@… a bit busy this week will try to finish it next week !
Next week I will participate with the @… @… @… Horizon funded research projects in a policy briefing in Brussels, with MEP Group on Climate Change, Biodiversity & Sustainable Development @eupolarcluster.bsky.social
Remote participation possible if you're interested in what we have to say about Polar Science for Global Action and Strengthening Climate Preparedness through EU Leadership
https://polarres.eu/polarresevents/polar-science-for-global-action/
Moderating a panel next week and asked participants to send presentations in advance.
The two #globalsouth panelists sent them in not only in advance, but wonderful, detailed presentations.
The two #globalnorth panelists? Sent them not only late, but half-hone, bare-bones presentations t…
House Republicans unveiled a new health care proposal Friday
as they aim to address concerns about rising health insurance costs just weeks before enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies expire.
The legislation would codify and expand health plans for small businesses, fund reductions of premiums for low-income people in the individual health insurance market and increase transparency in prescription drug pricing, according to House Republican leadership aides.
The proposal …
Folks, just a quick update to let you know that I plan on being off the fediverse for the rest of the week to rest/recover.
See you all next week!
💕
Got to sit in an play with a 2026 Leaf yesterday. felt good. Gonna test drive next week.
I should probably wait a year to get a used one and save money but I think the blue color will be hard to come by.
#ev #cars
Metrik released a new album, so I'll kindly leave it here.
Can't wait to hear him playing live in Warsaw next week.
#music #drumnbass #dnb
Heading to @SustainableBrands next week? It’s my favorite gathering for people reimagining business through purpose and profit.
Lately I’m hearing from execs who feel their sustainability work is plateauing—not for lack of heart, but because the system itself resists the kind of change we’re trying to create. What are _you_ noticing?
If that’s on your mind too, let’s grab 15 minutes at SB to trade notes. I promise you’ll walk away with at least one useful perspective you hadn’t c…
Everytime I use the leaf blower/mulcher I remember that I forgot my mask. I remembered my hearing protection. I will be repeating the effort in one or two weeks when the rest of the leaves drop onto the patio.
Two of the annuals are covered for the winter, and next week, the rose is covered.
Like last year, I will be hanging the Christmas lights before it gets too cold. I also will be putting up a small (1 metre) tree with lights. All the lights will be on remotes, and the wi…
BOFH excuse #249:
Unfortunately we have run out of bits/bytes/whatever. Don't worry, the next supply will be coming next week.
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/115547406653836285
I've been using vivaldi alongside firefox for the last few months, it took a little while to get used to the new interface, but I really like it. I'm probabaly going to complete the switch in the next week..
Judges Neomi Rao and Justin Walker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday night
blocked D.C. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg from beginning his scheduled Alien Enemies Act case contempt proceedings next week.
Judge J. Michelle Childs, a Biden appointee, would not have granted the stay.
The “administrative stay” issued by two Trump appointees on the appeals court after the close of business on Friday blocking Boasberg’s contempt proceedings <…
I think today's worker is the owner of the company, he certainly is the assessor.
He worked a lot later than those without the vested interest there. 😆 I finished work at my job before he did! 🤭
All the wood was sanded down and remaining nude wood given some paint. We have a test plank in the foreground of the first picture here which is painted with a second coat of paint. Seems likely we lose all the wood grain when doing that, and so will prefer the paler look where it's obviously made of wood not paint.
Won't really know for sure till it's dry. Prefer the colour a bit darker like that but if we're hiding the wood grain we might as well have used MDF instead of pine. We're after something clearly made of wood.
Another area is test-painted with just the clearcoat top varnish as a second layer. That's likely to be right, just a bit more shiny and protected.
The carpenter proper is back from holiday and starts tomorrow. He has a lot of drawers and doors to build and edging to attach to make the door panels. Still hoping at least the carpentry will be pretty much all done by the end of the week but likely some painting and touching up still to do next week. Hopefully by the end of Tuesday because I'm not really able to be here all day each day for most of the two weeks after that.
Hope you enjoyed that. I did, except for the bits that I didn't.
See you here same time same place next week! #TOTP
The European Union on Friday
indefinitely froze Russia’s assets in Europe
to ensure that Hungary and Slovakia,
both with Moscow-friendly governments,
can’t prevent the billions of euros from being used to support Ukraine.
Using a special procedure meant for economic emergencies,
the EU blocked the assets until Russia gives up its war on Ukraine
and compensates its neighbor for the heavy damage that it has inflicted for almost four years.
EU Cou…
I have my vaccine scheduled for next week. Will be annoying if I come back from UK with COVID (pretty sure it will be high in DK too).
https://aus.social/@DenisCOVIDinfoguy/115352700047851601
DenisCOVIDinfoguy@aus.social - 🇬🇧 UK: England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet
"I’m sure most people now know someone in bed with Covid. If someone says they are in bed with flu, it’s almost certainly Covid, given that the number of people admitted to hospital for Covid last week was 50 times higher than the number admitted for flu!"
Source: https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is-now-experiencing-a-significant
Bought a year of VM/BGP service from a #hosting provider on a Wednesday. Tuesday the service goes down. The next day a web page statement says operations are ceasing operations at that location. That would have been good #!?@'ing information a week ago!
True story. I've not seen it all, but when it comes to how providers operate I've seen a lot. :-)
Since Trump is not going, California Gov. Newsom headed to Brazil next week for COP30 climate summit https://ground.news/article/california-gov-newsom-headed-to-brazil-next-week-for-cop30-climate-summit
when im older i hope im just sitting around all day roasting bitches like this
Starting in March, GoVolta will run Belgian i10 carriages three times a week between Amsterdam and Berlin, and three times a week between Amsterdam and Hamburg.
Next target: Belgium and Paris in 2027: ‘The strategic partnership with French company Keolis – a subsidiary of SNCF – should facilitate access to the French market.’ 🤣
Trump’s former adviser turned critic John Bolton expected to be criminally charged as early as next week: report | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-national-security-adviser-john-bolton-indicted-b2843581.html
A quick Gaza Verified update:
I’m currently traveling so I won’t be online all the time in the next week.
I’m also working on a new automated verification call scheduling system that I hope we can start using next week. It will automate everything but the actual video calls themselves and add some more checks to our verification process. It also removes Signal from our process, replacing it with an embedded Jitsi video call component.
These developments are based on our exp…
Republican Speaker Mike Johnson thinks the “No Kings” rally planned for next week is a “Hate America” rally meant to extend the government shutdown
—something someone who has never been to a “No Kings” event would say.
The “No Kings” rally is a nationwide action with a very simple goal:
oppose the blatantly authoritarian tilt of the Trump administration.
The protests are supported by groups like the Human Rights Campaign,
the American Civil Liberties Union,
this morning I managed to wake up at 7:30, get the 8:18 bus to the pub for 9am Celtic kickoff, had a full irish breakfast, and after the match as people were leaving I got a bunch of 🫵🏼 "see you next week for cup final?"
also learned one of the guys lives in my neighborhood and passes my building on his morning runs haha. god football is the best thing to ever happen to me
Are you a purpose-driven exec hitting a wall? Will you be at SustainableBrands next week? I’m offering a complementary ontological coaching session for 3 of you. No cost. No obligation. No net. Interested? DM me: What’s your wall? What do you think—or hope—might be on the other side of it?
Well that was fun! 200 podcast episodes in the bag. The full edited version of today's livestream will be out next week. Thanks for the live questions and those sent in beforehand. 🎉
Those CunninLynguists put out The Heartstring Theory [Part 1] in 2024, and [Part 2] comes out next week.
And of course this first preview track is 🔥
https://cunninlynguists.bandcamp.com/album/the-heartstring-theory-part-two
I'll be in #Barcelona next week for a sports event.
Do you have any recommendations on what I shouldn't miss out in regards of food, sightseeing, events etc?
Also feel free to write in case you'd like to meet.
S1E9 getting ready for audio post session next week...
Apparently the Nex Playground outsold the X-Box during the sales week. It's not sold in the UK, but I'd be tempted to get one next time I'm tempted to get EyeToy Groove running again.
(Their promotional videos emphasise that it's a "new" way of playing, which sounds odd to anyone who remembers Kinect/EyeToy as the "future of gaming" a couple of decades ago.)
We're not made of sugar. We're made of sterner stuff than the coders of this weather app!
Perplexity plans to roll out a free agentic shopping product for US users next week in partnership with PayPal (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/perplexity-ai-online-shopping-paypal.html
I fear I am living in a crap 70s sitcom.
We are having some building work done next week so we've ordered a skip to be delivered today. Also today our next door neighbours are moving out.
Skip wagon arrives about 11-ish, knocks next door who tell him that no they haven't ordered a skip but they know that next door (i.e. us) is waiting for one. Skippy rings my doorbell, delivers the skip and drives off.
90 minutes later another skip wagon turns up, rings my doorbell and says "there's no room for your skip because you've already got one". Which obviously I do.
Meanwhile the new next door neighbours are starting to move in and say "is that our skip?"
Given they're both 8 yard skips you'd think they could just deliver ours next door but apparently not as it's a different skip company. So he spent 30 minutes shuffling skips between our driveway & next door.
I tell ya, gambling never agreed with me. Last week I went to the track
and they shot my horse with the opening gun.
Well, just last week I was at a Chinese restaurant and when I opened my
fortune cookie I found the guy's check sitting at the next table. I said,
"Hey, buddy, I got your check", he said, "Thanks."
-- Rodney Dangerfield
The Northern Standard, a local newspaper for #Monaghan and #Cavan is ceasing publication next week after 186 years. #MastoDaoine #newspaper
YouTube launches Recap, which lets users review their most notable video habits over the past year, in the US, ahead of a global rollout next week (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/836173/youtube-recap-videos-eoy-review-wrapped<…
The full Weekend Reads report is on vacation this week, it will return next week. But we don't want to leave you with nothing. Here is one piece that might have made it into the top 5:
* The Input Stack on Linux
https://venam.net/blog/unix/2025/11/27/input_device…
Watch week 5’s cinematic recap out now 🎥 | Up Next ➡️ #DALvsCAR 10/12 on FOX https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LkrToP2fJUE
Dorts! Laters! (yes I know, I've gone off a week too soon and next week it wont be that next week, if you see what I mean)
#TOTP
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will begin next week
to block nutrition assistance funding for states led by Democrats
that have not provided data on fraud in the program, Secretary Brooke Rollins told President Donald Trump at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday.
USDA sought data from states earlier this year related to their administration of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits, Rollins said Tuesday.
She added the data was needed to address fraud t…