@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"It is said that after death, the tutelary god (daimon) of each person, to whom he had been allotted in life, leads him to a place where the dead are gathered together [i.e. Hermes]; then they are judged and depart to the other world with the guide."
Plato, Phaedo 107c
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@cdarwin@c.imOn an island in the Arctic Ocean, in a region that is warming as much as seven times as fast as the rest of the planet, the food chain is being turned upside down.
Underwater kelp forests are surging into once-frozen waters, replacing other native species.
Reindeer, cut off from traditional foraging routes over vanishing sea ice, now graze on seaweed when they cannot reach inland grasses and lichen.
And polar bears, deprived of the ice platforms they once used to hunt seals, …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US DOE will provide Constellation with a $1B loan to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear plant; the output will be sold to Microsoft under a 20-year deal (Costas Paris/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/t…
@benb@osintua.euUkraine raids Russian-occupied Black Sea island, lays mines and destroys vehicle, intelligence claims, shows footage: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/19/ukraine-raids-russianoccupied-black-sea.html
@ErikUden@mastodon.deThe fediverse is an island within an increasingly dystopian capitalist hellscape. And from my perspective, Mastodon is our best shot at bringing this vision of a better future to the masses.
— Eugen Rochko, 18.11.2025
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizzaThe Talos Principle 2 (Multi, XPd on a Linux OS PC) As 1k, the newest (and perhaps last) member of the reborn humanity, you set off on an expedition to explore a Mega Structure on a remote island. What you find could alter humanity's course forever.
So, (spoilers) as a direct sequel to the now 11yr old 1st game, you play as a new "human" that has left the Simulation and been incorporated into a body in the Real World. As human number 1000, you are the culmination of "…
@gscherer2@social.linux.pizzaSunset over San Diego Bay, looking towards Coronado. San Diego Embarcadero, San Diego, California, USA. December, 2015. #sandiego #sandiegobay #coronadoisland
@cdarwin@c.imTrump declined to approve more than $400 million in military aid to Taiwan this summer,
as he tries to negotiate a trade deal and potential summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
The decision, which may still be reversed, marks a U-turn in U.S. policy toward the self-governing island that China claims as its own territory.
Two people familiar with the matter said the package was worth more than $400 million and would have been “more lethal” than past rounds of aid to Taiwan…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioHappy 35th Birthday, Guybrush Threepwood!
The Secret of Monkey Island was released in October 1990.
@primonatura@mstdn.social
@june_thalia_michael@literatur.social#EroticMusings 25: Does your erotica ever explore chronic or terminal health?
I plan to write a short series focused on that topic - Namalenia is suffering from a progressing illness that picks up speed as she ages and Rhaise is suffering from a chronical condition after literally falling off an airship, almost drowning and barely surviving the ordeal. They meet on the island where …
@shaun@mastodon.xyzThe Kash bureau doesn’t seem to be doing so well. This is, what, the 4th or 5th high-profile case where they’ve “caught” the wrong person, or announced that someone was in custody when that wasn’t true…
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/providenc<…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeIs Kiki (hello kitty) bouba?
https://hellokittyislandadventure.wiki.gg/wiki/Kiki
@mlawton@mstdn.socialFinished “The Last Murder at the End of the World” by Stuart Turton.
Their island is a sanctuary against an apocalyptic fog which has enveloped the world. The villagers and the elders have lived in relative peace for decades until a murder flings everything into chaos. Solving it may be the only chance for survival.
4/5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
h…
@pbloem@sigmoid.socialI don't post my runs very often, but this one was pretty nice. 20k on the Vliehors, the largest sand plain in Europe. I was a little late, so I spent most of the time running in the sunset.
Met some seals on the way.
@cdarwin@c.imTrump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, angling for future arms sales
The fastest way to fortify Taiwan’s military is by directly shipping U.S. arms,
a process known as Presidential Drawdown Authority, or PDA.
The Biden administration approved three such packages for Taiwan while in office, alongside another round of long-term military aid, totaling more than $2 billion.
Trump has promised a more transactional U.S. foreign policy and does not support sendin…
@emd@cosocial.caHe’s coming to Vancouver as well: #enshittification
@jake4480@c.imThe Holy Mountain (1973) is profoundly bizarre, some would probably find much of this disturbing, and I'm glad I'm finally watching it 😂
#film
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeRussian alleged cyber-hacker faces extradition to US after arrest in Thailand
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/asia/denis-obrezko-russia-hacker-thailand-void-blizzard
@cdarwin@c.imTrump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, angling for future arms sales
The fastest way to fortify Taiwan’s military is by directly shipping U.S. arms,
a process known as Presidential Drawdown Authority, or PDA.
The Biden administration approved three such packages for Taiwan while in office, alongside another round of long-term military aid, totaling more than $2 billion.
Trump has promised a more transactional U.S. foreign policy and does not support sendin…
@primonatura@mstdn.social
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFrom Long Island to the Baltics: Drop Site Investigation Reveals New Details About Canary Mission's Operations (Jacqueline Sweet/Drop Site News)
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mission-funding-funders-networks-transactions-doxxing-united-states-deportation
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p71#a251016p71
@arXiv_grqc_bot@mastoxiv.pageInformation paradox and island of covariant black holes in LQG
Yongbin Du, Jia-Rui Sun, Xiangdong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11921 https://arxiv.org/…
@brichapman@mastodon.socialTropical islands are turning their biggest challenge into their greatest strength.
Vulnerable to climate change and dependent on expensive fossil fuels, island nations are proving that carbon neutrality by 2050 is economically viable. Solar PV is leading the charge, with innovative Solar-to-X tech converting sunshine into e-fuels and e-chemicals to power hard-to-decarbonize sectors.
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzFor all you nature lovers (especially herpetological sorts, i.e. lizards, and more specifically, geckos here in Aotearoa) get a load of this: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-strange-beautiful-lizard-at-the-bottom-of-the-world/ Stunning. I tried t…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de#TGIQF: Das Monkey-Island-Quiz für Piratenanwärter
Vor 35 Jahren erschien "The Secret of Monkey Island" und gilt bis heute als eines der witzigsten Point-and-Click-Adventures. Bestehen Sie die Anwärterfragen?
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaa world you can fully understand and hold in your head and hand. being the snowman in his globe rather than on yours. where's the water come from? the rain, these tanks. where's the power generated? those solar panels and batteries. you know the limits and work with them. self-sufficient. a fantasy irl, but one of the most universal magic cores you can imbue a fantasy with. no man is an island, no man isn't offputtingly hard to grasp.
@whitequark@mastodon.socialpeople call the UK "TERF island" and while not exactly _wrong_ this doesn't reflect my experience of the day to day reality of living here
in my experience, nobody 'on the ground' gives a shit. cops, landlords, nurses, doctors, all of these had plenty of opportunity to be transphobic or interphobic and if they actually did it was rather well concealed
it's true that it is systemically and politically transphobic and GRCs are awful, but as someone who doe…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI think the root of the “AI” evil is when AI researchers in the 1960s recognized that they outrageously underestimated the complexity of the human mind.
They became humiliated by their promises that AGI was just a few years away—and then went full goblin mode that’s lasting to this day.
Some of the OG researchers took it quite badly that they stalled and weren’t in the limelight anymore.
‣ Marvin Minsky (co-founder of MIT AI lab and arguably the most important early AI bro) went on to visit Epstein’s island multiple times.
‣ Karl Steinbuch, who came up with the German term for computer science ("Informatik")—who also was a literal Nazi (and likely war criminal) in World War II—later wrote articles in ultra-right magazines about things like “equal rights rob women of their children”.
‣ John McCarthy (inventor of Lisp, co-authored document that coined the term “Artificial Intelligence”) was a staunch Republican who years later claimed (in a serious article) that “thermostats have beliefs”.
[one moment, I am receiving more information]
‣ There’s a second Epstein Island AI pioneer? Who also was Chief Learning Officer at… Trump University? That would be Roger Schank (founded one of the first AI companies in the 1980s AI boom, it even had an IPO. Of course the 1980s AI bubble burst).
Obviously all of the above received all the awards in computer science and are very revered people.
@pre@boing.worldDespite much opinion to the contrary, the government money we use is crappy.
I'm at bitfest in Manchester to find out if Bitcoin could be a better money.
It could hardly be worse.
The mood is still good, people are joking about recent devaluation rather than crying. Those who aren't all in are trying to buy more at the discount.
After an introduction by Mad Bitcoins, Joe Bryan explains the problem with government money.
He imagines an island on which two types of money are tried, with a dividing wall between them.
When economic problems hit, government can just print more money on the fiat side. Everyone now using money which is worth less. Distorting prices, inflating asset prices, making the rich (who hold assets) richer and the poor (who have to pay inflated prices) poorer. Driving wealth inequality.
On the hard money side, government must tax properly. Take in more from the rich rather than inflating to take it from the poor. Reducing wealth inequality.
On the government money side, the wealthy monitize houses, stocks, resources. Saving in money is impossible, its inflated away. So they save in assets and hording resources. Capital is misallocated. The youth can't afford houses. Poverty traps are caused. The only way out is printing more for benefits. Making it all worse. More economic crises, more printing. More government debt.
Eventually, the wall is broken. Government money people can save in the hard money instead. It reduces the value of government money further. More printing. More inflation.
Eventually, war. Funded by printed money.
The dollar is the best of a bad bunch all other government money is falling in value even faster.
I wonder, is bitcoin really this better money though? It's limited, hard, and can't be printed without energy investment.
I'm still unsure that fixing money fixes the world.
--
Note: "crypto" is mostly more like government money than bitcoin. It can be printed indefinitely by it's makers, does not cost it's makers to print. Crypto is usually just a scam people to get more bitcoin. Bitcoin is not crypto.
#bitfest #bitcoin
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineA US military tanker aircraft almost collided with a civilian plane near the island of Curaçao. The JetBlue plane, flying from Curaçao to New York, had to take evasive action and narrowly avoided a mid-air collision with the military aircraft, which had turned its transponder off. Irresponsible.
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.deEpic insights on the #semiconductor industry in #Taiwan. We’re on the second day of our workshop, with a heavy focus on walks.
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The industry came to the island in the freaking 1950s. Here’s a precious IBM machine, infamously transported by horse car 🐎 because trucks were to shaky…
@Carwil@mastodon.onlineThe Trump administration is not attacking the "excesses" of "woke" scholarship. They're at war with the very idea of power analysis, with the feeling of deep empathy with the oppressed, with ethical commitment to make a just world.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Extremely offline: what happened when Tonga was cut off from the internet by a volcanic eruption.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/30/tonga-pacific-island-internet-underwater-cables-volcanic-erup…
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialLet's see if I can score some cash from the #dotnet bug bounty. 😅
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Sunday mornings should include some relaxation, a good cup of coffee, and a tale of one man forging a legacy of independence. Today we present to you the story of American businessman Russell Arundel who, in 1949, claimed sovereignty over approximately 4 acres of Outer Bald Tusket Island, off the southern tip of Nova Scotia. After purchasing the island for $750, Arundel announced the principality of Outer Baldonia with its own charter, a flag, currency, passports, and an organized military that consisted of 69 fishermen (all Admirals). Citizens of the principality who caught a Bluefin tuna and paid a $50 fee were accorded the rank of prince. Government officials included Prince of Princes Russell Arundel, Chancellor Elson Boudreau, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Ron Wallace. The Canadian government mostly ignored the farce but an official Russian communication declared Outer Baldonia a fascist state.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://backyardhistory.ca/f/the-nova-scotian-island-that-declared-independence
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotChallenge: "Name 20 living female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 19: Alice Thompson
Another of Edinburgh's fine authors. She has written 9 novels of which I have read three.
Definitely do read BURNT ISLAND, it is just amazing. If you are faint-hearted however, you may want to avoid The Book Collector which was utterly terrifying.
#FemmeÉcrivain
@cheryanne@aus.socialThe Vanishing Of Vivienne Cameron
Vikki Petraitis co-wrote The Phillip Island Murder with journalist Paul Daley, the story that captivated Vikki from the moment she heard of it has had a similar effect on people worldwide...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustra…
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialYesterday we attended this very cool show. Nice stories and fascinating photos and videos. A great start into the weekend.
"Europas Hoher Norden | Unterwegs mit unserer eigens konzipierten „Rollenden Almhütte“. Eine Erkundung der interessantesten Gebiete rund um den europäischen Polarkreis. Unser neuer Vortrag, live präsentiert!"
h…
@seav@en.osm.town#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 5️⃣: Earth
Here’s a minimal isometric relief map of #Santorini. I haven’t been to #Greece 🇬🇷 but I definitely want to see Athens, and either Santorini or Mykonos. Maybe I …
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyOne winter night in the Netherlands, 2025...
Temperature here in Utrecht, at 9 p.m.: 13.8°C (57F).
@jby@ecoevo.socialCrater Lake this June, as seen from the parking lot of the Crater Lake National Park visitor center, which was still half-buried in snow
#naturalist
@smashtie@mas.toPlaying on the "Love Island" success disaster tragedy story, when two contestants have died after the show ... not a great look for me. But I love her dancing. Hmm. Just like Natalie, I'm torn. #strictly
@bourgwick@heads.socialwilliam burroughs's "a thanksgiving prayer" (1986), as rendered in mondo 2000 #3. https://archive.org/details/Mondo.2000.Issue.03.1991/page/n9/mode/2up
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThe new fence is basically done!!
Funny story that will hit home to anyone on Vancouver Island:
Two days ago the builders hadn’t added the new top section to the big gate in the back. A very large buck/deer jumped the fence and bent the wire so they had to try and bend it back out the best they could”
This is particularly funny for us because the other side, near the chicken coop (before it was there) the old fencing was bent from an over-eager bear trying to climb in.
Just mother nature ensuring balance, new and old, bent and unbent.
I am glad we are now bylaw-compliant for the #poolpond and the edibles should be out of the reach of the larger animals (racoons and birds and cats and squirrels and whatever other small creatures are inescapable)
The arbutus tree is now leaning against the fence. We'll see if it gets the message and grows in a more vertical kind of way naturally relieving stress from the fence, or if we might have to provide in a portal.
The most surprising part they managed to conquer was lifting the grape as high as they did! Very satisfied with that development!
#animals #garden #deer #PortAlberni
@cdarwin@c.imA political candidate in the New York City suburbs went for a night swim in the Atlantic Ocean this past spring -- and never returned.
Petros Krommidas’s phone, keys and clothes were found on the sands at Long Beach on Long Island.
The 29-year-old former Ivy League rower, who was training for a triathlon, had parked his car just off the picturesque wooden boardwalk.
As the months passed, local Democrats attempted to field a replacement to run for the seat in the Nassau Coun…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA book excerpt details Tonga's 2022 internet outage after a colossal underwater volcanic eruption ripped apart the cables connecting the country to the world (Samanth Subramanian/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems🎵 I am Gouverneur of the Coco-Island
🎵 Seeking golden treasury
(by Storm Seeker — unfortunately, doesn't seem available outside evil services)
#MusicRecommendation
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.sociali stayed in a hotel with an amazing view 25 years ago
@lilmikesf@c.im#OTD #LAWeekly's #NewWave Music Album Chart for this week in 1981...
Early 80's faves including #BowWowWow at #1, U2 's
@chiraag@mastodon.online
@laxsill@social.spejset.org
@UP8@mastodon.social🗿 A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil: What companies owe the Indigenous people they studied
https://theconversation.com/a-billion-dollar-drug-was-found-in-easter-i…
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialRT: Seth Harp @sethharpesq
Nov 1
The biggest capital outlay ever, for a product that no one will pay for.
OpenAI loses ten billion dollars a quarter. There is no path to profitability for subprime AI. These absurd data centers will stand sentinel over the ruins of our fake economy like moai on Easter Island.
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgMinor good news for libraries: "A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency"
IMLS is the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which funds leadership training and R&D in libraries in the US. A small % of library funding but important.
but I believe everyone is gone and grants cancelled so not sure what happens if funding returns-- who gets employed?
@arXiv_hepth_bot@mastoxiv.pageEntanglement Entropy and Complexity in Dyonic Quantum Black Holes
Sanhita Parihar, Gurmeet Singh Punia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05264 https://arxiv.org/p…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzSuspected Russian hacker reportedly detained in Thailand, faces possible US extradition https://therecord.media/russian-hacker-detained-thailand-possible-us-extradition
@servelan@newsie.socialAccording to Scaramucci, "Timothy Mellon gave $130 million to pay for the troops. It turns out that his dad, Paul Mellon, is all over the Epstein flight logs, back and forth to Epstein island."
Can of worms opened' as ex-Trump official flags 'Epstein connection you don't know about' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674278488/
@brichapman@mastodon.socialThe UN just honored five incredible climate leaders who are actually solving our biggest environmental challenges.
From Pacific Island students fighting for climate justice in court, to AI tools predicting Amazon deforestation, to sustainable cooling tech in India—these 2025 Champions of the Earth are proving innovation and determination can drive real change.
@Dragofix@veganism.socialK'gari's world famous lakes could be at risk of drying #environment
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
In July 1871, the City of Victoria officially became the capital of British Columbia, when the province joined the rest of Canada. At the time, the city was larger than Vancouver and had served as the most important settlement in the area for decades. The Colony of Vancouver Island also stamped their little feet and demanded that Victoria be designated as the capital in return for the island to join with the mainland to become part of Canada. Captain James Cook was the first British person to set foot on Vancouver Island in 1778, and in 1843, Fort Victoria was established by the Hudson's Bay Company. There is a long history of Vancouver Island serving as a naval base, and today, Victoria is the home of Canada’s Pacific Coast naval and military headquarters in nearby Esquimalt. Victoria is a top tourist destination and is regularly rated top 5 worldwide as an awesome place to live.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianCapitals
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victoria-bc
@stiefkind@mastodon.socialUnsere „sauberen“ Stromautos machen den Dreck halt vor fremden Haustüren: https://www.geo.de/wissen/-the-impact-of-nickel-mining-on-halmahera-island--von-mas-agung-wilis-yudha-baskoro_35584898-35584862.html…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA man named Bill DeBlasio, quoted in a Times story as ex-NYC mayor de Blasio, says he just played along in response to Times' email and used ChatGPT to respond (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/29/2025/british-newspaper-…
@padraig@mastodon.ie
@relcfp@mastodon.socialThe Devil at the Canadian Historical Association #acrel https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20129995/devil-canadian-historical-association…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"[On the Egyptian island of Pharos] There is in the precinct of Proteus a temple called the temple of Aphrodite Xenia (of the Stranger)."
Herodotus, Histories 2.112
🏛 Aphrodite Anadyomene from Ptolemaic Egypt made from faience, late 2nd century BCE.
#DayOfAphrodite
@primonatura@mstdn.social"World’s first Indigenous-led ocean reserve is one step closer to reality"
#Oceans #Environment
@emd@cosocial.caFabulous article about a teeeeeny island off Norway, and how they now distill whiskey: https://www.positive.news/lifestyle/community-spirit/
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Island:
🎵 Just That Time Of The Night
#NowPlaying #Island
https://island.bandcamp.com/track/just-that-time-of-the-night
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Ughw8OZKbTeKefMXmZ5es
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineDie #Klimakrise trifft #Island:
Erstmals wurden in Island #Mücken nachgewiesen. Drei Exemplare der kälteresistenten Art Culiseta annulata wurden im Westen des Landes entdeckt.
Durch di…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIntel unveils Crescent Island, a data center GPU designed for AI inference workloads, featuring Intel's Xe3P microarchitecture and 160GB of LPDDR5X memory (Dylan Martin/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/components-periph
@cdarwin@c.imTrump has moved to boost production of fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal.
This lawsuit is the latest legal action against the administration
amid its assault on clean energy policy and related funding and programs across the country.
The lawsuit filed in Rhode Island by the Rhode Island AFL-CIO labor organization and others
— including the public interest law center Rhode Island Center for Justice and the nonprofit Solar United Neighbors
— detailed …
@wrog@mastodon.murkworks.netMERCER ISLAND SCHOOL BOARD
Wow, you really do have to watch the downballot races. Mercer Island School Board has two (2) candidates (O'Callahan is and Gaspar) that are *both* software CTOs touting their "AI" credentials. Gaspar explicitly wants "free AI classes".
Here's a hint: The only "AI classes" that kids need are ones that teach them how to TURN ALL OF THAT SHIT OFF, and learn to think and write in their own words, not Chat-GPT'…
@cosmicray@mastodon.social
@timbray@cosocial.caGambier Island in Átl'ka7tsem/Howe Sound.
#Photography
@patrikja@functional.cafeAfter a few intense weeks — first at #icfpsplash25 in Singapore, then four days of interviewing candidates for tenure-track positions as part of the faculty appointment committee (Lärarförslagsnämnd) at the University of Gothenburg — I’m now in Budapest for (mostly) vacation.
Tomorrow (2025-10-27) I’ll give a talk at the local Type Theory Seminar (invited by Ambrus Kaposi). Looking f…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump has moved to boost production of fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal.
This lawsuit is the latest legal action against the administration
amid its assault on clean energy policy and related funding and programs across the country.
The lawsuit filed in Rhode Island by the Rhode Island AFL-CIO labor organization and others
— including the public interest law center Rhode Island Center for Justice and the nonprofit Solar United Neighbors
— detailed …
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotChallenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 17: Vicki Jarrett
So far she's published a couple of really good novels and a collection of short stories. She strikes me as the type of author who aims for quality, not quantity.
I adored her first novel "Nothing is Heavy", based on real life experiences in Edinburgh. Her other novel, "Always North" is an eco-thriller set in Svalbard, a Norwegian arctic island.
Both great…
@primonatura@mstdn.social @cdarwin@c.imA federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration to pay the full amount of November Snap food aid benefits to states within 24 hours
The Trump administration
‘failed to consider the harms’
in not supporting Snap, judge says in ruling that demands funds by Friday
The order was in response to a challenge from cities and nonprofits complaining that the administration was only offering to cover 65% of the maximum benefit,
a decision that would have …
@detondev@social.linux.pizza @Dragofix@veganism.socialNew Zealand's seas warming faster than global average: Report #NewZealand
@relcfp@mastodon.socialThe Devil at the Canadian Historical Association
https://ift.tt/pL6edNr
H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-12 on Fall, _Dien Bien Phu: Un coin d’Enfer_ H-Diplo Roundtable…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://
@jby@ecoevo.socialA swift little brown creeper, Certhia americana, on a cloudy San Juan Island morning
#naturalist
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialThe Architecture and Planning of Fascist New Towns in Sardinia
https://sah.org/2013/03/14/the-architecture-and-planning-of-fascist-new-towns-in-sardinia/
@cdarwin@c.imFor six weeks in 1842,
the Dorr Rebellion gave Rhode Island two governments,
each claiming to be the legitimate representative of the people.
By 1840, the only people who could vote in Rhode Island were 40 percent of the white males
– the ones who owned property.
The rural elite that ran Rhode Island was quite happy with the status quo. -- Many others weren’t.
Thomas Dorr was one of them.
Elected to the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1834,
h…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caOne of the absolute best things about #portalberni is the No7 Steam Train. It was under repairs for a few years and boy did we miss it but this year it has run on many weekends. It’s doing Santa runs along the waterfront and rail yard every Friday and Saturday afternoon and evening to Christmas!
#trains #rail #railfan #steam #logging #tourism #christmas #volunteer https://socialbc.ca/@vibyrail/115714553027370571
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Liber [Dionysos], falling in love with her, took her [Ariadne] from there [the island of Naxos] as his wife."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 43
🏛 Dionysos and Ariadne crowned, Etruscan Red-figure pottery, 4th century BCE, Krater from Civita Castellana, ancient Falerii, Rome province, Italy
@Dragofix@veganism.socialSumatra's flood crisis: How deforestation turned a cyclonic storm into a likely recurring tragedy https://phys.org/news/2025-12-sumatra-crisis-deforestation-cyclonic-storm.html
@cdarwin@c.imConstruction on the Vincent Thomas Bridge near the Port of Los Angeles is slated to begin next month,
but the project will not include a 26-foot bridge hoist that port officials were hoping for.
Port Executive Director Gene Seroka proposed raising the bridge earlier this year amid existing plans from the California Department of Transportation to re-deck the emerald green overpass connecting San Pedro to Terminal Island and Long Beach.
Raising the bridge would allow larger,…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioOh look, found a third "AI" pioneer who went to Epstein's island, Gerald Sussman.
This is the guy who was tasked by Minsky in 1966 to "solve computer vision" as a summer project. (We're still struggling with computer vision.)
@cdarwin@c.imMore than 60,000 penguins have starved to death off the coast of South Africa
as a result of collapsing sardine numbers, according to a new study.
From 2004 to 2011, more than 95 per cent of the African penguins on Dassen Island and Robben Island died.
Researchers said they probably died during the moulting period, the annual event where they replace all their feathers at once over a number of weeks.
The climate crisis and overfishing have been attributed to driving…
@cdarwin@c.imOn the Isles of Scilly, seagoing rowing gigs
—32-foot boats built from fine elm planks for strength and lightness
—once played a vital role in maritime life.
These boats carried pilots to ships navigating treacherous waters,
rescued lives and cargo from wrecks,
served in island farming and in coastal trades such as kelp making,
and supported the building and maintenance of lighthouses and other maritime infrastructure.
Though traditional gig rowing dec…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"How an invasion of purple flowers made Iceland an Instagram paradise – and caused a biodiversity crisis"
#Iceland #Environment #Biodiversity
@cdarwin@c.imAll of this *just* happened in two totally separate cases,
so be careful with differing stories about where things stand:
- TRO granted in the Rhode Island case (Judge Jack McConnell), but no written order yet.
- Trump admin was given until Monday to act in the Mass. case (Judge Indira Talwani).
https://
@cdarwin@c.imOn Friday, federal judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island issued rulings
that could soon bring relief to millions of Americans whose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are set to expire on Nov. 1,
requiring the Trump administration to fund the program, at least partially while the legal proceedings continue.
The SNAP program, commonly referred to as food stamps, is among many government programs affectedby the ongoing shutdown,
and has been one…
@cdarwin@c.imSupreme Court issues a stay,
with three dissenting
-- and Brett Kavanaugh separately
concurring to note
that hunger tends to be brief
https://bsky.app/profile/stevevladeck.bsky.social/post/3m53b7ge55k2l
@cdarwin@c.imHurricane Melissa hit three island nations with vastly different approaches to climate adaptation.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/30/hurricane-melissa-climate-change-caribbean-jamaica-cat-bond-us-aid/
