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It was to be expected, but I need to stress how much #EuroPython benefitted from being the host of the CPython Core Summit this year.
As I keep repeating, the main value of #PyConUS for the COMMUNITY is the gathering of stakeholders for in-person exchange.
Given that I barely got any …

A shibboleth is a word you use to signal that you're in on the conversation/joke/group.
A shambotleth is a word that gives you away as not actually being part of the in group; you're obviously repeating something you heard and don't understand. https://scoat.es/@sean/117130578975249376…

Mark Zuckerberg was so convinced the metaverse was the next big thing that he renamed his company after it.
Meta, as Facebook is now known, bet the farm on virtual reality,
investing more than $80bn into metaverse-related ventures over the past five years alone
—only to abruptly decide it wasn’t the future after all.
In March this year it was announced that Horizon Worlds, Meta’s flagship metaverse venture, would shut down its VR operations in June, continuing only as …

Life at the end of the metaverse
Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake

If you want to know what Rubio is trying to do, go listen to the Revolutions podcast on 1848. Metternich built a conspiracy of kings that persecuted Liberals in order to protect European empires against revolution. It failed, of course, but he was able to hold things down (right until it all blew up in his face). The strategy was essentially mass surveillance, censorship, and general Draconian repressieve bullshit.
Rubio is trying to slap together an actual international conspiracy of governments to stomp on the face of humanity forever, and his opening offer is off-brand 70's fear mongering that no one takes seriously.
He may well be right, in some ways. The thing he calls "civilization" is white supremacist patriarchal Christian nationalism, modeled loosely on Pinochet's Chile, Franco's Spain, Mussolini's Italy, and Putin's Russia. Yeah, "the left" is a *huge* threat to that type of shit. In fact, we always win.
But Rubio is Dollar Tree Metternich, and he's not trying to stop a liberal revolution near the birth of liberalism. He's trying to stop a leftist revolution that's been refining itself now against these same tactics for hundreds of years.
We already have the playbook he's using (poorly). It's just funny that the famous Marx quote about history repeating, "the first as tragedy, then as farce," is so applicable to this Rubio as he rails against the laughable boogyman of "Marxism."

Seattle's biggest obstacle to repeating starts in a tough NFC West with the stacked Rams https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/seattles-biggest-obstacle-to-repeating-starts-in-a-tough-nfc-west-with-the-stacked-rams…

Seahawks find out how hard repeating is. Good thing they're built for it https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7581037/2026/09/10/seattle-seahawks-super-bowl-repeat-chances/

"public services back under greater public control" - #Burnham in his first speech as PM repeating the formulation he'd been using for the last couple of months (and earlier?)
Problem is, most of the public will hear that as "public ownership" - a promise he can't possibly hope to keep, which in a year or two means that any of the people he's mostly aiming …

PSA: I'll be repeating my file system analysis #workshop at Interfug!
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Today advocacy groups active in the US and Canada are launching a new “Charmin Wipes Out Bears” and “Charmin Wipes Out Forests” online advertising campaign alerting consumers that the US-based company Procter & Gamble is destroying Canada’s boreal forests to make toilet paper. Campaign videos and social media posts feature a crying bear dispossessed of its habitat, a poop emoji narrating footage of the destruction of Canada’s boreal forests, and a talking butt repeating Charmin’s claim …

Home - charmin
To bears, it’s home. To Charmin, it’s toilet paper. https://charminwipesoutbears.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/beartears_1920x1080_prores-720p.mp4 Charmin toilet paper wipes out forests and destroys bird, bear, and caribou habitat Despite sustainability claims, P&G is using hundred-year-old trees in Canada’s boreal forest to produce their toilet paper and paper towels. You can make a difference: don’t buy Charmin (or Bounty!) Choose brands […]

Sneak peek at the new toolbar artwork landing in the ngscopeclient v0.2 release. Anyone have feedback for the artist before we finalize all of the renders at all the resolutions etc?
Redrawn by the same artist who did the application icon/logo, with an emphasis on readability and clarify and more use of color to be readable at small sizes. The "glow" effect of the original icons looked cool but really impaired readability (it might have worked at much larger sizes.
Thes…

Also, unlike this one, many of my skeets don’t get here. Something about @… doesn’t pick them all up. Probably bsky is sinking the stuff they determine not interesting or whatever.
I despise algorithmic feeds where I can’t fix my algorithm. @…

Bill Cole (@scconsult.com)
Repeating what's in my profile… I treat Bluesky as a 2nd platform & mostly am on the #Fediverse. My bridged Mastodon account got "suspended" by Bluesky for no reason I could discern, so my posts there never get here. & while I often retoot my skeets, I don't turn many of my toots into skeets.

New York Times veteran David Sanger blasted Donald Trump's assertion that his reporting on the Iran war amounted to treason.
Trump made the comment on Air Force One this week after Sanger asked,
"What would the use be of repeating the bombing?
You you did it for 38 days, and you did not get the political changes in Iran."
After claiming he had achieved a
"total military victory" in Iran,
Trump turned on Sanger, saying,
"I…

‘We All Know What This Is About’: NYT’s David Sanger Blasts Trump ‘Treason’ Accusation As ‘Effort To Intimidate’
New York Times veteran David Sanger blasted President Donald Trump's assertion that his reporting on the Iran war amounted to treason.

The definition of insanity is repeating the definition of insanity over and over again.

The Role of Stellar Spin in Repeating Partial #TidalDisruptionEvents: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae8f31 -> The spin behind fading black hole flares: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1140852 - stellar spin may solve a long-standing puzzle about repeating encounters between stars and supermassive black holes.

To the tune of the White Stripes' "Fell in Love with a Girl": "I said no to something!" (I said it once before but it bears repeating now).

He's not been reliable on climate/environment (London City airport, Silvertown tunnel Vs low emissions zones) but this is still much to be welcomed from Sadiq Khan.
Heathrow expansion 'a risk we cannot afford to take', says mayor - BBC News

Heathrow expansion 'a risk we cannot afford to take', says mayor
Sir Sadiq Khan is repeating his opposition to a third runway in response to a government consultation.

Today I have mostly been picking literally thousands of items out of a flot, of which this chaff is but the merest fraction. Couple of decent glume bases in there and lots of fragments of the bits and pieces that go to make up the doings that hold a grain on the plant. #archaeology #EnvironmentalArchaeology

NO, Social Security is absolutely not disappearing in 2032.
NO, full retirement is not at 65.
YES, be prepared to vote against anyone that screws with your Social Security.
▶️ The Social Security "Facts" You Need to Stop Repeating
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bBNhnsEf9H

📂 Your past agent sessions are stored in local provider history files. ctx indexes them into a #SQLite database on your machine, so current & future agents can find the prior discussion, command, or failed attempt before repeating it

It turns out the Trump administration has been investigating progressive
and even mainstream groups
that have been involved in protests against Donald Trump’s sweeping deportations,
according to newly released government documents.
That Trump’s deportations have prompted widespread outrage is hardly surprising.
The president arguably had an electoral mandate to secure the
US-Mexican border
but not to raid workplaces and neighborhoods to deport undo…

Donald Trump’s spying on leftwing groups recalls J Edgar Hoover’s Cointelpro
The FBI from the 1950s to the 1970s tried to infiltrate and discredit leftist organizations. Trump seems to be repeating that sordid practice

NFL execs rank AFC teams: Bills lead a jumble of contenders. Does anyone trust the Chiefs? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7560358/2026/09/03/afc-rankings-bills-chiefs-broncos-patriots-ravens/

Wordle Hint:
A villanelle, also known as villanesque, is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain.
There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately at the end of each subsequent stanza until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines

NFL execs rank AFC teams: Bills lead a jumble of contenders. Does anyone trust the Chiefs? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7560358/2026/09/03/afc-rankings-bills-chiefs-broncos-patriots-ravens/

"public services back under greater public control" - #Burnham in his first speech as PM repeating the formulation he'd been using for the last couple of months (and earlier?)
Problem is, most of the public will hear that as "public ownership" - a promise he can't possibly hope to keep, which in a year or two means that any of the people he's mostly aiming this stuff at who are giving him the benefit of the doubt for now, will have him firmly filed under "promise breaker just like all the others".

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At first glance, the Trump administration’s deployment of more than 200 F.B.I. analysts to Georgia this week seems to be another stubborn assault on a fact that has refused to budge:
Despite the president’s baseless claims, no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election has ever surfaced there.

But critics contend that it is just one piece of a broader effort to sow doubt about the electoral process itself
and the integrity of elections to come.
And no matt…

Trump Targets Not Just Georgia’s Vote, but Also Trust in Elections
The president has sent 260 F.B.I. analysts to Georgia, repeating his baseless claims of fraud in 2020. But critics say the intention is to undermine overall confidence in the electoral process.

There's a ton of evidence to back this up.
It's not even close.
And I'm baffled by why Dems don't run on this, repeating the data endlessly the way the right repeats their lies.
https://bsky.app/profile/ourshallowstate.bsky.social/post/3m…

The Shallow State (@ourshallowstate.bsky.social)
One of the greatest political myths that has ever been concocted, amplified, and successfully perpetrated on the American electorate, which myth began long before Trump - is that the American economy performs better for the people under a Republican than a Democrat. IT DOESN'T!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Propellerheads:
🎵 History Repeating (feat. Shirley Bassey)
#Propellerheads
https://propellerheads.bandcamp.com/track/history-repeating-feat-miss-shirley-bassey
https://open.spotify.com/track/56jlrdCvA7Ih13L9OMcfDS

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Propellerheads feat. Shirley Bassey:
🎵 History Repeating
#Propellerheads #ShirleyBassey
https://1000records.bandcamp.com/track/history-repeating-theres-something-about-mary
https://open.spotify.com/track/56jlrdCvA7Ih13L9OMcfDS