Me, reposted from Bluesky
Righto, we had 50 years of state sanctioned child abuse, we had a former Minster of Immigration under investigation for sexual abuse of children, we have the former Act party pres. convicted of sexual abuse, we had a collection of top police men covering for sex offenders, we had cops making false breathalyser reports.
I mean, we're not all paedophiles preying on the general populace from positions of power, but maybe we need a cold, hard, look in the societal mirror.
Note: it is not drag queens or women doing this stuff so maybe men should take the longest, coldest look.

This post from the President of Windows basically reads like someone trained an LLM on those SF billboards that just say incomprehensible nonsense.

Against the Pyramids of Giza, Vhils’ new etched portrait installation is a monument to the everyday.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/vhils-doors-of-cairo-portraits/

#art #portrait

One of the strongest characters in any #scifi from one of the best science fiction TV series in the last 20 years.

Camina Drummer gives a rousing motivational speech to her belter (citizens of the asteroid belt) crew.
Cara Gee is an amazing actor, so chill and mellow IRL. She totally owns every scene she is in.

She is about to take her (stolen) colony ship through the jump gate into the unknown and everyone is scared. I would totally follow her 🫡

"Belta Lawda" means 'Belters Together' in Belter Creole, a mix of English, Chinese, Russian and other languagrs early space workers used to communicate, its a rallying cry.

"Nothing in the void is foreign to us.
The place we go...
... is the place we belong! " /shivers
BELTA LAWDA!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yfOmQ0Zln6Y

#beltalawda #theexpanse

Apropos of nothing, this is a project I started some time ago. Due to the community’s lack of interest and financial support, I kind of stopped…just testing the waters for it again.

https://codeberg.org/IDEmacs/IDEmacs

IDEmacs aims to be a set of #Emacs configurations which provide an out-of-the-box experience similar (if not identical) to popular GUI IDEs and editors.

It is aimed at…

1. Programmers coming to Emacs from other IDEs, or even first-time programmers familiar with only office applications.

2. Beginner #CommonLisp and #Scheme programmers, who need the functionality of Emacs (Sly/Geiser + structural editing) without having to perform unnecessary setup and without dealing with an alien style of keybindings. In other words, similar to Portacle or Guile Studio.

3. Non-programmers who want a fully-featured #Org, #Markdown, or #LaTeX editor with idiomatic shortcuts and mouse-friendly GUI.

It aims to provide…

1. GUI and mouse support, in addition to a keyboard-driven interface.

   • Unlike most starter kits, we do not hide GUI elements by default.

   • We support configuration via the custom GUI, not just Elisp

   • If resources allow, we may implement new GUIs in Emacs

2. Keybindings that follow popular GUI and IDE conventions.

   • CUA mode is just the start - much more keybinding configuration is needed to provide an unsurprising experince. And that’s before we even get to the IDE-specific keybindings.

   • This excludes starter kits that use Evil by default, such as Spacemacs or Doom.

3. A fully-featured, fast, and configuration-free Emacs experience, like any starter kit/distro.

   • The configuration uses idiomatic Elisp and contains a generous amount of comments, valuable to anyone interested in learning to configure Emacs using Elisp.

Perfectly imitating the GUIs and subtle behaviour differences of IDEs is desirable, but not top priority. Given our limited resources, we aim for “good enough”.

We hope this gives new users a comfortable starting point, and make them more likely to stick around to discover the possibilities of Emacs’ malleability, rather than being driven off by the default experience.

#contraCodes #Lisp #EmacsLisp

No dia 3/12, Brasília sedia o 1º @websocialbr – Fórum do #Fediverso Brasileiro, evento que reunirá administradores de comunidades, gestores, parlamentares, pesquisadores e comunicadores para trocar experiências e fortalecer as redes federadas no Brasil. Inscreva-se e divulgue: https://websocial.org.br
Presenças confirmadas:
@liaamancio @evan @josemurilo @j12t @gutocarvalho @kariboka @aracnus @skarnio @Damny @navigator @ana @marcoamarelo @wladimir #VemProFediverso!

#MikkelBjørn 📵 Hvis man har nok i fordomme, tager man ikke telefonen når fakta ringer.

🔍 Klima og økonomi - ikke islam - forklarer skolemaden.
💭 Men nuancer passer deres politik dårligere.

#DF #dkpol
https://www.tjekdet.dk/faktatjek/er-islamiske-normer-og-halal-indfoert-i-koebenhavnsk-folkeskoles-madordning

Even limiting global warming to between 1.6 and 1.8C would require far stronger policies to reduce fossil fuel emissions than those currently adopted by governments - which would otherwise allow the world to heat by at least 2.7°C, says PIK Director Johan Rockström at #COP30. 👇
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/11/leading-scientist-says

life is an endless parade of apologizing for the delay until you die

The video for my TalosCon 2025 keynote, "The Complexity of Simplicity", is now up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cum5uN2634o

Slides:

https://speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/the-complexity-of-simplicity

Introduction Post
Hello!
I'm a writer of queer romance, sci-fi and fantasy, under the name Becky Black. Been on Mastodon since November '22 and recently migrated over to Wandering Shop.

You can find all my information about my books at my website here: https://www.beckyblackbooks.com/home

If you knew me from even earlier, back when I was fanfic writer Junkfoodmoney, I still have a site for my fanfic. Find that here: https://www.junkfoodmonkey.net/home

#Illinois Gov #JBPritzker says he’s worried how #Trump might respond to the growing controversy over his ties to #Epstein.

“My great fear, of course, is that with the release of that information, which I think will be devastating for Trump, he’s going to do everything in his power to distract. What does that mean? I mean, he might take us to #war with #Venezuela just to get a distraction in the news & take it out of the headlines.”

[we’re all worried about that JB]
https://apnews.com/article/pritzker-trump-reaction-epstein-files-distraction-280eb69c80aee902b3ed6d712c79f332

The Tech Review article mentioned by @kissane is worth reading in its entirety:

It outlines how many clickbait actors spread dangerous misinformation and fake news not so much out of malicious intent but entirely from a banal profit motive. (Of course there are propaganda actors too who use those methods).

And
“It’s going to get worse,” she says. "Any Joe in the world could be affecting your information environment without you realizing.”

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/20/1039076/facebook-google-disinformation-clickbait

@Nonilex unfortunately, this seems likely. Shortly after the Associated Press published this, CBS reported that the administration is actively considering escalating conflict with Venezuela.

Extralegally, of course.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-venezuela-military-options/

@lauren @melissadancey

The butterfly effect is a bitch. It's basically impossible to interact with the timeline before your birth without keeping yourself from being born. In _A Sound of Thunder_... after the first trip to the Cretaceous humanity would never have evolved.

I think Charlie Stross's "Palimpsest" is the only novel I can recall that takes this seriously.

RE: https://mas.to/@mikegalsworthy/115538451291958790

Important - Need To Know 👇