Tootfinder

‘The worst is when the rubbish explodes’: the children living in Patagonia’s vast dumps https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/12/rubbish-children-living-patagonia-argentina-vast-dumps

White House Hunts for Ways to Lower the Cost of Living (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/trump-cost-of-living-prices-8e08798d
http://www.memeorandum.com/251116/p4#a251116p4

Five Palestinians die from the cold as living conditions worsen in Gaza | Morning Star
https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/five-palestinians-die-cold-living-conditions-worsen-gaza

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
The Kinks:
🎵 Living On A Thin Line
#TheKinks
https://goodknightproductions1.bandcamp.com/track/living-on-a-thin-line
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Z9HVIvwKMEB1UoECSySdv

Democrats focused on the improving metrics
and lost voters who were drowning in the day to day reality.
Trump is doing something even worse.
He is telling people their suffering does not exist at all.
That is not optimism.
That is contempt.
And contempt has a way of boomeranging in politics.

THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS TRUMP WANTS YOU TO IGNORE
America is living through a cost of living crisis that is bigger than any talking point, any spin, any press event and the President is insulting our intelligence.

Giving up territory in Ukraine is also condemning people living there to live under Russian rule, a harsh dictatorship with limited freedoms, no room for opposition, bad economy etcetera. I don't think many people prefer Russia above living in Ukraine as part of the EU in the near future.
#russia #ukraine

There is more than enough to go around. We just need to organise that.
This is how a matriarchal world order would arrange things:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800925003027

A very dear friend of mine, Fern, who taught me pretty much all I know about overland bike travel, is in need of a new wheelchair. One that will get her out and about again on new adventures on five wheels rather than the two she is more used to.
Please do give what you can - it all helps.
https://www.justgivin…

Help raise £4500 to get mobile and living on 5 wheels rather than two, with a specialist wheelchair and power assist, and hopefully have some adventures too! – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to get mobile and living on 5 wheels rather than two, with a specialist wheelchair and power assist, and hopefully have some adventures too!. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

Living on a hill without direct fiber or cable sucks sometimes.
At midnight our main ISP crapped out completely and then in the morning I manually switched to our super-slow backup ISP (like 8Mbps down, 1Mbps up) but that one also intermittently craps out.
Main ISP says it should be fixed soon, their "internet chassis" at another location shit the bed and they need to replace multiple pieces of hardware.

Thank goodness for Smokezilla, an ethical cigarette company that advocates for healthier living funded by billions from Philip Morris.

Our living room reno is done. We removed an old and ugly fireplace that was red flagged this summer. We rarely used it so we didn't replace it. A number of questionable items found when we had contractors do their magic.
They colour matched the paint and even found flooring that was almost a perfect match. They brought in a licensed electrician to fix the wiring. They are a bit expensive, but the work they do is well worth it. We also had them do the bathroom reno several y…

Brutal.
Aristotle on Democracy - Existential Comics
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/633

Aristotle on Democracy
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Anthropic researchers say rich countries' higher AI use risks deepening economic disparities and widening living standard gaps, driven by productivity gains (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3ad44e30-c738-4356-91fb-8bb2368685c4

Sonnenberg ridge entirely living up to its name...
(Made the most of the last warm weather yesterday afternoon to hike/climb along this beautiful long ridge with many cliffs, roped sections, some cute chamois and hardly any people — temporarily felt like late August, yet in two days supposedly snow starting...)
#SilentSunday

The recent election results proved something important.
Voters responded to candidates who spoke directly to economic pain.
When Democrats leaned into economic populism, they won.
They won by acknowledging reality, not sugarcoating it.
They won because they talked like people who know what a grocery bill feels like in 2025.
The mandate was clear:
tell the truth about the economy and fight for people who are getting squeezed.
And now comes Trump,…

THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS TRUMP WANTS YOU TO IGNORE
America is living through a cost of living crisis that is bigger than any talking point, any spin, any press event and the President is insulting our intelligence.

But we the living wrapped you in a cocoon

Khalid's Timeline
2024: Productive member of society
2025: Lose the ability to effectively close a Ziplock bag on the first try
2026 : Assisted-living nursing facility

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Quelle Chris:
🎵 Alive Ain't Always Living
#QuelleChris
https://quellechris360.bandcamp.com/track/alive-aint-always-living
https://open.spotify.com/track/3XXEIrg4viOSkha5VHuiEc

Is Trump talking about:
❓Inflation & cost of living
❓American healthcare
❓US unemployment
❓Food for the underprivileged
❓The Epstein files
OF COURSE NOT!
☑️ #Trump Brags About #Ballroom Renovations During

Trump Brags About Ballroom Renovations During Epstein Firestorm
Donald Trump remains unbothered by the Epstein chaos.

Behind The Scene
Melbourne, Australia. Living within it, breathes a scene that is vibrant, pulsating, and welcoming. Made up of Melbourne's best and loveliest musicians...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/behind-the-scene/…

Ricardo Mendes, born and raised within the Buddhist cult-like community Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC), describes in his testimony how this community, initially founded on ideals of spirituality, communal living, and alternatives to Western society, gradually became a sectarian organization

Starting today, I will be adjusting my diet by eating less meat, adding more plant-based foods, with the goal of eventually living a meat-free life.
🥬 🥕 🥦
#Vegetarianism #Vegan #Veganism

Snow day when living on an elevated floor in a condo is wonderful.
Everything is white, hardly any car in sight, it's like the city is closing for the day. Feels very peaceful
#toronto

Walking into the living room, I stumble upon this scene. I shout around the corner to my husband, cooking dinner in the kitchen, “When did you put my hat on the capybara?!”
“Like, hours ago,” he laughs.
I’ve been sitting next to this cool dude for hours now, and I had no idea.

Some fun with interfaces and protocols: I have a ThinkCentre m910q which has a single NVMe M.2 interface. I want to connect a PCIe M.2 device. I know that SATA M.2 only supports the SATA protocol. Will a PCIe device work on an NVMe M.2 interface? Or is the answer to that question "it depends"?
Bonus question: I have an OCuLink M.2 adapter with NVMe interface. I want to connect an OCuLink to NVMe adapter at the other end of the OCuLink cable. So far I wouldn't expect any …

"From concrete walls to living edges, here’s how riverside habitats are being restored along the Thames"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

From concrete walls to living edges, here’s how riverside habitats are being restored along the Thames
From concrete walls to living edges, the Thames is being reshaped to support fish, wildlife, and a healthier urban river.

Finished "Dissolution" by Nicholas Binge.
An elderly couple, Stanley & Maggie, are coping with his deteriorating memory, for which he's living in a care facility. A strange visitor credibly claims the home is responsible for removing his memories, and that Stanley's mind holds a secret that will save the world from imminent destruction.
A cat & mouse game ensues across time, memory, and featuring a deliciously evil character. Complex!
5/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐…

Dissolution
A woman dives into her husband's memories to uncover a …

If we could stop living in interesting times, that would be great, thanks
"Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal
Or: How the AI Bubble, Panic, and Unpreparedness Stole Christmas"
https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

"Projects like the Living Village at YDS are not only possible now—they are better than conventional construction, healthier to be in, less expensive to operate, more beautiful to behold."
—Architecture visionary Jason F. McLennan writing in the new issue of the YDS journal, Reflections, focused this season on faith that builds hope for a living planet

Didn't realize Katie Wilson identified as a socialist! Cool. https://komonews.c…

Mayor-elect Katie Wilson urges unity, community, collective responsibility in Seattle
Seattle's new Mayor-elect Katie Wilson is set to address the public regarding her election and upcoming role as mayor on Thursday afternoon.

Humanfobia – ᐁ Living in a Haunted House ᐁ EP Version
https://bromtollargesse.bandcamp.com/album/living-in-a-haunted-house

residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

You Are Not Late — #essay

Between Stillness and Becoming: On Time, Transformation, and Trust
Becoming isn’t a race — it’s a rhythm. This essay explores time as a living field, where transformation unfolds quietly, naturally, and always on time.

#catsofmastodon This cat likes gargoyling even if it means sitting on top of a door. We've set up her cat tower so she can get up and down easily.

I’m excited to see the return of Steam Machine.
With my experiments of using the Linux Desktop mode with the Steamdeck … this absolutely puts a full Linux server in a lot of homes.
A good spot for a PDS, Tailscale, and a bunch of other things.
https://bsky.app/profile/jaypeters.net

Jay Peters (@jaypeters.net)
If you want some video of the new Steam Controller and Steam Machine (a Valve-made PC for the living room!), check out this that @seanhollister.bsky.social and I made together!

I know everyone’s already dragging the living shit out of this already but 🤷🏻‍♀️:
All ICE/BP should have:
Clearly marked vehicles
Clearly marked names on uniforms (large TEXT for both)
ID/badges
Dismissal and/or prosecution for failing to comply.
QR codes are just unneeded “tech” complication
The current regime talks a lot of shit about ID being required to vote, but is fine with armed agents of the govt having less ID than a teen trying (and failing) to…

Muddled.
'Value' has specific meanings in Marxist political economy.
It isn't the appropriate term for what Boillier is discussing.
'Wealth' is closer but still not right.
It's a matter of standpoint: the abundance of nature isn't purely for human use, so those two terms don't apply well, or at all.
Toward a New Theory of Value (and Meaning): Living Systems as Generative - resilience

Toward a New Theory of Value (and Meaning): Living Systems as Generative
The bounty brought by rainfall, fertile soil, and biodiversity cannot truly be expressed through quantitative proxies, prices, algorithms, or markets because this “wealth” doesn’t exist in static, objectified forms or essentialist identities

Yesterday was my last day of this term's teaching Communication at the School of Engineering. So time to say good by to the little fellow living in TH547 and attending all lectures! He was there even on days none of the 33 students showed up
#AcademicChatter #TeachingElephant

The working class is the fundamental force that produces the material conditions necessary for the reproduction of society, and through our collective labor we not only create food, shelter, healthcare, education, transportation, and communication networks, but we also sustain and reproduce the conditions that allow every aspect of social life to continue functioning, so that even those who do not work, whether they are managers, bureaucrats, or capitalists, depend entirely on our labor for …

Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are studying LLMs like living things, not just software, to uncover some of their secrets for the first time (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/1

Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens
By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some of their secrets for the first time.

I think they went with the line "living in a world of fools"? #totp

‘Green’ energy transition leaves a dirty trail in the Philippines’ nickel belt https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/green-energy-transition-leaves-a-dirty-trail-in-the-philippines-nickel-belt/

‘Green’ energy transition leaves a dirty trail in the Philippines’ nickel belt
MINDANAO, Philippines — Communities living near mining operations in the southern Philippines’ Caraga region are feeling the toll of the global energy transition, with nickel mining driving deforestation and pollution, according to a recent report. Climate Rights International (CRI), the U.S.-based NGO behind the report, highlighted harms to the environment, local livelihoods and public health […]

Some years ago, a Russian team came closest to turning training of blind people to see with The vOICe into a commercially viable business, a bit like how Linux service companies make a living from the otherwise free Linux https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmrvukzbS44S…

What does it tell us that AI scrapers are ignoring the more intelligent way of scraping data despite all the indications towards it?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/stop-crawling-my-html-you-dickheads-use-the-api/
I don't think the answer is …

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Mattafix:
🎵 Living Darfur
#NowPlaying #Mattafix
https://clainmusic.bandcamp.com/track/living-darfur-by-clain
https://open.spotify.com/track/50lgTEX4pqxDaGJt9o0Chf

I've been enjoying living with my record collection again (my parents decided a few decades of dust from their house was enough). While I bought most of my LPs at the Salvation Army, almost all my 7 inches - except for one I recall very clearly buying at record show at Serb Hall (a story for another day) - came from Atomic Records, #Milwaukee's much regretted mecca for underground music. This o…

"I am a Hispanic American and a United States citizen by birth who believes deeply in the foundational tenets of this nation.
But for the first time in my 42 years, I live in fear.
Fear that I’ll be stopped because I look the way I look
or because I was overheard speaking Spanish to my wife or son — both American citizens."

Opinion | American Citizens Are Living in Fear
Readers share their anxieties over the aggressive tactics of ICE agents. Also: Undermining the Fed’s stability; one reader’s Trump quiz.

We're all at home and doing fine, thanks for asking. (If you don't know what this is in reference to, don't worry.)
https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-regularly-happens/

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
WINDER, GA—In the hours following a violent rampage in Georgia in which a lone attacker killed at least four individuals and injured nine others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Wednesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was […]

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Friday Break: https://eyebeemania.net/2025/11/14/friday-break.html

Friday Break
Living the high life! Smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel …

Time for a social experiment. I have 5 questions:
- What should we work towards as a society?
- What's one thing that doesn't exist now in your community but should?
- What's one action you could take in the coming year to align your life with that goal?
- What's one thing you could achieve in the coming year to get closer to making that thing exist?
- Imagine that we changed everything and you're living in the world you want to see exist. What does the world look like?
I've asked variations of these already (and am still getting great responses), but this time there's a catch. Get together some of your friends (3-5 people) and ask these questions of the group. Come up with *one* answer that everyone in the group agrees on and post it here, then write a bit about your experience.
If you don't know people locally (or otherwise can't do this in person), tag some folks in here or wherever your people are at digitally. Just add some info on if it's online or in person.
For anyone bold enough to actually do this, let me know if you'd be OK with me putting this in an upcoming entry (https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/).

Trump Calls For Firing Fox News Booker After "Trump Hating Jerk Loser" Guest Notes Soaring Cost Of Living - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/trump-calls-for-firing-fox-news-booker-after-trump-hating-jerk-loser-guest-notes-soaring-cost-of-living/

The criminals have taken over our society. We are now living in a failed state. If we don’t reverse it this year, we’re done for https://mastodon.seattlematrix.org/@mousey/115885378534677502

@… Haha, that would certainly be something.
Personally I was more referring to the fact that a lot of my joy in life comes from enjoying a good meal.
If I could never go to a restaurant, never cook with any ingredients Costco doesn’t carry, I could easily meet my caloric needs. But it wouldn’t be *living* anymore.

Hello there! Sorry I’ve been dumping annoying news things the last while here instead of chit chatting.
I really like it here and enjoy it, perhaps, most of any online text box.
But, regrettably, circumstances have conspired to require me to make a living. This takes up an inordinate amount of time. So, the best I have been able to manage is to drop newsy bits or Gist links.
I hope, like all of my vintage, that next month will quieten down a bit.

Watching MSNBC coverage of the #Brown #shooting and they’ve now interviewed _two_ current Brown students who survived previous shootings at their high schools (in different states), and are living through it again at Brown.
What the fuck are we even doing, except for nothing over and over again?

The Living Bible of the Ethiopian Jews https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20134298/living-bible-ethiopian-jews

Johnny Harris (he doesn't seem to have a presence here) has a really good video out right now on public transportation in Switzerland. "By law, every village in Switzerland, which has people living all year round, they have the right of public transportation. It can be a train, it can be a gondola, it can be a bus. Whatever." That's pretty cool.
#Switzerland #PublicTransportation #JohnnyHarris

Having a bit of a Daisy Ridley week. First, did Magpie a couple days ago, and now doing The Marsh King's Daughter, thanks to @…'s rec. 👊
https://boxd.it/u2Q8

The Marsh King's Daughter (2023)
Helena, a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, hides a dark secret—her father is the infamous 'Marsh King', the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. After a lifetime of trying to escape her past, Helena is forced to face her demons when her father unexpectedly escapes from prison.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sade:
🎵 when am i going to make a living
#Sade
https://softnews.bandcamp.com/track/sades-when-am-i-going-to-make-a-living
https://open.spotify.com/track/5DYD5pUUnf3MT6LafqPqOt

Ah, living in Northern Ireland.

dolphins: Dolphin social network (1994-2001)
An undirected social network of frequent associations observed among 62 dolphins (Tursiops) in a community living off Doubtful Sound, New Zealand, from 1994-2001.
This network has 62 nodes and 159 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dolphins…

Event: Dec. 6 Book Response on Living Islam
Join us for an evening of conversation inspired by Living Islam: Muslim Expressions of Faith, the acclaimed book byProfessor Ali S. Asani, which invites readers to explore the many ways Muslims around the world understand and experience their faith through culture, art, and everyday life.  The discussion, moderated by Alisha Kurji and featuring Dr. Alnoor Dhanani (Harvard University) and…

Hussein RashidEvent: Dec. 6 Book Response on Living Islam
Join us for an evening of conversation inspired by Living Islam: Muslim Expressions of Faith, the acclaimed book byProfessor Ali S. Asani, which invites readers to explore the many ways Muslims aro…

Today was #satisfying:
- arranged a unique & "life changing" experience for someone
- watched someone vely change attitude toward me
- was in a meeting w awesome people
- saw someone one whose sight always makes me happy
All in, feels like the day was worth living for, whatever tomorrow brings. 🙇‍♂️

This is a really really nice interview with Canadian Children's Book author Robert Munsch. It's his "last hurrah”. He's living with dementia and parkinson’s.
He's going to be leaving (MAID) at some point (not soon) but there are 50 more books that will be released after he has passed.
He just seems like a wonderful guy…
#Books #Munsch #CBC
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7009124

a pypi release script of mine just failed because sphinx linkcheck failed because… wikipedia has to throw 403s after the first request
i hate living in the future

The Curated Self as the New Delusion
There is a specific, modern anxiety that is difficult to name. It is not the dread of a specific event, but a low-grade, constant hum of disconnection. It’s the feeling of living in a world that is eerily frictionless, a world that reflects your own thoughts back at you with placid, unwavering agreement. It is the anxiety of a consensus of one; the quiet, digital loneliness of being the only person in your own universe.

The Curated Self as the New Delusion | David Boles, Blogs
There is a specific, modern anxiety that is difficult to name. It is not the dread of a specific event, but a low-grade, constant hum of disconnection. It’s the feeling of living in a world that is…

On AI and the golem
#ai #llm

On AI and the golem
Recently I, like a lot of people who make their living by creating things, have been thinking a lot about so-called AI. I have been forced to do this because so many companies have been stealing th…

If you are wondering what it’s like in Minneapolis / St. Paul right now — •this• is it. This is what we’re living through. https://mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot/115692836095826980

'Cloudy Weather': Hassett Says Some Economic Data Was Never Collected During Shutdown (Tyler Spence/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/economy/kevin-hassett-economic-data-shutdown-bls-bureau-labor-statistics-jobs-report-cost-of-living
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p90#a251111p90

The labour and resource use requirements of a good life for all
#economy #environment

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.
…

"We don’t really think about our future – we remember it",
said Dr Hal Hershfield, who studies how humans think about time and how that influences our emotions and behaviors.
When we daydream or envision ourselves at a later point, we essentially create a memory.
We then use these memories to construct our ideas about the future.
This process is called “episodic future thinking”;
it supports our decision-making, emotional regulation and ability to p…

Anarcho-syndicalist. non-binary person. they/them, also bisexual.
I took down one of my Moomin posters and hung up my two favorite flags in my living room instead. It feels good making my own place look like me.
I know my mom doesn’t like it, but this is my apartment and I’m not going to hide who I am just to make someone else comfortable.
:bisexual_pride: 🏳️‍⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️‍🌈

“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.”
–

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

Imagine a world that we all control together, not controlled by oligarch or dictators, even indirectly. Imagine something truly collaborative. That world would be very different from our own. In some ways many of us could have a lot more opportunity. But in others, we would be restricted.
In such a world, we couldn't really have elite luxuries. Having such luxuries is only valuable so long as others do not.
> Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one.
- The Social Ideology of the Motorcar
Imagine a world in which we think about luxury in a radically different way, not as something that only has value via exclusivity but something that enriches the lives of the owners more as more people have them.
What would living in such a world be like? Can you describe a day in your life?
#SolarPunkPrompts #Writing #Prompts

you don't have to be healed to begin — https://www.brichapman.com/p/you-dont-have-to-be-healed-to-begin?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social

Healing Through, Not Before: You Don’t Have to Be Whole to Begin
You don’t have to be healed to be worthy. Healing isn’t a finish line — it’s something you do through love, work, and living in the world as it is.

"Wood-burning stoves face new restrictions in the U.K.—but a loophole from Britain's smog years is fueling the problem"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #WoodBurner

Wood-burning stoves face new restrictions in the U.K.—but a loophole from Britain's smog years is fueling the problem
Wood-burning stoves are booming in the UK, a cozy response to high energy prices and cost of living pressures. But this comes with a hidden cost.

A viral Chinese app called "Are You Dead?" that checks on people living alone becomes the top paid app in Apple's App Store in China, as many elderly live alone (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e92d62d4-26db-40f9-8d4e-a2a84c2e51ec

RE: #QuoteOfTheDay: "Not to be dramatic but we are living in societies with soul-shatteri…

Two-dimensional semiconductor-based active array for high-fidelity spatiotemporal monitoring of neural activities (in mice) #BCI

Two-dimensional semiconductor-based active array for high-fidelity spatiotemporal monitoring of neural activities - Nature Materials
Two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)-based active arrays made by growing wafer-scale trilayer MoS2 directly on a polyimidine substrate achieve high-fidelity spatiotemporal neuronal monitoring in vitro and in living mice.

Laurie Penny is very near the top of my list of favorite living writers. She has started a how-to-write-well series, entitled (for obvious reasons) “How to Write Like A Person”; intro here: https://open.substack.com/pub/lauriepenny/p/ho…

How to Write Like A Person
Announcing a new seminar for 2026.

"What a privilege to collaborate with microbes and chicken manure. What a relief to recognize that the call to healing and life is a call to all creation. We do not work alone!"
—Nathan T. Stucky, Director of the Farminary project at Princeton, in his piece for the new issue of the YDS journal Reflections

@… @… It’s extra surreal as a Dane living in the U.S. Maybe it’s time to go home 😅

Seriously though.... the frontpage of the BBC today would be absolutely mindblowing to anyone living in the world in 2015.
Also. Putin must be very.... VERY... happy for this.
#NATO #Russia #Greenland #USA #RussiaUkraineWar #EU

I’ve tried different ways in the past to manage my phone and social media addiction, but what’s finally started working for me, especially now that I’ve been living in my own apartment since October 2024, is deleting social media altogether and setting up network firewalls to block those sites, including federated addresses.
Moving forward, I know I’ll have to cut even more of my online life. I’ve been using my Pi-hole to block distracting domains at the network level, and since I’m to…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Bouquet:
🎵 All Living Rooms
#Bouquet
https://bouquetmusic.bandcamp.com/track/all-living-rooms
https://open.spotify.com/track/4QWhuoPEe6akCUY7JCn1E5

ReformUK and their ilk keep claiming it is easy for asylum seekers. Like if they eventually get settled status, the Home Office immediately makes them homeless. So easy for them, our beneficent welfare system. That's after living on a pittance while awaiting a decision, so no spare money to put down for a deposit.
Andy Burnham makes demand after claims government policies creating homelessness - Manchester Evening News

Andy Burnham makes demand after claims government policies creating homelessness
It comes after the government set out a new plan to tackle homelessness

Just released! The new issue of the Divinity School journal, Reflections. The theme is: "A Faith that Sustains: Building Hope for a Living Planet." #ecotheology #sustainability #creationcare

residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Gorillaz:
🎵 Last Living Souls
#Gorillaz
https://moondoctor.bandcamp.com/track/gorillaz-last-living-souls-moondoctor-bootleg
https://open.spotify.com/track/7JzmCjvB6bk48JghLyrg8N

@leakey77.bsky.social and colleagues combined
laser confocal microscopy with
gas exchange measurements
to enable the real-time observation of living plant stomata! 🧪
https://bsky.app/profile/rando.insalubrio.us/post/3mbuqqimmi22a

Brandon Moore, PhD (@rando.insalubrio.us)
@leakey77.bsky.social and colleagues combined laser confocal microscopy with gas exchange measurements to enable the real-time observation of living plant stomata! 🧪 https://academic.oup.com/plphys/article/199/4/kiaf600/8325470

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

The Oglala Sioux Tribe is seeking answers after
four enrolled members were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis.
Tribal President Frank Star Comes Out said in a statement on Facebook that the men,
who were homeless and living near the Little Earth housing complex in Minneapolis,
home to nearly 1,500 people,
many of whom are Native American.
The men were taken into custody without their names being recorded, the tribe …

ICE Detains and Holds Four Native Americans, Tribal Leader Says
Oglala Sioux Tribe demands action after ICE detains four members in Minneapolis. Tribal attorneys work to confirm identities and secure release.

#Anarchism

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Living Colour:
🎵 Cult of Personality
#LivingColour
https://djgizmo1.bandcamp.com/track/living-colour-cult-of-personality-dj-gizmo-redrum
https://open.spotify.com/track/1E4r8aMHDP3j2tq8atKzzt