@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-13 18:36:41
⚡️ 1.8 MILLION SHELLS: G7 creates "ENERGY SHIELD" against Russian strikes!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/13/million-shells-g-creates-quotenergy.html
@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-13 18:36:41
@pre@boing.world2025-11-23 15:57:01
Content warning: re: bitcoin conference report
A panel on bitcoin treasury companies.
Because investment law makes it hard for institutions to buy bitcoin in their funds. You can't own BTC in you tax free ISA. So some companies that do hold bitcoin, notably microstrategy, became proxy investments. If you can't hold BTC you could maybe own a company that owns BTC instead.
Microstrategy started because it's ceo realized it's dollar treasury was being debased by dollar printing. So tried buying BTC instead, with fantastic success.
Copycat companies proliferated. They boomed and then busted. One panelist calls that a grift. A way to memeticly pump share price.
A line can be drawn between profitable companies just storing their profit in bitcoin Vs those raising debt to buy without having a profitable business.
Imagine a world transiting from using seashells for money to using gold coins. A company gathers seashells from investors to buy gold coins, which will do better than sea shells. Trouble is the next step where the company pays back it's investors with... More seashells.
If you own shares in the company, you do not own bitcoin. You'll just get more old fashioned bank money.
Still. It's worked as marketing, more people being convinced BTC has value.
If you do buy a treasury company, check it's bitcoin not "digital assets" including shitcoins.
#bitfest #bitcoin #bitcoinTreasuryCompanies
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-22 17:03:11
Is that legal, posing as different police? In Minneapolis right now, what is legal and what is illegal is just a sort of amusing abstract question, about as useful as asking “If you could breed a chicken with an octopus, would its eggs have shells?” — except suffused with a kind of grim, exhausted anger.
The law is something that people argue about on TV and on social media. It has so little relationship to what happens on the ground, it’s just hardly even relevant.
@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social2025-11-22 14:40:59
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Tintinnids ("tinkling bells") are ciliates found in fresh and saltwater known for their characteristic vase-shaped shell called a lorica. These are formed of tough proteins, incorporating minerals from the water and vary considerably by species. The shell offers protection and optimizes feeding on phytoplankton, bacteria and flagellates. These small pro…
@jamie@boothcomputing.social2025-12-22 16:45:43
She sells sea shells by the sea shore. #Wordle
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@a_j_millar@fediscience.org2026-01-22 07:41:51
RE: #circadian component to daily growth rhythms in giant clam shells. Neat study!
I love seeing the biological clock (perhaps) recorded in a such a durable way in nature.
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-12-22 04:46:19
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheBBCIntroducingMixtape
Westside Cowboy:
🎵 Shells (BBC Introducing at The Great Escape, 15 May 2025)
#WestsideCowboy
https://westsidecowboy.bandcamp.com/track/shells
https://open.spotify.com/track/1vtuuLA1GTiqcnmDleBqje
@servelan@newsie.social2025-11-05 18:05:34
Czech Republic plans to abandon Ukraine after delivering 850,000 shells as Russian intimidation fractures EU unity - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/05/czech-republic-plans-to-abandon-ukraine-after-delivering-850000-shells-as-russian-intimidation-fractures-eu-unity/
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2025-11-16 23:08:37
reduced my opps to shells and calcium carbonate, then deposited them in calm ocean conditions and watched them compact, compress, and eventually crystallise into calcite found in limestone
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-12-03 16:43:26
🍫 'Chocolate-flavored' honey created using cocoa bean shells
#food
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.social2025-12-09 00:19:50
@Gabriel1977@masto.es
Was it Gardel who they used to put on photos inside bandoneones?
Or I think it was a player?
#Tango #bandoneon #concertina
@benb@osintua.eu2025-10-31 15:50:16
RUSSIA shells Ukraine with EXTREMELY DANGEROUS missiles! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/31/russia-shells-ukraine-with-extremely.html
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-09 05:41:06
Swedish investment firm EQT agrees to invest $930M in Douzone Bizon, a South Korea-based provider of ERP and business software to SMBs, for a 37.6% stake (Atharva Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
@todbot@mastodon.social2026-01-05 00:37:34
@… Totally! The tree in the video is a pecan tree and in the spring they get up there eating pecans and bombing us with shells
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2025-11-12 20:56:16
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@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-12-17 18:20:54
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Westside Cowboy:
🎵 Shells (6 Music Session, 17 december 2025)
#WestsideCowboy
https://westsidecowboy.bandcamp.com/track/shells
https://open.spotify.com/track/1vtuuLA1GTiqcnmDleBqje
@jredlund@social.linux.pizza2025-11-04 19:57:16
Squirrels at War: Wild Card
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** The destruction of the Lion’s Tooth left us stunned. Then Maven said, “It’s not quite as bad as it looks. The cannon shells that hit Floating Seed were…
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-12-31 09:47:24
😋 Bio-hybrid robots turn food waste into functional machines
#food
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-12-26 19:02:31
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ThePeoplesParty with #AFRODEUTSCHE
Westside Cowboy:
🎵 Shells (6 Music Session, 17 December 2025)
#WestsideCowboy
https://westsidecowboy.bandcamp.com/track/shells
https://open.spotify.com/track/1vtuuLA1GTiqcnmDleBqje