Tootfinder

One of the many, many, many horrible things about what ICE is doing is that now any group of white men in tactical gear with an SUV can attack, beat up, and kidnap any random person — and nobody will stop them, because who knows, they •might• be ICE, and you can’t obstruct federal agents, now, can you?? https://pdx.social/@portlandmercury/115901949802924271

'Mass obstruction' — Draft officers injured in Odesa following confrontation with 'civilian group': https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/16/mass-obstruction-draft-officers-injured.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Suté Iwar, chromo, the dreamer:
🎵 Dooshima’s Groove
#SutéIwar #chromo #thedreamer
https://chillhop.bandcamp.com/track/dooshima-s-groove
https://open.spotify.com/track/0tnDbPCOvbqDdtOHQoDYED

SoftBank Group reports Q3 net profit of $1.6B after its Vision Fund posted a $2.4B gain, as a jump in the value of its OpenAI investment helped offset losses (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/softbank-vision-fund-openai.html

SoftBank Vision Fund books $2.4 billion quarterly gain boosted by OpenAI bet
SoftBank posted a $2.4 billion gain at its Vision Fund as a jump in the value of its OpenAI investment helped offset losses in some of its other bets.

Bonus 3:
«Desert So Green» es el 3er šlbum de un proyecto, que podría considerarse un súper grupo, que tiene entre sus miembros al ex baterista de Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley. La banda se llama Winged Wheel y suena mšs que interesante, por lo que voy escuchando hasta ahora.
https://album.link/s/4OvZQgDdhbd7oQ8gk

Bitte mitzeichnen! Unseren Obstbauern stehen genügend Pestizide zur Auswahl, um effektiv ihr Auskommen zu haben.
Da ist der Griff in die "Mottenkiste" der schon einmal verbotenen Pestizide wie Phosmet unnötig, und dient nur der Gewinnmaximinerung der Chemieriesen Bayer & Co.
Bitte teilt! 😍
#giftfrei

Kein giftiges Weihnachtsgeschenk für Bayer & Co!
Die EU will Pestizide künftig unbefristet zulassen - schon am 16. Dezember soll der Plan offiziell werden. Protestiere jetzt, um diesen giftigen Plan noch zu stoppen!

@… sorry, het was grappig bedoeld. Gezien je zelf op een Shared instance zit was het idee dat je dat sowieso niet zou opzetten. Mijn excuses voor de misplaatste grap.

Sources and filings: Peter Thiel donated $3M to a group to beat California's wealth tax, the first of several expected major donations by tech leaders in 2026 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/politics/peter-thiel-california-weal…

Thiel Gives $3 Million to Group Seeking to Block California Wealth Tax
More large donations from wealthy Silicon Valley figures are expected as they try to marshal opposition to a proposed ballot measure that would impose a new tax on billionaires.

Trump’s attempted Greenland grab has succeeded in turning Europeans solidly against the U.S.,
the YouGov poll’s latest survey found.
Large majorities in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Great Britain all declared an unfavourable opinion.
The figures, ranging from 62% in France to 84% in Denmark
– of which Greenland is a self-governing territory
– mark a further steep rise in negative perceptions of the US even since November,
when the range was …

Source: Ant Group's Ant International grew revenue by 20% to 25% in 2025 to an estimated $3.7B, or ~10% of Ant's total 2025 revenue, as it competes with Visa (Jing Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ant-…

Ant Builds a Mobile Payment Network as an Alternative to Visa, Mastercard
Five years after the Chinese government quashed Ant Group’s plans for what would have been the world’s largest initial public offering, the Chinese fintech giant has built a fast-growing international business. That offshoot runs a global payment network for digital wallets that could one day be ...