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War Notes: From the battlefield: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/05/war-notes-from-the-battlefield.html

Betaalpas voor achteraf betalen in winkels al 70.000 keer gedownload, AFM bezorgd
https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2593308-betaalpas-voor-achteraf-betalen-in-winkels-al-70-000-keer-gedownload-afm-bezorgd
Een VVD minister die maar traag reageert als een bedrijf via een geitenpaadje (vooral jonge) consumenten in de problemen brengt. 🤔

"Battlefield 6": EA zeigt sich mit Kampf gegen Cheater zufrieden
Die meisten "Battlefield 6"-Partien sind frei von Cheatern, schreibt EA. Zu verdanken sei das auch der Secure-Boot-Pflicht.
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We're not made of sugar. We're made of sterner stuff than the coders of this weather app!

Am I overreacting? Someone has been boosting interesting toots from an interesting blogger into my timeline, but every one has a (relatively discrete) AI image at the top, so I've blocked the blogger.
I already flick past almost automatically when I detect visual slop, so it won't change much.
Hygiene or bubble?

RE: https://mastodon.online/@xankarn/115502660561219938
Just don't Douthat

RE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/115667062209770473
I straddle that line, 50:50 coffee:tea

I think about this every time I pass the bus stop where it happened (now built out to protect people better). Two young men from two very different versions of Limerick city, two lives destroyed (one very much by his own actions).
https://www.

Sentence for gangland figure who killed student Joe Drennan increased by five years
Limerick student was killed in hit and run crash in which convicted man had filmed himself speeding

Ahh, the Orange Order, living in the 19th century but fervently hoping for a quick return the the 17th.
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/11/06/orange-order-sends-letter-of-complaint-to-king-charles-a…

Orange Order sends letter of complaint to King Charles after he prayed with Pope Leo
Vatican visit marked first joint worship with a British monarch and a Catholic pontiff since Henry VIII’s rule

French media on Americans migrating to Ireland, fleeing Trump.
9,600 so far in 2025, 26k applications. Mostly affluent, some with trans kids, English makes it easier.
#mastodaoine

REPORTAGE. "On aurait dû faire ça il y a des années" : ces Américains qui s'installent en Irlande sur fond d'i
En 2025, près de 9 600 Américains ont posé leurs valises en Irlande, un chiffre qui a explosé depuis l'élection de Donald Trump. Mais ceux qui peuvent se permettre de partir sont souvent les plus aisés.