The Opening Trade 10/13
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-10-13/the-opening-trade-10-13-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Hihi, ik ben wel lekker wakker, maar dat betekent niet dat ik geen uitstelgedrag vertoon, hè? 🤭
Nou, ik mag dan wel wat uitstelgedrag hebben vertoond, maar ondertussen ben ik nu al langs de apotheek geweest, heb ik een stukje gefietst, twee ladingen was gedraaid, de keuken schoongemaakt, en het vuil en de GFT weg gedaan. Dus volgens mij heb ik het wel goed gemaakt. En dan ga ik nu verder met de was, want ik ben nog niet klaar. Er moet nog een lading beddengoed doorheen…
In retrospect, the naming scheme where rooms are named after MS products gets somewhat confusing around that specific room
time to move all my meetings to Clippy
@halcy we have rooms named after ships from “the expanse” but I always call one of them “naboo” (where jar jar binks is from in Star War 1)
@davidgerard Trans clinical study published
Amateur sports exhaust installation night has started, I guess.
Bluesky has apparently discovered Brassica oleracea once again and that’s seems to be the main character today
Something to add to the mute words list
Meet the female codebreakers of Bletchley Park
Deciphering enemy code during the second world war was arguably the first role for women in tech
by Suzanne Bearne (from the archives)
https://www.theguardian.com/careers/2018/jul/24/meet-the-female-codebreakers-of-bletchley-park
Time for all the efforts to converge on RISC-V I guess?
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/intel_open_source_commitment/
It’s how humans have always lived – together
For 200 years, capitalism, for the last 40 years #neoliberalism, told us that we’re isolated individuals who compete to survive. But our actual history - and our biology - say the opposite: we’re interdependent, social, and ecological beings. For almost all of this time we...
Federation Bot
Falls wer gern einen Impftermin (Influenza & Covid19) hätte, ab Mittwoch gibts eine Aktion: https://wien.orf.at/stories/3325529/ #wien
@zzt Nah, the most programmer brained thing is the idea of making a slur an option in the installer.
When they get their 'Wilber Foundation' set up, hopefully someone can get them to stop dying on this hill, probably some brand manager from a prospective corporate sponsor.
The fact they're not trying for 'GIMP Foundation' shows they're somewhat aware that it's a shit name.
The Green Party of England and Wales has today announced that its membership has surged past 100,000 members, the highest in the Party’s history. This marks over a 45% increase since Zack Polanski was elected Leader of the party last month.
The news comes as the recent polling shows Greens on 15% nationally, their highest-ever figure, and just two points behind both Labour and the Conservatives.
The announcement comes just one week after the Greens announced they had a bigger membership than the Liberal Democrats. Since then, it has been shown that the Liberal Democrats’ membership is actually just 60,000, and the Greens have grown an additional 17,000 in a week.
Green Party Leader Zack Polanski said:
More than 100,000 people have now joined the Green movement, that’s 100,000 people who believe politics can be honest, fair and hopeful again.
When I was elected Leader last month, I said that we’re not here to be disappointed with Labour but that we’re here to replace them. I was serious. Because while Labour talks about change, people can see in their weekly shop, their utility bills and crumbling services, Labour are offering more of the same.
The Greens are the only real opposition left in British politics. Standing up for fair taxes, a liveable planet, and a future where compassion and courage matter more than corporate interests. People are understandably disillusioned, but we are here to make hope normal again.
Under Polanski’s leadership, the Party has seen a wave of new members, driven, in part, by growing frustration with the other parties’ failure to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, the climate emergency, and the collapse in trust in politics.
The record-breaking membership figures follow the Greens’ recent electoral success in local and parliamentary elections, alongside growing national visibility from high-profile media appearances, including Polanski’s BBC Question Time performance, which sparked widespread praise online.
Polanski added:
This milestone shows that people are ready for something new. The old two-party system is broken. The Green Party is growing because we speak to the real challenges of this moment. Because we still believe that politics can be a force for good. The message is simple: if you want courage, integrity and hope, come join us.
The Green Party is now preparing for major autumn campaigns focused on fair taxation, and the cost-of-living crisis, as Labour scramble to present another austerity budget.
Sarah chooses death. on purpose while freshly turned. She says 'Forever? No.'
that choice fractures the whole system. It's the first refusal Miriam has ever encountered. her power depends on emotional dominance, not just blood and Sarah’s autonomy undoes her
@Taweret this makes way too much logical sense for what I just watched
Never create spaces for nazi apologists.
The end.
and don't back down.
Oh, do we get a tender and juicy moment with Annoying Tom? #monsterdon
@decryption credit rating agencies? [laughs in GFC]
We're watching The Hunger tonight for #Monsterdon and it has David Bowie and Susan Sarandon, and like...vampires or something. It's the 80's so probably a lot of leather jackets and boobs.
Me: I'm just watching this so I can ogle David Bowie
Greg: Fair enough
For new followers, Monsterdon is a weekly thing where we all watch the same movie toghther, and make cracks about about it. It starts at 6pm PDT (two hours from now), and the movie is free on Tubi (see link).
OAIC has provided guidance on the privacy obligations for teen socmed ban age checks. They're much clearer and more detailed than anything eSafety has provided, once again demonstrating that OAIC is a place filled with serious grownups doing real work, not children playing dressups like some other agencies I could mention.
I note that the privacy requirements are pretty onerous, which in some ways is good. But it shows that people are right that small, low-risk platforms are disproportionately affected by this kind of blanket "no teens allowed" ban, like we said all along, despite the mendacious protestations of certain proponents of this nonsense.
