2025-11-28 17:40:19
Vultures don't spread disease, and they don't circle because they're waiting for things to die -- they're just riding thermals
https://www.livescience.com/animals/birds/why-do-vultures-circle
Vultures don't spread disease, and they don't circle because they're waiting for things to die -- they're just riding thermals
https://www.livescience.com/animals/birds/why-do-vultures-circle
google_plus: Google (2013)
Snapshot of connections among users of Google , collected in 2012. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 211187 nodes and 1506896 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_
Oh wild! Full circle moment today when I found out #jellyfin uses PlaylistsNET, a library I contributed to years before even hearing about Jellyfin 🤓
#OpenSource is so cool!
#programming
We have come full circle from "of course we only use AI for prototypes" over "AI is amazing but obviously it needs experts checking on the output and extensive refactoring" to "let's just ship the slop".
google_plus: Google (2013)
Snapshot of connections among users of Google , collected in 2012. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 211187 nodes and 1506896 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_
I bought the Pearl Jam album Vitalogy in 1994 and on the very first track, Eddie Vedder emphatically told me many times that I needed to spin the black circle. And all these years later, I've never forgotten that important advice
Hey guys? Y'know "Secret Level" S1E6, "Pac-Man: Circle"?
WHAT THE &%$# WAS THAT?
▶️ Watch Secret Level - Season 1 on Prime Video!
https://watch.amazon.com/detail?gti=amzn1.dv.gt…
The Bonfire team have met their first “maintenance” fundraising goal. The next stretch goal is designing and shipping federated groups.
There is lots of good writing in this post about the needs of different types of groups.
https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-<…
marker_cafe: The Marker Cafe (2011)
Snapshot of connections among users of the Israeli social network Marker Cafe, collected in 2011. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 69413 nodes and 1644849 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://
Circle launches USDCx, a privacy-focused version of its USDC stablecoin on the Aleo blockchain, to give users "banking-level privacy" with a "compliance record" (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/09/circle-privacy-stablecoin-aleo-uds…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FreakZonePlaylist
Psychic Circle:
🎵 Dawn of the Psychic Circle
#PsychicCircle
https://thepsychiccircle.bandcamp.com/track/golden-dawn
https://open.spotify.com/track/4kqXOoF8UmDJLPPj8dwCpI
I honestly take this to mean he would rather the USA take over Canada rather than China….
We know China isn’t interested in military takeovers. So….
Canada, including Alberta, needs to circle the wagons.
#theAmericaFascist
Jeffrey Epstein Had Access to Trump's Inner Circle, While Working With Steve Bannon (Nafeez Ahmed/Byline Times)
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/jeffrey-epstein-had-access-to-trumps-inner-circle-while-working-with-steve-bannon/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p164#a251117p164
Zelensky's new inner circle: The power shift behind Ukraine's latest reset: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/zelenskys-new-inner-circle-the.html
🐾 Bronze statue "Song of the vowels" as a 3-d scan I took when I was out yesterday; you can see my tracks as a circle around it
🧊 #cornell
Self-interest over ideology
as disparate inner circle shapes Trump foreign policy
Administration officials,
his family and even
Mar-a-Lago guests
wield outsized influence
on a mercurial president
“Trump is more accessible to a broader range of voices than any president in recent history,”
said Ian Bremmer,
president of the Eurasia Group.
“He’s on his phone constantly and people
– friends, business associates, media
– co…
I am not against AI. I am against technology built on copyright violation and sweatshop labor that is actively undermining our ability to save the planet from baking so that people can produce more propaganda and pollute the common well.
If the Venn Diagram seems like a circle, that's not my fault.
#AI #LLM
Learnt today that the last circle in Dantes inferno accually is getting out of the parking at a shopping mall the day before x-mas. Blody horrific!
Un rezagado de la temporada 2025 que no había escuchado. De la bajista, violinista y cantante argentina Paz Lenchantin, ex A Perfect Circle y ex Pixies: «Triste»
https://album.link/s/6yEqvXWYVKJ9WNmrBkIojC
Oder full-circle Moment: Java
Schön, mein Fedi Circle ist gewachsen. ☺️
#CyberCircleCreator #FediCircle
In a groundhog day loop of explaining why this hierarchical model cannot effectively be represented in the unified flat format they're trying to push. You can absolutely represent it in a flattened way, but it requires breaking out the child components into their own collection.
We end, once again, with the telling pause of disinterest and multitasking, followed by a distracted "mmm hmm" and promises to circle back on it later.
Awawa borealis
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Vital Remains:
🎵 Ceremony of the Seventh Circle
#VitalRemains
https://peaceville.bandcamp.com/track/ceremony-of-the-seventh-circle
https://open.spotify.com/track/2dXhzAWIKIcJKiIA2raBzb
In the Arctic (the 15 million km² area above the Arctic Circle), October was the warmest on record: 4.5°C above the 1981-2010 average, that's over 5°C above pre-industrial temperature!
https://fediscience.org/@ZLabe/115514465437344892
Circle reports Q3 revenue up 66% YoY to $739.8M, USDC in Circulation at quarter end up 108% YoY to $73.7B, and net income up 202% YoY to $214M; CRCL drops 5% (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/circle-quarterly-revenue-rises-stablecoin-gr…
Q&A with Christopher Anderson, who photographed Trump's inner circle for VF: "My job is to ... draw on my experience as a journalist and photograph what I see" (Shane O'Neill/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power
'No shirt, no shirt': Bears HC Ben Johnson's viral celebration triggers free hot dogs https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47170519/chicago-bears-ben-johnson-shirtless-celebration-wieners-circle-free-hot-dogs
@… @… can you help? Y/N (circle one)
It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Sól is the shield of the clouds
and shining ray
and destroyer of ice."
Icelandic rune poem
🏛️ Sunna aka Sól in her Chariot, pyrography on pine by Debra Arnold, 2009
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Buffy Sainte-Marie:
🎵 The Circle Game
#NowPlaying #BuffySainteMarie
https://kisszanto.bandcamp.com/track/buffy-sainte-marie-the-circle-game-kisszanto-ethno-folk-rave-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5TTBGJd8Fkr66OX8j8adCH
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.
i found these two gems at the record store up the street and, at twelve bucks each, couldn't resist. i listened to these LPs (and dream weaver and forest flower) a ton in high school.
#jazz #vinyl #vinylrecords
Evidence for the Keplerian orbit of a close companion around a giant star: #exoplanets
Visa says it will allow US banks to settle transactions using Circle's USDC stablecoin over Solana, the US' first full deployment of a stablecoin settlement (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Metropolitana VII - 🆙 🆙 🆙
城 VII - 🆙 🆙 🆙
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
(Not a #30DayMapChallenge map)
I was so busy the past couple of days that I missed the news that there’s a category-1 typhoon (#Kalmaegi / #TinoPH) that’s about to make landfall in a few hours in th…
From #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
#PUTIN PURGES INNER CIRCLE: MINISTERS OLIGARCHS INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS Vlog 1291: War in #Ukraine
Russian
Looking for a citation. I used to have it and cannot find it. This diagram of two half circles depicts a world ending and a world emerging. I saw it on a poster in a video of lady giving a talk. I don't think it was a Youtube. I've searched through my history and my files and I don't where I put this info.
She is an activist. Anyone know who she is? Or have an early source of this diagram? (I'm less interested in folks who have ripped her work without citation). Thank …
Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
BLAKE: Well, put up our estimated position. [An additional circle is added to main viewscreen close to one of the existing circles] That's too close to something we can't see.
JENNA: And we're not sure is there.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/146
Okay, for those who want to switch Email providers and think about Fastmail (as I described in my article https://tante.cc/2026/01/05/exiting-the-billionaire-castle/ ):
This link gives you 10% off your first year. (It will give me 10 USD, too, so you can consider this a…
"Carmina Burana: Songs From The Original Manuscript" - Studio der Frühen Musik (1968)
#NowPlaying #StudioDerFruhenMusik #ThomasBinkley
Kash Patel’s high-flying habits roil Trump’s circle as new posh hunting trip revealed - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/kash-patel-2674286975/
google_plus: Google (2013)
Snapshot of connections among users of Google , collected in 2012. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 211187 nodes and 1506896 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_
Happy #Caturday. Have a circle cat.
Gamification enhances user engagement and task performance in prosthetic vision testing https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.20.25342740v2 "Three Argus II users completed circle localization and motion direction discrimination in clinical and gamified ver…
White House inner circle seeks to get Trump on script (Julia Manchester/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5655881-trump-white-house-address-script/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p39#a251219p39
#Genuary10 #Genuary2026: Polar coordinates
Circular Fold (2022), an animated circle inversion loop. Made with #ThingUmbrella.
.@… coin from #39C3
Finished the DLC of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. What a great mystlike game. Don't let the boss battles and kicking the living sh!t out of Nazis and fascists deter you from having an excellent time going into every nook and cranny and soaking up the Indy experience. I've finished the game, and I haven't even halved the things you could see and collect in the Vatican level alone! A solid 9/10 only because it doesn't have a third-person view at least as an option.
…
Glad to see that everything comes full circle, though I do prefer notebooks to binders.
https://boingboing.net/2025/11/11/mike-johnson-proudly-announces-notebooks-full-of-ideas-describes-none.html
I am currently revising my ‘Path-to-Circle Projection’ in #OpenSCAD.
Believe it or not they were worried about German Battleships approaching the New England coast in WWI so they built a huge earth berm at what is now Odiorne Point State Park with two tunnels under it -- that circle you can see once held a turret with two 16 inch battleship guns
#photo #photography
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@dougcoulson/115693460558643639
Such a circle jerk.
"Faculty who teach a foundational education in Americanism and Western Civilization course would be eligible for tenure, including submitting expedited applications,…
Bills CB Tre'Davious White basks in full-circle moment leading defense to playoff win https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6962245/2026/01/11/tredavious-white-bills-jaguars-defense/
Artist #BoramieSao will be visiting campus on January 24. We're putting up her painting that's part of our collection AND borrowing its companion piece as part of the exhibition "We, Too, Are Made of Wonders." The two paintings are mirror images, one dark, one light. Read on to learn a little more about the artist and her work.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Big Head Todd and The Monsters:
🎵 Circle
#BigHeadToddandTheMonsters
https://2metersessies.bandcamp.com/track/circle
https://open.spotify.com/track/3gUFcAz4TdQ2vA5CaNNw5e
google_plus: Google (2013)
Snapshot of connections among users of Google , collected in 2012. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 211187 nodes and 1506896 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_
🧊Trump's ICE quagmire; Dems' ICE reversal 🧊 (Rachael Bade/The Inner Circle, with Rachael Bade)
https://rachaelbade.substack.com/p/trumps-ice-quagmire-dems-ice-reversal
http://www.memeorandum.com/260119/p109#a260119p109
google_plus: Google (2013)
Snapshot of connections among users of Google , collected in 2012. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 211187 nodes and 1506896 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_
"In 2025 I have spend some time to untangle my digital life from billionaire/fascist run platforms. So at the beginning of 2026 maybe it makes sense to talk a bit about what I did, why I went certain ways and what works and what doesn’t."
(Original title: Exiting the Billionaire Castle)
https://
Entrance to the Summerland Farm Preserve -- along the route the Fingerlakes trail takes from Rt 79 to the top of the overlooking hill to the south
#photo #photography #outdoors
Fearing a ‘Maduro repeat,’ Putin prepares sweeping purge of his inner circle: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/07/fearing-a-maduro-repeat-putin.html
Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"After Dionysos had demonstrated to the Thebans that he was a god, he went to Argos where again he drove the women mad when the people did not pay him honour, and up in the mountains the women fed on the flesh of the babies suckling at their breasts."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.37
🏛 Dionysos Mosaic, …
Urban Adventure II 🏞️
城市探险 II 🏞️
📷Nikon FE
🎞️Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
For Living Lovers:
🎵 Open Circle
#ForLivingLovers
https://forlivinglovers.bandcamp.com/track/open-circle
https://open.spotify.com/track/2mCF22IABlAckUlobBKQ7T
Jason Proctor is contributing to the CBC's live blog scroll from a legal perspective and as always, his stuff is illumniating. I'll paste his report in because it can get lost in the scroll easily.
"Creditors circle as cull looms
Jason Proctor
I'm Jason Proctor, a reporter with CBC Vancouver who looked into a series of lawsuits facing the owners of Universal Ostrich Farms Inc.
Last month, I spoke with three creditors who are watching today's ruling with great interest — and some skin in the game.
B.C. Supreme Court judges have ordered the farm's owners to repay debts worth more than $250,000 but, up until now, the creditors have been unable to collect. Normally in this kind of situation, a creditor would move to seize the business assets — but because in this case those assets are ostriches caught up in a legal battle, that's been challenging, to say the least.
All three creditors have tried to garnish the CFIA to intercept any money the agency might pay out as compensation for killing the birds (potentially up to $3,000 a bird, the CFIA says) but it remains to be seen how that will work. The creditors, however, told me they are anxious to recoup their losses.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/bc-ostrich-farm-decision-scoc-9.6968394?ts=1762453717737
Three members of a Chicago white nationalist group have been identified thanks to the work of anonymous antifascist infiltrators.
Using license plates from their vehicles and personal details shared in a private vetting chat,
an activist who gained access to their inner circle identified the men behind the group as James Hammans (37), Džiugas Dirzys (22), and Arkadiusz Kowalczyk (38).
Unraveled has verified the information collected and confirmed the identities of the three …
google_plus: Google (2013)
Snapshot of connections among users of Google , collected in 2012. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 211187 nodes and 1506896 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_
Beim @… in der Timeline den #CyberCircleCreator entdeckt.
https://ccc.cyber.to/
2025 NFL MVP odds, scenarios: How Matthew Stafford, Drake Maye or Josh Allen can take home the trophy
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nfl-mvp-odds-scenarios/
There’s quotation marks around “Mindshift Conference” because it obviously wasn’t an actual conference, it was a private island getaway circle jerk tax deduction at best, and at worst it was, well, you know what.
Artemis Analytics: total stablecoin transaction volumes rose 72% YoY to a record $33T in 2025, led by Circle's USDC at $18.3T and Tether's USDT at $13.3T (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
google_plus: Google (2013)
Snapshot of connections among users of Google , collected in 2012. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 211187 nodes and 1506896 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_
👀Machado to meet with Trump to give him her Nobel Peace Prize (Rachael Bade/The Inner Circle, with Rachael Bade)
https://rachaelbade.substack.com/p/machado-to-meet-with-trump-to-give
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p57#a260109p57
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
Haarnick:
🎵 Shaho Dayereh (King & Circle)
#Haarnick
https://open.spotify.com/track/0HAzKkdcyolAcTN9N2y86j
google_plus: Google (2013)
Snapshot of connections among users of Google , collected in 2012. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 211187 nodes and 1506896 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_
Dutch fintech Bunq applies to become a US bank; the OCC conditionally approved national trust bank charters for several crypto firms in 2025, including Circle (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-07…
google_plus: Google (2013)
Snapshot of connections among users of Google , collected in 2012. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 211187 nodes and 1506896 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_
marker_cafe: The Marker Cafe (2011)
Snapshot of connections among users of the Israeli social network Marker Cafe, collected in 2011. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 69413 nodes and 1644849 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://
marker_cafe: The Marker Cafe (2011)
Snapshot of connections among users of the Israeli social network Marker Cafe, collected in 2011. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 69413 nodes and 1644849 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://
google_plus: Google (2013)
Snapshot of connections among users of Google , collected in 2012. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 211187 nodes and 1506896 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_
marker_cafe: The Marker Cafe (2011)
Snapshot of connections among users of the Israeli social network Marker Cafe, collected in 2011. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 69413 nodes and 1644849 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://
google_plus: Google (2013)
Snapshot of connections among users of Google , collected in 2012. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 211187 nodes and 1506896 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_
google_plus: Google (2013)
Snapshot of connections among users of Google , collected in 2012. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 211187 nodes and 1506896 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_
marker_cafe: The Marker Cafe (2011)
Snapshot of connections among users of the Israeli social network Marker Cafe, collected in 2011. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 69413 nodes and 1644849 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://
google_plus: Google (2013)
Snapshot of connections among users of Google , collected in 2012. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 211187 nodes and 1506896 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_
marker_cafe: The Marker Cafe (2011)
Snapshot of connections among users of the Israeli social network Marker Cafe, collected in 2011. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 69413 nodes and 1644849 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://
google_plus: Google (2013)
Snapshot of connections among users of Google , collected in 2012. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 211187 nodes and 1506896 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_
marker_cafe: The Marker Cafe (2011)
Snapshot of connections among users of the Israeli social network Marker Cafe, collected in 2011. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 69413 nodes and 1644849 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://
marker_cafe: The Marker Cafe (2011)
Snapshot of connections among users of the Israeli social network Marker Cafe, collected in 2011. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 69413 nodes and 1644849 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://
marker_cafe: The Marker Cafe (2011)
Snapshot of connections among users of the Israeli social network Marker Cafe, collected in 2011. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 69413 nodes and 1644849 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://