NATO members France and the Netherlands are moving big chunks of their gold reserves out of the US. To be prepared for crises, is their justification. What possible crises, you ask? This one, maybe? (yes, I think Trump would order to confiscate gold)

"Hundreds of Billions of Dollars was given to Ukraine and NATO, free of charge, that Europe would have paid for — If they were only asked, but we will be asking for that money, though somewhat belatedly!" — Donald Trump

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117207687594983323

Lest we forget what happened to us
Here is Gaza
😢💔🇵🇸
https://chuffed.org/project/146115-support-rawaa-and-her-familys-survival-in-gaza

@jpm to be fair, it would be easier than dealing with the trauma of taking them on a plane and dealing with the disapproval from fellow passengers.

It really depends on your kids though.

My parents took me across the Nullarbor twice before I was in school, first time some of it was still not sealed…

Both times in kombis

"Effective as of February 1, 2026, api.video subscriptions will no longer be available to businesses based in the United States"

LOL, thanks GDPR and OVH for prioritizing this.

https://chat.api.video/hc/help-center/articles/1785482100-changes-to-api-video-s-availability-for-us-businesses

@jeeynet @alainmi11 . Avec Linux ça marche en général parfaitement avec du matériel un peu ancien, genre de plus de deux ans. Avec Windows, le matériel fonctionne brièvement bien, jusqu'au moment où les drivers ne sont plus mis à jour, puis c'est foutu. il y a un genre de cercle vertueux qui fait que si tu récupère du matériel, il va fonctionner nickel sur Linux ad vitam.

Acab de fer la proposta amb les mesures #RAP al Participa de @SomEnergia.

A veure si la #cooperativa veu bé anar cap a una comunicació més saludable que no passi per fomentar i pagar a les plataformes socials privades.

Gràcies @titi per haver-m'ho fet fàcil!

👉https://participa.somenergia.coop/assemblies/digueslateva/f/60/debates/599

Cc @nuria @paukokura @xevhi

#SocialMedia #Meta #Instagram #Facebook #X #Fedivers #Mastodon

@chasehainey That's understandable, Wine took a lot of work too.

Shared infrastructure is how the #Fediverse can grow without recreating enshittified platform silos.

We’re excited to share that Bonfire is working with Mastodon on two critical areas of Fediverse infrastructure: remote media storage and automated content detection.

Built around open Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider (FASP) specifications, this work will help platforms connect to shared services instead of each having to build and operate the same capabilities alone.

Our aim is to make these capabilities open, interoperable, and available for any federated server to adopt.

A big thank you to @Mastodon@mastodon.social team for involving us in this work. We’re looking forward to building together and sharing what we learn along the way.

Read the full post: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bu...

#ActivityPub #FASP

"Politician X supports Israel; they must be getting paid/blackmailed by them."

"Politician Y supports Russia: they must be getting blackmailed/paid by them."

This is a common opinion I see going around, and I think it's somewhat naive because it excludes the much worse possibility: admiration.

Israel/Russia doesn't need to pay or blackmail politician X. Politician X sees that Israel/Russia is genociding brown/gay people. This is a policy that politician X admires and wishes they could implement at home.

@flaki It still works:

❯ doas nft -t list table inet iocaine | grep count
size 10000000 # count 665629
size 10000000 # count 488369
ip saddr @blocks_v4 counter packets 47556115 bytes 2851093524 drop
ip6 saddr @blocks_v6 counter packets 4097883 bytes 328292122 drop

The trick is it takes exactly 1 request to figure out they're bots, and they usually make much more than 1 request / ip. If I can block 99 out of 100 request, that's already a huge win.

Adding each of those IPs to an iptables table would, indeed, baloon, but that's what ipsets are for. My two ipsets are limited to 10m IPs each (one for IPv4, one for IPv6), the memory requirements are negligible. I currently have 675k/488k entries in each, and both lookup & insert are instant, and most of my incoming bot traffic gets dropped at the firewall.

This is why serving garbage is useful: makes it trivial to identify bot requests: did it hit a poisoned url? bot, firewall it off immediately. No need to collect stats, no complicated heuristics. A simple "does the request path contain the poison ID", a trivial substring match is all I need.

@duckwhistle @subcomandantecarpincho @Elizafox For example, take the Paramount merger that's going on right now. That merge is possible because the Ellisons can pile on an astronomical amount of debt, which is of course credit, they are buying a whole multi-billion dollar network on spec. Low interest rates make that possible, high interest rates make that deal a loser. I'm sure SOME bankers want to make more on the loan, but MOST rich ppl want to be like the Ellisons, cause they're not bankers.

📢 Avui, t'esperam a #Pollença als jardins del Convent de Sant Domingo, a partir de les 17 h!

Amb altres cooperatives, participarem a la fira #ConnexióCoop.

@mercatsocial.bsky.social @reasbalears @altrallum @arc_coop

#Coop #Cooperativa #Cooperatives #Coops #Mallorca

@duckwhistle @subcomandantecarpincho @Elizafox (to be clear Duck, I'm responding as much to the original question as your post - I realize you know this stuff already or you wouldn't have posted what you did to summarize it)

@duckwhistle @subcomandantecarpincho @Elizafox Also, as another poster pointed out - your mortgage is not a prime rate loan.

Think of it this way - the rich guys are not the banks, everyone here is at the end of the day ripping off the little guy - but low interest rates let the rich guys essentially keep more of the plunder, while the bankers get less. Either way tho, you're getting bled dry.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/17/construction-equipment-multinationals-may-aiding-israeli-war-crimes-experts

* The Guardian geolocated and verified images showing the Israeli military using excavators made by six companies – Caterpillar, Volvo, Hyundai, Doosan, Hitachi and Komatsu – to destroy homes, public utilities, shops and other structures across southern Lebanon.*

@ErikUden Sprache formt Denken. Wenn man ohnehin dazu neigt sich zu viel aufzuregen ist dieser Aktuelle Kommunikationsstil echt nicht angenehm.
Folgefrage: Ist es in der Polykriese falsch oder eventuell sogar notwendig so zu kommunizieren?

damn it, i just realized i missed the perfect opportunity to use ACTIVES in a sentence.

CC: @khm@hj.9fs.net

@esoteric_programmer Argentina during an inflation crisis caused by neoliberalism is where the term originates - but uh, it is universally applicable in the Pig Empire right now.