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Here is the #Ushakov / #Dmitriev call after Dmitriev met with #Witkoff & #JaredKushner in Miami for 2½ days.

The following is a transcript of an Oct. 29 phone call between #YuriUshakov, Vladimir #Putin’s most senior foreign-policy adviser, & #KirillDmitriev, an economic adviser to the Russian president.

https://archive.ph/2025.11.26-120441/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-25/putin-advisers-discuss-plans-for-dealing-with-trump-transcript

#Trump #PutinsPuppet #geopolitics #Russia #Ukraine #Europe #NATO #alliance #StandWithUkraine

@JonathanGerlach @bigzaphod 😳

Oh, is that all?

1/n Yesterday on @chris I commented (https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/115612771113881465) about the #PostSecondary review announced by the #BCNDP.

Today, on #socialBC I want to do a summary thread on this 145 page “State of Post Secondary in Canada 2025”.

https://higheredstrategy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/SPEC-2025_web_v1.pdf

I am grossed out by its AI fanboying -- a statement on the "state" of education in itself -- but the data is good... so... onward.

cc: @josie_osborne @mlabotterell @votetanille @emilylowan
#BCPoli #CanPoli #Education #University

As an aside, the Vikings were literally so cool. Absolutely no shame in naming themselves things like that. The Anglo Saxon kings were naming themselves things like "Edward the Martyr", it's no wonder they lost to guys calling themselves "The Boneless".

@Alice I think one follow-up here is: Is it a bad thing to look like swingers?

@MicroSFF hell yeah!

See also, for practical advice: https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/The-Care-We-Dream-Of
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115616817898336105

#TrumpRegime #USPolitics #Affordability

@Tutanota
I really enjoyed how you built tension in this scene. The pacing feels natural and engaging. i will love to know more.

What an odd way to end the pursuit.

This started as a restraining order violation. Why did the driver head to the El Monte police station?

@shapr I tried their Mini Trackball a while ago, that was sadly very disappointing in multiple ways.

The long buttons were awkward, and felt terrible, so did the side button, and the 3D printed frame looked rather sad too.

But I liked what they're trying to do, so when they announced the Adept, I knew I had to get one. Eventually got one through $work, and oh my, it is good. The buttons are solid, the frame looks and feels great, its tilt is almost perfect.

It does lack a scroll ring or scroll button (you can scroll with button + wheel, but I don't like chording, and so far, have been too lazy to flash new firmware onto it), so I bought a Knob to go along with it.

Turns out, having the Adept on the right or in the middle, between my Model100 halves, and the Knob on the left is very convenient. I can mouse with one hand, and scroll with the other! When I'm reading something long, this is incredible.

The growing concentration of content on the #substack platform is alarming.

@SRAZKVT @lanodan i think labor rights is a unifying framework for what copyleft represents, and labor struggle plugs into a wider understanding of rights, because a laborer can require that their labor not be employed to harm users. i think not connecting and showing solidarity with other groups is a weakness of the current movement

@MelkyWay Oh COOL!! I've seen this a few times but not quite that obviously!

This used to be a fantastic website for learning about all these atmospheric optics phenomena, but doesn't seem to be very well maintained anymore... but there's still some good info you just have to dig a little more https://www.atoptics.org.uk/tfarc.htm

@heiseonline sei der/die/das erste, der sich von Amazon komplett abmeldet.

@ebrehault non ça marche ici