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We might think of the 1963 March on Washington when we talk about organizing and civic change
-- but smaller networks are equally important.
Find many small groups of people you trust,
as small as 2-5 other people.
Use encrypted communications,
like Signal.
Meet in person and break bread,
if you can, building trust slowly.
Be a bridge-builder between trusted colleagues, where appropriate.
Appreciate the beauty of all that can be achie…

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2026-03-20 18:33:38

"Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter prohibits states from using military force against the territorial integrity or political independence of another state, except in self-defence or with UN Security Council authorisation, a principle long understood as central to international order.
None of these legal thresholds were met in the case of the strikes on Iran."

@zachleat@zachleat.com
2026-02-19 22:21:58

@… what have you done

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2026-02-20 14:22:46

Robin Vos has finally done something good for the people of Wisconsin. He’s announced his retirement. The announcement has brought joy to so many.

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-02-20 01:20:18

Pathetic. They've done that before; shouldn't be allowed.

Oregon Senate Republicans end one-day walkout ahead of transportation referendum vote • Washington State Standard
washingtonstatestandard.com/20

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2026-01-20 05:35:11

Starfleet Academy
PILOT DONE! There are some great characters you almost get to meet between what must be super important plot points that are super important.
I hope this show finds time to let those characters breath. I don't expect Kurtzman to let anyone breath ever as he continue to shout "JJ ABRAMS PLEASE LOVE ME".
#startrek

@Kingu@sakurajima.moe
2026-02-20 17:05:53

WHY DONE IT?

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-03-20 20:54:23

California city reports ransomware attack as LA transit agency finds ‘unauthorized activity’
therecord.media/california-cit

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-04-19 19:25:57
Content warning: NZPol the Neoliberal Approach

We've seen this coalition Government taking funding away from social services so that they lose viability & therefore public support, which *makes them easy to sell off* to private interests. We've done exactly the same with our natural environment. Especially our rivers. Exploiting the commons for the private benefit of a few individuals. It's all part of the same human neoliberal disease.

@scott@carfree.city
2026-02-19 01:38:39

"Open land represents the future in its purest form — after all, every place was no place at some point." 😑 This is such a distilled expression of settler-colonial mindset. No, we do not need "new" cities, we need to fix up the ones we've got.

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2026-03-18 19:21:56

I read this piece this morning ... it is worth reading..
The headline is misleading.
"Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done"
The "Everyone" here is more about other countries than about every human.
But that is a useful view because it highlights how trump has become an overt danger to all other countries.
The thought that crossed my mind was this: The leaders and people of those countries now have solid grounds to consider trump an e…

@cjust@infosec.exchange
2026-02-19 16:13:06

Well, Fediverse Friends, I've done a thing.
I've decided to start blogging again, since I seem to have more time on my hands that I would like as of late.
The most interesting bit - at least in my mind (and certainly worth a larger discussion in a future blog post) is that it is self-hosted on Ghost, and in theory, you should be able to follow it (@…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-19 08:20:52

Barb: 54% of all YouTube viewing in the UK is on a TV set across all demographics, making the streaming platform a "significant part of the UK's AV ecosystem" (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
variety.com/2026/tv/global/you

@lornajane@indieweb.social
2026-03-19 08:49:00

Delighted to have managed to get myself to #Monkigras this year! I have only done one previous Monkigras event and it was life changing, so who knows what this year will bring!

@hex@kolektiva.social
2026-02-20 10:37:46

In my head I'm just replacing "counter insurgency" with "horse cavalry."
"We're going to keep learning how to leverage horse cavalry against machine guns and tanks until we get it right."
No. No you will not. You will keep trying until you learn the hard way that it can't be done.

@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-02-20 20:35:08

A few colleagues at universities across the country recently launched a group for discussing teaching - "patisseries et pédagogie," they're calling it - and invited me along for the ride. We had our second meeting today. It was great. Unsurprisingly, many of us have the same concerns. Equally unsurprisingly, some have come up with interesting approaches for addressing them. I wish we'd done this years ago.
Start your own group today!

@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com
2026-04-19 22:46:37

@… It is done - Went to Costco just now and they were still in stock 👌

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-02-19 21:42:04

from my link log —
Linux CVE assignment process.
kroah.com/log/blog/2026/02/16/
saved 2026-02-19

@vosje62@mastodon.nl
2026-02-19 12:21:03

Donald Trump’s AI push fuels revolt in Maga heartlands
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle
Archive archive.ph/DlT49
Trump wants AI, but it is getting harder to get that done...
Via @… on Bluesky

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2026-02-20 16:24:37

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
BLAKE: Well done, Jenna.
VILA: I thought we'd had it that time.
JENNA: So did I.
VILA: Cally, I could murder a relaxant. Any chance?
CALLY: It's for medicinal purposes only. You know that.
VILA: This once?
blake.torpidity.net/m/208/46

@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza
2026-04-18 22:48:18

I'd prefer to ask the community this than search haphazardly - what is some good (ideally freeware) software to capture your computer's screen and audio? Embarrassingly I've somehow never done this until now. But just in case there's any interest out there, I'd like to share what's going on with released music / the software side of my work sometimes, and not just piano improvisations. :-)

@gwire@mastodon.social
2026-01-20 21:17:16

Old enough to have done the migration from telnet to ssh, but only just.

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-04-17 07:09:31

#WritersCoffeeClub 17 Apr
Can plots which hinge on a misunderstanding be done well?
Oh, don't go there!
Especially romance plots. Romance plots based on misunderstandings are such an old, done, burned, cliche.
Unless you're a much better writer than Jane Austen, don't do it.
Just say NO!

@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-20 14:00:07

Oh the joys of a mainframe upgrade.
Defining what type of testing is needed and specific test cases to verify that all functionality for the system is available.
Also, a short briefing note for the upcoming board meeting to describe what is being done, why, when, where the backup will be running from, who is doing what portions and how we verify that it all went smoothly.
It should go smoothly (famous last words), but we will verify that the upgrade was completed and comp…

@eyebee@mstdn.social
2026-04-20 08:04:04

Day off today. I’ve done some journaling, and now I’m working on post-processing photos from yesterday’s Spring Gathering at Brooklands. The urge to indulge in my mistress keeps interrupting me, though. She’s very demanding. I’m already on my third. I’ve added a photo of her.

@zachleat@zachleat.com
2026-02-19 16:41:43

@… I appreciate what you’ve done here

@sproid@social.linux.pizza
2026-03-20 02:50:20

The Beekeeper movie is a great action film but is also a mixed bag of values making it a bad movie. Ends up being not a good vigilante movie, not a good anti-hero movie, zero suspense, wasted conspiracy potential, unapologetic copying and badly done trope of the 'John Wick as the boogyman for bad guys'.
I understand movies that just try (and many times succeed) to be mindless action movies where the plot is not the priority. But the Beekeeper movie does try to have a moral mes…

Trump has done more to accelerate the energy transition than anyone else alive.
Fossil fuel companies bankrolled his presidential campaign to stop the transition in its tracks.
-- But when you back a volatile narcissist, unable to concentrate for more than a few minutes at a time, you shouldn’t expect to control the outcome.
It’s not that the fossils are suffering yet.
As prices have soared since Trump and Netanyahu attacked Iran, oil executives have been selling sha…

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org
2026-03-17 20:55:09

I’ve been using idioms like
find . -name \*.foo | while read f; do mv $f ${f%%.foo}.bar; done
for decades. Now I’m preparing an exercise where students are to rename all files that do not end in .txt; so something like this should do the trick:
find . -not -name \*.txt | while read f; do mv $f ${f%%.*}.txt; done
Except... ${f%%.*} is empty! ${f%.*} works, but why!?
Finding the obvious took me an hour… And why do I only stumble upon such things when preparing exe…

‪@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2026-03-17 20:55:09

I’ve been using idioms like
find . -name \*.foo | while read f; do mv $f ${f%%.foo}.bar; done
for decades. Now I’m preparing an exercise where students are to rename all files that do not end in .txt; so something like this should do the trick:
find . -not -name \*.txt | while read f; do mv $f ${f%%.*}.txt; done
Except... ${f%%.*} is empty! ${f%.*} works, but why!?
Finding the obvious took me an hour… And why do I only stumble upon such things when preparing exe…

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2026-03-17 20:55:09

I’ve been using idioms like
find . -name \*.foo | while read f; do mv $f ${f%%.foo}.bar; done
for decades. Now I’m preparing an exercise where students are to rename all files that do not end in .txt; so something like this should do the trick:
find . -not -name \*.txt | while read f; do mv $f ${f%%.*}.txt; done
Except... ${f%%.*} is empty! ${f%.*} works, but why!?
Finding the obvious took me an hour… And why do I only stumble upon such things when preparing exe…

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2026-02-19 14:25:17

I really need to start making my own vanilla extract...
Any tips from those who have done it?

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-02-18 04:17:33

ICE activity seems to have been relatively quiet the last couple of days in my part of Minneapolis.
I heard they’ve been super active recently in the outer suburbs and rural areas, and it sure doesn’t seem like anybody’s assuming we’re done with their awfulness here in the middle of the city. But I’m happily embracing the chance to take a breath.

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2026-01-20 16:16:34

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-03-20 19:47:47

3 Low-Cost Free Agents the Raiders Should Sign si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-ve

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2026-04-13 00:47:14

me: "hey [8yo] are you done wrapping the present?"
8yo: *dances around*
8yo: "mm"
me: "hey [8yo] are you done wrapping the present?"
14yo: "which stickers are mine?"
me: "hey [8yo] are you done wrapping the present?"
8yo: "Over here with mine. Don't touch mine, though."
me: "HEY [8yo] ARE YOU DONE WRAPPING THE PRESENT??"
8yo: *dances some more*
me: "Okay, I'…

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2026-01-20 05:19:03

Currently imaging what Mike McMahan could have done with the Starfleet Academy idea.
#startrek

@jake4480@c.im
2026-04-18 17:41:01

I've met so many of you since I last talked about it, so maybe I should briefly mention music I've done. I recorded a bunch years ago & was in bands years ago but haven't recorded much but demos for many years. Some of these are rough. Some more polished. These are me. Wrote (minus covers), sing, play bass, sometimes regular guitar on all. More eventually? Maybe.

@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2026-03-18 17:57:37

Needed to do some errands, wanted to do some sports and had a stiff neck ...
So .. drive to the nearby shop and cycle afterwards before it's fully dark?
Or .. why not have a ~30-40 min quick walk to the shop and back?
Errands done, had physical activity, I feel relaxed and I didn't have to drive ...

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-03-18 11:01:16

Everyone but Trump Understands What He's Done (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/
memeorandum.com/260318/p18#a26

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2026-04-18 01:21:24

My kid once called me "bro".
He's never done it again.
▶️ "I'm In The Epstein Files For An Awesome Reason" - Patton Oswalt
youtube.com/watch?v=wUZoSxEkFY

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2026-04-18 16:09:10

We had our dryer vent blown out yesterday. Not quite 3 years since the last time. Our vent’s only got about a 20-25 foot reach, and horizontal, but it still coughed up about a basketball-sized bolus of lint dust. If you have a dryer in your home, when was the last time you cleaned it out, or had it done? Distinct fire hazard as it fills up. It’ll also work more efficiently afterwards. #PSA

@curiouscat@fosstodon.org
2026-02-19 17:07:27

RE: vis.social/@infobeautiful/1160
Understanding what is really going on requires critical thinking, such as understanding the actual data versus what is presented.
So much damage is done by people that believe what is not true…

@mikebabyak@musicians.today
2026-04-18 14:18:28

Seven days to go in our kickstarter and we’ve done it! We also recently received a little funding directly so we’ve got mastering, artwork, CD manufacturing all covered! Might even manage some vinyl. Release date late May.
If you’re local to the Triangle area in NC the release show is Sunday afternoon June 21 at the Community Church in Chapel Hill. Time TBA.
#acousticmusic

Bearded man in blue sweatshirt and cap sitting in chair playing mandolin with various guitars behind him. A small black and white Japanese Chin dog is lying stretched across his lap.
@drbruced@aus.social
2026-03-18 07:14:19

First batch of #hotcrossbuns for the season. Some work to be done on my cross technique #baking #sourdough

Nine hot cross buns on a cooling rack with light reflecting off the glaze. Some have crosses visible, some not so much.
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com
2026-03-20 17:21:37

“Yes hello, I would like to wait ~2 minutes for you to generate a code change I could have done in seconds with the built-in refactoring tool of any modern IDE” is truly a statement dreamt up by the utterly deranged.

@nelson@tech.lgbt
2026-03-18 15:59:54

Trying out Jules, a coding agent from Google that is similar to Claude Code. But it's all hosted: you use a web UI to talk to it, it checks out code from GitHub and runs it in containers. And it operates asynchronously, you give it tasks and it comes back 5-15 minutes later with work done. I like it quite a bit, but there's a question whether the Gemini models are as good for coding as Claude.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-03-20 01:31:01

Estefany Rodríguez Flórez, a reporter for Nashville Noticias, is released on $10K bond from ICE custody following her arrest on March 4 during a traffic stop (Jonathan Mattise/Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/reporter-ic

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-04-15 20:51:15

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Prince:
🎵 Love… Thy Will Be Done
#Prince
toadstoolrecords.bandcamp.com/
open.spotify.com/track/3vi2IS8

@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net
2026-02-17 23:56:46

- Customer vetting done in minutes, not weeks
- Synthesizes 50 data sources into one clear, actionable picture
- Delivers finished output: documents, decks, webpages, even full apps
📊 It's not just fast. Grep is state-of-the-art — top-ranked on the Deep Research Benchmark — so you get accuracy when it actually matters.
Whether you're a founder validating a market, an investor vetting a deal, or a strategist tracking competitors: serious work deserves serious …

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2026-04-17 08:12:07

Has anyone done a test implementation of ietf.org/archive/id/draft-meow yet? Is there any open example code?
I'm wondering how many Kbity of flash space I might need

@groupnebula563@mastodon.social
2026-03-18 01:02:12

Google
#EvilCompanyNames
#HashTagGames
...i'm sure at least 70 people have already done this :P

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2026-02-17 06:21:03

Finally, airlines have to pay for the CO2 emissions of their flights within Europe. Until now, they got a 50% discount. And they still don't pay for the indirect global warming effects they cause, which probably double the total damage done. nos.nl/l/2602799

Much more so than in his first four years in office,
Trump has begun his second term with what amounts to an all-out assault on many of the institutions and policy paradigms that have long been seen by leaders of both major political parties as the foundations of American economic strength.
He has sought to undermine the independence of the Federal Reserve,
fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an agency that collects key economic data,
and cut funding to …

@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social
2026-03-14 16:15:28

"To confront the Iranian regime was to walk, with a lit match, towards a tinderbox soaked in gasoline. If it were to be done at all, whether by military or other means, it had to be done with the greatest care. But Trump has blundered in, crushing and trampling all before him, making a bad situation worse. He does not deserve the benefit of the doubt. He does not deserve his war to be assessed charitably. He deserves our contempt."

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-09 13:30:44

Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, integrating Anthropic's Claude Cowork tech into Microsoft 365 and using Work IQ to ground actions in organizational data (Charles Lamanna/Microsoft 365 Blog)
microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-

@mlncn@social.coop
2026-04-17 14:54:16

i know it is hardly the worst thing Mozilla has done to the community but after the SpreadFirefox campaign (an early "high profile" #Drupal site!) driven by a huge swath of the Free/Libre and Open Source Software community lo so many years ago it feels like a punch in the face to not have a single mention of ditching Windows entirely as an option on the Firefox page about Microsoft ending W…

@bthalpin@mastodon.social
2026-04-17 19:43:43

I've just done some vibe coding*, writing .bat files** in Windows, and it didn't work. Copilot's suggestion stripped quotes, without which it wouldn't work.
*cut&pasted the example in the top of the AI summary on the search page.
**Like it's 1992.

@Adam@social.lein.us
2026-03-17 19:26:36

@… Re: jan.wildeboer.net/2022/08/Emai
Are you thinking about implementing DANE yet? I want to learn that next. Did it…

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-02-16 22:23:58

Rethink: The rubber band isn’t wrapped around the handle, but around the body. @… hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/116082357

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-03-18 13:26:13

OK, I'm done. I'm too stupid to program computers today.

@jae@mastodon.me.uk
2026-03-17 10:48:01

At that time of the trip again where the clock continues to march on. Not long now until my flight home. I have to leave @… again.
Long distance is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. However I wouldn’t want to be with anyone else.
Thank you for a great week! I love you more than all of the world.

@eyebee@mstdn.social
2026-03-20 11:38:42

It’s another pleasant sunny morning. I’m enjoying a coffee on my break. In just over three hours, I’ll be done until the 30th.
There was a a nice sunrise, but it was quite chilly. It’s warmed up somewhat since then though.

@zachleat@zachleat.com
2026-04-16 22:20:59

@… we’ve* all done this, I think
*I… I have done this: github.com/11ty/eleventy-plugi

@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2026-03-17 18:38:49

I think the reason Meta et al are pushing for the OS age thing is that they know there's no way that anything they can do themselves for age verification will satisfy the regulators and/or cause them to have to pass data to 3rd party dodgy verifiers; they'll always get the blame if kids find a way around it if it's done at their end.

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-03-18 18:56:39

Mullin claims he’s done classified work — but the FBI says otherwise: senators - Alternet.org
alternet.org/markwayne-mullin-

@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com
2026-03-20 17:25:18

Oh phew, someone else on the team built a “Slop Detection” “skill” for the LLM so now it will magically stop being a statistical model and instead be a statistical model with ✨ slightly different inputs ✨.
Thank you kind stranger, I couldn’t have done it without you.

@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com
2026-02-16 09:53:18

@… done

On March 26, billionaire investor
David Sacks stepped down from his White House role as the
Special Advisor on AI and Crypto.
This may come as welcome news to people stupefied by the extent of Trump administration’s constant corporate giveaways to the AI and crypto industry, which Sacks orchestrated.
But don’t be fooled:
just a day before his departure as an advisor, Trump announced that Sacks would be co-chairing the President’s Council of Advisors on Science …

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org
2026-03-18 17:08:08

After getting the teaching done, I coulda, shoulda… But my energy levels are so low :-(
🪫

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2026-03-18 17:08:08

After getting the teaching done, I coulda, shoulda… But my energy levels are so low :-(
🪫

‪@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2026-03-18 17:08:08

After getting the teaching done, I coulda, shoulda… But my energy levels are so low :-(
🪫

@frankel@mastodon.top
2026-03-31 17:10:43

#SpringBoot Done Right: Lessons From a 400-Module Codebase
medium.com/all-things-software

@ruario@vivaldi.net
2026-04-16 07:18:26

@…
> RPM, DEB, and Pacman packages usually have done all or most of the building, and it is quick an painless. Slackware, as you know, doesn't exactly work that way.
I would entirely disagree but sure we can stop.

@benb@osintua.eu
2026-02-01 19:51:16

'Not enough' work being done in Kyiv as city faces heating emergency, Zelensky says: benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/not-e

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-03-19 17:17:37

Raiders’ Jalen Nailor Sends Clear Message to Fernando Mendoza heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas

@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-16 18:01:52

Ansible playbook done "enough", everything is now matching. Evidently I did forget to transition one server over to Debian, but got that sorted and now everything is running pretty well.
#ansible #homelab

Ansible playbook showing a few tasks...
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2026-04-18 21:33:50

So.. I have a theory that burned-out coders prefer AI coding agents. Because at the point of burn-out (and beyond), you just stop giving a fuck. You might still like and enjoy your craft, but when it comes to your job (whether that's proprietary or free software), you just want to get through the day and get it done. And if an LLM helps you accomplish that, regardless of ethics or maintainability or boring button-mashing, so be it.

White House economic adviser says Fed researchers should be punished
Kevin Hassett, a top economic adviser to Donald Trump, on Wednesday
assailed a study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York finding that U.S. companies shoulder most of the costs of tariffs,
-- calling for the central bank to punish the researchers behind the work, which he characterized as an “embarrassment.”

“What they’ve done is they put out a conclusion, which has created a lot of news, that…

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2026-02-18 10:58:00

B13 - Star One
LURENA: Don't move!
PARTON: Please, Lurena. [She runs off. To the others: ] Get after her. Find her before she does any more damage. And don't bother to bring her back. Just kill her. I was right, we should have done it as soon as we knew.
blake.torpidity.net/m/213/160

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2026-02-17 06:20:55

Finally, airlines have to pay for the CO2 emissions of their flights within Europe. Until now, they got a 50% discount. And they still don't pay for the indirect global warming effects they cause, which probably double the total damage done. nos.nl/l/2602799

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2026-03-18 00:55:43

vote counts not done but seems like Kat Abughazaleh doesn't have it. that sad!
#uspol

@eyebee@mstdn.social
2026-03-19 11:26:58

Just two working days to go, including today. From Saturday, I have a nine-day break, which is always welcome.
The weather is getting more spring-like, and if it keeps up, I can get some digging and planting done in the garden.

@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-04-17 18:51:30

I was planning to get some research done today. Instead the past 6 hours have been non-stop admin.

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-03-14 18:15:38

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Young Kulcha:
🎵 More Work to Be Done
#YoungKulcha
fruitsrecords.bandcamp.com/alb
open.spotify.com/track/5hwmou2

The U.S. economy is more distorted than ever.
The widening gap between corporate profits and average workers
— between capital and labor
— helps explain the disconnect between a buoyant economy and pessimistic households.
Consumer confidence is in the basement.
The gap was widening before Trump was elected. It explains in part the rise of MAGA and why Trump won in 2016 and again in 2024.
But Trump hasn’t done a thing to alter these trends.
In fact, …

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-04-16 02:01:20

Done and Dusted? Trump's Portrayal of the War in Iran Collides With Reality. (Anton Troianovski/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/04/15/us/poli
memeorandum.com/260415/p167#a2

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2026-04-17 20:04:31

Milwaukee didn't even make it more than 9 months since flooding due to heavy rain ruined everything. Climate change is a thing.
urbanmilwaukee.com/2026/04/16/

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-02-17 19:53:09

"Austria’s military has already dumped Microsoft and moved to open-source services hosted in Europe, and some German regional governments have done the same. Danish schools were told to abandon Google laptops by the Danish data protection authority in 2024. The new Dutch government says digital sovereignty will be a national priority"
#DigitalSovereignty

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2026-03-17 07:36:21

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
VILA: Someone beckoning. Do you see it, Gan. [pause] It's gone.
ARCO: I didn't see anybody.
VILA: You must have done.
ARCO: I tell you I didn't. You're so scared your brain's curdling.

Donald Trump does not think strategically.
Nor does he think historically, geographically, or even rationally.
He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later.
He does not think about how his behavior in one place will change the behavior of other people in other places.
He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions.
He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong.
Instead, he acts on whim and …

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-02-16 03:57:06

"Plenty of people saw Epstein for what he was and stayed far away. But for others, his proximity to the rich and the powerful were evidence that whatever he had done, it couldn’t be that bad. After all, look who he was dining with! The network made Epstein both legitimate and valuable. It enabled his abuses and, for a time, insulated him from their consequences."
**Opinion | Ro Khanna Is Shaken by What He’s Learned From the Epstein Files** - The New York Times
archive.ph/rdbFB#selection-865

Vice President JD Vance said on April 14 that he is 🔥proud of Washington cutting off funding to Ukraine amid Russian aggression,
⚠️ listing it among the Trump administration's top achievements.
"And I still believe that, obviously, and it's one of the things I'm proudest that we've done in this administration
is we've told Europe that if you want to buy weapons, you can,
but the United States is not buying weapons and sending them to Ukraine a…

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-03-16 09:06:23

“Britain’s failure to meet its legal obligations has contributed to the mass killing of Palestinian civilians and the wholesale destruction of civilian objects, the desecration of international law and the further erosion of Britain’s status as a nation committed to the rule of law in the international arena.”
#Corbyn would have done much better to have NOT led this tribunal; his presence wil…

Trump’s Fuck-ups have now become an ongoing, global humiliation of our once great country.
We cannot, and should not, sugar coat the gravity of what Trump has done.
He’s thrown the entire world into chaos.
Energy and food price shocks are coming for literally every person in the world.
This morning governments from all over the world are telling him to f*ck off, leaving America alone, weakened, humiliated.
Trump is a failed President.
Nothing he has d…

Every now and then, it's worth reminding yourself that every single crisis of Trump 2.0
-- the economic downturn, the chaos in our cities, the rising health crisis, the foreign wars
-- has been a direct result of their own actions.
If they'd done nothing at all, they'd be coasting comfortably.

Ambassador Bridget Brink here.
𝗜𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗔𝗺𝗯𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗨𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽’𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀.
What has happened since then?
Rather than ramp up pressure on Russia to end its war in Ukraine, Trump has done the opposite:
-- rolled out the red carpet for Putin in Alaska,
-- presented the Ukrainians with a peace deal (which was a Russian wish list),
-- and failed to support Ukraine in its fight for…