the politics of Comfort

Kaikille varmaan tulee jättiyllärinä tieto, että puheet Suomen poikkeuksellisen korkeasta kokonaisveroasteesta ovatkin paskaa.

https://www.sak.fi/blogit/vaestollinen-huoltosuhde-ja-kokonaisveroaste-antavat-liian-synkan-kuvan-suomen-tilanteesta/

#Politiikka #Verotus

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-africa/article/2026/09/26/ethiopia-slides-back-into-war-who-is-involved-and-why_6757974_124.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@caly 😂

@mntmn I maintain a custom one personally for merging my https://github.com/suliveevil/emacs-achievements/ data together from multiple machines automatically

As I pointed out yesterday, @netblocks confirmed region wide comms outages in Tigray yesterday.

HRW and the UN were able to use phones and the internet to contact sources and compile the data for these reports. But it will become increasingly difficult going forward for journalists and human rights investigators.

There is reason to fear for civilians, and you can expect an effort to weaponize the blackout to ensure suffering remains undocumented.

https://dair-community.social/@ZekuZelalem/117329108621364702

124 ympäristöaktivistia surmattiin viime vuonna – valtaosa uhreista on alkuperäiskansojen jäseniä ja pienviljelijöitä

124 ympäristöaktivistia surmat...

Second, in a statement today, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk expressed "alarm" at the grave danger civilians have been put in as a result of the breakout of war.

Per Mr. Türk, the Ethiopian airforce carried out strikes that hit five schools on Tuesday alone. A day later, an Ethiopian army mortar strike killed civilians in the city of Kobo in the Amhara region, where the alliance of Tigrayan and Amhara rebels is believed to have a presence.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/09/ethiopia-turk-alarmed-civilian-impact-hostilities-urges-de-escalation

In other words: I'll be in Germany (likely mostly around Münster & Frankfurt) mid to end of November. If any Masto folks, eg from the #OpenStreetMap #Codeberg #CoMaps cosmos, want to grab a drink or bite, give a shout. ☕

idk who made this, but my dad sent me this, and this is PEAK funny

if you'd like to see more urbanism videos from Singapore and beyond, make sure you check out "tehsiewdai" on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/@tehsiewdai

RE: https://beige.party/@MedeaVanamonde/117310299738416389

Don’t know when they are going to come pounding on my door yet bit they are coming

The tech oligarchs are rallying around Elon Musk to block a filmmaker from advertising a deeply reported documentary that lays bare what a slimy -- and dangerous -- person Musk is. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/elon-musk-documentary-trailer-rejected-tiktok-youtube-1236710259/

(Meanwhile, Corporate Journalism continues to support him. Of course.)

@djsundog Also let's not pretend that these real-life electronics were anything less than sick as hell aesthetically.

@window yeah I also assume it's safe, but that is not from any knowledge of how the IP is actually being tracked down in Germany. Like are they doing anything where they look thru spesific ports or routes or like what exactly is their method for catching torrent users these days

Family tech support:

* old laptop decrappified and updated. Four versions of macOS out of date, which is odd as is was set to do automatic updates. I have not taken it apart to work out why the trackpad doesn't work, and thank goodness for keyboard navigation while I got the external mouse working.

* new laptop set up, and migration complete.

* phone updated.

* tablet needs replacing.

That should tide them over for a few months.

@jt_rebelo @IAAA lol quite, quite.

@dentangle The condescension when they think you need things explained is just as bad.