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This is a link to a French petition on police violence, but the accompanying cartoon is brilliant
Someone has added a silhouette figure of a CRS riot police thug to a school crossing sign. He's about to clout the children with raised baton.
https://fed.brid.gy/r…

Raphaël Pradeau (@raphpradeau.bsky.social)
Malgré de nombreux problèmes de connexion sur le site de l'Assemblée nationale, plus de 44 000 personnes ont déjà signé la pétition pour empêcher la police de mutiler les jeunes. Objectif 500 000 ! Signez et faites circuler 👇 https://petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/i-7231

Ok so bringing a headphone amp, all set up, when checking out new guitars is pretty genius tbh. @… https://mas.to/@baronvonj/117052433600456688

Reinhold Messner's moving message about the recent death of Nirmal Purja and ten others:
What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard.
I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away.
And yet l also know that, for some, …

Reinhold Messner on Instagram: "It’s a kind gesture, and everyone grieves and remembers in their own way. What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard. I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away. And yet I also know that, for some, there is a quiet comfort in knowing they were in the place they loved most, doing what gave their life meaning. My thoughts are with all the families, friends, and everyone who loved them. Pls remember a human being is never an object. A life is measured by presence, not by tributes. #thinking #memories #"
97K likes, 854 comments - reinholdmessner_official on August 2, 2026: "It’s a kind gesture, and everyone grieves and remembers in their own way. What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard. I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away. And yet I …

Barrett Pall shows some problems we have with content theft and influence campaigns: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbmRIg2qknY/
Part of why non-centralized social media matter. Platforms owned by single-owners (like meta’s [facebook, instagram, threads, whatsapp, etc.], tiktok, twitter, etc.…

BARRETT PALL on Instagram: "It isn’t just #MEN that are stealing EVERYTHING from EVERYONE to sell you other peoples work, image, and reputation anymore. The goal is to get everyone doing this. We have to SLOW DOWN and rebuild our attention spans. Plz follow my 3 click rule. #women #womenempowerment #feminism #feminist"
112K likes, 1,976 comments - barrettpall on August 3, 2026: "It isn’t just #MEN that are stealing EVERYTHING from EVERYONE to sell you other peoples work, image, and reputation anymore. The goal is to get everyone doing this. We have to SLOW DOWN and rebuild our attention spans. Plz follow my 3 click rule. #women #womenempowerment #feminism #feminist".

AeS has better policy positions, HS has a solid legislative record. They BOTH have style issues. This is why I was for McMorrow (good policy & legislative chops) but that was not to be.
The fact that there’s such a breadth of Fash trying to stop AeS is telling. They don’t want him compared to Mike Rogers, the most boring establishment candidate alive.
HS’s style — careful, wooden, scripted, centrist — makes her a shit opponent for Rogers. @…

Bill Cole (@scconsult.com)
It is incredibly annoying to see so much obvious organized *international* tooting/skeeting in the Michigan Democratic Party primary for the US Senate. Especially since most of it seems to be aimed at making them both look bad. Like a German I saw on the Fediverse concern-trolling polls…

Sorting and purging photos and this really is one of my favorites ever. Activist Sandra Barrett and me photobombing #Memphis #police chief CJ Davis on #Beale Street for 901 Day.
Photo courtesy Daily Memphian.…

Oh, great. Just looked at Hetzner’s new pricing for VPS servers:
CPX22 (dedicated vCPU): €7.99 − €19.49 ( 143.8%)
So that’s fun. I guess one way to ensure the Small Web doesn’t happen is to make it prohibitively expensive for people to have their own servers.
(Before anyone mentions it, prices of single-board computers are also increasing and shipping hardware is an even bigger challenge.)
If anyone knows cheaper EU-based hosts, please leave a comment.
It’s so m…

The content of the article is interesting as well. Using a sponge that oxidizes NH4 to NO3 , filters metals, and hosts a diverse microbiome @… https:…

reggie seidman (@ennui.org)
my congratulations to the photographer for capturing a sponge with a very precise anatomical resemblance (cool story too) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/01/sea-chicken-liver-sponge-filter-pollutants-harbour-spain-costa-brava

This was part of my frustration with working in policy enforcement, a.k.a. Abuse Desk. No one bothers to report abuse. That’s a 2-nines “no one.”
The worst embedded autoplaying horse porn email spammers generate at most single-digit-percentage abuse reports. I’m sure social media is much worse, because people have acclimatized themselves to social media being full of garbage that no one will stop.
#Sysadminnery

The Quiet Place (2024)
(Actually only half true. More up close, glaciers are full of the most amazing sounds... yet from this distance, higher up, all you can hear is the wind and your own breath/heartbeat...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography