Tootfinder

"UK Startup is Making Electricity From Bacteria in the Soil – Maybe Your Garden Will Power Your Home Some Day"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy

UK Startup is Making Electricity From Bacteria in the Soil - Maybe Your Garden Will Power Your Home Some Day
A UK startup, Bactery, says its battery powered by bacteria uses nature’s microbes to generate an unending trickle of power from the soil.

Maybe he could inspect his rocket from underneath when it launches
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/22/elon-musk-the-odyssey-casting

So Trump's actions with regard to Iran will maybe result that all shipping has to pay fees in the strait of Hormuz (to avoid the word "toll"), It is incredible how Trump has damaged the US and the world economy with his actions.
#Trump #Iran

2026 Stack Overflow Developer Survey is live, taking maybe 15–18 minutes:
https://take.survey.stackoverflow.co/jfe/form/SV_4GHunpL3IfJ3rRc?utm_medium=your-bu…

2026 Developer Survey | Stack Overflow
The world's largest survey of developers and technologists.

I might have left Ireland in reality but in my heart, maybe not entirely. I bought this last night while in Rotterdam. ❤️🍀

Non-uniform distribution
(@…, please help! 😂)
Also, if you look closely, I'm not sure if these are tadpoles of two species... Are the larger grayish ones going to be toads, or maybe just older?
(Update: It turns out it's the way around: smaller ones are toads, larger ones froggies... see replies in …

Dear #orgmode community: I once read about a method to "embed" content from a different heading so that I don't have to duplicate content.
E.g., when I want to include/preview/embed two paragraphs from a particular heading somewhere else in my Org hierarchy. Maybe even in a different Orgdown file? 🤔
Unfortunately, I didn't add this package to my notes. Do you have an id…

Go and read "Klara and the Sun"[1] if you haven't yet, it's great.
Maybe the #TaikaWaititi movie based on it will be, too. We'll see in October, but you know the drill:
First read the book, then watch the movie.
https…

Exiting the Billionaire Castle
#EuropeanSovereignty

what happened when clive davis (aka siva devil c) met owsley & robert hunter, 1973. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/wake-flood-50-mississippi-half-step-uptown-toodeloo

The man behind the legendary MPC, Roger Linn, stays focused with a single browser tab https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/936426/mpc-linndrum-roger-linn-questionnaire-music-tech

@… Maybe buy a used one? I got a used Libra H2O a while back and it's been great. Not saying that's the model you need, of course.

Maybe 3 years later, this situation has changed.
Somehow I doubt it.
Planning Inspectorate can’t say if its inspectors are carbon literate. | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2023/06/06/plan…

Planning Inspectorate can’t say if its inspectors are carbon literate.
We have had a (late) response from the Planning Inspectorate to our Freedom of Information request. We asked for information on whether planning inspectors have received carbon-literacy training. T…

Straight Outta The Sticks
Here we talk everything from sport to politics in the most offensive way possible so if you are easily offended, maybe this is not for you...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/straight-outta-the-st…

@… maybe you know a brief explanation,
"… is it normal for FreeBSD-ports-kmods to lack kernel module packages for NVIDIA?"
That is, FreeBSD-ports-kmods distinct from the FreeBSD-ports repo.
Quoted from the foot of <

Update von Straps #tcrNo12cap5 #tcrno12

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@AGT/116620334001697784
Maybe they should, oh I dunno, impeach him.

#totp Or maybe she's a reptile...

Spagnola: Maybe this worm really is turning https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-maybe-this-worm-really-is-turning

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Max Luthert:
🎵 Big Maybe
#MaxLuthert

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@harrysintonen/116618393246317371
the good thing about this, maybe we can recover the deleted messages between pfizer and von der leyen...

The problem is stretching out more
#blogging #water

Still no water, day 3 - JazMat
Still no water today. Maybe tomorrow, says the water dept./company. Things broke. Sabotage? Some political blokes would do it to cause problems for the party...

Friendly suggestion to companies making safety equipment for high-pressure applications: maybe don't ship the compressor cutoff switch under your FBANG brand
"F---- *BANG*: the final word in workplace safety!"

England defeat: maybe football’s never ‘coming home’ https://theconversation.com/england-defeat-maybe-footballs-never-coming-home-287702

England defeat: maybe football’s never ‘coming home’
The English are bonded over an ever growing list of football disappointments.

@… maybe your team could wear a special scent to help 😅

Planning a tour of the castles of the Loire in France? Maybe not this week. Although the BBC's description 'sunny and a gentle breeze' sounds innocent.

Apparently today is #ShowYourStripes day.
If there are still people unaware that #ClimateChange is happening... maybe we can get them up to speed by sharing our stripes.
If some who are aware it's happening think it's already "too late"... maybe we can tell them that ac…

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116620861976200877
I’m not sure what bothers me more—the wanton environmental damage or the nerds cheering this on.
If this thing would have some good purpose it would maybe be different—but “Mars colonies” are bullshit.
It’s gonna be used to deploy tons of satellites that will pollute the night sky and for nefarious military shit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My partner was fed up with our sewing machine. We got it maybe 15 years ago, but never really used it much. Neither of us had the patience to get it threaded properly.
I mostly hand-sew things (repairs) and my partner does have their mom's old machine (which still works!)
So we've gave the machine to my daughter and she could not be happier! She just sewed up parts for an art installation and is working on making her own pants now.
Glad it's getting used & g…

Are you a screen reader user who relies on F6 navigation? Maybe you have an opinion on navigating landmarks on web pages via a proposed `focuslandmark`?
https://github.com/openui/open-ui/issues/1472#issuecomment-5062013011

Why are they called leaders, when they won't do anything to lead on crucial issues, but instead continue to double down on policies that are now inappropriate, while the non-leaders drive for necessary changes? Managers? Maybe. Bosses? Maybe. Leaders? Nah
House Democrats are finally shifting on Israel. Party leaders must listen

House Democrats are finally shifting on Israel. Party leaders must listen
More than 100 Democratic lawmakers voted against arms for Israel. They’re listening to the people – their bosses are behind

Why are they called leaders, when they won't do anything to lead on crucial issues, but instead continue to double down on policies that are now inappropriate, while the non-leaders drive for necessary changes? Managers? Maybe. Bosses? Maybe. Leaders? Nah
House Democrats are finally shifting on Israel. Party leaders must listen

House Democrats are finally shifting on Israel. Party leaders must listen
More than 100 Democratic lawmakers voted against arms for Israel. They’re listening to the people – their bosses are behind

Hopefully coding will become a lot easier post-AI, because all those corporate 'open source' frameworks will become even more unusable, and straightforward minimal low/no dependency handmade code the norm.
I still don't know what all these javascript build and deployment tools are really for and maybe I won't have to

Maybe I don't get the concept of a "free lifetime membership" but why do I have to reclaim access every once in a while?

Graham Calls For Trump To Resume Bombing Of Iran: "Maybe They'll Make A Deal If You Hurt Them Enough" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/05/graham-calls-for-trump-to-resume-bombing-of-iran-maybe-theyll-make-a-deal-if-you-hurt-them-enough/

I want Mike Duncan's "Revolutions" but covering the Spanish Civil War, China, Cuba, Algeria, Vietnam, and the various anti-colonial struggles, then come back to France for May 1968, and a few others, maybe ending with the Zapatistas, Rojava/DAANES, the Gen Z uprisings, and maybe introducing Myanmar.

I'm sitting outside with a coffee, amid the garden Mum planted so skilfully, and which I maybe didn't appreciate while she was alive, and the various things we've stuck in pots - walnut, fig, olive etc - and have just ordered a hazel tree and a cherry tree from The Woodland Trust. Mum had several big ceramic planters that are now empty or full of scrub and they're just right for young trees that are just a twig and a leaf 🌿

#GoogleJules has become embarrasingly useless.
#ai #agenticcoding

I would tentatively exclude elected officials too. Maybe •retired• elected officials are allowed. Maybe. (Všclav Havel spoke at Macalester when I was a student, and he was pretty cool — though I’d list him as a writer and thinker first, and also it wasn’t for graduation.)
“No politics” seems too strong: aside from that being a cop-out and a ruse (everything is intertwined with politics), Kofi Annan was my graduation speaker and he was fantastic. But I don’t think anybody should be giving a graduation speech while looking ahead to an election.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Bad Colours:
🎵 Maybe I Should Move to LA
#BadColours
https://badcolours.bandcamp.com/track/maybe-i-should-move-to-la
https://open.spotify.com/track/6teK4vFO932915tOWAJ4HA
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Ivj2i9BbyMoJmb0ZucUM2
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

@… I'm genuinely sorry that we can't please everyone.
I rarely look back at historic shots of the front page, today I found one from February 2026, maybe the last Wayback Machine capture before new Reddit became more AI-scrape-resistant:
Hi Friends!
296 votes, it rose to 302. A photograph of the Linux mascot was amongst FreeBSD's top…

Ok, I was thinking I didn’t have anything for this, but then I was reminded by a couple of posts that folks have made that my focus on maintaining the house climate is extremely “Dad” energy 😂, making sure windows are closed or that we start cooling early in the day so we have thermal inertia.
https://

Ryan Nanni (@celebrityhottub.bsky.social)
It is time once again to discuss the Most Dad Things we have done in the past year. A couple of reminders: - gender is a social construct, anyone can do Dad Things - you need not be a parent to do a Dad Thing - the definition of a Dad Thing is entirely subjective and maybe made up I’ll go first:

First rhubarb harvest of 2026: 1 pound 10 oz with leaves removed, before final trim. I’ll probably get at least one more like this without stressing the plants, maybe two if I water or it stays rainy.
The new plants I split off the bigger plant 5 years ago are finally big enough to harvest (just barely though).
Not a lot, but it’s neat to get some food “for free” without chemical fertilizer, herbicide, or insecticide. Can’t wait for raspberries to start kicking off.

Just finished "Snake-Eater" by T. Kingfisher (@…). I'd read and thoroughly enjoyed her "Digger" webcomic, and found this book to be quite enjoyable too. There's something indelibly heartwarming about an anxious character growing to feel more comfortable and self-assured, especially when escaping and unlearning emotional abuse, and I'm certainly a sucker for heartwarming characters. I like the way that Kingfisher has taken time to talk about and try to avoid cultural appropriation, in a way that I feel is reasonable, although of course I'm not an expert judge of the nuances and I'm biased by having liked the book, so I'm willing to be told things are complicated in that regard it others judge differently. I also really liked the window dressing of a vaguely solarpunk future society, in a book that's not at all about that society. I'd love to see Kingfisher write something focused on how that society could work (or maybe she already has?).
Probably going to look up some of Kingfisher's fantasy books soon.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

I sooo often don't have photos of the summit cross when I go to the #mountains . Don't ask me why. Maybe because I usually have people in the photo?
It was the same that day: I almost left without that photo when I stepped over the flowers and thought that they might be a cool foreground for the summit. And by focusing on the flowers and blurring the people, I also don't hav…

Sources: Sam Altman recently discussed launching an AI compute company that is majority-owned by OpenAI, similar to Stargate's original data center initiative (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/sam-altman-stargate-redux-maybe

Sam Altman may start a new compute company
Stargate redux? OpenAI's CEO has recently discussed setting up a new compute effort that he would raise money for, with OpenAI as the majority shareholder.

Buccaneers great Lavonte David: 'Maybe I should’ve waited' to retire to play with Rueben Bain https://www.nfl.com/news/buccaneers-great-lavonte-david-maybe-i-should-ve-waited-to-retire-to-play-with-rueben-bain…

I spent some time re-reading, as one does, Frederic Jameson and Mike Davis only to decide that the original idea for a reply post was maybe too involved (maybe just a little?).

...well ok, maybe just one more:
https://youtu.be/nXJ76IN5EwA?is=ier1A5kr-kqXrE35

Spent my evening fucking around with z/OS and MVS. I still don't get IBM mainframes, and at this point I'm probably too old/burned out/cynical to muster the required quantity bloody-minded useless drive toward a goal of learning something I will never need to know. Maybe for SCOPE/Hustler.

"Do you know of any unexpected pattern of emoji usage? For example I'd expect younger folks to use emoji more than older folks and private communication to use it more than business... But maybe my assumptions are wrong or there is something else interesting?" - Yes generally our studies show that younger ppl use emojis more than older (and women a bit more than men). But in class with my undergraduates, they recently often tell me "I don't use emojis at all". I must say I don't fully believe them (maybe they don't even notice all the little hearts anymore?) and I haven't been able to show this in studies, but it's an interesting anecdotal data point I'd like to know more about!
Also, a student of mine recently asked teenagers (13 and 16yos) about their emoji interpretations. And surprisingly to us, these almost entirely match the data we already have for adults. Even for some like 🙃 and 😉 that I thought were changing (and just told you that younger people see them differently 😬). So that was a bit weird to me 😅 #emojis #WorldEmojiDay #linguistics

Neat looking TUI markdown/task/wiki style app
https://github.com/boolean-maybe/tiki

some #aphids from the other day. not sure what the plant is tho, or what aphids they are.
#insects #nature

@… ah, yes! I have seen this but it doesn’t seem consistently applied to me? maybe a solved problem though!

Anybody knows how I can verify that #anubis is in fact working as intended? Are there manual ways of triggering a challenge, maybe?

Maybe I'll create a collection, when my Mastodon instance is updated to 4.6.0 💭

A family of local Coots. Hmm.
#wildlife

@… thanks, it's not a big deal :-)
It's so variable, I feel like I need sliding scales, which is ridiculous. What I voted for a few minutes ago is not what I'd vote for now, maybe complicated by the surprise of (I think) discovering that a quote post occurred after I intended to simply link to a post.
Cc @…

periodic reminder that Dunning-Kruger effect is mostly statistical error and if you're using it as a part of your worldview, that's maybe a problem.
Doubly so since a naive reflection of it is a belief in a fascist ubermensch who's just smarter than everyone else. You can justify deeply anti-democratic ideals with it. So consider this carefully.

Part of the ability to detect bot-generated content is simply *good taste*. Humans maybe cannot describe what is “off” about the crud, yet still can see that it’s off.
Maybe it’s inconsistent perspective lines. Maybe it’s impossible focal aberrations. Maybe it’s the odd number of teeth. The redundant sentences. Excessive adjective use. Those who have developed good taste in text or visual art organically may not be aware of the specific technical issues, yet still recognize slop as slo…

RE: https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/116942297332156781
What were US soldiers doing in Jordan? It’s very far from the US. Maybe US soldiers should stay home where they belong.

One might see needy children getting less food assistance as a horrifying outcome.
But the Trump administration has sold all this as a success story.
Those losing benefits, we’re told, were all lazy grifters who were probably defrauding the government anyway.
Or, alternatively, maybe they really did once deserve their benefits, but they have since graduated out of their undignified need for federal assistance thanks to Trump’s economic boom.
“A lot of [the enrollmen…

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Hunger Crisis
His solution to the food affordability crisis is to cut programs that help people afford food.

RE: https://genart.social/@sableraph/116787749241365206
Also maybe interesting for the Farbrausch OGs here: @…

Phoooh..... #PineNote ordered. A bit steep... but I must have it.
A high-quality e-ink tablet with open hardware and free community software, can probably run whatever Linux distro you throw at it, and thus can do anything a full Linux can do.
I'm going to put SuperSakura on it. And maybe read some books or w/e

Bit into a chocolate truffle from a local candy shop that was a kind of hemispherical shape, perhaps made from a flat chocolate base that had a blob of filling put on it and then encapsulated in more chocolate.
And as I'm looking at the seam between the two segments the first thing that comes to mind is... Wouldn't it be cool to freeze one of these in LN2, cross section, polish, maybe ion mill, then do like SEM/EBSD to look at the cocoa butter grain structure around the weld li…

Some serious grind for this #GrindayFriday, this is EP 'Insurgent Ecology' from Philadelphia's ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY. Maybe even some deathgrind going on here.
https://artificialscarcity.bandcamp.co

the programme de la soirée is to make a few mix tapes, listen to music that i love, and maybe dance with that ladder over there if i manage to drink enough of this cheap (i mean cheap!) italian wine to confuse a ladder for my wife

I've been watching the Grand Sumo tourney in Nagoya, Japan. Always found it an interesting niche of Japanese culture. IDK, maybe it was cause I was an E. Honda player as a kid in the arcades back in the day, lol. Kinda crazy there's some sumo that are still doing it at 50, and beating kids more than half their age 😮 Some of the weight disparities are wild as well. Matches where the difference between sumo is more than *I* weigh. Also pretty cool to see some dudes from outside of Japa…

On Website Technicals (2019-08) - Tech updates: maybe lazy, spatial coverage and Google Maps, goodbye JSON, long path wrapped, podcasts, links out and left float. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-27.html

On Website Technicals (2019-08)
Tech updates: maybe lazy, spatial coverage and Google Maps, goodbye JSON, long path wrapped, podcasts, links out and left float.

In around two weeks I’m migrating from iOS to a postmarketOS phone. Please leave app suggestions, I’m definitely going to need them!
Waydroid is… fine, but not preferred Please avoid android apps unless it’s something that is like confirmed to work well on waydroid, is proprietary or something so has no alternatives or something like that. I’m not launching waydroid to listen to music, to read my e-mails or to use xmpp.
Some examples of what I’m looking for, probably for Plasma Mobile:
And also just anything y’all find useful in your daily life with a postmarketOS daily driver, I’m sure I’m forgetting a lot of stuff here.
I know some of those exist for desktop Linux, but I’m obviously looking for stuff made with phones in mind (so like… apps made for gnome should be automatically fine maybe?)
(Also, has anyone managed to get nix’s system-manager to work on postmarketOS? There’s no way I’m configuring all of this by hand every time I need to flash it lmao)
#postmarketOS #LinuxMobile #Linux

Tippet's AI takes are painfully naive
it's hard not to feel like maybe she has been taken in by the rich and powerful, especially when she ends her letter with a plug for a podcast on energy healing hosted by a Google executive.
She still seems to attribute agency to "the AIs" as if they had their own independent minds, instead of treating them as the automation of sycophantic echo chambers, feeding back whatever they are given like a good "cold read" …

On Our Lives with AI
What is it calling us to?

#emfcamp was excellent. Didn't go to any talks or workshops, just chats, meetups, dancing, puzzles, volunteering, and wandering admiring the art. Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen ❤️
Maybe see some of you in 6 weeks for #OSHCamp? https://
oshug.org/event/oshcamp2026

A soft reminder that any sufficiently spicy solar flare can wipe out all our electrical infrastructure. So maybe stop putting all your sensitive data in these systems.

Hot take ... Maybe taxes would help: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/opinion/tech-billionaires-opera-funding-met.html

Same question as the previous post, except for Wkipedia. What would you like to see them do to send a shot across the bow?
Or…well, it’s Wikipedia. Maybe more like a shot to the hull.
3/2

Got a new tube for the bike tire but I don’t trust myself 100% that I got all the metal splinters out of the carcass. So I guess I’ll have to do a few short exploratory rides to make sure it doesn’t blow again (and bring a pump maybe, just in case)

Lazy Web of Real People (maybe, hopefully): is VictoriaMetrics good? I'd like to hear real-world experience only please.

Looking at maybe 400k UK phone lines not getting switched to digital before the 2027 deadline?
https://broadbandswitch.uk/reports/the-last-dial-tone/#:~:text=Thirty-three weeks, three trajectories

The Last Dial Tone | Report No. 26 | BroadbandSwitch.uk
Independent analysis of the PSTN and WLR switch-off, the 31 January 2027 deadline, eVAC, and what to do now.

This looks incredibly exciting: https://www.festival-automne.com/en/edition-2026/back-to-back-theatre-food-court
Maybe time for a smuttur to Paris again @…

Made a burner x.com account out of morbid curiosity and holy shit how do people still use this. Like a year after Musk could maybe be similar to when there's a hole in the roof of a house and you tarp it for a month (shit but livable) but now it's more like when the house has a big mold problem and everyone is getting terminally ill over it.

I keep seeing the "cars replaced horses" thing related to "AI."
People keep comparing "AI" to cars (positively) without thinking about the fact that cars were forced on people (AAA bought up and destroyed tram lines, there were massive protests, etc), and are the primary driver of climate change that is currently on track to make complex human society impossible. Meanwhile, cities that weren't destroyed for cars, or that have reversed most of the damage, are some of the most desirable places to live.
Maybe we could take the car analogy as a warning. Maybe it could be a reminder to think about how forcing technology on people against their will can reshape society in a profoundly negative way.
The answer for cities has been to right-size transit. Eliminate cars wherever possible, maintain emergency vehicles and mobility aids, and find more efficient alternatives (bikes, trams, metros, and trains) where possible. I feel as though we can extrapolate from the metaphor.
We do not have to repeat the mistake of reshaping society around a single, oversimplified, solution in order to benefit a tiny minority. Perhaps we can actually choose the right technologies based on use cases, rather than hype or dogma.
Cars didn't replace horses. Cars replaced walkable cities, tram lines and mass transit, and children playing in the streets.
"Cars replaced horses" to the benefit of a small group of elite men, at tremendous cost to literally everyone else. When people say, "AI is the new 'cars replacing horses'" they are saying something very specific about their privilege and intentions.

#mountainMonday ! Unfortunately not a recent photo but one that's quite a while ago. Before my wife had 2 knee issues. But maybe we can go there again soon.
As you can see, the landscape there is A BLAST! I totally love the area
#mountains

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #EasternEchoes
motifs:
🎵 Maybe in Another Dream
#motifs
https://motifs.bandcamp.com/track/maybe-in-another-dream
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) on Wednesday slammed Donald Trump for appointing Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence,
arguing the move increases the risk of a terrorist attack on the U.S. 
“The installation of a thug and a hack like Pulte as the acting director of national intelligence is maybe the most chilling and the most dangerous nomination or appointment that this president has made,” Ossoff told host Jen Psaki on MS NOW’s “The Briefing.”

RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116951656558788471
Maybe just check what kind of dependencies you have in your applications, and once a year consider donating a bit of money to them.

@… @… Maybe, but given that we don't have a clear understanding of what consciousness is or how plants process information, I don't think we can rule it out.

Well, hey, China just roasted Trump, so maybe they're still in a good mood and won't mind about the boat...
Russia just hit commercial vessel of its closest war ally in Ukrainian waters with Shahed drone - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/18/russia-just-hit-commercial-vessel-of-its-closest-war-ally-in-ukrainian-waters-with-shahed-drone/

In case you thought that my previous post was an exaggeration and maybe they’re actually doing something reasonable:
❝US justice department ‘forever’ bars IRS from auditing Trump’s past tax returns❞
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/19/trump-irs-settlement-tax-returns

maybe he should ask his AI how not to melt

So, hanging on Revere beach and I’ve been struck by a fashion question:
How come men’s clothing doesn’t seem to do asymmetrical?
Like tons of women’s outfits today are asymmetrical in cut but i don’t think I’ve seen a single guys outfit that was.
Maybe a DieWorkWear question?

Earlier today, and fuller, and maybe even better than yesterday
#blogging

Surprise me -- or not - JazMat
If Yours Truly has one of those personalities that doesn’t like surprises, why did he buy a book called, Surprise Me? Maybe because God’s surprises are so...

RE: https://norden.social/@SheDrivesMobility/116732194100466437
Goodness, I wish someone had warned us about this shit, oh I don’t know, maybe over a decade ago?

@…
"… the entire OS core now runs on pure BSD licensing. …"
― maybe not true. I think first of OpenZFS and CDDL.

Logistics in the technical sense (part of supply chain management) is a subset of logistics in the vernacular sense ("the handling of the details of an operation"). You can explore this second and more general sense, and thereby build an understanding of the first and more technical sense, by iteratively asking the question, "how does one make that happen" and follow questions from there.
A big part of organizing is figuring out the (vernacular) logistics (and helping others figure it out). You want to organize a seed swap? Ok. How does one make that happen? Well, you need seeds, people, a place, and perhaps a time. How does one make that happen? You can forage seeds or you can buy seeds for a garden and swap extras. How do you get people to come? Well, figure out where you want people to come from and choose an accessible place. What's the easiest thing to do? Get people from your neighborhood. How does one make that happen? Well, maybe put up flyers. How does one make that happen? Well, print them on your printer if you have one, or at a library, then go post them up. Etc.
Keep asking questions until you either find a roadblock that you can't find a way around, or you find things you can do yourself (one of those things you can do yourself is asking friends to help).
If you practice the exercise of thinking about how things happen, you can start to find things that you can do yourself. You can start to understand what exists now, and you can imagine what's possible. By thinking about logistics, you can figure out how to replace things when they collapse or are dismantled. You can also identify things that can't easily be replaced, and try to figure out alternatives.
This practice is good for figuring out how to build, but it can also be a valuable practice for figuring out how to resist. Concentration camps and ethnic cleansing also require logistics. Mass displacement means moving people. How does one do that? People are generally going to be moved in planes or buses. How does one do that? Well, people get loaded on to planes or buses in specific places. Planes and buses need fuel. Planes are fueled at their airports, which may well be the same places where people are loaded on to them. There is a fuel depo and a fuel truck that makes flying people out of a specific place possible. How does the fuel get to that fuel depo? Well, that fuel is probably also delivered by truck. Someone drives those trucks. Someone fuels those planes. Someone clears the planes for takeoff. Someone fuels those busses. Someone drives those busses. And so on.
Logistics networks can be highly complex. The more complex the operation, the more possible points of failure and more possible points where pressure can be applied, where operations can be disrupted. Ethnic cleansing is a complicated operation. The logistics of disrupting complicated things tend to be much less complicated than the logistics of the complicated things themselves.
The Right has exploited this fact for a long time. Centralized social services are logistically complex. Public infrastructure is logistically complex. By destroying these things, they can loot public resources by privatizing the infrastructure and functionality.
But the things that support the Right are even more logistically complex. Oil, cars, AI data centers, internal paramilitary, these are extremely complicated and fragile. There are numerous pressure points, all of which can respond to numerous strategies.
If we want to win, we should reduce the influence of politics over the things we care about. We should focus on building distributed mutual aid networks that don't rely on state funding and aren't subject to the whims of politicians. This is also known as "dual power." That is, creating counter-institutions outside of the dominant political system. The Right already does this in the form of churches and corporations.
As we reduce our complexity, we can then press our complexity advantage against the things for which the Right *needs* the state: the apparatus of violence needed to maintain capital and enforce the dominant order.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@JugglingWithEggs/116539515896722630
Gosh, maybe if Starmer could find another genocide to support? Maybe they just aren’t supporting enough genocides?

I wonder where I can dispose of my hundreds of tons of unwanted cadmium. Maybe I can take it and all this metallic sodium I found and just dump it in the reservoir

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116590063771285654
Anyway, if you know where I can get a hat with an embroidered (not printed) MS-DOS logo or maybe other retrocomputing-type logos lmk.

I spent some time #blogging today.
Oh man, why does writing take so much time?! Honestly, this time I tried dictating (Speech-to-text) and curating afterwards ... but it feels like it takes the same amount of time 🤔 Maybe it's just a lack of practice - or a lack of articulation.
Anyways - a bit of story, a peertube video and a couple of photos are waiting to be watched! 😉
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@… maybe out of scope for you, the new site does not yet lend itself to things such as previewing.
No FreeBSD logo seen in Mastodon, and so on.