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Boycott Reebok – @…’s newsletter about tomorrow’s Day of Action.
https://tansyhoskins.org/boycott-reebok/

Boycott Reebok
International day of action against Reebok

Anyone out there able to help Nadeen out at the last minute so she can pay her (and her sister’s) tuition to continue their studies? You would be gifting the world two new dentists for the low price of $2,000.
The last day for them to register is tomorrow.
Please share donate if you can.
💕
#academia

shoutout to Muni operators keeping their buses and the city moving under chaotic conditions with a lot of signals out 🫡
I was on a 22 passing 16th & Bryant and wondered why it was taking so long. the signal was out at that ridiculous intersection!
the professionalism and focus under stress of Muni’s well-trained union operators is an inspiration every day

1/ Money is definitely a serious cause of tension between C and I. I resent the fact that she has so much money in the bank but I’m the one bringing in most of the money on a day to day basis. I’m capital poor but have a decent income and she’s the opposite. This dynamic means that I have to watch what I spend while she continues to buy whatever she wants. To be fair, she does pull her weight on the general outgoings but I resent the fact she has additional cash to throw around that I do…

Trans Day of Remembrance, with info from Quinn:
https://hachyderm.io/@quintessence/115582213420127292
A4TE highlights 58 who’ve died this year:

quintessence :blobfoxcofecute: (@quintessence@hachyderm.io)
Attached: 1 image A reminder: today is the Trans Day of Remembrance. For those unfamiliar, this is when we remember trans people who were killed by acts of violence. On a day like this, and in the current broader crisis as well: it can be hard to remember that you are loved and to allow yourself to feel that love. Please take extra care of yourselves today. Practicing both compassion for ourselves and compassion for each other is incredibly important in grief. Although many of us have lost…

Lifehack:
Activate your Out-of-Office responder already on the morning of your last day at work, saying you're away from today 1 to date x.
Most people won't read the exact phrasing, thus you have time to tie up all the lose ends without getting buried under new "Can you please do this before your vacation?" requests.
#lifehack

It wasn’t the best day for photos with lots of low cloud but it was really lovely out on the Bogong High Plains today. Spotted a nankeen kestrel and a gang gang cockatoo. A handful of hikers and 3 other runners out there, otherwise had the place to myself. #trailrunning #bogonghighplains

#3GoodThingsToday
1. My wife and I got to see her beautiful sister one last time today before she died.
2. I didn’t have to shovel snow from my roadway because there was a blizzard all day.
3. I got to squeeze in a practice on my tuba today.

1,700 losses per day! Russian infantry is being wiped out by drones, especially near Pokrovsk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/17/losses-per-day-russian-infantry.html

Holy sh*t, what timing. The National Nuclear Security Administration, or NNSA, is furloughing 1,400 people on a day that I broke the story that a foreign threat actor infiltrated the NNSA's Kansas City manufacturing plant.
This story broke after my exclusive on how foreign threat actors infiltrated the NNSA''s Kansas City plant went live.

Federal agency overseeing US nuclear stockpile will furlough most of its workforce starting Monday
The federal agency responsible for overseeing and modernizing the US nuclear stockpile will furlough the vast majority of its staff Monday as the government shutdown drags on, according to the Department of Energy.

When product designers have a really bad day:
https://masto.hackers.town/@catsalad/115018094453467110

CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.B.) (@catsalad@masto.hackers.town)
Attached: 1 image Oh this is evil

Happy #PHP 8.5 release day! Keep in mind that the first 8.5.0 #Docker/#OCI images will show up in 8 hours till a couple of days after the release.
P.S. Mine are updated till the latest RC and will swap in the final with no tag changes:

Original post: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/4Cp4SL4BB3K4Mrr44z
From: @…

benjojo:
Happy us-east-1 day for those who celebrate

COUNTDOWN: 1 day to No Kings 2
Today's Action: commit to being there
It MUST be important to go to No Kings.
Because Trump, Mike Johnson and the MAGA establishment have all declared they don't want you to go
Local No Kings:
noon 10/18,
Alameda Park,
1400 Santa Barbara St.
#NoKings

Indivisible Santa Barbara (@indivisiblesb.bsky.social)
COUNTDOWN: 1 day to No Kings 2 Today's Action: commit to being there It MUST be important to go to No Kings. Because Trump, Mike Johnson and the MAGA establishment have all declared they don't want you to go Local No Kings: noon 10/18, Alameda Park, 1400 Santa Barbara St. #NoKings #indivisiblesb

It was a beautiful day for #flying in southern California. Visibility was at least 90 miles, and I managed to squeeze nearly 2 hours out of a few thermals near Warner Springs before making a stop at Santa Catalina Island on the way home.
#aviation

1/ Pretty epic falling out with C yesterday. It started first thing in the morning when I discovered she hadn’t phoned the doctors to make an appointment. She’s bed bound with abdominal pain meaning that I’m having to care for her and baby full time. I’m happy to do that but I do expect C to play her part by seeking medical help. She did then contact the surgery, but doing it late meant she was unlikely to get a same day appointment.

You can't “overbuild” internet infrastructure. Just like highways, demand always catches up. Except fiber doesn't kill forests.
#fiber #unifi #network

Raiders report: No. 1 wide receiver misses 2nd straight practice https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-report-no-1-wide-receiver-misses-2nd-straight-practice-3508848/

Internal docs show Meta's Vibes AI video feed has about 2M DAUs as of November 9, up 1% from the previous week; ~52% of returning users prompted the AI (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-vibes-ai-internal-…

Internal documents show how many people are using Meta's Vibes AI feed each day
The documents show Meta Vibes' daily usage and global growth trends, highlighting user engagement in India, Brazil, Europe, and Southeast Asia.

For those tracking my rehab: today was a great day!
Over the course of the day I drove to Costco and picked up a few things✱, assembled a really nice sofa table we bought on Etsy, and did 3 laps around the family room without aid.
Rn, 11 days post op my pain is a 1-2. (Probably 3–4 at bedtime which is the most painful part of my day.
✱ got there before regular member access (we upgraded to executive membership to reward their DEI position) I also used an electric scooter/c…

At least 1 killed, 20 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/20/at-least-killed-injured-in.html

One of the great shames of my software career is that I have not once but •twice• been a part of a project where I found out only after I was off the project that a male manager or client had been just absolutely, utterly •wretched• to a female teammate.
In both cases, it happened out of my sight. I had no idea what was going on.
I still think to this day about my obliviousness: how I could have found out sooner, what warning signs I missed, what I could have done to stick up for my female colleagues.
1/ https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115570002490755386

“We lead by love. This is community. We send no orders, there’s no orders out here, just people defending each other. And we don’t need a f*cking gun to do it. We don’t need body armor to do it. We don’t need to beat up protestors, we don’t need to beat up fake news to do it. We show up, put our f*cking bodies on the line because we don’t f*ck with n*zis. Maybe one day, maybe one day, you can say the same. Community will welcome you back…”
🧵 1/2

855/day avg.
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,187,780 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
https://kyivindependent.com/general-staff-russia-has-lost-1-187-780-troops-in-ukraine-since-feb-24-2022/

Fernando Mendoza at No. 1 ... to the Jets? Reid predicts Round 1 in his midseason NFL mock draft https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/46583887/2026-nfl-mock-draft-first-round-predictions-32-picks-jordan-reid

Are there any admins on social.tchncs.de.? Is anonymously spreading lies about over 30 families in Gaza allowed on this instance?
This anonymous coward has been chased off of every server he’s been on and yet he’s still here, still attacking people suffering from genocide and famine.
(And yes, some folks copy posts from others. We’ve asked them not to. But they’re trying to survive genocide, not win social media awards.)
Also (see his second post) we’re not attempting to r…

Linux Is Best (@Linux@social.tchncs.de)
Attached: 2 images 1 of 2 First, let me say: what’s happening in Gaza is absolutely awful. But what’s also awful is that there are dishonest people taking advantage of others during a crisis. In one photo, from Facebook (my job, where I work), we had a woman claiming to be a 36-year-old mother of two children, ages 4 and 7. She spaced out the URL in her post, hoping it wouldn’t get flagged by spam filters (it did). The very next day, someone on the Fediverse posted the exact same messa…

Good Morning #Canada
Checking my fake holiday calendar, and I see it's Go For A Ride Day. I guess that could include cars, trains, skateboards, horses, and your favourite human, but let's focus on bicycles. Some people say Canada is too big to have a cycling culture and that's why there's only 1 bike for every 4 Canadians. But those are the people who have never heard of cities... or are named Doug Ford. Only 6% of Canadians are active commuters, meaning walking or biking, but it's more prevalent in Victoria (18.7%) and Halifax (12.3%). About one-third (34%) of neighbourhoods across Canada have no cycling infrastructure but some municipalities have invested in high-comfort bike lanes (dedicated & protected pathways), including Montréal (360 km), Vancouver (246 km), Edmonton (226 km) and Québec City (190 km).
Here's some #StatsCan data on commuting by bike.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Biking #GetOutside
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/6203-bike-work-day-cycling-through-data

Cloudflare is pulling a us-east-1. I guess Twitter sits behind Cloudflare now because it appears to be offline.
Nice thing about phpc.social is we touch neither AWS nor Cloudflare for core services, so we're still up.
Wish I could say the same for some stuff at my day job.

And sometimes they disagree and you have a shitty day.
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115395314549695324

Today I learned (@todayilearned@noc.social)
Attached: 1 image TIL the anal sphincters and the brain work together to determine if something passing is gas or stool. https://zoe.com/learn/how-your-rectum-differentiates-gas-stool #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1o9v689/til_the_anal_sphincters_and_the_brain_work/

Auffällige Häufung zum Thema Quellenangaben heute.
Erst heute Nacht lange vor Boost durchgeklickt, ob ein Video echt ist, weil kein Link zu vertrauenswürdiger Quelle angegeben war
Dann kam der schöne Post "Die unartigen Uploader oder warum Quellenangaben wichtig sind" (https://open…

U.S. Enters 15th Day of Late-Night Jokes About Government Shutdown (Trish Bendix/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/arts/television/jimmy-kimmel-government-shutdown.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t08.VCnB.j2o1YytvJ6Ww&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p16#a251016p16

2026 NFL Mock Draft: Should Heisman Trophy Favorite Fernando Mendoza Go No. 1? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-mock-draft-should-heisman-trophy-favorite-fernando-mendoza-go-no-1

Apropos of a gas station exploding in my neighborhood: Fossil fuel infrastructure is an ecological disaster every day, especially when there isn't an accident, when everything is "working" "safely."
https://theonion.com/millions-of-barre

Millions Of Barrels Of Oil Safely Reach Port In Major Environmental Catastrophe
PORT FOURCHON, LA—In what may be the greatest environmental disaster in the nation’s history, the supertanker TI Oceania docked without incident at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port Monday and successfully unloaded 3.1 million barrels of dangerous crude oil into the United States.

@… https://mas.to/@buffyleigh/115390781635403341

buffy leigh (she/they) (@buffyleigh@mas.to)
Attached: 1 image "It’s a great metaphor. For what? I don’t know to this day. But I know it’s a great metaphor." - Werner Herzog

@… 1.
Ultimately not changing the clock 2 times per year is my first priority.
But to the “I just really want the sun to be highest at one hour after noon crowd” all I can say is:
Have you tried getting up and going to sleep one hour earlier every day?
You can do that, without inflicting your insanity on the rest of us.

Solidarität bei Korruption besonders groß unter Sportfunktionären. Egal ob #FIFA , #UCI oder #IOC.
#Lappartient …

Derek van Vliet (@derekvanvliet@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image the guy who insisted that we "keep politics out of cycling" a few weeks ago has logged on to wish his buddy, the former president of France, best wishes on the day he reports to prison for a 5 year sentence

I am going to grab a coffee and then watch the live stream for day 1 of #swib25 which will start in a few minutes at https://forum.swib.org/t/swib25-livestream-chat/850

#AdventOfSystemSeeing @… I started a bit late but had a go at Day 1, draw a bicycle. …

Advent(ure) in System Seeing — Day 1
Draw a bicycle and sketch a key mechanism

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Busy day, did this earlier on my phone, can't say I remember much about it!

A new study has found that
eating 50 grams (1.76 ounces) or more of high-fat cheese a day
correlates with a lower risk of developing dementia.
That includes all cheeses with more than 20 percent fat content,
like brie, gouda, cheddar, parmesan, gruyere, and mozzarella.
The extensive, long-term study followed 27,670 adults in Sweden for around 25 years.
The findings establish an association between daily consumption of high-fat cheese
and lower demen…

Cheese Linked to Lower Dementia Risk in 25-Year Study
One of the finest foods available to humanity may carry an unexpected benefit.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/115388996250482308
On the last day of voting before the elections, the populist farmer's party in the Dutch parliament managed to pass a motion instructing the Dutch government to ‘oppose the European ban on…

💼 Share career hacks that helped you break into tech at Open Source Career Day @ SCaLE 23x.
Deadline: Dec 1
#SCaLE23x

Challenge: "Name 20 living female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 20: Eleanor Catton
I was fortunate to hear Catton do a reading at the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2013, and just a couple of months later she became the youngest ever winner of the Man Booker Prize for her second novel, The Luminaries - one of the strangest books I've ever read.
So, yay! I made it to 20 posts. Not hard actually, as there are so many fantastic

Missed #Caturday so you're getting your cats a day late; Sony's 135mm/1.8 G Master cleans up at cat photos if you can keep at the right distance
#photo #photography

I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/1

I love how simple Kitten’s Streaming HTML workflow makes building features like this, especially when using class-based Kitten pages and components :)
#Kitten

"The purpose Bolton stated of creating a group chat in which he would later share his notes...was “For Diary in the future!!!”
I believe the only/big reason #Bolton joined Trump admin was to write a book, I mean "diary", and he gathered info for that from Day 1.
#uspol

Wow, what a wonderful day at @… ! They put on a great conference and I was honored to have been part of it. I held a privacy workshop and gave a #fedvierse talk. I just posted the worksheets from the workshop and the presentation from the talk over on the …

It's amazing. Take the long view.
#blogging 

Day 23: Thi Bui
Indirect CW: parental neglect, war, intergenerational trauma
Bui is the author of "The Best We Could Do", a graphic memoir which explores her relationship with her parents and unpacks some of the intergenerational trauma coming out of the Vietnam War. It has a lot of wisdom to offer about both dealing with troubled parents as a 1.5th-generation immigrant, and it delves deeply into her parents' histories in Vietnam and the complexities of the situation there both in the north and in the south. It's beautifully illustrated and very nicely plotted together given all the disparate threads it is working with.
I haven't read any of Bui's other work, but it looks like she's published a picture book for kids as well as a series of short comics during the pandemic. Besides Oseman who also writes non-illustrated fiction and the two manga artists Ice mentioned, Bui is the first graphic novel author I've included here, but I've actually got quite a few of them in my longer list, one of whom may make it into the 30 I'll include in this thread. These days I'm reading a bunch of graphic novels since they're easy to get through, and the variety of stories and perspectives in that space is wonderful these days, with a huge array of indie stuff that probably never would have gotten off the ground in traditional publishing/comics spaces.
#30AuthorsNoMen

Our conference is preceeded by a «research school» for junior researchers (typically: PhD students). The RS starts in the afternoon of day 1, then two full days (day 2 and day 3), and ends around noon of day 4 (with transportation to the main conference).
What is a typical program for such a #ResearchSchool? I can also include tourist activities or some hiking (it‘s in Switzerland,…

I knew I was cranky about AI, but I guess I didn't realize just how cranky until I filled out this obnoxious and wildly boosterish questionnaire from the government of Canada.
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/public-co…

Pedro the #Math Cat 🐈 having an equinocturnal day.
#cats #CatsOfMastodon #equinox

Misread this as stages of life first time round...
#CarpeDiem
https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/115542629623463860
cmconseils@mastodon.social - The four stages of a day off:
1. I will do so much stuff
2. Later I'll do lots of stuff
3. Eventually, I'll do some stuff
4. Oh no

In other news, today was my first day learning to use a microINR device, intended to monitor my blood anticoagulation levels. The INR, or International Normalized Ratio, is a measure of how long it takes your blood to clot.

So basically this is what I do:

1. Wash my hands, make sure they’re warm and dry.
2. Take a chip (or test strip) and insert it into the device.
3. The device powers on and I wait until it is ready (it has to heat up to a certain temperature)
4.…

I've completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode
I am not sharing the solution because this year I am using #Gleam and I am far from efficient in it. Yet. :D

Ohio Linux Fest (Open Libre Free) conference **is still on** in Columbus Ohio!
The conference will be a 1-day event held on December 6th at the conference center in Sonesta Downtown Columbus (south across the street from the convention center).
I'll post a follow-up once registration opens; should be in the next few days, so stay tuned for that!
#Ohio

September 2025 war weltweit der drittwärmste seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen.
Laut dem #Copernicus Climate Change Service lag die globale Durchschnittstemperatur bei 16,11 °C – 0,66 °C über dem Mittelwert von 1991–2020.
In #Europa betrug die Abweichung sogar 1,23 °C. Solche

Your daily reminder that @… are only cunts on days with names ending with day.
“The European Commission will launch its long-awaited bid to simplify digital rules in an effort to reduce the regulatory burden on businesses and to promote European start ups in the global artificial intelligence race.”

Voyager 1 almost one light-day away from Earth - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/12/09/voyager-1-almost-one-light-day-away-from-earth/

Today is day 1 after the official end of the last halfway decent version of Windows before the AI craze. And have you loyal Windows 10 users all obediently switched to Linux :linux: , the only remaining usable privacy-friendly operating system? 😜 😎
#windows10 #windows

So I grew up next to #Chernobyl and this is, well, TERRIFYING.
A story for y’all: I’m from a city called Zhytomyr, 2 hours west of Kyiv in the North of #Ukraine. We were downwind of the Chernobyl #nuclear power plant when the 1986 disaster happened.
I wasn’t born for another 12 years, but my childhood was filled with stories and the aftermath of it all. Things like:
- My grandmother worked as a head doctor in a hospital and rehabilitation facility exclusively for children of Chernobyl victims to treat the extremely high prevalence of Tuberculosis and other severe health complications. (To specify: these were SECOND GENERATION of exposure).
- A lot of the kids in that facility were orphans, because their parents died young from health problems.
- My uncle’s wife was born in Pripyat. She was 1 year old when the disaster happened. Her parents were told to evacuate while given no information about what happened. They had to pack up their things and rush out to an unfamiliar city with their baby, never to see the rest of their belongings, apartment, or hometown again.
- When I was a kid, it became so common to see weirdly mutated animals and insects that even 2-3 year olds would make jokes about “Chernobyl mosquitos” and I wouldn’t even flinch seeing occasional giant bugs, dark frogs, weird-looking dogs.
- We’d frequently hear of nearby farms having issues with their animals being born too mutated to survive or random outbreaks from contaminated water / food. Crops would randomly fail. People would get poisoned on a regular basis. This all got less common as I grew up.
- My mother still remembers being a little girl, 10 years old, and looking outside from their balcony at the clouds blowing over from Chernobyl that day. People were told to not go outside and to shut all the windows, but not given an explanation as to why. My mother swears that the rain looked different. They weren’t able to go and buy more food for the kitchen for multiple days.
Anyway - nuclear safety isn’t a joke. I don’t understand how this level of carelessness can happen after Chernobyl and Fukushima.

https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/

I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/1
Bad start to the week and month, but, famous last words, I'm gonna try to…

A fantastic initiative to bring grass rots local venues in England into self-ownership, including the awesome Gut Level in Sheffield - 1 day left on the crowd fund
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/own-our-venues

While I did not even finish part 1 of day 8 of #AdventOfCode (it was a holiday in .at and I had some weird bug which I did not want to spend any more time on), day 9 part 1 was very easy. Part 2 probably needs some smart math, which I'm currently not inclined to think about.

Not every day is a sunny day: Synthetic cloud injection for deep land cover segmentation robustness evaluation across data sources
Sara Mobsite, Renaud Hostache, Laure Berti Equille, Emmanuel Roux, Joris Guerin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03006

Not every day is a sunny day: Synthetic cloud injection for deep land cover segmentation robustness evaluation across data sources
Supervised deep learning for land cover semantic segmentation (LCS) relies on labeled satellite data. However, most existing Sentinel-2 datasets are cloud-free, which limits their usefulness in tropical regions where clouds are common. To properly evaluate the extent of this problem, we developed a cloud injection algorithm that simulates realistic cloud cover, allowing us to test how Sentinel-1 radar data can fill in the gaps caused by cloud-obstructed optical imagery. We also tackle the issue…

Day 1 of my Cheese Brothers Advent of Cheese is Garlic and Dill cheese curds. They weren't bad.
#advent
#CheeseBrothers

Elon Musk actually said this in an interview:
"These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
All governments in europe should leave X

Farrukh (@implausibleblog.bsky.social)
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits" "And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids" "This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"

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

2026 NFL Mock Draft: Should Heisman Trophy Favorite Fernando Mendoza Go No. 1? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-mock-draft-should-heisman-trophy-favorite-fernando-mendoza-go-no-1

ServiceNow announces a deal to acquire identity security startup Veza, sources say for between $1B and $1.5B; Veza had a private valuation of $808M in March (Valida Pau/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/servicenows…

ServiceNow’s $1 Billion-Plus Acquisition Aimed at Winning Agent War
Dealmakers apparently did not get much of a break over the Thanksgiving weekend, as a flurry of recent merger announcements showed. In just the last day, The Information broke the news that Marvell Technology was buying photonics startup Celestial for billions of dollars and Anthropic was making ...

Harbaugh to 'consider everything' with 1-4 Ravens https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46513104/john-harbaugh-remains-optimistic-ravens-1-4-start

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Another day another wordle! 😉
My sister just got her streak to 365 yesterday (for the 2nd time). I'm not at half that right now, got a long ways to go.

Challenge: "Name 20 living female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 19: Alice Thompson
Another of Edinburgh's fine authors. She has written 9 novels of which I have read three.
Definitely do read BURNT ISLAND, it is just amazing. If you are faint-hearted however, you may want to avoid The Book Collector which was utterly terrifying.
#FemmeÉcrivain

DHS ICE plans to serve breakfast for lunch and dinner sometimes? Like they failed a word problem in grammar school.
Ordered: 16K breakfasts, 26k lunches/dinners.
Intending to feed people 3 meals/day, contract covers 16K breakfasts, 13K lunches & 13K dinners.
So... 3K person days of only 1 meal that day or breakfast for lunch or dinner?
42K meals, but odd way to order them.
Contract already awarded:

This episode of Ideas is powerful. Still - and not to minimize the experience of veterans - I'd really love a parallel series focused on the moms and dads, partners, and kids who stayed behind.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/canadian-war-museum-v…

Not a war story: this is about what comes after | CBC Radio
Canada’s veterans have a conflicted relationship with Remembrance Day, an idea that may be shifting as older war vets leave us. In a two-part series, IDEAS shares postwar experiences from The Canadian War Museum’s oral history project called In Their Own Voices. *This is a two-part series.

looks like there'll be a #NoKings event at Sunset Dunes! cool crossover
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/847587/
main march in SF here:

NO KINGS Ocean Beach, San Francisco · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Join us for No Kings Day Ocean Beach! Saturday, October 18 • 12:00 PM • Sunset Dunes (Upper Great Highway & Judah), SF Be part of a fun, family-friendly Resistance Festival on the westside of San Francisco. Together we’ll celebrate community and resistance with: 🎨 Art and creative expression 🎶 Live music and performances 📚 Information tables on Bay Resistance, Prop 50, voter registration and more 🤝 Family-friendly ac…

I just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/2
progress continues - goal today: complete Day 3 both parts and Day 4 part 1 🤞

Temporary exception to this: Rail replacement bus service #Aaaarggh
So I'm hoping to clear some tabs on my phone instead. Watch out for some cool links...
1/n
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115366463584341325
Ruth_Mottram - Not that this is getting this proposal written. If you see me on here the rest of the day, tell me to go and write....

Defenders of Ukraine Day! Kyiv urges pressure on Russia and eliminates 1,000 occupiers daily: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/06/defenders-of-ukraine-day-kyiv.html

Good Morning #Canada
Listening to Christmas tunes and watching the snow fall.
Notable Canadian snowstorms:
- 1913 Great Lakes Storm. The most destructive natural disaster on the Great Lakes, causing 250 deaths & destroying 19 ships.
- 1941 March Blizzard: Brought 100 km/h winds and temps of -45°C to Saskatchewan and Manitoba, leading to the deaths of 72 people.
- 1944: 47 cm of snow hit Toronto in a single day. Unfortunately, the Canadian Army was overseas.
- 1971 Montreal: 45 cm of snow on March 4th & wind gusts of 110 km/h. 200 Ski-Doo owners provided emergency transport.
- 1977: This blizzard struck Southern Ontario January 28 to February 1. Toronto DID NOT call the Army.
- 1999 Toronto Snowstorm: A series of snowfalls paralyze the city, total snowfall for January reached 118 cm. Yes, the mayor called the Army.
- 2007 February 2007: Storm hits Central and Eastern Canada, with Ottawa setting a single-day snowfall record of 35.7 cm.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Snowmageddon
https://www.readersdigest.ca/travel/canada/worst-snowstorm-in-canada/

I finally wrote the post for our first day in #baiersbronn and #hiking in the #schwarzwald . I really needed some time to get into the mood of taking photos.
I guess I'll post the phot…

Day 1 in the Black Forest - Getting Into The Mood
Our first day in the Black Forest unfolded in serene beauty, unfolding a six-hour hike through sun-dappled ridges and mossy streams. Beginning with quiet observation to awaken the photographic eye, we captured unique perspectives of the forest’s textures and light.

Report Card
Israel, age: 77½
Excels at:
✅ Genocide
✅ Ethnic cleansing
✅ Apartheid
✅ Racism
✅ Settler colonialism
Fails:
❌ Basic humanity https://freefree.ps/@faab64/115530516843421204

Farhad (@faab64@freefree.ps)
Attached: 1 image Israel begins building wall in newly occupied territories in southern Lebanon Israel is once again using the conflict to steal more land and occupy more parts of neighboring countries. This is what Israel has done since the day they were given the Palestine in 1948 and will not stop or return those land back unless they are forced to. #Lebanon #Israel #Occupation #BorderWall #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #Politics

Adobe: US shoppers spent $14.25B online during Cyber Monday, up 7.1% YoY, compared with a 9.1% rise on Black Friday; five-day spending rose 7.7% YoY to $44.2B (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-02/cybe…

Glass half full: Sunset Dunes is no longer the most controversial thing in the Sunset. And with the rain clearing, tomorrow should be a great day to visit!

Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 17: Vicki Jarrett
So far she's published a couple of really good novels and a collection of short stories. She strikes me as the type of author who aims for quality, not quantity.
I adored her first novel "Nothing is Heavy", based on real life experiences in Edinburgh. Her other novel, "Always North" is an eco-thriller set in Svalbard, a Norwegian arctic island.
Both great…

Lions safety Branch's 1-game suspension upheld https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46609483/suspension-lions-safety-brian-branch-upheld-appeal

A day that will live in infamy. https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2001/winter/crafting-day-of-infamy-speech.html

FDR’s “Day of Infamy” Speech
Crafting a Call to Arms Winter 2001, Vol. 33, No. 4 | Our Heritage in Documents Enlarge The USS Arizona seen burning after the attack by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the morning of December 7, 1941. It was 1 p.m. in Washington. (Franklin D. Roosevelt Library) View in National Archives Catalog In the early afternoon of December 7, 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt was just finishing lunch in his oval study on the second floor of the White House, preparing to work on his stamp album, when…

Challenge: "Name 20 living female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 18: Kim Småge
Sorry, but you'll have to learn some Norwegian if you want to read this author, as she hasn't been translated into English yet - but that means you could read Ibsen too...
"Containerkvinnan" was a real knockout. The bodies of two women are found in a container in Trondheim's harbour, and from here proceeds the whodunnit. It's a whole series and I keep mean…

“It rained heavily last night.
Our clothes, blankets, mattresses, everything got soaked.
We were freezing… truly freezing.
Living in a tent has become unbearable… feels like a disaster every day.
We try to protect ourselves from the rain, but we still end up sitting in water inside the tent.
We are a family of seven and the tent can’t hold us but we keep trying.
We keep holding on.
Please, we need your help to move somewhere safer.”
–

looks like tomorrow’s the only day you can see the Onion mockumentary on Jeffrey Epstein, locally at Balboa Theater in SF or New Parkway Theater in Oakland https://theonion.com/badpedophile/

Bad Pedophile
America’s Finest News Source is proud to resuscitate the dying medium of film with a double-feature presentation beginning with their latest investigative documentary. Featuring never-before-seen interviews and footage, Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile succeeds where hundreds of previous documentaries have failed, finally uncovering the truth behind one of America’s most notorious sex perverts. As an added bonus feature, […]

Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 16:
Lin Anderson
Another talented Scottish writer, she has written a whole series of crime mysteries featuring her character Rhona MacLeod, a forensic scientist.
Clever, absorbing and fact-packed novels that are hard to put down. Driftnet was the first book in the series.
#FemmeÉcrivain

Nothing less than a global general strike in as many countries as possible and in as many industries as possible to going to stop Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
We have the power to stop this if we stop it all. Ground it to halt, even for a day. That’s our power. Whether we choose to use it remains to be seen.

How the world is responding to Israel’s interception of the Gaza flotilla
Italian unions call for general strike as global protests grow and multiple governments criticise Israel.

Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 15:
Jenni Fagan
She is like a volcano of creativity - 4 novels, numerous books of poetry, film, sculpture, painting ... she is amazingly productive, and unique in her style and voice.
I particularly enjoyed The Sunlight Pilgrims and some of the things in it helped explain odd things I'd notice when I moved to rural Scotland. Can also recommend her first novel The Panopticon.

https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115507006485634894
This is why @… made the Gaza Verified Archive (e.g., see

Please do not use PayPal.
Especially for fundraisers.
(e.g., on Chuffed, for example, enable credit/debit cards as well as PayPal.)
Unless someone has a PayPal account, PayPal limits how much they can send to $1,000 a day.
After making two donations of that amount to different accounts, it will now no longer allow me to make any transfers at all on our card.
This is really fucking us over with distributing the Gaza Verified donations to one of our families so th…

Gaza Verified
Emergency appeal to get the Gaza Verified families stuck in the danger zone in the North to relative safety in the South.

I spoke with both Aseel (the aunt who runs this account), who is outside Gaza, and her niece (also Aseel, the adorable child in the third photo) and her siblings who are in Gaza on Signal the other day (via a three-way group chat).
Their fundraiser isn’t seeing any support and they need your help to evacuate.
I wish we could have included them in the emergency appeal last week if there had been time.
Please help them if you can and share this so others might also.
Tha…