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Live stream of the partial solar eclipse as seen from Göttingen, Germany at https://live.gwdg.de/play/sofi2026 by the University of Göttingen's Institute for Astrophysics and Geophysics: watch starting from 19h MESZ if viewing conditions happen to be less favourable from where you are located.

For the past year, Norma Bowe had parked her brown-and-beige camper van outside Delaney’s gates most weekends.
Converted into a mobile clinic, it was stocked with sutures, glucometers and trauma and CPR kits,
and offered health checks to families and protesters.
That day, the clinic was busier than usual.
“Can you come over here?” someone asked.
Norma followed, thinking a person may need first aid.
Instead, she encountered a wall of two dozen ICE agents in …

This nurse was assaulted by ICE – and it was caught on video. Now she wants her day in court
Norma Bowe, 69, was flung to the ground at Delaney Hall, the infamous New Jersey detention center. She sees her lawsuit against ICE as one step towards justice

The last few days have brought a mix of rain and sunshine to Göttingen. From an office window, MPS Göttingen scientist Walter Goetz was able to catch this lovely shot of a double rainbow above the institute. Many thanks for sharing!
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#Rainbow

She just gets more and more incredible.
Dolly Parton’s sister reveals singer offered to test experimental cancer drugs before she died | Dolly Parton | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/28/dolly-parton-…

Dolly Parton’s sister reveals singer offered to test experimental cancer drugs before she died
‘My sister was always thinking of others,’ Parton’s younger sister Stella wrote in a Facebook tribute

Myself as "tacticool operator" taking pictures of squirrels in front of the A.D. White House -- around this time I'm thinking "gee, my hair gets bunched up in twintails by my hat"
#photo #photography

@… (I think we agree on this but) if we view capitalism and the market economy as inherently toxic (as I do), is work to make it less unequal not counter productive? We need to be building the new structures, not trying to shore up the wanton excess of the old.
Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast: Podcasters Unite! Thinking about systemic change with Tim Log…

#LesFicFri: Just Dance (Artemis / Penthesileia)
Penthesileia stepped into the circle. She raised her arms, spear in one hand, aspis shield in the other. Her war cry sounded over the audience of amazons, riling them up for the display they were about to witness.
Penthesileia danced, thinking of the goddess watching her, judging her every move, enjoying her erotic display. She held her spear in front of her, arching against it in sensual motions.
https://eroticmythology.com/fiction-just-dance-artemis-penthesileia-lesfic/

RE: https://todon.eu/@CrimethInc/117162698930485347
There was a time, 4 or 5 years ago, when my partner and I had a conversation. We had already fought last time, and now we had kids. We had the ability to leave, so we decided that we would if things got bad enough. We had to make a decision about when that would be, about what the trigger would be. It was Roe being overturned. It had happened in the past. We left as soon as we could.
If you haven't left, or can't leave, you need to make another decision. You need to decide if you're going to fight or hide. I'll tell you now, your best chance is if you fight before it's too late. If you try to keep your head down the best outcome you can hope for is to survive in shame.
If you decide to fight, then you need to decide when. I don't know what your life looks like, so I can't tell you where that line is. But you need to know what it is, because not knowing is the same as hiding. You need to talk to other people and know when they'll fight, because your best chances are together. Everyone should have a breaking point. A lot of folks may have blown right past it and not noticed, because it's all too overwhelming, because life is already too much without adding more. I understand, but without thinking about it you're making a different choice.
This is an extremely common platform for leftists. I remember my old roommate and their autistici email address. I have an account with them for organizing I did in the past. If you've ever listed to anything on the Channel Zero network, you've probably run across someone reading out a noblogs domain. This is an explicit attack on the left, and specifically on anarchists. This provides the legal framework for mass arrests targeting anarchists.
Will they do that? I don't know. They know they're unpopular and they know anarchists are a big part of the fight. Will they use those warehouses? They'll do what they can get away with.
What will you do to stop them? What will you do when they escalate? Figure out your escalation plan. What would it take to get you in the street? What would it take to get you on the barricades? If you don't have a plan, if you haven't at least thought about it, and maybe even talked about it, then you're deciding to let them do whatever they want.
Fascism is like a dying star that gets bigger even as it consumes itself before exploding. It has to have an enemy, so it will make enemies to feed on. You may be used to being safe when the state cracks down like this, but you never really were. Your turn was just so far off it seemed impossible. But now we're at the end. No one will be safe until this is over. So at the very least, make plans for when they come after you.

The Short End of the Stick
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"Well damn! Come see this one!"
"Another inhabited planet?"
"Yeah but they really got the short end of the stick..."
"Let me see... Oh wow, they thought synthetic text had intelligence?"
"Yeah, or that it was like a God or something. Classic mistake. But just a second, let me scroll..."
"Oh. Oh wow. That's really unlucky. They had a language model cult happen at the same time as they were burning fossil fuels? Talk about bad timing, but... Oh god."
"Yeah it gets worse!"
"Stockpiling nuclear weapons? They actually used them?!? All that at once? Jeez this is one of the worst eras I've ever seen. Almost like a species with a death wish."
"You know better than that."
"Okay yeah that's not a species problem, I know. But what the hell was the social structure like? How did they survive all that at once?"
"Let's see... Here."
"Oh. Oh shit this actually makes sense. All that stuff wasn't a coincidence, they got hit by a real big wave of nationalism & oligarchy, one right into the other. I didn't even know it could be that bad before the instability flipped things. They had institutions... Yeah they were basically kept down by a few generations of oligarchs; had them pretty much enslaved and worshipping money at the same time. Serious obedience conditioning. Religions were doing it too. Whew that must have been a shitty time. Only a couple of centuries of the worst of it at least. Wait scroll further, what happened?"
"See here, and then here."
"Oh huh. Yeah I guess that flip had been a long time coming. Wow I definitely take back my comment about a death wish, this species is awesome! They made it through all that, haha."
"Yeah pretty cool, huh? Fuck obedience conditioning."
"Yeah, they had it so bad for a minute there. Fuck that bullshit."
"Hey... Wanna go do an intervention? Find some place that's in the middle of that stuff right now and see what we can do?"
"I was just thinking the same thing! But y'know what? Let's stop by this place first, and see if any of them want to come along. I'll bet some of them would be up for it given their history!"
"Well, it's been a couple dozen generations, so you never know how they'll view the history now, but sure, let's do that. The whole point of history is to inspire action, right?"
#Microfiction

Signal – Don’t forget to configure for privacy
In a business or non-profit environment, there is a good chance that your management team is using Signal. And why not? It brings security and privacy to messaging, file sharing, video and phone calls. Not only can you do one-to-one communications, you can create and manage groups. Sensitive business conversations can remain secret. What’s not to like about that?
Out-of-the-Box Signal needs attention to the configuration settings to get the best privacy. If you are a CISO or IT specialist, you can help your management team configure Signal for the best privacy.
After installing Signal on a mobil phone or desktop, review the configuration settings and adjust them as needed. Here is a free guide that will get you started:
#Security #Privacy #Signal