commanders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/aston-jeanty-blunt-words-loss/?adt_ei=[email]

“How do we move forward in a way that everybody feels like they’re being engaged, they’re being heard and they’re understanding that elections have consequences?” she asks rhetorically.
“You have to come out and vote. You lose your voice if you don’t come out to vote.
One of the problems that’s happening right now is people are fearful and that’s how dictatorship begins. That’s how authoritarian regimes start.
They create this chaos and then this fear and we cannot be fe…

Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
BLAKE: It's all right, Vila. I think we've lost them.
VILA: How'd you know?
BLAKE: We're still here. Cut the auxiliaries. Get back to primary drive. [To Avon] Are you all right?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/124 B7B2

Any guy going "I'll block you if you do x"...
you are on my blocklist right now.
No goddamn threats.
Be a gangster someplace else!
I've been that guy and if you blocked me back then, well played!
You did the right thing!
We don't block people.
We block attitudes!
For fun, you can block me because of this post!
#ToughTalk

Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
MEEGAT: I will await your return.
VILA: You'll wait up there by the door?
GAN: If we make it, we'll be back.
MEEGAT: The Lord Avon will protect you. [Vila gives Gan a skeptical look and the two of them go on ahead.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/112/398

Men walking on the Jim Schug trail close to Dryden Lake
#photo #photography #portrait #dryden

Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
CALLY: Treatment unit. He tried to reconnect one of the servo links and it burned his hand.
BLAKE: Right, sit down. [All but Vila sit at a small table to the left of flight consoles] No one is to attempt to repair any equipment till the computers are back under our control.
https://blake.torpi…

Cards confirm RB Conner needs surgery, to foot https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46350202/cardinals-confirm-james-conner-needs-surgery-foot-not-ankle

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
COSER: Well, at least we can hide here.
RASHEL: Don't you see?
COSER: I should have known better. A labor-grade slave. You're pathetic.
[Reception chamber]
SERVALAN: Travis, you are pathetic.
TRAVIS: If you say so.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/53

Good Morning #Canada
Today, we celebrate the #FallEquinox, not to be confused with the Chevy Equinox, which is an entirely different thing. The Fall Equinox means summer is officially over, and some of you missed 3 weeks of nice weather when you gave up back on Labour Day. Right now, day and night are roughly equal, more or less, across Canada, but our days are getting shorter for the next several months, until December 21st-ish. Start thinking about snow tires and Christmas shopping because the calendar moves quickly this time of year. If you're in the Southern Hemisphere, please ignore this message.
Some bonus content - your Fall 2025 #Horoscope. It's from the CBC, our national news service, so you know it must be accurate. I read mine (Virgo) several times and haven't got a clue what it means. So I've got that going for me.
#CanadaIsAwesome ##WinterIsComing
https://www.cbc.ca/life/culture/fall-equinox-horoscope-2025-1.7638561

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
VILA: But if it's wrong! If he's lying!
DAYNA: Just be ready to bring me straight back up! All right, down. [Vila operates teleport]
VILA: [To Deral] You'd better be right.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/542 B7B4

Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
VINNI: You're not good enough to get past me, Tarrant.
DEETA: You're going to look pretty silly flat on your back with a face full of footprints.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/213 B7B3

Asters from Shindagin Hollow State Forest
#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling

#Blakes7 D07 - Assassin
BENOS: Look, when I say I win, I win. Right? [Knocks him down and kicks him - cut back to Avon and Vila]
VILA: Friendly looking lot aren't they? Are you sure you can manage them on your own? [Avon hands his gun to Vila]
htt…

Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
AVON: About two billion tons, I would say.
TARRANT: Range one hundred thousand and closing.
DAYNA: Well, then I say the whole scheme's crazy.
AVON: Why?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/9 B7B5