@fractalkitty thank you!! Bitterns are such wonderful weirdos

Tamisuke Watanuki, a former speaker of Japan's Lower House, has died of old age. He was 99. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/24/japan/politics/former-lower-house-speaker-tamisuke-watanuki-obituary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #tamisukewatanuki #lowerhouse #obituary #ldp #postalservices

@tariii I did not report you. I don't spend time on social writing up summaries of videos.

@mikebabcock Forgive me: elections come and elections go; of policies and would-be benefactors and tyrants, the same. But the people abide. And so it is the people in their own sovereign and self-organizing aspect to whom we turn and must turn, always.

DOJ just successfully prosecuted its first ‘FOIA felon’ — while actively defending an unlawful proposal to mass-cancel backlogged FOIA requests at the Energy Department.

Read more about the hypocrisy in our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/doj-prosecutes-single-foia-dodger-while-defending-systemwide-evasion/

Sophie Adenot retourne dans le vide spatial !

Suivez sa deuxième sortie extravéhiculaire, mardi 25 août sur #Twitch et #YouTube :

🕐 Émission de 13 h à 14 h 30
🕔 Émission de 17 h à 18 h 30
📺 Flux en continu entre les deux
👉 twitch.tv/cnes_france
Plus d'infos :

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

Special Guest: @mobilizon@framapiaf.org
An ethical alternative to Facebook events, groups and pages. Previously built by Framasoft, now Kaihuri.

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 26/08/26 at 14:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )

🔥 FIRESIDE FEDI — FOLLOW ALL THREE! 🔥

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Don't miss out — follow all three! #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

@stefan its too long. could you please post a summary? this is all what i was asking for.

why did you report me?

Juhana Vartiainen (kok), Helsingin Sanomat, 22.8.2026:

"Entä ihminen, joka ei löydä töitä?

”Töitähän aina on. Hanttihommia löytyy aina, varsinkin tämmöisessä kasvavassa taloudessa. Kysymys on aina siitä, että mitä ollaan valmiit ottamaan vastaan”, Vartiainen sanoo.

Suomessahan työttömien määrä oli toukokuussa suurimmillaan sitten vuoden 1998.

”Se mielikuva, että meillä on valtava joukko työttömiä eikä ole mitään työpaikkoja ja työtilaisuuksia, on väärä.""

Ei kai siinä sitten mitään.

@Eh__tweet @NoTime @betelgeuse93 @steek_hutzee non è mai esistito il limite di 50 mt, ne alcun limite misurabile per la prossimità*, ma esiste il concetto di "prossimità" introdotto dal decreto infrastrutture (dl 156/21)

https://www.studio3a.net/pedone-prossimita-delle-strisce/

* esiste invece il limite di 100 mt di distanza dalle strisce pedonali che tutela il pedone *quasi* come se attraversasse sulle strisce

These speakers are pretty dirty, will need some TLC

All that being said, Gary Neville got his answer both on the historical record, and in the Premier League table.

#LFC

I am not surprised to see both #Republicans & #Democrats becoming hostile towards #AI data centers.

👉🏾 Data centers’ ‘oh s--t’ moment https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/24/data-centers-oh-s-t-moment-01046465

The spike in electricity prices, property taxes (because the data centers get steep discounts), & water usage are enraging Americans across the political spectrum.

You know it is bad when #GOP governors in conservative states are starting to turn against the AI data centers.

Nicht nur der Rhein:

Panama Canal to cap ship transits due to El Nino drought
https://www.dw.com/en/panama-canal-el-nino/a-78453054

A short preamble from The #Anarchist #Medical #Book on #emergency care:

"The few life-threatening things which you can have a nonzero chance of successfully treating
without ever going to the hospital are: blood loss, lack of oxygen, freezing to death, blood
sugar crash, blood clot in the brain, heart, or lung, and tension pneumothorax. A few types of
poisoning/overdose as well, but most of those will be addressed in a separate section."

https://anarchistmedicalbook.com

Gerade das erste Mal von #Bonfire / @Bonfire gehört. (Ich war ne Weile nicht on im Fedi), und da ist mir wieder bewusst geworden, wie viel noch von der Rollenspiel Community auf Facebook ist. Und jetzt Frage ich mich, ob es bedarf an einem #rollenspiel #literatur #indiepublishing #fantasy #scifi FB Ersatz ohne Zuccburger gibt.

Bzw ein "Geekbook"? Viele Leute bleiben ja bei FB aus Gewohnheit zu den Strukturen.

Harvard is now selling a 700 USD course taught by LLMs trained on their facultiy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/business/dealbook/harvard-ai-faculty.html

(I don't know what's worse: Harvard's open disdain for education and standards or the suckers who pay 700 bucks for it.)

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117150557568202741

Netflix reportedly considers opening its app to other streamers
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/983741/netflix-open-app-peacock-fox-one?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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