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Here I am with my telephoto lens looking for birds to photograph and can't find one anywhere.
Photo of Harris's Hawk by my friend Linda near Bosque del Apache NWR. This photo was used on the cover of their visitor magazine years ago. Thought you might enjoy seeing it.
Everyone's afraid of something.
I absolutely love this:
Zelenskyy has invited American right wing conspiracy nutter Laura Loomer to Kyiv, and she is now reporting how Putin has bombed the Pechersk Lavra monestary — right back to the religious groups that support Trump and now must be wondering what side Trump is on.
"Are we the baddies?!?!"
@randahl 🤯
The Department of Justice is reportedly planning to drop charges against Matthew Goettsche, who ran a crypto Ponzi scheme that bilked $722 million from investors he described as “dumb” and “sheep”, after he hired Trump-linked lawyers to lobby for legal relief.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has granted final approval to USDC stablecoin issuer Circle to operate as a national trust bank. Comptroller Jonathan Gould previously represented Circle as a client when he was a partner at Jones Day.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
@miss_rodent @davidgerard I contextualize it with the US far right's fear of left-wing student activism, conceived in the 1960s and early 1970s: hence turning education into a mandatory requirement for employment while front-loading it with undischargable debt, combined with enshittification of the public education system (so that only elite schools, for the rich, provide a decent civics/social education). Then insist that tech = progress and you need IT button-pushing skills instead of history.
@cstross @davidgerard Yeah, sounds about right. It definitely aligns with the gutting of public education (both worsening public schools, and the imposition of tuition costs to universities) to create an ignorant controllable underclass and an educated powerful elite - and serves to ascribe magical powers to the elite, in a way analogous to what god-kings and divine right to rule use to accomplish.
OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents
https://github.com/onecli/onecli
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023427
#HackerNews #OneCLI #OSS #credential #gateway #AI #secrets #security #open-source
Alright, sent an email to the head of my local library about setting up a seed library there.
Seeds libraries are places you can go and "check out" seeds. Grow the seeds. Let one of the grown plants go to seed. Harvest the seeds. Then "return" the seeds back to the seed library!
Free seeds!!!!
Check and see if you have a seed library near you: https://www.communityseednetwork.org/map/
Or connect and share seeds with folks online:
https://exchange.seedsavers.org
Θερμή παράκληση για διάδοση:
Crowdfunding δικαστικών εξόδων για τα άτομα - στόχους της κρατικής σκευωρίας "Μαρφιν"
"To cover the heavy legal expenses of the ongoing jury process and in order to defeat the state fabrication against our comrades we are calling for international support.
As we stood by our comrades during all these years in demonstrations, squats and struggles we will stand by them in their struggle for freedom.
always in war with the state and its machinations
FREEDOM TO THE INCARCERATED COMRADES
SOLIDARITY WITH THOSE PERSECUTED IN THE MARFIN CASE
HANDS OFF OUR COMRADES"
ah, the interesting point to me is about special category data that is manifestly made public by posting about one's ADHD status on a public forum, in effect protecting admins who are controllers of said data, that may be perceived to be retaining and disseminating special category data of users who complain
@yawnbox oh for sure, given that any and every admin that federates by definition sends that data to third parties...
The protection is the privacy policy, which should state that data is in fact sent (federated) to third parties. To be precise, admins are absolutely protected when a post is "public" or "quiet public" or similar, as this is manifestly the intent of the author.
My one side point is that an admin is also better-placed to reidentify or "out" the pseudonymous person.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has granted final approval to USDC stablecoin issuer Circle to operate as a national trust bank. Comptroller Jonathan Gould previously represented Circle as a client when he was a partner at Jones Day.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
"I'm bored," Zenon said. "Are we there yet?"
"I told you," Odysseus growled, "to stop asking that."
"Oh yeah? What are you going to do, somehow double the time we have left to go?"
"Yes! Every time you ask! Just to spite you!"
"Pfff. Are we there yet?"
"I'm bored," Zenon said. "Are we there yet?"
"I told you," Odysseus growled, "to stop asking that."
"Oh yeah? What are you going to do, somehow double the time we have left to go?"
"Yes! Every time you ask! Just to spite you!"
"Pfff. Are we there yet?"
After incarceration, after addiction, after years of being told when to wake up, where to stand, what to wear, when to speak, Derek R. Trumbo, Sr. resists the endless doomscrolling of pop culture.
“Coming home from prison made me realize that not only has pop culture changed while I was away, so has the pace of it. Everything moves so much faster now…
Prison taught me to live with very little, and release is teaching me to make careful choices when there is too much…
I know what it is to have time taken from me, so I am careful now about giving it away so cheaply.”
https://prismreports.org/2026/07/23/reentry-parole-social-media-smartphone/
petition: Don’t Let Trump Help Saudi Arabia Get a Nuclear Bomb
Autonomies: **A new hunting season has been declared (pt. 2), or the normalisation of fascism**
https://autonomies.org/2026/07/a-new-hunting-season-has-been-declared-pt-2-or-the-normalisation-of-fascism/
On the 16th of July, at the invitation of Marco Rubio and the US State Department, representatives of over 60 countries gathered to hear Rubio annonce that “the counterterrorism architecture of the free world, built over a generation against jihadist … Continue reading →
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@fullywoolly - Yes! Right next to the seed library is a lot of books specifically around harvesting seeds and the library has entire sections of books on gardening.
The library also puts on classes on how to grow. A local group focuses on outdoor growing and my group teaches classes on indoor gardening and farming.
So far as what does #solarpunk mean, I wrote up a post on exactly that but cant find it. I'll write up a new one.
@tinker the search is wigging out for me ... Only see these three posts and sometimes even those disappear after a weird unasked for reload/refresh
Also in this issue: Prediction markets continue to be a crypto-esque wild west, with a recent WSJ report exposing the Trump-linked Polymarket’s false advertising. Influencers paid by Polymarket are boasting about manipulating bets.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #Polymarket #CitationNeededNewsletter
The Department of Justice is reportedly planning to drop charges against Matthew Goettsche, who ran a crypto Ponzi scheme that bilked $722 million from investors he described as “dumb” and “sheep”, after he hired Trump-linked lawyers to lobby for legal relief.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
https://communitymedia.video/w/eUua7f85AZRY5CTWP2j8jZ
We launched the order page for Kumiai-Ki yesterday. You can find it here: https://www.mountaintowntoys.com/kumiai-ki-the-mighty-union-machine/
I set up about 20 of the toys we've made so far in front of a black curtain and recorded a flyby video set to the new Kumiai-ki themesong by @DoctorDeathray
Check it out! Help us spread the word.
Workers and Giant Robots united against Geoff Bozo and the rest of the billionaires.
@mattblaze It's at Air and Space downtown (https://www.si.edu/theaters/movie/odyssey). Also see https://washingtonian.com/2026/07/21/the-best-places-to-watch-the-odyssey-in-the-dc-area/ or for that matter do what I did: ask your favorite search engine for theaters…
@SteveBellovin I will, but I like to hear about people's first hand experiences.
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![The Department of Justice is reportedly planning to drop charges against Matthew Goettsche, creator of the Bitclub Network cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of $722 million.24 Goettsche was indicted in 2019 after offering investors what he claimed were shares in a bitcoin mining pool and encouraging them to recruit other investors. Goettsche told his business partners that he was “building this whole model on the backs of idiots”, also describing his investors as “dumb” and “sheep”. When he told a co-conspirator to falsely “bump up the daily mining earnings starting today by 60%,” his partner replied, “that is not sustainable, that is ponzi teritori [sic] and fast cash-out ponzi . . . but sure.” He later directed a co-conspirator to reduce the supposed mining earnings so he could “retire RAF!!! (rich as fuck)”.25](https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/116/970/398/467/030/978/original/b033ed0d55d35276.png)
![Goettsche has been lobbying the Department of Justice for relief from the prosecution, hiring a team of lawyers with connections to President Trump. Among them is Bradford Cohen, an attorney who appeared as a contestant on The Apprentice in 2004 and has been an avid Trump supporter ever since, and Brett Tolman, a lawyer and Fox News contributor who has been helping clients lobby for Trump pardons since the first Trump administration. Among Tolman’s past clients are Charles Kushner, father of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, and crypto cause célèbre Ross Ulbricht [I75].26 Cohen has also been in the Trump pardon business since Trump’s first presidency, successfully lobbying for clemency for rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black.27](https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/116/970/398/482/633/270/original/fd6ba5f0380c9b60.png)
