Piracy is back https://www.byteseu.com/1547001/ #Portugal

Africa is BIG

@Lana

German author Marc-Uwe Kling described this perfectly in his The Kangaroo Revelation.

“Whether it's left-wing or right-wing terrorism – I don't see any difference.”
“Yes there is,” cries the kangaroo, “right wingers set fire to foreigners, the others set fire to cars. And cars are worse, because it could have been mine. I don't own any foreigners.”

Jackson residents could find out Thursday whether they’ll be paying more for water bills.

A federal judge is set to make a decision about whether to allow JXN Water to raise utility rates by 12% in Mississippi’s capital city.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/jackson-water-rate-increase-decision-could-come-thursday/

RE: https://mastodon.uno/@slowsurf/115560870147874761

Questa è l’ennesima conferma che istanze italofone ben curate sono l’ambiente ideale per farsi conoscere e crescere rapidamente: una cosa quasi impossibile sui mega-social da milioni di utenti come mastodon.social, dove si finisce dispersi nel rumore di fondo.

E soprattutto dimostra che la dimensione di #MastodonUno è ideale: né troppo grande da diventare dispersiva, né troppo piccola da risultare isolata ma una comunità viva dove ci si supporta e si cresce insieme nel @fediverso

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/politics/rural-virginia-elections-electric-bills-democrats “incentivizes utility overspending, inflates utility profits, and puts disproportionate costs on residential customers” #Virginia #VAPol #inflation #energy #monopoly #SWVA #inequality

Ex-caliper

#3DPrinting

I dumped Google for my email & calendar a few months ago, but forgot to write a post about it!

If you are still using Google, consider leaving them. If Fastmail doesn't work for you there are other good alternatives.

https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/11/14/hello-fastmail-goodbye-google-workspace/

#google #email #fastmail

Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

60 Attorneys on the Year of Ch...

The thing I miss most about early forums: people actually wrote paragraphs. Today, if you see actual paragraphs, you have to wonder if it's just AI. Attention spans have shrunk from long and complex discourse which could run into several thousand words, to posts short enough that punctuation is optional.

We really have lost something.

The media seems to agree, Epstein has loosed the winds of change. But while AG Sulzberger's New York Times whines about the lose of a "clubby world", The Philadelphia Inquirer's Will Bunch welcomes "the whole thing crashing down."

gift article: https://share.inquirer.com/AujsRU (h/t @catsrule0000 on Bluesky)

"The timing couldn’t be better, or worse, for this midnight of the elites... an electoral bloodbath in the 2026 midterms is the best outcome Trump can hope for, on a list of dire possibilities."

If you or your contacts living in Mexico, or in any part of Central or South America, have cultural/scientific/folklore/family/artistic or any other thoughts on the poisonous plant family

DATURA

(including jemsonweed, brugmansia, moonflower datura, etc.), I would like to talk to you regarding possible publication. Please feel free to private message me.

Boosts appreciated for greater reach!

That is pure evil.

Let's be controversial: In modern #PHP, you should never type-hint an array.

https://peakd.com/php/@crell/php-never-type-hint-on-arrays