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POL-NI: Fahrlässige Brandstiftung durch Werfen von Böllern auf ein Feld Rinteln - Krankenhagen (ots) - (me) Am Donnerstag, 27.08.2026, gegen 19:40 Uhr, wird ein Feuer auf einem Feld in Höhe des Parkplatzes an der Silixer Straße in Krankenhagen gemeldet. Hierbei gerät ein angrenzendes Feld auf einer Fläche von ca. 50 ... https://www.

@… I know John cut his teeth in Pearl, Marco in PHP, and I'm not sure about Casey. I'm wondering for each of you, if you were launching a fairly complicated new site today, the type that needs a backend, no legacy code to deal with, what would you write the front end in and what would you write the backend in? React? Swift? Node? Your personal old reliable?

Organising conferences I've tended to do a call for full papers but it's always felt awkward. Like why require people to write 4 pages to apply to do a talk? Especially when it's unpaid work (sometimes even pay-to-speak), and when people generally don't just read out their paper anyway so the paper ends up fairly unrelated to the talk.. Like writing and speaking can be just very different things.
So I think for the next @…

POL-WHV: Unerlaubtes Entfernen vom Unfallort/ Fahrlässige Körperverletzung Wilhelmshaven (ots) - Am Samstag, 1. August 2026, ereignete sich gegen 14:20 Uhr auf dem Radweg der Hooksieler Landstraße zwischen Sengwarden und Hooksiel ein Verkehrsunfall zwischen zwei Fahrradfahrern. Bei der Kollision wurde eine Person ... https://www.

I was at a bizzare and confusing event today. Don't know if what I witnessed was a brazen con or a naïve offer. 😵‍💫
I'm fairly positive it was the former and the potential consequences really worries me. 😟
(Sorry to be coy; details are unimportant in this medium)
#concerned #confused #worried

POL-HK: Wochenendmeldung der PI Heidekreis zum Wochenende 21.08.-23.08.2026 Landkreis Heidekreis (ots) - Wintermoor In der Nacht von Freitag zu Samstag hebelten Unbekannte die Tür des Feuerwehrgerätehauses in Wintermoor auf. Es wurde ein Feuerlöscher entwendet. Hinweise zu der Tat sowie möglichen Tätern nimmt die ... https://www.

Just finished "Nell O'Dell Hates Quests" by Emily B. Martin. Quite a cozy fantasy story overall, with wonderful illustrations by the author herself.
I was worried to see a goblin on the cover and figured that even parodies of classic fantasy tropes usually end up being fairly racist in nature due to the standard fantasy races' racial alignments being thinly veiled eugenecist ideas, but I was pleasantly surprised to find Martin not just doing the "this is the one good goblin" trope but actually taking on racial alignments fairly thoroughly.
The flaws she gave her heroine were believable and well-grappled-with, and although the resolution was a bit too liberal for my tastes, the part about the internship was great. There was one facet of the ending that really bothered me, though. I was prepared to accept-but-not-like a "government is reformed somewhat" ending, but it ended up way more uncomfortable than that. I'll post a follow-up with spoilers about details.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

Semi-subtoot: there's a certain kind of anti-genocide narrative that draws comparisons between the Gaza genocide and the genocide of Jews, queer, and disabled people during WW2, with an incredulous overtone, the subtext of which is: if the good nations invaded Germany to stop the Nazis' evil in WW2, it's hypocritical for this nations not to take action to protect Gazan civilians now. There are a couple of problems with this line of reasoning, but the most obvious from an anarchist perspective (which sees "good nation" for the oxymoron it is) is that it's ahistorical. The reasons for the various allies' entrance into WW2 are varied, but they weren't about good and evil, and in fact the full depth of the evils of the Holocaust *was not known* in allied countries until after the war. Nations never really do things to "fight evil" like some humans might; they always act out of a kind of (imperfect) self-interest. The motivations for many of the allies were simply "we don't want Germany to conquer and destroy us" (and the imperfection in that motive is amply evident in the appeasement that preceded the war). America was of course not swayed by that motive, and it was the Japanese that (thinking the issue would have to come to a head eventually and that a surprise attack was worth speeding it up) put America in a situation where it joined for similar reasons.
Why is this extra relevant right now? Because neither the US nor any European country is existentially threatened by Israel (or threatened at all in fact, quite the opposite they're all benefiting economically from the situation in Gaza). The lesson of history isn't "brave, good nations will stand up to fight against anyone who commits genocide or other major evils", it's "nations act in their narrow and twisted and often mistaken self-interest (the interest of the national entity, which is often counter to the interest of it's citizens), and they always mythologize their actions after the fact as having been a fight against evil, which sometimes by luck is partially true."
To double down on this point: in the European theater the U.S. war actions were pretty good overall, defeating an evil opponent through military force and being a fairly gracious victor to the civilian populations there. In contrast, in the Pacific theater the U.S. was one of two evil empires duking it out for global dominance at the expense of civilians on both sides. The Japanese empire was a vile regime and perpetrated horrors in China, Korea, and across southeast Asia. The U.S. was barely better, between Japanese internment camps at home, and mass targeting of civilians on Japan, both with the firebombing of Tokyo and especially the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
So if your model of how we stop genocide is "convince the good guys to invade (or exert political pressure) and save the day", your model is wrong. That's not what happened in WW2. I'm not confident I know the perfect solution, but I do think it involves a mass of people making increasingly disruptive protest so that the cost *to rich companies and thus politicians* of falling to intervene is too high to stomach. That's a large part of what succeeded in South Africa, for example. Thankfully, there is already a vibrant protest movement to end the genocide in Gaza, and even though they haven't been fully successful yet, I'm optimistic that as things naturally (and through hard work) fall apart for various fascists politically, that movement will be able to succeed.
#gaza #genocide