Tootfinder

I'm starting to come to the conclusion that the dog doesn't like being outside, but she does like going outside.

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

How a Chinese entrepreneur amassed 10M IPv4 addresses, mostly from Africa, to lease them outside Africa, leaving African ISPs struggling to expand capacity (Alexandra Wexler/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/telecom/afric

If you put your hand against the little speaker on the outside of the AirPods Pro (that’s used for noise cancellation), the earphone starts making white noise and I find that strangely pleasant 🤭

Definitely bloody wood burner season. I go outside and within minutes, my nose is itching.
Why can’t humans STOP BURNING THINGS!?

No Cop on the Beat -- Outside Chicago, a father of seven was too embarrassed to tell ... (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-zombie-home-mortgage-debt-collection-investigation/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MTgzNzY5MiwiZXhwIjoxNzYyNDQyNDkyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNFhUMEFHUEZIVk4wMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIyQjE3NzFFOTlEODc0QzRDOTY1Njg1RTZBQkJGM0QwRCJ9.MGEYAk5yUr4RoVphaje_HfLCS4hFLs7MTsVwyacq-S0
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p75#a251030p75

Nuclear power has no special virtues that could possibly justify overpaying for energy like this. Instead of asking—as so many do—how to make nuclear cheaper and faster after decades of real-world proof that it’s nigh-impossible to do (outside of China), we should be asking—as virtually no one does—why anyone even wants to build them.
My best guess:

[Episode #237] – Why Nuclear? | The Energy Transition Show
What are the specific industrial sectors and processes that produce greenhouse gas emissions, and how can we decarbonize them?

I've never seen this outside of my family in the wild (some research shows there are other people online who've made it/have recipes).
We make “turkey roll" with leftover turkey dinner. I chop turkey, veggies, and stuffing up into small pieces, fry up some fresh onions celery garlic, and stuff it into biscuit dough, then bake.
It gets a "sauce" of either leftover extra-thickened gravy or a béchamel-ish white sauce. It's pretty tasty and the fresh bi…

Harley had a tough day yesterday spending hours outside helping us shovel snow. She's resting up before we go out again to tackle snow that fell overnight. It's a tough life.
#Snowmageddon #DogsOfMastadon

RIP Frisby, he was the best kitty

Stop Google from limiting APK file usage https://c.org/xKshgFtz98
"Google is attempting to block the use of side loaders and APK files to download apps outside of their play store by requiring developers to submit their IDs and addresses".

One could make an argument that #LFC is looking to shed distractions in order to right the ship. The Carabao Cup is perhaps one such distraction. This starting lineup and bench selection is not the strongest.
But it will be great to see Woodman, Ramsay, Morrison, and Nyoni in action (alongside Ngumoha, of course).
Palace doesn't have their full strength either, but are a lot closer to i…

https://tinytinyhomes.ca/
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#ShamelesslyStolenFromTheOtherSite

A look at the FGC-9, a 3D-printed semiautomatic gun created by a German incel that scholars and lawmakers say is the most popular "ghost gun" outside the US (Samanth Subramanian/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

I missed the group bike ride today (still got that nerve pain) but honestly the weather was wet, cold, and foggy and it looked miserable outside so I've not left the house at all because yuk winter rain.

Many of the most influential personalities in the
“Make America great again” (Maga) movement on X
💥are based outside of the US, including Russia, Nigeria and India,
a new transparency feature on the social media site has revealed.
The new tool, called “about this account,” became available on Friday to users of the Elon Musk-owned platform.
It allows anyone to see where an account is located, when it joined the platform, how often its username has been changed, …

I've been really anxious about what would happen with the Dutch election tonight. I'm starting to relax and I hope things keep going the same way.
My kid was playing outside of one of the polling places in Amsterdam. Just before we left, I overheard someone say "Fuck Wilders." I'm glad the polling seems to reflect that sentiment.

#MPSGoettingen wishes you happy holidays and a healthy and successful New Year 2026!
Featuring prominently on our season's greetings card: the first images of the Sun's south pole 🛰️ ☀️
During its flyby of the Sun at the end of March this year, the Solar Orbiter space probe had its first clear view of our star's poles. Solar Orbiter's trajectory has recentl…

Ravine in Shindagin Hollow State Forest -- see I'm starting to go outside again
#photo #photography #shindagainhollow

It's a bit frosty outside!
But we're thinking about a small cycling loop ...
#frost #photography #winter

It’s #Caturday, time to vote!

60 years ago tonight, the merry pranksters' first informal acid test, held at ken babbs's place outside santa cruz, where the grateful dead did not play (& all purported flyers are almost certainly fake). below text from dennis mcnally's bio & i wrote about it for the 50th.

Extreme environmental tolerance and space #survivability of the moss, Physcomitrium patens: #moss survived 9 months directly exposed to the elements of #space: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1105940 -> This moss survived 9 months outside the International Space Station and could still grow on Earth: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/international-space-station/we-were-genuinely-astonished-this-moss-survived-9-months-outside-the-international-space-station-and-could-still-grow-on-earth

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
FAVE & Dre Skull:
🎵 Cold Outside
#FAVE #DreSkull
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://faveszn.bandcamp.com/track/cold-outside
https://open.spotify.com/track/4owJIJT3htpGAYrRurJCpC

DeltaChat is a cool idea but should be cranked to the max. Fuck protocols, instant messaging has never been been about the protocol but the network effect.
Not everyone knows how to login to their email outside of the web browser, a chat client should facilitate speech between you and your friend’s favourite app.
These are all open protocols that allow for direct communication but garden off others: activitypub, email, irc, matrix, xmpp, bluesky, nostr, simplex, theema, tox, jam…

Jets' Boyd back in hospital with 'health issues' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47128855/jets-boyd-back-hospital-nearly-two-weeks-being-shot

Leaseweb's annual service price increase will be 3.9% in 2026. Outside of domain registrations and big contracts, not many basic #hosting providers do this on such a consistent basis.
It is not unreasonable to charge more to account for inflation on salaries, rent, energy, etc. However, as we all know, hardware gets cheaper and better all the time. Are these customers getting more …

Welp, time to go outside, grab a shovel and play everyone’s favorite winter game:
“Wet or Dry”
This is the only time I’m glad we have a tiny driveway 😂

They coulda looked at my lawn if they wanted to know you can't kill moss...
Scientists put moss on the outside of the International Space Station for 9 months — then kept it growing back on Earth | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/space/scientists-put-moss-on-the-outside-of-the-international-space-station-for-9-months-then-kept-it-growing-back-on-earth

Was in Japan übrigens so nebenbei zum Thema gemacht wird:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSqy86IAJPZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Japan Daily on Instagram: "For the first time in Japan, foreign nationals have begun driving local bus routes under the Specified Skilled Worker program to address severe labor shortages. Tokyo Bus launched the initiative on December 23 in Tokyo and Okinawa, hiring five drivers from the Philippines after long-term training. The company says even higher wages have not attracted enough domestic drivers, making outside talent necessary. New drivers initially operate with support from Japanese staff and are expected to work independently after several months. Industry leaders hope the move will stabilize bus services and ensure passenger safety. Public understanding and continued training will be important as Japan adapts to workforce shortages in essential public services. @YAHOO"
85 likes, 11 comments - japandaily_jp on December 24, 2025: "For the first time in Japan, foreign nationals have begun driving local bus routes under the Specified Skilled Worker program to address severe labor shortages. Tokyo Bus launched the initiative on December 23 in Tokyo and Okinawa, hiring five drivers from the Philippines after long-term training. The company says even higher wages have not attracted enough domestic drivers, making outside talent necessary. New drivers initially ope…

OLB Brian Burns on reaching 16.5 sacks: 'It means a lot' https://www.giants.com/video/olb-brian-burns-on-reaching-16-5-sacks-it-means-a-lot

George Pickens unfazed by outside criticism: 'I'm just here to play football' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/george-pickens-unfazed-by-outside-criticism-i-m-just-here-to-play-football

We moved a "miniature" weeping willow from its not-really-suitable home outside our back door to a better home in the garden, over the weekend.
10/10 outdoor action.
Much better than computer touching

A ring-billed gull — Larus delawarensis, second winter, I think — at Sandy Point Bird Sanctuary outside New Haven, Connecticut
#naturalist

Monday - Autumn

Work, Housing and Health: Northampton Behind the Numbers https://edintone.com/work-housing-health/ In 1924, the boot and shoe industry dominated Northampton’s workforce. The Boot and Shoe O

Work, Housing and Health: Northampton Behind the Numbers - Miscellanea Edintone
In 1924, the boot and shoe industry dominated Northampton’s workforce. The Boot and Shoe Operatives Trade Union had 13,104 members; officials estimated that only 5% of adult workers were outside the union.

A post from the archive 📫:
The return of WinDbg
#debugging

Threatened attacks on synagogues in Alabama and surrounding states were thwarted when Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker, 33, was arrested with a suitcase full of ammunition, body armor and other items, officials said Tuesday.
The arrest comes as antisemitic sentiment and attacks have surged globally.
A car ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue left two dead in Manchester, England, earlier this month,
less than two weeks after a late-night fire was set at a synagogue in Florid…

Man arrested with body armor and a suitcase filled with ammunition after threatening multiple synagogues, officials say
In the latest antisemitic incident to rock a community, threatened attacks on synagogues in Alabama and surrounding states were thwarted when a person was arrested with a suitcase full of ammunition, body armor and other items, officials said Tuesday.

Spotted on #ValenciaStreet: tactical urbanism to block cars crossing the “protected” (not at this location) bike lane to park in the wedge-shaped empty space where the lane zigzags around a parklet

Meanwhile, outside the American Embassy in Dublin…
https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/797755237694947328/outside-the-american-embassy-in-dublin

Wednesday, December 3, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Columbia Road, Adams Morgan
Carols & Cocoa
#DC

Carols & Cocoa
Will We See You There? Join us at 5:30pm outside The Festival Center (1640 Columbia Road NW) for the 6th annual sing-along and hot cocoa! The hot cocoa will be […]

"NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists"
'"This is like a stick in the spokes of merit review,” says one staffer who requested anonymity because of fear of retaliation. “It devalues discussion of the merits of each proposal.”'
https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-pares-down-grant-review-process-reducing-influence-outside-scientists
h/t @…

Today it was dark outside at 17:30. Thanks for nothing, end-of-CEST and 48° north...

Christmas road tripping to visit friends who are in town (aka in the same country but a 5-7 hour drive away 😅). Luckily these two enjoy sleeping in the car, and the 35 ºC outside too.

16WW House Suburban Sparrows Ambient (2022-05) - House sparrows outside 16WW or close by. #sparrow #wildlife #fieldRecording -

16WW House Suburban Sparrows Ambient (2022-05)
House sparrows outside 16WW or close by. #sparrow #wildlife #fieldRecording

We forget at our peril the craze for drawing curly cues around chickens of the mid-18th century.
Source: https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-pennsylvania-sic-a_bickham-george_1750/page/n11/mode/2up

"In a world beset by war, genocide, systemic discrimination, and climate catastrophe, we need good news. Donyelle McCray offers the opportunity to hear and see the embodiment of good news emanating from marginalized voices—especially Black women, laypeople, artists, and activists."
From the Christian Century review of the new book by YDS professor Donyelle McCray, "Is it a Sermon?"

Preaching outside the box
Donyelle McCray takes readers on a tour of the edges of homiletics, exploring Black Americans’ gospel proclamation in various...

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
SERVALAN: Was there any sand in the ship?
CHASGO: Yes. I didn't like the look of it. After the rain had cleared us I threw it outside. Then I felt ... I must've fallen asleep. [Looks at the controls] This is almost normal. What the hell has been -

The ocean conservation world has lost a giant. Kristina Gjerde, known as the "mother of the high seas," spent two decades building the coalitions that led to the historic 2023 UN High Seas Treaty—protecting biodiversity in international waters for the first time.
Her work became urgent as industrial activities threatened deep-sea ecosystems. She was 68.

Kristina Gjerde, defender of the deep ocean, has died
Half the planet lies outside any country’s border. In those waters, rules have long been thinner than the myths: freedom to fish meant freedom to take; “out of sight” became “out of mind.” The deep ocean and the high seas were treated as a backdrop to coastal concerns, even as they stored carbon and heat, […]

Robocop is next. https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/115436203496169265

Well, folks, I'm signing off for this year and taking a few days' vacation. I wish everyone a happy New Year and all the best for 2026! May the coming year be a good one for Linux, open source, and free software and services!
I don't usually express my political views here, but with the orange criminal becoming increasingly erratic and escalating his behavior:
May the spirit of insight enter the minds of responsible politicians in Europe and everywhere outside the Fa…

Well the hot water tank has given up the ghost, snow is falling, and it feels like minus 18 Celsius outside....
Good thing it's Boxing Day. Got a new tank on order. Yay!
Won't arrive until the 29th... so cold showers for everyone!
#ChristmasMiracle #WithATwist…

Moody Urbanity - Metro Consistency 🪅
情绪化城市 - 都市质地 🪅
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Orwo Wolfen P400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Today's adventure: the train departs, and a minute later I notice that the lamps outside are moving in the wrong direction. The following thoughts pass through my mind in express speed:
• Illusion? Nope, definitely going front from where I'm sitting.
• Did I confuse directions before taking the seat? Nope, we're definitely moving south.
• Did I really take the wrong train?! I think it departed at the right time, what's the likeliness…
Then I suddenly realize that it's apparently taking the roundabout route, through #Poznań Franowo rather than Poznań Wschód.
#rail

It's also worth noticing that, when viewed through this lens, a government shutdown with no possibility of resolution is not a mistake. It's the objective. They see everything the government does (outside of violence) as unnecessary.
Their government exists to protect markets by providing capitalists with death squads. Everything else can be disposed of. They don't want to *resolve* the shutdown. The shutdown is what winning looks like for them.

Heads up Mastodon! I am doing a small European tour with Peter Gordon (Love of Life Orchestra) at the end of November. We'll play Glasgow, London, Cologne, and Brussels. These shows will be great fun, and a very rare chance to catch me playing live music outside the US.
If we know each other here, let me know if there's a possibility to meet up in person at one of these shows?!
Tickets and info here:

❄️ It’s freezing cold outside here in Germany, and this is an interesting explainer of why that is: a warming event in the polar region is leading to an early collapse of the polar vortex, so Europe and North America are flooded with cold air, while the North Pole is unusually warm. #weather #climate

Stratospheric Warming Watch: Polar Vortex Collapse has begun, with cold air and snowfall impacts expected
A Stratospheric Warming is now collapsing the Polar Vortex, with polar air and snow forecast across the United States, Canada and Europe in December

Sources: Trump admin favors Paramount-Skydance in the race to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, while Netflix, Amazon, and Comcast may face hurdles from FTC and DOJ (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/media/tr

Exclusive | Trump admin favors Paramount Skydance in race to buy Warner Bros. Discovery: sources
WBD CEO David Zaslav, meanwhile, believes he can make a case to the Trump administration that they should allow deals outside of Paramount Skydance, appealing to free market types in the administra…

🎶 I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus underneath the mistletoe last night 🎵
And now daddy is angry and Santa has to escape out the window???

St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, August 2025
#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain #documentingplace

Jefferies: Tether, which said it held 116 tons of gold in September, is "the largest holder of gold outside central banks", buying 26 tons in Q3 and 24 in Q2 (Bryce Elder/Financial Times)

Today two separate people asked me about (ortlieb) panniers. One in TJs on the escalator, the other outside at the falafel truck. I've been asked so many times by strangers about my various cargo bikes, but can honestly say I've never been asked about my panniers in at least a decade. To be fair, they're pretty new and in both cases they were extremely full!
#BikeTooter …

The squirrel is on the squirrel feeder, just outside my front window, again. Horrible is standing just inside the window, staring at the squirrel with fascinated longing.
Sorry, Horrible. That window isn't ever going to open.

George Pickens unfazed by outside criticism: 'I'm just here to play football' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/george-pickens-unfazed-by-outside-criticism-i-m-just-here-to-play-football

Brian Burns takes down Geno Smith for big loss | Giants vs. Raiders Highlights https://www.giants.com/video/brian-burns-takes-down-geno-smith-for-big-loss-giants-vs-raiders-highlights

Finished "Moon of the Crusted Snow" by Waubgeshig Rice.
As winter approaches, an Anishinaabe reservation in Northern Ontario loses contact with the outside world when a blackout takes down power, internet, and eventually hope for resupply. They slowly begin to realize the blackout is much more widespread and that they're on their own. That is, until some outsiders begin to trickle in.
Sparsely written and beautifully bleak.
4/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe commu…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Palo Canto:
🎵 Outside
#PaloCanto
https://palocanto.bandcamp.com/track/outside
https://open.spotify.com/track/5vV81fFxMf7S9EjXCtgX2E

FEMA staff rally outside agency headquarters
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2025/10/fema-staff-rally-outside-agency-headquarters/

😲 North Korea IT worker scheme expanding to more industries, countries outside of US tech sector
https://therecord.media/north-korea-it-worker-scheme-expands-outisde-us-tech

North Korea IT worker scheme expanding to more industries, countries outside of US tech sector
Okta said their new research into the scheme revealed that North Korea has honed its skills on U.S.-based companies and has expanded into dozens of different countries and industries.

RE: #fascism, especially American fascism, there's something you can do. If you're in the US, don't buy anything if you can until Dec 2nd. If you do have to buy something, buy second hand, or buy local. If you're outside, don't buy anything from the US or any US company at all.
Spread the word. Keep it on people's mind. Write your own post. Talk to people you know in person. Print out flyers and post them around town.
The system understands the language of money. If you want a response, you have to speak the language the system understands.
Trump is extremely vulnerable. Don't wait for the regime to recovery. Hit it hard right now, with an economic blockade. Who knows, it might just crumble.
#USPol

Outside of Speaker Mike Johnson,
there is no bigger poster boy for the rubber-stamp Republican House majority than Jim Jordan.
Jordan’s purpose for running the House Judiciary Committee is to abuse its power to investigate those who tried to hold Donald Trump accountable for alleged crimes.
While Republicans in the House filled their committees with leaders who would be loyal to Trump,
Democrats filled their positions with experienced investigators and legislators who…

Jamie Raskin Outsmarts Jim Jordan And Sets Up A Big Jack Smith Headache For Trump
Jim Jordan wants to investigate Jack Smith, so Jamie Raskin is using Jordan's investigation to try to get Smith to publicly testify about evidence against Trump.

As his two sons watch and cry, 'Pa, te amo,' federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments (Carolyn Stein/Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/federal-arrest-man-naperville-apartment-sons/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p52#a251025p52

Getting up at Christmas and - it's white outside?! 😳 🎄

Sources: Microsoft aims to produce most new products, including servers and Surface laptops, outside China from 2026; AWS is also adopting a similar strategy (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/supply-chain/m…

Microsoft aims to make most new products outside China from 2026: sources
AWS and Google also step up overseas supply chain shift

Giants LB miffed as tush push fumble not called https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46737068/giants-lb-kayvon-thibodeaux-calls-bs-call-loss

Deceptively sunny outside... it's bait and switch cold out there! 🥶

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Cults:
🎵 Go Outside
#Cults
https://battlesuk.bandcamp.com/track/go-outside-cults-battles-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0V8jGgK39sLsj2yAHHPigU

Over the past four years, hedge funds have doubled their footprint in the U.S. debt market,
making the Cayman Islands
— where many hedge funds are officially based
— the place where the most U.S. debt outside the United States is held, according to the Fed.
Typically, people flock to Treasuries for safety in times of crisis.
Yet, driven in large part by hedge fund activity, the Treasury market went through unusual turbulence during recent shocks -- including th…

Opinion | America’s Debt Problem Is Worse Than You’ve Heard
The size of the national debt matters. But so does who America’s lenders are — and that is changing.

Inside OpenAI's deals with Nvidia, Oracle, and AMD, in which Sam Altman largely relied on his executive team, with little input from outside advisors (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/967b0d78-62df-4eea-a441-8ce3a5d03564

Getting up at Christmas and - it's white outside?! 😳 🎄

Five HIV/AIDS activists arrested outside Susan Collins's D.C. office
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/10/14/five-hiv-aids-activists-arrested-outside-susan-collinss-d-c-office/

Police shoot at truck outside Coast Guard base during protests against San Francisco Bay Area immigration crackdown (Tim Fang/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/bay-area-immigration-crackdown-coast-guard-island-protests/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p34#a251024p34

Drew Brees shares who has an outside shot at NFL MVP, and he's not a quarterback

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/drew-brees-shares-who-has-an-ou…

That ruling is just not supportable. To me, it looks like the ball is certainly inside the box but the contact is just outside. To upgrade it all to a penalty while in the same damn game saying Gakpo wasn’t clipped in the box? Bananas.
#LFC

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Primitive Radio Gods:
🎵 Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand
#PrimitiveRadioGods
https://rarennudes.bandcamp.com/track/primitive-radio-gods-standing-outside-a-broken-phone-booth-with-money-in-my-hand-unplugged
https://open.spotify.com/track/5hcer4MP5GeHqtSjDYx5AC

I keep looking outside to see if my fence is still in my garden because I know it's a proven flight risk.
#UKStorm

An AI-powered gun detection system hooked up to a Baltimore County high school’s cameras mistook a bag of Doritos chips as a weapon
— and called the cops on a 16-year-old student.
As local news station WBAL-TV 11 News reports, Taki Allen was enjoying the snack while sitting outside of Kenwood High School after football practice.
Twenty minutes later, he was visited by a small army of heavily-armed police officers.
“They made me get on my knees, put my hands behind my ba…

OLB Dondrea Tillman intercepts QB Dak Prescott's pass and takes off for 38 yards https://www.denverbroncos.com/video/olb-dondrea-tillman-intercepts-qb-dak-prescott-s-pass-and-takes-off-for-38-yards-broncos…

Bears expand stadium search to include Indiana https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47340940/bears-again-expand-stadium-search-including-illinois

Google plans to charge developers $2.85/app and $3.65/game if a US user follows a link that takes them outside of the Play Store to install it within 24 hours (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/848540/google-app-fees-ext…

Want to link from Google’s app store to your app? That’ll be $2–4 per install
Google will charge fees when Android developers link outside of the Play Store, or use alternative billing systems, and says it’s complying with the Epic injunction.

"There's far more combat experience outside the military than inside the military."
https://youtube.com/shorts/CALVJkNYpPo

Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be
“no more prayer”
in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility,
in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/0

Feds Tell Faith Leaders ‘No More Prayer’ Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after faith leaders were denied entry to the building for the third time on Friday.

A father who has become the sole caretaker for his two young children after his wife was deported.
A school district seeing absenteeism similar to what it experienced during the pandemic.
Businesses struggling because customers are scared to go outside.
These are just a sampling of how this part of Ventura County
is reckoning with the aftermath of federal immigration raids on
Glass House cannabis farms six months ago,
when hundreds of workers were detaine…

Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles announced a flash flood warning for the region beginning on Tuesday
and is urging people to use caution while traveling for the upcoming holiday.
The city is also deploying staff with the Los Angeles homeless services authority (Lahsa) to get supplies and hotel vouchers to those living outside.

The US government issues new guidelines on its $100K H-1B visa fee, saying it will apply only to new visa applicants outside the country, not all new applicants (Michelle Hackman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy…

ICE says the computer ate its records the day after it was sued for abuse.
404 Media reports that after ICE’s Broadview Detention Center outside Chicago was sued October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees,
the agency said that 💥two weeks of video footage that could have shown how immigration detainees are treated in the facility was lost in a “system crash” 💥 on October 31.*
“The government has said that the data for that period was lost in a system crash apparently on the …

ICE Suddenly Loses Key Evidence One Day After Being Sued
ICE says the evidence disappeared in a “system crash.”

A Charlotte pastor said
Border Patrol came into his church and arrested a father in front of his wife and kid.
The folks were outside on the property cleaning up the yard when ICE started chasing after them.
Some ran in the church thinking it's off limits to ICE. Apparently not.
This is wrong!
https:…

MadGreek 🧿 (@madgreek2024.bsky.social)
A Charlotte pastor said Border Patrol came into his church and arrested a father in front of his wife and kid. The folks were outside on the property cleaning up the yard when ICE started chasing after them. Some ran in the church thinking it's off limits to ICE. Apparently not. This is wrong!