The new UK leftwing party founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will be called "Your Party" after a vote by members, but its weekend conference laid bare bitter divisions
Sultana, who has been at loggerheads with Corbyn,
reignited tensions on Sunday with a blistering attack on those “at the top” of the party
after boycotting the conference’s first day in protest at the expulsion of several members belonging to the Socialist Workers party.
Members meetin…

It's possible I have mastered this particular game.
#SuperTuxKart #LinuxGaming

Amazing elections in the Netherlands (I am a member of the D66 party).
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/29/exit-poll-suggests-progressive-d66-party-will-become-largest-in-dutch-parliament
…

Dutch liberal party overtakes far-right nationalists in snap parliamentary election: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/30/dutch-liberal-party-overtakes-farright.html

The Republicans are truly the party of greed, waste & corrupt misappropriation.
#trump #Republicans
From: @…

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

Centrist D66 party makes huge gains in Dutch election (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/29/exit-poll-suggests-progressive-d66-party-will-become-largest-in-dutch-parliament
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p8#a251030p8

🫱🏽‍🫲🏿 How Anti-Corruption Can Be a Winning Issue for Democrats
#politics

How Anti-Corruption Can Be a Winning Issue for Democrats
It’s a powerful, unifying theme—and it’s tied to the crisis of democracy under Trump.

Wow.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/man-finally-released-a-month-after-absurd-arrest-for-reposting-trump-meme/

Man finally released a month after absurd arrest for reposting Trump meme
Bodycam footage undermined sheriff’s “true threat” justification for the arrest.

""The reason so many in the Republican Party are freaking out about their phone records before and during Jan 6th is that they know the insurrection was a coordinated attack involving all levels of the Republican Party," "
Ex-Republican makes stunning claim behind GOP's big 'freak out' over phone records - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-2674252599/

"Looking back, it seems clear that Podemos never really wanted to be a party, let alone a better kind of party. From the beginning, its leaders believed that parties were outdated, and that social movements were the true engine of political transformation."
Lilith Verstrynge - former organisational secretary of #Podemos
Farewell to Podemos • Articles • EQUATOR

iOS: Sicherheitsforscher warnen vor Third-Party-App-Store "Flekst0re"
Apple muss in der EU Konkurrenten zum iOS App Store zulassen. Flekst0re ist eines der Angebote, wobei es Sonderwege beschreitet. Das reißt Sicherheitslücken.

In Trump's GOP, the once-mighty tea party is hard to find (Naftali Bendavid/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/31/tea-party-trump-maga-republicans/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p14#a251031p14

A look at the rift in the Democratic party over AI and data centers, as pro-business Democrats oppose the fiery, anti-AI politics of the progressive wing (Calder McHugh/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/28/ai-j…

The Party Line Podcast
This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne)...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-party-line/

Damn. This is beautiful.
The story and the writing.
https://beige.party/@raineyday/115793532205514401

rainey 🌻 (@raineyday@beige.party)
Attached: 1 image It was a Tuesday in 1981 when the San Francisco police kicked in the door. Inside the small apartment, they expected to find a hardened criminal. They expected a drug kingpin. They expected resistance. Instead, they found a 57-year-old waitress in an apron. The air in the apartment smelled sweet, thick with chocolate and something earthier. On the kitchen counter, cooling on wire racks, were 54 dozen brownies. The police officers began bagging the evidence. They confiscat…

Scantily clad young women dancing in tall revolving martini glasses greeted the guests
as they entered Mar-a-Lago.
Models dressed as flappers with huge white feathers pretended spontaneous gaiety.
On Halloween, nine months, 40 weeks, and three days into Donald Trump’s second administration,
he celebrated the apex of his image as an almighty ruler
by staging a dress-up Great Gatsby party for select club members, Cabinet officials, friends, and family,
in …

The Mar-a-Lago Party That Future Historians Will Never Forget
The Halloween Gatsby party, just as millions were about to lose food benefits, will go down as Trump’s moment of peak obliviousness. So far.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Fazed on a Pony:
🎵 Wrong Party
#FazedonaPony
https://fazedonapony.bandcamp.com/track/wrong-party
https://open.spotify.com/track/4jXTOzieVCSVRNdkqKHvQn

So… talk to me about #Zotero … How do you use it? WHY do you use it versus other tools? What do you like most?
I realize I am maybe 15 or 20 years late to the Zotero party, but 3 things have me interested now:
- I’m taking on a project at work that involves a good amount of research
- I have some ideas for papers and maybe a book that would benefit from more structured organizatio…

Did Performance

Played two Loopy gigs

Just a tiny birthday party and in a camping field with friends.
This is probably about the target number really.
It's nice to play now and then but couldn't be monthly or anything even more frequent.
Didn't feel like either went great. Health issues affecting performance plus nerves
Just one with video of any kind.
Added a couple of great songs to the playlists, need to practise more really.
At the end of a Hoopla class and the end of
a self-organised group class.
They were good fun.
But having to book a course every eight weeks means constantly churning co-players and long gaps where I don't get around to it or it was all booked up.
Tried to get a more permanent group going...
Trying to get some sort of indie-group off
the group rather than just short runs of
classes with new people all the time.
We found a group an booked the room but didn't get most of the actual people to turn up. Need to presumably meet more people up for that sort of thing.
So there will be new improv class starting
in Jan.
A new show in March at least.

In the Netherlands, the strongest party has less than 20% of all seats.
That is not a problem if you move beyond the typical "government must have majority" idea.
Get good managers to run the gov departments. Let the Parliament do it's job: pass laws so the gov departments know what to do.
But it takes discipline. Don't fire the prime minister just because they say something stupid or have friends you don't like. Treat them like the employee they are.…

Incredible that #google makes it impossible to smoothly delete all your photos, either making you scroll select for hours or forcing you to use 3rd party tools like https://github.com/mrishab/google-phot

Discusses the significant helium discovery in the 1.1 Ga Midcontinent Rift, in northern #Minnesota ⚒️🧪 #geology (h/t Chris Rowan)
https://

Just a reminder to all the #Proton users out there!
Proton Mail Says It’s “Politically Neutral” While Praising Republican Party
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/pr

Frau außer Bluetooth-Reichweite. Endlich kann ich den Lautsprecher kapern und hier erstmal Party machen.

These are the #Apps I keep on my #iPhone and use on a regular basis. I believe in #Minimalism and this is reflected with every app on my

What's On My Minimal (ish) iPhone
The average Brit spends three hours a day on their mobile devices, with an average number of apps on our phones between 18 and over 80, depending on the source. Despite the varied numbers, my phone has just under 20, 3rd party apps I regularly use from the Apple App

RE: #ChatControl

Very surprised to learn that the
#farright wanna dictator of the VVD party, leading in the #Netherlands polls but, thankfully, unlikely to be a part of the next government, is part-#Indonesian via his…

Just watching 9 bodies in a Mexican Morgue and it's basically like someone wrote a framing narrative for a game of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)

Mafia (party game) - Wikipedia

Arrived in Toronto safely. We're staying at my youngest daughter's apartment for 3 or 4 days and planning on attending a show and maybe visit a few museums.
Our daughter took our car back to our place in Innisfil and she will be having friends over for a New Year's extended party. I hope her commute is as uneventful as ours was.
#HouseSwap

Ballot Box Scotland 2025 in review: council by-elections
"remember the most important aspect of STV – that the nice simple language used for FPTP of “gain/loss/hold” isn’t as applicable here. Whoever vacated one of three or four seats is not always the same as the overall winner at the last election. It’s entirely possible for the vacating party, the party that had a first preference lead, and the party that would have won a single seat election ... to all be different"

2025 in Review: Council By-Elections
A bad year for Labour in by-elections bodes ill for May, no matter how much they may spin one fluke and one narrow Parliamentary by-election win.

😺 You do realise it’s nearly time for dinner…
👨 Yep! Just about an hour to go!
😺 …
#CatsOfMastodon

How the NFL's three hottest teams can crash the Super Bowl party: Jaguars, Texans and 49ers look dangerous

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-nfl…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Last Dinner Party:
🎵 The Feminine Urge
#NowPlaying #TheLastDinnerParty
https://open.spotify.com/track/1gRK6QnBOpNtEDjYKftzTc

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the western German city of Giessen on Saturday
as the far-right Alternative for Germany’s new youth organization was set to kick off its founding convention.
Groups of protesters blocked or tried to block roads in and around the city of some 93,000 people in the early morning.
Police said they used pepper spray after stones were thrown at officers at one location.
The new youth organization of the anti-immigration Alternative for G…

Thousands protest as Germany’s far-right AfD to launch new youth wing
Party hopes to exert greater control over new group after the previous youth party was declared a proven right-wing extremist group by authorities and dissolved

they do, i literally saw one in Menard's like a week ago lol
https://beige.party/@LibertyForward1/115337578719605775

Essentially this is abusive behavior and the only way out is to break the cycle.
This doesn't preclude valid criticism, but each party in this must recognize that the other parties aren't them and do not have the same audiences, the same requirements for rigor, or the same style of communication.

Streaming some GW2 tonight! My Linux PC is ready for adventure. Join the party in chat! #GuildWars2 #Gaming #Streamer

«But speaking exclusively to the BBC, [the Turing Institute's] Chair Dr Doug Gurr said the whistleblower claims were "independently investigated" by a third party which found them to have "no substance". […] He did not name the third party which had carried out the investigation.»
Ah yes, the super secret independent investigators, that can't be named or their reports published. It's nice to see how some things don't change 😂
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9q1xdnydwjo

BC all-party committee on Electoral Reform recommends a Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform! New polling shows BC voters support proportional representation.
Additionally, the Committee recommends that the provincial government consult local governments to determine the level of interest in alternative electoral systems for their communities."

Party time! (while the soldiers starve)
Party time! (while the people pay)
Party time! (while the East Wing falls)
Party time! (bribes build the hall)
Woh woh woh, woh oh, oh
Woh woh woh, woh oh, oh
Woh woh woh, woh oh, oh
Woh woh woh — it’s the Billionaire’s Ballroom!

Android needs better 3rd party password app integration. Password apps have to work too hard to show correct UI on apps trying to login.

""The Republican Party is compromised and is now a functional asset of the Russian Federation.""
'Appalling spectacle': Ex-GOP insider accuses Republican senators of being 'compromised' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-russia-compromised-stuart-stevens/

The American Democratic Party, and the concept of "Democratic Socialism" within the US, comes largely from an authoritarian political tradition where the state offers services in exchange for the population allowing elites to continue parasitize the system. Then it is critical for Liberals to consume and destroy popular mutual aid, because real mutual aid undermines their carrot.
Democrats tend to imagine that anarchists want to destroy "all the good things" that governments do. The reality is that we want to build those good things ourselves so that we can reject the offer of those same good things, less well managed, with all the bad things attached.
Anarchists want to build pro-social systems (what if we didn't *need* snap, but just made sure everyone was fed?) while eliminating anti-social ones (do we really *need* to kidnap children, or could we just kind of stop doing that?).

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance
They Say Stories:
🎵 Wedding Party
#TheySayStories
https://theysaystories.bandcamp.com/track/wedding-party
https://open.spotify.com/track/3nIfwcKKrctXVTtvLXBvLf

There are no weekends in cybersecurity so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed since Friday, including
--Over 60 nations signed a controversial cybercrime convention,
--House Democrat service exposed details of government employees with top-secret clearances,
--AI chatbots push Russian propaganda,
--A third-party contractor exposed details on Dublin and Cork airport passengers,
--Philippines' GCash u…

Over 60 nations signed a controversial cybercrime convention
House Democrat service exposed details of government employees with top-secret clearances, AI chatbots push Russian propaganda, A third-party contractor exposed details on Dublin and Cork airport passengers, Philippines' GCash under probe for leak of 8m e-wallet users' data, much more

I can't help but wonder what #47s administration will say about the persecution of #Palestinian #Christians ...
Israeli police arrest Palestinian man dressed as Santa Claus at Christmas party

I can't help but wonder what #47s administration will say about the persecution of #Palestinian #Christians ...
Israeli police arrest Palestinian man dressed as Santa Claus at Christmas party

Heading to Liverpool to found Your Party?
Read this first.
#YourParty

The Green Way
At the end of a politically hectic year, the Green Party under Zack Polanski is one of the few genuine success stories on the British left. How much potential is there in a future Red-Green alliance?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
MC Lyte:
🎵 Cold Rock A Party
#MCLyte
https://agnalolecis.bandcamp.com/track/mc-lyte-cold-rock-a-party-remixed-by-agnal-olecis
https://open.spotify.com/track/0VJ7ukatwL3E5GrLRQs6m2

Today's modern Republican bears absolutely no resemblance to the party 40yrs ago.
MAGA stopped being about gulliblity 10yrs ago & decayed into pride, ego & willful hate.
(You may want to have a seat because this is gonna take a while)
#trump #lies

Had a nice weekend out in Devon with friends. I had a lovely time. Blustery but dry during our walk, nice time watching them play in the folk band, lots of good friends in the house party and easy walk to hotel near by.

#OTD in 1993 I recall I caught Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys with the BarnStompers from Holland at an after hours warehouse party decorated with haybales at 21st an Harrison in SF. I recall the door man was a sketchy white supremacist redneck, who objected to letting in a person of color I came with.... The more things change, the more things do stay the same in this country.

UK traffic to PornHub down 77%.
I wonder - presumably companies are paying for the third party age checks, is there a point where UK traffic goes so low websites that are currently age verifying just abandon it and block the UK altogether?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mackayim2022/115615069032579678
Some good news as a Thanksgiving treat.

Someone has encouraged me to engage in party politics by joining a political party. However, I oppose it, because political parties often represent interests that conflict with my own values and belief system.
Rather than aligning myself with parties that promote agendas incompatible with my views, I want to organiz my local community, prioritizing grassroots involvement and direct democratic participation over representative party politics.
As a syndicalist, I firmly believe tha…

Geert Wilders's Party for Freedom Loses Seats in Dutch Election (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/world/europe/netherlands-elections-geert-wilders.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p10#a251030p10

Meta say it has frozen its third-party Horizon OS headset program, announced in 2024 with Asus and Lenovo as the first partners to build headsets (Ben Lang/Road to VR)
https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-horizon-os-third-party-headset-cancelled-asus-lenovo/

Meta "Pauses" Third-party Headset Program, Effectively Cancelling Horizon OS Headsets from Asus & Lenovo
Meta has “paused” its initiative to bring third-party Horizon OS headsets to the market. The company says it has shifted focus to “building the world-class first-party hardware and software needed to advance the VR market.” The News A little over a year and a half ago, Meta made an “industry-altering announcement,” as I called the …

Hummm.
So I was thinking about how with a couple of caster-boards and straps, the bed could be upturned and stowed in the studio. Probably? I should have figured for a fold-away really.
Still. Could work...
Then, without a bed in there, the place could turn into a dining room.
I was thinking about a shape of a table for a dinner party in there.
Oh my god.
This semi-circle table curve of wood and attachable table-legs and fold-able stools might just fit, like, under the bed normally?
Looks perfect for a card-game or a Dungeon Master setup.
Could that table and it's legs and it's chairs all fit under the bed? Probably not at it's current height. But I want to raise it a bit anyway.
🤔
Oh my god, look at this though. The projector is pointed at the wall behind the throne surrounded by the seats for the council of seven.
This could be built.
Not right away, but eventually?

Every few years, Democrats try to convince themselves they’ve found the one
– a candidate who can finally speak fluent rural, who looks and sounds like the voters they’ve lost.
In 2024, that hope was pinned on #Tim #Walz, the flannel-wearing, “Midwestern nice” governor whose small-town roots were supposed to unlock …

Why rural Maine may back Democrat Graham Platner’s populism in the Senate campaign − but not his party
Whether Maine’s Graham Platner wins or loses, his campaign to knock off longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins already points to a deeper question: Can Democrats do more than rent rural authenticity?

toontown
https://beige.party/@professorkiosk/115421871223883132

German far-right party sets up its new youth wing as thousands protest (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/germany-far-right-afd-youth-organization-protests-53265d4217f54ad0b8669be549b9731a
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p2#a251130p2

Check out today's Metacurity for a ton of critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Cyberattack on a critical third-party vendor could expose top banks' customer data,
--An insider shared internal CrowdStrike screenshots on Telegram,
--Hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200 companies,
--DOGE has purportedly disbanded,
--Harvard is the latest Ivy to get hacked,
--AI models can sabotage coding projects, …

Cyberattack on a critical third-party vendor could expose top banks' customer data
An insider shared internal CrowdStrike screenshots on Telegram, Hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200+ companies, DOGE has purportedly disbanded, Harvard is the latest Ivy to get hacked, AI models can sabotage coding projects, Singapore raids scam-connected firm, much more

I used to work for #LockheedMartin. I've said that proudly in conversation for years.
Now they have funded the Epstein Ballroom, as an explicit bribe to our corrupt President.
I am deeply ashamed. And yes, I know about past scandals. This is now, and worse.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
The Birthday Party:
🎵 Release The Bats
#TheBirthdayParty
https://va31g.bandcamp.com/album/release-the-bats-the-birthday-party-as-heard-through-the-meat-grinder-of-three-one-g
https://open.spotify.com/track/3gzOZsT5cxVl4dgG56cCVQ

Portugal’s far-right Chega party ordered to take down posters targeting Roma people | Portugal | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/22/portugals-far-right-chega-party-ordered-to-take-down-pos…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Party Dozen:
🎵 Mad Rooter
#PartyDozen
https://party-dozen.bandcamp.com/track/mad-rooter
https://open.spotify.com/track/6cuXSWojM83UcPkrfbd75t

In Saudi Arabia, Trump Jr. mocks ‘No Kings’ protests
Speaking alongside Omeed Malik of 1789 Capital,
Donald Trump Jr. criticized Democratic Party policies and protesters targeting his father.
Junior invests in 1789 and continues to work in the real estate arm of the family, the Trump Organization, which has expanded its Mideast offerings even as his father serves his second term in the White House.
In particular, Junior mocked the “No Kings” protests that drew milli…

Sources detail how JD Vance, David Sacks, and others brokered a fragile truce between President Trump and Elon Musk, who threatened to fund an America Party (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/29/musk-trump-vance-maga-allia…

How Vance brokered a truce between Trump and Musk
As Trump’s first year in office comes to a close, both he and his Trump world allies have learned hard lessons about Musk’s unusual influence.

None Dare Call It Treason: The Republican Party Is Compromised (Stuart Stevens/Lincoln Square)
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/none-dare-call-it-treason-the-republican
http://www.memeorandum.com/251129/p48#a251129p48

Trump urged Republicans in the Senate to scrap the #filibuster,
saying it had become an obstacle to "effective governing" and removing it would prevent another government shutdown
and pave the way for his party to push through its legislative priorities.
“The filibuster is hurting the Republican Party,” Trump told Politico.
He called on Republican lawmakers to eliminat…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Dean Johnson:
🎵 Death of the Party
#DeanJohnson
https://deanjohnsongs.bandcamp.com/track/death-of-the-party
https://open.spotify.com/track/5YZyIjrHPtmJBTBzauiH0Z

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #IndieForeverDiscoWithBethDitto
Justice:
🎵 The Party
#Justice
https://zarinovak.bandcamp.com/track/justice-the-party-zarinovak-edit-fd
https://open.spotify.com/track/1z4835vzYgbtb26uRWpGhq

Republicans work to make Zohran Mamdani the face of the Democratic Party (Scott Wong/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/republicans-work-make-zohran-mamdani-face-democratic-party-rcna240069
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p110#a251027p110

Seems #Marriott is having web trouble. Westin.com and Bonvoy.com are both SSL-unenabled. Expired certs? And marriott.com does load, but you can't sign in, you get a message that sign-in is not available. I've made no effort to actually diagnose the problem.

Apple's DMA compliance isn't "malicious", but an effort to balance Apple's privacy focus with the EU's mandate, as iOS 26.2 iPhone/Watch Wi-Fi sync changes show (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2025/11/apple_eu_d…

Exploring, in Detail, Apple’s Compliance With the EU’s DMA Mandate Regarding Apple Watch, Third-Party Accessories, and the Syncing of Saved Wi-Fi Networks From iPhones to Which They’re Paired
The bottom line is that users setting up new Apple Watches in the EU will now get a somewhat slightly worse experience in the name of parity with accessories made by third-party companies. It remains to be seen whether users of third-party iPhone accessories and peripherals in the EU will see any benefit at all.

Political operative Stuart Stevens spoke about the erosion of support for Donald Trump from some of his most prominent backers.
Stevens traces the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party and shares how the Lincoln Project,
a Republican-led anti-Trump organization where he is a senior adviser,
is working to stop Trump’s anti-democratic agenda.

Cracks Grow in MAGA Coalition over Epstein Files, Healthcare & Racist Group Texts: Ex-GOP Adviser
“The Republican Party has really become an extremist movement.” Amid a growing political divide in the Republican Party over the release of federal documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, we speak to former Republican political operative Stuart Stevens about the erosion of support for Donald Trump from some of his most prominent backers. Stevens traces the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party and shares how the Lincoln Project, a Republican-led anti-Trump organization where…

Everyone on the British left should read this from @meadwaj
"...it is the Greens today who, under the energetic new leadership of Zack Polanski, are setting the pace. Given the uncertainties of the Your Party narrative, it is the Greens who will continue to step up and set that pace. They are, as I have said, the leading force on the English left."
"[The leadership of other left forces] ave a serious responsibility not to get in the way of this advance"
…

The Green Way
At the end of a politically hectic year, the Green Party under Zack Polanski is one of the few genuine success stories on the British left. How much potential is there in a future Red-Green alliance?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Party Dozen:
🎵 Mad Rooter
#PartyDozen
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://party-dozen.bandcamp.com/track/mad-rooter
https://open.spotify.com/track/6cuXSWojM83UcPkrfbd75t

I'm listening to the audiobook of *Vaccines: Are They Worth a Shot* by Andrea Grignolio. The book is ... fine, but the translation from Italian was either by a non-fluent speaker or a bad AI. The wrong word or phrase is often used, and it's jarring. For instance, the narrator says "exasperate" for "exacerbate," and "... attributed this cause to the deaths ..." when English would say, "... attributed the deaths to this cause ..."

Vaccines: Are they Worth a Shot?
This book reveals common misconceptions in the debate over vaccinations and sheds new light on their safety and importance.

Milei's Party on Track to Win Argentina Election in Big Comeback (Patrick Gillespie/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-27/milei-s-party-on-track-to-win-argentina-election-in-big-comeback
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p62#a251026p62

Support for Israel has long been a bedrock of the Republican Party,
But a new IMEU/YouGov poll shows a sharp generational split that indicates this might be changing.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/12/new-poll-shows-young-republicans-turning-agains…

New poll shows young Republicans turning against Israel
A new poll provides extraordinary data regarding the changing view of Israel in an unexpected place — inside the Republican Party.

Meta plans to launch WhatsApp third-party app integration in Europe "over the coming months" as required by the DMA, starting with BirdyChat and Haiket (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/820858/whatsapp-third-party-messaging-dat…

WhatsApp is launching third-party chat integration in Europe
Meta is rolling out support for third-party messaging with end-to-end encryption preserved. BirdyChat and Haiket will be first.

While Phillipson was seen as a Starmer loyalist, in my view she'd have been at least as good a choice. Not that I really care about what happens in Labour Party any more.
Lucy Powell appointed new deputy leader of the Labour Party | ITV News
https://www.itv.com/news/202…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Soft Pretzel:
🎵 Office Party
#SoftPretzel
https://softpretzelmusic.bandcamp.com/track/office-party

Javier Milei hails 'tipping point' as his far-right party wins Argentina's midterm elections (Tiago Rogero/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/27/javier-milei-president-far-right-party-wins-argentina-midterm-elections
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p35#a251027p35

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Party Dozen:
🎵 Mad Rooter
#PartyDozen
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://party-dozen.bandcamp.com/track/mad-rooter
https://open.spotify.com/track/6cuXSWojM83UcPkrfbd75t

#Trump has completed the mission of United Airlines Flight 93.

GitHub plans to launch Agent HQ, a hub to let developers access third-party AI coding agents, including Claude and OpenAI's Codex, in the coming months (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/githubs-huge-agent-hq-…

GitHub's huge 'Agent HQ' upgrade brings Codex, Claude, and Jules together - here's how
The new agentic development platform integrates the most popular AI coding agents directly into GitHub.

@MitchW@mitchw.blog Is that image an AI forgery? Look at the gibberish text on the syringe.

Local GOP official's social media post draws backlash in Kentucky for its depiction of the Obamas (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/kentucky-republican-party-barack-obama-2590c21e3f104e796740f2d5bef9307e
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p139#a251027p139

Apple will now require app developers to disclose and obtain users' permission before sharing personal data with third-party AI providers and companies (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/appl

Apple's new App Review Guidelines clamp down on apps sharing personal data with 'third-party AI' | TechCrunch
Apple updates its App Store rules to restrict apps from sharing personal data with third-party AI without disclosure and explicit permission.

The atmosphere of fear surrounding Trump’s cult of personality has kept Republicans from criticizing him
even when they think he’s wrong.
But consider the list of issues on which notable Republican officeholders and influencers are now breaking with Trump,
or at the very least fighting amongst themselves in ways that weaken his movement:
After months of resisting the release of the Epstein files, Trump faced a revolt from his own party in Congress,
where both ho…

Why MAGA is coming apart at the seams
Turns out they're not in it for Trump, they're in it for themselves.

I'm almost as pale as JD (that profile picture is of my actual hand as I donate blood), and I don't remember having to apologize for it.
It's that weird aristocratic thing happening. He sincerely feels that being a regular person like you and me is a degrading insult, he's so used to dominating everything by birthright.

A court in Russia on Thursday convicted a pro-war activist and critic of Vladimir Putin of
justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison.
Sergei Udaltsov, the leader of the Left Front movement that opposes Putin and is affiliated with the Communist party, was arrested last year.
According to Russian independent news site Mediazona, the charges against him stem from an article Udaltsov posted online in support of another group of Russian activists accused of …

This is duuuuumb.
Hey, #StopAndShop: the exclamation point is exactly as alphanumeric as the period. Gaaah!
#GUI #HireAWriter

OK, how did that happen? This image is from https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781666595635-the-last-dark. Did the artist have a decorative "D" on a different PhotoShop layer from the rest of the text, and somehow forget to export it for this thumbnail? The odd slightly-off-…

What's the official way to report bugs in the #Mastodon web software? I just muted an account, and my feed jumped back 9 hours. That can't be by design.
#BugReporting

So, I was typing in #LibreOffice Writer and wanted to use the French phrase tête-Š-tête. I don't have a French keyboard, so I typed "tete-a-tete" and thought I'd let spell check add the diacritics.
Instead I got the image shown. Maybe it's just me, but if the phrase "tech-a-tete" is in the default spell checker (and I promise I did not add it) surely the far…

An unreadable scribble on an anime-catgirl-style ice cream cone?