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More #emf #emfcamp #emf2026 photos.
Edit: This was meant to be a reply to the first post here:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AlaaGaza2026/117256581731929853
"Please, we'll sleep on the street, donate me to a tent price, please."
Alaa is not someone I personally know, but she is verified; and this does look like a bad situatio…

I wanted to use my #Jellyfin server for audiobooks, but failed in terms that it not seem to be capable of tracking progress, even after converting to m4b. Maybe it's just a skill issue, if so, please enlighten me.
However I found a great offline audiobook app, that is FOSS and even has features like. Character list, sleeping mode and more

Please consider this powerful essay for your Best Related Work lists next year.
@… https://wandering.shop/@therisingtithes/117069141711…

Arte hat im Moment einige australische Comedy-Serien im Programm. "Please like me" ist wirklich sehr witzig.
#arte

If anybody fancies being a tester for an Android app, I've written a simple little app which reminds you of your bin schedules - which bins need putting out on which evening. If you'd like to test it, please drop me a note at support@binnight.co.uk - details here: https://www.binnight.co.uk/early-access/…

I'm told that you can get some very weird behaviour from the latest #ai model from #anthropic. Say "See the below". Then leave a blank or line of dashes, then something maybe hinting at what it shouldn't do. It responds with strange fragments of text.

Please hit me up if you've got a [paid] project for this!
I think this kind of thing is *especially* useful to shops that already have an iOS team with good #Swift background, but even without iOS, Swift is a solid server side language that doesn't get enough love.

I've found that when someone begin a statement with the words:
▫️ "I just feel like..."
...it betrays a 'tell' & is best interpreted as:
▫️ "I have no factual basis behind my opinion & have done no critical thinking but please let me bounce my unqualified thoughts off of you"

Climbing onto a bar stool, a piece of string asked for a beer.
"Wait a minute. Aren't you a string?"
"Well, yes, I am."
"Sorry. We don't serve strings here."
The determined string left the bar and stopped a passer-by. "Excuse,
me," it said, "would you shred my ends and tie me up like a pretzel?" The
passer-by obliged, and the string re-entered the bar. "May I have a beer,
please?" …

Next to enshittification I'd like to introduce 'enstupidification'. That one bothers me waaaayyy more. Phone:'Please enter your passcode, so you can't forget' Tablet: 'Every 24 hours we ask you to enter your pin, so you don't forget ' Banking app 'We noticed you have KDE Connect installed. Please uninstall, so you can use our mobile banking app'. 'You cannot use this service, without signing up'.
Astonishing stupidity, wrapped in a, su…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
QOW TRIO:
🎵 Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling
#QOWTRIO
https://open.spotify.com/track/1PvJWpFbflX1EH5KEDclXi
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I got a notice that the toot.works domain is coming up for renewal on Nov 1. If you like your Toot Works experience, please consider donating at https://paypal.me/joesteinbring, https://account.venmo.com/u/Joe-Steinbring, or https://patreon.com/TootWorks.
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Interviewer: "One of the things we like candidates to say is, 'Kim Jong Un is a fat, ugly pig. Could you please say that for me?"
Interviewee: "...uh..."
▶️ The North Korean Operatives Hiding Inside U.S. Companies | WSJ Documentary
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RUhdmIFpb-…

I'm so glad that I never went down the Influencer path. Posting whenever I want, whatever I want.
Not posting when I don't want to, when I don't feel like it, no algorithm to please.
Not exaggerating everything I do "for the clicks", just doing what I like, hiking, cycling, taking videos with me talking or not,..
Full freedom

☎️ ☎️ ☎️ ☎️ ☎️ ☎️
💂‍♂️Hello, this is OfGov how may I help you today?
🚶‍♀️Good afternoon OfGov. I've registered a hundred thousand nominations so I'd like to register for my job as MP please!
💂‍♂️Oh, congratulations madam. That must have been hard work! People are reluctant to care enough to nominate anyone usually.
🚶‍♀️Yes, my local campaigning was getting nowhere but there's a group of people just like me around the coastal villages who really care about cliff issues and so we've decided we want to unite our voice in the house.
💂‍♂️That's lovely! I know cliff issues were otherwise unaddressed because they weren't important to enough people in any single geographic consituency, so it's good you can unite the coastal regions as a unit. I'll put you through to training and credentials and you should be able to start next week.
🚶‍♀️Lovely. Cheers!
💂‍♂️Look out for the cliffs madam.

Please share: Can someone with the print edition of the Financial Times in the US check to see if my piece is in it and save one for me?
so I have a new op/ed out where I am Big Mad about the have-nots in critical infra, and if it's in the paper version, I would love it if someone would get it for me? I'm in the UK and can't get it myself :/
https://www.ft.com/content/3f154376-fd8b-4255-ac5b-538c5e90fc40
(ain't no thrill like the thrill that'll gitcha when ya getchur picture on the cover of a Rolling Stone ROLLING STOOONNNE gonna buy five copies for my mother)

Popular Front recently did a piece on the current conflicts in Ethiopia:
https://popularfront.substack.com/p/everything-you-didnt-know-about-the
It's a good primer for anyone who's unfamiliar, but is definitely lacking if you know any Ethiopian folks or pay attention to much news out of the Horn of Africa.
The interplay between authoritarian liberal nationalism, as represented by Abiy Ahmed and his government, and tribal federalism , represented by various tribal factions, reads to me very similarly to the liberalization of Europe (enclosure of the commons, a push to sacrifice ethnic identities for nationalist ones, etc). Like the liberalization of, say, France, it's a lot more complicated than "old thing bad, new thing good."
Liberalism was violent and authoritarian. It often sacrificed leftists. Liberalism's focus on borders and national identity led directly to pogroms and Nazism. Similarly, liberalization of Ethiopia has led to genocide and ethnic cleansing.
People think of "the terror" in France as a leftist thing, but it wasn't. It was a Liberal thing, centrist extremism, carried out against right and left.
I understand that tribal federalism is also not a good system, but I don't have a ton of depth so I'm not going to try to explain it. During the European Liberal revolutionary period of 1848, ethnic minorities would often side with some monarch or emperor against liberalism out of fear of liberal nationalism. It makes sense to support a system that's bad if your other option is a nationalism that erases your identity.
But even in Europe at that time, anarchism offered an alternative but that alternative often also drew from simply a different branch of liberalism that also suppressed culture and identity. Today the world is different. Democratic Confederalism offers a solution to *exactly* this problem, tested for more than a decade in Syria and developing now in Myanmar.
But the cross pollination between Syria and Myanmar in terms of fighters really made the ideological cross pollination possible. I don't think anything like that is happening now in Ethiopia.
Eurocentrism makes it easy to ignore what's happening now, but Addis Ababa is the seat of the African Union Commission. Ethiopia is a major military power in the region, so these developments carry a lot of weight. Especially as the US collapses and the world becomes more multipolar, the development of regional powers like Ethiopia will have a big impact on how that part of the continent develops.
If any folks are more familiar with Ethiopia than I am (which shouldn't be hard since I'm basically not), please correct me or add context if anything is missing or wrong.

ou man .. Looks like all the photos etc from our vacation won't be processed until next week :-(
But meanwhile: autumn is close: prepare your #hiking clothes. We just washed and re-impregnated our jackets.
I rember a visit at a JackWolfskin store where one of the guys said: "please think about washing the jacket"
Me: "we're washing, impregnating and activating them 2x a year when really dirty/sweated."
He looked at me for a couple of seconds:
"First client ever doing this"

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Radio3InConcert
Hubert Parry, BBC Singers & Ashley Grote:
🎵 Songs of Farewell: 6. Lord, let me know mine end
#HubertParry #BBCSingers #AshleyGrote
https://open.spotify.com/track/1BLtFdZgoX4g7FVuOum56B
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Ole Buck, John Keats, Danish National Radio Choir & Kaare Hansen:
🎵 Two Faery Songs: "O shed no tear"; "Ah! Woe is me!"
#OleBuck #JohnKeats #DanishNationalRadioChoir #KaareHansen
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