I've always hated owning a printer, but yet love reading and working on paper.

Everything about the experience of owning one has been terrible and the design held back by adversarial behavior against the user.

The open hardware Open Printer feels very different, designed from first principles to be easy to assemble, maintain, and repair, ensuring longevity 😍

🖨️ https://www.opentools.studio
💸 https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer

Just another monday

A grumpy #squid on a Greek #fish plate from Apulia, dating 330-300 BC.

Fish plates were decorated with various examples of seafood. They were invented in Athens in the 5th c. BC. Most of them are found in Southern Italy, where they were produced in the 4th c. BC.

📷 Kestner Museum Hannover/C. Tepper

Asteroid Torifune captured by Hayabusa2

https://www.jaxa.jp/press/2026/07/20260706-3_j.html

#Torifune #Hayabusa2 #space #science #news #astrodon

Just an FYI to real folks - I seem to be experiencing a bit of a burst of impersonating social media accounts out there. Please be cautious if you get a friend/follow request or message from (fake) me. Sigh.

🔗 Ketan Joshi analysed Google's latest sustainability report, and yes, energy consumption went up (a lot).

Adding up the numbers, Joshi concludes it's not because of manual Gemini use, it's because Google's search engine shows AI results by default https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/googles-exponential-path-to-climate-wrecking-digital-bloat/

@kenobit non vedo l'ora di leggerlo!

Did you know that the European mole (Talpa europaea) has a toxin in its saliva which paralyses earthworms, their favourite food? The moles may then store the paralysed earthworms in special 'larder' chambers within their burrows, where they are kept alive and fresh until later consumption. These larders have been reported to contain many hundreds of earthworms at a time!

When it's time to visit their pantry for a snack, these moles have a clever trick to make sure they don't consume all the unpleasant soil stuck inside the paralysed earthworm's guts... by rolling the earthworm between their powerful front paws, they forceably squeeze the soil out of the worm, making their meal much less gritty!

#SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #TheWorldBeneathOurFeet #MacroFauna #Nature #MacroPhotography #NaturePhotography

Days without cat/bird incident: 1.

And so a new era begins.

Realizing more and more how modern-day AI taps into some very old urges.

So many would like "unsurpassed mastery without any effort", and would summon a demon to get it.

Latest comic: Future historians baffled by Slop-henge

#environment #climatechange #technology #corporations #DataCenters #pollution

South Korea Looks to Invest Bumper Taxes from AI Profit Boom
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-07-06/south-korea-looks-to-invest-bumper-taxes-from-ai-profit-boom?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Korea @korea-bloomberg

I bought a licence for WinRAR.

Siemens just revised its projections for its annual sales of fossil fuel power for data centres upwards by a huge amount.

So now, the annual emissions from yearly additions of new gas are about equivalent to adding one new Pakistan to the world each year.

https://www.spglobal.com/energy/en/news-research/latest-news/electric-power/063026-siemens-energy-lifts-global-gas-turbine-outlook-on-data-center-demand?_sc=MTA0OTY5MjQjMTM3OTQ%3D

@frost tror att vi är förkylda för så här töntiga är vi ju inte?!

Alembic are some of my favorite co-conspirators. Beyond their deep expertise in Ash they are just invested and knowledgeable in the ecosystem. They care deeply and provide a lot of maintainer hours.

Look out for James Harton's robots and Rebecca Le unfurling the Elder Scrolls during this Goatmire.

https://goatmire.com/sponsor/alembic

#elixir #goatmire

New blogpost:

"Being excited still about technology in 2026"

Some notes from a bit of navel-gazing over the weekend, as I wondered if I was actually still interesting in, or excited by, technology.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/07/being-excited-still-about-technology-in-2026/

#blog #linux #postmarketos #solar #selfhosting

This much rain.

@kenobit pensi a un'architettura collettiva (tipo un tunecamp di Livello Segreto) oppure a un'architettura individualizzata (tipo ogni astista si fa il proprio serverino federato)? So che l'una cosa non esclude l'altra, ma mi piacerebbe studiare un modello sostenibile e vorrei capire tu che ne pensi.

While most of the souls in Hell have checked in but can't check out, on rare occasions the Abode of the Damned admits a temporary visitor.

#MythologyMonday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Fire_Mountain

@rolle @ikkeT @mustikkasoppa Onnea uudelle yhdistykselle! ❤️