“There are those who still measure belonging by surname, place of birth, or skin color. Others measure it by our roots in a country and our will to contribute to it. Spain belongs to those who love it and work for it. Not to those who shame it with xenophobic statements.”
I get that politicians want to avoid saying bad things about their political opponents when they die, but you know you could just say nothing instead of putting the spotlight on how you had "shared values" with assholes.
Grid-scale sodium ion batteries have gone from being hypothetically viable to being cheap in two years.
https://electrek.co/2026/07/10/byd-masdar-11-gwh-rtc-storage-abu-dhabi/
FBI firing analysts who won’t join Patel’s witch hunting in Georgia, plus more on the ongoing effort to disrupt the midterms. https://www.ms.now/news/fbi-kash-patel-trump-georgia-2020-election
"silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self"
Welcome to #TransTuesday!
It’s exactly six years to the day that I publicly came out! So that means it’s time for my SIX YEARS OUT AND ON HRT RETROSPECTIVE!
I cover all the physical, emotional, and other changes from the past year, and peep that new timeline pic!
https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2026/07/07/six-years-out-and-on-hrt-check-in/
ICYMI: A Grand Canyon river rafting guide who aimed to become the first American woman to row across the mid-Pacific solo has completed a record-breaking journey from California to Hawaii. She *beat the men's record by eight days* as well as the women's!
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/05/us/american-solo-rowing-hawaii
Hey, @staff, why are you hiding the profile of one of Gaza Verified’s team? (@rania40)
Can we please get full transparency on how this happened and who approved it and why?
CC @casey
#GazaVerified #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
Il “Conte Spazzatura” avanti nei sondaggi, trema Farage: le elezioni farsa rischiano di farlo cadere
https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2026/07/12/news/count_binface_farage_sondaggi_elezioni_regno_unito_brexit-425466247/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Notizie dal mondo - la Repubblica @notizie-dal-mondo-la-repubblica-repubblica
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@ArtisanalPortents/116852226391726342
It’s on #CosocialCa so whatever it is, it must be Canadian. I was puzzled at the bold-face effect and (relatedly) why you can’t search for any of the “portents”. Sleazy #Unicode trickery FTW I guess.
@timbray@cosocial.ca
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Kozfest latest
Latest information for Kozfest has landed – we’re on at 6pm on the Sunday. Our old pals Mugstar and Cardinal Fuzz / Feeding Tube label mates Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders also feature that day. More info and ticket sales at The Electric Salad Co.
I don’t think I realized exactly how much of my love of making art was sapped from me with AI.
It’s not like I intentionally made that choice, it just felt like I couldn’t share my work anymore.
I didn’t want it to be fed into AI to train it. So I stopped sharing, but then I stopped making too.
Wall Street Can’t Ignore the $3 Trillion Saudi-UAE Rift
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-07-12/why-wall-street-can-t-ignore-saudi-uae-rift?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Economics @economics-bloomberg
Wife wakes up before I do and more often than not she drapes her bare breasts repeatedly across my face until I wake up. It's absolutely fantastic and the highlight of my day. Not really a confession, I just wanted to tell someone.
@Em0nM4stodon Hire a Human Artist… Ha HA!
Are you attending #emfcamp and want an ncurses-style interface to keep an eye on proceedings? No I didn't think so...
Here's one anyway: https://github.com/cablespaghetti/emfdash
@markwyner hey! That's around the corner for me. And yes, this are really good olives.