Tootfinder

Someone posted about the Playdate and I was like "Oh yeah, that's a thing!" so I checked on the price and noped right out of there quickly.

from my link log —
Renewable energy unambiguously reduces UK wholesale power prices.
https://www.carboncommentary.com/blog/2025/8/18/renewables-do-unambiguously-reduce-wholesale-power-prices
saved 2025-08-20

Renewables do unambiguously reduce wholesale power prices | Carbon Commentary
We still hear assertions that adding renewables to the grid has increased the UK’s electricity costs. I looked at two sources of data and plotted one against the other to test whether there’s any truth in this. 1,      The ‘next day’ electricity price fo

ICE assaulting a pregnant woman.
Covering their license plates with fake spray-on snow to hide the numbers.
Getting pelted with snowballs by the crowd and responding with pepper spray — which only increased the snowballs.
Just this afternoon’s local news.
Video of the snowballs (CW: person being assaulted, dragged)
(UPDATE: video attached in case FB blocks; source URL is https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1ZaUBtkGCZ/)

Mining company BHP has been found liable for a 2015 dam collapse in Brazil, known as the country's worst-ever environmental disaster, by London's High Court.
The dam collapse killed 19 people, polluted the river and destroyed hundreds of homes.
UK court finds mining firm liable for Brazil's worst environmental disaster - BBC News

UK court finds mining firm liable for Brazil's worst environmental disaster
The 2015 dam collapse killed 19 people, polluted a river and destroyed hundreds of homes.

A clean peak on the evening of 13 December UTC in the #Geminids this year: the meteoroids flux per volume and time plotted vs. time from global video data, in https://globalmeteornetwork.org/flux/plots/flux_GEM_sol=256.00-266.00_year_2025_full.png from https://globalmeteornetwork.org/flux/ - the peak came right at the expected time and is matching the global radio echo data https://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~hro/Flash/2025/GEM/

Plotted my MacBook Pro's battery usage history based on almost 4 years of coconutBattery data for shits and giggles

A US judge sentences Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon to 15 years in prison; Kwon pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud charges in August (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/12/10/terraform-s-do-kwon-s…

Terra Creator Do Kwon Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison
The Terraform Labs co-founder pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud in August.

Day 23: Thi Bui
Indirect CW: parental neglect, war, intergenerational trauma
Bui is the author of "The Best We Could Do", a graphic memoir which explores her relationship with her parents and unpacks some of the intergenerational trauma coming out of the Vietnam War. It has a lot of wisdom to offer about both dealing with troubled parents as a 1.5th-generation immigrant, and it delves deeply into her parents' histories in Vietnam and the complexities of the situation there both in the north and in the south. It's beautifully illustrated and very nicely plotted together given all the disparate threads it is working with.
I haven't read any of Bui's other work, but it looks like she's published a picture book for kids as well as a series of short comics during the pandemic. Besides Oseman who also writes non-illustrated fiction and the two manga artists Ice mentioned, Bui is the first graphic novel author I've included here, but I've actually got quite a few of them in my longer list, one of whom may make it into the 30 I'll include in this thread. These days I'm reading a bunch of graphic novels since they're easy to get through, and the variety of stories and perspectives in that space is wonderful these days, with a huge array of indie stuff that probably never would have gotten off the ground in traditional publishing/comics spaces.
#30AuthorsNoMen

We are already well behind the peak of the #Geminids - as expected - according to meteor radio echo data from around the world plotted in https://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~hro/Flash/2025/GEM/ (the solar longitudes of 261° and 262° correspond to December 13th at 3:17 and December 14th at 2:53 UTC, respectively).

Nexperia's former CEO Frans Scheper says Wingtech, which bought the Dutch chipmaker in 2019, quickly plotted to send Nexperia's research and IP to China (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/world/a

Chip Company Plotted to Send Technology to China, Ex-C.E.O. Says
The former chief executive of Nexperia, a Dutch chipmaker, said Dutch officials had known for years that the company’s Chinese owner sought to move its technology to China.